cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
misstapling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misstaple
misstapled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misstaple
misstation
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misstations
form: misstationing
form: misstationed
form: misstationed
Etymology: From mis- + station.
Senses: examples: text: I can well perceive in the imperfection of our reasoning powers, a sufficient cause, if not adequate excuse, for differences of opinion on many important matters; but if there be an individual who in contemplating the arrangements of nature, can shut out from his view all idea of a supreme, intelligent, and benevolent cause, I would say that he has been misstationed on this fair world, so deeply impressed with the most marked characters wisdom, beneficence, and love.
ref: 1825 May, Mr. Macome, “On the Utility of Natural History”, in The Scots Mechanics' Magazine, and journal of arts, sciences and literature, volume 1, number 5, page 205:
text: In 1311 the ministers of the Mobile Secretariat of Chiang-Che pointed out that the troops in Che-chiang had been misstationed and suggested to the court that "key areas be designated and [troops] be transferred to garrison [them].
ref: 1978, Qiqing Xiao, The Military Establishment of the Yuan Dynasty, page 62:
text: In the latest simulation, the number of misstationed aircraft in the evening had also fallen to zero, a spokesman said.
ref: 2023 May 25, “Large-scale exercise "Air Defender": Air Force maneuvers could lead to civilian flight cancellations”, in Teller Report:
glosses: To station improperly.
misstations
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misstation
misstationing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misstation
misstationed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misstation
UFT
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Initialism of Unified Field Theory (a field theory that allows all fundamental forces and elementary particles to be written in terms of a pair of physical and virtual fields).
UFT
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Anything not marked ❤️ is UFT
glosses: Initialism of up for trade.
Kelvin balance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kelvin balances
Etymology: Invented by Lord Kelvin
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
synonyms: current balance
ampere balance
glosses: a sensitive apparatus for measuring electric current.
Kelvin balances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Kelvin balance
current balance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: current balances
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
synonyms: ampere balance
Kelvin balance
glosses: a sensitive apparatus for measuring electric current.
ampere balance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ampere balances
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
synonyms: current balance
Kelvin balance
glosses: a sensitive apparatus for measuring electric current.
ampere balances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ampere balance
current balances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of current balance
sewing-machine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sewing-machines
Senses: examples: text: The peculiarity of this invention consists in a means for varying the angle at which the plaiting-blade is held in the plaiter without varying the position of the entire instrument upon the sewing-machine.
ref: 1873, Specifications and Drawings of Patents Issued from the U.S. Patent Office:
text: The mother, a hard, hook-nosed creature, was doing up a bundle of overalls she had but finished at the sewing-machine.
ref: 1888, Donn Piatt, “The Sales-Lady of the City”, in The Lone Grave of the Shenandoah and Other Tales, Chicago, Ill.; […]: Belford, Clarke & Co., →OCLC, page 88:
text: You are made fully aware of it before you have travelled the length of a single block in any of these East Side streets, by the whir of a thousand sewing-machines, worked at high pressure from earliest dawn till mind and muscle give out together.
ref: 1890, Jacob A[ugust] Riis, “Jewtown”, in How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 108:
text: In this she was only like millions of other Ordinary Women who are toiling over cooking-stoves, slaving at sewing-machines, pinching and economizing to educate and cultivate their children—digging with their own hands the chasm that will separate them almost as much as death.
ref: 1907 January, Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer, “The Ordinary Woman”, in The Holiday Cosmopolitan, International Magazine Company, page 348, column 2:
text: “. . . Beautiful like the chance meeting on a dissecting-table of a sewing-machine and an umbrella” (Lautréamont).
ref: 1932, This Quarter, volume 5, page 145:
text: This face-saving reminds us of some American ripostes a few months back when their space rockets seemed disinclined to leave the earth very far behind; after all, they said, the Russians are only chucking heavy machinery at the moon, whereas we're trying to be more sophisticated and get a sewing-machine up there.
ref: 1961 March, “Talking of trains”, in Trains Illustrated, pages 129–130:
text: The solid table on which stood the sewing-machine was also useful for cutting out and dressmaking, and the ironing-board and the iron stood ready for instant use.
ref: 1990, Rosamunde Pilcher, September, Thorndike, Me.: Thorndike Press, →ISBN, page 324:
glosses: Dated form of sewing machine.
sewing-machines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sewing-machine
ironing-board
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ironing-boards
Senses: examples: text: The ſcene opened with M. le Texier as an old woman, ſitting at her ironing-board folding up napkins, waiting with impatience the return of her ſon [?], who is a thoughtleſs young man.
ref: 1802 April 7, “The Dillettanti Theatre”, in The Times, number 5384, London, page [3], column 2:
text: She has bought most of her furniture from auctions, a television set, curtains and even linen, not to mention numerous pots, pans, glassware and an ironing-board.
ref: 1981 February 12, “Auction Sense”, in Stockport Advertiser, number 8,318, Stockport, page 4, column 1:
text: The solid table on which stood the sewing-machine was also useful for cutting out and dressmaking, and the ironing-board and the iron stood ready for instant use.
