cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Lai-feng
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 來鳳／来凤 (Láifèng), Wade-Giles romanization: Lai²-fêng⁴.
Senses: examples: text: The taxes being heavier here than on the new route overland via Lai-fêng-hsien, the latter has superseded that viâ Shasi . The Shasi merchants are said to have petitioned against the preferential treatment of Opium for Hunan via Lai-feng-hsien;
ref: [1904, Decennial Reports on the Trade, Industries, Etc. of the Ports Open to Foreign Commerce, and on Conditions and Development of the Treaty Port Provinces, China. Hai guan zong shui wu si shu, →OCLC, page 256:
text: They live in T'u-chia and Miao Autonomous Chou in Hunan, Lai-feng, Ho-feng and Yien Counties in Hupeh province, south-east China.
ref: 1973, Edward Evans-Pritchard, “T'uchia”, in China (including Tibet) Japan and Korea (Peoples of the Earth), volume 13, Italy: Danbury Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 143:
text: To raise the consciousness of the new Party members of national minorities in implementing Chairman Mao's revolutionary line and policies, the Party organizations at all levels in Lai-feng County also sent the new Party members of national minorities to the forefront of the three great revolutionary[...]
ref: 1973, “LAI-FENG COUNTY ACTIVELY RECRUITS PARTY MEMBERS OF NATIONAL MINORITIES”, in Union Research Service, volume 72, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 36:
glosses: Alternative form of Laifeng.
Hsüan-en
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 宣恩 (Xuān'ēn), Wade–Giles romanization: Hsüan¹-ên¹.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Xuan'en.
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Ho-feng
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 鶴峰 /鹤峰 (Hèfēng), Wade–Giles romanization: Ho⁴-fêng¹.
Senses: examples: text: Ku Ts'ai, who was a friend of the famous dramatist K'ung Shang-jen (1648–1718),³ happened to be visiting Ho-feng in western Hupeh in 1703 and describes how the people there celebrated the feastday of Kuan-kung in one part of the city.
ref: 1972, Colin P. Mackerras, The Rise of the Peking Opera 1770–1870 (Correspondence Respecting the Disturbances in China), Oxford: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, →OL, page 35:
text: In Ho-feng County, the No. 2 Production Team under Chin-hsing Brigade of Yen-tzu Commune implemented conscientiously the distribution policy and enforced strictly all rules and regulations.
ref: 1973, Union Research Service, volume 72, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 227:
text: They live in T'u-chia and Miao Autonomous Chou in Hunan, Lai-feng, Ho-feng and Yien Counties in Hupeh province, south-east China.
ref: 1973, Edward Evans-Pritchard, China (including Tibet) Japan and Korea (Peoples of the Earth), volume 13, Italy: Danbury Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 143:
glosses: Alternative form of Hefeng.
wikipedia: Defense Mapping Agency
T'uan-feng
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 團風 /团风 (Tuánfēng) Wade–Giles romanization: Tʻuan²-fêng¹.
Senses: examples: text: In the major sub-district administrative centers (chen) such as T'uan-feng, Yang-lo and Ts'ang-fu (which were also key economic centers) the Taipings stationed local officials and ordered that tax registers be compiled.
ref: 1970, Philip A. Kuhn, Rebellion and Its Enemies in Late Imperial China, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 196:
text: Hothouse hydroponic cultivation of early rice seedling was a creation of the poor and lower-middle peasants of the agricultural scientific institute of the Hua-yuan fourth brigade, T'uan-feng commune, Huang-kang county, after undergoing the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution and in the process of their production practice.
ref: 1977 August 19 [1977 March 17], “Hupeh Succeeds in Hothouse Hyrdoponics For Cultivation of Paddy Rice Seedlings”, in Translations on People's Republic of China, number 391, United States Joint Publications Research Service, sourced from Hong Kong CHUNG-KUO HSIN-WEN, p 1, translation of original in Chinese, →OCLC, page 38:
text: My friend Ch'iu Chang-ju of Ma-ch'eng traveled east to the Wu area, and then traveled back to T'uan-feng with thirty jars of water from Hui Mountain Stream.
ref: 1992 [c. 1600], Yüan Hung-tao, translated by Jonathan Chaves, Pilgrim of the Clouds, Weatherhill, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 90:
glosses: Alternative form of Tuanfeng.
wikipedia: Army Map Service
Ta-yeh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 大冶 (Dàyě) Wade–Giles romanization: Ta⁴-yeh³.
Senses: examples: text: The balance of about 9,620,000 tons is produced by Chinese private or government mines and those worked by primitive methods- such as those in Lin-yu; Tsi-chow and Ching-shing (Chihli); I-hsien, Ning-yang and Po-shan (Shantung); Hsuan-yang, Chang-teh and An-yang (Honan); P'ing-hsiang (Kiangsi); Pao-tsin, (Shansi); Hsi-hsi (Fengtian); T'ung-shan (Kiangsu); Su-hsien (Anhui); Lui-yang (Hunan); Ta-yeh and Yang-hsin (Hupeh); Yu-kan (Kiangsi) Kan-ho (Heilungkiang); and Hsuan-hua (Chihli). Compared with the world's entire output, nineteen million tons constitute only one-fiftieth part of it, while the coal produced by purely Chinese mines is only one one-hundredth part.
