cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Elmwood
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The name of a few places in Canada:
A neighbourhood of Edmonton, Alberta.
glosses: The name of a few places in Canada:
A residential area of Winnipeg, Manitoba.
glosses: The name of a few places in Canada:
A community in Grey County, Ontario.
glosses: The name of many places in the United States:
A neighbourhood of Berkeley, California.
glosses: The name of many places in the United States:
A city in Peoria County, Illinois.
glosses: The name of many places in the United States:
A census-designated place in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana.
glosses: The name of many places in the United States:
A neighbourhood of Holyoke, Massachusetts.
glosses: The name of many places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Saline County, Missouri.
glosses: The name of many places in the United States:
A village in Cass County, Nebraska.
glosses: The name of many places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Pickaway County, Ohio.
glosses: The name of many places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Beaver County, Oklahoma.
glosses: The name of many places in the United States:
A neighbourhood of Providence, Rhode Island.
glosses: The name of many places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Smith County, Tennessee.
glosses: The name of many places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Anderson County, Texas.
glosses: The name of many places in the United States:
A neighbourhood of Dallas, Texas.
glosses: The name of many places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Wayne County, West Virginia.
glosses: The name of many places in the United States:
A village in Pierce County, Wisconsin.
Derived terms: Elmwood Park
Elmwood Place
East Greenwich
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town, the county seat of Kent County, Rhode Island, United States.
glosses: A township in Gloucester County, New Jersey, United States.
Northern Ladle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Northern Ladle
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
synonyms: word: Big Dipper
word: Charles' Wain
word: Drinking Gourd
word: Northern Waggoner
word: Plough
word: Wain
qualifier: especially Asia
glosses: A bright circumpolar asterism of the northern sky, said to resemble a ladle. It is part of the constellation Ursa Major and includes the stars Alkaid, Mizar, Alioth, Megrez, Dubhe, Merak, and Phecda.
Noank
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and census-designated place in New London County, Connecticut, United States.
sunfever
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sunfevers
Senses: examples: text: Cerebral Pyrexia, or sunfever is the name by which I would denominate an affection nearly allied to sunstroke.
ref: 1881, New York Medical Abstract:
text: The sea, beach, and its dangers...Summer—in very warm climates that of Sunstroke, or “sunfever,” is one of them.
ref: 1913, Pacific Rural Press - Volumes 85-86, page 44:
text: He's been sick a long time. He went to the hospital one time with sunfever.
ref: 1985, Sharon Sabsay, Martha Platt, Social Setting, Stigma, and Communicative Competence, page 126:
glosses: Alternative form of sun fever.
sunfevers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sunfever
sun fever
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sun fevers
Senses: examples: text: Recently, instances of ictus soils, or solar asphyxia, as it is more correctly called, have been much less frequent; but in the mean time, cases of solar or sun fever have increased rapidly throughout the city.
ref: 1851, The New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal - Volume 7, page 264:
text: In malaria and sun fever the patient has frequent chills, which differ in some respects, a fact which is of great diagnostic value.
ref: 1898, Medical News - Volume 73, page 269:
text: Her lips were swollen real bad and it looked like she had the sun fever.
ref: 2013, Carole A. Powell, Turnabout, page 31:
text: “This is more than sun fever,” their mother said. “Help me to get his tunic off.”
ref: 2013, Alan Sorem, Time: Jesus in Relationships, page 70:
glosses: A feverish condition brought on by overheating in the sun; sunstroke.
sun fevers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sun fever
sun-fever
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sun-fevers
Senses: examples: text: But, however this may be, the grounds upon which I base my belief that "chill" in the one case, and "heat" in the other, is the most common exciting cause of these maladies, respectively, are furnished by the fact that malarious fevers are found to prevail with a periodicity corresponding with that of the annual seasons of greatest change in the weather elements, namely, the spring and autumn, and moreover, with a periodicity corresponding, at least in the Punjab, for which province the statistics have been tabulated, with the triennial cycles of rainfall -- a peculiarity in which they coincide with cholera -- whilst sun-fever or sunstroke is found to prevail with a periodicity corresponding with the season of highest temperature.
ref: 1885, Henry Walter Bellew, The History of Cholera in India from 1862 to 1881, page 815:
text: But they were not acclimatised, nor were the Guards, so that they sent nearly a hundred cases -- mostly mild sun-fever -- into hospital in a week.
ref: 1898, George Warrington Steevens, With Kitchener to Khartum, page 214:
text: Sun-fever has incapacitated our troops more than anything else in Cuba.
ref: 1898, George Milbry Gould, James Hendrie Lloyd, The Philadelphia Medical Journal - Volume 2, page 456:
glosses: Alternative form of sun fever.
sun-fevers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sun-fever
Monowi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Boyd County, Nebraska, United States.