ref: 1990, Rosamunde Pilcher, September, Thorndike, Me.: Thorndike Press, →ISBN, page 324:
glosses: Dated form of ironing board.
ironing-boards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ironing-board
washing-machine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: washing-machines
Senses: examples: text: As soon as Mahailey got used to a washing-machine or a churn, Ralph, to keep up with the bristling march of events, brought home a still newer one.
ref: 1922, Willa Cather, One of Ours, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, page 18:
text: ‘Morning Mrs. Weissnicht. I’ve just heard as how your washing-machine’s gone bung.’
ref: 1953, Eric Linklater, A Year of Space, page 206:
text: The entire town mated together, in the leafy bowers that had sprung up among the washing-machines and television sets in the shopping mall, on the settees and divans by the furniture store, in the tropical paradises of the suburban gardens.
ref: 1979, J.G. Ballard, The Unlimited Dream Company, chapter 30:
text: The clatter from the kitchen was comforting. Edie, dealing with the breakfast dishes, loading the washing-machine with a weekend’s worth of dirty clothes, and talking to the dogs.
ref: 1990, Rosamunde Pilcher, September, Thorndike, Me.: Thorndike Press, →ISBN, page 412:
text: Her laundry smacked against the porthole of her washing-machine.
ref: 1993, António Lobo Antunes, translated by Richard Zenith, Act of the Damned, New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, published 1995, →ISBN, page 14:
glosses: Dated form of washing machine.
washing-machines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of washing-machine
papillomatoses coronae glandis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of papillomatosis coronae glandis
shop-keeper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shop-keepers
Senses: examples: text: …in some measure I descend to the fashion of the shop-keepers, who to scrue up the buyer to the higher price, will tell them no better can be had for mony, ’tis the choicest ware in England, and if any can match it, he shall have it for nought.
ref: 1653, Thomas Urquhart, Logopandecteision, quoted in The Works of Sir Thomas Urquhart, published 1834, page 332:
text: Oh! how blissful is imagination coloured by hope, and how far more enviable a state than to degenerate into a shop-keeper’s wife, counting out greasy halfpence in the dog-days, or darning her husband’s ragged stockings over the cradle of a squalling brat, singing lullaby with a voice that might have roused a sultan from his cambric pillow, enraptured with the sylvan strain!
ref: 1810, [anonymous] […], chapter XXVI, in Splendid Follies. A Novel, […]. Founded on Facts., volume III, London: […] J[ames] F[letcher] Hughes, […], →OCLC, pages 83–84:
text: The women wear neck-kerchieves spreading over their shoulders, and ruffs, but their aprons show that they are shop-keepers rather than gentry; their high-crowned felt hats are of the mid-Elizabethan fashion.
ref: 1978, Joanna Bird, Hugh Chapman, John Clark, editors, Collectanea Londiniensia: Studies in London Archaeology and History Presented to Ralph Merrifield, London and Middlesex Archaeological Society, page 271:
glosses: Dated form of shopkeeper.
shop-keepers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shop-keeper
stubblefield
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stubblefields
Senses: examples: text: The peasantry had fled into the city with all their goods, even with their cattle; which however were driven out under an armed guard on the side away from the river into the stubblefields under the walls.
ref: 1835 [1812], G. B. Niebuhr, translated by Julius Charles Hare and Connop Thirlwall, The History of Rome, volume 2, page 152:
text: If, for instance, the seed is planted in a stubblefield and covered by running a cultipacker over it, much better results from the germination of small grass seeds may be expected than that from a very clean seedbed.
ref: 1938 January, C. R. Enlow, “Agronomic Briefs”, in Soil Conservation, volume 3, number 7, page 185:
text: “When I was about nine years old, a barnstormer landed in a stubblefield not far from our home in Beatrice, Neb.[…]”
ref: 1941 November, Ward Hill, “He Takes Flying Seriously”, in Flying and Popular Aviation, volume 29, number 5, page 95:
text: The two birds then flew over a stubblefield.
ref: 1997, Stanley H. Anderson, John R. Squires, The Prairie Falcon, →ISBN, page 45:
text: Heavy fighting resulted, and the Union troops made a steady, slow movement into a stubblefield, which the Confederates set ablaze to thwart the Federal progress.
ref: 2001, David J. Eicher, The Longest Night: A Military History of the Civil War, →ISBN, pages 451–2:
text: It was 40 years ago, down in the San Luis Valley, over by Monte Vista, your intrepid scribe went out into the grain stubblefields to take photos of cranes — greater sandhills and whooping.
ref: 2017 March 11, Miles F. Porter IV, “Hey, Spike! revisits cranes at Monte Vista National Wildlife Refuge”, in Summit Daily:
glosses: Alternative spelling of stubble field.
stubblefields
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stubblefield
BlackBerrys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of BlackBerry
drunkpost
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: drunkposts
form: drunkposting
form: drunkposted
form: drunkposted
Etymology: From drunk + post.