ref: 1920, Hsu Shih-chang, translated by Bureau of Economic Information, China After the War, Peking, →OCLC, →OL, page 80:
text: In 1908 Sheng obtained imperial approval for the amalgamation of the Hanyang Ironworks and the Ta-yeh and P'ing-hsiang mines to form the Han-Yeh-P'ing Coal and Iron Company Limited (Han-Yeh-P'ing mei-t'ieh ch'ang-k'uang yu-hsien kung-ssu).
ref: 1958, Albert Feuerwerker, China's Early Industrialization, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 68:
text: With the exceptions of silk reeling, which after 1900 was increasingly performed in steam filatures, iron mining at Ta-yeh for export to Japan, and to a lesser extent oil pressing, these Chinese-owned modern industries were not engaged in processing raw materials for export.
ref: 1969, Albert Feuerwerker, The Chinese Economy, ca. 1870-1911, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 41:
glosses: Alternative form of Daye.
wikipedia: Army Map Service
Encyclopædia Britannica
Hsi-shui
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 浠水 (Xīshuǐ) Wade–Giles romanization: Hsi¹-shui³.
Senses: examples: text: The Pa-lien Hydro Power Plant in located 13.0 nm northeast of Hsi-shui on the Hsi-shui (River) at coordinates 30 35 50N - 115 26 25E.
ref: 1966 July, CHINESE POWER PLANTS HUPEH PROVINCE, Imagery Analysis Division, CIA, page 6 (18/28):
text: The seventh rice mill visited is run by a brigade located in the October People's Commune in Hsi-shui County, Hupei Province. It is an old mill built, it would appear, with local material but adopting all the modern essential equipment.
ref: 1969, FAO Agricultural Services Bulletin, numbers 35-40, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 24:
text: HSIA-pa-ho Village is a small but rich "fish and rice" village located at the confluence of the Pa and the Yangtze rivers outside the Hsi-shui county seat in Hupeh province.
ref: 1980, Kai-yu Hsu, Wen I-to, Twayne Publishers, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 21:
text: Wen I-to was the eldest son of a renowned scholar family of Hsi-shui County in Hupei Province. At an early age he was trained in the classics by a disciplinarian father, and at then he was sent to Wuchang (a day's trip from Hsi-shui) to study at a modern grade school.
ref: 1992, Kirk A. Denton, “WEN I-TO”, in Edwin Pak-wah Leung, editor, Historical Dictionary of Revolutionary China, 1839–1976, Greenwood Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 461:
glosses: Alternative spelling of Xishui.
Lo-t'ien
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 羅田 /罗田 (Luótián), Wade–Giles romanization: Lo²-t'ien².
Senses: examples: text: Yuh ying kia pi 育嬰家祕, "Domestic Mysteries regarding the Rearing of Children", a work by Wan Ts'üen 萬全, alias Mih-chai 密齋, a native of Lo-t'ien 羅田 in the extreme east of Hupeh, who lived under the Ming dynasty.
ref: 1901, J. J. M. de Groot, The Religious System of China, volume IV, →OCLC, archived from the original on 07 Oct 2023, page 92:
text: Yü San-sheng came from Lo-t’ien in Hupeh, and was the son of a merchant.
ref: 1972, Colin P. Mackerras, The Rise of the Peking Opera 1770–1870, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, →OL, page 184:
text: Wu Hai, whose objections to contamination of the patrilineal line were cited above, described an ancestral hall (tz'u-t'ang) of the Lins of Lo-t'ien (Hupei).
ref: 1986, Patricia Buckley Ebrey, James L. Watson, editors, Kinship Organization in Late Imperial China 1000-1940, University of California Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 51:
glosses: Alternative form of Luotian.
wikipedia: Army Map Service
En-p'ing
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 恩平 (Ēnpíng), Wade–Giles romanization: Ên¹-pʻing².
Senses: examples: text: Memorialism as distinct from worship can, I think , be seen in a different context illustrated by an incident which occurred in Kwangtung in 1867. The country magistrate and 'gentry' of En-p’ing hsien raised money for the repair of the local Confucian temple by proposing to build an academy (shu-yüan) to serve as a shrine in honour of local men. People who contributed to the building fund were entitled to put their ancestors' tablets in the shrine, in positions of honour varying with the amounts donated. It proved a successful idea and was copied by others.
ref: 1966, Maurice Freedman, Chinese Lineage and Society: Fukien and Kwangtung, Athlone Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 154:
text: People in the Ssu-i (the four counties — T'ai-shan, K'ai-p'ing, Hsin-hui, En-p'ing), for example, though not far from Canton, have their own distinct dialect, which is scarcely intelligible to an ordinary Cantonese.
ref: 1969, Ezra Vogel, Canton under Communism: Programs and Politics in a Provincial Capital 1949-1968, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 24:
text: This is a local tradition in Chang-chou (K’ang-yu chi-hsing 14, 3a); in nearby Ch’ao-chou (Kuangtung) the Confucianist Han Yu is regarded as responsible (Ch ‘iu-yü-wan sui-pi 6, 23b). How far this custom was accepted, is not clear; in En-p’ing (Kuangtung) it was supposedly common (Chung-hua ch’üan-kuo feng-su chih, part 1, chapt. 8, p. 48), while in Yang-chiang (Kuangtung) only upper class women practised it (Yang-chiang hsien-chih 1, p. 63b).
