cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Lantau Island
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Lantau + island.
Senses: examples: text: In relatively remote and inaccessible areas like Tung Chung on Lantau Island and the Northern Sai Kung peninsula—where the demand for agricultural land by immigrant farmers and urbanization and industrialization is not so great—the size of farm is not any larger than that of the densely populated areas.
ref: 1964, C. T. Wong, “Changes in Agricultural Land Use in Hong Kong”, in S. G. Davis, editor, Land Use Problems in Hong Kong: A Symposium, Hong Kong University Press, page 63:
text: To reach Mui Wo, a small town on Lantau Island, you take a ferry from central Hong Kong, and after a 30-minute ride arrive at a small square with a car park and bus stops blackened by fumes.
ref: 2019 November 22, Ilaria Maria Sala, “After the Protests: How Will Hong Kong Vote?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 Nov 2019, Opinion:
text: Leung left Shek Pik Prison on Lantau Island in the early hours of Wednesday. He appeared to indicate that he would be keeping a low profile after his release.
ref: 2022 January 19, “Hong Kong activist Edward Leung released from prison”, in Deutsche Welle, archived from the original on 19 Jan 2022, News:
glosses: An island of Hong Kong.
Synonyms: Lantau
adipoblastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to adipoblasts
antiflavivirus
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + flavivirus.
Senses: glosses: That counters flaviviruses
antionchocercal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + onchocercal.
Senses: glosses: That counters worms of the genus Onchocerca or the disease onchocerciasis
antipiroplasmic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + piroplasmic.
Senses: glosses: That counters parasites of the order Piroplasmida
baermannisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Baermannization.
bandavirus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bandaviruses
Senses: glosses: Any of the genus Bandavirus (family Phenuiviridae, order Bunyavirales) of tick-borne viruses.
bandaviruses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bandavirus
cariosome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cariosomes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of karyosome.
cariosomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cariosome
cavimorph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cavimorphs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of caviomorph.
cavimorphs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cavimorph
cercariometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The measurement of cercariae, typically in rivers and other waters
chromatoplate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chromatoplates
Senses: glosses: A coated plate used in thin-layer chromatography
chromatoplates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chromatoplate
circumoval
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From circum- + oval.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Surrounding an ovum
cutaneomucous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mucocutaneous.
defibrinogenate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: defibrinogenates
form: defibrinogenating
form: defibrinogenated
form: defibrinogenated
Senses: glosses: To induce defibrination
defibrinogenated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of defibrinogenate
dermatolymphangioadenitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dermato- + lymphangioadenitis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: An inflammation of skin, subcutaneous tissue and lymph nodes
dermotropism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The development in the skin of a lesion or other condition normally found elsewhere
extradomicilar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of extradomiciliary.
germariums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of germarium
gonotrophy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gono- + -trophy.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: a life cycle of feeding and laying of eggs
raw_tags: of insects such as mosquitoes
Related terms: gonotrophic
hemoflagellated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: parasitized by a hemoflagellate
immunotrypanolysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From immuno- + trypanolysis.
Senses: glosses: immunological trypanolysis
intergranulomatous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + granulomatous.
Senses: glosses: Between granulomata
kinetoflagellar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From kineto- + flagellar.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: relating to a kinetoplast and a flagellum
kleptohematophagy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From klepto- + hematophagy.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: kleptoparasitic hematophagy
mammarenaviral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to the mammarenaviruses
marbofloxacine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of marbofloxacin.
meningoencephalic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From meningo- + encephalic.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the meninges and the encephalon
Gulangyu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: note: unaspirated
ipa: /ˌkuˈlɑŋˈjɪː/
note: hyperforeign
enpr: go͞oʹlängʹyüʹ
Forms: form: Ku-lang-yu
form: Kulangsu
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 鼓浪嶼 /鼓浪屿 (Gǔlàngyǔ).
