cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
cinemobile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cinemobiles
Senses: examples: text: In addition, the production obtained a cinemobile bus — a complete portable film studio that would considerably simplify the setups for location shooting.
ref: 2005, Harlan Lebo, The Godfather Legacy:
text: In addition to our clubmobile, we had a cinemobile, three supply trucks, trailers and three British Hillman trucks. We were quite a contingent and heartily greeted by the GI's.
ref: 2009, Adam Gallo, 12 Oaks' (page 228)
text: Elephant went berserk and smashed up a cinemobile.
ref: 2010, Larry McMurtry, Somebody's Darling, page 146:
glosses: A mobile film projection room.
pictomicrographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pictomicrograph
Citros
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Citro
Neveus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Neveu
cinnamonwood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cinnamonwoods
Senses: glosses: Synonym of sassafras.
synonyms: word: sassafras
pig board
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pig boards
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
surfing
glosses: A kind of surfboard with a wide, blunt tail and a relatively narrow nose.
pig boards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pig board
circingle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: circingles
Senses: examples: text: […] you get the least pull on his mouth with your elbow, and can hold the bundled circingle with your left hand. With your right, lower the strap end of circingle slowly down his off side, taking care that it doesn't flap about.
ref: 1922, E. R. Calthrop, The horse, as comrade and friend, Рипол Классик, →ISBN, page 68:
glosses: Alternative form of surcingle.
circingles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of circingle
circumeter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: circumeters
Senses: glosses: A device used to measure a circumference, typically of fruit
cirogrille
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cirogrilles
Senses: glosses: The Syrian hyrax
pipe the side
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pipes the side
form: piping the side
form: piped the side
form: piped the side
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To salute a distinguished visitor arriving on a warship by playing the boatswain's pipe.
citroptene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of citropten.
fore-and-aft cap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fore-and-aft caps
Senses: glosses: side cap
fore-and-aft caps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fore-and-aft cap
circovarian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Surrounding an ovary
cityite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cityites
Senses: glosses: A person who lives in a city
cityites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cityite
civilianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: civilianisms
Etymology: From civilian + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The advocacy of civilian attitudes, typically as opposed to militarism
civilizatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more civilizatory
form: most civilizatory
Senses: glosses: That tends to civilize
citrylidene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The divalent radical derived from citral
plural relations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: apartheid
ʻukuleles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ʻukulele
corner bath
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corner baths
Senses: glosses: A bathtub with one right angle, built into the corner of a room where two walls converge.
corner baths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of corner bath
8ves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of 8ve
wardsmaid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wardsmaids
Etymology: From ward + -s- + maid.
Senses: examples: text: Chronic and quiet patients are just those who render most assistance in carrying on the daily routine of house-cleaning and other work in the asylum; and if they are removed it will be necessary in most cases to hire wardsmaids of a class much below that of the ordinary asylum attendant or nurse to replace them.
ref: 1877 January, The Journal of Mental Science, volume 22, page 597:
text: There was plenty to remember, but just then a trolley rattled in, pushed by a wiry wardsmaid in a pink uniform.
ref: 2008, Rose Moxham, Teeth Marks, page 7:
text: She was a wardsmaid at the Point Fortin Hospital for many years until she retired.
ref: 2020 October 16, Marshelle Haseley, “RExTT launches pink mask campaign for breast cancer awareness”, in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday:
glosses: A woman who manages a hospital ward.
Coordinate terms: wardsman
wardsmaids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wardsmaid
rinkmaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rinkmasters
Senses: examples: text: Then the rinkmaster blew the whistle and the bigger boys flooded in the gate; the smaller one ducked away.
ref: 1992, Katherine Govier, Hearts of Flame, page 241:
text: Jason had borrowed the key from the rinkmaster and taken her skating after the rink was closed for the day.
ref: 2006, Jodi Picoult, The Tenth Circle: A Novel, page 257:
glosses: A manager of an ice rink.
rinkmasters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rinkmaster
red-greens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of red-green
kolhosp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /kolˈhosp/
Forms: form: kolhosps
form: kolhospy
Etymology: From Ukrainian колго́сп m (kolhósp), plural колго́спи pl (kolhóspy), contraction of Ukrainian колекти́вне господа́рство n (kolektývne hospodárstvo, “collective farm”).
