cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Nan-ch'ang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: nänʹchängʹ
Etymology: From Mandarin 南昌 (Nánchāng), Wade–Giles romanization: Nan²-chʻang¹.
Senses: examples: text: He spoke of the great demand for books. Had sold as many as fifty Bibles in one day. Has sold Bibles to nearly all the officials in the Nan-ch'ang prefecture and has several orders in hand for books of good binding.
ref: 1898 October, “Missionary Conference held at Kuling, Central China, August 22nd to 25th, 1898”, in Chinese Recorder and Missionary Journal, volume 39, number 10, page 496:
text: The small group around Ch’en Tu-hsiu that had remained at headquarters hastily sent an emissary—Chang Kuo-t’ao—to Nanch’ang. Though Chang set out immediately, he did not reach Nanch’ang until July 31, the day before the rising.
ref: [1958, Conrad Brandt, “A Defeat out of Victory and a Devil out of the Machine”, in Stalin's Failure in China, 1924–1927, number 31, Cambridge, Mass.: Russian Research Center, Harvard University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 143:
text: The First Army Corps attacked Nanch'ang on August 1, but failed to capture it.[…]In the meantime, P'eng's Third Army Corps had captured Ch'angsha on July 29 and proclaimed a soviet government of three provinces (Kiangsi, Hunan, and Hupeh), with Li Li-san as its chairman in absentia.
ref: [1966, John E. Rue, “The General Front Committee”, in Mao Tse-tung in Opposition, 1927–1935, Stanford, Cali.: Stanford University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 215:
text: It seems my nephew is about to leave here to sell his wares in Nan-ch'ang, and he told me he would come bid me farewell. I wonder why he's not here?
ref: 1980, Meng Han-ch'ing, “The Mo-Ho-Lo Doll”, in J. I. Crump, transl., Chinese Theater in the Days of Kublai Khan, Tucson, Arizona: University of Arizona Press, →ISBN, page 311:
text: On his way there, he learned of the rebellion of the Prince of Ning at Nan-ch'ang and organized forces against that threat, capturing the prince and the town in little more than a month.
ref: 1982, John Meskill, Academies in Ming China, University of Arizona Press, →ISBN, page 70:
text: Ch’en struck first at Nan-ch’ang, a strategically important city on the shores of Lake P’o-yang, which emptied into the Yangtze from the south. The Han force was immense – it was later said to have numbered 600,000 men – and it must have seemed invincible.
ref: 1998, Chris Peers, Warlords of China: 700BC to AD1662, Arms and Armour, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 141:
text: In 1927, Mao and his followers began a series of uprisings, the most notable being the Autumn Harvest Rising when his peasant army held the city of Nan-ch'ang for several days.
ref: 2005, Nigel Cawthorne, Tyrants: History's 100 Most Evil Despots and Dictators, New York: Barnes & Noble, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 158:
glosses: Alternative form of Nanchang.
wikipedia: Army Map Service
Cambridge University Press
I-pin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 宜賓 /宜宾 (Yíbīn) Wade–Giles romanization: I²-pin¹.
Senses: examples: text: A plant being built in I-pin will produce 6,000 tons of 666 powder annually.
ref: 1960 September 23, A Report on Aid to Agricultural Technical Progress Afforded by the Szechwan Chemical Industry, United States Joint Publications Research Service, →OCLC, page 4:
text: In the early 1960s, following the collapse of Mao's Great Leap Forward, Liu and Chang, as party officials in the city of I-pin (120 miles south of Szechwan's capital, Chengtu), vigorously prosecuted those cadres under their jurisdiction who had shown less than wholehearted devotion to that campaign.
ref: 1971, Thomas Jay Matthews, “The Cultural Revolution in Szechwan”, in The Cultural Revolution in the Provinces, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 96:
text: After crossing Yunnan province, the Long River reaches the sizeable city of I-pin, in southwest Szechwan province. Just above I-pin is the true head of navigation, beyond which no commercial craft can make their way.
ref: 1988, Lyman P. Van Slyke, Yangtze: Nature History and the River, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 18:
glosses: Alternative form of Yibin.
wikipedia: Army Map Service
Encyclopædia Britannica
Spikeophile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Spikeophiles
Etymology: From Spike + -o- + -phile.
Senses: examples: text: (The rabid Spikeophiles are expecially fond of it, as they use it to demonstrate that he's not a soulless demon like the rest of vampirekind.)
ref: 1999 July 24, Lord Usher, “Re: Pure Demon theory”, in alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer (Usenet):
text: If you mean that Spikeophiles are wrong to love this fictional character, well, that's just silly.
ref: 2002 July 25, Clairel, “Re: New Fury interview: Spike & soul”, in alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer (Usenet):
text: This all or nothing thinking is probably what causes the Spikeophiles and the anti-Spikists to go at each other so hard.
ref: 2002 September 9, Ray Stark, “Re: Faith (S3) vs Buffy (S6)”, in alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer (Usenet):
glosses: A fan of the character Spike from the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Tzu-kuei
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: dzûʹgwāʹ
Etymology: From Mandarin 秭歸 /秭归 (Zǐguī) Wade–Giles romanization: Tzŭ³-kuei¹.