Senses: examples: text: ON approaching Amoy, (Hiámun ching, 夏門城,) from the southward, Chapel island, called by the Chinese Tungting 東椗 and situated in lat. 24° 10.'3 N., and long. 118° 13.'5 E., or 9.44 E. of the S.W. point of Kúláng seu 鼓浪嶼, may been seen from four to five leagues : it has an even surface, is about 200 feet high, and its circumference three cables. It is perforated at its southeast extreme, which shows when it bears E.N.E. or W.S.W.
ref: [1843 August, “Sailing directions to accompany seven charts of the coast of China, between Amoy bay, and the Yángtsz’ kiáng.”, in The Chinese Repository, volume XII, number 8, Canton, →OCLC, page 401:
text: A large sign on Xiamen's Gulangyu Island, favored address for residents here, says "military zone, entry forbidden," closing off the portion of the island closest to the Nationalist islands.[…]
Gulangyu island has a spectacular crows-nest lookout reached by winding stone staircases. From so high, the Nationalist islands look like lumps of cookie batter dropped onto the smooth harbor, with picturesque sailing junks not far away.
ref: 1980 April 9 [1980 April 8], Jay Mathews, “Nationalist Islands Sound Siren Call to Mainland Chinese”, in The Washington Post, sourced from XIAMEN (Amoy), China, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 28 Aug 2017, Politics:
text: If Unesco accepts two new applications under consideration, China could become the country with the most heritage sites, surpassing Italy, which has 51. That landmark has been touted by Chinese state media as a major accomplishment. China’s second application under review this year covers Gulangyu, the pedestrian-only island near the city of Xiamen, in Fujian Province.
ref: 2017 July 6, Steven Lee Myers, “China Is Challenged on Bid for Unesco Heritage Status in Tibetan Area”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 Jul 2017, Asia Pacific:
glosses: An island of Xiamen, Fujian, China.
nodulogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From nodulo- + -genesis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The formation of nodules, typically in a goitre
Christian Malford
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Recorded as Cristemeleford in 1086 (Domesday Book), from Old English Crist + māl + ford (“ford by a cross”)
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish north-east of Chippenham, Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref ST9678).
olmutinib
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The antineoplastic drug N-[3-[2-[4-(4-methylpiperazin-1-yl)anilino]thieno[3,2-d]pyrimidin-4-yl]oxyphenyl]prop-2-enamide
paraplacental
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From para- + placental.
Senses: glosses: Across / through the placenta
mifty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: miftier
form: miftiest
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of miffy.
pathosymbiont
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pathosymbionts
Etymology: From patho- + symbiont.
Senses: glosses: A pathological symbiont
pathosymbionts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pathosymbiont
redetectable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From re- + detectable.
Senses: glosses: detectable again (following a time interval or other operation)
septoinferior
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From septo- + inferior.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: septal and inferior
Kulangsu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 鼓浪嶼／鼓浪屿 (Gǔlàngxù).
Senses: examples: text: Accordingly it was deemed expedient for Mr. McBryde to occupy a station on Kulangsu, a small island close by the city of Amoy.
ref: 1854, John C. Lowrie, A Manual of Missions; Or, Sketches of the Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church, New York: Anson D. F. Randolph, 683 Broadway, →OCLC, page 53:
text: Sir William Parker and Sir Hugh Gough agreed that a simultaneous attack must be made upon the fortifications of the two islands of Amoy and Kulangsu; that in each case a frontal attack was to be made by the navy, while the land forces made an attempt to carry the batteries in reverse. We shall follow, in the first place, the fortunes of the attack on Kulangsu.
ref: 1903, Robert S. Rait, The Life And Campaigns Of Hugh, First Viscount Gough, Field-Marshal, volume I, Archibald Constable & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, page 210:
text: The Fukien authorities in their memorials made no mention of any promise to Gribble: barbarians were residing on Kulangsu until the indemnity should be paid up, but formal permission for permanent consular residence was another matter, which they referred to the imperial commissioner. Pottinger supported Gribble’s request, but Ch’i-ying throughout 1844 consistently and strongly supported the provincial authorities in objecting to the threatened use of Kulangsu for residential purposes after its military evacuation, fearing that this would really prevent Chinese recovery of the island.
ref: 1953, John King Fairbank, Trade and Diplomacy on the China Coast: The Opening of the Treaty Ports, 1842–1854, paperback edition, Stanford, Cal.: Stanford University Press, published 1969, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 202:
glosses: Synonym of Gulangyu.
synonyms: word: Gulangyu
seroreduction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seroreductions
Etymology: From sero- + reduction.
Senses: glosses: A reduction in seropositivity
seroreductions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seroreduction
solenophagic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From solenophage + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to a solenophage
spiruromorph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spiruromorphs
Senses: glosses: Any nematode of the infraorder Spiruromorpha
spiruromorphs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spiruromorph
telmophagic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of telmophagous.
toxicovenomic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From toxico- + venomic.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Relating to toxicovenomics
toxicovenomics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From toxico- + venomics.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The study of toxins delivered in venom
Related terms: toxicovenomic
toxinological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to toxinology
trifluoroethyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any trifluoro derivative of an ethyl radical, but especially CF₃CH₂-
unconjugatable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + conjugatable.