ref: 1975, Wolfram Eberhard, “The Upper-Class Family in Traditional China”, in Charles E. Rosenberg, editor, The Family in History, University of Pennsylvania Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 92:
text: In addition to the language difference between the two major ethnic groups, there are differences among the Cantonese themselves. For example, people in four counties to the southwest of Canton- in T'ai-shan, K'ai-p'ing, Hsin-hui, and En-p'ing counties- speak a version of Cantonese which is almost unintelligible to residents of Canton.
ref: 1978, William L. Parish, Village and Family in Contemporary China, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 26:
text: Three water wheels provide power for the pottery at En-p’ing, Kwangtung (wasters and shards on hillside)
ref: 1983, Wanda Garnsey, Rewi Alley, “Kwangtung”, in China, Ancient Kilns and Modern Ceramics: A Guide to the Potteries, Australian National University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 124:
glosses: Alternative form of Enping.
wikipedia: Defense Mapping Agency
Trumpet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹʌmpɪt/
rhymes: -ʌmpɪt
Forms: form: Trumpets
Etymology: Blend of Trump + trumpet. Named after American celebrity, businessman, politician and President Donald Trump
Senses: glosses: A vocal political supporter of US President Donald Trump, especially online.
Related terms: Trumper
Trumpette
Trumpist
Trumpster
Trumpets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Trumpet
Altenberg
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Altenbergs
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A town in Saxony, Germany.
Related terms: Altenburg
Altenbergs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Altenberg
Ta-lien
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 大連 /大连 (Dàlián) Wade–Giles romanization: Ta⁴-lien².
Senses: examples: text: The coastline of Manchuria is extremely short, consisting of about 690 miles or about one-eighth of the total boundary of the country. It extends from the mouth of the Yalu River to Shanhaikuan where the Great Wall joins the sea. The most important of the harbors is Ta-lien (Dairen) which is located on the east side of the Liaotung Peninsula. The harbor is protected on three sides by land, opening to the east. It is 36 feet deep at the entrance, with a minimum of 23 feet at low tide at the wharves. Lüshun (Port Arthur) is a land locked harbor situated at the southern extremity of the Liaotung peninsula, about 20 miles southwest of Ta-lien. This is the only port in Manchuria which is ice-free throughout the year.
ref: 1946, Tsai-yu Hsiao, Epidemiology of the Diseases of Naval Importance in Manchuria, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, →OCLC, page iv:
text: In Manchuria, the power plants under construction are concentrated in the southern region, at such highly developed mining and manufacturing centers as Shen-yang (Mukden), Fu-shun, Fou-hsin, Ta-lien (Dairen), and Pen-ch'i. This is the principal established area of industrial concentration in mainland China; it has metallurgical plants, machine-tool and machinery factories, shale oil refineries, and a great array of other industries, most of which turn out proudcers' goods and which, incidentally, are also large coal consumers.
ref: 1963, Yuan-li Wu, Economic Development and the Use of Energy Resources in Communist China, Frederick A. Praeger, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 158:
text: In 1897, Germany gained control of the Chʻing-tao area in Shantung; the following year, the British acquired the Wei-hai region also in Shantung; and the Russians acquired Ta-lien and Lu-shan in Liaotung.
ref: 2008, James Laxer, The Perils of Empire, Viking Canada, →ISBN, pages 77-78:
glosses: Alternative form of Dalian.
wikipedia: Army Map Service
Encyclopædia Britannica
The Chicago Manual of Style
University of Chicago Press
Futuyma
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Futuymas
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Futuymas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Futuyma
Jablonka
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Jablonkas
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A village and municipality in the Myjava District of the Trenčín Region of Slovakia.
Jablonkas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Jablonka
Ledyard
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ledyards
Etymology: Variant of Lydiard or Ledger.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A town in New London County, Connecticut.
glosses: A city in Kossuth County, Iowa.
glosses: A town in Cayuga County, New York.
Ledyards
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Ledyard
Pigliucci
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Pigliuccis
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Pigliucci.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Pigliuccis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Pigliucci
Plutynski
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Plutynskis
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Plutynskis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Plutynski
Chi-nan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: jēʹnänʹ
Etymology: From Mandarin 濟南 /济南 (Jǐnán), Wade–Giles romanization: Chi³-nan².
Senses: examples: text: Tsi-nan (Chi-nan) City, the terminus of the Shantung Railway, is also an important station on the Tientsin-Pukow Line. While travellers coming to Tsi-nan from Tientsin or Nanking arrive at Tsinan-fu station, 1 m.N. of Shang-pu (the trading quarter for foreigners and natives), those coming from the direction of Tsing-tau by the Shantung Railway alight at one of the following three stations: (1) the Tsinan station (Pl. C 3), the terminus, situated near Shang-pu and not for from Tsinanfu station (Pl. C 3) of the Tientsin-Pukow Line; (2) the Peikuan station (Pl. H 1) located outside the N. Gate and nearer the city proper; (3) Huangtai station, located outside the E. Gate, where travellers for the regions along the Huang-ho usually leave the train.