Millstone
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From millstone, mill + stone.
Senses: glosses: A nuclear power station near Waterford, Connecticut, USA.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Mercer County, New Jersey, United States.
glosses: A township in Monmouth County, New Jersey.
glosses: A borough in Somerset County, New Jersey.
glosses: A tributary of the Raritan River in New Jersey; in full, the Millstone River.
elementary topos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: elementary topoi
form: elementary toposes
Senses: topics: category-theory
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A Cartesian closed category which has a subobject classifier.
Hypernyms: locally Cartesian closed category
Hyponyms: Grothendieck topos
Sunol
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Alameda County, California, United States.
Cherryland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Alameda County, California, United States.
Drinking Gourd
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Drinking Gourd
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
synonyms: word: Big Dipper
word: Charles' Wain
word: Northern Ladle
english: Asia
translation: Asia
word: Northern Waggoner
word: Plough
word: Wain
glosses: A bright circumpolar asterism of the northern sky. It is part of the constellation Ursa Major and includes the stars Alkaid, Mizar, Alioth, Megrez, Dubhe, Merak, and Phecda.
Jaidyn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A unisex given name originating as a coinage, variant of Jayden.
West Quincy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A commercial area in Marion County, Missouri, United States, just across the Mississippi from Quincy, Illinois.
glosses: A neighbourhood of Quincy, Massachusetts.
gone by lunchtime
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: A reference to a sudden termination of employment, when an employee is told to pack up their belongings and be "gone by lunchtime".
Senses: examples: text: Foreign policy could not remain with Lockwood Smith who told visiting US Senators that New Zealand's anti-nuclear policy would be "gone by lunchtime."
ref: 2017 April 8, Audrey Young, “Long list of people glad to see Murray McCully gone”, in New Zealand Herald:
text: It's a meaningless race to the bottom of populist politics that undermines the complexity of tackling poverty as an endemic, intergenerational issue; that reduces it to something comfortably dealt with in the space of an electoral cycle – gone by lunchtime, perhaps?
ref: 2017 September 6, “Editorial: Poor are the biggest losers in high-stakes political game”, in The Dominion Post:
text: And the BBC's own Nicky Campbell has queried if the pair will be "gone by lunchtime" following allegations from the comedian's ex-girlfriend Rebecca Humphries.
ref: 2018 October 9, “Katya Jones and Seann Walsh to be booted off Strictly by lunchtime, claims BBC presenter”, in Irish Mirror:
text: I'll tell you what the Aussies would do - this guy would be gone by lunchtime.
ref: 2018 October 29, Dan Satherley, “Immigrant drug lord Karel Sroubek should be 'gone by lunchtime' - Simon Bridges”, in Newshub:
text: Kaikoura District Council chief executive Stuart Grant said the group wanted “ECan gone by lunchtime. This is a chance to gut the organisation. If water is staffed by ECan, it is doomed.”
ref: 2018 December 12, David Williams, “What Canterbury's water-bottling case tells us”, in Newsroom:
glosses: Removed or cancelled right away.
El Capitan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛl kæpəˈtæn/
Etymology: From Spanish El Capitán (“The Captain”).
Senses: glosses: A vertical rock formation in Yosemite National Park.
Derived terms: El Cap
farrower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: farrowers
Senses: glosses: A crate designed to hold a farrowing pig
farrowers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of farrower
ferritinopathies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ferritinopathy
fibroneovascularization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fibro- + neovascularization.
Senses: glosses: The formation of fibrous blood vessels
Related terms: fibroneovascular
fibroneovascular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From fibro- + neovascular.
Senses: glosses: Relating to fibroneovascularization
flavinylate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: flavinylates
form: flavinylating
form: flavinylated
form: flavinylated
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: To modify by the addition of a flavinyl group
flowgraphy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From flow + -graphy.
Senses: glosses: The production of flowgraphs, especially of blood flow
fructofuranosidases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fructofuranosidase
fumosorinone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A pyridone alkaloid present in the fungus Isaria fumosorosea
unwinsome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unwinsome
form: most unwinsome
Etymology: From un- + winsome.
Senses: glosses: Not winsome.
textemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From texteme + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to a texteme.