Senses: glosses: Not conjugatable.
Synonyms: inconjugatable
undifferentiatable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + differentiatable.
Senses: glosses: That cannot be differentiated
Churchdown
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃɜːt͡ʃˈdaʊn/
note: obsolete, locally
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃoʊzən/
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English Chirchesdoun, apparently from Proto-Brythonic *krʉg (“mound”) + Old English dūn (“hill”), though with the second element reinterpreted as Middle English chirche (“church”).
The process of reduction that lead to the former local pronunciation (surviving in nearby Chosen Hill) is reflected in the Early Modern English spellings Churson, Chursdon, Chorsdown.
Senses: glosses: A large village and civil parish in Tewkesbury borough, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref SO8820).
Swoope
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Swoopes
Etymology: Probably an altered form of German Schwab.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Suddreth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Suddreths
Etymology: Variant of Sudderth.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Suddreths
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Suddreth
Swoopes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Swoope
Thurmon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Thurmons
Etymology: Variant of Thurman.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Silkwood
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Silkwoods
Etymology: Probably an English habitational surname, even though it does not appear in present-day English records.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Silkwoods
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Silkwood
Thurmons
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Thurmon
Sooy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sooys
Etymology: Origin unidentified.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Standlee
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Standlees
Etymology: Variant of Standley.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Standlees
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Standlee
Sooys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Sooy
Mazepin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Mazepins
Etymology: From Slavic (Belarusian Мазепін (Mazjepin); Russian Мазепин (Mazepin)).
Senses: glosses: A surname from the Slavic languages.
Clayton Bridge
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A neighbourhood of Clayton, Metropolitan Borough of Manchester, Greater Manchester, England (OS grid ref SJ8999).
Jagr
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Jagrs
Etymology: From Czech Jágr, from German Jäger, from Old High German jagōn.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Czech.
Moms
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Mom
Munses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Muns
Ovechkin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ovechkins
Etymology: From Russian Овечкин (Ovečkin), from овечка (ovečka), from овца (ovca).
Senses: glosses: A masculine-form surname from Russian.
glosses: An asteroid in Main Belt, Solar System.
Related terms: Ovechkina
Maschino
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Maschinos
Etymology: Borrowed from French Maschino.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
Maschinos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Maschino
Maleses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Males
McCullagh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: McCullaghs
Etymology: Variant of McCullough.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish.
McCarren
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: McCarrens
Etymology: Variant of McCarron.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish.
McCarrens
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of McCarren
McCullaghs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of McCullagh
Lipas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Lipa
Dushkus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Dushku
Codnor Park
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Ironville, Amber Valley borough, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK4351).
wikipedia: + and Ironville railway station
Ironville
Chongming
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃʊŋˈmɪŋ/
ipa: /t͡ʃɒŋˈmɪŋ/
enpr: cho͝ongʹmǐngʹ
Forms: form: Chungming
form: Ch'ung-ming
form: Tsungming
Etymology: The atonal Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 崇明 (Chóngmíng, literally “Lofty & Bright”), initially given as the name of a town on the island in 705.
Senses: glosses: A former town in Jiangsu, China.
examples: text: Empty inside
Hu, who has worked in marketing and supply chains for French companies like personal-care giant L'Oreal and sports retailer Decathlon, said that in her career she "appeared happy on the outside, but felt empty inside."
She now sows organic, pesticide- and fertiliser-free sweet potatoes, long beans and other crops on rented plots of land with like-minded friends on Chongming, a large, primarily agricultural island on Shanghai's outskirts.[…]
Liang, who moved to Chongming three years ago, has had to rapidly learn horticulture -- his farmer neighbours and internet websites help -- while dabbling in side work online for extra income.
ref: 2021 November 17, “China's millennial 'new farmers' opt to live off the land”, in France 24, archived from the original on 17 Nov 2021:
glosses: An island at the mouth of the Yangtze River in eastern China.
examples: text: At a regular press conference, an official from the Chongming district, an outlying island area, said most curbs would be kept in place, although it has reported zero cases outside quarantined areas and 90% of its 640,000-or-so residents were now in theory allowed to leave their homes.
ref: 2022 April 21, Brenda Goh, Ella Cao, Marius Zaharia, “Shanghai people 'not free to fly' out of homes as COVID cases tick back up”, in Simon Cameron-Moore, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 01 Apr 2023:
glosses: A district of Shanghai, China, consisting of Chongming Island as well as Changxing, Hengsha, and other smaller islands in the Yangtze.
