{ "dictype": "WikiDicScrap", "error": false, "code": 200, "json": { "type": "wiki", "pronunciations": { "phonetic": [ "wɪʃ" ], "listenurl": [ { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/wish.ogg" }, { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/wish.mp3" } ] }, "meansorg": { "etymologies": [ "From Middle English wisshen, wischen, wüschen, from Old English wȳsċan (“to wish”), from Proto-West Germanic *wunskijan, from Proto-Germanic *wunskijaną (“to wish”), from Proto-Indo-European *wenh₁- (“to wish, love”).\nCognate with Scots wis (“to wish”), Saterland Frisian wonskje (“to wish”), West Frisian winskje (“to wish”), Dutch wensen (“to wish”), German wünschen (“to wish”), Danish ønske (“to wish”), Icelandic æskja, óska (“to wish”), Latin Venus, veneror (“venerate, honour, love”)." ], "typelist": [ { "name": "Noun", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "A desire, hope, or longing for something or for something to happen.\nhave a wish\nmake someone's wish come true\n2010, BioWare, Mass Effect 2 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: IT COULD HAPPEN TO YOU!:Send this message to six beings of your acquaintance, and your greatest wish shall come true!" }, { "mean": "An expression of such a desire, often connected with ideas of magic and supernatural power.\nmake a wish\n2004, Carlin, George, When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?‎, New York: Hyperion Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 237:LESTER: You believe in wishes? I mean, you believe they come true?CHESTER: Nah. I believe in wishes, but I don't believe they come true. Not unless it's a real easy wish, like \"I wish I was at a birthday party.\" But you gotta blow out all the candles, or else the wish don't come true. If one candle stays lit, you don't get your wish." }, { "mean": "The thing desired or longed for.\nMy dearest wish is to see them happily married.\n1901, W. W. Jacobs, The Monkey's Paw\n\"I suppose all old soldiers are the same,\" said Mrs White. \"The idea of our listening to such nonsense! How could wishes be granted in these days? And if they could, how could two hundred pounds hurt you, father?\" / \"Might drop on his head from the sky,\" said the frivolous Herbert." }, { "mean": "(Sussex) A water meadow." } ] }, { "name": "Verb", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(transitive) To desire; to want.\nI'll come tomorrow, if you wish it.\n2018 May 13, Justin King, “How to Fix the Storylines of Film and Television”, in Return of Kings:Showing the population what we wish them to be is the best way for them to change.\n1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :I would not wish / Any companion in the world but you.\n1716, Jonathan Swift, Phyllis, or the Progress of Love\nNow John the butler must be sentTo learn the road that Phyllis went:The groom was wished to saddle Crop;For John must neither light nor stop,But find her, wheresoe'er she fled,And bring her back alive or dead.\n1899, Hughes Mearns, Antigonish:Yesterday, upon the stair / I met a man who wasn’t there / He wasn’t there again today / I wish, I wish he’d go away …" }, { "mean": "(transitive, now rare) To hope (+ object clause with may or in present subjunctive).\n1748, , “Letter LXXXIV”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: , volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: S Richardson; , →OCLC:I wish he mean me well, that he takes so much pains!\n1808, Jane Austen, letter, 1 October:\nShe hears that Miss Bigg is to be married in a fortnight. I wish it may be so." }, { "mean": "(intransitive, followed by for) To hope (for a particular outcome), even if that outcome is unlikely to occur or cannot occur.\n1727, John Arbuthnot, Tables of Ancient Coins, Weights and Measures\nThis is as good an argument as an antiquary could wish for.\n1901, W. W. Jacobs, The Monkey's Paw\nMr. White took the paw from his pocket and eyed it dubiously. \"I don't know what to wish for, and that's a fact,\" he said slowly. \"It seems to me I've got all I want.\"\nI wish I could go back in time and teach myself what I know now." }, { "mean": "(ditransitive) To bestow (a thought or gesture) towards (someone or something).\nWe wish you a Merry Christmas.\nc. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :I would not wish them to a fairer death.\n1611, The Holy Bible,  (King James Version), London: Robert Barker, , →OCLC, Psalms 40:14:Let them be driven backward, and put to shame, that wish me evil." }, { "mean": "(intransitive, followed by to and an infinitive) To request or desire to do an activity.\n2013 July-August, Henry Petroski, “Geothermal Energy”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 4:Energy has seldom been found where we need it when we want it. Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame. With more settled people, animals were harnessed to capstans or caged in treadmills to turn grist into meal." }, { "mean": "(transitive) To recommend; to seek confidence or favour on behalf of.\n1610 (first performance), Ben Jonson, The Alchemist, London: Thomas Snodham, for Walter Burre, and are to be sold by Iohn Stepneth, , published 1612, →OCLC; reprinted Menston, Yorkshire: The Scolar Press, 1970, →OCLC, (please specify the page), (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):\nI was wished to your worship by a gentleman.\nTemplate:RQ:Shakespeare Taming" } ] } ] }, "meanskor": { "etymologies": [ "" ], "typelist": [ { "name": "명사", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "동사.", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] } ] } } }