cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
graphics processing units
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of graphics processing unit
PPU
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: PPUs
Senses: topics: computer-hardware
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
coordinate_terms: GPU
HPU
VPU
glosses: Initialism of physics processing unit, a dedicated microprocessor designed to handle the calculations of physics.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
coordinate_terms: FPU
VPU
glosses: Initialism of parallel processing unit.
topics: business
finance
glosses: Initialism of profit participation unit.
decompression chamber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: decompression chambers
Senses: glosses: A room used by divers to gradually readjust to normal air pressure.
Related terms: decompression sickness
hyperbaric chamber
powk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: pouk
ipa: /paʊk/
other: /pɛʊk/
Senses: qualifier: Black Country
glosses: A stye.
Coffeys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Coffey
TPUs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of TPU
PPUs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of PPU
good things come in threes
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: coordinate_terms: bad things come in threes
glosses: If a fortunate event has already occurred twice, a third fortunate event is likely to occur.
Related terms: third time's a charm
third time lucky
St Enoder
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: The name of an unknown Cornish saint.
Senses: glosses: A hamlet and civil parish in mid Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SW8956).
Brănești
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Romanian Brănești.
Senses: glosses: A commune of Dâmbovița County, Romania.
glosses: A village in Brănești, Dâmbovița County, Romania.
glosses: A village in Vlădești, Galați County, Romania.
glosses: A commune of Gorj County, Romania.
glosses: A village in Brănești, Gorj County, Romania.
glosses: A commune of Ilfov County, Romania.
glosses: A village in Brănești, Ilfov County, Romania.
glosses: A village in Făget, Timiș County, Romania.
Maitlands
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Maitland
bosspot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɒspɒt/
Forms: form: bosspots
Senses: glosses: A person who is rather or overly bossy.
Related terms: fusspot
saucepot
sexpot
Hydrick
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hydricks
Etymology: Americanized spelling of Dutch Heidrich.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Dutch.
Hydricks
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Hydrick
Ibsens
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Ibsen
Llanrhidian Higher
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A community (civil parish) in the City and County of Swansea, Wales.
Related terms: Llanrhidian Lower
Gutekunst
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Gutekunsts
Etymology: Borrowed from German Gutekunst.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Gruszkas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Gruszka
Gutekunsts
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Gutekunst
wall walk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wall walks
Senses: glosses: The walkway along the top of a defensive wall, normally shielded by a parapet on one side; the allure.
Synonyms: allure
Gamage
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Gamages
Etymology: Various origins:
* English habitational surname of Norman origin from any of various places in France called Gamache or Gamaches.
* Borrowed from Sinhalese ගමගේ (gamagē).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
wikipedia: Gamache
Gamaches
Gamages
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Gamage
Hallumses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Hallums
letter of credence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: letters of credence
Etymology: Calque of French lettre de créance.
Senses: topics: diplomacy
government
politics
synonyms: letters credential
glosses: Formal diplomatic letter that appoints a diplomat as ambassador to another sovereign state.
Related terms: letter of credit
letter of recommendation
Hallecks
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Halleck
Galanis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Galanises
Etymology: Borrowed from Greek Γαλάνης (Galánis).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Greek.
Geurin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Geurins
Etymology: Perhaps a variant of Guerin.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Geurins
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Geurin
Galanises
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Galanis
Goldwasser
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Goldwassers
Etymology: Ashkenazi surname, borrowed from German Goldwasser.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Feagan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Feagans
Etymology: Variant of Fagan.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish.
Goldwassers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Goldwasser
Estala
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Estalas
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Estala, itself of Basque origin. This surname is mostly found in Mexico.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Francese
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Franceses
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Francese.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
Franceses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Francese
Estalas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Estala
McKellar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: McKellars
form: MacKellar
form: McCullah
form: McCullar
form: McCuller
form: McCullers
form: McKeller
Etymology: Anglicized form of Scottish Gaelic Mac Ealair (“son of Ealair”), the Gaelic equivalent of Hillary.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Scottish Gaelic.
glosses: A town in Ontario, Canada.
Fabrizios
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Fabrizio
McKellars
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of McKellar
cognatically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From cognatic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: With regards to, or in terms of, a cognate.
ditsoon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ditsoons
Etymology: A corruption of Italian tizzone.
Senses: qualifier: Italian American
glosses: A dark-skinned person, especially an African-American.
Radulfus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Latin Radulfus.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Radulf.
synonyms: word: Radulf
Radulf
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Latin Radulfus.
Senses: synonyms: Radulfus
glosses: A male given name of historical usage.
Herward
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A male given name of historical usage.
