cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
borametz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɒɹəmɛts/
ipa: /ˈbɑɹəmɛts/
Forms: form: borametzes
Senses: examples: text: [page 7] The Tartarian, or Scythian lamb, or borametz, is a plant, of which many miraculous tales are told. Travellers say that it exactly resembles a lamb, and that its pulp is similar to the flesh of lamb; and that it contains blood, &c.; but these accounts require confirmation. [...] [page 8, footnote †] [The plants] appear to be originally the roots or stalks of certain vegetables, probably of the capillary kind, covered with a woolly moss, which, naturally naturally bearing resemblance to the figure of a lamb, have been helped out and brought nearer to it by art, and the addition of new parts. Sir Hans Sloane, and Breynius [Jacob Breyne], give us the figures and descriptions of such borametzes in their collections.
ref: 1826, Eliza P. Reid, “Part I. Rice, Licorice, Maize, or Indian Wheat, and Some Other Plants.”, in Historical and Literary Botany, […], volume III, Windsor, Berkshire: C. Andrews, […], →OCLC, pages 7 and 8:
text: However, one night when I was hard at work in one of the powder mills outside the fortress, I was captured along with some others by a band of Tartars and carried off so deep into their territory that I not only saw borametz, the legendary sheep-shaped melon, growing, I ate it.
ref: 1999, Johann Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen, “On the Short and Diverting Road by which He Came Home to His Da”, in Mike Mitchell, transl., Simplicissimus, Sawtry, Cambridgeshire: Dedalus Books, published 2010, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative spelling of barometz.
jolter head
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jolter heads
Senses: examples: text: As to corporations, parishes, vestry-boards, and similar gatherings of jolter-headed clods ... I would have the necks of every one of them wrung and their skulls arranged in Surgeons' Hall for the contemplation of the whole profession in order that its younger members might understand from actual measurement, in early life, HOW thick skulls may become!
ref: 1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, chapter 13, in Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC:
glosses: A large, clumsy head; a blockhead; a dunce.
Chinese Pidgin English
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Chinese pidgin English
form: CPE
Senses: examples: text: Of the Chinese material (3.1% of total senses), there are 27 Chinese Pidgin English terms, including chin-chin, a salutation; chop, a stamp or seal; chop-chop, a command for greater speed; and joss, an idol or god.
ref: 2018, James Lambert, “Setting the Record Straight: An In-depth Examination of Hobson-Jobson”, in International Journal of Lexicography, volume 31, number 4, →DOI, page 500:
synonyms: Canton Jargon
China Coast Pidgin
pidgin English
Pidgin English
glosses: An English-based pidgin formerly spoken in Guangzhou and other ports in China.
triuranium octaoxide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The oxide of uranium U₃O₈ that is the main component of yellowcake
Seamer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England, previously in Hambleton district (OS grid ref NZ4910).
glosses: A village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, previously in Scarborough district (OS grid ref TA0183).
glosses: A surname.
Kingdom of Hungary
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A former monarchy in Central Europe that existed from around 1000 until transitioning into a republic in 1946.
wikipedia: Kingdom of Hungary
Related terms: Lands of the Crown of Saint Stephen
baromez
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbæɹəmɛz/
Forms: form: baromezes
Senses: examples: text: A portion of the Baromez does present a rude resemblance in its shape to the figure of an animal, and is covered by a soft downy substance, which may be compared to a silky fleece, of a reddish-brown colour, and which gives to it more the appearance of a dog than a lamb.
ref: [1866], “The Field and the Heath”, in Beauties and Wonders of Vegetable Life; […], London: The Religious Tract Society, […], →OCLC, page 263:
glosses: Alternative spelling of barometz.
victory point
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: victory points
Senses: examples: text: A dominant country in Empires in Arms will gain 15 victory points every economic phase.
topics: games
glosses: In games, and especially board wargames, points that count towards ultimate victory, as distinct from points that count towards other aspects of game play.
Synonyms: word: VP
victory points
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of victory point
borametzes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of borametz
a taunto
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: ataunt
form: ataunto
Etymology: French autant (“as much (as possible)”).
Senses: examples: text: She was a noble vessel. Trim, ship-shape, all a taunto, as Captain Swosser used to say. You must excuse me if I occasionally introduce a nautical expression; I was quite a sailor once.
ref: 1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, chapter 11, in Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Of a ship, especially a tall square-rigged one: in which all running rigging is hauled taut; having all spars hoisted aloft; having all sails set.
examples: text: No need of side-ropes, lads, for these marble companions. My eyes! here's a cabin all a taunto.
ref: 1836, John Thomas Haines, The Ocean Life, act I, scene 1:
glosses: Prepared, ready, fit.
Driffield
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈdɹɪfiːld/
Senses: synonyms: Great Driffield
glosses: A market town and civil parish with a town council in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref TA0257).
glosses: A village and civil parish (served by Driffield and Harnhill Parish Council) in Cotswold district, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref SU0799).
