cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
censurious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more censurious
form: most censurious
Etymology: From censure + -ious.
Senses: examples: text: I KNOW full well that all actions of men of whatsoeuer condition in these censurious tymes shal be scanned, as alredy I am informed mine haue bine in the execution of my souuerains late commands: euen since yesterday that I parformed the same, committinge sir Walter Rawligh, and some of his adherants and instruments to his intended scape from out of my custody to the Tower.
ref: 1618, Lewis Stukley, “Lewis Stukelye's Apollogie writte with his owne hand”, in The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt., volume VIII: Miscellaneous works, Oxford: Oxford University Press, published 1829, page 783:
text: Since taking over Twitter, Musk has regularly boosted, echoed, and embraced thoughts and thinkers commonly classified (often by the practitioners themselves) under the ideological category "neoreaction," which roughly thinks a domineering, censurious machine of progressive thought control has ruined the West with dangerously wrong beliefs in things such as democracy, cosmopolitanism, and equality of the sexes or races.
ref: 2025 January 4, Brian Doherty, “The Improbable Rise of MAGA-Musk”, in Reason.com:
glosses: Alternative form of censorious.
centipedal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more centipedal
form: most centipedal
Etymology: From centipede + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or resembling a centipede.
glosses: Having 100 or another large number of legs or appendages.
dino juice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dino-juice
form: dinojuice
Senses: examples: text: BTW, I can buy Mobil 1 for about $3.25/qt. Assuming that I get 2% better gas mileage with it, my ~20 mpg van saves about $3 of gas during the 3000 mile change interval. In other words, the cost differential between dino juice and Mobil1 is .... $16.25 (Mobil 1) - $5 (dino juice) - $3 (fuel savings) = $8. Maybe it's not so expensive after all.
ref: 1994 October 27, jason douglas, “Re: Switching to Mobil 1 questions”, in rec.autos.tech (Usenet):
text: Today I paid $2.69 for a gallon of gas. What's worse is that it forced me to face an ugly reality: I'm a stone-cold junkie willing to pay any price for a hit of dino juice.
ref: 2001 August, David Seidman, “Following Seas: High Times”, in Boating, volume 74, number 8, →ISSN, page 16:
text: Should you use synthetic oil or should use you use dino juice—regular, out-of-the-ground “mineral” oil from decomposed dinousaurs? […] Some riders feel that higher-end mineral-based oils do just as well, and certainly for a bike ridden regularly under normal conditions, dino juice will do just fine, especially if you are diligent about changing it.
ref: 2005, Shirley Duglin Kennedy, “You Brought It Home, You Take Care of It”, in The Savvy Guide to Motorcycles, Indianapolis, IN: Indy-Tech Publishing, →ISBN, pages 168–169:
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: Clipped compound of dinosaur juice.
ceremonialize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ceremonializes
form: ceremonializing
form: ceremonialized
form: ceremonialized
form: ceremonialise
Senses: glosses: To celebrate in a ceremonial way.
ceremonialise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ceremonialises
form: ceremonialising
form: ceremonialised
form: ceremonialised
Etymology: From ceremonial + -ise.
Senses: examples: text: In the old days the coming of age was ceremonialised by binding the malo about the youth.
ref: 1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka, Eland, published 2019, page 55:
glosses: Alternative spelling of ceremonialize.
chattelhood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From chattel + -hood.
Senses: glosses: The state of being chattel; chattel slavery.
chattelize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: chattelizes
form: chattelizing
form: chattelized
form: chattelized
form: chattelise
Senses: glosses: To treat as chattel; to enslave and dehumanize.
chattelise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: chattelises
form: chattelising
form: chattelised
form: chattelised
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of chattelize.
Chinadom
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From China + -dom.
Senses: glosses: An area inhabited by Chinese people, especially San Francisco's Chinatown.
glosses: Chinese culture and society.
Bryck
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Brycks
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Related terms: Brick
Hanslope
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Milton Keynes borough, Buckinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SP8046).
MFI
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of multiport fuel injection.
glosses: Initialism of multipoint fuel injection.
glosses: Initialism of mechanical fuel injection.
Synonyms: sense: multiport fuel injection
word: MPI
sense: multipoint fuel injection
word: MPI
Related terms: sense: fuel injection
word: DFI
sense: fuel injection
word: EFI
sense: fuel injection
word: FI
sense: fuel injection
word: PFI
mason jar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mason jars
Senses: examples: text: In order to make a cold herbal tea you need a clean jar with a fairly wide mouth, such as a mason jar.
ref: 1988, Draja Mickahoric, “Making Water for Magical Use”, in A Century of Spells: More than 100 time-tested, easy-to-use spells that really work, Red Wheel/Weiser/Conari, →ISBN, The Cold Herbal Tea Method, page 24:
text: I know, beyond the shadow of a doubt, that if I take a mason jar from my kitchen cabinet, walk out to the street and drop it, that it will shatter into lots of tiny pieces.