Senses: examples: text: The second major movement followed the north bank of the Yang-tzu, emerged from the Yang-tzu Gorge Mountains in the vicinity of present-day Tzu-kuei District upriver from Yi-ch'ang.
ref: 1967, Herold J. Wiens, Han Chinese Expansion in South China, 2nd Impression edition, Shoe String Press, Inc., page 80:
text: Tzu-kuei county, located in the depth of Hsi-ling gorge on the Yangtze River, selected Ta-chin-p'ing, 1,840 meters above sea level on Hsien-nu-feng, to build a television differential transfer station, relaying with good results the television signals, images, and sound of Wu-han, I-ch'ang, and Ching-chou in Hupeh and Ch'ang-te in Hunan.
ref: 1977 August 15, “TELEVISION BROUGHT TO MOUNTAINOUS WESTERN HUPEH”, in United States Joint Publications Research Service, transl., Translations on the People's Republic of China, number 390, Hong Kong: CHUNG-KUO HSIN-WEN, page 10:
text: Burial sites, memorial mounds and markers have also been associated with Ch'ü Yüan since at least Sung times. In the eleventh century, Su Shih noted that while the real burial site was in Tzu-kuei, there were many fictive sites throughout the central Yangtze Valley so that people who wanted to pay their respects to Ch'ü Yüan would not have to travel inconveniently long distances.
ref: 1980, Laurence A. Schneider, A Madman of Ch'u: The Chinese Myth of Loyalty and Dissent, University of California Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 174:
text: One myth holds that after Ch'ü Yuan drowned himself, his body was swallowed by a huge fish which swam all the way across Tung-t'ing Lake and up the Long River to the town of his birth, Tzu-kuei, in the Three Gorges, where it disgorged his body, still intact, so that it could be properly buried.
ref: 1988, Lyman P. Van Slyke, Yangtze: Nature, History and the River, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc., →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 137:
text: As he approached Tzu-kuei he was impressed by Yellow Ox Mountain, proverbially changeless, with its population of wild apes, and marvelled at the Jade Void Grotto, where the sparkling interior was formed by nature into “a thousand immortals, dragons, tigers, birds, and beasts.”
ref: 1996, Felipe Fernández-Armesto, Millennium, Touchstone Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 128:
glosses: Alternative form of Zigui.
wikipedia: Defense Mapping Agency
Senner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Senners
Etymology: From Sen(tinel) + -er.
Senses: examples: text: A lot of Senners went to the Con (and had a blast!) are busily reporting in on the events to their mailing list sibs.
ref: 1998 April 9, holl...@mailexcite.com, “Re: Where Is Everyone?”, in alt.tv.sentinel (Usenet):
text: Two Senners have personally verified that filming has begun, having stumbled upon (okay, hunted down) a location shoot on Sept 9.
ref: 1998 September 4, maha...@ix.netcom.com, “Filming has begun!”, in alt.tv.sentinel (Usenet):
text: Sentineldom is a rich and complex place, and it is my hope that this site will encourage discussion and participation among Senners as well as help people find senfic that they will appreciate.
ref: 1999 September 4, Chaomath, “new Senfic review site”, in alt.tv.sentinel (Usenet):
topics: lifestyle
glosses: A fan of the television series The Sentinel.
Frum
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Frums
form: From
form: Fromm
form: Fromme
Etymology: * As a Jewish surname, from Yiddish פֿרום (frum, “religious, pious, observant”)
* As a German surname, spelling variant of Fromm.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Yiddish.
Frum
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: From
form: Fromm
form: Fromme
Etymology: From Yiddish אברם (afrom), from Hebrew אברם from אברהם. Doublet of Abram.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Yiddish [in turn originating as a patronymic], having a father Afrom (“Abraham, Abram”)
Pei-kan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 北竿 (Běigān), Wade–Giles romanization: Pei³-kan¹.
Senses: examples: text: Ma-tsu hai-hsai (strait), situated between Ma-tsu shan and Pei-kan-tang tao, north-eastward, has a navigable width of nearly one mile between the reefs on either side.
ref: [1954, “China Sea Pilot”, in Great Britain Hydrographic Department, volume III, page 165:
text: The defense ministry in Taipeh, Nationalist capital of Formosa Island, said a fleet of 40 to 50 junks tried to put the landing force ashore on Pei Kan Tang in the Matsu Islands off the estuary of the Min River.
ref: [1954 September 30, “Reds Repulsed”, in The Lincoln Star, Home edition, volume 52, Lincoln, Nebraska, sourced from TAIPEH (INS), →OCLC, page 2, column 6:
text: South of Hang-chou Wan (Bay) below Shanghai, the China coastline changes from a smooth, flat topography to one of irregular, rocky promontories and numerous islands. Foochow, the Fugiu of Marco Polo, dates from the seventh century. Offshore the Ma-tsu Lieh-tao (Matsu and Pei-kan, or Changshu^([sic – meaning Changhsu]) Islands) are heavily fortified Nationalist strongholds.
ref: 1970, Ken Fitzgerald, “Asia”, in The Space Age Photographic Atlas, Crown Publishers, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 196:
text: The major isls. include Pei-kan and Nan-kan (Mazu). Fishing is the main economic activity.
ref: 1998, “Matsu”, in Saul B. Cohen, editor, The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1917, column 3:
text: 'We have successfully taken Pei-kan,' said Leung. 'Heavy shelling has been going for twenty minutes from Kinmen.
ref: 2000, Humphrey Hawksley, Dragon Fire, Macmillan Publishers, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 315:
glosses: Alternative form of Beigan (island)
Senfic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Senfics
Etymology: From Sen(tinal) + fic.