Senses: coordinate_terms: drunk text
glosses: To post to a message board, newsgroup, etc. while drunk.
Related terms: effortpost
fedpost
funpost
shitpost
trashpost
drunkpost
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drunkposts
Etymology: From drunk + post.
Senses: glosses: A message posted while drunk.
drunkposted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of drunkpost
drunkposts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of drunkpost
drunkposts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drunkpost
drunkposting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of drunkpost
red figure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: red figures
Senses: examples: text: red-figure pottery
text: red-figure vase painting
text: red-figure vase
coordinate_terms: black figure
qualifier: Ancient Greece
glosses: Figural depiction in red color on a black background.
black figure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: black figures
Senses: examples: text: black-figure pottery
text: black-figure vase painting
text: black-figure vase
coordinate_terms: red figure
qualifier: Ancient Greece
glosses: Figural depiction in black color on a red background.
galamanders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of galamander
ink-well
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ink-wells
Senses: examples: text: After settling into his seat he suddenly finds that there is scarcely any ink in his ink-well, and he promptly takes advantage of the fact to make a journey across the room to procure the ink-pot, […] busily engaged in drawing a head on the brass square of his ink-well.
ref: 1898, Public School Magazine, volume II, pages 42–43:
text: (If Mr. Crawford has any more tales of lonely parishes in his ink-well, more than one of his readers would be grateful if he would write them out.) Just now the ink-well appears to need replenishing, for “Fair Margaret” is dry and dreggy.
ref: 1906 February, “[Books of the Day] Fair Margaret by F[rancis] Marion Crawford”, in The Reader: An Illustrated Monthly Magazine, volume VII, number 3, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, page 340, columns 1–2:
text: Having learned in this way how to dip his pen, the pupil should next dip it in his ink-well and write.
ref: 1909, Albert W[illistine] Clark, Public School Penmanship: A Handbook for Teachers, Boston, Mass.: Ginn and Company, page 19:
text: In the library a lamp stood on a tripod of hooves, once those of a deer, and on the writing-table, furnished with the thickest of inlaid writing-papers, was an ink-well made from another, larger hoof, perhaps that of the moose in the hall, king of all these relics.
ref: 1985, Angelica Garnett, Deceived with Kindness: A Bloomsbury Childhood, San Diego, Calif.: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, →ISBN, page 59:
text: For what makes happy the one we adore makes us happy; what not, not; the universe is a void, an ink-well otherwise.
ref: 1998 spring, Joyce Carol Oates, “From the Negro-Lover: The Way Out”, in TriQuarterly, number 102, page 77:
text: It may indeed feel uncomfortably small if, say, from the finding of the scrolls it is inferred directly that the ink-wells found at Qumran belonged to scribes who used them to copy scrolls, and from the finding of the ink-wells it is inferred directly that the site was a scribal center.
ref: 1998 winter, Edna Ullmann-Margalit, “Writings, Ruins, and Their Reading: The Dead Sea Discoveries as a Case Study in Theory Formation and Scientific Interpretation”, in Social Research, volume 65, number 4, page 856:
text: He leaned forward into the light suddenly, no longer a Composer or a Mobster, but a Poet now, as he swept up his spectacles from his desk to his nose, dislodging the pen from behind his ear, catching it deftly, stretching out automatically to dip it in his ink-well while with his other hand he began rummaging through his papers.
ref: 2012, Simon Gough, The White Goddess: An Encounter, Norwich: Galley Beggar Press Limited, →ISBN, page 220:
glosses: Alternative spelling of inkwell.
ink-wells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ink-well
Shenhsi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: During the period of the Fourth Five-Year Plan, 1971-75, the Chuchou-Kueiting line, which forms part of the east-west trunk line from Hangchou to K'unming, was completed, while other possible construction included the central segment of a line linking Peking with Yuanping, Shanhsi province, and lines linking Wuhan through Ank'ang, Shenhsi province, with Chungking, Ssuch'uan province, and with Luehyang on the Paochi-Chengtu line.
ref: 1980, James Chan, edited by C. K. Leung and Norton Ginsburg, China: Urbanization and National Development, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 16:
glosses: Alternative form of Shaanxi.
stubble fields
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stubble field
Luehyang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 略陽 /略阳 (Lüèyáng), Wade–Giles romanization: Lüeh⁴-yang².
