cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
winterward
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more winterward
form: most winterward
form: winterwards
Etymology: From winter + -ward.
Senses: examples: text: After the sunny week, when Nellie Crane had her custard pies, the weather turned a sharp corner — back winterward.
ref: 1876, Ella Farman Pratt, The Cooking Club of Tu-Whit Hollow, page 133:
text: You may believe I went into November and looked winterward with a load off my soul, when now the General's health was come back; and with it his temper to wrangle and clash with me.
ref: 1902, Alfred Henry Lewis, Peggy O'Neal, page 289:
text: Fall is simply a direction, like west; fall is when things move winterward.
ref: 2002, Anne Ursu, Spilling Clarence: A Novel, page 75:
text: Before they do, though, this time I want one of them to tell me who was in charge of tracking my brother's swift progress sleepward and ever more winterward, footprints suddenly come to an end, like an unfinished sentence in the diary of an elderly teenager working the night shift alone, held up at gunpoint and abruptly deceased, halfway across a black snowfield.
ref: 2013, Franz Wright, Kindertotenwald, page 48:
glosses: Toward winter.
winterward
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more winterward
form: most winterward
form: winterwards
Etymology: From winter + -ward.
Senses: examples: text: One by one the summer resident birds depart; the migrants come through in a rush, the peak of each species' wave reached nearly in a week from the first one seen; the other or winterward side of the wave declines more slowly.
ref: 1938, Frontiers - Volumes 3-4, page 3:
text: Oh, dear God, how lovely this flower, this strange youngness is the last-born wilding of the winterward grass.
ref: 1944, Victoria Lincoln, Grandmother and the Comet: An Insubstantial Pageant, page 115:
text: The latter exhibit increased sensitivity to the temperature rise, associated with increases of winter runoff owing to snow melting and decreases of summer runoff owing to both a winterward shift of spring snowmelt runoff and an enhanced […]
ref: 1991, F. H. M. van de Ven, Hydrology for the Water Management of Large River Basins, page 177:
glosses: Approaching winter or during the approach of winter;
examples: text: It had a dying sweetness, a funereal majesty, a winterward regret.
ref: 1939, Rupert Hughes, Stately Timber, page 162:
text: O anointed with dust, What dry in your throat makes barren your tongue This winterward moment my presence has sung?
ref: 1958, Contact - Issues 1-3:
text: You said the wind through the trees Named the winterward soul.
ref: 1997, Wendy Saloman, Syllables & leaves, page 105:
text: The winterward heart moves to solstice with the stark sense that, tilted too far from its sun, it will chill.
ref: 2009, Martin E. Marty, A Cry of Absence: Reflections for the Winter of the Heart, page 150:
glosses: Becoming wintry.
winterwards
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more winterwards
form: most winterwards
Etymology: From winter + -wards.
Senses: examples: text: That last sentence, I fancy, does not ring badly, but, as we are creeping winterwards, it bears a somewhat chilly construction, and will, I doubt not, incline the reader to contemplate with satisfaction the promise of his or her snug bed.
ref: 1870 October 22, “Out of Doors”, in All the Year Round, number 99, page 487:
text: At eight that evening we looked our last on the pleasures of our voyage, the brightness of Corfu, and the glorious Albanian hills ; said, " Grood-bye summer," and sailed winterwards all that night, arriving at Brindisi at 8 a.m. on the 24th, a miserable, lowering, tempestuous day, with a lurid, stormy sky, and a heavy, tossing sea.
ref: 1882, Mrs. Stanley Clarke, From the Deck of a Yacht, page 129:
text: Though damp, though leafless, though devoid of song, As winterwards earth runs.
ref: 1957, David Harbord Bone, The Bees of Swanland: a poem, page 17:
text: Was it a question of imploring the Sun to turn around, and stop going ever more 'winterwards'?
ref: 2007, John North, Stonehenge, page 530:
glosses: Alternative form of winterward.
winterwards
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more winterwards
form: most winterwards
Etymology: From winter + -wards.
Senses: examples: text: That first tree in the garden must be climbed / and a new landscape from its branches limbed, / a life surveyed from its winterwards foliage / for I am now the spring, I am now my age.
ref: 1961, Outposts, numbers 47-55, page 7:
text: The winterwards sentry hooted the alarm, as near to an owl's call as he could.
ref: 2014, Elizabeth Moon, Deeds of Honor: Paksenarrion World Chronicles:
text: Till to-day all had been grey and brown, all still pointed backward, winterwards; but this morning it was different, and the million sprouting lives shouted, “Look forward, look forward!
ref: 2019, E. F. Benson, The Challoners:
glosses: Alternative form of winterward.
take the initiative
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes the initiative
form: taking the initiative
form: took the initiative
form: taken the initiative
form: seize the initiative
Senses: glosses: to take action first or on one's own; to make the first move
seize the initiative
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: seizes the initiative
form: seizing the initiative
form: seized the initiative
form: seized the initiative
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of take the initiative.
takes the initiative
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of take the initiative
taking the initiative
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of take the initiative
took the initiative
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of take the initiative
taken the initiative
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of take the initiative
Rosewell
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A village in Midlothian council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NT2862).
glosses: An unincorporated community in Gloucester County, Virginia, United States.
wrongdo
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: wrongdoes
form: wrongdoing
form: wrongdid
form: wrongdone
Etymology: From wrong + do.