Mei-chou
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Wade-Giles romanization of Mandarin 湄洲 (Méizhōu), Wade–Giles romanization: Mei²-chou¹.
Senses: examples: text: At exactly 9:00 a.m. on May 5, 1989, 220 fishermen in nineteen boats sailed out from Su-ao Harbor in I-lan County on Taiwan's east coast; officially, they were going to fish the waters off P'eng-chia, an island seventy nautical miles north of Taiwan. Unofficially, however, they were charting a course westward some two hundred nautical miles toward the Fukien coast to Ma-tsu's traditional birthplace, the island of Mei-chou.
ref: 1996, Vivian-Lee Nyitray, “The Sea Goddess and the Goddess of Democracy”, in The Annual Review of Women in World Religions, volume IV, State University of New York Press, →ISBN, →ISSN, →OCLC, →OL, page 164:
text: Matsu, goddess of the sea, is the most revered deity of Taiwan. Legend has it that Matsu was once a real person named Lin Mo, born to fisherfolk on Meizhou Island in Fujian, China. It is said that Lin Mo loved the sea and would often stand on the seashore and guide ships safely to shore. On a stormy night, Lin Mo drowned while saving a sailor and her body washed up on the shores of Nankan Island, Matsu, where she was buried by the villagers. Temples were built to honour the young woman and her popularity eventually spread as far as Japan and Southeast Asia. Today there are over 500 temples dedicated to her around Taiwan.
ref: [2007 April, Julie Grundvig, “TAIWAN”, in The Asia Book: A Journey Through Every Country in the Continent, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 104, columns 1, 2:
text: Before she became a goddess, T'ien Hou had been human. As a little girl, she lived on the island of Mei-chou.
ref: 2010, Jen Green, Chinese and Japanese Myths, Gareth Stevens, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 22:
text: Matsu's last name was Lin and her family name was Mo . She was born on a small island called Mei-chow, Putien County, Fukien .
ref: n.d., “啟天宮 [Chi-tien Kong]”, in 萬華社區大學 [Taipei Wan Hua Community College], archived from the original on 06 Sep 2022:
english: Taipei Wan Hua Community College
translation: Taipei Wan Hua Community College
glosses: Alternative form of Meizhou.
Martian packet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Martian packets
Etymology: From being a packet with a source or destination address that is "not of this Earth".
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A network packet whose declared source or destination IP address lies within a reserved address range unavailable for use on the public Internet.
Synonyms: martian
McFauls
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of McFaul
my lands
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: my land
Etymology: Related to land sakes.
Senses: examples: text: Oh? At your age? Oh... the youth of today shock me... My lands...
ref: 1995, HAL Laboratory, EarthBound, Nintendo, Super Nintendo Entertainment System:
qualifier: somewhat dated and rustic
glosses: An expression of surprise or dismay.
Deiter
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Deiters
Etymology: Borrowed from German Deiter.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Deiters
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Deiterses
Etymology: Borrowed from German Deiters.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Derived terms: cell of Deiters
Deiters' cell
Deiters
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Deiter
Orsak
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Orsaks
Etymology: Borrowed from Czech Orsák.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Czech.
Orsaks
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Orsak
parabanate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parabanates
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt or ester of parabanic acid
parabaptist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parabaptists
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek παραβαπτιστής (parabaptistḗs), from παραβαπτίζω (parabaptízō, “to baptize without authority”). By surface analysis, para- + baptist.
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: A person carrying out unlawful baptisms, especially in the early Church.
MHET
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: MHETs
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of monohydroxyethyl terephthalate.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of monohydroxyethyl terephthalate.
mono-2-hydroxyethyl terephthalate
Hypernyms: sense: monohydroxyethyl terephthalate
word: HET
Derived terms: sense: monohydroxyethyl terephthalate
word: MHETase
Related terms: sense: monohydroxyethyl terephthalate
word: BHET
sense: monohydroxyethyl terephthalate
word: BHETase
sense: monohydroxyethyl terephthalate
word: HET
sense: monohydroxyethyl terephthalate
word: MHETase
sense: monohydroxyethyl terephthalate
word: PET
sense: monohydroxyethyl terephthalate
word: PETase
parabolar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: parabolic
digital hoarding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
synonyms: cyberhoarding
glosses: Excessive acquisition of and reluctance to delete electronic material no longer valuable to the user.
parabolization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parabolizations
Senses: glosses: Conversion to parabolic form
parabranchia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From para- + branchia.