Beleți-Negrești
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Beleți-Negrești.
Senses: glosses: A village and commune of Argeș County, Romania.
Bârsănești
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Bârsănești.
Senses: glosses: A commune of Bacău County, Romania.
glosses: A village in Bârsănești, Bacău County, Romania.
glosses: A village in Durnești, Botoșani County, Romania.
Sebba
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The capital city of Yagha, Burkina Faso.
glosses: A department of Yagha, Burkina Faso.
hex crawls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hex crawl
blind-copy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: blind-copies
form: blind-copying
form: blind-copied
form: blind-copied
Senses: glosses: To send a blind carbon copy to (a person).
glosses: To send a blind carbon copy of (a message) to somebody.
Synonyms: blind carbon copy
Kingstanding
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Originally King's Standing
Senses: glosses: A suburb of the City of Birmingham, West Midlands, England (OS grid ref SP0894)
gradient descent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Thus, in gradient descent, on each epoch, we perform the parameter update.
ref: 2019, Sudharsan Ravichandiran, Hands-On Deep Learning Algorithms with Python, Packt Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 92:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A first-order iterative optimization algorithm for finding a local minimum of a differentiable function.
Related terms: graduate student descent
brush away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: brushes away
form: brushing away
form: brushed away
form: brushed away
Senses: examples: text: Recently the Great Northern Railway, U,S.A., which has a considerable mileage of line bordering the Pacific seaboard, has put in service mobile equipment for applying anti-corrosion treatment to rails. An old motor-car has been adapted to carry two oxy-acetylene flame-cleaning heads, which simultaneously clean both sides of both rails of all mill-scale and rust as the car is hand-propelled forward; men follow to brush away the loosened material; the final operation is that of spraying both rails, by means of paint guns carried on a trolley, with a corrosion-resisting compound.
ref: 1951 October, “Preventing Rail Corrosion”, in Railway Magazine, page 648:
glosses: Rare form of brush aside.
thick and fast
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: thick on the ground, common, widespread, abundant; ubiquitous
text: He sobbed[…]but he forgave them. Then the sobs came thick and fast.
ref: 1876, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter 13, in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Hartford, Conn.: The American Publishing Company, →OCLC, pages 113–114:
text: […] in view of the many events which were crowding thick and fast in Paris just then[…]
ref: 1905 January 12, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], The Scarlet Pimpernel, popular edition, London: Greening & Co., published 20 March 1912, →OCLC:
text: There were three or four inches of fresh snow on the ground, and the flakes were falling thick and fast.
ref: 1905 April–October, Upton Sinclair, chapter XIX, in The Jungle, New York, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 26 February 1906, →OCLC:
text: It links the time when single-wheelers were still being used on crack expresses to our modern streamline age, when up to the outbreak of war developments both at home and overseas were following thick and fast upon each other.
ref: 1941 February, O. S. Nock, “The Locomotives of Sir Nigel Gresley: Part 1—G.N.R. 1911-1914”, in Railway Magazine, page 77:
antonyms: thin on the ground
few and far between
deficient
in short supply
wanting#Adjective
lacking#Adjective
uncommon
;
rare
glosses: Occurring in large numbers and rapidly.
Related terms: blizzard
torrent
at bar
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: topics: law
synonyms: sub judice
glosses: Before the court; under consideration by the court.
Related terms: bar examination
pass the bar
ESG
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ESGs
Senses: examples: text: ESG funds
text: Advisers are encouraged to engage with their clients on ESG issues rather than merely regard ESG matters as a discrete checkbox compliance requirement.
ref: 2013, Benjamin J. Richardson, Fiduciary Law and Responsible Investing: In Nature’s trust, Routledge, →ISBN:
text: New firms like Arabesque are making ESG data a core part of their strategy. Goldman Sachs has filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission to start an ESG-focused exchange-traded fund.
ref: 2016 April 6, David Gelles, “Investing With a Conscience, but Done by a Robot”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 07 Apr 2016:
text: Much of this year’s letter was devoted to Mr. Fink’s belief that a focus on environmental, social and corporate governance issues — E.S.G., for short — does not conflict with making money.
ref: 2022 January 18, Andrew Ross Sorkin, Michael J. de la Merced, “It’s Not ‘Woke’ for Businesses to Think Beyond Profit, BlackRock Chief Says”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 18 Jan 2022:
text: In a shift in tone from his previously more strident embrace of ESG, Fink emphasised that clients were responsible for their own investment decisions.
ref: 2023 April 29, Kenza Bryan, “US investors ditch green funds on ‘woke capitalism’ backlash”, in FT Weekend, page 14:
topics: business
finance
glosses: Initialism of environmental/ethical, social and corporate governance.
topics: business
insurance
glosses: Initialism of economic scenario generator.
topics: broadcasting
media
glosses: Initialism of electronic sports gathering.