Senses: examples: text: Some offenders were called to judgment where offences were technical and unaccompanied by any intention to wrongdo, whereas hardened offenders were sometimes let off with less than their deserts.
ref: 1923, New York (State). Dept. of Farms and Markets, Report of the Department of Farms and Markets, page 14:
text: To overdo can be as hard on allergies as to wrongdo, so you'll not want to take on too many activities at once.
ref: 1958, Your Allergy and You:
text: As in society as a whole, the masses have to suffer because of the wrongdoings or the willingness to wrongdo of the few.
ref: 1980, United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Aging, Medicare Oversight:
glosses: To do something wrong; to break a rule or offend.
wrongdoes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of wrongdo
wrongdid
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of wrongdo
wrongdone
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of wrongdo
window-shops
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of window-shop
window-shopped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of window-shop
Postwick
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Postwick with Witton parish, Broadland district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TG2907).
wire tap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wire taps
Senses: examples: text: The young man felt a desire to take this further, to demand a court ordered wire tap.
ref: 2008, Alan Krohn, The Mind's Eye: A Novel, page 73:
text: The deputy commissioner then informed me that the OPP had learned the identity of the restaurant through a wire tap.
ref: 2013, Roy McMurtry, Memoirs and Reflections, page 108:
text: As indicated, IDS is performed through a wire tap, and is clearly an out-of-band operation.
ref: 2016, Chwan-Hwa (John) Wu, J. David Irwin, Introduction to Computer Networks and Cybersecurity, page 849:
glosses: Alternative form of wiretap.
wire tap
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: wire taps
form: wire tapping
form: wire tapped
form: wire tapped
Senses: examples: text: It allowed the United States government to wire tap any communicational device, access the IP address of any computer's internet provider to track which websites its “insurgents” stumbled upon, and even inform government agents what books the citizens in "the land of the free" chose to rent.
ref: 2010, Adrian A Andre, For the Sake of Evolution: The Indigo Child, page 2:
text: "Not so fast," said officials of the US government, who deployed their National Security Agency (NSA) — tucked away behind clumps of trees along the Baltimore Washington parkway — to wire tap phone conversations between Benazir and her son Bilawal.
ref: 2011, Nafisa Hoodbhoy, Aboard the Democracy Train:
text: They can wire tap, look for Durand, and put Mulrooney under surveillance.
ref: 2012, Glenn A. Sunness, The Guernica Project, page 628:
glosses: Alternative form of wiretap.
Hassingham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small village in Broadland district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TG3605).
wire taps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wire tap
wire taps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of wire tap
wire tapping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of wire tap
wire tapped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of wire tap
wire-tap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wire-taps
Senses: examples: text: Subordinate to this argument is the violation of a variety of state and federal statutes, including Section 605 of the Communications Act of 1934, which expressly forbids the use of a wire-tap.
ref: 1967, Louisiana Bar Journal - Volume 15:
text: Housed in the old Air Ministry building, it was said that even Himmler had to obtain Goering's permission to put a wire-tap on someone, and I strongly suspected that it was through this particular facility that Goering continued to add to the 'reservoir of intelligence' that Diels had left to his erstwhile master.
ref: 1989, Philip Kerr, March Violets:
text: A police wire-tap that enmeshed some of Turkey's most powerful in 2012 led to cumulative sentences totalling more than 42 years being handed down to 93 officials, players and agents for match-fixing, bribery, extortion and membership of a crime syndicate.
ref: 2014, Rob Steen -, Floodlights and Touchlines: A History of Spectator Sport:
glosses: Alternative form of wiretap.
wire-tap
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: wire-taps
form: wire-tapping
form: wire-tapped
form: wire-tapped
Senses: examples: text: In view of that, I think I will agree with Mr. Shimon that it may be well for this committee to look into the New York law — and he made it in executive session — which requires a police officer who wants to get permission to wire-tap to go to a judge, or in this case you could make it a Commissioner, or the Board of Commissioners or the presideing senior judge of the United States district court, and let him determine whether or not under the circumstances it is of sufficient importance, the gravity of the situation as they know it then, not when it develops later 2 or 3 years, and let him decide whether it should be issued or not.
ref: 1951, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the District of Columbia. Subcommittee to Investigate Wire Tapping in the District of Columbia, Investigation of Wire Tapping, page 160:
text: There is one apparent scenario of conciliation in the allegory, in which teachers, and by extension, parents, are urged to talk to children about 'TV programs because “it's the easiest way to wire-tap their private world” (Glasser, 58).
ref: 1999, Clorinda Matto de Turner, Antonio Cornejo Polar, Torn from the Nest, page 204:
text: The British naval code breakers had illegally wire-tapped the encrypted message from an American telegraph cable that ran from Germany through the United Kingdom and then on the Atlantic seabed to the United States.