Senses: examples: text: This is very brave of you to post your first Senfic here. I enjoyed it a lot.
ref: 1998 April 21, can...@hotmail.com, “Re: Fanfic: Restored 1/? PG”, in alt.tv.sentinel (Usenet):
text: I've attempted to send you feedback on your Senfic, but my e-mails always end up bounced back at me.
ref: 1999 May 6, Brighid, “saraid (OT)”, in alt.tv.sentinel (Usenet):
text: Thanks to all who are reading and giving me feedback on my first Senfic - thanks for being kind to a newbie (fiction) writer.
ref: 1999 June 4, CJ, “Re: FIC: Most Definitely Wanted”, in alt.tv.sentinel (Usenet):
topics: lifestyle
glosses: A fanfic based on the television series The Sentinel.
examples: text: Can someone point me at more Senfic (gen, slash or adult, I don't care) that deals with shamanism as a central part of the plot?
ref: 1998 October 1, Shomeret, “Re: More favorite fanfic”, in alt.tv.sentinel (Usenet):
text: I'm getting too old for this...well, too old to stay up all night for anything other than reading Senfic
ref: 1999 June 25, Annie :), “Life, the universe and Mac (was: Silly question...)”, in alt.tv.sentinel (Usenet):
text: This is why I print out my favorite fanfic stories...got a couple of trees worth of Senfic...but I donate to the Sierra Club, so I'm allowed.
ref: 1999 August 17, Besterette, “Re: Whatever happened to Dean Warner's Page”, in alt.tv.sentinel (Usenet):
topics: lifestyle
glosses: Such fan fiction collectively.
ten-hut
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: /tɛnˈhʌt/
Etymology: Abbreviated form of attention; compare hut § Etymology 2.
Senses: examples: text: When the officer appeared, the sergeant brought the soldiers to attention by shouting, "Squad, ten-hut!"
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Used to bring a marching band or group of soldiers to attention.
Related terms: ten-shun
at-ten-shun
sensawunda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Deliberate misspelling or eye dialect rendition of sense of wonder.
Senses: examples: text: How does a non-science fiction writer write science fiction? We had a taste with John Hersey's WHITE LOTUS and MY PETITION FOR MORE SPACE and discovered that future visions could be presented with such reality and simplicity that our sensawunda could be thrown away and we could discover, instead, deep and beautiful characters.
ref: 1978, Orson Scott Card, Kalki review, Science Fiction Review, Number 28, November-December 1978, page 33
text: […] in order to be able to make the pilgrimage to Mecca, the Sultan of Alpha Centauri engineers a breath-taking re-siting of the entire solar system — sensawunda indeed!
ref: 1989, Foundation, numbers 47-53, page 33:
text: In this one Brin thinks big and the sensawunda gets turned up to eleven. For instance instead of puny ordinary Dyson spheres, Brin gives us fractal Dyson spheres to maximise the surface area for their trillions of inhabitants.
ref: 1999, Gary Wilkinson, Heaven's Reach review, Vector, Number 207, September/October 1999, page 21
topics: lifestyle
glosses: Wonder or excitement invoked by the grandeur and vision of science fiction.
almondmilk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪlk
Forms: form: almondmilks
Etymology: From almond + milk.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of almond milk.
Lacey Green
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SP8200).
glosses: A suburban area in Wilmslow, Cheshire East district, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ8482).
glosses: A small neighbourhood in Old Coulsdon, borough of Croydon, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ3157).
Rinkeby
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Swedish Rinkeby.
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Stockholm, Sweden.
Derived terms: Rinkeby Swedish
hexadecagonal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having the form of a hexadecagon
heptadecagonal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From heptadecagon + -al.
Senses: glosses: Having the form of a heptadecagon
icosagonal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From icosagon + -al.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Having the form of a icosagon
tetracontakaihexagon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tetracontakaihexagons
Senses: examples: text: For example, a 46-sided polygon could be called a tetracontakaihexagon, or a combination of “tetracontagon” “kai” (often used in combining names) “hexagon.”
ref: 2012, Patricia Barnes-Svarney, Thomas E Svarney, The Handy Math Answer Book, page 184:
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A polygon with forty six sides and forty six angles.
Synonyms: 46-gon
tetracontahexagon
triacontakaitetragon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: triacontakaitetragons
Senses: examples: text: For instance a 34-sided polygon is called a triacontakaitetragon, and a 52-sided polygon is called a pentacontakaidigon.
ref: 2013, Mark A. Freitag, Mathematics for Elementary School Teachers, page 586:
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A polygon with thirty four sides and thirty four angles.
Synonyms: 34-gon
triacontatetragon
triacontatetragon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: triacontatetragons
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A polygon with thirty four sides and thirty four angles.