Epic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Epic
form: most Epic
Senses: examples: text: But the absolute isolation which marks the narrative of the Bundehesh, not a trace of any analogous record being found either in the Zend-Avesta or in the Epic tradition, as collected by Firdouzi, Ḫamza, and the other writers of the Musselman epoch, is of a nature to inspire great doubts in regard to its character as a genuine Iranian legend.
ref: 1882 [1880], François Lenormant, translated by Francis Brown, The Beginnings of History According to the Bible and the Traditions of the Oriental Peoples: From the Creation of Man to the Deluge, page 331:
text: Egil’s Saga, I think, one cannot at present obtain at all, and the Saga of the Laxdale men I only possess in Latin. These and the rest are truly Epic narratives, the Odysseys of a ruder race than the Achæans.
ref: 1890 November, Andrew Lang, “At the Sign of the Ship”, in Longman’s Magazine, volume 17, number 97, page 107:
text: We shall speak, therefore, of the Epic tradition as an already established fact, and we shall discuss it only from the point of view of the fifth and fourth centuries in Athens.
ref: 1919, Cecil Delisle Burns, Greek Ideals: A Study of Social Life, page 99:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of epic (“relating to epic poems”).
examples: text: Every δῆμος [dêmos] had one or more towns (πόλεις [poleis]), and accordingly for the complete description of the land, usual in the Epic phraseology, both expressions are commonly united […]
ref: 1880 [1855], Georg Friedrich Schömann, translated by E. G. Hard and J. S. Mann, The Antiquities of Greece, volume 1, page 66:
text: The first syllable is lengthened, as the antistrophic line […] shows, an Epic scansion in accordance with the Epic phrase […]
ref: 1957, Herbert Jennings Rose, A Commentary on the Surviving Plays of Aeschylus […], page 94, note 80:
text: It commonly signifies the indigenous religion(s) of South Asia, now increasingly called by the Epic term Sanātana Dharma (eternal religion).
ref: 2006, Encyclopedia of India, volume 2, page 188:
glosses: Pertaining to a dialect characteristic of epic poems, especially Epic Greek.
Epic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Epics
Senses: examples: text: He calls for a special kind of instrument, bearing a name which smacks of the Norse Epics—a “Nibling.”
ref: 1881, “Pekin” [Louis Kossuth Lawrie], In the C.P.; or, Sketches in Prose & in Verse, Descriptive of Scenes and Manners in the Central Provinces of India, page 180:
text: Compare Milton’s Epics with the other great Epics of the world.
ref: 1882, “Hilary Term: Senior Sophisters—Modern Literature”, in Dublin Examination Papers […], page 12:
text: The “Idylls of the King,” more of a complete Epic than any of the great Epics, showed how high is that aim which every commonwealth of men is bound to propose to itself; […]
ref: a. 1902, Aubrey de Vere, “The Reception of the Early Poems”, in Hallam Tennyson, Alfred Lord Tennyson: A Memoir by His Son, published 1905, page 511:
text: The Epic has a continuous history from the Mycenaean era to the making of the Iliad.
ref: 1956, Denys L. Page, History and the Homeric Iliad, page 222:
text: This conciliatory approach to the Gītā is a clear enough indication of its being influenced by the world of the Epics to which it belongs.
ref: 1992, Varghese Malpan, A Comparative Study of the Bhagavad-Gītā and the Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius of Loyola on the Process of Spiritual Liberation, page 43:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of epic (“extended narrative poem”); especially a poem within a particular tradition of epics.
Soham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈsəʊ.əm/
Etymology: Inherited from Old English Sǣgham, from a compound of *sǣġe and hām (“homestead”).
Senses: glosses: A town and civil parish in East Cambridgeshire district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL5973).
Related terms: Somes
Soham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈsəʊ.əm/
Etymology: Transliteration of Hindi सोहम (soham) or Bengali সোহম (śōhom).
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Sanskrit.
Dullingham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in East Cambridgeshire district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL6258).
Waterbeach
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in South Cambridgeshire district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL4965).
glosses: A hamlet in Westhampnett parish, Chichester district, West Sussex, England (OS grid ref SU8908).
Littleport
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A large village and civil parish with a town council in East Cambridgeshire district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL5686).
glosses: An unincorporated community in Clayton County, Iowa, United States.
Manea
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Fenland district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL4889).
Manea
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Mania (“Roman goddess of the dead”).
Shippea Hill
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A rural location with a railway station in Ely parish, East Cambridgeshire district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL6484).
have one's ears pinned back
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: has one's ears pinned back
form: having one's ears pinned back
form: had one's ears pinned back
form: had one's ears pinned back
Senses: glosses: To be strongly scolded, reprimanded or admonished.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To be soundly defeated.
has one's ears pinned back
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of have one's ears pinned back
having one's ears pinned back
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of have one's ears pinned back
had one's ears pinned back
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of have one's ears pinned back
pin one's ears back
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pins one's ears back
form: pinning one's ears back
form: pinned one's ears back
form: pinned one's ears back
form: pin back one's ears
Senses: synonyms: prick up one's ears
glosses: To listen attentively.
pins one's ears back
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pin one's ears back
pinning one's ears back
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pin one's ears back
pinned one's ears back
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pin one's ears back
Shelford
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Old English sċeald (“shallow”) + forde (“ford”). Doublet of Scalford and Shalford.