ref: 2009, Grant R. Jeffrey, Surveillance Society: The Rise of Antichrist, page 153:
glosses: Alternative form of wiretap.
wire-taps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wire-tap
wire-taps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of wire-tap
wire-tapping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of wire-tap
wire-tapped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of wire-tap
Pelsall
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A large village in the Metropolitan Borough of Walsall, West Midlands, England (OS grid ref SK0203).
draw fire
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: draws fire
form: drawing fire
form: drew fire
form: drawn fire
Senses: examples: text: "If you find only a handful of men there, drive them off; if they are in force, get near enough to draw their fire and find out their strength."
ref: 1894, G. A. Henty, chapter 4, in Through the Sikh War:
text: But the latest Santa Fe development, while not spurring the Rock Island to any further acceleration, has drawn fire from a totally unexpected quarter.
ref: 1940 May, “Overseas Railways: Acceleration Proceeds in U.S.A.”, in Railway Magazine, page 298:
text: Sometimes troops go into insurgent areas for the principal purpose of drawing their fire—so the Americans can shoot back and capture or kill them.
ref: 2004 November 29, Richard A. Oppel Jr., “Notes Spotted by Soldier Lead G.I.'s to Rebel Cache”, in New York Times, retrieved 20 Feb 2020:
text: [T]he Navy Seals drew fire from only one al-Qaida gunman and quickly killed him.
ref: 2011 May 5, Robert Booth, Saeed Shah, Jason Burke, “Osama bin Laden death”, in Guardian, UK, retrieved 20 Feb 2020:
qualifier: literal
glosses: In an armed encounter, to attract gunfire from an adversary, whether unintentionally or deliberately for the purpose of allowing one's allies or colleagues to gain a tactical advantage over the adversary.
examples: text: By-the-way, you've never had much talk with Miss Woodburn, have you, March?"
"Not so much as with Miss Woodburn's father."
"Well, he is rather apt to scoop the conversation. I must draw his fire, sometime, when you and Mrs. March are around, and get you a chance with Miss Woodburn."
ref: 1909, William Dean Howells, chapter 1, in A Hazard of New Fortunes:
glosses: To create a distraction that allows one's friends, co-workers, or other associates to gain an advantage over the distracted party.
examples: text: The Compugraphics Corporation, a company that once drew fire for its income‐augmenting accounting practices, is making an impression in Wall Street these days with a solid record of quality earnings gains.
ref: 1978 July 12, Robert Metz, “Market Place”, in New York Times, retrieved 20 Feb 2020:
text: An Irish writer living in Devon, Trevor is alert to the quirks of people on both sides of the Irish Sea […] Bullies and bigots of every stripe draw his fire.
ref: 1979 April 8, Julia O'Faolain, “Certainties Of Loss”, in Washington Post, retrieved 20 Feb 2020:
text: CBS television President Les Moonves has been the man in the hot seat. After a conservative outcry, he abruptly canceled a mini-series about Ronald Reagan, only to draw fire from liberals complaining that he caved in to pressure.
ref: 2003 November 17, “10 Questions for Les Moonves”, in Time, retrieved 20 Feb 2020:
glosses: To attract criticism or an angry reaction.
Tettenhall
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb in the Metropolitan Borough of Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England (OS grid ref SJ8800).
Binley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Coventry, West Midlands, England (OS grid ref SP3777).
glosses: A village in Basingstoke and Deane borough, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU4253).
glosses: A surname.
San Antonian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: San Antonians
Senses: glosses: a native or resident of San Antonio, Texas
Kyivite
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Kievite
Etymology: From Kyiv + -ite, from Ukrainian Ки́їв (Kýjiv).
Senses: glosses: Of, from or pertaining to Kyiv.
Synonyms: sense: from Ukrainian
word: Kyivan
sense: from Russian
word: Kievan
Kyivite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kyivites
form: Kievite
Etymology: From Kyiv + -ite, from Ukrainian Ки́їв (Kýjiv).
Senses: glosses: Someone living in or originating from Kyiv.
Synonyms: sense: from Ukrainian
word: Kyivan
sense: from Russian
word: Kievan
Kyivites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Kyivite
quincidence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quincidences
Senses: examples: text: “If it hadn’t been for that one little quincidence, there would have been nothing to mar the enjoyment of the occasion.”
ref: 1886, Bill Nye, “‘Done it A-Purpose’”, in Remarks, page 237:
text: “I bet yer that’s a quincidence,” Abe replied.
ref: 1910, Montague Glass, Potash & Perlmutter: Their Copartnership Ventures and Adventures, page 287:
text: “And I suppose there’s a lot of thickheads that would call a thing like that juss a quincidence!”
ref: 1930, Hugh MacNair Kahler, Father Means Well, page 148:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of coincidence.
droop snoot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌdɹuːp ˈsnuːt/
Forms: form: droop snoots
form: droopsnoot
Etymology: From droop (“drooping”) + snoot (“nose”).