Synonyms: 34-gon
triacontakaitetragon
Rinkeby Swedish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Rinkeby Swedishes
Etymology: From Rinkeby + Swedish. Calque of Swedish rinkebysvenska.
Senses: glosses: A variety of the Swedish language used by immigrants in the Swedish capital of Stockholm, especially in the suburb of Rinkeby.
glosses: All immigrant created varieties of Swedish used by immigrants to Sweden.
Synonyms: Sho Bre Swedish
Million Swedish
Hypernyms: Swedish
Sho Bre Swedish
Million Swedish
Hyponyms: Rosengard Swedish
Old Coulsdon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village near Coulsdon, borough of Croydon, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ3157).
Great Shefford
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in West Berkshire district, Berkshire, England (OS grid ref SU3875).
Auramazda
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Though the king was thus above all human law, he felt himself bound to recognize the higher or divine law of Auramazda.
ref: 1922, Maneckji Nusserwanji Dhalla, Zoroastrian Civilization, page 228:
topics: Zoroastrianism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: Ahura Mazda
East Garston
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in West Berkshire district, Berkshire, England (OS grid ref SU3676).
Welford
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Welfords
Etymology: From either Old English wella (“well, spring, stream”) or welig (“willow”) + ford (“ford”).
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in West Berkshire district, Berkshire, England (OS grid ref SU4073).
glosses: A village and civil parish in West Northamptonshire council area, Northamptonshire, England, previously in Daventry district (OS grid ref SP6480).
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
Derived terms: Welford-on-Avon
Eastbury
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From east + -bury.
Senses: glosses: A village in Lambourn parish, West Berkshire district, Berkshire, England (OS grid ref SU3477).
glosses: A suburban area in Batchworth parish, Three Rivers district, Hertfordshire, England, adjacent to Northwood, Greater London (OS grid ref TQ0992).
pentic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Five-fold, or five-membered
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to the fifth degree, such as a pentic polynomial
Synonyms: quintic
scante
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɑnteɪ/
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish esconde
Senses: glosses: The drug methamphetamine hydrochloride, crystal meth.
Stockcross
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Speen parish, West Berkshire district, Berkshire, England (OS grid ref SU4368).
Bagnor
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in Speen parish, West Berkshire district, Berkshire, England (OS grid ref SU4569).
confessing Sam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: confessing Sams
Senses: examples: text: The first potentially believable confessing Sam, Daniel Voorhees, arrived at police headquarters on the same day as the second note from The Avenger. During an interview with LAPD Consulting Psychiatrist Dr. Paul De River, Voorhess ^([sic]) claimed that he "couldn't stand [keeping such a dark secret] any longer." The police knew that Voorhees was not The Avenger […]
ref: 2017, Jon Lewis, Hard-Boiled Hollywood: Crime and Punishment in Postwar Los Angeles, page 27:
topics: government
law-enforcement
glosses: A person who falsely confesses to a crime.
confessing Sams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of confessing Sam
Lambley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Old English lamb + lēah (“clearing”).
Senses: glosses: A village in Coanwood parish, Northumberland, England (OS grid ref NY6758).
glosses: A village and civil parish in Gedling borough, Nottinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SK6245).
opinions are like assholes
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈpɪnjənz ɑːɹ laɪ̯k ˈæsˌhoʊlz/
Etymology: Shortened from "Opinions are like assholes; everybody has one"; "Opinions are like assholes; everybody has one and they usually stink"; "Opinions are like assholes: everybody's got one, and everybody thinks theirs smells nicer than everyone else's"; or some variant of the three.
Senses: examples: text: “Opinions are like assholes,” Tipsy began again. “That would be correct,” Few confirmed acidly. “It's an understatement, too.” “Some people have more than one asshole?” Tipsy asked naively. “Okay. Okay.” Quentin placed both his hands ...
ref: 2010, Jim Nisbet, Windward Passage: A Novel, Abrams, →ISBN:
text: Opinions are like assholes and that's all I see. Ya you're so picture perfect. How's it feel to be perfect. Ya you're perfect. Picture perfect to me. What you got comes in a small pill. Pretty sure I've had my fill.
ref: 2011, Michelle Hutchinson, O for the Love of God, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 25:
text: Opinions are like assholes, and there are way too many assholes out there. Call me what you will, but I'll call you what you are. The best way to live is to deserve each day. A born loser isn't just someone who's been desperate for some ...
ref: 2018, Colin Honert, MindSpring, Dog Ear Publishing, →ISBN, page 391:
text: “The shit just got so stupid, and of course Gil kept saying the same thing he always says about this kind of thing: “'Opinions are like assholes...'” “You never know what you're gonna get?” This time they all laughed a little.
ref: [2019, Mathew Klickstein, Selling Nostalgia: A Neurotic Novel, Permuted Press+ORM, →ISBN:
text: “Don't you mean, 'Opinions are like assholes'?” “No, 'shit'. They run too freely from careless openings.” “That's...not a saying.” “No?” Monty chuckled. “You sure?” He sighed. “Anyway, Hitler had opinions. That guy in Wolf Creek had ...
ref: [2020, Jason Parent, The Apocalypse Strain, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:
glosses: Everyone has opinions, and most people's opinions are of exceedingly poor quality.
bakra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bakras
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of buckra.
bakra
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of buckra.