Senses: glosses: A rural locality in Golden Plains Shire, Victoria, Australia.
glosses: A railway station in South Cambridgeshire district, Cambridgeshire, England, serving the villages of Great Shelford and Little Shelford (OS grid ref TL4652).
glosses: A village and civil parish in Rushcliffe borough, Nottinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SK6642).
glosses: A locality in Burton Hastings parish, Rugby borough, Warwickshire, England (OS grid ref SP4288).
glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Great Shelford
Little Shelford
fault-free
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From fault + -free.
Senses: examples: text: Hull Trains Managing Director Louise Cheeseman explained: "On arrival in the UK, they are required to pass fault-free running on the tracks as part of final safety checks, before undergoing the final stages of training and familiarisation with our staff."
ref: 2019 November 20, “Hull Trains prepares to introduce its five brand-new Hitachi bi-modes”, in Rail, page 20:
glosses: Without any faults being evident.
Bosham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈbɒzəm/
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English Boseham, from Old English Bosanhām, fro Bosa (a personal name) + hām (“homestead”).
Senses: glosses: A coastal village and civil parish in the City of Chichester district, West Sussex, England (OS grid ref SU8004).
daming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdeɪmɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪmɪŋ
Senses: examples: text: Jack (Tripp) specialised; daming was what he did.
ref: 2013 March 21, Charles Nevin, “Tripp”, in Jack: Stories of Britain’s Favourite Name, Random House, published 2013:
glosses: the act of performing as a pantomime dame
Fishbourne
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Variant of Fishburn.
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish on the Isle of Wight, England (OS grid ref SZ5592).
glosses: A village and civil parish in Chichester district, West Sussex, England (OS grid ref SU8304).
glosses: A surname.
Nutbourne
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Chichester district, West Sussex, England (OS grid ref SU7705).
glosses: A village in Horsham district, West Sussex (OS grid ref TQ0718).
inhibitant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inhibitants
Etymology: From inhibit + -ant.
Senses: examples: text: A still more interesting case, in which the enzyme and inhibitant occur actually combined together has been revealed by the researches of Dr. S. Hedin on Rennet,
ref: 1912, Arthur Harden, The Chemical world: A monthly journal of chemistry and chemical engineering, Volume I, page 192:
text: It is shown that the mother-substance, the zymogen, of the clot-inducing substance is not simple but is a compound of the enzyme and an inhibitant for that enzyme.
ref: 1919, William Emerson Ritter, The Unity of the Organism; Or, The Organismal Conception of Life, page 105:
text: the inhibitant is converted by oxidation into carbon dioxide.
ref: 1922, Edward Maxted, The Chemical Age, page 816:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: something that inhibits.
Southbourne
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Bournemouth, Dorset, England (OS grid ref SZ1491).
glosses: A village and civil parish in Chichester district, West Sussex, England (OS grid ref SU7605).
Derived terms: West Southbourne
Warblington
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Havant, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU7206).
iwd
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Initialism of I wanna die
Brighouse
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in the Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE1423).
glosses: A settlement in Richmond, British Columbia, Canada.
glosses: A surname.
Tugwell
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Tugwells
Etymology: Apparently an occupational nickname for a tucker.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Adwick
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of Adwick le Street: a large village in the Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE5308); and the name of the local railway station (OS grid ref SE5408).
Bargemann
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Conisbrough
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Old English Cyningesburg, from cyninges (“king's”) + burh (“fort; manor; town”). Doublet of Kingsbury, Kingsberry, Kingsburg, and Kingsburgh. Cf. also Kingstown, Kingston, Kingstone, Kingsville, Coniston, Coniston Cold, Coningsby, and Conington.
Senses: glosses: A town in the Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SK5198).
Derived terms: Conisbrough Parks
Related terms: Kinniburgh
Hampole
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE5010).
Hampole
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hampoles
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Shirebrook
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town and civil parish with a town council in Bolsover district, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK5267).
Meadowhall
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From meadow + hall; the area is shown as Meadow Hall on OS maps of the 1980s.
Senses: glosses: A shopping centre and transport interchange in the Metropolitan Borough of Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SK3991).
inhibitants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inhibitant
Moorthorpe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in South Kirkby and Moorthorpe parish, Metropolitan Borough of Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE4611).
hot zones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hot zone
Bayingolin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Uyghur بايىنغولىن (bayin'gholin), from Mongolian ᠪᠠᠶᠠᠨᠭᠣᠣᠯ (bayanɣool).