Derived terms: word: Great Driffield
english: East Riding
translation: East Riding
word: Little Driffield
Starklings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Starkling
Great Driffield
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Driffield, East Riding of Yorkshire.
synonyms: word: Driffield
word: East Riding of Yorkshire
Harnhill
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in Driffield parish, Cotswold district, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref SP0700).
Gilling
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Two villages in North Yorkshire, England:
Gilling East, previously in Ryedale district, the location of the former Gilling railway station.
glosses: Two villages in North Yorkshire, England:
Gilling West, previously in Richmondshire district.
glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Gilling with Hartforth and Sedbury
lunatomalacia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Kienbock's disease.
synonyms: word: Kienbock's disease
Gilling East
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish (served by Gilling East with Cawton, Coulton and Grimston Parish Council) in North Yorkshire, England, previously in Ryedale district (OS grid ref SE6177).
Related terms: alt: Richmondshire
word: Gilling West
cluster variable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cluster variables
Senses: examples: text: This period, which is exceptionally long for a cluster variable, satisfies the observations fairly well except in a few cases.
ref: 1902, Solon Irving Bailey, A Discussion of Variable Stars in the Cluster [omega] Centauri:
text: It is a good example of a cluster variable having a large range of variations, a short period, and extremely rapid increase and decrease in light.
ref: 1913, Solon Irving Bailey, Variable Stars in the Cluster Messier 3, page 160:
text: Nearly all of the variable stars found in the other globular clusters had the same characteristics as those found in Omega Centauri. It was five years before a cluster variable was found outside of a globular cluster.
ref: 1950, Leaflet:
text: There are some thirty classical Cepheids, and a few irregular variables, in the globular clusters among the stars brighter than the typical cluster variable.
ref: 1949, Popular Astronomy:
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: an RR Lyrae variable; a type of variable star commonly (but not exclusively) found in globular clusters
examples: text: The first model includes the potential cluster variable conditioned on clustering variables already selected, while in the second model the variable is not included.
ref: 2011, Sabine Landau, Morven Leese, Daniel Stahl, Cluster Analysis:
qualifier: cluster analysis
glosses: A variable whose values are used to classify data points into clusters; a variable that identifies one of the defining properties of clusters.
Filey
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small town and civil parish with a town council in North Yorkshire, England, previously in Scarborough district (OS grid ref TA1180).
Etwall
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Perhaps from the Old English personal name Ēata + wella (“well, spring, stream”).
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in South Derbyshire district, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK2631).
qewls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of qewl
Barnwood
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref SO8518).
blood and soil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Calque of German Blut und Boden, a slogan of the Völkisch movement (including the Nazi Party), chiefly since the 1920s.
Senses: examples: text: Originator of the Nazi blood-and-soil racial theory, Richard Walther Darre became Agriculture Minister in July, 1933, and announced that his chief aim was to make Germany independent of the world in respect to her food supplies.
ref: 1953 September 6, “R.W. Darre Dead; Hitler Minister”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: Representatives of this line of thought around the world are, in many cases, echoing eco-fascist ideas that themselves are rooted in an earlier age of blood-and-soil nationalism.
ref: 2021 November 21, Oliver Milman, “Climate denial is waning on the right. What’s replacing it might be just as scary”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A nationalist, often fascist, ideology that sees genetic heritage (blood) and geographic territory (soil) as the most important values of a nation, typically associated with the idealisation of racial “purity”, reproductive fertility, agriculture and belligerence; examples include Nazism (cf. the concept of Lebensraum) and white nationalism in the United States.
Ettingshall
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburban area in the Metropolitan Borough of Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England (OS grid ref SO9396).
red-flaggy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: red-flaggier
form: red-flaggiest
Etymology: From red flag + -y.
Senses: examples: text: It's the kind of glow that doesn't feel strange or weird or misguided or red-flaggy. Just a glow. Yes, I'm still nervous as hell, but I know I'm moving in the right direction, no matter what happens.
ref: 2014, Patience Bloom, Romance Is My Day Job: A Memoir of Finding Love at Last, New York, NY: Penguin Group, →ISBN, page unknown:
text: If you never show up at her house and are always dragging her to yours, they probably are pretty suspicious of you. Nothing is more red-flaggy than someone who doesn’t make an effort to get to know their partner’s friends.
ref: 2018 April 18, Sophia Benoit, “You Might Be Guilty of This Dating Red Flag”, in GQ:
text: You get so swept up by charm and great conversation that you might literally ignore their "maybe-sorta-girlfriend" or the fact that they say stuff like "I'm not really into relationships." It's like they can utter the most red-flaggy, run-for-the-hills sentence straight to your face, but as long as they're funny and cute, it'll filter out into "I'm The One."
ref: 2019 May 23, Julia Pugachevsky, “The Sh*tty People You Keep Dating, Based on Your Sign”, in Cosmopolitan, archived from the original on 09 May 2020:
glosses: Exhibiting or characterized by red flags (signs or signals that something is wrong).