Coanwood
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in south-west Northumberland, England (OS grid ref NY6859).
Collyweston
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in East Northamptonshire district, Northamptonshire, England (OS grid ref SK9902).
Derived terms: Collyweston slate
collywest
Oakleigh Park
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburban area in the borough of Barnet, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ2694).
Stroudley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
extrageneric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From extra- + generic.
Senses: glosses: Outside of a genus.
ultra-fast
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ultra- + fast.
Senses: examples: text: Less important lines of plain double track carrying a mixture of passenger and freight traffic cannot be given ultra-fast expresses, and where alternative routes exist, as for example between London and the West Riding, the specially high-speed trains must be restricted to one of them only.
ref: 1960 February, “Talking of Trains”, in Trains Illustrated, page 67:
glosses: Alternative form of ultrafast.
farm upstate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: What do parents tell their kids when they have to put their pet dog down? “We had to send li'l Fido to a farm upstate, honey....” Maybe that's where I'm going. The farm upstate. “We had to send li'l Spencer to the farm upstate, honey.
ref: 2014, Clay McLeod Chapman, Academic Assassins:
text: The convenience of online shopping is "irresistible," John Oliver said on Sunday's Last Week Tonight. "It's frankly no wonder that e-commerce is gradually chipping away at brick-and-mortar retail sales, and it can seem like the retail jobs are shifting, too," with warehouse jobs apparently "absorbing America's lost retail employees." And that "initially sounds kind of nice," Oliver said. "It's like hearing that there's actually a farm upstate where Borders, Circuit City, and Tower Records employees can run around and be free."
ref: 2019 July 1, “John Oliver dispels your happy, convenient illusions about shopping on Amazon”, in The Week, Johnsplaining:
text: The iconic palm trees that line Park Avenue in downtown San Jose are pulling up roots and moving off the street. / No, they're not going to a farm upstate or retiring to a sunny beach somewhere. They're not heading off to the wood chipper, either — they're going around the corner to a new home on Almaden Boulevard.
ref: 2019 November 22, Rosellen "Rosie" Downey, Silicon Valley Business Journal:
text: Turns out Betsy Ross is the biggest lie your kindergarten teacher ever told you (except that Bubbles the class gerbil was moving to a farm upstate).
ref: 2020 June 14, Josh Axelrod, Saeed Ahmed, “It's Flag Day. Here are some fun facts about the American flag you may not have known”, in CNN:
glosses: The place an animal (or by extension, person, concept, etc) notionally goes when they are dead; used as a euphemism for a state of literal or figurative death or oblivion.
Ucayali
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ucayale
Senses: glosses: A river in Peru, a major source of the Amazon.
glosses: A region in Peru.
glosses: A province in Loreto region, Peru.
slower-moving
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: It will also enable slower-moving freight trains to be recessed in the new down goods loop to await, if necessary, a suitable margin before proceeding to Stafford or Stoke and so reduce confliction with other main-line trains.
ref: 1962 January, “Talking of Trains: Track re-arrangement at Colwich”, in Modern Railways, page 10:
glosses: comparative form of slow-moving: more slow-moving
slowest-moving
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of slow-moving: most slow-moving
flesh tunnel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flesh tunnels
Senses: examples: text: Potential employers didn’t seem to like the 4cm “flesh tunnel” holes he had in each ear as much as he did. […] The record holder for the largest flesh tunnels, at more than 10cm in diameter (big enough to put a fist through), is a Hawaiian man, Kala Kaiwi.
ref: 2014 October 19, Nicole Mowbray, “Big increase in surgery to mend ‘flesh tunnel’ earlobes”, in The Observer:
synonyms: ear tunnel
glosses: A piercing in the earlobe which has been deliberately stretched to achieve a larger gauge.
synonyms: ear tunnel
earplug
plug
earspool
glosses: A short, hollow, cylindrical piece of jewellery worn in such a piercing.
flesh tunnels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flesh tunnel
little-used
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: little used
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Hoyle, who does not believe many multiple-unit diesel services on secondary routes will resist for ever the road transport challenge, would forgo passenger traffic altogether on a little-used route in order to improve the quality of the freight working and reduce its costs by equating the average speed of all trains on the line concerned.
ref: 1960 February, “Talking of Trains”, in Trains Illustrated, page 67:
text: The B.T.C. and the National Farmers' Union are now reviewing farm crossings to see if little-used ones could be closed and whether a simple warning could be provided at crossings where conditions are difficult.
ref: 1962 December, “British Railways safety in 1961”, in Modern Railways, page 379:
antonyms: oft-used
well-used
coordinate_terms: underused
unused
;
overused
glosses: Not used much, or as much as another or others; lightly used.
Related terms: little-known
Áncash
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A department of Peru.
Apurímac
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɑ.puˈɹi.mɑk/
rhymes: -imɑk
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Apurímac.
Senses: glosses: A region of Peru.
Ayacucho
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city and region of Peru.
Huancavelica
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Spanish Huancavelica.