ref: 2009 January 16, Bruce W. Holsted, “Chapter 24: The Awareness”, in Steps to a Conservation of Mind, Xlibris, →ISBN, page 83:
text: After passing off the bracelets to Thanh and me, one of the elders then shoved into my hands a mason jar of the Montagnard moonshine that had gone down like Drano the night before last, cleaning out all my pipes.
ref: 2011 April 29, Lee Martin, A Hateful Wind, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 113:
text: She put up a second biscuit on a heavy earthen plate along with a long strip of bacon and spooned a thick curl of home-churned butter from a mason jar in the icebox.
ref: 2012 January 17, Gloria Taylor Weinberg, A Homicide in Hooker’s Point, Xlibris, →ISBN, page 93:
text: He poured cold coffee from a mason jar into cups shorn of handles.
ref: 2012 March 7, Ted Olson, editor, The Hills Remember: The Complete Short Stories of James Still, University Press of Kentucky, →ISBN, page 373:
text: With careful use and handling, mason jars may be reused many times, requiring only new lids each time. When lids are used properly, jar seals and vacuums are excellent.
ref: 2011 May 25, Abigail R. Gehring, “Proper Canning Recipes”, in The Homesteading Handbook: A Back to Basics Guide to: Growing Your Own Food, Canning, Keeping Chickens, Generating Your Own Energy, Crafting, Herbal Medicine, and More, Skyhorse Publishing, →ISBN, Jars and Lids, page 72:
text: Spray the inside of the mason jars with the cooking spray.
ref: 2013 October 4, Brenda Van Niekerk, Baking in Mason Jars, Lulu.com, →ISBN, Chocolate Orange Brownies:
text: 9. To assemble, open mason jars and set up on the counter. Cut angel food cake into chunks. Evenly distribute half of the cake among 8 mason jars.
ref: 2014, Jamie Matthews, Mason Jar Desserts: Recipes for Easy, Inexpensive Desserts to Make and Give, KMT Publishers, Inc., Mini Strawberry Shortcake Dessert in Jars:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Mason jar.
mason jars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mason jar
Carpenders Park
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburban area in Watford Rural parish, Three Rivers district, Hertfordshire, England (OS grid ref TQ1293).
Watford Rural
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A civil parish in Three Rivers district, Hertfordshire, England.
Ryce
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ryces
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Cressington
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A part of a council ward in Liverpool, Merseyside, England (OS grid ref SJ3985).
Derived terms: Cressington Park
Sampsigeramid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: [...] himself as a new Sampsigeramid king of Emesa.
ref: 2007, Peter M. Edwell, Between Rome and Persia: The Middle Euphrates, Mesopotamia and Palmyra Under Roman Control:
text: [...] who seems to have been related to the Sampsigeramid house of Emesa, [...]
ref: 1992, Richard Stoneman, Palmyra and Its Empire: Zenobia's Revolt Against Rome, page 101:
text: [...] few members of the Sampsigeramid dynasty with tria nomina.
ref: 2012, Ovidiu Țentea, Ex Oriente ad Danubium. The Syrian auxiliary units on the Danube frontier of the Roman Empire:
glosses: Of or pertaining to the Sampsigeramids.
Sampsigeramid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sampsigeramids
Senses: glosses: A member of the Sampsigeramid dynasty.
Hesketh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Heskeths
form: Heskett
Etymology: Habitational surname from the village of Hesketh Bank, in Lancashire, from Old Norse hestr (“stallion”) + skeið (“racecourse”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Old Norse.
glosses: A hamlet in Kneehill County, Alberta, Canada.
Related terms: Hesketh Bank
Hesketh with Becconsall
Rylov
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Rylovs
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Ukrainian surname Рыло́в (Rylóv).
fungus gnats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fungus gnat
Haurani
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Haurani
form: most Haurani
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the Hauran.
Haurani
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hauranis
Senses: glosses: A person from, or an inhabitant of, the Hauran.
misconnote
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misconnotes
form: misconnoting
form: misconnoted
form: misconnoted
Etymology: From mis- + connote.
Senses: examples: text: Actors themselves must be acutely aware of what gestures or modes of speech will produce what Indicators and Sensors, for a movement that misconnotes a Sensor would be detrimental to the audiences' comprehension of the drama.
ref: 1978, Carol Ann Cohen, An Investigation of the History and Background of Surrealism and Antonin Artaud's Place Within the Movement:
text: Any attempts at centralization on regional or crop basis may be misconnoted with political undertones.
ref: 1997, Adedotun O. Phillips, Tunji Titilola, Sunday O. Titilola, Nigeria in two thousand and ten, page 71:
text: It is pleasurable to think about white men's bodies because white men's bodies misconnote the body of men that is the nation in all its exclusivity.
ref: 2014, Tracy Fessenden, Nicholas F. Radel, Magdalena J. Zaborowska, The Puritan Origins of American Sex, page 152:
glosses: To connote incorrectly; to imply something that is not true or valid.
misconnotes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misconnote
misconnoting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misconnote
misconnoted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misconnote
misconsume
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misconsumes
form: misconsuming
form: misconsumed
form: misconsumed
Etymology: From mis- + consume.