Calow
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in North East Derbyshire district, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK4171).
switch out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: switches out
form: switching out
form: switched out
form: switched out
Senses: examples: text: I would like to switch my phone out for a newer one.
text: Disconnect power before switching out the graphics card.
synonyms: switch#Verb
swap out
antonyms: swap in
glosses: To exchange or swap one (person, thing, etc.) for another.
examples: text: Switch the lights out at bedtime.
text: The PSB [power signal box] was switched out by engineers in December, marking the end of 56 years of duty. At its peak in the 1960s, it controlled up to 1,200 trains per day.
ref: 2023 March 22, “Network News: One-off tours of New Street PSB”, in RAIL, number 979, page 10:
synonyms: turn out
;
outen#Verb
glosses: To switch off; to turn off.
Derived terms: word: switchout
Related terms: english: railway signalling
translation: railway signalling
word: switch in
sense: turn off
word: lights-out
switched out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of switch out
switching out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of switch out
switches out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of switch out
Pontyclun
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Pont-y-clun
Etymology: From Welsh, bridge over the river Afon Clun.
Senses: glosses: A large village and community with a town council in Rhondda Cynon Taf borough county borough, Wales (OS grid ref ST0381).
wikipedia: Afon Clun
Reindeer Lake
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Probably a calque of Algonquian.
Senses: glosses: A glacial lake in Western Canada, located on the border between northeastern Saskatchewan and northwestern Manitoba.
wikipedia: Reindeer Lake
Raunds
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A market town and civil parish with a town council in North Northamptonshire district, Northamptonshire, England, previously in East Northamptonshire district (OS grid ref SP9972).
Lower Moor
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Wychavon district, Worcestershire, England (OS grid ref SO9847).
boviculture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin bos (“cattle”) + cultura (“cultivation”); stem ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷṓws which also gave Ancient Greek βοῦς (boûs), and English cow.
Senses: examples: text: No discussion of boviculture would be complete without due and proper consideration of Taurus, the bull.
ref: 1936, Ward William Adair, The Road to New York, page 18:
glosses: The rearing and care of cattle.
equiculture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin equus (“horse”) + cultura (“cultivation”); stem equus from Proto-Italic *ekwos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁éḱwos (“horse”).
Senses: examples: text: I imagine a corresponding equiculture. The uppermost quarter of the population, always on horseback, uses up the nation's money to employ another quarter of the population to look after its horses.
ref: 1979, Sven Lindqvist, Land and Power in South America, page 137:
text: It has been inconceivable that the Naylors could be “friends” with their farming neighbours, despite the fact that gentry and peasantry were linked in symbiosis by the turning of the seasons, by the economics of the mart, and, especially, equiculture.
ref: 2014, Richard Pine, The Disappointed Bridge: Ireland and the Post-Colonial World:
glosses: The rearing and care of horses.
drowseth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: drowse + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of drowse
unvigilance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + vigilance.
Senses: glosses: Lack of vigilance.
unvibrant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unvibrant
form: most unvibrant
Etymology: From un- + vibrant.
Senses: glosses: Not vibrant.
snoopings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snooping
gorseland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gorselands
Etymology: From gorse + land.
Senses: glosses: Land on which gorse grows.
gorselands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gorseland
Chorlton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Chorltons
Etymology: From Old English ċeorl (“churl: freeman, peasant”) + -tūn (“-ton: enclosure, estate, town”).
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of Chorlton-on-Medlock: an inner city area of Manchester, England; a former separate town and parish.
glosses: A small village and civil parish (served by Hough and Chorlton Parish Council) in Cheshire East district, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ7250).
glosses: A civil parish in Cheshire West and Chester district, Cheshire, which includes the hamlet of Chorlton Lane (OS grid ref SJ4547).
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
Derived terms: Chapel and Hill Chorlton
Chapel Chorlton
Chorlton-on-Medlock
Chorlton Row
Chorlton-upon-Medlock
Hill Chorlton
Chorlton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Chorltons
Etymology: From Old English Ċēolfriþ (a male given name) + -tūn (“-ton: enclosure, estate, town”).
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of Chorlton-cum-Hardy: a suburb in the Metropolitan Borough of Manchester, Greater Manchester, England (OS grid ref SJ8193).
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
Derived terms: Chorlton-cum-Hardy
Chorlton Lane
Chorlton Park
broomland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From broom + -land.
Senses: glosses: Land on which broom grows.
misabort
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misaborts
form: misaborting
form: misaborted
form: misaborted
Etymology: From mis- + abort.
Senses: examples: text: Between 6 and 9 per cent of our patients referred for diagnosis miscarry or misabort before villus sampling is carried out.
ref: 1991, D. T. Y. Liu, A Practical Guide to Chorion Villus Sampling, page 117:
text: I just had an IUD removed, and the baby I was carrying with the IUD misaborted.
ref: 2001, Cynthia A. Williams, Charles A. Williams, Deborah McMullan, One of Those Women, page 37:
text: One fetus showed an abnormal cytogenetic pattern (45,XO) and this misaborted during the first trimester while the other fetus continued to do well.
ref: 2013, Mitchell S. Golbus, D. T. Y. Liu, E. M. Symonds, Chorion Villus Sampling, page 93:
glosses: To spontaneously abort.
misaborts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misabort
misaborting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misabort
misaborted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misabort
misabsorb
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misabsorbs
form: misabsorbing
form: misabsorbed
form: misabsorbed
Etymology: From mis- + absorb.