Radulescus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Radulescu
Stancius
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Stanciu
Florescus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Florescu
Ionescus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Ionescu
Cargo Fleet
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An industrial area of Middlesbrough district, North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref NZ5120).
Glomp
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Glomps
Etymology: Likely a variant of Glomb, in which case, derived from Polish głąb.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
federated learning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: collaborative learning
qualifier: artificial intelligence
glosses: A machine learning technique that trains an algorithm across multiple decentralized edge devices or servers holding local data samples, without exchanging them.
Shandra
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Chandra.
Upper Boat
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: It was the location of a ferry (boat) across the River Taff.
Senses: glosses: A suburban village in Pontypridd community, Rhondda Cynon Taf borough county borough, Wales (OS grid ref ST1087).
Bălțătești
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Bălțătești.
Senses: glosses: A village and commune of Neamț County, Romania.
Cepari
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Romanian Cepari.
Senses: glosses: A commune of Argeș County, Romania.
glosses: A village in Poiana Lacului, Argeș County, Romania.
glosses: A village in Dumitra, Bistrița-Năsăud County, Romania.
glosses: A village in Cârlogani, Olt County, Romania.
Ciomăgești
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Romanian Ciomăgești.
Senses: glosses: A commune of Argeș County, Romania.
glosses: A village in Ciomăgești, Argeș County, Romania.
Cornățelu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Cornățelu.
Senses: glosses: A village in Motoșeni, Bacău County, Romania.
glosses: A village and commune of Dâmbovița County, Romania.
glosses: A village in Poboru, Olt County, Romania.
Dârmănești
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Dârmănești.
Senses: glosses: A village and commune of Argeș County, Romania.
Grumăzești
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Grumăzești.
Senses: glosses: A village and commune of Neamț County, Romania.
media hype
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Excitement for an event, phenomenon, etc. stirred by the mass media.
all bedlam breaks loose
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: all bedlam broke loose
Etymology: Probably coined to act as an alternative to all hell breaks loose that would not be perceived to be potentially insensitive, impious, or otherwise inappropriate.
Senses: glosses: The situation becomes chaotic or characterized by conflict or rage.
all bedlam broke loose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of all bedlam breaks loose
victualeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of victual
Tondo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /tonˈdo/
Etymology: From Tagalog Tondo, from Old Tagalog Tundun per the Laguna Copperplate Inscription (circa 900 A.D.).
Senses: glosses: A district of Manila, Metro Manila, Philippines.
glosses: A historical polity in Luzon north of the Pasig River delta and by Manila Bay
NSSL
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: aerospace
business
engineering
espionage
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
war
coordinate_terms: EELV
glosses: Initialism of National Security Space Launch program; a U.S. government program for assured access to space
NSSL
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: NSSLs
Senses: topics: aerospace
business
engineering
espionage
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of national security spacelaunch; a high security spacelaunch of U.S. government payloads, such as spy satellites
Dragodana
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Romanian Dragodana.
Senses: glosses: A commune of Dâmbovița County, Romania.
glosses: A village in Dragodana, Dâmbovița County, Romania.
Drăcșenei
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Drăcșenei.
Senses: glosses: A village and commune of Teleorman County, Romania.
EELV
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -iː
Senses: topics: aerospace
business
engineering
espionage
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
war
coordinate_terms: NSSL
glosses: Initialism of Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle program; a U.S. government program for assured access to space
EELV
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -iː
Forms: form: EELVs
Senses: topics: aerospace
business
engineering
espionage
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of evolved expendable launch vehicle; a rocket developed under the EELV government program.
NROL
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: NROLs
Senses: topics: aerospace
business
engineering
espionage
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of National Reconnaissance Office launch. An NRO spacelaunch for delivering a high security government payload into space.
Related terms: sense: NRO launch
word: NRO
Iclănzel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Romanian Iclănzel.
Senses: glosses: A commune of Mureș County, Romania.
glosses: A village in Iclănzel, Mureș County, Romania.
Sirețel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Romanian Sirețel.
Senses: glosses: A village and commune of Iași County, Romania.
Saint-Priest
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From French Saint-Priest.
Senses: glosses: A city in Lyon Metropolis, France.
backtranslates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of backtranslate
backtranslating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of backtranslate
PowerPointer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: PowerPointers
Etymology: From PowerPoint + -er.