Senses: examples: text: In a congratulatory telegram to Stalin, the plenary meeting of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine, which was held on November 19, 1933, described the consequences of the “shortcomings” of Skrypnik in the following words: “In kolhosps, in agricultural organizations, in a whole number of cultural and economic institutions, there were employed wreckers, counter-revolutionaries, and nationalist remnants of the White Guards, Petlura followers, and double-faced individuals with the Party membership cards in their pockets. . . .
ref: 1936, East Europe and Contemporary Russia, volume 1, page 167:
text: However, state assignments to kolhospy (cooperative collective farms), especially in grain, were so excessive that it was impossible to introduce perennial grasses into the scheme of crop rotation.
ref: 1949, Hryhory Makhiv, “Agricultural Science in Ukraine: The Reminiscences of a Ukrainian Scholar,” The Ukrainian Quarterly, v 5, New York: Ukrainian Congress Committee of America, p 57
text: They said they were not soldiers, but mobilized kolhosp workers who knew nothing about military matters.
ref: 1939, The Trident, volume 3, Chicago: Organization for the Rebirth of Ukraine, page 47:
text: Father worked in the kolhosp.
ref: 2015, Natalia Khanenko-Friesen, “In Search of History’s Other Agents: Oral History of Decollectivization in Ukraine in the 1990s”, in Natalia Khanenko-Friesen, Gelinada Grinchenko, editors, Reclaiming the Personal: Oral History in Post-Socialist Europe, University of Toronto Press, →ISBN, page 241:
qualifier: Ukrainian
glosses: A collective farm in the former Soviet Union; a kolkhoz.
Related terms: kolhospnik
kolhospnyk
kolkhoz
radhosp
sovkhoz
kolhosps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kolhosp
Synonyms: kolhospy
kolhospy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kolhosp
Synonyms: kolhosps
Tsushima
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /tsuːʃiːmə/
/suːʃiːmə/
Forms: form: Tsu-shima
Etymology: Romanized from Japanese 対馬 (Tsushima). Unrelated to the Japanese word 島 (shima, “island”). When the primary island is specifically described in Japanese, 対馬島 takes on the separate pronunciations Tsushimajima or Tsushimatō.
Senses: glosses: An island of Nagasaki, Japan, between the Home Islands and Korea, now divided by early modern canals.
glosses: A city in Nagasaki, Japan, coterminous with the main island of Tsushima.
glosses: An archipelago of Nagasaki, Japan, surrounding the main island of Tsushima.
examples: text: In 1905, the Russo-Japanese war fought itself to a standstill, and with the destruction of Rozhiestvensky's fleet at Tsushima, the Japanese, for financial reasons, had to put out feelers for peace.
ref: 1952 July, the late H. Carew, “By Special Train in the Far East”, in Railway Magazine, page 488:
glosses: A strait in Japan, between Tsushima Island and the Home Islands, the location of a major 1905 battle in the Russo-Japanese War.
Derived terms: Tsushima Strait
local train
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: local trains
Senses: examples: text: For all the attention on express trains, it's often local trains that tip the railway into congestion.
ref: 2021 June 30, Philip Haigh, “Regional trains squeezed as ECML congestion heads north”, in RAIL, number 934, page 53:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A train (either the service or the train itself) making stops at all stations along its route.
Synonyms: word: accommodation train
english: esp. if primarily used by or intended for commuter
translation: esp. if primarily used by or intended for commuter
word: commuter train
word: non-express train
word: slow train
alt: Br.
word: stopping train
alt: Br.
word: stopper
word: way-train
Hypernyms: train
Hyponyms: local passenger train
Related terms: S-train
liquid democracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: liquid democracies
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: a form of democracy where the electorate may choose to either vote directly or vest their voting power on delegates, and can withdraw their power from these delegates at any time.
Related terms: representative democracy
bay bolete
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bay boletes
Senses: glosses: An edible, pored mushroom (Imleria badia), found in Europe and North America.
bay boletes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bay bolete
Segré
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town and former commune in Maine-et-Loire department, Pays de la Loire, France, now in Segré-en-Anjou Bleu commune.
glosses: A village in Bougouriba province, Burkina Faso.
mountain wagtail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mountain wagtails
Senses: glosses: Motacilla clara, a species of wagtail of the family Motacillidae from sub-Saharan Africa
Cape wagtail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cape wagtails
Senses: glosses: A wagtail of species Motacilla capensis, of the family Motacillidae, widespread in southern Africa
Ecca
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The second of the main subdivisions of the Karoo Supergroup of geological strata in southern Africa. It mainly follows conformably after the Dwyka Group in some sections, but in some localities overlying unconformably over much older basement rocks.