Senses: examples: text: Shensi At the end of 1970, the number of pigs in the province was 63.4% greater than in 1969; Luehyang County had 82,200 pigs, an average of 2.9 per household[…]
ref: 1971, Summary of World Broadcasts: The Far East Weekly Supplement, →OCLC:
text: The CCP Committee of the Shensi Provincial Military District recently decided to confer the title of model militia company on the militia company of a production brigade in (Paishuichiang) Commune in Luehyang County for its achievements in safeguarding railway operations. A citation ceremony which was held on 5 May in Luehyang County was attended by 1,000 people including responsible comrades of the provincial CCP and revolutionary committees, the provincial military district, the Hanchung Prefectural CCP and revolutionary committees, the Sian municipal CCP and revolutionary committees, the Luehyang County CCP and revolutionary committees and other units concerned.
ref: 1978 June 8 [1978 May 9], “SHENSI CITES MILITIA COMPANY”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 111, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, →ISSN, →OCLC, page M5:
text: During the period of the Fourth Five-Year Plan, 1971-75, the Chuchou-Kueiting line, which forms part of the east-west trunk line from Hangchou to K'unming, was completed, while other possible construction included the central segment of a line linking Peking with Yuanping, Shanhsi province, and lines linking Wuhan through Ank'ang, Shenhsi province, with Chungking, Ssuch'uan province, and with Luehyang on the Paochi-Chengtu line.[…]
Luehyang 略陽
ref: 1980, James Chan, edited by C. K. Leung and Norton Ginsburg, China: Urbanization and National Development, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 16, 282:
glosses: Alternative form of Lüeyang.
swimming-pool
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swimming-pools
Senses: examples: text: I love especially to think of the Lady Margaret’s ancient foundation of Christ’s College with the bowling-green, the deep swimming-pool, and Milton’s mulberry tree.
ref: 1872 July 26, “Literary Nooks”, in The Brooklyn Daily Union, volume IX, number 271, Brooklyn, N.Y., front page, column 2:
text: Swimming-pools for ladies, children and gentlemen.
ref: 1873 June 27, A. R. Potts, “Berkeley Springs and Baths”, in The Memphis Daily Appeal, volume 33, number 179, Memphis, Tenn., page [4], column 7:
text: If half a dozen swimming-pools on either river were inclosed with canvas screens, and strictly reserved for the use of men, the most earnest moralist, even if provided with a powerful field-glass, would strive in vain to undermine his moral nature from the deck of a passing steam-boat, and the men of the poorer classes could secure a daily bath in comparative comfort.
ref: 1876 July 4, “The Crime of Bathing”, in The New-York Times, volume XXV, number 7739, New York, N.Y., page 4, column 6:
text: Nakedness is wholly inappropriate in almost all social situations and, even in situations where much naked flesh is exposed (on the beach, at the swimming-pool, even in the bedroom), the bodies that meet there are likely to be adorned, if only by jewellery, or indeed, even perfume: […]
ref: 2000, Joanne Entwistle, “Addressing the Body”, in The Fashioned Body: Fashion, Dress and Modern Social Theory, Cambridge, Cambs: Polity Press, →ISBN, page 6:
text: There is a sudden cut—they are left in darkness for a few seconds—and then a small swimming-pool comes into view, with four or five people in it (“That’s my uncle and aunt’s pool,” Evian says, “We used to go there a lot, in the summer. I used to get on really well with my cousin Nadine, we’re the same age.”).
ref: 2008 spring, Jordi Puntí, “A Fire”, in The Review of Contemporary Fiction: New Catalan Fiction, volume XXVIII, number 1, Dalkey Archive Press, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 107:
text: Inevitably, the Comptess went so far as to offer her (and hence us, when we were there) the use of their bijou swimming-pool, which her sons had cleared of algae and water-beetles just before her arrival.
ref: 2017, Mary O’Donnell, “Four poems and two stories”, in Studi irlandesi: A Journal of Irish Studies, number 7, Firenze University Press:
glosses: Dated form of swimming pool.
swimming-pools
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of swimming-pool
thistlefinch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thistlefinches
Etymology: From thistle + finch. Cognate with Dutch distelvink and German Distelfink; compare also the derivation of Latin carduelis. Goldfinch favor thistle seeds for food, and use thistle down as nest material.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of European goldfinch (Carduelis carduelis)
synonyms: word: European goldfinch
extra: Carduelis carduelis
thistlefinches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thistlefinch
twelvety
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of twelfty.
bathing-suit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bathing-suits
Senses: examples: text: THE undersigned would announce to his friends and the public that the above popular BAYSIDE RESORT is now open to visitors. MUSIC in constant attendance; BATHING-SUITS on hand; and ample arrangements made for the comfortable and healthful entertainment of guests.
ref: 1858 July 1, Peter Carr, “Hygenia House”, in Smyrna Times. […], volume IV, number 54 (whole 379), Smyrna, Del., page [3], column 5:
text: We stood there, for quite a while, admiring the sight before us, and had it not been for the ludicrous figures and appearances of some ladies and gentlemen in their queer bathing-suits, thrown like a shell hither and thither by the powerful waves, we would have fallen into a profound reverie.
ref: 1867 July 31, Harry Heidsick, “A Trip to Rockaway Beach”, in The Brooklyn Daily Times, volume 21, number 10, Brooklyn, N.Y., front page, column 6:
text: No sooner had I been helped into my bathing-suit than I sprang out upon the warm sand and without thought of fear plunged into the cool water. […] After I had recovered from my first experience in the water I thought it great fun to sit on a big rock in my bathing-suit and feel wave after wave dash against the rock sending up a shower of spray which quite covered me.