ref: 1924, Guide to China, 2nd edition, Tokyo: Japanese Government Railways, →OCLC, page 153:
text: Thus far it has been impossible to trace more accurately the development during these five centuries as archeological data, which would have provided a better basis for study, have been lacking. It has only been in the last few years that field work has given us some necessary information, particularly in Shantung Province, and it may be reasonably anticipated that further studies by the scholar, Wan Hsin-t'ang, from Chi-nan, will throw much light on this chapter of Chinese art.
ref: 1950, Lubor Hájek, Chinese Art, Czechoslovakia: Spring Books, →OCLC, page 9:
text: 1947 Chinese Communist forces under Chen Yi rout the garrison at Chi-nan. The victory opened the road to the vital railroad center of Suchow.
ref: 2003, “September 24”, in Today in History, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 539:
glosses: Alternative form of Jinan.
wikipedia: Defense Mapping Agency
Encyclopædia Britannica
Stebbins
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Stebbinses
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A city in Nome Census Area, Alaska.
Derived terms: Stebbinsville
Stebbinses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Stebbins
Stebbinsville
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Stebbins + -ville; named after Harrison Stebbins, a farmer, teacher, and politician, who built a grist mill in Stebbinsville in 1867, and later served as chairman of the Porter Town Board.
Senses: glosses: An unincorporated community within the town of Porter, Rock County, Wisconsin.
wikipedia: Harrison Stebbins
Dixons
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Dixon
OOPs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of OOP
OOPs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of OOP
OOPing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of OOP
OOPed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of OOP
Gougu theorem
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Gougu rule
Etymology: Borrowed from Chinese 勾股定理 (gōugǔ dìnglǐ), literally the longer and shorter legs of a right triangle theorem.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Pythagorean theorem
Gougu rule
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Gougu theorem (“Pythagorean theorem”).
synonyms: word: Gougu theorem
extra: Pythagorean theorem
Gougu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Transliteration of Chinese 勾股 (gōugǔ), literally the longer and shorter legs of a right triangle.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Ellipsis of Gougu theorem.
zip of death
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zip of deaths
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Synonym of zip bomb.
synonyms: word: zip bomb
zip of deaths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zip of death
Jpg
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of JPG.
Glouc
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Clipping of Gloucestershire.
Senses: glosses: University of Gloucestershire, used especially following post-nominal letters indicating status as a graduate.
raw_tags: after a qualification
Wingding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Wingdings
Etymology: Introduced as a trademark by Microsoft.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
qualifier: trademark
glosses: A glyph from a Wingdings font.
Webdings
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of web + dingbat, introduced as a trademark by Microsoft.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An internet-oriented dingbat font based on Wingdings.
HOF
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: HOFs
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Initialism of hall of fame.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Initialism of hall-of-famer.
qualifier: functional programming
glosses: Initialism of higher-order function.
HOFs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of HOF
HOFer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: HOFers
Etymology: From HOF (“hall of fame”) + -er.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A hall-of-famer.
HOFers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of HOFer
ASFV
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of African swine fever virus.
Sharona
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ʃəˈɹoʊnə/
Etymology: From Hebrew שָׁרוֹנָה.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Hebrew.
Raglan scale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Raglan's scale
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A series of twenty-two tropes common among fictional protagonists.
obvy
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more obvy
form: most obvy
Senses: examples: text: BZZZT! the correction is wrong! That's a _fathom_. A _mathom_ is, quite obvy, a _metric_fathom_, and rounded to the nearest full meter. Therefor,^([sic]) the unit is equal to exactly 2 meters.
ref: 1992 December 19, Joseph A. Ellis Jr., “Re: Mathoms, Gracey?”, in alt.music.filk (Usenet):
text: Oh, I think I see. Thanks. What does it have to do with a 'book'? Also, what's the advantage over using a wxListCtrl in a wxPanel? Something here I'm not getting, obvy. Where specifically is the drawing area? In a cell? down below the wxListBook?
ref: 2002 April 22, Markus Membrain, “Re: wxListbook”, in comp.soft-sys.wxwindows (Usenet):
glosses: Alternative form of obvi (“obviously”).
'gram
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: 'Gram
form: gram
form: Gram
Senses: examples: text: Breakfast is really important on Instagram, friends. The avocado’s epoch of fame basically began on the ’gram, and everything I know about eggs originated at the age of 20, when I first downloaded the app.
ref: 2017 December 15, Ruby Lott-Lavigna, “I Spent a Day Eating at the Most Instagrammable Restaurants of 2017”, in VICE:
text: Don't do it for the 'gram: Social media and traveling.
ref: 2019, A.M. Bristow, Traveling More & Traveling Better: A GnomeTrotting Guide, →ISBN:
text: The ambience was overrated at the party / I want to run away before it's even started / I look at my feet, then I look for the door (Oh my God) / Can't find my friends, […] / But I don't wanna follow you on the 'gram / I don't wanna listen to your band / I don't know why I haven't left yet / Don't want none of this
ref: 2022, Teasdale Rhian Louise, “Angelica”, in Wet Leg, performed by Wet Leg, Domino, →OCLC:
glosses: Clipping of Instagram.
'gram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 'grams
form: 'Gram
form: gram
form: Gram
Senses: glosses: Clipping of Instagram.