Senses: examples: text: It has become impossible to attend a science lecture or demonstration without being subjected to the curse of the amateur PowerPointer.
ref: 2004, Public Understanding of Science - Volume 13, page 97:
text: My kids bring home a lot of stuff like this, and I am confident they will grow up to be awesome PowerPointers. As adults they will pack all their reports with facts and pictures and give the chirpiest presentations.
ref: 2006, Forbes - Volume 178, Issues 9-13, page 139:
text: That middle income was the Goldilocks zone, the happy median ha ha, or so the PowerPointers claimed, but we shook our heads knowingly.
ref: 2020, Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future, page 164:
glosses: One who creates and/or delivers a presentation using PowerPoint or a similar Web-based slideshow product.
wikipedia: PowerPoint
PowerPointers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of PowerPointer
Hundred End
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Situated on the boundary between two hundreds (county subdivisions).
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in North Meols parish and Hesketh with Becconsall parish, West Lancashire district, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD4122).
Tsing-hai
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: However, our aid to the soldiers and other wounded during the rebellion, was so much appreciated, that we felt if any one could procure a passport from this man we were in a good position to do so. He was very friendly indeed, but said much as he would like to help us he had not the power to give us a passport, because our Chinese ones were only for the Sze Chuan and Kansu provinces, and advised us that the next passport we applied for at Shanghai or Pekin should be made out for Kansu and the Tsing-hai or Koko-nor, and upon it he could then give us one in Tibetan which would enable us to travel in safety.
ref: 1901, Susie Carson Rijnhart, “Toward the Tibetan Capital”, in With the Tibetans in Tent and Temple: Narrative of Four Years' Residence on the Tibetan Border, and of a Journey into the Far Interior, Fleming H. Revell Company, →OCLC, page 196:
text: K'ang Hi not only refused to listen to this request, but he also commanded him to retire from his territories and also from Tsing-hai, which he had unlawfully usurped.
ref: 1906, J. MacGowan, The Imperial History of China, 2nd edition, Shanghai: American Presbyterian Mission Press, →OCLC, page 534:
text: In 1512 the great headman of the Meng-gu (Mongols), I-bu-la, followed by the tribe A-rh-tʽu-sz’, after making himself master of Tsʽing hai (Kukenor), ravaged also Kʽü-sien, and destroyed the military administration there.
ref: [1910, E. Bretschneider, “Chinese Intercourses with the Countries of Central and Western Asia during the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries”, in Mediæval Researches from Eastern Asiatic Sources, volume II, London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, page 211:
glosses: Alternative form of Qinghai.
smashpad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smashpads
Etymology: From smash + pad.
Senses: examples: text: I picked him up at the bar, took him back to my smashpad and humped on his sweet butt for hours.
synonyms: fuckpad
glosses: A place used for casual sexual intercourse.
smashpads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of smashpad
North Meols
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A civil parish in West Lancashire district, Lancashire, England.
Becconsall
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Hesketh-with-Becconsall parish, West Lancashire district, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD4422).
Oosterhout
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch Oosterhout.
Senses: glosses: A city and municipality of North Brabant, Netherlands.
glosses: A village in Overbetuwe, Gelderland, Netherlands.
glosses: A neighborhood of Nijmegen, Gelderland, Netherlands.
examination papers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of examination paper
Twenty
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Apparently named after the Twenty Foot Drain, which no longer exists.
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in Bourne parish, South Kesteven district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TF1520).
Liberal Judaism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Liberal Judaisms
Senses: examples: text: While Orthodox Judaism originated in Europe as a protest against Reform Judaism, the schism between the two groups eventually gave rise to a number of other Liberal Judaisms, so to speak, including Conservative and Reconstructionist Judaism.
hyponyms: Conservative Judaism
Reconstructionist Judaism
Reform Judaism
glosses: Any of the modern streams of Judaism outside the realms of Orthodox Judaism, especially those without doctrinal belief in a divinely authored Torah or immutable Talmudic law.
glosses: Reform Judaism specifically.
Liberal Judaisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Liberal Judaism
ciliary nerve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ciliary nerves
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
neuroanatomy
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
meronyms: long ciliary nerve
short ciliary nerve
glosses: Any of the nerves supplying the iris, ciliary body, cornea, and adjacent parts.
Derived terms: long ciliary nerve
short ciliary nerve
Malins
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Malins
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Malin
spiral ganglion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spiral ganglia
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
neuroanatomy
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
synonyms: cochlear ganglion
glosses: A mass of bipolar cell bodies occurring in the modiolus of the organ of Corti and giving off axons which comprise the cochlear nerve.
spiral ganglia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spiral ganglion
stellate ganglia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stellate ganglion
Shizhu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 石柱 (Shízhù).
