cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Wehraboo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈvɛəɹəbuː/
Forms: form: Wehraboos
form: wehraboo
Etymology: From Wehr(macht) + -aboo.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:Wehraboo.
glosses: A person who is obsessed with or romanticises the Wehrmacht or Nazi Germany, sometimes to the point of denying their historical war crimes.
point target
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: point targets
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A relatively small target requiring accurate placement of ordnance in order to neutralize or destroy it.
point targets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of point target
poison at the box office
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: broadcasting
entertainment
film
lifestyle
media
television
theater
glosses: An unappealing play or film that sells very few tickets.
ponkans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ponkan
deserialisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: deserialisations
Etymology: From deserialise + -ation.
Senses: glosses: UK spelling of deserialization.
deserialisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deserialisation
Poplarism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From poplar + -ism.
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: The situation where a local council contravenes national directives and offers more generous welfare payments to citizens, as in the Poplar Rates Rebellion in Poplar, London, England, in 1921.
positive action
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: A form of affirmative action that attempts to assist members of an underrepresented group without prejudicing the criteria of selection by merit.
Trench
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Trenches
Etymology: From trench.
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Telford, Telford and Wrekin borough, Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SJ6912).
glosses: A habitational surname.
Derived terms: Trench Town
positive control
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The air traffic control practice of controlling aircraft whose positions are determined by direct radar observation.
glosses: In dog handling, the state of having affirmative physical or non-physical control of a dog.
Related terms: positive control group
poster session
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poster sessions
Senses: glosses: A scientific meeting where details of research projects are displayed on posters for participants to view.
poster sessions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of poster session
postformalist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Applying the postformal stage of cognitive development.
postformalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Application of the postformal stage of cognitive development.
power excursion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: power excursions
Senses: glosses: A criticality accident; an uncontrolled nuclear fission chain reaction.
power excursions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of power excursion
alarm fatigue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
synonyms: alert fatigue
coordinate_terms: caution fatigue
glosses: Desensitization to alarm signals, caused by lengthy or frequent exposure, and resultant slowed or absent responses to new alarms.
Related terms: information overload
Dowsing
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Snowdown
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Dover district, Kent, England (OS grid ref TR2451).
tri-oval
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tri-ovals
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of trioval.
Kümüx
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /kuˈmuʃ/
Forms: form: Kumux
Etymology: Borrowed from Uyghur كۈمۈش (kümüsh) meaning 'silver', referring to local silver mines.
Senses: examples: text: From the evidence of the latest Ludlovian to Early Devonian ophiolite, which crops out from the northern slope of Mt. Saarming to Kümüx and areas further east (Wang Zuoxun et al., 1986, 1990; Xiao Xuchang et al., 1990), the South Tianshan back-arc basin had already developed into a finite ocean basin along the Hantengri-Kümüx Fault after the Ludlovian.
ref: 1996, Zhou Zhiyi, W. T. Dean, Phanerozoic Geology of Northwest China, Beijing: Science Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 11:
text: I wheeled down into Kümüx just after sunset and drank three Jianlibau soft drinks straight off in the first shop I came to.
ref: 1998, Anne Mustoe, Lone Traveller: One Woman, Two Wheels and the World, Random House, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 114:
glosses: A town in Toksun, Turpan prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
glosses: A residential community in Kümüx, Toksun, Turpan prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
Synonyms: sense: from Mandarin Chinese
word: Kumishi
word: K'u-mi-shih
Nonington
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Dover district, Kent, England (OS grid ref TR2552).
Dendron
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈdɛndɹən/
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek δένδρον (déndron, “tree”).
Senses: glosses: A small village in South Cumbria, England.
glosses: A town in Surry County, Virginia, United States.
flat oval
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flat ovals
Senses: glosses: A type of racetrack, where the circuit is not banked to allow for track in cornering, thus missing positive camber needed to transform centrifugal force into normal force and traction. The shape footprint of the oval itself is unrelated to being "flat", as it only deals with the banking of the track and not the shape traced out by the track.
Coordinate terms: english: a racetrack in which all segments are either convex or straight
translation: a racetrack in which all segments are either convex or straight
word: oval
english: an oval with positive-camber banking, especially over the convex (turn) segments
translation: an oval with positive-camber banking, especially over the convex (turn) segments
word: banked oval
reëmployment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reëmployments
Senses: examples: text: Discharge of employe—offer of reëmployment—burden of proof—damages—mitigation.
ref: 1934, Minnesota Reports, volume 193, page 680:
glosses: Rare spelling of reemployment.