Senses: glosses: A region of Peru.
glosses: A province of Huancavelica, Peru.
glosses: A city in Peru, capital of the department of the same name
Huánuco
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city, region, and province of Peru.
Lambayeque
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Spanish Lambayeque.
Senses: glosses: A city, county, province, and department of Peru.
La Libertad
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish La Libertad.
Senses: glosses: A city and canton in Santa Elena province, Ecuador.
glosses: A department of El Salvador.
glosses: A region in north-west Peru.
Madre de Dios
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Madre de Dios (literally “Mother of God”).
Senses: glosses: A department and region in south-east Peru; in full, the Department of Madre de Dios.
glosses: A river in Bolivia and Peru, a tributary of the Madeira River; in full, the Madre de Dios River.
Piura
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Spanish Piura.
Senses: glosses: A city, region, and province of Peru.
Tacna
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A former commune of Chile.
glosses: A former province of Chile.
glosses: A former department of Chile.
Tumbes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A department, province, and city in Peru.
Junín
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city, district, province, and region in Peru.
Moquegua
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Spanish Moquegua.
Senses: glosses: A city, department, and district of Peru.
Arkle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
wikipedia: Phyllis +
William +
miscompile
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: miscompiles
form: miscompiling
form: miscompiled
form: miscompiled
Etymology: From mis- + compile.
Senses: examples: text: Sufficient data is turned into the Agency but as this data is reviewed and forwarded to area and Central information systems, it seems to get miscompiled through this bureaucratic process.
ref: 1980, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Dept. of the Interior and Related Agencies, Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations For 1981, page 1283:
text: We found that there were many complaints by the agents and the voters of miscompiled rolls.
ref: 1994, Rāshṭriya Nirvācana Paryavekshaṇa Samiti, Nepāla, Nepal election observation report: mid-term polls, page 147:
text: It knows how to falsify, to edit, and to miscompile statistics but shouldn't be able to raise living standards to the West's moving average, nor achieve social justice, empowerment, and freedom.
ref: 2009, Steven Rosefielde, Stefan Hedlund, Russia Since 1980, page 151:
glosses: To compile (put together) incorrectly.
examples: text: The replacement code would miscompile the login command so that it would accept either the intended encrypted password or a particular known password.
ref: 1990, Lance J. Hoffman, Rogue programs: viruses, worms, and Trojan horses, page 125:
text: Figure 3.2 shows a simple modification to the compiler that will deliberately miscompile source whenever a particular pattern is matched. If this were not deliberate, it would be called a compiler "bug." Since it is deliberate, it should be called a "Trojan horse".
ref: 2001, Kevin Bowyer, Ethics and Computing: Living Responsibly in a Computerized World, page 101:
text: How often did the compiler crash, miscompile, or unexpectedly cost engineering time?
ref: 2012, Jack Ganssle, The Art of Programming Embedded Systems, page 28:
glosses: To compile (generate executable from source code) incorrectly.
miscompiles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of miscompile
miscompiling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of miscompile
miscompiled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of miscompile
miscompliment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: miscompliments
Etymology: From mis- + compliment.
Senses: examples: text: I hope I have not paid the hon. and learned Member for East Bristol (Sir S. Cripps) any miscompliment, but Ramsay Muir and Cole can produce good reports, well-written and well-documented.
ref: 1935, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Parliamentary Debates (Hansard) Official Report, page 1729:
text: Thus a catastrophe to the nose in the physical sense is extremely regrettable. But it is not so easy to understand why a miscompliment to it should bring up the beast in a man. Yet the fact is there, sticking out as clearly as one's nose.
ref: 1963, Mother India: Monthly Review of Culture - Volume 15, page 38:
text: It ain't no exaggeration to say he was the stubbornest man I ever knew, except his dad. It ain't no miscompliment, either.
ref: 2010, Larry McMurtry, Leaving Cheyenne, page 242:
glosses: An insult.
miscompliments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of miscompliment
NG+
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: video-games
glosses: Initialism of new game plus.
shooting seat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shooting seats
Senses: examples: text: Lord Elmwood, accompanied by Rushbrook, went to a small shooting seat, about twenty miles distant from Elmwood Castle, for a week's particular sport.
ref: 1791, Elizabeth Inchbald, A Simple Story, Penguin, published 2009, page 273:
glosses: A small country house or residence used temporarily while shooting; a shooting box.
glosses: A walking stick that unfolds into a simple seat, originally used by shooters; a shooting stick.
Huai-nan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 淮南 (Huáinán), Wade–Giles romanization: Huai²-nan².
Senses: examples: text: Every aspect of the salt trade required official sanction and the issue of permits. As an illustration, let us consider the marketing of a consignment of salt from the Huai-nan salines to an up-river port such as Hankow or Ta-t'ung. The yard merchant (ch'ang-shang) at the salines had to report his output of salt daily to the salt receiver (ch'ang-kuan), and could carry salt for sale to Shih-erh-wei only on the requisition of the Huai-nan general office (Huai-nan tsung-chü) at Yangchow, transmitted through the salt receiver; when he received this, the had to apply back to Yangchow for a transport permit (ch'ung-yen chih-chao) and to his local branch office (fen-ssu) for a cargo certificate (ts'ang-tan).
ref: 1970, S. A. M. Adshead, The Modernization of the Chinese Salt Administration, 1900-1920, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 19:
text: Marco Polo was right to be impressed by Huai-nan and Liang-che. By a mixture of favourable market opportunities, government support and considerably technical ingenuity at least, they recovered a lead for chien over shai in China which was not lost until the nineteenth century.
ref: 1992, Samuel Adrian Miles Adshead, Salt and Civilization, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 84:
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 Huainan.
wikipedia: Defense Mapping Agency
Encyclopædia Britannica
Shih-yen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 十堰 (Shíyàn), Wade-Giles romanization: Shih²-yen⁴.