Senses: examples: text: ln normal flight, the droop snoot is straightened out as in normal aircraft. The American built XB-70 plane also had such a droop snoot for this same reason.
ref: 1970, William Zuk, Roger H. Clark, Kinetic architecture, Van Nostrand Reinhold, page 24:
text: At left and below left, the two photographs show P-38s with a droop snoot finish from the 20th Fighter Group.
ref: 2007, American Fighters Over Europe: Colors & Markings of USAAF Fighters in WWII, Kaimbach Publishing Co., →ISBN, page 104:
text: His new dilemma was whether to lower the droop snoot; doing so would enable him to see what he was doing when landing, but might also use up the last of his hydraulic pressure.
ref: 2010 October 7, James Hamilton-Paterson, Empire of the Clouds: When Britain's Aircraft Ruled the World, Faber & Faber, →ISBN, page 179:
glosses: An aeroplane nose which tends to lower or which can be lowered.
examples: text: […] insufficient data have been gathered so far to establish how much of the good low speed characteristics are due to the "droop snoot" and how much are due to the regular flap.
ref: 1947, “In Peacetime Grumman Is Still Going Strong”, in Naval Aviation News, page 5:
text: On their first flight, the pilots also made sure about the "droop snoot".
ref: 1962 January 18, E. Colston Shepherd, “New features in the Trident”, in New Scientist, volume 13, number 270, Reed Business Information, →ISSN, page 134:
text: It is noted that in cross sectional view, the underside (pressure side) of the droop snoot airfoil is relatively smooth.
ref: 1975, Verti-flite, volumes 21-23, page 72:
glosses: A leading edge of an airfoil which can move as a unit to adjust camber.
Hyponyms: nose
droop snoots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of droop snoot
JCPOA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (“Iran nuclear deal”).
mahila
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi महिला (mahilā).
Senses: examples: mahila police volunteers
glosses: Woman or women.
Balsall Heath
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An inner city area of Birmingham, West Midlands, England (OS grid ref SP0784).
Duddeston
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An inner city area of Birmingham, West Midlands, England (OS grid ref SP0887).
basaltine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more basaltine
form: most basaltine
Etymology: From basalt + -ine.
Senses: examples: text: In this character she is represented by a small basaltine figure, of Egyptian sculpture, at Strawberry Hill, which is covered over with symbols of various kinds from top to bottom.
ref: 1786, Richard Payne Knight, On the Worship of Priapus, section X:
glosses: Consisting of, or resembling, basalt.
Noakes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Middle English atten oaks (“at the oak trees”).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Halsall
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From an Old English personal name, from hæle (“warrior, hero”) + healh (“nook of land”).
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in West Lancashire district, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD3610).
glosses: A surname.
mammonolatry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mæməˈnɑlətɹi/
Forms: form: Mammonolatry
Senses: examples: text: If mammonolatry has corrupted family life; if the tendency to see in marriage a mere business matter, a mere financial transaction, has degraded the institution, and obscured the notion of the fundamental social import of the latter; […]
ref: 1912, Georges Chatterton-Hill, The Sociological Value of Christianity, page 135:
glosses: The worship of money.
Otahuhu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Maori.
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Auckland, New Zealand, situated on a narrow isthmus.
Balham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Belgeham (Domesday Book, 1086) and Bælgenham (957), from Old English bealg + hamm.
Senses: glosses: A suburb of London in the borough of Wandsworth, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ2873).
glosses: A commune in Ardennes department, Grand Est, France.
tamping machine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tamping machines
Senses: examples: text: By 1958, there will be available for service 100 ballast tamping machines and 16 ballast cleaning machines.
ref: 1957 January 24, “Modernisation Plan Progress”, in Railway Magazine, page 15:
text: The BRB has ordered from Plasser & Theurer, through Plasser Railway Machinery (GB) Ltd., a total of 27 Plassermatic VKR-05-E hydraulic track levelling and tamping machines with electronic-beam levelling units.
ref: 1964 October, “News: New tamping machines for WR”, in Modern Railways, page 277:
text: A near-miss between a tamping machine and a passenger train at Balham Junction on April 20 2019 was caused by a lack of information, lack of querying instructions and poor safety-critical communications.
ref: 2020 February 12, “Network News”, in RAIL, page 24:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A self-propelled rail-mounted machine used to pack or tamp ballast under railway tracks; a ballast tamper.
Related terms: tamping iron
tamping machines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tamping machine
Bisley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bisleys
Etymology: From the Old English personal name *Bisi or *Bisa + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”).
Senses: glosses: A village in Bisley-with-Lypiatt parish, Stroud district, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref SO9006).
glosses: A village and civil parish in Surrey Heath borough, Surrey, England (OS grid ref SU9559).