Rybar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Rybars
Etymology: Borrowed from Slovak Rybár or Czech rybář.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Czech or Slovak.
trans-identified females
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trans-identified female
K'u-mi-shih
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 庫米什 /库米什 (Kùmǐshí), Wade–Giles romanization: Kʻu⁴-mi³-shih².
Senses: examples: text: A gigantic dune in the K'u-mi-shih intermontane basin in the Chüeh-lo-t'a-ko mountain area
ref: 1975 August 18 [1974 May], “Study of China's Deserts [中国沙漠概论 CHUNG-KUO SHA-MO KAI-LUN]”, in Translations on People's Republic of China, number 316, United States Joint Publications Research Service, sourced from Peking, Desert Laboratory Lanchow Institute of Glacier, Frozen Ground and Desert Soil Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences [中国科学院兰州冰川冻土沙漠研究所沙漠研究室], translation of original in Chinese, →OCLC, page 153:
english: 中国科学院兰州冰川冻土沙漠研究所沙漠研究室
translation: 中国科学院兰州冰川冻土沙漠研究所沙漠研究室
glosses: Alternative form of Kumishi (Kümüx).
wikipedia: Defense Mapping Agency
Wu-ch'uan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 武川 (Wǔchuān) Wade-Giles romanization: Wu³-chʻuan¹.
Senses: examples: text: Under the leadership of P'O-LIU-HAN Pa-ling 破六韓拔陵, the rebels, consisting chiefly of "barbarian" garrisons of the northern frontier posts overran the important district of Wu-ch'uan 武川.
ref: 1938, Peter A. Boodberg, “Marginalia to the Histories of the Northern Dynasties”, in Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, volume 3, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 245:
text: The Li clan was certainly of major importance in its own locality, which was centred around the garrison town of Wu-ch'uan on the northern frontier.
ref: 1998, Chris Peers, Warlords of China, 700BC to AD1662, Arms and Armour Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 109:
glosses: Alternative form of Wuchuan.
Wu-ch'uan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 婺川 Wade-Giles romanization: Wu⁴-chʻuan¹.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Wuchuan.
Li-shui
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 麗水 /丽水 Wade–Giles romanization: Li²-shui³.
Senses: examples: text: In 1743, at the early age of 27, he became Prefect of Li-shui, about 50 miles south-east of Nanking.
ref: 1970, Arthur Waley, “At Peking, 1736 to 1743”, in Yuan Mei: Eighteenth Century Chinese Poet, Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 30:
text: In the fields near Li-shui there is an enormous camphor tree (illustration 1.) with a built-in niche containing incense cones and an earthenware dish for sacrifices. I also noticed a large number of prayer notes.
ref: 1970, Wolfram Eberhard, Studies in Chinese Folklore and Related Essays, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 22:
text: Skulls may haunt even without being so bitterly provoked. The country of Ch'u-cheu (in Chekiang province) is very mountainous. There, in the district of Li-shui, situated south of the peak of the Residence of the Immortal Genies, farmers plowing and sowing often break up waste ground, even as far as halfway up the mountains.
ref: 2009, Terri Hardin, editor, Terrifying Tales: Stories of the Occult from Around the World, Fall River Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 344:
glosses: Alternative form of Lishui.
wikipedia: Army Map Service
I-wu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Wade–Giles romanizations of various Mandarin Chinese names.
Senses: examples: text: The provincial censor, Chu I-hsin, a native of I-wu [in Chekiang], who was then lecturing at the Kuang-ya Academy, called on me and we debated on many questions.
ref: 1967, Jung-pang Lo, editor, K'ang Yu-wei: A Biography and a Symposium, University of Arizona Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 53:
text: In I-wu county in Wu-chou (Chin-hua) there are scattered storehouse proprietors and brokers who undertake the buying and selling (of silk). ... Previously the people in the hilly valleys of I-wu county made their living by weaving thin silk.
ref: 1970 [1968], Shiba Yoshinobu, translated by Mark Elvin, Commerce and Society in Sung China, published 1992, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 114:
text: The famous general Ch'i Chi-kuang led troops from Chekiang's I-wu County in the campaigns against Japanese pirates on the southeast coast between 1561 and 1567.
ref: 1995, Thomas G. Nimick, “CH'I CHI-KUANG AND I-WU COUNTY”, in Ming Studies, number 1, →ISSN, →OCLC:
glosses: Alternative form of Yiwu.
T'ai-chou
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 台州 Wade–Giles romanization: Tʻai¹-chou¹.