Senses: examples: text: Lovelock, for example, suggests the term “jaycustomers" to label customers who “misconsume” in a manner similar to jaywalkers who cross streets in unauthorized places.
ref: 1996, Christopher H. Lovelock, Services marketing, page 115:
text: On the other hand, an individual or a juridical person who treads the right economic path, who does not misconsume by spending on it beyond the median consumption of the members of the Social Organism, and who does not misinvest, will be liable to pay no tax at all.
ref: 1999, Gautam Mathur, B. Satyanarayan, Essays in Political Economy, page 75:
text: Physiologically, humans misconsume when they eat too much in a sitting or over a lifetime or when they become addicted to a drug. The long-term burden overwhelms the immediate gratification. Psychologically, humans misconsume when, for example, they fall into the advertiser's trap of "perpetual dissatisfaction."
ref: 2002, Thomas Princen, Michael Maniates, Ken Conca, Confronting Consumption, page 33:
glosses: To consume in an incorrect manner; to consume the wrong amount, the wrong things, or at the wrong place or time.
misconsumes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misconsume
misconsuming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misconsume
misconsumed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misconsume
web installer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: web installers
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
coordinate_terms: offline installer
glosses: A single-executable stub installer for a program that downloads the full installer from the Internet on runtime. It may use heuristics to choose the more appropriate installer to download.
offline installer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: offline installers
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
coordinate_terms: web installer
glosses: A single-executable installer for a program that already contains the full program. It does not need to connect to the Internet.
miscontact
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /mɪsˈkɒntækt/
Forms: form: miscontacts
Etymology: From mis- + contact.
Senses: examples: text: The progress of a production run can be reported by providing a count of pass / fail units and channel fails due to miscontacts ( see Fig. 7, bin count report).
ref: 1984, K. M. Nair, Processing for Improved Productivity, page 112:
text: Bad contacts between metallic parts can be caused by corrosion, dust or dry pollution. Other factors causing miscontact are vibrations due to wind, insufficient mechanical loading and the changes in dimensions due to temperature variations.
ref: 1997, Malik, Electrical Insulation in Power Systems, page 45:
text: For the No. 7 bearing, low frequency components in the vicinity of 5Hz are distinctive showing the characteristic of miscontact of vibration transducer shoes.
ref: 2014, G. Diana, Diagnostics of Rotating Machines in Power Plants, page 34:
glosses: Failure to make a proper contact.
examples: text: It is a matter of impossibility for one to lose by being true and faithful, by being meek and lowly, true and Holy through concentration, but it IS possible for you to lose by a little misconduct, or miscontact, or misconception, or by an inharmonious recognition, or by an inharmonious attitude toward […]
ref: 1935, Father Divine, The Spoken Word - Volume 2, Issues 1-23, page 13:
text: When I snuff myself, I snuff my environment. And those I come into miscontact with are affected, and infected. I am communicable, contagious, catching.
ref: 1992, The Gestalt journal - Volumes 15-16, page 64:
text: Laced with humour, Armstrong's experience of Greece is conditioned by a series of miscontacts and attempts to adopt a miscellanea of postures, none of which is achieved successfully.
ref: 2016, Churnjeet Mahn, British Women's Travel to Greece, 1840-1914, page 121:
glosses: Contact that is inappropriate, mistaken, or destructive.
miscontact
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /mɪsˈkɒntækt/
Forms: form: miscontacts
form: miscontacting
form: miscontacted
form: miscontacted
Etymology: From mis- + contact.
Senses: examples: text: NF relays wfll not miscontact through one million operations, and you can be 99% sure of it!
ref: 1983, EDN. - Volume 28, page 24:
text: We now advise against dividing the thumb flexor pulley mechanism if the wrist extensors are a strong Grade 4 or 5 power as this results in excessive MPJ flexion, which causes the thumb tip to miscontact the side of the index finger when the patient attempts to grip.
ref: 1996, Clayton Austin Peimer, Surgery of the Hand and Upper Extremity, page 1508:
text: After elimination of errors by miscontacting, a new calibration is necessary.
ref: 1999, Deutsches Institut für Normung, Environmental meteorology, meteorological measurements, page 113:
glosses: To form a miscontact.
miscontacts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of miscontact
miscontacts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of miscontact
miscontacting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of miscontact
miscontacted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of miscontact
Givetian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A stage within the Devonian period, approximately 387.7 to 382.7 MYA.
miscontinue
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: miscontinues
form: miscontinuing
form: miscontinued
form: miscontinued
Etymology: From mis- + continue.