Japanese wagtail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Japanese wagtails
Senses: glosses: A wagtail of species Motacilla grandis, family Motacillidae, native to Japan and Korea.
stampee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stampees
Senses: glosses: A foreign coin that is overstamped to produce a local currency, formerly used in the Caribbean.
stampees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stampes
Senses: glosses: plural of stampee
isoboundaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of isoboundary
phenethylline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fenethylline.
sensitivize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sensitivizes
form: sensitivizing
form: sensitivized
form: sensitivized
Etymology: From sensitive + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To sensitize.
keep the show on the road
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: keeps the show on the road
form: keeping the show on the road
form: kept the show on the road
form: kept the show on the road
Senses: examples: text: So what next? For now, at least, the prevailing wisdom in Europe is that people need something to divert them from the ongoing nightmares elsewhere. […] Best, some insist, to keep the show on the road and then duck and dive in the event of further Covid-19 issues.
ref: 2021 January 12, Robert Kitson, “Is it morally right for rugby to host the Six Nations in a pandemic?”, in The Guardian:
text: This forced the company to focus on developing advanced projects on its books. And fast. All too often, it ended up selling out at an early stage just to get money in to keep the show on the road.
ref: 2021 January 22, Joe Brennan, “Has Eddie O’Connor underestimated the value of his €1bn baby?”, in The Irish Times:
glosses: To be able to proceed with a plan or project, often in the face of difficult circumstances.
Related terms: get the show on the road
captain's call
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: captain's calls
Senses: glosses: A decision made by a political or business leader without consulting colleagues.
captain's calls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of captain's call
on someone's books
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: Don’t abuse a laborer who is destitute and needy, whether he is a fellow Israelite or a foreigner living in your land and in your city. Pay him at the end of each workday; he’s living from hand to mouth and needs it now. If you hold back his pay, he’ll protest to GOD and you’ll have sin on your books.
ref: 2018, “Deuteronomy 24”, in Eugene H. Peterson, transl., The Message Deluxe Gift Bible, Tyndale House Publishers, →ISBN, page 196:
text: This forced the company to focus on developing advanced projects on its books. And fast. All too often, it ended up selling out at an early stage just to get money in to keep the show on the road.
ref: 2021 January 22, Joe Brennan, “Has Eddie O’Connor underestimated the value of his €1bn baby?”, in The Irish Times:
glosses: Alternative form of on the books.
pBerlin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: qualifier: manuscript
glosses: an abbreviation for "Berlin Papyrus", used to identify papyri kept in the Egyptian Museum of Berlin
raw_tags: with a number
Teesport
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /tiːzˈpɔːt/
Etymology: From Tees + port.
Senses: glosses: A large seaport in Redcar and Cleveland district, North Yorkshire, England, on the River Tees near its mouth (OS grid ref NZ5423).
Rucka
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ruckas
Etymology: Borrowed from Czech Ručka.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Czech.
dog-fish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dog-fishes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of dogfish.
dog-fishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dog-fish
tetracephalous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tetra- + -cephalous.
Senses: examples: text: After the squabbling children of the old company president could not decide who ought to succeed her, they settled on an uneasy tetracephalous leadership structure in which they all shared executive duties equally.
text: But this idea of an abstract deity, existing independently of the three persons, was not accepted, and he was reproached with teaching the existence of four Gods. Peter the Lombard, at the end of his Sentences and Distinctions, found himself face to face with the same "tetracephalous monster," and Joachim of Flores bitterly reproached him for it.
ref: 1870, Albert Réville, translated by Ann Swane, History of the Doctrine of the Deity of Jesus Christ, London: Williams and Norgate, page 106:
text: This differs in one important respect from Nos. 284 and 493 : the centre device—of the same depth—in the title is what was once a tetracephalous dragon, perhaps apocalyptic, but now four-times decapitated.
ref: 1940, Philip Babcock Gove, “Early numbers of The Morning Chronicle and Owen's Weekly Chronicle”, in The Library, volume 20, number 4, →DOI, page 414:
text: He felt as if he were transporting a single, giant woman, a sleeping, shallowly breathing, tetracephalous female pudding whose separate heads kept banging against the windows, opening and shutting pairs of eyes until Haifa...
ref: 2012, A. B. Yehoshua, translated by Hillel Halkin, Five Seasons, Orlando, FL: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 65:
glosses: Having four heads.