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
spoke-bone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spoke-bones
Senses: examples: text: The tendon itself dips down between the flexors of the hand and fingers and the supinators of the fore arm, and is - inserted at the inner and back part of the tubercle of the spoke-bone.
ref: 1845, Edward Smedley, Hugh James Rose, Henry John Rose, Encyclopaedia Metropolitana: Difform- Falter, page 426:
glosses: A bone which has a tubercle where a tendon attaches to the inner and back part of it.
fore arm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fore arms
Senses: examples: text: The tendon itself dips down between the flexors of the hand and fingers and the supinators of the fore arm, and is - inserted at the inner and back part of the tubercle of the spoke-bone.
ref: 1845, Edward Smedley, Hugh James Rose, Henry John Rose, Encyclopaedia Metropolitana: Difform- Falter, page 426:
glosses: Alternative spelling of forearm.
fore-arm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fore-arms
Senses: examples: text: Function; assist in extending fore-arm. These. four muscles cause the fore-arm to act like a hinge at the elbow—like the movement of a hinge
ref: 1915, C.P. Zaner, The arm movement method of rapid writing, page 109:
glosses: Alternative spelling of forearm.
aftarm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aft-arm
form: aft arm
Etymology: From aft- + arm.
Senses: examples: text: Two were once a year standing, one I give him on his knees, a full figa he cd've wrist up to blown both forearm to dicks at once aftarm to but rather elbow. Ah, he had a fist his sport, up to wrist me, huh! in each Up to my of them elbow in work.
ref: 1996, Gavin Dillard, Between the Cracks: The Daedalus Anthology of Kinky Verse, page 78:
text: The case is quite different with elements of the robot “arm”—these are now mostly the “aftarm” and “forearm” of the so-called
ref: 2012, Miomir Vukobratovic, Introduction to Robotics, page 233:
glosses: The part of the arm between the shoulder and the elbow.
aft-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: Positioned at or near the back
Derived terms: aftarm
Related terms: aft
after
Anniesland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Possible calque of Scottish Gaelic Fearann Anna, by means of Annie + -s- + -land.
Senses: glosses: A suburb in City of Glasgow council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS5468).
Kimmitt
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Dungannon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /dʌnˈɡænən/
Etymology: From Irish Dún Geannain.
Senses: glosses: A town in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland (Irish grid ref H 7962).
glosses: An unincorporated community in Columbiana County, Ohio, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Noble County, Ohio.
glosses: A town in Scott County, Virginia, United States.
Castlerock
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A coastal village in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland.
X-disease
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛks.dɪ.ziz/
Etymology: From the convention of using "X" as a variable to stand for something unknown.
Senses: examples: text: In making a diagnosis of X-disease, one must consider the insidious onset, slow course, and number of animals affected.
ref: 1949, United States. Animal Industry Bureau, Report of the Preliminary Survey on "X" Disease, page 10:
text: At the time of its first occurrence, nothing was known about the cause of X-disease or whether it could be treated and cured.
ref: 1954, United States. Agricultural Research Service, Hyperkeratosis (X-disease) of Cattle, page 5:
text: Crankcase oils may contain chlorinated naphthalenes, which have been reported to contribute to "X-disease" (hyperkeratosis) in cattle.
ref: 1983, Comparison of Wood Preservatives in Stake Tests, page 128:
text: For example, a 1940s claim attributed to DDT, without a shred of evidence, a mysterious cattle disease known as X-disease (discussed further in appendix 4).
ref: 2016, Donald Roberts, Richard Tren, Roger Bate, The Excellent Powder: DDT's Political and Scientific History, page 187:
glosses: Any of various diseases of plants or animals whose origin was at first a mystery, especially:
Hyperkeratosis in cattle.
examples: text: Transmission of X-disease was more erratic with peach than with chokecherry buds, possibly because only low titers of the X-disease mycoplasma-like organisms (MLO) are present in infected peach trees during most of the year.
ref: 1977, The Plant Disease Reporter, page 1024:
text: Studies of the phytoplasma associated with choke cherry X-disease in North Dakota.
ref: 1998, Dissertation Abstracts International, page 4544:
text: A number of other yellows diseases of trees are of major importance throughout the world either because of local impact or widespread distribution. Among these are Prunus X-disease, pear decline, elm phloem necrosis, apple proliferation, the witches'—broom diseases of paulownia and jujube, and the greening and stubborn diseases of citrus.
ref: 2012, Karl Maramorosch, Mycoplasma Diseases of Trees and Shrubs, page 35:
glosses: Any of various diseases of plants or animals whose origin was at first a mystery, especially:
A disease of stone fruits caused by a form of mycoplasma.
yardsman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yardsmen
Etymology: From yards + man.
Senses: examples: text: He had been sentenced to imprisonment, but without the imposition of hard labour, and he had purchased his post of yardsman in the division allotted to those prisoners, equally with himself, exempt from labour—a class which, at that period, passed their time in utter idleness.
ref: 1856, George Laval Chesterton, Revelations of Prison Life:
text: This is frequently left to a porter or yardsman, and more especially where an agent is not what is termed an “ outside man.”
ref: 1861, E.B. Ivatts, The Handbook of Railway Station Management:
text: On each shift is a melting-shop yardsman, working under the traffic department, who is responsible for the fulfilment of the requisition.
ref: 1922, Engineering - Volume 114, page 543:
text: On presentation by the drover of this docket to the yardsman it was the yardsman's duty to give delivery to the drover of the stock which are in fact at that time in the yard referred to in the docket.