Senses: examples: text: As to the seventh particular, viz. Where the process on an appeal, indictment, or information, shall be said to be discontinued, or miscontinued, or put without day.
ref: 1795, William Hawkins, Thomas Leach, A Treatise of the Pleas of the Crown, page 169:
text: If two parties are at issue in a praecipe quod reddat, and upon part they are at issue by a panel and upon part they are at issue upon a record – such as bastardy certified, or some other estoppel – and the process is continued against the jury but no day is given for brining in the record, everything is discontinued and not merely miscontinued.
ref: 1887, The Publications of the Selden Society, page 69:
text: Poet do not mis-spell our thoughts or miscontinue what is held in our hearts.
ref: 1981, Marang - Volumes 3-6, page 13:
text: Now, the application of each of these predicates to X will be defeasible if his subsequent performance is inadequate when measured by a standard implicit in the things he didn't explicitly think about — if he goes on to misuse E, miscontinue the series, cannot whistle the tune, rejects Y's continuing '1002' after '1000' or shows he doesn't understand the rules of chess.
ref: 2001, Crispin Wright, Rails to Infinity: Essays on Themes from Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations, page 132:
glosses: To continue wrongly.
miscontinues
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of miscontinue
miscontinuing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of miscontinue
miscontinued
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of miscontinue
can't be bothered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: can't be bothered
form: couldn't be bothered
Senses: examples: text: I can't be bothered to clean the house today.
text: No, I simply can't be bothered with that.
glosses: An expression indicating a lack of enthusiasm or willingness (in something or to do something).
Synonyms: can't be arsed
can't be assed
can't be asked
can't be fucked
CBA
ceebs
drills down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of drill down
drilling down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of drill down
drilled down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of drill down
didukhy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of didukh
diduchy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diduch
gozz
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gozzes
form: gozzing
form: gozzed
form: gozzed
Etymology: Alteration of gob.
Senses: examples: text: He had had the privilege of being gozzed on by Johnny Rotten. A night to treasure. He hadn't washed for three days after.
ref: 2013, Nick Oldham, Bad Tidings, Severn House Publishers, →ISBN, page 164:
text: One of them gozzed at him, which was a thing you'd see at a gig back then. Disgusting I know, but that's the way it was.
ref: 2014, Joseph O'Connor, The Thrill of it All, Random House, →ISBN, page 119:
text: Unfortunately it quite often sidelined any democratic processes and became an integral part of the general mayhem as some unfortunate misfit of the moment was held down and gozzed on.
ref: 2018, Roger Smith, Tell Me Why, Troubador Publishing, →ISBN, page 120:
glosses: to spit
T'o-k'o-hsün
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: T'o-k'o-hsun
raw_tags: from Wade–Giles
Etymology: From Mandarin 托克遜 /托克逊 (Tuōkèxùn), Wade–Giles romanization: Tʻo¹-kʻo⁴-hsün⁴.
Senses: examples: text: Once his vehicle was hit by winds of 12th grade vehemence when he reached the vicinity of T'o-k'o-hsun. Sands and pebbles were blown swiftly around.
ref: [1965, Translations on People's Republic of China, United States Joint Publications Research Service:
text: The examples used by the author are based on data on the arid and semi-arid areas in T'o-k'o-hsun Hsien in the Turfan Basin, Sinkiang, and along the middle course of the Yellow River in Inner Mongolia.
ref: [1968, Communist Chinese Scientific Abstracts: Agricultural Science and Technology, numbers 91-99, United States Joint Publications Research Service, →OCLC, page 2:
glosses: Alternative form of Tuokexun (Toksun)
wikipedia: Defense Mapping Agency
Ting-yüan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 定遠 /定远 (Dìngyuǎn), Wade–Giles romanization: Ting⁴-yüan³.
Senses: examples: text: During the summer, while Ch’en attacked Lai-an and Ch’u-chou, Wu left Lu-chou for an attack on Ting-yüan with the assistance of Nien chief Kung Te-shu.
ref: 1973, Jen Yu-wen, “Warfare in the Yangtze Valley (1856–1859)”, in The Taiping Revolutionary Movement, Yale University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 345, 613:
text: For example, in 1928, after a Red Spear force succeeded in routing bandits from Anhwei’s Hsü-i and Ting-yüan counties, the brigands regrouped in nearby Hsüchou.
ref: 1980, Elizabeth J. Perry, “Protectors Turn Rebels: The Case of the Red Spears”, in Rebels and Revolutionaries in North China, 1845-1945, Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 169:
text: When he reached Yin-ling 陰陵,²⁶⁵ he lost his way and asked an old farmer.[...]
²⁶⁵ A county northwest of modern Ting-yüan 定遠 County in Anhwei (Wang Li-ch'i, 7:182n.) about 25 miles east of modern Huai-nan 淮南 City (see also T'an Ch'i-hsiang, 2:19).
ref: 1994 [145–86 BCE], Ssu-ma Ch'ien, edited by William Nienhauser, The Grand Scribe's Records, volume 1, Indiana University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 206:
glosses: Alternative form of Dingyuan.
wikipedia: Defense Mapping Agency
Huai-pei
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 淮北 (Huáiběi), Wade–Giles romanization: Huai²-pei³.