Synonyms: quadricephalous
Related terms: monocephalous
bicephalous
tricephalous
pentacephalous
gayman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gaymen
Senses: examples: text: In coming out , we do not know any more than others about how to live the implications of our lives as openly lesbian women or gaymen.
ref: 1989, Carter Heyward, Touching Our Strength: The Erotic as Power and the Love of God:
text: “You mean," January asked, “that gaymen don't want to fuck with gaymen?” She looked puzzled. “How utterly droll!” "Not if they can help it,” Kick said.
ref: 1990, Jack Fritscher, Some Dance to Remember:
text: The label, we are to understand, fixed gaymen in a “phase.”
ref: 1992, Julia Penelope, Call Me Lesbian: Lesbian Lives, Lesbian Theory:
text: A historical reading of sexuality may make living as lesbians and gaymen more difficult, because we cannot plead for acceptance on the basis of being something we can't help and therefore of needing special sets of rights and understanding because we are homosexuals who didn't choose to be who we are.
ref: 1994, James B. Nelson, Sexuality and the Sacred: Sources for Theological Reflection, page 12:
glosses: A gay man.
gaymen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gayman
rontal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rontals
Etymology: From Old Javanese [script needed] (rontal): ron "leaf" + tal "palm".
Senses: glosses: A type of palm tree, Borassus flabellifer.
Derived terms: lontar
pentacephalous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From penta- + -cephalous.
Senses: examples: text: If you meet a pentacephalous alien, get ready to have five very long conversations one after another.
text: The above-cited portrayals of Arhat Parsva canopied by the pentacephalous or septacepalous Dharanendra [...] are symptomatic of the authors' exalted visualization of the unshakable, dignified, and tranquilly awesome image of the Jina standing in deep trance...
ref: 1997, M. A. Dhaky, “Arhat Pārśva with Dharaṇendra in Hymnic Literature”, in M. A. Dhaky, editor, Arhat Pārśva and Dharaṇendra Nexus, Lalbhai Dalpatbhai Institute of Indology, →ISBN, page 64:
text: The right end of the arch is effaced beyond recognition but the left end presents the raised hood of a pentacephalous serpent.
ref: 2010, Parul Pandya Dhar, The Toraṇa in Indian and Southeast Asian Architecture, D.K. Printworld, →ISBN, page 219:
text: It is composed of a container vase for the oil, a spout for the wick decorated with a chevet illustrating Ganesh and an illuminated handle of the pentacephalous snake ânanda.
ref: 2021, Anna Westin, Eric Piffret, “Old large Sukunda cult oil lamp decorated with a representation of Ganesh - Bronze - Nepal - 19th century”, in Catawiki, archived from the original on 27 Jan 2021:
glosses: Having five heads.
Related terms: monocephalous
bicephalous
tricephalous
quadricephalous
tetracephalous
Jiangyin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /d͡ʒɑŋ.jɪn/
Forms: form: Chiang-yin
form: Kiangyin
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 江陰 /江阴 (Jiāngyīn).
Senses: examples: text: The leader of a small bandit gang from the county of Chiang-yin on the south bank of the Yangtze fled north to Chang Shih-ch’eng’s camp in 1354 or 1355 to seek his help in putting down a rival.
ref: [1962, F. W. Mote, “The Man of the Green Hill”, in The Poet Kao Chʻi, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 60:
text: "A new socialist village like Tachai does not drop from the skies. We built Chiangyin County with our sweat. The 'gang of four' opposed our going all-out as part of their plot to undermine socialist construction." This was said by Wu Jen-pao, secretary of the party committee of Chiangyin County in east China's Kiangsu Province, at the Second National Learn-From-Tachai Conference.
ref: [1977 January 21 [1977 January 1], “Kiangsu County CCP Official”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 14 Supp 3, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Peking NCNA, →ISSN, →OCLC, East Region, page 18:
text: Mr. Ren, an entrepreneur in the eastern city of Jiangyin, found that the more successful his small factory, the more problems from neighbors jealous of his wealth.
ref: 1989 April 6, Nicholas D. Kristof, “Beijing Journal; Second Thoughts: Laissez Faire or Plain Unfair?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 28 Nov 2010, Section A, page 4:
glosses: A county-level city of Wuxi, Jiangsu, China.
syrp
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From syr, short for Syriac, + abbreviation of Classical Syriac ܦܫܝܛܬܐ (pəšīṭtā), shortened from ܡܦܩܬܐ ܦܫܝܛܬܐ (mappaqtā pəšīṭtā, “simple version”).