Senses: examples: text: Now Korla City has a population of more than 100,000 and well-developed industry and commerce. It is the capital of Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture which covers one quarter of the area of Xinjiang.
ref: 1989, Che Muqi (车慕奇), 丝绸之路今昔 [The Silk Road, Past and Present], Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 209:
english: The Silk Road, Past and Present
translation: The Silk Road, Past and Present
text: Korla is the capital of the Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture in Xinjiang. The largest prefecture in all of China, Bayingolin is roughly the size of California.
ref: 1995, Alan A. Lew, Lawrence Yu, editors, Tourism in China, Westview Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 197:
text: In 2002, the desert road extended to the Qiemo County of Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture, and the government mobilized farmers to adjust planting structure immediately with an annual increase of 12,000 mu of jujubes.
ref: 2014, 李欣凭 [Li Xinping], 活力新疆 [Modern Xinjiang], Beijing: China Intercontinental Press (五洲传播出版社), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 8:
english: Modern Xinjiang
translation: Modern Xinjiang
glosses: A Mongol autonomous prefecture in the Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
Synonyms: sense: from Mandarin Chinese
word: Bayinguoleng
word: Payinkuoleng
sense: shortened
word: Bazhou
word: Bayin'gholin
word: Bayangol
seeing red
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of see red
saw red
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of see red
seen red
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of see red
unfringed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + fringed.
Senses: examples: text: The preliminary entry must show the marks and numbers of the shipping packages and the contents of each package, stating the number of rugs of each quality and commercial size contained therein and whether fringed or unfringed.
ref: 1902, United States. Dept. of the Treasury, Treasury Decisions Under the Customs, Internal Revenue, Industrial Alcohol, Narcotic and Other Laws, page 857:
text: Another old Tahitian poncho of yellow cloth in the British Museum has a slit neck and unfringed edges.
ref: 1944, Peter Henry Buck, Arts and Crafts of the Cook Islands, page 433:
text: The date of the transition from the fringed to the unfringed cloak in the small florin can be fixed rather definitely from coins available for study at the American Numismatic Society.
ref: 1952, American Numismatic Society, Museum Notes, Volume 5, page 106:
glosses: having no fringes.
TrumpWorld
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Twitter is the perfect vehicle for Trump, who uses its limited-character framework to attack, brag, and get out simple messages or posts that engage receivers by making them feel in the know and involved in TrumpWorld.
ref: 2019, David Arditi, Jennifer Miller, The Dialectic of Digital Culture, page 67:
glosses: Alternative form of Trumpworld.
unfuse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unfuses
form: unfusing
form: unfused
form: unfused
Etymology: From un- + fuse.
Senses: examples: text: Nobody can unfuse fused bones, Quen, nobody."
ref: 1997, Dana Redfield, Ezekiel's Chariot, Hampton Roads Publishing, →ISBN, page 172:
text: I've become permanently fused with him. And I can't unfuse. I'm sitting here waiting to unfuse
ref: 2003, Michael Pinsky, Future Present: Ethics And/as Science Fiction, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, →ISBN, page 176:
text: A fused hem is almost impossible to change because adhesive residue sticks all over the place when you try to unfuse it.
ref: 2040, Jan Saunders Maresh, Sewing For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 10008383948494:
glosses: To separate before a fusion; to make no longer fused.
lash oneself to the mast
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lashes oneself to the mast
form: lashing oneself to the mast
form: lashed oneself to the mast
form: lashed oneself to the mast
form: tie oneself to the mast
Etymology: From the practice of tying oneself to the mast of a sailing ship in rough weather so as not to be swept overboard.
Senses: examples: text: I hoped not—all authorities seemed to agree the only thing a man could do in such weather was lash himself to the mast and pray. I made a last stubborn attempt to pour logic on the troubled waters.
ref: 2010, Robert A. Heinlein, Spider Robinson, Variable Star:
text: At the same time, even as he and Bobby still plot to overthrow Fidel, they are at odds over whether to dump Vietnam's president Diêm overboard, or lash him to the mast and ride out the gale blowing in from Vietnam.
ref: 2010, Gus Russo, Stephen Molton, Brothers in Arms:
text: She was not going to allow Gregory Winston Fallows to throw his life—and hers—away. Whatever demons were torturing him, she vowed that she would lash herself to the mast and hold on.
ref: 2012, Rushton Beech, Only the Moon Rages, page 56:
text: Vance did not have to lash himself to the mast of the sinking Confederate ship and go down nobly to principled defeat.
ref: 2012, Paul D. Escott, Many Excellent People, page 47:
text: Kruse, in a Vanity Fair article published on November 27, writes that during the impeachment inquiry presently taking place in the U.S. House of Representatives, “Trump loyalists” have “lashed themselves to the presidential mast” — and Kruse stresses that “if Watergate is an American parable, most of them will go down too.”
ref: 2019 November 27, Alex Henderson, “Watergate shows unwavering devotion to Trump will not end well for ‘all the president’s men’”, in AlterNet:
glosses: To continue in a course of action even when facing great difficulties and likely disaster.
lash oneself to the mast
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lashes oneself to the mast
form: lashing oneself to the mast
form: lashed oneself to the mast
form: lashed oneself to the mast
form: tie oneself to the mast
Etymology: A reference to the scene in Homer's Odyssey in which Odysseus has his men lash him to the mast so that he will not succumb to the lure of the Sirens.