ref: 1923, Victoria. Supreme Court, The Victorian Law Reports, page 451:
glosses: The foreman or man in charge of the activities in a yard (train yard, prison yard, stock yard, etc).
examples: text: The duties of a yardsman shall consist of general labourer's work, including unloading and loading goods, stacking and re-stacking material, preparing and making fire for tyring, carrying water for tyring, putting on and taking off wheels, lifting and helping to lift, carrying generally.
ref: 1918, Australasian Coachbuilder and Wheelwright:
text: The yardsman from the leading cart held out a work-gnarled hand.
ref: 1974, Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, page 201:
glosses: A general laborer in a yard.
yardsmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yardsman
Cumnock
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: Old Cumnock
glosses: A town in East Ayrshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS5620).
glosses: A small town in Cabonne Shire, New South Wales, Australia.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Lee County, North Carolina, USA.
glosses: An unincorporated rural community of Wellington County, Ontario, Canada.
Derived terms: New Cumnock
Old Cumnock
zygnomic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more zygnomic
form: most zygnomic
Etymology: Coined by Robert L. Kocourek as zyg- + -nomic
Senses: examples: text: A mesonomic relation is that kind of legal relation which in a jural series may result in the creation, alteration, or destruction of a zygnomic relation.
ref: 1932, Illinois Law Review - Volume 26, page 860:
text: In Kocourek's terminology, therefore, the offer is the exercise of a "mesonomic" power — not totally outside the law ("anomic") nor already coercive ("zygnomic"), but potentially capable of becoming coercive.
ref: 1939, Roscoe Pound, Nathan Isaacs, William Waite Beardsley, The National Law Library: Property, page 22:
text: Legally this power was recognized (was made a zygnomic power) (') by revolutionary governments to be exercised against their enemies.
ref: 1971, Revista del Colegio de Abogados de Puerto Rico, page 235:
text: . In Professor Kocourek's newer terminology the claim descends from the zygnomic to the mesonomic plane on the running of the Statute.
ref: 2020, Sovereignty Education and Defense Ministry (SEDM), Legal Fictions, Form #09.071, page 50:
topics: law
glosses: Directly involved or related.
Carter Springs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Douglas County, Nevada, United States.
Double Spring
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Douglas County, Nevada, United States.
East Valley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Douglas County, Nevada, United States.
Fish Springs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Douglas County, Nevada, United States.
Gardnerville
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Douglas County, Nevada, United States.
Gardnerville Ranchos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Douglas County, Nevada, United States.
Glenbrook
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A place in the United States:
A former resort in Lake County, California.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A former settlement in Nevada County, California.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A neighbourhood of Stamford, Fairfield County, Connecticut.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A census-designated place in Douglas County, Nevada.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A former logging town in Benton County, Oregon.
glosses: A neighbourhood in south-west Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
glosses: A small village in County Cork, Ireland (Irish grid ref W 7667).
glosses: A town in the City of the Blue Mountains, New South Wales, Australia.
glosses: A rural settlement in Auckland council area, Auckland region, New Zealand.
Indian Hills
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Douglas County, Nevada, United States.
Johnson Lane
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Douglas County, Nevada, United States.
Lakeridge
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Douglas County, Nevada, United States.
Logan Creek
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Douglas County, Nevada, United States.
Ruhenstroth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Douglas County, Nevada, United States.
Skyland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Douglas County, Nevada, United States.
Topaz Lake
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Douglas County, Nevada, United States.
Topaz Ranch Estates
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Topaz Ranch Estate
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Douglas County, Nevada, United States.
Conception Bay South
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈsɛp.ʃən ˈbeɪ ˈsaʊθ/
rhymes: -aʊθ
Etymology: The town is named for its location on the southern end of Conception Bay.
Senses: glosses: A town in Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
Kelligrews
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Probably named after the Kelligrew family. Otherwise:
* Named after Kelligrews Head.
* According to local tradition, named after pirate Captain Kelly.
Senses: glosses: A neighbourhood of Conception Bay South, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
fenghuang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fenghuangs
form: feng-huang
form: fung-hwang
Etymology: From Mandarin 鳳凰／凤凰 (fènghuáng).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A phoenix found in Asian mythologies, which reigns over all other birds, often of female sex and frequently found paired with the Chinese dragon.
Synonyms: word: Chinese phoenix
word: Ho-o
word: fum
word: fung
West Sacramento
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Drivers like the idea of increasing traffic flow and reducing congestion on the portion of I-80 between Davis and West Sacramento.
ref: 2024 May 17, Orko Manna, “Toll lane project on Interstate 80 between West Sacramento and Davis gets green light”, in KCRA:
glosses: A city in Yolo County, California, United States.
Derived terms: West Sac
University of California-Davis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Yolo County, California, United States.
Esparto
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Yolo County, California, United States.
Monument Hills
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Yolo County, California, United States.
Knights Landing
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Yolo County, California, United States.
Guinda
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Yolo County, California, United States.
testiclectomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛktəmi
Etymology: From testicle + -ectomy.