Senses: examples: text: 29. The industrial installations vary from a simple facility of 278 square meters (3,000 square feet) of floorspace with two or three large fabrication building to an elaborate complex of more than 741,450 square meters (8.0 million square feet) of floorspace with more than 100 fabrication, assembly, and shop-type buildings. The largest of these is Shih-yen-chen Unidentified Industrial Complex [redacted] which covers approximately 45 square nm and contains more than 140 large fabrication, assembly, and shop-type buildings (Figure 12).
ref: [1973 July, DEVELOPMENTS IN HUPEH PROVINCE CHINA, National Photographic Interpretation Center, page 12:
glosses: Alternative form of Shiyan.
wikipedia: Defense Mapping Agency
non-stops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of non-stop
Li-chiang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 麗江 /丽江 (Lìjiāng) Wade–Giles romanization: Li⁴-chiang¹.
Senses: examples: text: I did not meet a single Chinese between Chê-to and Li-chiang in Yunnan¹- a journey that occupied about a month- and the Chinese language was entirely unknown.
ref: 1908, Reginald Fleming Johnston, From Peking to Mandalay, John Murray, →OCLC, page 157:
text: In speaking of the important center of Li-chiang, Wang said the Han-Chinese of Yun-nan as well as of other parts of China were quite ignorant in some of their basic assumptions about this region. Some people, he said, think that Li-chiang is a wilderness of the wild barbarians or place it in the same category as Tibet.
ref: 1954, Herold J. Wiens, Han Chinese Expansion in South China, Shoe String Press, published 1967, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 321:
text: In 1922 Rock took up his residence in Li-chiang, the heart of the Na-khi country. His interest in these aboriginal people and their unique culture led him to make, a decade later, his life work the study of the Na-khi tribe of northwest Yün-nan Province. Using Li-chiang as a base, Rock explored and collected plants on the nearby Snow Range to the 17,000 foot level, in the Kingdom of Mu-li, and along the Burma-China border. By 1923 he was far into Yün-nan Province in southwest China, and the National Geographic Society took over the sponsorship of his explorations for more than a year.
ref: 1963, Alvin K. Chock, “J. F. ROCK, 1884-1962”, in Newsletter of the Hawaiian Botanical Society, volume 2, number 1, Honolulu: University of Hawaii, →ISSN, →OCLC, pages 4–5:
glosses: Alternative form of Lijiang.
wikipedia: Army Map Service
hendecagram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hendecagrams
Etymology: From hendeca- + -gram.
Senses: glosses: A star polygon that has eleven vertices
Synonyms: undecagram
Related terms: sense: star shape
word: pentagram (5-pointed)
sense: star shape
word: hexagram (6-pointed)
sense: star shape
word: heptagram (7-pointed)
sense: star shape
word: octagram (8-pointed)
sense: star shape
word: nonagram (9-pointed)
sense: star shape
word: decagram (10-pointed)
sense: star shape
word: hendecagram (11-pointed) dodecagram (12-pointed)
Seacombe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsiː.kəm/
rhymes: -iːkəm
Forms: form: Seacombes
form: Seccombe
form: Secombe
Etymology: From Old English sǣ (“sea”) + cumb (“narrow valley, combe”).
Senses: glosses: A neighbourhood and Mersey ferry terminal in Wallasey, Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, Merseyside, England (OS grid ref SJ3290).
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
Alston Moor
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A moor and civil parish in Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England, previously in Eden district.
St Combs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From a church dedicated to Saint Colm or Columba.
Senses: glosses: A coastal village in Aberdeenshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NK0563).
wikipedia: Columba
Messonnier
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Messonniers
Senses: glosses: A surname.
McAllan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: McAllans
Etymology: Variant of McAllen.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Scottish Gaelic.
Cairnbulg
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Scottish Gaelic càrn builg (“gap cairn”).
Senses: glosses: A coastal village next to Inverallochy, Aberdeenshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NK0365).
bivariantly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From bivariant + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a bivariant manner.
antifaggot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antifaggots
form: anti-faggot
Etymology: From anti- + faggot.
Senses: synonyms: heterosexist
homophobe
glosses: Someone who is against homosexuals.
topics: government
politics
glosses: An antifascist.
anti-faggot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anti-faggots
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of antifaggot.
coälitions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coälition
reëmploys
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reëmploy
reëmploying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reëmploy
reëmployed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reëmploy
giftability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gift + -ability.
