See might-be on Wiktionary
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "might",
"3": "be"
},
"expansion": "might + be",
"name": "com"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From might + be. Compare might-have-been, would-be.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "-"
},
"expansion": "might-be (not comparable)",
"name": "en-adj"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "61 39",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "60 40",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English exocentric compounds",
"parents": [
"Exocentric compounds",
"Compound terms",
"Terms by etymology"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "68 32",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "82 18",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1998, John Cramer, Einstein's Bridge:",
"text": "\"There is a might-be particle called a 'magnetic monopole' that was suggested by certain theories of Dirac and others but had never been observed.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"That might be or occur; possible; potential; hypothetical."
],
"id": "en-might-be-en-adj-Dy2K9rWE",
"links": [
[
"possible",
"possible"
],
[
"potential",
"potential"
],
[
"hypothetical",
"hypothetical"
]
],
"tags": [
"not-comparable"
]
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"_dis1": "51 49",
"word": "might be"
}
],
"word": "might-be"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "might",
"3": "be"
},
"expansion": "might + be",
"name": "com"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From might + be. Compare might-have-been, would-be.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "might-bes",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "might-be (plural might-bes)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1973, Institute of Biology, Journal of biological education:",
"text": "In the Biology Teachers'\" Handbook (Wiley, 1963), Schwab writes: A hypothesis is a \"might be\", a possibility which we intend to test . . . one of the values of a hypothesis consists in the fact that it can be made to point like an arrow [...]",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1983, Tasso Borbé, Semiotics unfolding:",
"text": "Firstness comprises anything capable of being described without contradiction (2.667), it is a might-be, in other words, pure possibility, which Peirce calls \"quality\": \"mere quality, or suchness, is not in itself an occurrence, as seeing a red object is; it is a mere may-be.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1991, Floyd Merrell, Signs becoming signs: our perfusive, pervasive universe:",
"text": "It is a might be, a mere possibility from the tossing ocean of pure chance.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2010, Tony Fry, Design as Politics:",
"text": "Context two is a 'might be' and is futural and nameable as 'the desired'.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"That which might be or happen; a possibility."
],
"id": "en-might-be-en-noun-NbAgr6qh",
"links": [
[
"possibility",
"possibility"
]
]
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"_dis1": "51 49",
"word": "might be"
}
],
"word": "might-be"
}
{
"categories": [
"English adjectives",
"English compound terms",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English exocentric compounds",
"English lemmas",
"English multiword terms",
"English nouns",
"English uncomparable adjectives",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries"
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "might",
"3": "be"
},
"expansion": "might + be",
"name": "com"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From might + be. Compare might-have-been, would-be.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "-"
},
"expansion": "might-be (not comparable)",
"name": "en-adj"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1998, John Cramer, Einstein's Bridge:",
"text": "\"There is a might-be particle called a 'magnetic monopole' that was suggested by certain theories of Dirac and others but had never been observed.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"That might be or occur; possible; potential; hypothetical."
],
"links": [
[
"possible",
"possible"
],
[
"potential",
"potential"
],
[
"hypothetical",
"hypothetical"
]
],
"tags": [
"not-comparable"
]
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "might be"
}
],
"word": "might-be"
}
{
"categories": [
"English adjectives",
"English compound terms",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English exocentric compounds",
"English lemmas",
"English multiword terms",
"English nouns",
"English uncomparable adjectives",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries"
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "might",
"3": "be"
},
"expansion": "might + be",
"name": "com"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From might + be. Compare might-have-been, would-be.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "might-bes",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "might-be (plural might-bes)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1973, Institute of Biology, Journal of biological education:",
"text": "In the Biology Teachers'\" Handbook (Wiley, 1963), Schwab writes: A hypothesis is a \"might be\", a possibility which we intend to test . . . one of the values of a hypothesis consists in the fact that it can be made to point like an arrow [...]",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1983, Tasso Borbé, Semiotics unfolding:",
"text": "Firstness comprises anything capable of being described without contradiction (2.667), it is a might-be, in other words, pure possibility, which Peirce calls \"quality\": \"mere quality, or suchness, is not in itself an occurrence, as seeing a red object is; it is a mere may-be.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1991, Floyd Merrell, Signs becoming signs: our perfusive, pervasive universe:",
"text": "It is a might be, a mere possibility from the tossing ocean of pure chance.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2010, Tony Fry, Design as Politics:",
"text": "Context two is a 'might be' and is futural and nameable as 'the desired'.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"That which might be or happen; a possibility."
],
"links": [
[
"possibility",
"possibility"
]
]
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "might be"
}
],
"word": "might-be"
}
Download raw JSONL data for might-be meaning in All languages combined (3.2kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-15 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (8a39820 and 4401a4c). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.