Senses: qualifier: Biblical studies
glosses: An abbreviation for an early Syriac translation of the Bible also known as Peshitta.
syrs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From syr, short for Syriac, + abbreviation of Sinaitic.
Senses: qualifier: Biblical studies
glosses: An abbreviation for an early Syriac translation of the Bible known as "Sinaitic Syriac".
Anqing
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɑːnˈt͡ʃɪŋ/
enpr: änʹchǐngʹ
Forms: form: Anching
form: Anch'ing
form: An-ch'ing
form: An-chʻing
form: Anking
form: Ngankin
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 安慶 /安庆 (Ānqìng).
Senses: examples: text: Another major producer of sodium cyanide, Anhui Shuguang, appears to have a subsidiary located not only close to a residential area of Anqing in Anhui Province, but also only a few hundred feet from the Yangtze River in central China. The Times found a kindergarten and another school within 1,000 meters of the factory.
ref: 2015 August 21, Patrick Boehler, Josh Keller, K.K. Rebecca Lai, Vanessa Piao, Crystal Tse, “Tianjin Blast Exposes the Dangerous Proximity of Toxic Chemicals in China”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 Aug 2015:
text: In addition to conventional weather monitoring technology, Anqing city in China's Anhui province is using virtual reality goggles linked to river-monitoring cameras that use 5G internet to transmit images to inspectors, according to Xinhua.
ref: 2020 August 20, “What's behind China's record floods?”, in France 24, archived from the original on 23 Aug 2020:
text: The attack happened on Saturday afternoon, on a shopping street in Anqing city, Anhui province, which is located around 430 kilometers from Shanghai.
ref: 2021 June 6, Tanika Godbole, “China: Man with knife kills 6 on commercial street”, in Deutsche Welle, archived from the original on 06 Jun 2021, News:
glosses: A prefecture-level city of Anhui, China.
wikipedia: Encyclopedia Britannica
Synonyms: Hwaining
Changshu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /(ˈ)t͡ʃæŋˈʃu/
ipa: /t͡ʃɑŋ-/
enpr: chängʹsho͞oʹ
Forms: form: Ch'ang-shu
form: Changhsu
Etymology: From Mandarin 常熟 (Chángshú).
Senses: examples: text: The American Church Mission Hospital at Changshu was formally opened in September.
ref: 1923 January 13, “Medical News”, in Journal of the American Medical Association, volume 80, number 2, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 119:
text: For example, one report told of how the Changshou County Chemical Fertiliser Plant (in Jiangsu province) was financed.[...]Anecdotal reports such as the one from Changshou County implied that much of the investment funding for small fertiliser plants was raised locally, outside of the state sector.
ref: [1991, Christine P. W. Wong, “Central Planning and Local Participation Under Mao: the Development of Country-Run Fertiliser Plants”, in Gordon White, editor, The Chinese State in the Era of Economic Reform: The Road to Crisis, M. E. Sharpe, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 30, 31:
text: He noted the opening of a Toyota China branch this year in Nanjing, Jiangsu’s capital and the site of a massacre under Japanese occupation in 1937. Toyota has also opened a technical center in Changshu, east of Nanjing.
ref: 2013 September 18, Norihiko Shirouzu, Kazunori Takada, “Japanese Carmakers Struggle With History in China”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 Feb 2016, Global Business:
text: The IVFC, which took place in Changshu, Suzhou, China in November 2018, attracted a diverse group of teams looking to showcase their latest developments in AV technology. In addition to teams from university research institutes, innovative startup companies and vehicle manufacturers engaged in developing driverless cars participated in the competition. The challenge was hosted by the National Natural Science Foundation of China and organized by the Changshu Municipal People’s Government.
ref: 2019 February 12, “Velodyne Lidar’s Sponsorship of Autonomous Vehicle Competition in China Advances Research and Development of Self-Driving Cars”, in AP News, Business Wire, archived from the original on 02 Apr 2023:
glosses: A county-level city of Suzhou, Jiangxi, China.
claimsman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: claimsmen
Senses: glosses: Synonym of claims adjuster.
synonyms: word: claims adjuster
claimsmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of claimsman
best before date
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: best before dates
form: best-before date
Senses: synonyms: best-by date
coordinate_terms: sell-by date
use-by date
expiration date
expiry date
issue date
glosses: A food quality marking which denotes the date until which a food item is guaranteed to be at its best.
best bibs and tuckers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of best bib and tucker
vesica fellea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vesicae felleae
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Latin vesica fellea.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Synonym of gall bladder.
synonyms: word: gall bladder
wangas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wanga
enginrie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enginries
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of enginery.
enginries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of enginrie
imbastardizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of imbastardize
imbastardizing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: imbastardizings
Senses: glosses: The act or process by which something is imbastardized, or debased.
imbastardizings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of imbastardizing
imbastardized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of imbastardize
unapocryphal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unapocryphal
form: most unapocryphal
form: unapocryphall
Etymology: From un- + apocryphal.