Senses: examples: text: Next, at the provincial distributing centers such as Ta-t'ung, Shasi, and Hankow were the important brokers (hang-shang, lit., "guild merchants") or salt hongs, who purhcased the salt for resale, or arranged its resale, to the provincial distributors, who themselves went by a variety of names: in Hupei, p'u-fan (lit., "store merchants") for the urban areas and shui-fan (lit., "water merchants") for the backcountry; in Huai-pei, hu-shang (lit., "lake merchants"); in Szechwan an-shang (lit., "port merchants"). These in turn sold to the public, either through their own shops or through petty retailers and peddlers.
ref: 1970, S. A. M. Adshead, The Modernization of the Chinese Salt Administration, 1900-1920, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 158:
text: During the nineteenth century, parts of Shantung and Honan provinces and much of Anhwei were ravaged by the Nien bandits from Huai-pei.
ref: 2002, Annping Chin, Four Sisters of Hofei, Scribner, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3:
text: In the first half of the nineteenth century, Hudson and den Boer write, the Huai-pei region of northeast China had a series of natural disasters.
ref: 2009, Michelle Goldberg, The Means of Reproduction, Penguin Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 190–191:
text: The Nien originally formed during 1851 in the Huai-pei region, as it was known at the time.
ref: 2015, Valerie M. Hudson, The Hillary Doctrine: Sex and American Foreign Policy, Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 81:
glosses: Alternative form of Huaibei.
wikipedia: Defense Mapping Agency
Ch'i-men
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 祁門 /祁门 (Qímén), Wade–Giles romanization: Chʻi²-mên².
Senses: examples: text: On the various ranges in the neighbourhood of Ch‘i-mên,§ the rebels managed, on the 23rd inst. to capture two positions, so that for several months past there has not been much leisure for supporting operations.
...
§ In Anhui.
ref: [1922, Herbert A. Giles, “Tsêng Kuo-fan”, in Gems of Chinese Literature, Shanghai: Kelly and Walsh, →OCLC, page 263:
text: When Tseng Kuo-fan (1811-1872) was encamped at Ch'i-men in southern Anhwei in 1860, he asked his brothers at Anking to send all important correspondence by one of the Hunan Braves and leave only relatively unimportant messages to be transmitted through the I-chan.
ref: 1970, Ying-wan Cheng, Postal Communication in China and its Modernization, 1860-1896, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 24:
text: Ch'i-men county in late T'ang times exemplifies this development. The land in Ch'i-men was so limited by its hilly setting that almost seven-tenths of the 5,400 households in the county drew their livelihood from tea manufacture and bsuinesses connected with it. Government income too was obtained from the taxes on tea manufacture. Among tea merchants from other cities, the teas produced in Ch'i-men were much reputed for their excellent flavor and color, but in spite of the increasing demand, natural barriers-especially the Ch'ang-men rapids at Ch'i-men River, thirteen li southwest of the county capital-prevented the tea cargoes from being efficiently shipped in bulk.
ref: 1975, John Winthrop Haeger, editor, Crisis and Prosperity in Sung China, Tucson, Arizona: University of Arizona Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 39:
text: It was in his grandfather’s generation that the family started its business in the salt trade and moved from Ch’i-men in Anhui to Yangchow.
ref: 2001, Ginger Cheng-chi Hsü, A Bushel of Pearls: Painting for Sale in Eighteenth-Century Yangchow, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 21:
glosses: Alternative form of Qimen.
wikipedia: Army Map Service
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gutter dog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gutter dogs
form: gutter-dog
form: gutterdog
Senses: examples: text: So the starving folk dreamed and dreamed and woke, and cried out curses on them that had waked them, saying, "Plague take the hands that pulled me back to this gutter dog's life !"
ref: 1900, Samuel Rutherford Crockett, Joan of the Sword Hand, Dodd, page 202:
text: For that I weep not. But thou weepest for a stinking gutter dog. Curse on him that ever thinketh well of thee.
ref: 1917, Michael West, Aucassin and Nicolette, Done from the Old French by Michael West ..., Harrap:
text: Before, I was sort of a gutter dog— just do what you have to do.
ref: 2007, A. B. Shani, Susan Albers Mohrman, William A. Pasmore, Bengt Stymne, Niclas Adler, Handbook of Collaborative Management Research, SAGE Publications, →ISBN, page 502:
text: Lying, cheating, whore-mongering Casanova basta! How dare he. HOW DARE HE! Father of her children, faithful husband – or so he had always sworn. She had given him the best years of her life and he was nothing but a rutting gutter dog.
ref: 2012, Jackie Collins, Lucky, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 840:
text: Clogged steps struck the cobbles as the little boy made his escape up Great Ancoats Street; swearing under his breath, the man threw Pip a furious look. 'You interfering gutter-dog. I'll snuff you out this time, you see if I don't! It's not as though anyone shall miss or mourn a parasite such as you, is it?'
ref: 2018, Emma Hornby, The Orphans of Ardwick, Random House, →ISBN, page 197:
glosses: A person of low social rank.
examples: text: Her mother tried to persuade her not to keep the dirty gutter dog. 'If you do want a dog, we can have a nice terrier pup specially brought from the city,' she said.
ref: 1947, Narayan Sitaram Phadke, Leaves in the August wind: A Novel with the Indian Upheaval of August 1942 for Its Background, Hind Kitabs, page 50:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see gutter, dog.