Senses: glosses: A modified osphradium of certain gastropod molluscs that functions as a gill
Related terms: parabranchial
parabranchial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From para- + branchial.
Senses: glosses: Situated near the gills
glosses: Relating to parabranchiae
paracaseinate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paracaseinates
Etymology: From para- + caseinate.
Senses: glosses: Any salt of paracasein
parachor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parachors
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A poorly-characterised quantity derived from the molecular weight of a liquid and its surface tension
paracladium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paracladia
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A branch that has the same branching structure as the main axis
paracmastical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: paracmastic
paracope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paracopes
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A minor delirium
paracousia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: paracusis
paracrystallinity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From para- + crystallinity.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being paracrystalline
paracyst
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paracysts
Etymology: From para- + cyst.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The antheridium of an ascomycete
paradiplomatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From para- + diplomatic.
Senses: glosses: Not based on textual evidence alone
glosses: Beyond the scope of normal diplomacy
paradisaeine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to or characteristic of the paradisaeids
paradosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paradoses
Senses: glosses: religious teaching based on tradition or on the parables of Jesus
Scorriton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small village in Buckfastleigh West parish, South Hams district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SX7068).
paradoxician
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paradoxicians
Etymology: From English paradoxic + -ian.
Senses: glosses: A person who formulates or uses paradoxes.
paradoxling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paradoxlings
Etymology: From paradox + -ling.
Senses: glosses: A small paradox.
Scriptures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: But to this it may be sufficient to answer, that had not the Scriptures of plenary inspiration first been given, the others would never have been composed. They were all written by men to whom the compositions which are the Word of God […]
ref: 1839, Samuel Noble, The Plenary Inspiration of the Scriptures Asserted, page 317:
text: The Jew is not to reject the Christian Scriptures; - the Christian is to receive not only the Jewish and Christian Scriptures but also the Corân; - the Moslem is to accept and believe not only in the Corân, but in the Jewish and Christian Scriptures; […].
ref: 1860, The Testimony Borne by the Coran to the Jewish and Christian Scriptures, page 79:
text: […] idea of an infallible compilation of writings of the actual character of the Jewish and Christian Scriptures with every man his own interpreter thereof.
ref: 1910, The Christian Work and the Evangelist, page 591:
text: The Scriptures aim not merely to paint life, but to quicken and reproduce life. How much more, then, is needed a surrender of the will before there can be adequate appreciation of the Scriptures? If the Scriptures are the results primarily of […]
ref: 2019, Francis John McConnell, Understanding the Scriptures, Good Press:
glosses: plural of Scripture
in the interim
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: The office will be closed for a while, but in the interim, you can just email us.
text: And it gets worse. Barcelona will have to pay even more if he is fired in the interim. Last week, TV3 reported that a high severance payment - amounting to a total of about 12m euros - is on the table.
ref: 2021 September 22, Guillem Balagué, “Barcelona: The toxic battle ripping apart a European giant”, in BBC Sport:
text: While WMRE makes clear that electrification is the only credible option to decarbonise, it says that bi-mode trains could be used in the interim.
ref: 2022 December 28, Philip Haigh, “Building the case for West Midlands rail improvements”, in RAIL, number 973, page 25:
synonyms: in the meanwhile
glosses: Temporarily, meanwhile.
in the meanwhile
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Etymology: From Middle English in the meene while, in þe mene while.
Senses: synonyms: in the interim
glosses: Temporarily, meanwhile.
Huish Episcopi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Episcopi is from Latin.
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in South Somerset district, Somerset, England; the parish surrounds Langport parish on three sides (OS grid ref ST4326).
Creech St Michael
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Somerset, England, previously in Somerset West and Taunton district (OS grid ref ST2725).
monoprops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monoprop
biprops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biprop
martians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of martian
Martian packets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Martian packet
mouse slip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mouse slips
Senses: topics: board-games
chess
computer
computing
engineering
games
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: misclick
glosses: An unintentional mouseclick due to jittery or imprecise movement of a mouse.
mouse slip
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mouse slips
form: mouse slipping
form: mouse slipped
form: mouse slipped
Senses: topics: board-games
chess
computer
computing
engineering
games
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To make a mouse slip.
Jorizzo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Iorizzo.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
paraesthesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From para- + -aesthesis.