Senses: examples: text: For books are as meats and viands are; ſome of good, ſome of evill ſubſtance; and yet God in that unapocryphall viſion, ſaid without exception, Riſe Peter, kill and eat, leaving the choice to each mans diſcretion.
ref: 1644, John Milton, Areopagitica; a Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc’d Printing, to the Parlament of England, London: [s.n.], →OCLC, page 11:
glosses: Not apocryphal; not of doubtful authority, authoritative
unapocryphall
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unapocryphall
form: most unapocryphall
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of unapocryphal.
quinch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: quinches
form: quinching
form: quinched
form: quinched
Etymology: First attested 1530 as quynche, possibly from unrecorded Middle English *quinchen, itself of obscure origin. Perhaps a fusion of Middle English quicchen, quecchen (“to shake, tremble; twitch, flinch”) and Middle English winchen (“to flinch, wince; veer or move away”), making it equivalent to a blend of quitch + winch.
Compare Saterland Frisian kwinkje (“to blink, wink with the eyes”), Middle Dutch quincken, quinken ("to shake, quiver"; whence modern Dutch kwinken, kwinkeleren (“to warble”)), German Low German quinken (“to blink, wink”).
Senses: examples: text: And therupon to beſtow all my Soldiers in ſuch ſort as I have done, that no part of all that Realm ſhall be able to dare to quinch […]
ref: 1598, Edmund Spenser, A Vewe of the Present State of Irelande, page 213:
glosses: To twitch, as if in pain; flinch, wince.
shame on me
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: shame upon me
Senses: examples: text: 'Cause I knew you were trouble when you walked in / So shame on me now
ref: 2012, “I Knew You Were Trouble”, in Red, performed by Taylor Swift:
glosses: An expression of self-disapproval.
Related terms: word: shame on you
word: shame upon you
word: for shame
shame upon me
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of shame on me.
Related terms: word: shame on you
word: shame upon you
word: for shame
quinches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of quinch
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of quinche
quinching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of quinch
quinched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of quinch
chordomesoblast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chordomesoblasts
Senses: glosses: Synonym of chordamesoderm.
synonyms: word: chordamesoderm
Derived terms: chordomesoblastic
chordomesoblasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chordomesoblast
chordomesoblastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to or composed of chordomesoblasts
chordoplasm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chordoplasms
Etymology: From chordo- + plasm.
Senses: glosses: The part of an egg that would develop into a notochord
chordoplasms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chordoplasm
Norrish reaction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Norrish reactions
Etymology: Named after Ronald George Wreyford Norrish.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A photochemical reaction involving ketones and aldehydes.
Related terms: Norrish-Yang reaction
Norrish reactions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Norrish reaction
cuplet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cuplets
Etymology: From cup + -let.
Senses: examples: text: Cuplets and fillers can be used to fill out a bra cup on a figure that has a size discrepancies between breasts.
ref: 2013, Emma Scott, The Bra Fitting Bible: Calculating and Understanding Bra Size, page 62:
text: […] scattered around were two cups with single rings, and 14 cuplets; […]
ref: 2021, Alistair Marshall, Orientation of Prehistoric Monuments in Britain: A Reassessment, page 361:
glosses: A small cup.
Hilsea
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Portsmouth, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU6503).
hunts out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hunt out
hunted out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hunt out
light sector
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: light sectors
Etymology: Blend of light + dark sector. From not being part of the dark sector.
Senses: topics: astronomy
astrophysics
cosmology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The known universe; the part of the universe that is not part of the dark sector; the segment of the universe that is explained by the known laws of physics, and whose components (particles) are predicted by it. The portion of the universe that is not dark matter nor dark energy.
topics: astronomy
astrophysics
cosmology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The known universe; the part of the universe that is not part of the dark sector; the segment of the universe that is explained by the known laws of physics, and whose components (particles) are predicted by it. The portion of the universe that is not dark matter nor dark energy.
The fraction of the universe that interacts with electromagnetism (ie. light).