'gram
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: 'grams
form: 'gramming
form: 'grammed
form: 'grammed
form: 'Gram
form: gram
form: Gram
Senses: examples: text: Twitter, Snapchat, and 'gramming aren't the only things to set today's top names apart from the supermodels of decades past: An enterprising attitude toward the future isn't an exception but the norm.
ref: 2015 March 30, Leah Melby Clinton, “Gigi Hadid on Life After Modeling: "It's Not Just OK Anymore to Model Until You're 25 and Then Stop and Be a Housewife"”, in Glamour:
text: With restaurants closed and travel discouraged, we asked what he’s ‘gramming, how he’s getting by, and how influencers will survive.
ref: 2020 April 2, Jessica Sidman, “Food Influencers Are Still Gramming, Pandemic or Not”, in Washingtonian:
glosses: Clipping of Instagram.
Derived terms: 'grammer
'grams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of 'gram
Anhwei
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: änʹhwāʹ
Senses: examples: text: CIFRC-associated cooperative movements were flourishing in Chahar, Hopei, Anhwei, Kiangsi, Hunan, and Shensi (to whose cooperative program the commission had lent personnel and technique).
ref: 1965, Andrew James Nathan, A History of the China International Famine Relief Commission, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, page 38:
text: When Tseng Kuo-fan (1811-1872) was encamped at Chʻi-men in southern Anhwei in 1860, he asked his brothers at Anking to send all important correspondence by one of the Hunan Braves and leave only relatively unimportant messages to be transmitted through the I-chan.
ref: 1970, Ying-wan Cheng, Postal Communication in China and its Modernization, 1860-1896, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 24:
text: Leaders from Red China's provinces admitted openly neither food nor clothing has been suffient^([sic – meaning sufficient]) in the rural areas on the mainland for years.
. . .
According to the daily, the accurate picture of villages all over the mainland was first revealed by a group of "party secretaries" at the prefectural level from the province of Anhwei.
. . .
The Kyodo News Service claimed that the situation in Anhwei Province as revealed by prefectural level "party secretaries" may be considered he norm for other provinces and villages on the mainland.
ref: 1979 January 28, “Insufficient food”, in Free China Weekly, volume XX, number 4, Taipei, page 3:
text: Another time a fleet of boats carrying some eighty northern Hupeh natives migrating to Anhwei tied up at a vacant pier claimed by Han-ch’uan natives, and when a boat of Han-ch’uan men showed up they initiated a fatal knife fight in defense of their turf.
ref: 1989, William T. Rowe, “Dangerous Classes and Laboring Classes”, in Hankow: Conflict and Community in a Chinese City, 1796-1895, Stanford, Cali.: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 238:
text: During the nineteenth century, parts of Shantung and Honan provinces and much of Anhwei were ravaged by the Nien bandits from Huai-pei.
ref: 2002, Annping Chin, Four Sisters of Hofei, Scribner, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3:
glosses: Alternative form of Anhui: A province in eastern China.
wikipedia: Army Map Service
Geung
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Transliteration of Cantonese 姜 (goeng¹).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
diasporicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From diasporic + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of a diaspora; diasporic condition.
Bristol stool scale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bristol stool scales
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Bristol stool chart
Bristol stool scales
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bristol stool scale
mukbanging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mukbang
wumao
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈwuː.maʊ/
/ˈuː.maʊ/
Forms: form: wumao
form: wumaos
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 五毛 (wǔmáo), a clipping of 五毛黨 /五毛党 (wǔmáodǎng, literally “the 5 dime party”), in reference to allegations that the Chinese government employs online shills paid 1/2 yuan RMB per online post.
Senses: glosses: An alleged Internet user who is paid by the authorities of the People's Republic of China to spread propaganda and disinformation on their behalf.
glosses: Anyone who is supportive of China or the Communist Party of China, whether paid or not.
Synonyms: word: 50 cent army
Hypernyms: shill
supporter
keyboard warrior
Chi-ning
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 濟寧 /济宁 (Jǐníng) Wade–Giles romanization: Chi³-ning².
Senses: examples: text: Chiao Pʻing-chên was a native of Chi-ning in Shantung and he had been employed in the Imperial Board of Astronomy.
ref: 1916, Catalogue of Ancient Chinese Paintings Collected by Edgar Pierce Allen of Tientsin, China, New York City, →OCLC, page https://archive.org/details/catalogueofancie00hert/page/n13:
text: The Trans-Mongolian connects at Chining with a Chinese railway that has been built, at the date of this writing, in a westerly direction as far as Wulumuchi (or Urumchi), capital of the Chinese province of Sinkiang.
ref: [1965, Harmon Tupper, To the Great Ocean, Little, Brown & Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, pages 432–433:
text: The first condition to establish is that the size of farm and distribution of the land were two major factors determining which households retained labor for farm work or dispatched labor from the village. For examples, Shih chai hai village in Chi-ning county of Shantung was surveyed in 1941.
ref: 1970, Ramon H. Myers, The Chinese Peasant Economy Agricultural Development in Hopei and Shantung, 1890-1949, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 135:
text: Late Shang artifacts have similarly been recovered in Shandong at Chi-ning, Ho-che, Lin-hsi, and other locations in a pattern of diminishing eastward prevalence.
ref: 2011, Ralph D. Sawyer, “The Last Reigns”, in Ancient Chinese Warfare, Basic Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 193:
glosses: Alternative form of Jining.
wikipedia: Defense Mapping Agency
Encyclopædia Britannica
T'ung-ling
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 銅陵 /铜陵 (Tónglíng), Wade–Giles romanization: Tʻung²-ling².