Senses: examples: text: The “living fossil”, metasequoia, for example, was once distributed over large areas of Europe, Asia and the Americas from the Cretaceous to the Tertiary periods. Destroyed by glaciers, its natural distribution in China is today limited to Sichuan’s Shizhu county, Hubei’s Lichuan county and Hunan’s Longshan county.
ref: 1982 February, Huanran Wen, He Yeheng, “China's Forests—Past and Present”, in China Reconstructs, volume XXXI, number 2, China Welfare Institute, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 66:
text: The ministry also summoned officials from the county of Shizhu in southwest China’s Chongqing for allowing an industrial park to encroach on protected nature reserves.
ref: 2018 June 4, Muyu Xu, David Stanway, “China summons officials to pollution 'name and shame' meeting”, in Richard Pullin, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 27 May 2023, Environment:
text: The education commission of Shizhu county in Chongqing said the beating was inflicted by the founder of an illegal centre called Liuliu, which the commission last year ordered to close down because it did not have a permit to operate, online news outlet ThePaper.cn reported on Thursday.
ref: 2019 August 16, Ann Cao, “Online fury after tutor beats child in class in China”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 Aug 2019, Society:
glosses: A Tujia autonomous county in Chongqing, China.
Babylonian Talmud
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Babylonian Talmud
Etymology: Calque of Hebrew תַּלְמוּד בָּבְלִי (talmúd bav'lí, “Babylonian Talmud”).
Senses: glosses: The Talmud composed and compiled primarily from the teachings, discussions and disagreements of the Amoraim of the Babylonian exile.
Coordinate terms: Jerusalem Talmud
Jerusalem Talmud
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Jerusalem Talmud
Etymology: Calque of Hebrew תַּלְמוּד יְרוּשַׁלְמִי (talmúd y'rushal'mí, “Jerusalem Talmud”).
Senses: glosses: The Talmud composed and compiled primarily from the teachings, discussions and disagreements of the Amoraim of the land of Israel.
Coordinate terms: Babylonian Talmud
Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bactria–Margiana Archaeological Complex
form: BMAC
Senses: topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A Bronze Age civilization of Central Asia, dated to c. 2400–1900 BCE.
Related terms: Andronovo
Cemetery H culture
Cemetery H culture
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A Bronze Age culture in the Punjab region in the northern part of the Indian subcontinent, dated to c. 1900-1300 BCE.
Related terms: Andronovo
Bactria–Margiana Archaeological Complex
nanchangmycin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A broad spectrum polyether antibiotic used to treat Zika virus
trafficway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trafficways
Etymology: From traffic + way.
Senses: glosses: A highway intended for use by motorized traffic
trafficways
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trafficway
sparver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspɑːvə/
ipa: /ˈspɑɹvɚ/
Forms: form: sparvers
Etymology: From Middle English sperver (“sparrow-hawk, canopy”), from Old French esprevier, from Old Dutch *sparwari (“sparrow-hawk”, literally “sparrow-eagle”).
Senses: examples: text: And ſo then every of them ſticke up the aungell about the bedde and to lette downe the corteyns of the ſayd bedde or ſparuer.
ref: c. 1525, The oolde ordre of makyng the Kynges bedd; republished as L. C. Brooke, “XX. The Ceremonial of making the King's Bed”, in Archaeologica, volume 4, 1777, →DOI:
text: And I geue vnto the ſame Elizabeth my wif the ſparuers and hangings of the ſame twoo beddes vſuallye occupied, and hanging ouer and about the ſame twoo beddes[…]
ref: 1558 April 29, Sir William Drurye, Will of Sir William Drurye [of Hawstede, Suffolk], Prerogative Court of Canterbury, page 1:
text: […]a happie woman is ſeene in a white apron as often as in an embrodred kirtle, and hath as quiet ſleeps and as contented wakings in a bed of cloth as under a ſparver of tiſſue.
ref: 1591, Ludovico Ariosto, translated by Sir John Harington, Orlando Furioso, London: G. Miller, translation of original in Italian, published 1634, book V, page 39:
glosses: A canopy for a bed.
benzimidazolic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Related to, or derived from a benzimidazole
pathogeographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From patho- + geographic.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Relating to pathogeography
pathogeography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From patho- + geography.