Coordinate terms: Einsteinian relativity
electromagnetism
general relativity
grand unified theory
GUT
light
Standard Model
theory of everything
TOE
penny whip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: penny whips
Senses: examples: text: "Any way, sir, I've been a good servant to you and Mr. Leo, bless him! - why, it seems but the other day that I used to lead him about the streets with a penny whip[.]"
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
glosses: A cheap toy whip for use by children, such as to start a spinning top.
penny whips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of penny whip
grand unified theory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grand unified theories
Senses: glosses: Synonym of grand unification theory.
synonyms: word: grand unification theory
chiromant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chiromants
Senses: glosses: Synonym of chiromancer.
synonyms: word: chiromancer
gonzoism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gonzo + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The style of gonzo journalism.
civilianisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of civilianism
grand unified theories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grand unified theory
shock front
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shock fronts
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of shockfront.
DMSP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of dimethylsulfoniopropionate.
Related terms: sense: dimethylsulfoniopropionate
english: dimethyl disulfide
translation: dimethyl disulfide
word: DMDS
sense: dimethylsulfoniopropionate
english: dimethyl sulfide
translation: dimethyl sulfide
word: DMS
outpope
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outpopes
form: outpoping
form: outpoped
form: outpoped
Senses: glosses: Only used in outpope the Pope
televisability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The quality of being televisable.
sulphonio-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sulfonio-.
sulphonio
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sulfonio.
sulfonio-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Forms: form: sulphonio-
Etymology: From sulfonium + -o-.
Senses: glosses: Used to describe a molecule with a sulfur onium component.
Related terms: sulfonio
mud bogger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mud boggers
Senses: glosses: One who takes part in mud bogging.
sulfonio
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: sulphonio
Etymology: From sulfonium + -o-.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to sulfonium
Related terms: sulfonio-
mud boggers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mud bogger
microscotoma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microscotomas
Etymology: From micro- + scotoma.
Senses: glosses: A very small scotoma
microscotomas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microscotoma
Plett
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Pletts
Etymology: Borrowed from German Plett.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
self-administered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From self- + administered.
Senses: examples: text: Redding’s study asked four psychologists with expertise in anxiety and depressive disorders to rate each self-help book on five criteria: […] and the general usefulness of the book as a self-administered method for changing behavior or psychological change.
ref: 2019 May 2, Nina Avramova, “When you should use self-help programs and when to skip them”, in CNN:
glosses: Performed, done, or administered without the help of a third party.
self-administered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From self- + administered.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of self-administer
Selvaggio
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Selvaggios
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Selvaggio.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
technocapitalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: techno-capitalism
form: tech-capitalism
Etymology: From techno- + capitalism.
Senses: examples: text: Technocapitalism, as Doug Kellner (1989) describes it, becomes increasingly multinational as new technologies, such as satellite TV and computers, carry forms of mass consumer culture throughout the world, colonizing previously[…]
ref: 2001, Joe L. Kincheloe, Getting Beyond the Facts: Teaching Social Studies/social Sciences in the Twenty-first Century, Counterpoints, →ISBN, page 82:
text: John Harris is right. Resistance to online culture is not about “sounding hopelessly old”, but about shaping a future beyond the stupidification of technocapitalism.
ref: 2019 December 25, Jeff Wallace, “Letters: On reflection: don’t play it loud”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: A form of capitalism associated with the emergence of new technology sectors and the power of corporations.
Related terms: technocapital
technocapitalist
technocapitalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌtɛk.noʊˈkæp.ɪ.tə.lɪst/
ipa: /ˌtek.nəʊˈkæp.ɪ.tə.lɪst/
Forms: form: technocapitalists
form: techno-capitalist
Etymology: From techno- + capitalist.
Senses: glosses: A capitalist in the system of technocapitalism.
technocapitalist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌtɛk.noʊˈkæp.ɪ.tə.lɪst/
ipa: /ˌtek.nəʊˈkæp.ɪ.tə.lɪst/
Forms: form: more technocapitalist
form: most technocapitalist
form: techno-capitalist
Etymology: From techno- + capitalist.
Senses: examples: text: While reporting a feature for The Atlantic last spring, I got to know Sutskever a bit, and he did not strike me as a man especially suited to coups. Altman, in contrast, was built for a knife fight in the technocapitalist mud.
ref: 2023 November 21, Ross Andersen, “OpenAI’s Chief Scientist Made a Tragic Miscalculation”, in The Atlantic:
glosses: Relating to technocapitalism.
technocapitalists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of technocapitalist
Selvaggios
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Selvaggio
technocapitalistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more technocapitalistic
form: most technocapitalistic
Etymology: From techno- + capitalistic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to technocapitalism.