Senses: examples: text: The city of T'ung-ling is surrounded by a rampart nearly 4 li in extent and entered by four gates whose construction dates back to the Wan-li years (1573-1619).
ref: 1912, A Handbook for Travellers in Northern China and Korea, London: Hachette, →OCLC, page 356:
text: His son, Tso Mêng-kêng (see under Tso Liang-yü), took his father's place, but Huang crushed him in May at T’ung-ling and at Pan-tzŭ-chi, both in Anhwei.
ref: 1944, Arthur W. Hummel Sr., editor, Eminent Chinese of the Ch'ing Period (1644-1912), volume 1, Global Oriental, published 2010, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 348:
text: At the old Tungkuanshan copper mine in T'ung-ling-shih of Anhwei Province, production has been greatly stepped up since the early 1970s (see Jen-Min Jih-Pao, 13 August 1972, p. 3).
ref: [1977, K. P. Wang, Mineral Resources and Basic Industries in the People's Republic of China, Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, →ISBN, page 140:
glosses: Alternative form of Tongling.
wikipedia: Encyclopædia Britannica
TREE
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: An extremely fast-growing function based on Kruskal's tree theorem.
Tree
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Trees
Etymology: Topographic surname for someone who lived near a conspicuous tree.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of TREE.
WhatsApps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of WhatsApp
WhatsApps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of WhatsApp
WhatsApping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of WhatsApp
WhatsApped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of WhatsApp
whatsapping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of whatsapp
whatsapped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of whatsapp
Whatsapps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Whatsapp
Whatsapps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Whatsapp
Whatsapping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Whatsapp
Whatsapped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Whatsapp
buntingless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more buntingless
form: most buntingless
Etymology: From bunting + -less.
Senses: glosses: Not decorated with bunting.
Tzu-yang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 資陽 /资阳 (Zīyáng) Wade–Giles romanization: Tzŭ¹-yang².
Senses: examples: text: The three southern fossils were in various stages of development, with Liu-chiang Man from Kwangsi as the oldest, followed by Tzu-yang Man from Szechwan (cf. 2, 57-58) and Lai-pin Man also from Kwangsi in chronological order.[...]The Tzu-yang Man is represented by a very complete skull which bears some resemblance to Homo erectus on the one hand and Homo sapiens on the other, forming a link between the two widely different stages of Chou-k'ou-tien.[...]Pebble and flake chopping-tools were used and occasionally, as at Tzu-yang, a triangular bone splint was scraped into a point which became blunt and polished through long usage.
ref: 1977, William Jerald Kennedy, Adventures in Anthropology, West Publishing, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 274:
text: He further claimed to be able to trace Mongoloid evolution from Peking Man through a series of Chinese Middle and Upper Pleistocene fossils, including the early sapiens forms of Mongoloid type represented by the Upper Pleistocene skulls from Tzu-yang, Szechwan, and Liu-chiang, Kwangsi⁸⁴.
ref: 1979, Peter Bellwood, Man's Conquest of the Pacific, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 44:
glosses: Alternative form of Ziyang, Sichuan
Tzu-yang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 紫陽 /紫阳 (Zǐyáng) Wade–Giles romanization: Tzŭ³-yang².
Senses: examples: text: An extreme example is provided by Tzu-yang county, in Shensi, one of the poorest regions, the annual tax return of which was 341 piculs of grain, less than one-thousandth of Shanghai's.
ref: 1974, Ray Huang, Taxation and Governmental Finance in Sixteenth-Century Ming China, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 155:
glosses: Alternative form of Ziyang, Shaanxi
pennantless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pennant + -less.
Senses: topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Not having won a competition.
Kuipers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kuiperses
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch Kuipers.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Dutch.
Gerritsen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Gerritsens
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch Gerritsen.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Dutch.
sweet vernal grass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sweet vernal grasses
Senses: glosses: A perennial grass, Anthoxanthum odoratum, of Eurasia and northern Africa, used as forage
Evers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Everses
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch Evers.
Senses: examples: text: On the invitation list: Govs. Andy Beshear of Kentucky, Tim Walz of Minnesota, J.B. Pritzker of Illinois, Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan, Tony Evers of Wisconsin, Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania, Roy Cooper of North Carolina, Wes Moore of Maryland and Michelle Lujan Grisham of New Mexico.
ref: 2024 February 7, Edward-Isaac Dovere, “Harris set to host Democratic governors this weekend to discuss 2024 campaign”, in CNN:
glosses: A surname from Dutch, equivalent to English Everetts.
Derived terms: Tinker to Evers to Chance
Related terms: Everett
Evert
Everts
Jonker
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Jonkers
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch Jonker. Doublet of Junker.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Dutch.
subepaulet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subepaulets
Etymology: From sub- + epaulet.
Senses: topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: Synonym of basicosta.
synonyms: word: basicosta
subepaulets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subepaulet
paleomarxism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Paleo-Marxism
Etymology: From paleo- + marxism.