Senses: examples: text: Not surprisingly, some of the most influential of these interpreters—including Aiken, Van Wyck Brooks, Edmund Wilson, and Kenneth Burke—have operated outside the academy, for within that establishment Freud and his followers have frequently met the fate of other radical innovators: ignored or deplored by many, championed with narrow, even arrogant zeal by some, misabsorbed by nearly everyone after a while.
ref: 1976, Albert E Stone, “Psychoanalysis and American Literary Culture”, in American Quarterly, volume 28, number 3, page 310:
text: A good majority of personality issues comes from aberrant experiences that are misabsorbed in one's psyche, leading to a lack of self-awareness and to self-doubt.
ref: 2011, Dr. Eric Z. Shapira, A New Wrinkle: What I Learned from Older People Who Never Acted Their Age, page 22:
text: Misabsorbed medicines from the upper GIT
ref: 2019, Lokesh Thakur, Sushmita Rana, Amit Chaudhary, “Colon targeted drug delivery system–A novel perspective”, in International Journal of Advance Research, Ideas and Innovations in Technology:
glosses: To absorb wrongly.
misabsorbs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misabsorb
misabsorbing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misabsorb
misabsorbed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misabsorb
misadorn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misadorns
form: misadorning
form: misadorned
form: misadorned
Etymology: From mis- + adorn.
Senses: examples: text: Let him not set many notes to any one syllable (notwithstanding that in former times it hath been a favourite fashion;) but let his music be such that the words may be clearly, and obviously understood, which will ever be the happy effect, when componsers do not stray from the modesty of nature, into the faulty pursuit of novel graces to misadorn her.
ref: 1768, The Lyric Muse Revived in Europe, page 95:
text: Often when riding on subway of trolley the writer amuses himself by making a mental list of the birds which misadorn the hats of the women passengers.
ref: 1916, Alabama Bird Day Book, page 84:
text: The attackers of Diego Rivera told us that they would not exercise violent direct action against the paintings of Diego Rivera which misadorn the walls of the Secretariat of Public Education in view of the fact that such action would not give more relief than that which time is exercising on the paintings, which are visibly suffering a great deterioration, thats, according to the opinion of the future architects, to the deficiences of the encaustic process in which they were executed.
ref: 2000, Betram D. Wolfe, The Fabulous Life of Diego Rivera, page 207:
glosses: To adorn badly; to embellish with unflattering adornments.
misadorns
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misadorn
misadorned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misadorn
misadorning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misadorn
coelum empireum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsiːləm ɛmˌpaɪɹiəm/
/ˈsiːləm ɛmˌpɪɹiəm/
/ˈsiːləm ɪmˌ-/
Forms: form: coelum empyreum
form: caelum empireum
form: caelum empyreum
Etymology: From Latin coelum empireum.
Senses: examples: text: Around [the earth] circled the stars in primum mobile and above this the heaven, coelum empireum, where Christ sat at the right hand of God
ref: 1978, G. R. Potter, Zwingli, published 1984, page 17:
text: After the death of the individual, the individual’s soul, if it is blessed, is taken to the celum empyreum to await the resurrection of the body.
ref: 2002, Eric L. Saak, High Way to Heaven: The Augustinian Platform Between Reform and Reformation, 1292–1524, page 426:
text: The Ptolemaic cosmos that depicted a Primum Mobile as the first sphere below the coelum empireum (also defined as habitaculum Dei) was well consistent with this thought.
ref: 2010, Paul Richard Blum, Philosophy of Religion in the Renaissance, page 133:
glosses: The outermost part of the cosmos in the Ptolemaic system; Heaven.
Shan-tung
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 山東 /山东 (Shāndōng), reinforced by Wade-Giles romanization: Shan¹-tung¹.
Senses: examples: text: After doubling the promontory of Shan-tung, which is the extreme point eaſt of the Chineſe coaſt, he proceeded firſt to Ten-choo-foo, one of the principal cities of the province: here a ſecond pilot was procured, with more confidence, but with as little knowledge as his predeceſſor.
ref: 1797 September, British Critic, An authentic Account of an Embaſſy from the King of Great-Britain to the Emperor of China, volume X, page 232:
text: When I heard that Shan-tung was to be turned over to the control of the Japanese Government, through drastic economic concessions, my first thought was: Could it be possible that Tai-shan and the vicinity of the Holy Mountain was included in that treaty. Imagine the indignation of the Japanese if their worshipped Fujiyama had been given by the Big Four to China for her part in the war!
ref: 1919 September 11, Julia Ellsworth Ford, Tai-shan: The Holy Mountain in Shan-tung, page 3:
text: The part of China that has supported a dense population for the longest period of time is a large territory: it includes the Wei Ho basin and Shan-hsi plateau in the west, the Shan-tung peninsula in the east and the North China plain in between.
ref: 1969, Yi-Fu Tuan, China, Chicago: Aldine Publishing Company, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 33:
text: Where the founder of the dynasty had got about on a pony’s back, his grandson needed four elephants to transport him, and whereas a simple tent was good enough to house his ancestors, Kublai Khan decreed a stately pleasure-dome in Shan-tung, built of gilded canes.
ref: 1996, Felipe Fernández-Armesto, Millennium, Touchstone Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 131:
text: Ku had wondered whether Park's northern accent would give him away, but he decided it would have to do. Luckily Continental employed plenty of drivers from Shan-tung.
ref: 2015, Xiao Bai, translated by Chenxin Jiang, French Concession, Harper Collins Publishers, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 147:
glosses: Alternative form of Shandong.
all-purpose flour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: all-purpose flours
Senses: topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: Plain flour.