Pletts
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Plett
techno-oriental
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more techno-oriental
form: most techno-oriental
Etymology: From techno- + oriental.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to techno-orientalism.
PTX
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: PTXs
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of pneumothorax.
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of pentraxin.
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of paclitaxel.
topics: medicine
sciences
toxicology
glosses: Abbreviation of pumiliotoxin.
topics: medicine
sciences
toxicology
glosses: Alternative form of PLTX: Abbreviation of palytoxin.
technomanagement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From techno- + management.
Senses: topics: business
glosses: Management in the technology sector.
Related terms: technomanager
technomanagerial
Schena
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Schenas
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Schena.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
tectonostratigraphically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: By surface analysis, tectono- + strati- + graph + -ic + -ally
Senses: glosses: In terms of tectonostratigraphy.
Schemmel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Schemmels
Etymology: Borrowed from German Schemmel.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Schemmels
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Schemmel
Schenas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Schena
Tenezaca
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Tenezacas
Etymology: Variant of Tenesaca.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish.
Tipsword
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Tipswords
Etymology: Unknown. It appears to be of English origin, but it is not found in current English records.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Tipswords
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Tipsword
Tenezacas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Tenezaca
technoculturally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: In terms of technoculture.
Spohr
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Spohrs
form: Spaur
Etymology: Borrowed from German Spohr.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Standen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Standens
Etymology: Habitational surname, perhaps from Old English stān (“stone”) + dene (“valley”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Old English.
Standens
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Standen
Spohrs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Spohr
FHD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: broadcasting
media
television
synonyms: 1080p
Full HD
coordinate_terms: HD
QHD
UHD
glosses: Initialism of full high definition (“1920×1080 pixels”).
Slaney
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Slaneys
Etymology: Variant of Slane.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish.
glosses: A river in County Wicklow, County Carlow and County Wexford, Ireland, which flows into Wexford Harbour.
Skorupskis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Skorupski
Slaneys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Slaney
Berling
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Berlings
Etymology: Borrowed from German Berling.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Aysons
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Ayson
Berlings
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Berling
Hagenbuch
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hagenbuchs
Etymology: Borrowed from Swiss German Hagenbuch.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Hagenbuchs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Hagenbuch
Nujiang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnuːˈd͡ʒiæŋ/
enpr: no͞oʹjyängʹ
Forms: form: Nu-chiang
form: Nuchiang
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 怒江 (Nùjiāng).
Senses: examples: text: On the side of a commercial van in the city, I saw the logo “Shangri-la Tours” written in English. Miffed by Lijiang's presumption, the Nujiang prefecture along the Salween River appointed a committee of academicians to study the origins of the Shangri-la myth, to see if they might claim it instead.
ref: 2003, Noel Grove, Earth's Last Great Places: Exploring the Nature Conservancy Worldwide, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 173:
glosses: A Lisu autonomous prefecture in Yunnan, China.
glosses: Nu River (the upper reaches of the Salween River in China).
raw_tags: with the
Quebedeaux
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Quebedeauxes
Etymology: Borrowed from French Quebedeaux. It is a typical Louisianan surname and today it is rare, if not completely lacking, in France and Canada.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
Goers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Goerses
Etymology: Borrowed from German Görs.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Goerses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Goers
Quebedeauxes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Quebedeaux
Leggatt
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A community in Grand Valley, Ontario, Canada.
Related terms: Leggett
Critten
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
coprographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to coprographia.
bonafidely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From bona fide + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Hence, a voucher plan which permits the private schools to exclude children not of the faith and to admit only children belonging to the faith, even if this is done bonafidely, without any intention to encourage racial segregation, it seems to me that the effect of such a pattern,[…]
ref: 1971, United States Committee on Education and Labor, quoting Leo Pfeffer, Economic Opportunity Amendments of 1971 […] , page 1421:
glosses: In a bona fide manner; genuinely; in good faith.
Synonyms: bona fide
death blow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: death blows
Senses: examples: text: Despite the bleak outlook for rail, the ongoing pandemic will not be the death blow for rail transport across the UK.
ref: 2021 January 13, Andrew Weaver, “Customer engagement”, in RAIL, issue 922, page 29:
glosses: Alternative form of deathblow.
death blows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of death blow