Senses: topics: geography
medicine
natural-sciences
pathology
sciences
glosses: The geography of disease
Related terms: pathogeographic
sparvers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sparver
scar tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scar trees
Senses: glosses: A tree from which a section of bark has been removed for traditional Indigenous activities such as canoe making, the construction of shelters, etc.
scar trees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scar tree
stubby tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stubby trees
Senses: glosses: A tree which has been decorated by having empty beer bottles (stubbies) placed onto the tips of its branches.
stubby trees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stubby tree
rhyncho-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ῥύγχος (rhúnkhos, “snout”).
Senses: glosses: Concerning the beak or snout.
Related terms: -rhynchous
Liangping
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Liang-p'ing
Etymology: From the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 梁平 (Liángpíng).
Senses: examples: text: Ho Yun-kang was a first grader at a junior middle school in Liangping County, Szechwan Province.
ref: 1978 August 8 [1978 July 29], “Education Ministry Praises Youth for Saving Collective Property”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 153, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Peking NCNA, →OCLC, page E 18:
text: Many of the travelers on the passenger boats and buses leaving Chongqing for towns along the river and interior counties like Kaixian and Liangping are on their way to visit their lao jia, their family's town of origin, a place they may have left for university or which their grandparents fled in wartime.
ref: 2002, Deirdre Chetham, Before the Deluge: The Vanishing World of the Yangtze's Three Gorges, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 241:
text: China’s official Xinhua news agency said the deaths occurred when two primary schools toppled in Liangping county of Chongqing, a municipality of 30 million that neighbours Sichuan.
ref: 2008 May 12, Lindsay Beck, Guo Shipeng, Darren Schuettler, “China quake kills 5 children, injures over 100”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 13 Oct 2022, World News:
text: After more than three hours in cramped vans and buses, we gave up on our hoped-for destination, a supposedly lovely town called Wanzhou, and debarked, at lunchtime, in Liangping, a gray, homely town we’d never heard of.
ref: 2010 December 24, Matt Gross, “Lost in China”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 Nov 2015, Travel:
glosses: A district of Chongqing, China.
Dianjiang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: dyěnʹjyängʹ
Forms: form: Tien-chiang
form: Tienchiang
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 墊江 /垫江 (Diànjiāng).
Senses: examples: text: State media said the blast occurred Thursday in Dianjiang, a county in the Chongqing region, killing one worker. Schools were closed and about 6,000 people were evacuated.
ref: 2005 November 27, “Harbin prepares to turn the taps back on”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 Nov 2022, Asia Pacific:
text: In Dianjiang county, Sichuan, a team of eleven people went around torching hundreds of straw huts. 'Destroy Straw Huts in an Evening, Erect Residential Areas in Three Days, Build Communism in a Hundred Days' was the leading slogan.
ref: 2011, Frank Dikötter, Mao's Great Famine, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 53:
glosses: A county of Chongqing, China.
Fengdu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: fǔngʹdo͞oʹ
Forms: form: Feng-tu
form: Fengtu
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 豐都 /丰都 (Fēngdū).
Senses: examples: text: The Library of Congress has the largest collection of Chinese local histories outside China, with more than 4,000 titles in all. They are rich in historical data on local institutions, customs, geography, and plants and animals of the area. Shown here is a typical volume from the local history of Feng-tu County, Ssu-ch’uan Province, published in 1710.
ref: [1980, Charles A. Goodrum, “Orientalia”, in Treasures of the Library of Congress, New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 198:
text: My great aunt was the first to starve in the village; my cousin rushed home from the mining school where he was a student to carry out his duties as eldest son. On his way there, he passed through Fengdu County, and saw the famine's great toll on the populace.
ref: 1998 [1997], Hong Ying, translated by Howard Goldblatt, Daughter of the River, New York: Grove Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 166:
text: He said an algal bloom from too many nutrients earlier this year on a tributary had contaminated drinking water for 50,000 people in Fengdu County.
ref: 2007 November 19, Jim Yardley, “Chinese Dam Projects Criticized for Their Human Costs”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 10 Mar 2009, Asia Pacific, page 2:
text: An initial investigation showed that her seat belt had broken and a passenger safety bar did not fit tightly enough at the Chaohua Amusement Park in Fengdu county in Chongqing municipality, the national product safety regulator said on Saturday.
ref: 2017 February 5, “Girl, 13, dies after being thrown off ride at Chinese amusement park”, in South China Morning Post, sourced from AP, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 Feb 2017, China:
glosses: A county of Chongqing, China.
Pengshui
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: P'eng-shui
Etymology: From the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 彭水 (Péngshuǐ).