ref: 1902 June, Helen Keller, “The Story of My Life”, in The Ladies’ Home Journal, volume XIX, number 7, Philadelphia, Pa.: The Curtis Publishing Company, part third, page 7, columns 2–3:
text: A bathing-suit, for example, would be inappropriate and shocking if worn to do the shopping, while swimming in one’s coat and shoes would be absurd for the purpose of swimming, but perhaps apt as a fund-raising stunt.
ref: 2000, Joanne Entwistle, “Addressing the Body”, in The Fashioned Body: Fashion, Dress and Modern Social Theory, Cambridge, Cambs: Polity Press, →ISBN, pages 6–7:
text: Sandy and salty from the sea, we reluctantly left Cadaqués and drove north on the narrow N-260, keeping bathing-suits at the ready, and jumping out of the car every chance we could to swim in ever-less-populated coves as we neared the French border.
ref: 2008 August 17, Sarah Wildman, “Spain’s Wild Coast”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 03 Apr 2016, page TR1:
glosses: Dated form of bathing suit.
bathing-suits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bathing-suit
covenant-lite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: covenant-lites
Senses: synonyms: cov-lite
glosses: A loan that has fewer restrictive covenants on it than a standard loan, so is potentially more risky for the lender.
stubble-field
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stubble-fields
Senses: examples: text: The autumn drifted away through all its seasons. The golden corn-harvest, the walks through the stubble-fields, and rambles into hazel-copses in search of nuts; the stripping of the apple-orchards of their ruddy fruit, amid the joyous cries and shouts of watching children; and the gorgeous tulip-like colouring of the later time had now come on with the shortening days.
ref: 1864 August – 1866 January, [Elizabeth] Gaskell, “The Storm Bursts”, in Wives and Daughters. An Every-day Story. […], volume II, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], published 1866, →OCLC, page 129:
text: […] out upon the flat plain, where the road ran straight as an arrow through the stubble-fields and parched meadows […] Artaban pressed onward until he arrived, at nightfall of the tenth day, beneath the shattered walls of populous Babylon.
ref: 1895, Henry Van Dyke, The Story of the Other Wise Man, pages 30–1:
text: Presently a steeple rose among the trees; we crossed a stubble-field, climbed to the top of a ditch and caught a glimpse of a few of dwellings: the village of Pomelin.
ref: 1904 [1874], Gustave Flaubert, anonymous translator, Over Strand and Field: A Record of Travel Through Brittany, page 58:
text: In this case the illustration of burning up the stubble-field serves to convey theme 6, being disposed of like trash, and 2, referring to the completeness of the destruction, since there will be “no survivor.”
ref: 2013, J. Webb Mealy, The End of the Unrepentant: A Study of the Biblical Themes of Fire and Being Consumed, →ISBN, page 32:
glosses: Alternative spelling of stubble field.
stubble-fields
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stubble-field
unribbon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unribbons
form: unribboning
form: unribboned
form: unribboned
Senses: glosses: To remove a ribbon from
examples: text: A galaxy of cream unribbons in my coffee cup
ref: 2001, David Mitchell, chapter 1, in number9dream, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN:
glosses: To unfold, like a ribbon
lip-pierced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: a lip-pierced hairdresser
ref: 2001, David Mitchell, chapter 1, in number9dream, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN:
glosses: Having a pierced lip
Hmawbi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A township in Myanmar.
bioborg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bioborgs
Senses: examples: text: I am served brusquely, and wait until the bioborgs kill Lao Tzu. I swap a Carlton for a match, and devise a telephone strategy brilliant enough to reduce hardened Tokyo PAs to putty.
ref: 2001, David Mitchell, number9dream, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A biologically-based cyborg
bioborgs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bioborg
omeletted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of omelette
omeletting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of omelette
dronehood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Now I understand what fuels dronehood. This: you work or you drown.
ref: 2001, David Mitchell, chapter 1, in number9dream, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN:
glosses: The state of being a drone.
unscissor
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unscissors
form: unscissoring
form: unscissored
form: unscissored
Senses: examples: text: The jaws unscissor and the monster thrashes off in spirals.
ref: 2001, David Mitchell, chapter 1, in number9dream, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN:
glosses: To become uncrossed or separate, like a pair of scissors opening
tori gate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tori gates
Senses: examples: text: I rest on the giant tori gate, wide enough to drive a battleship under
ref: 2001, David Mitchell, chapter 1, in number9dream, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN:
glosses: A torii
tori gates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tori gate
1,000th
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The Ludi Sæculares are celebrated, in commemoration of the 1,000th year of Rome, with great pomp.