Somers Town
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsʌməz taʊn/
Senses: glosses: An inner city area of London in the borough of Camden, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ2983).
paraffin test
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paraffin tests
Senses: glosses: An early test using hot paraffin wax to take a cast of a suspect's hand, which was then sprayed with a reagent to gauge the presence of propellant particles indicating that the person had fired a gun.
paraffin tests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paraffin test
you pays your nickel and you takes your choice
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of you pays your money and you takes your choice.
you pays your nickel and you takes your chances
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of you pays your money and you takes your chances.
shungitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more shungitic
form: most shungitic
Etymology: From shungite + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the mineral shungite.
shungite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shungites
Etymology: First described from a deposit near Shunga village in Karelia, Russia, + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A black, lustrous, non-crystalline mineraloid consisting mostly of carbon, used as a pigment in art and an antibacterial water treatment.
Derived terms: shungitic
shungites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shungite
bitonalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bitonal + -ism.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: bitonality
Butters
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Butterses
Etymology: A variant of Butter, or alternatively an occupational surname for a worker in a wine cellar, from Norman boterie (“wine cellar”) + genitive -s.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Norman.
glosses: A census-designated place in Bladen County, North Carolina, United States.
glosses: Butters Stotch, a fictional character from the animated sitcom South Park.
Butters
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Butter
muscular Christian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: muscular Christians
Senses: glosses: A practitioner of muscular Christianity.
muscular Christians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of muscular Christian
Chottin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname, possibly of French origin.
Dubuffetian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Dubuffetian
form: most Dubuffetian
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the French painter and sculptor Jean Dubuffet (1901–1985).
Dubuffetesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Dubuffetesque
form: most Dubuffetesque
Senses: glosses: Characteristic of the French painter and sculptor Jean Dubuffet (1901–1985).
Lugsden
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
wikipedia: Steve +
Melluish
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Melluishes
Etymology: Variant of Melhuish.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Hargreaves
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hargreaveses
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Hargreaves-Bird cell
Related terms: Hargraves
Hargreave
Tigalari
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A southern Brahmic script which was used to write the Tulu, Kannada and Sanskrit languages.
culture-fair
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: a culture-fair intelligence test
glosses: Free from biases that would give people from certain cultures a greater chance of success.
cochinita pibil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish cochinita pibil, a partial calque of Yucatec Maya pibil kʼéekʼen, from píib (“cooking pit”) + kʼéekʼen (“pig”).
Senses: synonyms: puerco pibil
glosses: A traditional Yucatec slow-roasted pork dish.
puerco pibil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: cochinita pibil
currency cocktail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: currency cocktails
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: A portfolio of different currencies.
currency cocktails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of currency cocktail
Rembrandtian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Rembrandtian
form: most Rembrandtian
Etymology: From Rembrandt + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the artist Rembrandt.
Rembrandt lighting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named in allusion to the artistic style of Rembrandt; attributed to filmmaker Cecil B. DeMille.
Senses: glosses: A form of lighting used in studio portrait photography and cinematography, characterized by an illuminated triangle (the "Rembrandt patch") under the eye of the subject on the less illuminated side of the face.
wikipedia: Cecil B. DeMille
Rembrandt patch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Rembrandt patches
Senses: glosses: The illuminated triangle seen in Rembrandt lighting.
Rembrandt patches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Rembrandt patch
Cuban eight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cuban eights
Etymology: Said to have been invented and named by Len Povey, an American pilot who had served with the Cuban Air Force.
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An aerobatic maneuver following a path that resembles the figure 8 on its side.
Cuban eights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Cuban eight
CASREP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CASREPs
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Abbreviation of casualty report.
CASREPs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of CASREP
reply device
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reply devices
Senses: topics: business
marketing
synonyms: reply vehicle
glosses: An order form ready to be mailed (i.e. printed on a postcard or accompanied by an envelope etc.), sent out as part of a marketing campaign.
reply devices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reply device
reply vehicle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reply vehicles
Senses: topics: business
marketing
glosses: Synonym of reply device.
synonyms: word: reply device
reply vehicles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reply vehicle
res cogitans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin rēs cōgitāns.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A nonphysical substance of which minds are composed, separate from res extensa, according to Cartesian dualism and idealism.
broken-mouthed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of a cow, sheep, etc.: missing one of the incisor teeth.