Fatshan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Cantonese 佛山 (fat⁶ saan¹).
Senses: examples: text: The places where I myself saw the Proclamations exhibited are as follows:- Fatshan, Sam-shui, Ching-yüan, Po Miao, Ying-tê, Shao-kow, Shao-chou Fu.
ref: 1877, C. T. Gardner, Mr. Gardner to Consul Sir B. Robertson (Correspondence Respecting the Attack on the Indian Expedition to Western China and the Murder of Mr. Margary), page 105:
text: It is an uncommonly handsome and rather small restaurant on two levels with a priceless Coromandel screen painted in the 17th century by Fong Long Kan of Fatshan. It is reported to be one of a pair. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has one on display.
ref: 1970 April 7, Craig Claiborne, “Hong Kong Hotel of Splendor Where the Dining Is Fine Art”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 Sep 2023, page 72:
text: A semi-conductor components plant in Fatshan in Kwangtung province, eager to suit its output to the needs of other industries, sent groups to over 50 factories and mines in Peking, Shanghai, Chengtu, Sian and a dozen other medium and large cities to study what electronic products they required.[…]
In 1972, when the Chiaocheng County Trucking Company in Shansi province over 1,000 kilometers to the north bought five electronic ignition systems from the Fatshan plant, it sent workers and technicians to help the buyers master their use, returning only when they were satisfied.
ref: 1974 February, “China's Young Electronics Industry”, in China Reconstructs, China Welfare Institute, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 9, columns 1, 2:
text: A number of us on the boat were expecting to go on from Hong Kong to various stations in Kwangtung province and further north and east. I myself was to be stationed at a boys' Middle School at Fatshan, some ten miles west of Canton where we had a large compound with a hospital as well as the boys' and girls' schools.
ref: 1988, Bill Ream, Too Hot for Comfort: War Years in China 1938-50, Epworth Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 5:
text: Between 1856 and 1860 Fisher took part in three battles during the Second Anglo-Chinese War. At Fatshan Creek his boat was up with the leaders at the destruction of the Chinese flotilla.
ref: 2008, Andrew Lambert, “John Fisher”, in Admirals: The Naval Commanders who Made Britain Great, Faber and Faber, →ISBN, page 292:
text: Now thousands of fresh troops were pouring into the city, from other provinces and cities; new vessels, modelled on British gunboats, were being built at secret locations and guns were being cast in a foundry at nearby Fatshan, among them a colossal eight-pounder.
ref: 2015, Amitav Ghosh, Flood of Fire, John Murray, →ISBN, page 532:
glosses: Synonym of Foshan: the Cantonese-derived name.
synonyms: word: Foshan
extra: the Cantonese-derived name
all-purpose flours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of all-purpose flour
child-mind
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: child-minds
Senses: examples: text: The idea of ceasing to exist could not possibly enter a child-mind: the butterflies and birds, the flowers, the foliage, the sweet summer itself, only play at dying;they seem to go, but they all come back again after the snow is gone.
ref: 2012, Lafcadio Hearn, Gleanings in Buddha-Fields:
text: The psychic Censorship working in the child-mind operates to prevent many of his thoughts and feelings from becoming manifest; in addition, the external taboos, which so early he has to recognize, lead him to realize that much of his inmost thought and impulse is not suitable to the standards of the adults around him.
ref: 2013, Barbara Low, Psycho-Analysis (RLE: Freud)::
text: Descriptive instruction therefore encourages and strengthens the grouped masses of ideas in the child-mind.
ref: 1916, Richard David Chalke, A Syntheses of Froebel and Haerbart, page 118:
glosses: Alternative form of childmind.
child-mind
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: child-minds
form: child-minding
form: child-minded
form: child-minded
Senses: examples: text: Although not specifically referring to grandparents, Peter Willmott points out that, in his study of North London in the 1980s, 75% of parents had relatives who would child-mind for them – a significant proportion of these were grandparents (Wilmott, 1988).
ref: 2000, Mark Walsh, Paul Stephens, Stephen Moore, Social Policy and Welfare, page 214:
text: She winked at the Horned Ones, who did not seem to mind being left so precipitously to child-mind, and drew Azhure toward the encircling trees.
ref: 2003, Sara Douglass, Starman:
text: He refused to change any nappies, so I had to find someone who would child-mind my son overnight, whilst I went to work.
ref: 2012, Mary Saunders, Leave Abuse Behind:
glosses: Alternative form of childmind.
child-minds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of child-mind
child-minds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of child-mind
child-minding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of child-mind
child-minded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of child-mind
insect hotel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: insect hotels
Senses: examples: text: The basic principle behind an insect hotel is to use different materials to create a variety of habitats for a wide range of insect species. Most hotels feature an assortment of holes that vary in diameter from 2 to 10mm (¹⁄₁₆–³⁄₈in), depending on the species the hotel is intended to attract.
ref: 2020, The Butterfly Brothers, Wild Your Garden: Create a sanctuary for nature, Dorling Kindersley Ltd, →ISBN, page 166:
glosses: A man-made structure created to provide shelter for insects.