Senses: examples: text: “We will unburden you of your unnecessary genitalia, Mr. Rhodes,” the woman said coldly. “Just think—tomorrow you will be liberated of your desire to escape and assert dominance. It has been decided that you require a testiclectomy.”
ref: 2017, Daniel Blair Stewart, Pinnacle, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 262:
glosses: Removal of the testicles. (Compare castration, orchiectomy.)
Haidao
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: hīʹdouʹ
Forms: form: Hai-tao
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 海島／海岛 (Hǎidǎo, literally “islands in the sea”).
Senses: examples: text: In particular, one incident occurred at around 1100 (local time) on 27th May involving Zhexiangyu 3396 and 3398, two iron-clad trawlers of Gongdong village under Haidao township of Xiapu county.
ref: 1996, Summary of World Broadcasts: Asia, Pacific, numbers 2665-2678, British Broadcasting Corporation, →OCLC, page 3:
text: The villages of Tailu, Beijiao, and Xiubang in the Tailu township in Lienchiang county and Kungtung, Kunghsi, Yantai, and Wenwo in Haidao township in Xiapu county in Fujian Province were randomly selected for this cross-sectional investigation, which took place from July, 2011 to November, 2011.[...]
Inclusion criteria were voluntary participants aged 30 years or more living in Tailu and Haidao townships for more than 5 years.
ref: 2014, Pengli Zhu, Feng Huang, Fan Lin, Qiaowei Li, Yin Yuan, Zhonghai Gao, Falin Chen, “The Relationship of Retinal Vessel Diameters and Fractal Dimensions with Blood Pressure and Cardiovascular Risk Factors”, in PLOS One, volume 9, number 9, →DOI, →ISSN, →LCCN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 Jun 2018, page 2, column 1:
text: Inhabitants of four villages in Haidao, Xiapu County, and three villages of Tailu, Lianjiang County, in Fujian Province, China, were included in this cross-sectional study, between July and November 2011.
ref: 2018, Zhu Pengli, Yuan Yin, Huang Feng, Huang Qiuxia, Li Qiaowei, “A9461 Associations between gene polymorphisms of the apelin–APJ system and the risk of hypertension”, in Journal of Hypertension, →DOI:
glosses: An insular township of Xiapu, Ningde, Fujian, China.
Related terms: Sea Islands
Xiapu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: shyäʹpo͞oʹ
Forms: form: Siapu
form: Hsia-p'u
form: Hsiapu
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 霞浦 (Xiápǔ).
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Hubbard refers to the growth among the Christians at Sharp Peak. Three were received to the Hapuo church on May 12, and the chapel is opened every evening for preaching.
ref: [1889 August, “Foochow Mission. THE RELIGIOUS AWAKENING.”, in The Missionary Herald, volume LXXXV, number VIII, →OCLC, page 329:
text: In order to receive the Taiwan fishermen compatriots, the Fujian Provincial Revolutionary Committee in early 1978 formally established these reception stations at the four fishing ports of Sansha in Xiapu [Hsiapu],[...]The Sansha reception station in Xiapu received 12 Taiwan fishing boats in 1978 and everytime^([sic]) helped repair the boats and engines, provided fuel and drinking water and purchased grain, meat, vegetables and other foods before they departed.
ref: 1979, Daily Report: People's Republic of China, numbers 12-22, →ISSN, →OCLC:
text: Tropical Storm Kalmaegi slammed into China’s southeastern coast on Friday, after killing six people in neighbouring Taiwan.
The weakening storm made landfall in Xiapu county in Fujian province at 6:10 p.m. (1010 GMT), bringing winds of up to 90 kph the official Xinhua news agency said.
ref: 2008 July 18, “Weakened typhoon hits China after 6 die in Taiwan”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 07 Apr 2022:
text: Inhabitants of four villages in Haidao, Xiapu County, and three villages of Tailu, Lianjiang County, in Fujian Province, China, were included in this cross-sectional study, between July and November 2011.
ref: 2018, Zhu Pengli, Yuan Yin, Huang Feng, Huang Qiuxia, Li Qiaowei, “A9461 Associations between gene polymorphisms of the apelin–APJ system and the risk of hypertension”, in Journal of Hypertension, →ISSN, →OCLC:
text: On July 15, they set sail for Fuzhou. However, they were struck by a storm on July 18 and floated to Sansha, Xiapu County in Fujian Province. There they got the help of local officials.
ref: 2019, Jiangyong Liu, The Diaoyu Islands: Facts and Legality, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 378:
glosses: A county of Ningde, Fujian, China.
Teposcolula
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Teposcolula, from a Nahuan language; cf. Classical Nahuatl Tepozcolōllān (literally “place of metal hooks”).
Senses: synonyms: San Pedro y San Pablo Teposcolula
glosses: A town in Oaxaca, Mexico.
synonyms: San Pedro y San Pablo Teposcolula
glosses: A municipality of Oaxaca, Mexico.
synonyms: San Juan Teposcolula
glosses: A town in Oaxaca, Mexico.
synonyms: San Juan Teposcolula
glosses: A municipality of Oaxaca, Mexico.
glosses: A district of Oaxaca, Mexico.
talmbout
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈtɑm.baʊt/
Forms: form: talm bout
Senses: examples: text: What is you talmbout?
translation: What are you talking about?
english: What are you talking about?
