"ambass" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "etymology_text": "Irregular back-formation from ambassador.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "ambasses",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ambassing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ambassed",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ambassed",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "ambass (third-person singular simple present ambasses, present participle ambassing, simple past and past participle ambassed)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Entries with translation boxes",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Portuguese translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1913, John Kendrick Bangs, \"To Marse Tom and Meh Lady\", The Bookman, Volume XXXVIII, page 114:",
          "text": "How fruitless attempts to involve us in war With HIM to AMBASS and with HER to ADOR.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1917, John Kendrick Bangs, Half hours with the Idiot, Little, Brown, and Company, page 4:",
          "text": "The home of an American Ambassador should express America not the country to which he is sent to Ambass.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1914,, Association men, Volume 39, YMCA of the USA, page 361",
          "text": "Politics, graft, war, sport and scandal are aired in turn, but the \"ambassador\" fails to ambass — the \"worker\" fails to work — the \"messenger\" makes a mess of it."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1961, Ilka Chase, The Carthaginian rose, Doubleday, page 51:",
          "text": "... cut off from their governments and obliged to rely on their own wisdom, knowledge and experience, when they had, in a word, to ambass. Nowadays they pick up the phone and the State Department, for better or worse, tells then what to do.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1995, Will Rogers, Will Rogers speaks, →ISBN, page 21:",
          "text": "I have always maintained there was something wrong with Ambassadors, as none of them seemed to ambass properly.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2001, Peter David, The Rift (2001) (Star Trek: The Original Series Book 57), Simon & Schuster, page 161",
          "text": "\"Therefore,\" said Kirk, […] \"Shipping her back in box is not one of the options, […] this will require the skills of an Ambassador. So you're going to have to […] Ambass.\""
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To engage in the professional work of an ambassador."
      ],
      "id": "en-ambass-en-verb-64jFSH3P",
      "links": [
        [
          "humorous",
          "humorous"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(humorous, nonstandard) To engage in the professional work of an ambassador."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "humorous",
        "nonstandard"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "to engage in the professional work of an ambassador",
          "word": "embaixar"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "ambass"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "Irregular back-formation from ambassador.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "ambasses",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ambassing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ambassed",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ambassed",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "ambass (third-person singular simple present ambasses, present participle ambassing, simple past and past participle ambassed)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English humorous terms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nonstandard terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs",
        "Entries with translation boxes",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "Terms with Portuguese translations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1913, John Kendrick Bangs, \"To Marse Tom and Meh Lady\", The Bookman, Volume XXXVIII, page 114:",
          "text": "How fruitless attempts to involve us in war With HIM to AMBASS and with HER to ADOR.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1917, John Kendrick Bangs, Half hours with the Idiot, Little, Brown, and Company, page 4:",
          "text": "The home of an American Ambassador should express America not the country to which he is sent to Ambass.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1914,, Association men, Volume 39, YMCA of the USA, page 361",
          "text": "Politics, graft, war, sport and scandal are aired in turn, but the \"ambassador\" fails to ambass — the \"worker\" fails to work — the \"messenger\" makes a mess of it."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1961, Ilka Chase, The Carthaginian rose, Doubleday, page 51:",
          "text": "... cut off from their governments and obliged to rely on their own wisdom, knowledge and experience, when they had, in a word, to ambass. Nowadays they pick up the phone and the State Department, for better or worse, tells then what to do.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1995, Will Rogers, Will Rogers speaks, →ISBN, page 21:",
          "text": "I have always maintained there was something wrong with Ambassadors, as none of them seemed to ambass properly.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2001, Peter David, The Rift (2001) (Star Trek: The Original Series Book 57), Simon & Schuster, page 161",
          "text": "\"Therefore,\" said Kirk, […] \"Shipping her back in box is not one of the options, […] this will require the skills of an Ambassador. So you're going to have to […] Ambass.\""
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To engage in the professional work of an ambassador."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "humorous",
          "humorous"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(humorous, nonstandard) To engage in the professional work of an ambassador."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "humorous",
        "nonstandard"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to engage in the professional work of an ambassador",
      "word": "embaixar"
    }
  ],
  "word": "ambass"
}