Synonyms: bug hotel
insect house
Related terms: beehive
apiary
insect hotels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of insect hotel
clopfic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clop-fic
Etymology: From clop(ping) + fic.
Senses: examples: text: ‘Shipping’ (imagined romantic entanglements between characters) and ‘clop-fic’ (erotic narratives) are two common genres in the fan fiction of the Brony community.
ref: 2013, Venetia Laura Delano Robertson, “Of ponies and men: My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic and the Brony fandom”, in International Journal of Cultural Studies, volume 17, number 1:
text: For example, some members of the MLP: FiM fandom create fan works that sexualize the ponies, such as clopfic fanfiction and fanart.
ref: 2018, CarrieLynn D. Reinhard, Fractured Fandoms: Contentious Communication in Fan Communities, page 46:
text: Pony fanfiction is common, with “clop-fic” delving into erotic tales.
ref: 2018 April, Dale Peeples, Jennifer Yen, Paul Weigle, “Geeks, Fandoms, and Social Engagement”, in Child & Adolescent Psychiatric Clincs, volume 27, number 2, page 264:
qualifier: My Little Pony fandom slang
glosses: Erotic fanfiction based on My Little Pony.
Hypernyms: smutfic
T'ang-shan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 唐山 (Tángshān), Wade–Giles romanization: Tʻang²-shan¹.
Senses: examples: text: Bronzes from the Yen state, which were stylistically heavily affected by the Chʻin art, were found in Tʻang-shan, Hopei Province, and are now displayed in the Peking Museum of History.
ref: 1950, Lubor Hájek, Chinese Art, Czechoslovakia: Spring Books, →OCLC, page 10:
text: Here are the K’ai-lan coal mines, China’s second largest, and the three industrial centers— T’ang-shan, with its large cement factory; Ch’in-huang-tao, the coal export port and the site of the largest glass factory in China; and Tientsin, port as well as the chief cotton textile and flour-milling center for north China.
ref: 1958, “China, Industry and Commerce”, in C. K. Leung, Norton Ginsburg, editors, The Pattern of Asia, Edgewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, Inc., published 1961, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 251:
text: Export trade originated almost entirely from the coal field and comprised not only coal but also coke, firebrick and cement manufactured at T'ang-shan, the industrial town built on the coal field.
ref: 1968, “CH'IN-HUANG-TAO (CHINWANGTAO)”, in Encyclopedia Britannica, volume 5, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 658, column 2:
text: A pendant to the Li Yü style is that represented by the bronze vessels found at T'ang-shan in Hopei, where the local influences are distinct.
ref: 1971, William Watson, Cultural Frontiers in Ancient East Asia, Edinburgh University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 124:
text: In the famous T'ang-shan region in 1556 an earthquake dislodged vast amounts of this silt. About 830,000 people were killed. The exact number isn't known because records kept at the time are not accurate. Still, it was the largest earthquake disaster known in human history.
ref: 1989, Brian J. Knapp, Earthquake, Steck-Vaughn, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 17:
text: The next quake was less merciful: in 1976, 240,000 people were killed, and some 500,000 injured, in the Chinese city of T'ang-shan. The earthquake struck at night, and many people were crushed in their beds as their houses collapsed on top of them.
ref: 2001, Nicholas Wade, editor, The New York Times Book of Natural Disasters, Lyons Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 44:
text: 1976 - An earthquake kills more than 240,000 people and almost completely destroys the city of T’ang-shan in northeastern China.
ref: 2011 July 28, “Today in History”, in Aruba Today, →OCLC, page 27:
glosses: Alternative form of Tangshan.
wikipedia: Encyclopædia Britannica
Makorra
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of Mako + Korra.
Senses: examples: text: Joining together in the living room we all enjoyed our morning breakfast with a side of Legend of Korra (um, team Makorra) while the presidents from each club had their President Council Meeting.
ref: 2012 August, Lily Ung, “Weekend of Awesomeness Weekend!”, in Sunburst, volume 52, number 1, page 13:
text: “Makorra” fans have waited to see their interactions develop throughout the first season.
ref: 2013, Rachel Arlin, "'Legend of Korra' returns", The Massachusetts Daily Collegian (University of Massachusetts), 24 September 2013, page 5
text: But you have to agree that Makorra (Shipping name for Mako & Korra) wasn't rushed!
ref: 2013, Natasha Lui, "Legend Of Korra: An Amazing Anime Or Terrible Anime?", The White Polo's Magazine (Hong Kong Academy), November 2013, page 2
text: 2014, avatarskorra
we popping the BIGGEST bottles when makorra happens tomorrow
topics: lifestyle
glosses: The ship of characters Mako and Korra from the animated television series The Legend of Korra.
wikipedia: Korra
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Liu-chou
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 柳州 (Liǔzhōu) Wade–Giles romanization: Liu³-chou¹.