ref: 1854, [Edward Law], Rudimentary Chronology of Civil and Ecclesiastical History, Art, Literature, and Civilisation. From the Earliest Period to 1854., volume I, London: John Weale, […], page 75:
text: At Springfield the speedometer flicked off the 1,000th mile, and I branched away from the “Pike’s Peak” Ocean-to-Ocean Highway (for such it appeared to be), and turned south-westward towards Dayton, a flourishing manufacturing and business centre.
ref: 1922, C. K. Shepherd, “The Dixie Highway”, in Across America by Motor-Cycle, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green & Co.; London: Edward Arnold & Co., page 56:
text: Mr. BUCHANAN. Mr. Speaker, today marks the 175th anniversary of the Polish Constitution of May 3, 1791. It is also the 1,000th anniversary of Polish Christianity.
ref: 1966 May 3, Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the 89ᵗʰ Congress, Second Session, volume 112, part 8, Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, page 9731, column 2:
text: To celebrate the 1,000ᵗʰ year of the humans’ arrival in the spaceship, many flying animals worked together to bring up into the sky and drop an icecracker that had been growing since the first Christmas after the humans’ arrival.
ref: 2019, D.N. Dettwiler, Beyond the Door: The Chronicles of the Team, Nashville, Tenn.: Elm Hill, →ISBN, page 72:
glosses: Alternative form of 1000th.
CCaaS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
hypernyms: center#Noun
;
service#Noun
glosses: Acronym of call center as a service.
Related terms: BaaS
BPaaS
CPaaS
DaaS
DBaaS
DRaaS
FaaS
IaaS
IDaaS
MBaaS
PaaS
PCaaS
SaaS
StaaS
UCaaS
WaaS
Eurasian goldfinch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Eurasian goldfinches
Senses: glosses: A small brightly colored Eurasian bird, with yellow wing feathers (Carduelis carduelis).
Synonyms: sense: Carduelis carduelis
word: European goldfinch
sense: Carduelis carduelis
word: redcap
shat or gotten off the pot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of shit or get off the pot
elementary cellular automaton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: elementary cellular automata
form: elementary cellular automatons
Senses: topics: cellular-automata
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A one-dimensional, two-state cellular automaton in which a cell's state in the next generation depends only on its current state and the states of its two immediate neighbours.
Related terms: Rule 110
Rule 184
Rule 30
Rule 90
elementary cellular automata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of elementary cellular automaton
elementary cellular automatons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of elementary cellular automaton
block cellular automaton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: block cellular automata
form: block cellular automatons
Senses: topics: cellular-automata
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A cellular automaton in which the grid is divided into distinct blocks in a uniform pattern, with the blocks being shifted by a certain number of cells in each generation, and each block serving as the neighborhood for all cells contained within it.
Synonyms: partitioning cellular automaton
Related terms: Margolus neighborhood
block cellular automata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of block cellular automaton
block cellular automatons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of block cellular automaton
partitioning cellular automaton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: partitioning cellular automata
form: partitioning cellular automatons
Senses: topics: cellular-automata
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A block cellular automaton.
Related terms: Margolus neighborhood
partitioning cellular automata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of partitioning cellular automaton
partitioning cellular automatons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of partitioning cellular automaton
European anchovy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: European anchovies
Senses: synonyms: Mediterranean anchovy
glosses: A common food fish found in European waters from the Sea of Azov to the North Sea and in west African waters (Engraulis encrasicolus).
Margolus neighborhood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Margolus neighborhoods
form: Margolus neighbourhood
Etymology: For Norman Margolus, Canadian-American cellular automatist
Senses: examples: text: In addition to Moore, Von Neuman and Margolus neighborhoods, the spatial, temporal (phase) and user connector extensions of CAM-PC provide for a large number of different neighborhoods. In this sense, a simple neighborhood is actually a selection of up to 16 of the 50 to 100 signals (depending on what you count) that are available.
ref: 1992 March 16, CAM-PC Support Staff, “CAM, CAM-6, CAM\PC boards.”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet):
text: Another thing which seems to work very well is embodied in the Margolus neighborhood, for which different rules are operative at different points in the lattice, and even at different times.
ref: 1992 March 30, Harold V. McIntosh, “1) What kind of tilings? 2) CAM family.”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet):
text: For any one interested in CA's in general or in simulations that require the conservatin laws of the Margolus neighborhood in particular I've managed to devise a method for duplicating all the properties of the Margolus neighborhood without the paritioning and without the block rules.
ref: 2003 March 15, fiziwig, “New formulation of the Margolus neighborhood”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet):
topics: cellular-automata
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A block cellular automaton neighborhood consisting of a two-by-two square of cells which shifts one cell diagonally each generation.
wikipedia: Norman Margolus
Margolus neighbourhood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Margolus neighbourhoods
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Margolus neighborhood.
Margolus neighbourhoods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Margolus neighbourhood
Margolus neighborhoods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Margolus neighborhood
Margolus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname
Derived terms: Margolus neighborhood
ossa cuneiformia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of os cuneiforme
common knotgrass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A widespread herb native to Eurasia, found in most temperate regions (Polygonum aviculare).