Senses: glosses: paresthesia
cast light on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: casts light on
form: casting light on
form: cast light on
form: cast light on
Senses: examples: text: Redirecting prosecutorial energy toward transformative justice may also further abolitionist ends by casting light on the criminal legal system's "inability to solve the crises it creates."
ref: 10 March 2021, “Prosecuting in the Police-less City: Police Abolition's Impact on Local Prosecutors”, in Harvard Law Review, volume 134, page 1877:
glosses: Alternative form of shed light on.
Cutnall Green
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small village in Wychavon district, Worcestershire, England (OS grid ref SO8768).
paraffinoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Resembling paraffin; aliphatic
paraflight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paraflights
Etymology: From para- + flight.
Senses: glosses: An instance of paraflying
glosses: A parasail
parafront
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parafronts
Etymology: From para- + front.
Senses: glosses: altarcloth
stand in the way
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: stands in the way
form: standing in the way
form: stood in the way
form: stood in the way
Senses: examples: text: They won't let their parents stand in the way of their love.
text: I've committed so much to this business, and nothing will stand in the way.
text: Any municipality that has gone so far as to abolish its police department is already engaged in a groundbreaking process and these difficulties should not stand in the city's way.
ref: 10 March 2021, “Prosecuting in the Police-less City: Police Abolition's Impact on Local Prosecutors”, in Harvard Law Review, volume 134, page 1880:
qualifier: typically with of
glosses: To impede the progress or achievement (of).
nonreformist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + reformist.
Senses: glosses: In the spirit of transformation rather than incrementalism.
Darfield
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE4104).
glosses: A rural community in the Thompson Country of British Columbia, Canada.
glosses: A small town in Selwyn district, Canterbury, New Zealand.
halfsleep
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: halfsleeps
Etymology: From half- + sleep.
Senses: examples: text: Nick found Judah still out on the floor next to the open and emptied safe. Winded and slobbering in a halfsleep.
ref: 2021, Michael Farris Smith, chapter 55, in Nick, New York; Boston; London: Little, Brown and Company, page 269:
glosses: State between being awake and being asleep; light sleep.
halfsleep
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From half- + sleep.
Senses: glosses: In halfsleep.
head cover
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: head covers
Senses: examples: text: Within the captives milled about without head cover or shelter and one corner of the camp had become the place for piss and shit and the foul odor hung in the air and moved on the breeze as if the putrid smell exited solely as a reminder.
ref: 2021, Michael Farris Smith, chapter 55, in Nick, New York; Boston; London: Little, Brown and Company, page 270:
glosses: Alternative form of headcover.
misforecast
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /mɪsˈfɔː(ɹ)kæst/
/mɪsˈfɔː(ɹ)kɑːst/
Forms: form: misforecasts
form: misforecasting
form: misforecast
form: misforecast
form: misforecasted
form: misforecasted
Etymology: From mis- + forecast.
Senses: examples: text: Maybe she ordered too many, or misforecast and picked wrong colors, or woke up to find that trend she hopped on changed overnight and she's stuck with an order that won't sell anywhere at any price.
ref: 1999, Barbara Jaye Wilson, Capped Off, page 81:
text: Are any elections misforecast? Yes, the elections of 1960 and 1968 are misforecast.
ref: 2008, Brad Lockerbie, Do Voters Look to the Future?: Economics and Elections, page 117:
text: In the more general case, the agent may misforecast demand and consequently view the tradeoff between a higher co-pay and a lower premium as being more or less favorable than it actually is.
ref: 2019, Amitbh Chandra, Benjamin Handel, Joshua Schwartzstein, “Behavioral economics and health-care markets”, in B. Doublas Bernheim, Stefano DellaVigna, David Laibson, editors, Handbook of Behavioral Economics, page 492:
glosses: To forecast incorrectly; to make an erroneous prediction.
misforecast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /mɪsˈfɔː(ɹ)kæst/
/mɪsˈfɔː(ɹ)kɑːst/
Forms: form: misforecasts
Etymology: From mis- + forecast.