Senses: examples: text: The only way in which she could contain her despairing and murderous rage was to lash herself to the mast of her towering superego.
ref: 2002, Bernardine Bishop, Ideas in Practice, page 34:
text: Maybe because he's deaf, he won't have to lash himself to the mast to avoid our cries.
ref: 2007, Alice Greenway -, White Ghost Girls:
text: I had shown her written proof of what I kept saying to her: that she shouldn't rush straight to the baby every time it cried, that she had to try and steel herself, to lash herself to the mast and endure her baby's sobbing while it learned to fall asleep on its own.
ref: 2010, John O'Farrell, The Best a Man Can Get:
text: He says that women need to bite the bullet, to sacrifice all their security, their comfort, their children even, for art. Women need to be prepared to lash themselves to the mast of a boat, like Turner, just to see what it's like.
ref: 2013, Wendy James, The Steele Diaries:
glosses: To resist the temptation to make a bad choice.
lashes oneself to the mast
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of lash oneself to the mast
lashing oneself to the mast
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of lash oneself to the mast
lashed oneself to the mast
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of lash oneself to the mast
tie oneself to the mast
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ties oneself to the mast
form: tying oneself to the mast
form: tied oneself to the mast
form: tied oneself to the mast
Senses: examples: text: He was loyal beyond a doubt and he would tie himself to the mast of Bush's ship.
ref: 2004, Alexander Moens, The Foreign Policy of George W. Bush:
text: The ability, metaphorically, to tie yourself to the mast in the face of temptation is an essential one in reaping the fruits of coherence.
ref: 2012, Tjaco Walvis, Branding with Brains:
text: You ensure your survival as a trader when on a clear day you tie yourself to the mast of a trading plan and money management rules.
ref: 2014, Alexander Elder, The New Trading for a Living, page 42:
text: But I give myself over to it, research it, make plans to tie myself to the mast.
ref: 2015, Judith Ortiz Cofer, The Cruel Country, page 135:
glosses: Alternative form of lash oneself to the mast.
ties oneself to the mast
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tie oneself to the mast
tying oneself to the mast
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tie oneself to the mast
tied oneself to the mast
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tie oneself to the mast
couch-potatoey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more couch-potatoey
form: most couch-potatoey
Etymology: From couch potato + -ey.
Senses: examples: text: Judging from the on-line discussion of these types of events both before and after, the fat site users aren't just a damp bunch of pasty-skinned computer geeks whose only light is the flicker of their monitors; they're as physically active and bold (and, of course, sometimes as couch-potatoey and mild) as they are online.
ref: 2004, Kathleen LeBesco, Revolting Bodies?: The Struggle to Redefine Fat Identity, page 107:
text: The question is, why has mass media been so watered down and why do couch-potatoey people buy it?
ref: 2006, Maximum Rocknroll:
text: Now imagine moving those sheep into a parasite-free apartment in London—into clean, well-fed, couch-potatoey modernity.
ref: 2013, Moises Velasquez-Manoff, An Epidemic of Absence:
glosses: Like a couch potato; sedentary.
interdiscipline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌɪntə(ɹ)ˈdɪsɪplɪn/
Forms: form: interdisciplines
Etymology: From inter- + discipline.
Senses: topics: education
glosses: An academic field that consists of two or more disciplines.
interdisciplines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of interdiscipline
Pei-ching
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Wade–Giles romanization of the Mandarin 北京 (Pei³-ching¹).
Senses: examples: text: At Canton we have Anglicized the native word into something attainable by English tongues, nor do we talk of Ning-poh ; let us not be driven into calling Pekin, Pei-ching, as the latest vocabulary has it, for, even if we did, no Chinaman would understand us.
ref: 1860, Laurence Oliphant, Narrative of the Earl of Elgin's Mission to China and Japan in the Years 1857, '58, '59, page 502:
text: In the year 1421 (period Yung-lo) the present Peiping, which had at that time the same name, was officially chosen as the capital of the Ming under the name Pei-ching, though they had been engaged on their great building projects there since the year 1409.