Stiasny
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Stasny
form: Stastny
form: Stiassny
form: Stiastny
Etymology: From Czech and Slovak Šťastný, from šťastný.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Czech.
Stiassny
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Stasny
form: Stastny
form: Stiasny
form: Stiastny
Etymology: From Czech and Slovak Šťastný, from šťastný.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Czech.
Stiastny
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Stasny
form: Stastny
form: Stiasny
form: Stiassny
Etymology: From Czech and Slovak Šťastný, from šťastný.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Czech.
Stasny
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Stastny
form: Stiasny
form: Stiassny
form: Stiastny
Etymology: From Czech and Slovak Šťastný, from šťastný.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Czech.
dinojuice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The critical factors are 1) regular changes (this will do more than any amount of additives to ensure long engine life), 2) ash content (less ash means less deposits, which means less grunge to clog up the oil passages), and 3) breakdown temperatures. Cheap dinojuice will breakdown at lower temps, which means that it may not be optimal for aircooled motors.
ref: 1995 August 1, Josh J Fielek, “Re: one last word on oil”, in ne.motorcycles (Usenet):
text: Originally intended to relieve the Corvette for the need to have an oil cooler, and to improve fuel economy numbers on the EPA test, it's really caught on. Given the investment cost of a modern high end automobile it baffles me how auto makers can justify sticking customers with dinojuice just to save a few bucks.
ref: 1998 November 14, Gabriel Field, “Re: Synthetic Motor Oils”, in alt.autos.subaru (Usenet):
text: no, it really doesn't... just as the oil producers add compounds to help seals "swell" to control leakage, the synthetics contain much of the same in the way of additive packages as the dinojuice.. If a seal is *already* leaking it can appear worse due to synthetics somewhat smaller molecules in it's base...
ref: 2009 April 15, Joey Tribiani, “Re: this surprised me...”, in rec.autos.sport.nascar (Usenet):
glosses: Alternative form of dino juice (short for dinosaur juice).
alterationist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alterationists
Etymology: From alteration + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A person whose job is to make clothing alterations.
alterationists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alterationist
Kelly's eye
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: bingo
games
glosses: A traditional call for the number one.
Maggie's den
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: An allusion to prime minister Margaret Thatcher at 10 Downing Street.
Senses: topics: bingo
games
glosses: A traditional call for the number ten.
wikipedia: 10 Downing Street
Margaret Thatcher
bicon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbaɪ.kɒn/
ipa: /ˈbaɪ.kən/
ipa: /ˈbaɪ.kɑn/
rhymes: -aɪkɒn
rhymes: (UK) -aɪkən
Forms: form: bicons
Etymology: Blend of bi + icon.
Senses: examples: text: Oh yes, Evelyn Hugo is a bisexual icon (a bicon, if you will), who spends most of her time with Monique not focusing on the seven husbands that the book is named for but rather her true "great love," Celia St. James.
ref: 2019 March 15, Emma Lichtenstein, “'Evelyn Hugo' is your next must read”, in The Brandeis Hoot (Brandeis University), archived from the original on 01 Jan 2022, page 14:
text: [Gaby] Dunn, a self-professed “bicon,” or bisexual icon, also wanted to use this novel as an opportunity to amplify queer representation, which she said popular media often leaves out of the narrative.
ref: 2019 October 2, Dana Gerber, “Former journalistic endeavors inspire alum's graphic novel”, in The Berkeley Beacon (Emerson College), page 6:
text: Harry has been somewhat of a bicon (bisexual icon, duh) thanks to his incessant waving of Pride flags on stage, and outright refusal to define his sexuality. Which is obviously, very much his prerogative.
ref: 2019 November 5, “Why fans think Harry Styles' new album is proof of his bisexuality”, in Cosmopolitan:
coordinate_terms: dykon
gay icon
glosses: An iconic bisexual celebrity or fictional character, or a celebrity or fictional character (including if not bisexual) who is much admired by (and iconic to) bisexual people.
Sinyard
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sinyards
Etymology: Variant of Senior, with excrescent -d.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
dino-juice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dino juice.
conreligionist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conreligionists
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of co-religionist.
conreligionists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of conreligionist
conscriptionist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more conscriptionist
form: most conscriptionist
Senses: glosses: Supporting conscription.
conscriptionist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conscriptionists
Senses: glosses: A supporter of conscription.
Synonyms: pro-conscriptionist
conscriptionists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of conscriptionist
consentful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /kənˈsɛnt.fʊl/
Forms: form: more consentful
form: most consentful
Etymology: From consent + -ful.
Senses: glosses: With consent; consenting or consensual.