Senses: examples: text: He offered his plans for revision to the authorities, but the adoption of his ideas was unfortunately postponed because of his misforecast of the solar eclipse of June 1675 .
ref: 1964, Monumenta Nipponica, page 300:
text: Energy overpayments result primarily from the misforecast of oil prices.
ref: 1988, Joint CEC/CPUC Hearings on Excess Generating Capacity: (SB 1970), page 55:
text: The numbers can be roughly interpreted as the degree of misforecast of the level of aggregate demand.
ref: 1991, Kazuo Ueda, Japanese Monetary Policy During 1970-1990: Rules Or Discretion?, page 3:
text: Average task completion time (in seconds) versus the probability of sample misforecast for different number of misforecasts (k) and ratio of human and robot operational capabilities (f human /f robot ).
ref: 2020, Muhammad Maaz Rehan, Mubashir Husain Rehmani, Blockchain-enabled Fog and Edge Computing:
glosses: The act of misforecasting.
examples: text: The misforecast of 7.25 million crudely equals the total population of North and South Carolina, or New York (1970 censu ), or Austria.
ref: 1978, National Center for Productivity and Quality of Working Life, The Future of Productivity: Report of a National Conference, page 122:
text: If you misforecast right now's load you really inject x plus or minus the amount of the misforecast.
ref: 1995, Energy Modeling, page 3:
text: We use the actual misforecast instead of the actual change in the spot rate because the speculator invests in deposits according to the forward premium.
ref: 1998, Quarterly Journal of Business and Economics, page 58:
glosses: The result of misforecasting; misprediction.
misforecasts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misforecast
misforecasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misforecast
misforecasting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misforecast
misforecasted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misforecast
to no purpose
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Without a meaningful result; in vain.
Breaston
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A large village and civil parish in Erewash district, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK4633).
Church Wilne
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in Draycott and Church Wilne parish, Erewash borough, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK4431).
CCRs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of CCR
CC&R
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CC&Rs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of CCR.
CC&Rs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of CC&R
Dunball
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in Sedgemoor district, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST3040).
Easington
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A number of places in England:
A hamlet in Chilton parish, Buckinghamshire, formerly in Aylesbury Vale district (OS grid ref SP6810).
glosses: A number of places in England:
A village in Easington Village parish, County Durham (OS grid ref NZ4143).
glosses: A number of places in England:
A village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire (OS grid ref TA3919).
glosses: A number of places in England:
A civil parish and hamlet (served by Slaidburn and Easington Parish Council) in Ribble Valley district, Lancashire; the hamlet is outside the parish (OS grid ref SD7150).
glosses: A number of places in England:
A hamlet and former civil parish, now in Belford parish, northern Northumberland (OS grid ref NU1234).
glosses: A number of places in England:
A village in Loftus parish, Redcar and Cleveland district, North Yorkshire (OS grid ref NZ7418).
glosses: A number of places in England:
A suburb of Banbury, Cherwell district, Oxfordshire (OS grid ref SP4539).
glosses: A number of places in England:
A hamlet in Cuxham with Easington parish, South Oxfordshire district, Oxfordshire (OS grid ref SU6697).
glosses: A settlement in Jamaica.
Derived terms: word: Cuxham with Easington
english: village and civil parish
translation: village and civil parish
word: Easington Colliery
word: Easington Village
tear at
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tears at
form: tearing at
form: tore at
form: torn at
Senses: examples: text: When the house was empty she went from room to room. Ripping sheets from beds and tearing at them and kicking over nightstands and busting mirrors.
ref: 2021, Michael Farris Smith, chapter 56, in Nick, New York; Boston; London: Little, Brown and Company, page 275:
glosses: To pull at violently.
examples: text: The situation tore at his heart.
glosses: To afflict or aggrieve.
hard-luck
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hard-luck
form: most hard-luck
form: hardluck
Etymology: From hard + luck.
Senses: glosses: Marked by or experiencing difficulty, as if by bad luck.
hardluck
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hardluck
form: most hardluck
Senses: examples: text: In the diner on Christmas Eve he sat with only the cook and a trio of hardluck regulars.
ref: 2021, Michael Farris Smith, chapter 58, in Nick, New York; Boston; London: Little, Brown and Company, page 284:
glosses: Alternative form of hard-luck.
misforge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misforges
form: misforging
form: misforged
form: misforged
Etymology: From mis- + forge.