ref: 1930, William Cohn, Chinese Art, Edinburgh: H. and J. Pillans & Wilson, →OCLC, page 16:
text: Pei-ching, the 'northern capital', has existed since about 2400 B.C., when there was a neolithic settlement on the site. Historically, it was the capital of one of the 'Warring States' in the third and fourth centuries B.C., a provincial town in Han times, lost to the northern invaders during the fourth and fifth centuries A.D., recovered by the T'ang, again held by the barbarians in the tenth to twelfth centuries. In 1215 it fell to Genghis Khan and was rebuilt as Ta-tu or T'ai-du, the 'great capital' of Kublai. This had many resemblances to later Peking, but was more regular.
ref: 1963, Trewin Copplestone, editor, World Architecture: An Illustrated History, Hamlyn, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 98:
text: In 1938 the great stream was deflected to the south by the Chinese in a misplaced effort to delay the advance of Japanese forces moving southward from T'ien-ching (Tientsin) and Pei-ching (Peking); and it flowed southeastward into the Huai river system and thence through a series of lakes and the Grand Canal down into the Yangtze drainage area.
ref: 1969, Joseph Kitagawa, editor, Understanding Modern China, Quadrangle Books, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 49:
text: In Pei-ching in pre-war China, however, the Tʻien-shih Tao Taoists located there seem to have led lives of chʻu-chia priests, like the Chʻüan-chen Chiao 全真教 Taoists [YOSHIOKA 1975: 418-420].
ref: 1984, Masaharu Ozaki, “The Taoist Priesthood: From Tsai-chia to Chʻu-chia”, in Religion and the Family in East Asia, Berkley: University of California Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 98:
text: The city which we now know as Beijing or Peking, for example, was known under the Kin dynasty as Chung-tu, then as Ta-tu when it became the capital of the Mongol Yuan. The Ming renamed it first Pei-ping, and then Pei-ching, which means 'Northern Capital'.
ref: 1998, Chris Peers, Warlords of China: 700BC to AD1662, Arms and Armour Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 10:
glosses: Alternative form of Beijing.
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GLOF
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: GLOFs
Senses: glosses: Acronym of glacial lake outburst flood.
glacial lake outburst flood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glacial lake outburst floods
Etymology: From glacial lake + outburst flood.
Senses: glosses: The rapid draining of a lake created by a dam of glacial ice, wherein the lake water undermines the glacier plugging the outlet, leading to a flood.
Synonyms: word: GLOF
Hypernyms: outburst flood
flood
Derived terms: word: GLOF
chop-shopping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of chop-shop
chop-shopped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of chop-shop
chop shopping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of chop shop
chop shopped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of chop shop
gastroenteroscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gastroenteroscopes
Etymology: From gastro- + enteroscope.
Senses: glosses: An enteroscope used in gastroenteroscopy
gastroenteroscopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gastroenteroscope
genomovirus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: genomoviruses
Senses: glosses: Any single-stranded virus of the family Genomoviridae
genomoviruses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of genomovirus
geoherbalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From geo- + herbalism.
Senses: glosses: The use, or the study of medicinal plants in different parts of the world
geotourism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From geo- + tourism.
Senses: glosses: tourism in which the main purpose is to view or study geological or geographical features
Related terms: geotouristic
geotouristic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From geo- + touristic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to geotourism
glassinomer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glassinomers
Senses: topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
glosses: A glass ionomer used as a dental filling
glioprotection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From glio- + protection.
Senses: glosses: The protection of glial cells from damage
Related terms: glioprotective
glycemias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glycemia
goukovirus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: goukoviruses
Senses: glosses: Any single-stranded RNA virus of the genus Goukovirus
goukoviruses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of goukovirus
haloanthracene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: haloanthracenes
Etymology: From halo- + anthracene.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any halogenated derivative of anthracene
haloanthracenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of haloanthracene
juxtalinear
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more juxtalinear
form: most juxtalinear
Senses: glosses: Written alongside the translated text, in columns.
raw_tags: of a translation
Related terms: interlinear
dispos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dispo
Lahorite
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Lahorite
form: most Lahorite
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Lahore.
Lahorite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Lahorites
Senses: glosses: A person from, or an inhabitant of, Lahore.
Synonyms: Lahori
Isfahani
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Isfahani
form: most Isfahani
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Isfahan.
Isfahani
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Isfahanis
Senses: glosses: A person from, or an inhabitant of, Isfahan.
Epirotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Epirotic
form: most Epirotic
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Epirus.
Vilvoorde
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /vɪlˈvɔɹd/
ipa: /vɪlˈvɔːd/
Senses: glosses: A city in Flemish Brabant, Flanders, Belgium.
Tienen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Dutch Tienen.
Senses: glosses: A city in Flemish Brabant, Belgium.