Senses: examples: text: He has also left a sacrificial ode to the manes of his fever-ridden young friend Liu Tsung-yüan, who had died at his post in Liu-chou in 819, with an offering "to the numen of my departed friend, Liu Tzu-hou."
ref: 1967, Edward H. Schafer, The Vermilion Bird, University of California Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 95:
text: While Liu Yü-hsi traveled southeastward overland, Liu Tsung-yüan journeyed southwestward through Yung-chou, his former place of exile, and Kuei-chou (modern Kweilin) to Liu-chou.
ref: 1973, William H. Nienhauser, Jr., “Life and Works”, in Liu Tsung-yüan, New York: Twayne Publishers, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 39:
text: In spring 815 Liu and the other subprefects were summoned back by the Emperor to Ch'ang-an. He was filled with hope of reprieve and a new position at court, but to his disappointment, he was sent farther away from the capital as governor of Liu-chou in Kwangsi Province, an aboriginal region infested with malaria and other subtropical diseases. The people therewere supersitious and impoverished, and banditry was rife.
ref: 1998, “Liu Tsung-Yüan”, in Encyclopedia of World Biography, 2nd edition, volume 9, Gale Research, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 455–456:
glosses: Alternative form of Liuzhou.
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Hsiang-t'an
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 湘潭 (Xiāngtán) Wade–Giles romanization: Hsiang¹-tʻan².
Senses: examples: text: There the missionaries learned that they were to stay for a longer period, and they were lodged in a shed surrounded by rice fields. This was different from what they had expected, because they had been told in Canton that Father Ts’ai had arranged for a place in Hsiang-t’an. They therefore wished to proceed to Hsiang-t’an, but since that was impossible under the circumstances, they asked Liu Shêng-tuan to be their messenger to Father Liu asking him to come to them.
ref: 1948, Bernward H. Willeke, Imperial Government and Catholic Missions in China During the Years 1784-1785, St. Bonaventure, New York: Franciscan Institute, →OCLC, →OL, page 31:
text: In the city of Hsiang-t'an, before the Ch'ien-lung period (1736-1795), there were numerous mansions of gentry members who had been officeholders.
ref: 1962, Chung-li Chang, The Income of the Chinese Gentry, Seattle: University of Washington Press, page 42:
text: In July, 1951, Hua was transferred to Hsiang-t'an as county Party secretary. Although technicially not a promotion, this new assignment afforded Hua greater opportunities, because Hsiang-t'an county was larger, encompassed a large municipality for greater exposure and, most importantly, included Shao-shan, Mao's home town. During this one year assignment, Hua concentrated on organizing and implementing mutual aid teams (MATs) and monitoring the counties' efforts in the Anti-Locust Campaign.
ref: 1979, Terence P. Labrecque, The ‘Operational Code' Belief System of Hua Guofeng; Chairman of the Communist Party and Premier of the State Council, Peoples^([sic – meaning People's]) Republic of China, Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, →OCLC, page 17:
text: The most ambitious undertaking of the commission was the effort to establish a heavy-industry zone at Changsha and Hsiang-t'an in Hunan province.
ref: 1986, Parks M. Coble, Jr., The Shanghai Capitalists and the Nationalist Government, 1927-1937, 2nd edition, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 236:
glosses: Alternative form of Xiangtan.
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P'ing-t'an
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 平潭 (Píngtán), Wade–Giles romanization: Pʻing²-tʻan².
Senses: examples: text: Chief town is Pingtan or P'ing-t'an (pop. 5,382), fishing port on W coast. The isl. shelters (W) Haitan Bay (or Futsing Bay), which provides a deep anchorage.
ref: 1952, “Haitan Island or Hai-t'an Island”, in Leon E. Seltzer, editor, The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World, Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 746, column 1:
text: On 18 October, a US warship invaded China's territorial waters in the P'ing-t'an area of Fukien Province. China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs has issued stern warning No. 74.
ref: 1960 February 26, Communist China Digest, number 10, United States Joint Publications Research Service, published 1998, →OCLC, page 4:
text: Typhoon Billie exited Taiwan and moved toward the People's Republic of China on a west-northwestward track. By morning on the 10th, Billie had weakened to a tropical storm and slowed to 11 kn. At 0000 on the 10th, P'ing-t'an reported 60-kn winds from the north-northeast and sea-level pressure of 981.2 mb. About 0300 Billie went ashore 25 miles southeast of P'ing-t'an. Within hours the storm dissipated over the rugged terrain of eastern China.
ref: 1977, Climatological Data National Summary, volume 27, number 13, NOAA, →ISSN, →OCLC, pages 96–97:
glosses: Alternative form of Pingtan.
wikipedia: Army Map Service
Ning-te
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 寧德 /宁德 (Níngdé) reinforced by Wade-Giles romanization: Ning²-tê².