Senses: examples: text: any fault lay with the defendants on this account, they were not responsible for the misforging of the shaft .
ref: 1921, Lloyd's List Law Reports - Volume 8, page 483:
text: A visual inspection at this point culls out the pieces which have been misforged, badly trimmed or require additional tumbling.
ref: 1977, Dan Poynter, The Parachute Manual: A Technical Treatise on the Parachute, page 95:
text: In his poems which deal with culture conflict, Ntiru attempts to draw attention to both the conscious and the subliminal tensions which manifest themselves in the relationships between the autochthonous peoples and heritage and the new men who, in Awoonor's words, are "caught between the anvil and the hammer/in the forging house of a new life." Ntiru often sees these new men as, at least, misforged; and in this he (the poet) is in agreement with his peers Angira and p'Bitek
ref: 1988 Fall, Abdul R. Yesutu, “Man at the Crossroads of Cultures: The Cultural Isolato in Modern East African Poetry in English”, in The Journal of Ethnic Studies, volume 16, number 3:
text: Celine recommends that he be killed, like a sword that has been misforged.
ref: 2006, John Ringo, East of the Sun and West of the Moon:
glosses: To forge improperly.
misforges
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misforge
misforging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misforge
misforged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misforge
Tsining
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 濟寧／济宁 (Jǐníng).
Senses: examples: text: At Tsinan, the capital of Shantung, it fell to a depth of five inches on these two days, commencing on the evening of the 8th, and continuing the whole of the next day. Tsining, also in Shantung, reports three inches of snow on the 8th, and at Taiyuan, the capital of Shansi, there were two inches, on the 9th, the snow still falling at the time of despatching the telegram.
ref: 1893 February 16, “News of the Day”, in The Bombay Gazette, page 5:
text: This move compelled Sun Chuan-fang to relinquish his hold on Fenghsien and withdraw to Tsining, which he defended stubbornly against heavy and continuous attacks, but other points along the line rapidly fell before the Nationalist advance and Tsining, becoming isolated, eventually fell. The troops hurried on, mopping up the territory south of the Wen River, capturing Taian and occupying Tsinan.
ref: 1937, Hollington K. Tong, chapter XIII, in Chiang Kai Shek: Soldier And Statesman, volume 1, Shanghai: The Chinese Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 211:
text: The Grand Canal, which crosses the western part of the province from north to south, appears to have been silted up and is used only north of Lintsing, where it joins the Wei Ho, and south of Tsining, where the water level of the canal is maintained by a series of lakes called Nanyang, Tushan, Chaoyang and Weishan.
ref: 1956, Theodore Shabad, China's Changing Map: A Political and Economic Geography of the Chinese People's Republic, New York: Frederick A. Praeger, page 115:
text: During the Christmas vacation of 1915 I visited Tsining, the largest city in western Shantung, the most thickly populated and poorest section of the province. In the whole city there were only one-story adobe or brick houses.
ref: 1973, Marjorie Rankin Steurt, Broken Bits of Old China, New York: Thomas Nelson Incorporated, page 94:
glosses: Dated form of Jining: a city in Shandong, China.
Tsining
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 集寧／集宁 (Jíníng).
Senses: examples: text: The southwestern part of the region is served by the line from Peking to Paotow via Tsining and Huhehot and, since 1955, by the Tsining-Ulan-Bator railroad. A continuation of the Peking-Paotow railroad is under construction to Lanchow via Yinchwan.
ref: 1956, Theodore Shabad, China's Changing Map: A Political and Economic Geography of the Chinese People's Republic, New York: Frederick A. Praeger, page 235:
text: Late at night we reached Tsining. At this point the Trans-Mongolian Railway branches off to the north. Although it runs for another 220 miles or so on Chinese soil as far as the frontier station of Erhlien, the track changes to the Russian gauge at Tsining.
ref: 1963, Klaus Mehnert, Peking and Moscow, New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, page 259:
glosses: Dated form of Jining: a district and former county-level city of Ulanqab, Inner Mongolia autonomous region, China.
misformulate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misformulates
form: misformulating
form: misformulated
form: misformulated
Etymology: From mis- + formulate.
Senses: examples: text: If children misformulate Dative Shift as a substitution of the PP dominated NP for a base generated NP position, as the hypothesis proposed here suggests they should, we can expect to hear strings like those in (18) produced by children and can predict that children will find them grammatical for a time.
ref: 1979, Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Meeting of the Western Conference on Linguistics, page 66:
text: Della Rocca's focus on the question of whether God could privilege one finite mode over the other leads him to misformulate Spinoza's critique of divine teleology.
ref: 2013, Stewart Duncan, Antonia LoLordo, Debates in Modern Philosophy:
text: They misformulate their own existential insights in ways that either deprive their theories of political relevance or lead to tragically mistaken political commitments.
ref: 2014, Kerry H. Whiteside, Merleau-Ponty and the Foundation of Existential Politics, page 37:
glosses: To formulate incorrectly.
misformulates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misformulate
misformulating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misformulate