Theophany
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Theophany
Senses: glosses: Any of various specific theophanies.
examples: text: The Byzantine tradition concentrates all the birth narratives, including the Magi, at Christmas. Theophany is very much the feast of the Baptism of Christ, being marked by the very important ceremony of the great Blessing of Water[…]
ref: 2010 May 10, Ken Parry, The Blackwell Companion to Eastern Christianity, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 333:
text: Originally, the feast of Theophany included Christ's birth, the adoration of the Magi, and Christ's childhood narratives, such as his circumcision and his presentation in the temple. It also included his baptism and the wedding at Cana[…]
ref: 2019 December 6, Mary Kathryn Lowell, Treasure in a Box: A Guide to the Icons of St. Andrew, Archway Publishing, →ISBN:
glosses: Any of various specific theophanies.
One of the Great Feasts of the Eastern Orthodox Church, commemorating the revelation of Jesus' divinity, especially in his baptism by John the Baptist.
Kirkby Stephen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small market town and civil parish in Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England, previously in Eden district (OS grid ref NY7708).
Dendermonde
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in East Flanders, Belgium.
Great Feasts
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Great Feasts
Senses: qualifier: Eastern Orthodoxy
glosses: Twelve feasts of the Eastern Orthodox Church, of which three are movable and nine are fixed.
Kirkby
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɝbi/
ipa: /ˈkɜːbi/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)bi
Forms: form: Kirkbys
Etymology: From kirk + -by. From Old Scandinavian / Old Norse kirkja+býr, a village with a church.
Senses: glosses: A placename
A town in the Metropolitan Borough of Knowsley, Merseyside, England (OS grid ref SJ4198).
glosses: A placename
A small village in Osgodby parish, West Lindsey district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TF0692).
glosses: A placename
A village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England, previously in Hambleton district (OS grid ref NZ5306).
glosses: A habitational surname from Old Norse.
Derived terms: Kirby
Kirkby-in-Ashfield
Kirkby-in-Furness
Kirkby Ireleth
Kirkby Lonsdale
Kirkby Mallory
Kirkby Stephen
Kirkby Thore
Kirkby Woodhouse
South Kirkby
Related terms: Kirby
Clitus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklaɪtəs/
rhymes: -aɪtəs
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κλειτός (kleitós), from κλέω (kléō, “to celebrate”) + -τος (-tos, verbal adjective suffix).
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Ancient Greek.
Related terms: word: Cleo
word: Cleon
word: Cleopatra
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word: Clio
Cleitus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Clitus.
Hackney Downs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: I used to walk / On my way to school / I’d walk across Hackney Downs / Singing Endlessly
ref: 2019, “Consider This”, in Consider This, performed by Amahla:
glosses: A park, neighbourhood, and railway station in the borough of Hackney, Greater London (OS grid ref TQ3485).
have one's name written all over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: has one's name written all over
form: having one's name written all over
form: had one's name written all over
form: had one's name written all over
form: have one's name all over
form: have one's name on
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see have, one's, name, written, all, over.
examples: text: The attempted hit on me today was personal, and it has Marisol's name written all over it.
ref: 2010, Nisa Santiago, Return of the Cartier Cartel, volume 2, page 155:
glosses: To be typical of a particular individual, particularly with respect to a crime or scheme.
some day
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: The baby will likely be born some day in December.
synonyms: one day
glosses: On unspecified day in the future.
hemerochory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The dispersal of seeds or spores by the indirect action of man
Related terms: hemerochorous
hemerochorous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to hemerochory
Leuchars
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈluːxəɹs/
/ˈluːkəɹz/
Senses: glosses: A small town in Fife council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NO4521).
hemimacular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hemi- + macular.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or affecting half of the macula
Related terms: hemimacula
hemimesencephalon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hemimesencephalons
Etymology: From hemi- + mesencephalon.
Senses: glosses: Either half of a mesencephalon
hemisome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hemisomes
Etymology: From hemi- + -some.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A coil of DNA, surrounding a core of four histones, in a centromere
unaisled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + aisled.
Senses: examples: text: The 12-century St Athernase Church is one of the finest surviving examples of an unaisled Romanesque parish church in Scotland.
glosses: Without an aisle or aisles.
Great Hours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particularly solemn celebration in the Eastern Orthodox Church, occurring thrice a year: on the Eve of the Nativity, the Eve of Theophany, and Great Friday.
East Didsbury
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburban area of Manchester, Greater Manchester, England (OS grid ref SJ8590).
continental Europe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: mainland Europe
glosses: The contiguous continent of Europe, excluding its surrounding islands.
examples: text: But it’s not just Jean-Claude Juncker who believes that May lives in another galaxy: most leaders in continental Europe believe that – including Angela Merkel.
ref: 2017 May 4, Stephan Richter, “The Erdoğan of Downing Street, a Le Pen in No 10: that’s how Merkel sees May”, in the Guardian:
glosses: The European countries, excluding the United Kingdom, Ireland and Iceland.