Adjectives for the word money

Mary took the little money she had and bought supplies at Duke Town.

He never forsook the native servants who had had charge of Clive, but endowed them with money sufficient to make all their future lives comfortable.

I had already been sold three different times, made considerable money with seemingly nothing to derive it from, been cheated out of a large sum of money, lost much by misfortunes, and paid an enormous sum for my freedom.

Since that time, and more rapidly after 1850, gold has displaced silver as the standard money.

Finally by temptation of extra prize money, a complement was made up.

For then sometimeswhen the coachman obligingly cuts the butler‘s throat in the back—alley, saywe actually presume to think for a moment that our profession is almost as honest as that of making counterfeit money….«

I found that out myself and I‘m the only man that would dare going into the State to get hush—money for it.

That similar means were to some extent employed to win over opponents of the government in Ireland cannot, it must be confessed, be denied, though the temptations held out to converts oftener took the shape of titles, promotions, appointments, and court favors than of actual money.

O, ‘tis news for a king; ‘tis worth money. KING.

There were two—and—twenty bags in all in the chest: ten of them full of silver money, eight of them full of gold money, three of them full of gold—dust, and one small bag with jewels wrapped up in wad cotton and paper.

In the ‘Encyclopædia Metropolitana‘ (1845), we find: ‘Impressing, or, more correctly, impresting, i.e. paying earnest—money to seamen by the King‘s Commission to the Admiralty, is a right of very ancient date, and established by prescription, though not by statute.

Now it is, that we see the struggles for place, the heart—burnings and jealousies of contending families, and the influence of mere money.

All right, he bought the knife with honest money, and he earned what‘s on it too.

Although I was absent at the time, and had no concern whatever in the business, and was known to a number of respectable witnesses, I was nevertheless persecuted by this conscientious gentleman, (the Indian not being able to pay for it) and obliged to pay upwards of ten pounds lawful money, with all the costs of court.

If you have advanced money to any child, and taken an acknowledgment for it, or entered it in any book of account, you should declare whether any legacy left by will is in addition to such advance, or whether it is to be deducted from the legacy.

Fiduciary money, metal and paper 6.

Our gold would be false money to those people.

They mean not to exchange solid money for such airy honour.

It was therefore provided, in the fourth article of the treaty, that creditors on either side should meet with no lawful impediment to the recovery in full sterling money of bona fide debts contracted prior to the war.

Nature of governmental paper money.

I ever canbut if I don’t, don’t associate it with my not paying back the missionary money!

In the Bisayas the magistrates purchased the tobacco for the Government and paid for it at the rate previously fixed by the Government factories at Manila; and they were allowed to employ the surplus money of the Government treasury chest for this purpose.

What is more marked in our history than the extravagance and speculation attending the expansion of paper money irredeemable in gold and silver?

you understand your Pen and Ink, how to count your dirty Money, trudge to and fro chaffering of base commodities, and cozening those you deal with, till you sweat and stink again like an o’er heated Cook, faugh, I smell him hither.

The sou, which was but nominal money, may be reckoned as representing twenty francs, and the denier one franc, but allowance must be made for the enormous difference in the value of silver, which would make twenty francs in the thirteenth century represent upwards of two hundred francs of present currency.

The idea for the Describing Words engine came when I was building the engine for Related Words (it’s like a thesaurus, but gives you a much broader set of related words, rather than just synonyms). While playing around with word vectors and the «HasProperty» API of conceptnet, I had a bit of fun trying to get the adjectives which commonly describe a word. Eventually I realised that there’s a much better way of doing this: parse books!

Project Gutenberg was the initial corpus, but the parser got greedier and greedier and I ended up feeding it somewhere around 100 gigabytes of text files — mostly fiction, including many contemporary works. The parser simply looks through each book and pulls out the various descriptions of nouns.

Hopefully it’s more than just a novelty and some people will actually find it useful for their writing and brainstorming, but one neat little thing to try is to compare two nouns which are similar, but different in some significant way — for example, gender is interesting: «woman» versus «man» and «boy» versus «girl». On an inital quick analysis it seems that authors of fiction are at least 4x more likely to describe women (as opposed to men) with beauty-related terms (regarding their weight, features and general attractiveness). In fact, «beautiful» is possibly the most widely used adjective for women in all of the world’s literature, which is quite in line with the general unidimensional representation of women in many other media forms. If anyone wants to do further research into this, let me know and I can give you a lot more data (for example, there are about 25000 different entries for «woman» — too many to show here).

The blueness of the results represents their relative frequency. You can hover over an item for a second and the frequency score should pop up. The «uniqueness» sorting is default, and thanks to my Complicated Algorithm™, it orders them by the adjectives’ uniqueness to that particular noun relative to other nouns (it’s actually pretty simple). As you’d expect, you can click the «Sort By Usage Frequency» button to adjectives by their usage frequency for that noun.

Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source mongodb which was used in this project.

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