Synonyms: sense: Polygonum aviculare
word: prostrate knotweed
sense: Polygonum aviculare
word: birdweed
sense: Polygonum aviculare
word: pigweed
sense: Polygonum aviculare
word: lowgrass
Armo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Armos
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of armo.
Armos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Armo
turmite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: turmites
Etymology: Blend of Turing + termite. Coined by Canadian mathematics writer A. K. Dewdney in 1989.
Senses: topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A two-dimensional variant of a Turing machine in which the head has an orientation in addition to a position and state.
turmites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of turmite
eating-disorder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eating-disorders
Senses: examples: text: While in the hospital Casey meets a “supportive” friend, Carol Link (Melanie Mayron), a teen with bulimarexia, an eating-disorder which leads her to alternately gorge herself on food and then force herself to vomit.
ref: 1981 May 10, Beverly Autorino, “Film explores terrifying ailment”, in TV/Radio & Cable Week, page 6, columns 2–3:
text: I shall argue that the metaphor of psychic skin and the vicissitudes of that skin can particularly aid understanding some of the disturbances in early mental processes that contribute to the development of an eating-disorder. […] sustaining a notion of containing internal space, something that is often deeply problematic for those with an eating-disorder. […] In illustration and extension of these ideas, I have sought to highlight some of their clinical manifestations in patients with eating-disorders.
ref: 2004, Free Associations, numbers 57–60, pages 135 and 169:
text: An impressive body of research can be found on advertising’s contribution to eating-disorders, consumption of alcohol, tobacco, etc. However, no research can be found on advertising’s role in the consumption of skin-lightening products which has become increasingly popular in Asia. Similar to eating-disorders, skin-lightening is an issue concerning body image with potential harmful consequences.
ref: 2006 August, Christina Görke, “Introduction”, in An Exploratory Study of Advertising’s Role in Young Indian Women’s Desire to Be Fair-Skinned Beauties and Their Consumption of Skin-Lightening Products (University of Leicester, MSc Media and Communications Research, Master Dissertation), GRIN Verlag, published 2014, →ISBN, page 1:
text: Similarly, children of parents with anxiety – [19], substance use – [16,20], and eating-disorders [21-23] are also at higher risk for psychopathology.
ref: 2009, Diego G. Bassani, Cintia V. Padoin, Diane Philipp, Scott Veldhuizen, “Estimating the number of children exposed to parental psychiatric disorders through a national health survey”, in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health, volume 3, →PMID:
text: For example, I once had a client who overcame an eating-disorder early in her adolescence.
ref: 2014, Melissa Young-Dorn, How to Find Your Super Awesome Sassy Self! A Modern Woman’s Guide to Living a Less-Stressed Life, Balboa Press, →ISBN, page 63:
glosses: Rare form of eating disorder.
eating-disorders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eating-disorder
shea tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shea trees
Senses: glosses: A tree, the source of a fruit with a nutritious flesh and an oil-rich seed which yileds shea butter (used in cosmetics), endemic to Africa (Vitellaria paradoxa).
Synonyms: sense: Vitellaria paradoxa
word: Butyrospermum parkii
sense: Vitellaria paradoxa
word: shi tree
sense: Vitellaria paradoxa
word: vitellaria
drug-abuser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drug-abusers
Senses: examples: text: Last year, in the Journal of the American Medical Association, a team of doctors from Boston City Hospital reported that a survey showed “there may be far more drug-abusers and addicts in the general population than has ever been suspected.”
ref: 1965 April 19, Theodore Berland, “The Goofball Menace—I: Pep Pills’ Worst Side Effects Are Violence, Crime, Death”, in Evening Journal, volume 33, number 92, Wilmington, Del., page 2, column 3:
text: Even agents of the Florida State Bureau of Narcotics are not entirely sure where drug-abusers get the pills.
ref: 1965 September 14, Wendy Rogers, “Shadow of Addiction: ‘Pill Baby’ Gets His Kicks In Medicine Cabinet Raid”, in The Miami Herald, page 3-BR, column 4:
text: Working closely with his former colleagues on the council and his nationally-experienced police chief, Rick Sanders, J-town’s Angel program for self-admitted drug-abusers has proven so successful it has been adopted by over 300 cities state-wide.
ref: 2021 June 9, Bob Heleringer, “Can Bill Dieruf end GOP losing streak for Louisville mayor?”, in Courier Journal, volume 153, number 213, Louisville, Ky., page 13A, column 3:
glosses: Alternative form of drug abuser.
drug-abusers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drug-abuser
Kattich
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname from ?
Bramah
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname from ?
Derived terms: Bramah lock
Bramah press
Bramah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bramahs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Brahma (“type of fowl”).
glosses: Alternative form of Brahma (“type of cattle”).
Taigs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Taig
Lagrangian mechanics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: First developed systematically by Joseph-Louis Lagrange in his Mécanique analytique (1788–89).