Senses: glosses: A primitive form of Marxism
Thorrington
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Tendring district, Essex, England (OS grid ref TM0920). The former railway station used the spelling of Thorington.
paligraphia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pali- + -graphia.
Senses: glosses: A writing disorder characterised by the repetition of syllables, words or phrases.
Thorington
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Thoringtons
Etymology: From Old English þorn (“thorn”) + -ing + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”), the same etymology of Thorrington.
Senses: glosses: A small village and civil parish (served by Bramfield and Thorington parish council) in East Suffolk district, Suffolk, England (OS grid ref TM4174).
glosses: The spelling used for the former railway station at Thorrington, Essex.
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
red notice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: red notices
Senses: examples: text: Interpol issues red notice for 'fugitive' Anne Sacoolas
ref: 2020, headline in The Guardian
text: Under a red notice, local authorities make the arrests on behalf of the country that requested it. The notices cannot force countries to arrest or extradite suspects, but can put government leaders on the spot and limit suspects' travel.
ref: June 29, 2020, “Iran issues arrest warrant for Trump, asks Interpol to help”, in Al Jazeera:
topics: government
law-enforcement
coordinate_terms: black notice
blue notice
green notice
orange notice
purple notice
yellow notice
glosses: A notice from Interpol that a person is an international fugitive and should be arrested.
red notices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of red notice
Bramfield
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in East Hertfordshire district, Hertfordshire, England (OS grid ref TL2915).
glosses: A village and civil parish (served by Bramfield and Thorington parish council) in East Suffolk district, Suffolk, England l (OS grid ref TM4074).
glosses: A locality in District Council of Elliston area, South Australia.
previsual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + visual, literally "before seeing".
Senses: examples: text: We are developing a method for previsual detection of damage to the structure.
glosses: prior to the development of visual indicators
spleef
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /spliːf/
rhymes: -iːf
Forms: form: spleefs
Senses: examples: text: The odor of spleef was much stronger here , and the granite stairway was neither overgrown nor dirty . Someone had recently swept it clean . Rafferty raised his eyebrows and indicated the stairway . Afriqua Lee shrugged , glanced around ...
ref: 1990, Bill Ransom, Jaguar, →ISBN:
text: They clapped their hands and stroked their imaginary rasta locks while smoking a spleef that was large on any standard. Smoke filled the room and when Stan and Kristin joined the party the haunting sound of the pacific northwest embraced ...
ref: 2004, Edward B. Kissam Jr., Rebel Mart: Sugar Beach, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 40:
text: “I want a big fat spleef,” Scooter mutters. “I want garish and sexy,” Didier says. “ Let's usher that combo in, baby.” “I'm fizzy with excitement,” Didier murmurs thoughtfully. “But where are these boys' sideburns? I requested sideburns. Bingo?
ref: 2010, Bret Easton Ellis, Glamorama, Pan Macmillan, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative spelling of spliff.
spleef
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /spliːf/
rhymes: -iːf
Forms: form: spleefs
form: spleefing
form: spleefed
form: spleefed
Etymology: Blend of spliff + queef
Senses: glosses: An accidental raspberry when smoking a joint.
glosses: Sexual action resulting in a sound resembling a raspberry.
spleef
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /spliːf/
rhymes: -iːf
Forms: form: spleefs
form: spleefing
form: spleefed
form: spleefed
Etymology: From Spleef, the name of a minigame on Minecraft, a blend of splat + grief.
Senses: examples: text: These servers host many types of gameplay, from minigames, to spleefing (my favorite), to PvP (I'm terrible at Player-vs-Player battles), to fractions, to Survival, to Creative . . . It's amazing what people have created with Minecraft, and these many, many servers are evidence of the creative potential Minecraft offers those with imaginative minds.
ref: 2015, Mark Cheverton, The Jungle Temple Oracle: The Mystery of Herobrine, page IX:
text: It also includes everything you need to Spleef right, like observation posts and an entrance way (most Spleef games are teleported to from servers, so they need somewhere to enter), and it would work great on just about any server.
ref: 2015, Master Builder 50 Awesome Builds:
text: Minecraft Event, Jan. 24 to April 25, Jan. 24 10 a.m. Kida^([sic – meaning Kids]) ages 7 to 14 are invited to join in the “grinding, building, spleefing and raising of diamond swords” at this monthly Minecraft Event with instructor Rand Whipple and the Box of Light Studio staff.
ref: 2015 January 15, “The List: A Weekly Guide to Area Events & Attractions”, in The Citizens’ Voice, Wilkes-Barre, Pa., page J12, column 4:
text: As parents are confused at the dinner table when their offspring talk about ‘Endermen’ and ‘spleefing’[…]
ref: 2017 August, “Reviews”, in Starburst, page 101, column 2:
topics: video-games
glosses: To play the Minecraft game of "Spleef", in which players try to knock blocks out from beneath other players in order to be the last player standing.
spleefs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spleef
spleefs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of spleef
speedwalked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of speedwalk
T'a-ch'eng
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 塔城 (Tǎchéng) Wade–Giles romanization: Tʻa³-chʻeng².