Derived terms: consentfully
rubber-necker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rubber-neckers
Senses: examples: text: I suppose that fellow was a rubber-necker, and got killed peeping over the trenches.
ref: 1899, Stephen Bonsal, “Under the Mango-tree”, in The Fight for Santiago: The Story of the Soldier in the Cuban Campaign, from Tampa to the Surrender, New York, N.Y.: Doubleday & McClure Co., →OCLC, page 283:
text: He is a great "rubber-necker." What he don't see aint worth looking at.
ref: 1899 March 25, “A Bobbin Boy’s Essay on His Boss”, in Jos[eph] M. Wade, editor, Fibre and Fabric: A Record of American Textile Industries in the Cotton and Woolen Trade, volume XXIX, number 734, Boston, Mass.: Jos. M. Wade, →OCLC, page 63, column 2:
text: We are taught the importance of hygiene of the mouth, of the body, and of the hair, but little concerning the nose, which is the "rubber-necker" which is expected to discover any laxity of cleanliness of other parts of the body or the air around us.
ref: 1899 November 3, W. Cheatham, “Hygiene of the Nose”, in H. A. Cottell, M. F. Coomes, editors, The American Practitioner and News, volume XXVIII, number 12, Louisville, Ky.: John P. Morton & Company, published 15 December 1899, →OCLC, page 441:
glosses: Alternative form of rubbernecker.
like a bulldog with a bone
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Synonym of like a dog with a bone.
synonyms: word: like a dog with a bone
Billingborough
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in South Kesteven district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TF1134).
Gunson
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Hardinge
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hardinges
Etymology: Variant of Harding.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Sturgess
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sturgesses
Etymology: Variant of Sturgis.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Sloman
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Slomans
Etymology: Various possible origins:
* From slow + man, a nickname for a sluggish person.
* From slough + man, a topographic surname for someone who lived in or by a marshy area.
* From sloe + man, a topographic surname for someone who lived by a blackthorn.
Senses: glosses: A surname transferred from the nickname.
MacNaught
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
wikipedia: MacNaught
Related terms: McNaught
M'Naught
flibbets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Just then the mare ran slap against a whackin' great big stone;
Her kicked the trap to flibbets and her trotted off alone.
ref: 1912, C. John Trythall, Tavistock Goosey Fair, Roud 10683:
glosses: Splinters or match-wood - fragments
Corney
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Corneys
Etymology: From Old English *corn (“crane”) + īeġ (“island”).
Senses: glosses: A small settlement in Waberthwaite and Corney parish, Copeland borough, Cumbria, England (OS grid ref SD1191).
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
Indigenous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Many Indigenous people use the day not only to remember the suffering inflicted in the 1620s but also to point out the struggles that Indigenous people continue to face today in the form of, on top of so much else, violence against women and girls.
ref: 2021 November 25, Brandon Tensley, “National Day of Mourning turns Thanksgiving into something more honest”, in CNN:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of indigenous (“native, relating to the native inhabitants of a land”).
Derived terms: Indigenous Australian
β-methasone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: β-methasones
Etymology: From β- + methasone.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of betamethasone.
Carmageddon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of car + armageddon
Senses: examples: text: Outreach for Carmageddon earned Metro and Caltrans a Project of the Year award from the California Transportation Foundation, but the key mark of success had always been removing traffic from the Sepulveda Pass that July weekend.
ref: 2013, Susan Bregman, Kari Edison Watkins, Best Practices for Transportation Agency Use of Social Media, →ISBN, page 120:
text: California highway officials are hoping for a repeat performance at the end of April as Carmageddon 2.0 threatens once more to rear its ugly head.
ref: 2020, Barnini Chakraborty, “California officials warn of Carmageddon 2.0, tell residents to steer clear of highway”, in Fox News:
glosses: The anticipated traffic jam resulting from closing a major freeway.
VWF
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of von Willebrand factor.
glosses: Initialism of vibration white finger.
Waberthwaite
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A settlement in Waberthwaite and Corney parish, Copeland borough, Cumbria, England (OS grid ref SD1093)
von Willebrand
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: von Willebrands
form: Von Willebrand
form: Willebrand
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: acquired von Willebrand syndrome
von Willebrand disease
von Willebrand factor
von Willebrand's
von Willebrand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Von Willebrand
form: Willebrand
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of von Willebrand disease.
VWD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of von Willebrand disease.
Willebrand
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Willebrands
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Related terms: Willebrands
von Willebrand
von Willebrand's disease
von Willebrand factor
point of honor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: points of honor
form: point of honour
Etymology: Compare French point d'honneur.
Senses: synonyms: word: pundonor
glosses: Any scruple caused by a sense of duty.
synonyms: word: pundonor
glosses: The obligation to demand and to receive satisfaction for an insult, especially by fighting a duel.
Related terms: make it a point to
points of honor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of point of honor
Lucin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Lucins
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A toponym
glosses: A toponym:
A ghost town, a former railroad community in Box Elder County, Utah, United States, which gave its name to the Lucin Cutoff and was named after the Lucina (bivalve).
honor point
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: honor points
form: honour point
Senses: topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: The point just above the fess point.
honor points
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of honor point