Senses: hypernyms: analytical mechanics
glosses: A formulation of classical mechanics in terms of energy and action rather than forces, mathematically expressed by a function termed the Lagrangian.
wikipedia: Joseph-Louis Lagrange
Mécanique analytique
drowns one's sorrows
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of drown one's sorrows
drowning one's sorrows
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of drown one's sorrows
drowned one's sorrows
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of drown one's sorrows
sack-whacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sack-whack
radiendocrinology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɹeɪ.dɪˌɛn.də.krɪˈnɒ.lə.d͡ʒi/
Etymology: *From radi- (radium, radiation) + endocrinology.
Senses: examples: text: It considers those new findings with reference to the electronic nature of the body, which paved the way for Dr. Steinach’s radiation-rejuvenation treatment, and laid the foundation for the newer science of Radiendocrinology.
ref: 1923, Rubin, Herman H., The new science of radiendocrinology in its relation to rejuvenation: based on the radiation technique of Dr. Eugen Steinach of Vienna, page 5:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The study of radiative endocrine interactions and their effects upon vitality.
black sages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of black sage
Mackinnon Road
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in Kwale County, Kenya.
pizzling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pizzle
Mackinnon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Mackinnon Road
piyaju
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: piyajus
Etymology: From Bengali পিয়াজু (piẏaju), roughly translating to "spicy onion fritter".
Senses: glosses: A fritter originating from Bangladesh that consists of lentils, onions, chilis, and spices and is then deep-fried. It is especially eaten during the holy month of Ramadan for iftar.
European sprat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: European sprats
Senses: glosses: A fish of European waters from the Black Sea to the North Sea and the Baltic sea (Sprattus sprattus).
Synonyms: sense: Sprattus sprattus
word: bristling
sense: Sprattus sprattus
word: brisling
sense: Sprattus sprattus
word: garvie
sense: Sprattus sprattus
word: garvock
sense: Sprattus sprattus
word: Russian sardine
sense: Sprattus sprattus
word: russlet
sense: Sprattus sprattus
word: skipper
sense: Sprattus sprattus
word: whitebait
actinotroch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of actinotrocha.
Alcobendas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Spain.
lightweight spaceship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lightweight spaceships
Senses: examples: text: To begin with and to be complete, I will list the original spaceships. These are the glider, the lightweight spaceship (LWSS), middleweight spaceship (MWSS), and the heavyweight spaceship (HWSS). These were all found very soon after Life was invented by Conway.
ref: 1992 August 13, David Bell, “Spaceships in Conway's Life (Part 1)”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet):
text: It's a reaction between a glider and a lightweight spaceship spark, nondestructive to the spaceship (so it can be used in puffers):
ref: 1994 May 14, Paul Callahan, “Louis Howell's question of block clearing in life (simple solution)”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet):
text: The usual non-glider suspects from Conway's Life (lightweight, middleweight, and heavyweight spaceships) all fail here due to central 7-neighbor OFF cells.
ref: 2008 May 31, Dave Greene, “Life: B37/S23 - A Chaotic Universe.”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet):
topics: cellular-automata
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: LWSS
coordinate_terms: middleweight spaceship
oblique spaceship
glosses: A particular orthogonal spaceship in Conway's Game of Life, and the smallest such example.
Related terms: middleweight spaceship
lightweight spaceships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lightweight spaceship
gallbush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gall + bush.
Senses: examples: text: Water stood in the ditch the color of tea; it made a dark, mysterious mirror for the gallbush and towering cane.
ref: 1955, Fran Martin, Pirate Island, page 135:
text: Byrd is mistaken in identifying the gallbush as a buckthorn; as noted above, it is actually a North American species of holly (Ilex cariacea).
ref: 2013, Kevin Joel Berland, The Dividing Line Histories of William Byrd II of Westover, page 266:
text: It conjured up a vista of arid wastes, of thorn and gallbush, of sharp-toothed prowling fands, of blood-seeking sting-whiffles that dropped noiseless from the sky to paralyze and feed upon their victims.
ref: 2018, Matthew Hughes, Fools Errant:
glosses: The large gallberry plant (Ilex coriacea).
Telde
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city and municipality of Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain.
LWSS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: LWSSs
form: LWSSes
Senses: examples: text: For example, two gliders can produce another glider, and three gliders can produce a LWSS or MWSS or a HWSS.
ref: 1992 August 13, David Bell, “Spaceships in Conway's Life (Part 1)”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet):
text: the simple "gliders" work perfectly fine, but the LWSS spaceship works great until the 15th generation when a singular pixel gets misplaced and the entire structure collapses.
ref: 1992 August 23, Albert Schnezer, “Programming Life in Tpascal”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet):
text: It begins with the period-20 spaceship that consists of a p20 puffer stabilized by a third lwss; this is the basis for the standard p20 forward and backward rakes.
ref: 1994 December 7, Paul Callahan, “Program to search for collisions in Conway's Life (C code)”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet):
topics: cellular-automata
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of lightweight spaceship.
LWSSs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of LWSS
LWSSes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of LWSS