Senses: glosses: Suitability for giving as a gift.
chlordene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An intermediate in the production of chlordane and heptachlor.
coal rank
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coal ranks
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The measure or degree of the progressive coalification (organic metamorphism) of a coal, often expressed in terms of vitrinite reflectance.
yawker bird
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yawker birds
Senses: examples: text: No bird in America has so many local names as the Flicker. Some of these are Highholder, Wake-up, Walk-up, Pigeon, Woodpecker, and Yawker-bird
ref: 1910, Annual Report of the Missouri State Board of Agriculture, page 280:
text: Being a common bird he has a number of names such as high-hole, yellow hammer, golden-winged woodpecker, wakeup, yawker bird, and others.
ref: 1960, Science on the March, page 36:
glosses: The northern flicker, Colaptes auratus
Rapallo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A coastal municipality in the metropolitan city of Genoa, Liguria, Italy.
Lartington
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small village and civil parish in County Durham, England; historically in the North Riding of Yorkshire (OS grid ref NZ0117).
Stainmore
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A civil parish in Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England, previously in Eden district.
Yamba
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A Grassfields language of the northwest region of southern Cameroon, with a small number of speakers in Eastern Nigeria.
mackerelly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mackerelly
form: most mackerelly
Etymology: From mackerel + -y.
Senses: examples: a mackerelly taste
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of mackerel.
coal ranks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coal rank
coronoia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of corona + paranoia
Senses: examples: text: Writing this piece, just when I thought I needed to forge a new word ‘Coronoia’, to suitably denote the exponential spread of irrational fears of this novel virus, I found that it has recently been suggested to the Collins dictionary, and is under consideration.
ref: [2020 April 18, Anita Rampal, “We Are Fighting an Infodemic in the Time of 'Coronoia'”, in The Wire:
text: Leaving home felt risky at first, our senses haunted by coronoia, the daily infodemic, the doughnut dreams. (Hang on - where's my mask?) Since often we'd forget that sacred cloth, suffering a brain fade on the doormat, enforcing a respirouette.
ref: 2021 November 6, “Coronaspeak so contagious it'll outlast covidiots”, in Sydney Morning Herald, page 11:
glosses: Unfounded fear surrounding the outbreak of COVID-19, which may include fear of the spread of the virus or fear of governmental conspiracies in the reaction to the virus.
pyropen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pyropens
Etymology: From pyro- + pen.
Senses: glosses: A stylus used in pyrography.
silicotuberculotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From silicotuberculosis + -otic.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to silicotuberculosis.
Blanchets
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Blanchet
Temple Sowerby
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: As in other place names, "Temple" stems from the Knights Templar. Recorded as Sourebi 1179, from Old Norse, and Templessoureby in 1292.
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England, previously in Eden district (OS grid ref NY6127).
raptatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: Used for seizing prey
Lauriers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Laurier
Ravenstonedale
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England, previously in Eden district (OS grid ref NY7204).
Zalgo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: zalgo
Etymology: Said to have been coined in 2004 by Dave “Shmorky” Kelly as the name of a mysterious malevolent entity appearing in webcomics and creepypasta.
Senses: examples: text: Anyway. My personal opinion is that people are making a bigger deal about it than it needs to be. Just be aware that there could maybe potentially be an issue in your app if you release Zalgo, but don't spend the hours going through and wrapping everything in nextTick just to say you are Zalgo-free even if Zalgo being released has ever doomed you.
ref: 2013 August 30, Paul, “Re: [nodejs] Downside to not wrapping sync callbacks in nextTick()?”, in nodejs (Usenet), message-ID <53ece666-5929-41ba-843c-edc4350af00d@googlegroups.com>:
text: This works wonderfully, until you hit an exception in one of your zalgo-promise functions.
ref: 2013 August 30, Dean Landolt, “Re: [nodejs] Downside to not wrapping sync callbacks in nextTick()?”, in nodejs (Usenet), message-ID <CAPm8pjp2ogU58Z5RsZ_RQb_O=iB3RBeoh1eyM6xp-0Vwm7cebQ@mail.gmail.com>:
text: Another crucial detail is to consider the unleashing Zalgo anti-pattern (we have seen it in action in Chapter 1, Node.js Design Fundamentals).
ref: 2014 December 30, Mario Casciaro, Luciano Mammino, “Chapter 6”, in Node.js Design Patterns, Packt, →ISBN, page 281:
text: The explosion in execution branches makes explaining and testing this approach difficult, and reliable behavior in a production environment more challenging. Isaac Schlueter has written a popular blog post about this titled “Designing APIs for Asynchrony,” in which he refers to the inconsistent behavior as “releasing Zalgo.”
ref: 2015 July, Daniel Parker, “Chapter 1: Asynchronous JavaScript”, in JavaScript with Promises: Managing Asynchronous Code, O'Reilly Media, →ISBN, page 6:
text: The JavaScript community, for instance, has discovered a monstrous entity named “Zalgo.” […] When you are passing around lambdas, it is easy to release Zalgo if you mix synchronous and asynchronous styles.
ref: 2015, Robert Fischer, “Chapter 2: Understanding Lambdas in Java 8”, in Java Closures and Lambda, →ISBN, Don’t Release Zalgo, page 29:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: A notional entity said to be "released" due to unpredictable program behaviour resulting from an API's inconsistent use of synchronous versus asynchronous operations.