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qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of talking about.
San Pedro y San Pablo Teposcolula
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish San Pedro y San Pablo Teposcolula.
Senses: synonyms: Teposcolula
glosses: A town in Oaxaca, Mexico.
synonyms: Teposcolula
glosses: A municipality of Oaxaca, Mexico.
Bergenser
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Norwegian Bokmål bergenser.
Senses: glosses: of or pertaining to Bergen, Norway
Bergenser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bergensers
Etymology: From Norwegian Bokmål bergenser.
Senses: glosses: a native or resident of Bergen, Norway
glosses: a person who speaks Bergensk, a dialect of Norwegian
Batmen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The multiple bat-dancers of the Prince "Bat-Dance" video most clearly epitomize the multiplicity of Batmen currently proliferating in comics and other media. Which of these dancers is the "real" Batman? Which of the proliferating Batmen is the [real one]?
ref: 1991, Roberta E. Pearson, William Uricchio, The Many lives of the Batman: critical approaches to a superhero and his media:
text: [There] are now far more Batmen than existed in the late 1980s. […] All these Batmen, ruled out of continuity for years, have now been officially invited back into the mainstream universe.
ref: 2017, Roberta Pearson, William Uricchio, Will Brooker, Many More Lives of the Batman, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 5:
glosses: plural of Batman
Arrokoth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Powhatan arrokoth (“sky”).
Senses: glosses: Arrokoth; a classical cubewano-class EKO-type TNO that was visited by the NASA space probe New Horizons 1
Synonyms: Ultima Thule
Hypernyms: word: small Solar System body
word: Edgeworth Kuiper object
word: Trans Neptunian object
word: asteroid
word: planetesimal
word: minor planet
word: cubewano
Hyponyms: Ultima
Thule
sank you
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of thank you, representing non-native English.
Supergirl
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Supergirls
Senses: examples: text: With Supergirl strength, I stacked an enormous chest against it. It wouldn't stop visitors from strolling in. But it might slow them up some. My candle winked out as I fell back on my bed.
ref: 2001, Lynne Kositsky, A Question of Will, Roussan Pub Incorporated, →ISBN:
text: "Well, you may be fooling yourself and your aid and a lot of the voters and the Tribune and everybody else, but you're not fooling me!" Sue grabbed the in-flight magazine and glared at it, like Supergirl using her x-ray vision. Hot tears flowed […]
ref: 2006, Randy C. Alcorn, Deadline, Multnomah Books, →ISBN, page 250:
text: “I was as bug-eyed as a frog, seeing everything like it as in slow-motion in a movie. Not every day some kook points a gun at me. I'm really glad you've got that Supergirl speed.”
ref: 2012, Trish Milburn, White Witch, Bell Bridge Books, page 73, referring to someone with magical powers
text: Obviously and most certainly, Carmen did not see the actions she described while listening outside with her ear glued to Marilyn's door, not unless she had both eyes on one side of her head like a Flounder or an alien and she enjoyed x-ray vision like Supergirl.
ref: 2019, Donald R. McGovern, Murder Orthodoxies: A Non-Conspiracist's View of Marilyn Monroe's Death, →ISBN, page 129:
synonyms: SG
glosses: A fictional comic-book superheroine with superhuman strength and speed, x-ray vision, and the ability to fly.
Coordinate terms: Superman
Honorable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of honorable.
Right Honorable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of right honorable.
right honorable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Right Honorable
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of right honourable.
Related terms: honorable
glymmer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glymmers
Etymology: Variant of glimmer.
Senses: examples: text: Dimber damber fare thee well, / Palliards all thou didst excel, / And thy jocky bore the bell, / Glymmer on it never fell.
ref: 1849, The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist, page 414:
qualifier: thieves' cant
glosses: Fire.
Branston
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Branstons
Etymology: From the Old English personal name *Brant + -s- + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
Senses: glosses: A village in Croxton Kerrial parish, Melton borough, Leicestershire, England (OS grid ref SK8129).
glosses: A large village in Branston and Mere parish, North Kesteven district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TF0267).
glosses: A village and civil parish in East Staffordshire district, Staffordshire, England (OS grid ref SK2221).
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
Derived terms: Branston and Mere
black sapote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: black sapotes
form: black zapote
Etymology: Calque of Spanish zapote negro.
Senses: glosses: A kind of fruit (Diospyros nigra).
elementary substance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: elementary substances
Senses: antonyms: chemical compound
glosses: A pure chemical substance consisting of a single element (e.g. hydrogen gas).
Donaghadee
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˌdɒnəhəˈdiː/
Etymology: From Irish Domhnach Daoi.
Senses: glosses: A coastal town in County Down, Northern Ireland.
Maxwelltown
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Dumfries, Dumfries and Galloway council area, Scotland, originally in Kirkcudbrightshire (until 1929) (OS grid ref NX9675).