Senses: examples: text: At that time the surrounding country constantly harried by banditti who had occupied a stronghold in the mountains between Tʻai-chou and Chin-hua.
ref: 1889 January 25, “Abstract of Peking Gazette.”, in North-China Herald, volume XLII, number 1121, Shanghai, →OCLC, page 89, column 3:
text: He was a native of Tʻai-chou (modern Lin-hai) on the central Chekiang coast, from a family that engaged in sea transport of salt.
ref: 1962, F. W. Mote, “Fang Kuo-chen”, in The Poet Kao Chʻi, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 19:
glosses: Alternative form of Taizhou, Zhejiang.
T'ai-chou
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 泰州 (Tàizhōu) Wade-Giles romanization: Tʻai⁴-chou¹.
Senses: examples: text: At this time Wang Shou-ken, while governor of Kiangsi province, was discussing philosophical problems related to his theory of liang-chih. He already had many followers south of the Yangtze, but Wang Ken in far off T'ai-chou knew nothing about this.
ref: 1962, Carsun Chang, The Development of Neo-Confucian Thought, volume 2, Bookman Associates, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 114:
text: About 700 tan of barley were collected and sold in Tʻai-chou, while 450 tan of wheat were dispatched to the monastery from I-cheng and elsewhere.
ref: 1967, Holmes Welch, The Practice of Chinese Buddhism 1900-1950, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, published 1973, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 223:
glosses: Alternative form of Taizhou, Jiangsu.
ad lib.
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more ad lib.
form: most ad lib.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ad lib.
dhuli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dhulis
Senses: examples: text: The dhulí is a slight bamboo framework covered with coarse cloth, about two and a half feet square, with a bedding made of string woven across, on which the passenger sits. It is slung on a stout bamboo pole, and carried by two or four men.
ref: 1877, D. B. Allen et al., “A Statistical Account of Bengal”, in Districts of Gayá and Sháhábád, volume 12, pages 81-82:
glosses: Alternative form of dooly.
one pump chump
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: one pump chumps
Etymology: Chosen for the rhyme. From the tendency of people suffering from premature ejaculation to ejaculate after a very short time, perhaps even after a single pelvic thrust or “pump”, during sexual intercourse.
Senses: glosses: A premature ejaculator (person suffering from premature ejaculation).
glosses: Someone who only does something once.
Related terms: one-and-done
one pump chumps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of one pump chump
approbrium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of opprobrium.
Hon'ble
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of hon'ble.
non-renewables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of non-renewable
brakevan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brakevans
Senses: examples: text: Daily for a week in December electric locomotive No. E5009 hauled a train consisting of one of the L.M.R. dynamometer cars and ten fully loaded ballast hopper wagons, with a ballast brakevan on each end, between Stewarts Lane and the Dover line; these were described in the special notices as "wheel slip tests".
ref: 1960 February, “Motive Power Miscellany: Southern Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 122:
glosses: Alternative form of brake van.
brakevans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brakevan
Hugoniot
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname
Derived terms: Rankine-Hugoniot condition
Rankine-Hugoniot equation
Rankine-Hugoniot jump condition
Rankine-Hugoniot relation
Hugoniot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hugoniots
Senses: examples: text: A single-shock Hugoniot consistent with the data has been determined for the high-pressure modification of some of these rocks.
ref: 1967, Journal of Geophysical Research, volume 72, number 20, pages 4999–5036:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: An equation invented by Pierre Henri Hugoniot; the Rankine-Hugoniot equation.
Q-learning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A model-free reinforcement learning algorithm to learn a policy telling an agent what action to take under what circumstances.
crab Louis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crab Louis
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of crab Louie.
crab Louie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crab Louies
form: crab Louis
Etymology: Disputed.
Senses: glosses: A salad with crab meat and typically lettuce, tomato, egg, etc. in a creamy dressing.
crab Louies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crab Louie
crab mentalities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crab mentality
climbing boy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: climbing boys
Etymology: From the fact that boys were often sold into labor to “climb” chimneys in the 1800s.
Senses: glosses: A small child employed by a chimney sweep to ascend and clean flues.
climbing boys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of climbing boy
capital appreciation bond
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: capital appreciation bonds
Senses: glosses: A financial bond on which the investment return on an initial principal amount is reinvested at a set compounded rate until maturity.