Senses: examples: text: Kweiyang is said to have fallen November 14 as did Pengshui in southeast Szechuan to inferior Communist forces.
ref: 1949 November 15, Strong, “The Chargé in China (Strong) to the Secretary of State”, in Foreign Relations of the United States 1949, volume VII, Chungking: Government Printing Office, published 1978, →OCLC, page 596:
text: In August 2006, Qin Zhongfei, a clerk in the Personnel Department of the Education Committee of the Pengshui County government, in the municipality of Chongqing, wrote a poem set to the rhyming scheme of “Springtime Seeping through a Fragrant Garden” in which he satirized county officials.
ref: 2012 [2008 February 19], Xiaobo Liu, “Imprisoning People for Words and the Power of Public Opinion”, in Louisa Chiang, transl., No Enemies, No Hatred: Selected Essays and Poems, Belknap Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 211:
text: Dr Balakrishnan said in a separate post that both leaders had a fruitful discussion on bilateral relations, and discussed regional and global developments in a post-coronavirus world.
They also witnessed a cheque presentation ceremony for a charity project initiated by the Singaporean community in China to help alleviate poverty in Chongqing's Pengshui County.
ref: 2020 August 21, Linette Lai, “China's top diplomat calls on PM Lee Hsien Loong and DPM Heng Swee Keat during visit”, in The Straits Times, archived from the original on 21 Aug 2020:
glosses: A Miao and Tujia autonomous county in Chongqing, China.
Copalnic-Mănăștur
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Romanian Copalnic-Mănăștur.
Senses: glosses: A commune of Maramureș County, Romania.
glosses: A village in Copalnic-Mănăștur, Maramureș County, Romania.
Youyang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: yōʹyängʹ
Forms: form: Yuyang
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 酉陽 /酉阳 (Yǒuyáng).
Senses: examples: text: The agency said the tree, which is 1,344 metres in diameter, is believed to be about 75 years old, according to the Chinese Academy of Forestry Science. It was found in Youyang county, Sichuan (Szechwan) province.
ref: 1979 February, “Biggest Tree in China”, in Eastern Horizon, volume XVIII, number 2, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 52:
text: Travelling recently in southern, rural Chongqing, I was struck by the sense that something in the atmosphere was different from elsewhere in the mainland. Youyang county is a Tu ethnic area, and even though the Tu look different from Han Chinese - they are darker, with longer noses and diamond-shaped eyes - it was not the physical difference.
ref: 2004 June 28, “Rare women”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 02 Dec 2023:
glosses: A Tujia and Miao autonomous county in Chongqing, China.
Xiushan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: shyōʹshänʹ
Forms: form: Hsiushan
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 秀山 (Xiùshān).
Senses: examples: text: Ge and others (1979, p. 169) named the Rongxi Formation for red beds lying above the Majiaochong Formation and below the Xiushan Formation. The type locality is about 6 km south of Rongxi, Xiushan County, SE Sichuan.
ref: 1986, Mu En-zhi, A. J. Boucot, Chen Xu, Rong Jia-yu, Correlation of the Silurian Rocks of China, Geological Society of America, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 59:
text: An explosion hit an unlicensed fireworks factory early on Sunday morning in remote Xiushan county, in southwestern Chongqing, destroyed three nearby houses and left one person missing, the Beijing News said.
ref: 2007 October 23, “Blast at fireworks workshops kills 18 in China”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 07 Jun 2023, Latest Crisis:
glosses: A Tujia and Miao autonomous county in Chongqing, China.
Changshou
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /(ˈ)t͡ʃæŋˈʃoʊ/
ipa: /t͡ʃɑŋ-/
enpr: chängʹshōʹ
Etymology: From the Mandarin 長壽 /长寿 (Chángshòu).
Senses: examples: text: "The refinery will be in Changshou (district), and investment will be $3 billion. CNPC is working with us," Huang said.
ref: 2007 October 15, Huang Qifan, quotee, “China's Chongqing plans 10 mln t/year CNPC refinery”, in Reuters:
text: Heavenly-blessed Changshou, a book on travel, culture & history compiled by the members of the CPPCC of Changshou District, is original in conception, accurate in content, informative with both text & photos, detailed and concise. This book provides a systematic introduction to the natural sceneries, history & culture, folk customs and eco-environment of Changshou, which is exhaustive & fascinating and serves as a historical reference, and displays collectively the tourism culture of Changshou for the first time.
ref: 2013, Zhang Mingsheng et al., editors, 天赐长寿 [Heavenly-blessed Changshou], Beijing Book Co. Inc., →ISBN:
english: Heavenly-blessed Changshou
translation: Heavenly-blessed Changshou
glosses: A district of Chongqing, China.