Senses: examples: text: The Daghor (also known as Dagur, Daur, Ta-kuan-erb, Ta-hu-erh) live in Tsi-Tsi-har Municipality and Fu-yu County in Heilungkiang, and scattered in Mo-li-ta-wa Daghor Autonomous Banner, Pu-t'e-ha Banner, O-wen-k'o Autonomous Banner in Inner Mongolia, T'a-ch'eng County in Sinkiang Uighur Autonomous Region, northern China.
ref: 1973, Edward Evans-Pritchard, “China (including Tibet) Japan and Korea”, in Peoples of the Earth, volume 13, Italy: Danbury Press, →LCCN, page 137:
text: The Cho-lo-ssu pastured their flocks in the I-li Valley; the Durbot occupied the Kurgis River drainage in the southwestern Altai; the Turgut occupied the T'a-ch'eng (Tarbagatai) region, and the Hosht occupied the Urumchi region.
ref: 1974, D. J. Dwyer, China Now, DLongman Group Ltd, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 275:
text: There is general agreement that his military forces were organized into six divisions. They were stationed at the following places: at Ti-hua under the command of Liu Hsi-tsen, at T'a-ch'eng under Chiang Sung-lin, at Ili under Niu Shih, at A-shan under Wei Chen-kuo, at A-k'o-su under Chang Tzu-t'ing, and at Ko-shih-ko-erh (Kashgar) nominally under Tsou-ying, but in reality under Chin's brother, Chin Shu-chih.
ref: 1987, Arthur C. Hasiotis, Jr., Soviet Political, Economic, and Military Involvement in Sinkiang from 1928 to 1949, Garland Publishing, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 62:
text: Until 1956, geologists considered China as a nation poor in petroleum resources. In that year, oil was discovered in T'a-ch'eng. China soon had enough oil to meet its needs, with surplus oil available for export.
ref: 1994, Patrick Bridgemon, “Nixon Removes an Embargo on Trade with China”, in Frank N. Magill, editor, Great Events from History II, volume 4, Salem Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 1480:
glosses: Alternative form of Tacheng.
wikipedia: Defense Mapping Agency
Great Bentley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Tendring district, Essex, England (OS grid ref TM1121).
Related terms: Little Bentley
Weiqi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Figure 3.1 Shi (Black) versus Li (White) on the Weiqi Board black will appear to have captured no territory at all and, indeed, at the end of this sequence has scored no sure points; white, though, has 30 unassailable points, which seems to ...
ref: 2013, Mark Spitznagel, The Dao of Capital: Austrian Investing in a Distorted World, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 63:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of weiqi.
Weiqi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Chinese given name.
Baduk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: It is speculated that brain regions showing differences in nodal centralities are important contributors in Baduk expertise, and may facilitate efficient exchange of information. In this context, our findings are consistent with the RPD model ...
ref: 2015, Merim Bilalić, Robert Langner, Guillermo Campitelli, Luca Turella, Wolfgang Grodd, Neural Implementations of Expertise, Frontiers Media SA, →ISBN, page 32:
text: (2010 MAY 31) Seoul National University Medical Research Center: White matter neuroplastic changes in long-term trained players of the game of “Baduk” (GO): a voxel-based diffusion-tensor imaging study New investigation results, 'White ...
ref: 2012, Advances in Physiology Research and Application: 2011 Edition, ScholarlyEditions, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of baduk.
Hsiang-yang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Wade–Giles romanization of the Mandarin 襄陽 /襄阳 (Hsiang¹-yang²).
Senses: examples: text: About the middle of September 1784 ³ T'ê-ch'êng-o received the report from Hsiang-yang of the capture of the four missionaries, which charged them with going to Shensi to help the rebellious Mohammedans.
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 50:
text: In the strategic city of Hsiang-yang, on the river in north-central Hupei, Wen-ti in 586 had set up a strong regional headquarters with his third son, Chün, the Prince of Ch'in, in command.
ref: 1978, Arthur F. Wright, The Sui Dynasty, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 141:
text: The Mongol capture of the Sung city of Hsiang-yang is an excellent example of the sophisticated siege techniques used in Kublai Khan's time.
ref: 1990, David Nicolle, The Mongol Warlords, Firebird Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 87:
glosses: Alternative form of Xiangyang.
wikipedia: Army Map Service
paedometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paedometers
form: pædometer
form: pedometer
Etymology: paedo- + -meter
Senses: examples: text: All the surfaces of the paedometer, in addition to the metal, are so smooth and well polished that they invite the care that is taken of them, and by their appearance when finished fully repay the trouble taken. The paedometer represents the ...
ref: 2012, Maria Montessori, Dr. Montessori's Own Handbook, Courier Corporation, →ISBN, page 17:
text: Shelters are provided in the garden so that they can enjoy the open air, can play and work there, may take rest or sleep. They may have their lunch there if they do so please. Paedometer to measure height and also the weighing machine are ...
ref: 2004, S.B.J.R. Chowdary, Mastery of Teaching Skills, Discovery Publishing House, →ISBN, page 161:
text: Paedometer to measure height and also the weighing machine are also there in the children's house to keep a record of the heights and weights of the students. - There are three types of exercise that are provided in the children's school. 1.
ref: 1985, J. C. Aggarwal, Theory and Principles of Education: Philosophical and Sociological Bases of Education, South Asia Books:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: a device used to measure the weight and height of a child.
Weeley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Tendring district, Essex, England (OS grid ref TM1422).
paedometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paedometer
pædometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pædometers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of paedometer.