Senses: examples: text: NOT far from Kyen-ning is Fu-ning chew ᵈ, a City of the ſecond Rank, remarkable for having Juriſdiction over two Cities of the third Order, viz. Fu-ngan hyen and Ning-te hyen. The Country where they are ſituated is of vaſt Extent, but over-run with Mountains; thoſe to the North of difficult Aſcent.
ref: 1747, A New General Collection of Voyages and Travels, volume IV, London: Thomas Astley, →OCLC, page 34:
text: In Fukien there was a brisk circulation of the woods needed for building ships. Timber from the counties of Lo-yuan, Ning-te and Lien-chang^([sic – meaning Lien-chiang]) was made into rafts and sailed for North and South along the coasts.
ref: 1970 [1968], Shiba Yoshinobu, translated by Mark Elvin, Commerce and Society in Sung China, published 1992, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 97:
text: Wolfe pointed out that in the outstations the big gains were in the villages and smaller towns. To make the point, he took the example of Ning-te, remarking that the city "itself presents very little encouragement. The city congregation is composed solely of converts from the surrounding villages."
ref: 1974, Ellsworth C. Carlson, The Foochow Missionaries, 1847-1880, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 101:
text: After the death of Ch'in Kuei in 1158, Lu received an official post in the Ning-te district of Fukien.
ref: 1984, Lu Yu, translated by David M. Gordon, The Wild Old Man, North Point Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page xiii:
glosses: Alternative form of Ningde.
wikipedia: Army Map Service
Chia-mu-ssu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: jyäʹmo͞oʹsûʹ
jē-äʹmo͞oʹso͞oʹ
Etymology: From Mandarin 佳木斯 (Jiāmùsī), Wade–Giles romanization: Chia¹-mu⁴-ssŭ¹.
Senses: examples: text: In late 1932 the first group of so-called "armed immigrants" was sent from Tokyo to Chia-mu-ssu. They met considerable resistance from the local people, but with the army's help they kept their ground.
ref: 1969, Kungtu C. Sun, The Economic Development of Manchuria in the First Half of the Twentieth Century, Harvard University Press, →OCLC, page 53:
text: There is a collective farm on the southern bank of the Sungain River in Manchuria, some 40 li to the east of Chia-mu-ssu (Kiamusze). It is the No. 9 farm of the Huachuan Water Conservancy and Farming Corporation in Sungkiang Province. The other eight farms of the same corporation are not yet completely collectivized and therefore cannot be called collective farms.
ref: 1980, T'ien Liu, edited by Harold C. Hinton, The Development of a Collective Farm, 1952 (The People's Republic of China 1949-1979), volume 1, Wilmington, Delaware: Scholarly Resources Inc., →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 95:
text: Chia Kuei-hsiang was a young worker at the Horticultural Model Farm in Chia-mu-ssu. On July 27, 1956, having long suffered the abuse of subjectivists and bureaucrats, she took her own life. Comrade Wang Ko, a reporter for the Heilunkiang Daily News, published a report of the circumstances surrounding her death on October 11 of that year. Depressed after reading such a story, I wrote this poem in the hope that there will never be another Chia Kuei-hsiang.
ref: 1981, Shao Yen-hsiang, “Chia Kuei-hsiang”, in Hualing Nieh, editor, Literature of the Hundred Flowers, volume II, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 156:
glosses: Alternative form of Jiamusi.
wikipedia: Cambridge University Press
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Mu-tan-chiang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 牡丹江 (Mǔdānjiāng) Wade–Giles romanization: Mu³-tan¹-chiang¹.
Senses: examples: text: The principal rivers are the Yalu or Ai-chiang, the Tumen or Kaoli-chiang, the Sungari or Sung-hua-chiang, the Nonni, and the Hurka or Mu-tan-chiang.
ref: 1888, H. E. M. James, The Long White Mountain or A Journey in Manchuria, Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC, page 5:
text: The balanced planning of the ancient city on the Mu-tan-chiang corresponds on the whole to the layout of the capital of the T'ang Dynasty, Ch'ang-an. The same street plans are found in the ancient capitals of Japan, Nara and Kyoto, built on the Chinese model.
ref: 1965, Alexey Okladnikov, The Soviet Far East in Antiquity: An Archaeological and Historical Study of the Maritime Region of the U.S.S.R., University of Toronto Press, →OCLC, →OL, page 183:
text: The key to the front was the town of Mu-tan-chiang, where the Japanese 5th Army (Lieutenant-General N. Shimizu) had concentrated.
ref: 1978, Illustrated World War II Encyclopedia, volume 20, H. S. Stuttman Inc., →ISBN, →OCLC, page 2701:
text: Aug 11-16, 1945 Russians take Mu-tan-chiang, key position in the east, after a see-saw battle
ref: 2012, A. A. Evans, David Gibbons, The Illustrated Timeline of World War II, New York: Rosen Publishing, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 247:
glosses: Alternative form of Mudanjiang.
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