Fuling
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: fo͞oʹlǐngʹ
Forms: form: Fu-ling
Etymology: From the Mandarin 涪陵 (Fúlíng).
Senses: examples: text: In 1097 his teachings were prohibited, his land was confiscated, and he was banished to Fu-chou Prefecture (modern Fu-ling County in Szechuan).
ref: [1967, “Introduction”, in Wing-tsit Chan, transl., Reflections on Things at Hand: The Neo-Confucian Anthology (UNESCO Collection of Representative Works Chinese Series), New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page xxx:
text: Carved stone inscriptions at Fuling, Szechuan, record low water levels in 72 different years beginning with A.D. 764.
ref: 1976 August, Nai Hsia, “New Archaeological Finds Enrich Study of Early Science”, in China Reconstructs, China Welfare Institute, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 36, column 3:
text: Pictures of fish carved on stone and inscriptions recording the conditions of the Yangtze during drought years were found by archaeologists on White Crane Ridge in Fuling county of Szechwan province.
ref: 1977 August, L. Y. K., “Archaeology and Yangtze Development Scheme”, in Eastern Horizon, volume XVI, number 8, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 30:
text: I CAME TO FULING on the slow boat downstream from Chongqing.
ref: 2001, Peter Hessler, River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze, London: John Murray, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 3:
text: “All we knew was the code name 816,” said Li Tingyong, a local resident and later head of the Fuling tourism bureau, in a 2010 television program about the 816 plant. “But we had no idea what it was a code name for. It was very mysterious.”
ref: 2017 January 24, Amy Qin, “A Chinese Nuclear Site, Hidden in a Mountain, Is Reborn as a Tourist Draw”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 Jan 2017, Asia Pacific:
glosses: A district of Chongqing, China.
Izvoru Berheciului
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Izvoru Berheciului.
Senses: glosses: A village and commune of Bacău County, Romania.
Izvoru Bârzii
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Romanian Izvoru Bârzii.
Senses: glosses: A commune of Mehedinți County, Romania.
glosses: A village in Izvoru Bârzii, Mehedinți County, Romania.
Nanchuan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: nänʹchwänʹ
Forms: form: Nan-ch'uan
Etymology: From the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 南川 (Nánchuān).
Senses: examples: text: A specimen collected at Nanchuan, Szechuan, by the two German collectors Bock and von Rosthorn, was named H. xanthoneura.
ref: 1957 July, Elizabeth McClintock, “Hydrangeas”, in National Horticultural Magazine, volume 36, number 3, American Horticultural Society, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 277:
text: Sanquan township in Nanchuan district, Chongqing, has received 305mm of rain in the past three days, the heaviest downpour since records began, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Tuesday, citing meteorological authorities.[...]
In Nanchuan district, two road workers were reported missing, while 32 homes collapsed, and 360 were evacuated, Xinhua reported.
ref: 2014 August 12, “Floods batter southwestern China”, in Al Jazeera, archived from the original on 07 May 2022:
glosses: A district of Chongqing, China.
Qijiang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 綦江 (Qíjiāng).
Senses: examples: text: In Szechwan UY housing was defined as "a long-term item of capital construction."¹¹⁴ A provincial conference was held in 1973 on the financial problems of UY settlement, in which the county authorities were evidently asked to supply building materials, for the same report goes on to say that "Chichiang County CCP Committee has provided 300 cubic meters of timber for the educated youths to build houses."¹¹⁵
ref: [1973 October 30 [1973 October 29], Radio Chengtu, “Settlement of Young People Underway in Szechwan Countryside”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 209, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Chengtu Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China: Southwest Region, page E 4; republished as “Adapting to Rural Life: Problems and Remedies”, in Thomas P. Bernstein, editor, Up to the Mountains and Down to the Villages: The Transfer of Youth from Urban to Rural China, Yale University Press, 1977, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 154-155:
text: Six miners escaped Tuesday's accident in Qijiang county, an official at the Chongqing coal mine administration bureau told Reuters. Thirteen were killed and one was missing.
ref: 2003 October 29, “13 dead in China mine accident”, in CNN, archived from the original on 29 Apr 2022:
text: On October 26, 2011, the Fifth Intermediate People's Court of Chongqing Municipality instructed the People's Court of Qijiang District to enforce rulings on the case. The People's Court of Qijiang District issued an announcement on December 30, 2011, requiring the tenant to vacate the premises.
ref: 2022, L. Jia, “Chongqing Aosi Lidu Entertainment Co., Ltd.”, in Selected Cases from the Supreme People's Court of the People's Republic of China, volume 3, →DOI, →ISBN, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 88:
glosses: A district of Chongqing, China.