OOTD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: OOTDs
Senses: examples: text: Word began to circulate: If you wanted your #ootd to be colorful and weird and stand out on social media, Dolls Kill was a good place to shop.
ref: 2021 February 6, Rachel Monroe, “Ultra-fast Fashion Is Eating the World”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 11 Feb 2021:
text: […]daily “OOTDs” (outfits of the day), rush recap videos from freshly tanned and coiffed prospective new members (PNMs), and reactions to 18-year-old girls either elated or devastated by the high-stakes game of likability that is rush.
ref: 2023 May 24, Adrian Horton, “‘Competitive femininity’: inside the wild and secretive world of sororities”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, archived from the original on 10 Jun 2023:
text: RushTok, which primarily features videos of PNMs describing their OOTD (outfit of the day) for each of the main sorority events at Southern universities, is a way for those rushing to document and share their experiences with the recruitment process.
ref: 2023 August 18, Allison Armijo, “Bama Rush TikTok explained: Guide to RushTok phenomenon”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 18 Aug 2023:
topics: fashion
lifestyle
glosses: Initialism of outfit of the day.
secondman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: secondmen
form: second man
Etymology: From second (“2nd”) + -man.
Senses: examples: text: The secondman looks back from 'Slim Jim' Class 33 No. 33211 as it trundles through Gravesend station with a permanent way train in 1977. The first wagon's sides are literally bulging at the seams with ballast spoil.
ref: 2018, Andy Gibbs, The Southern Region in the 1970s and 1980s, Amberley Publishing →ISBN, page 12, photo caption:
text: And instead of carrying commuters, the only people on many evening trains between Hatfield and St Albans were the driver and secondman.
ref: 2023 March 8, Howard Johnston, “Was Marples the real railway wrecker?”, in RAIL, page 50:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A driver's assistant on a diesel or electric locomotive.
secondmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of secondman
Tilmanstone
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Dover district, Kent, England (OS grid ref TR3051).
platykurtotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more platykurtotic
form: most platykurtotic
Etymology: From platy- + kurtotic.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: Platykurtic.
train order
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: train orders
Senses: topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: Formerly, a telegraphed or written instruction issued by a dispatcher to train crews and other railroad employees, concerning changes in operation of a particular train.
Related terms: orderboard
train orders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of train order
desimplify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: desimplifies
form: desimplifying
form: desimplified
form: desimplified
Etymology: From de- + simplify.
Senses: glosses: To make less simple.
Related terms: complicate
Hapsford
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small village in Dunham-on-the-Hill and Hapsford parish, Cheshire West and Chester district, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ4774).
glosses: A hamlet in Great Elm parish, Mendip district, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST7549).
Great Elm
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Mendip district, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST7449).
bandlo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bandlos
Senses: qualifier: Utah
glosses: A sash; a piece of cloth worn from shoulder to opposite hip.
Winsham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in South Somerset district, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST3706).
Farrington Gurney
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Bath and North East Somerset district, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST6255).
marles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of marle
Marlo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Marlos
Senses: glosses: A male given name.
glosses: A female given name.
glosses: A surname.
glosses: A township in Tasmania, Australia.
phrynin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: φρύνη (phrúnē) + -in
Senses: examples: text: In another letter Dr. Lauder Brunton mentions that an active principle of the toad venom is probably of an alkaloidal nature. It has been called phrynin or bufidin. It appears to be a cardiac poison, acting in somewhat the way as digitalis; but its effects seem to resemble still more those of erythrophlœum, for the uncertain gait, convulsions and paralysis which it produces are precisely the symptoms produced by the erythrophlœum when used as an ordeal poison.
ref: 1892, “The Poison of the Toad”, in C. H. Hughes, editor, The Alienist and Neurologist, volume XIII, Reviews, Notes, Etc., page 398:
glosses: bufotoxin
Shufu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Shu-fu
Etymology: From the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 疏附 (Shūfù).
Senses: examples: text: Kashgar is the largest city of the Tarim basin, situated also near the Soviet border. Its Chinese official name is K'o-shih, an abbreviated form of K'o-shih-k'a-erh, the phonetic rendering of Kashgar. Prior to 1950, Kashgar was known as Shufu. The city has a population of about 75,000, predominantly Uigur in ethnic composition. It is a center for trade in cotton, silk and sheepskins.
ref: 1956, Theodore Shabad, China's Changing Map: A Political and Economic Geography of The Chinese People's Republic, New York: Frederick A. Praeger, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 257:
text: A police officer reached by Reuters in the county where the incident occurred, called Shufu county in Chinese, said it was “not convenient” to provide any additional information.
ref: 2013 December 16, Ben Blanchard, Megha Rajagopalan, “Riot in China's Xinjiang kills 16, 'terror gang' blamed”, in Raju Gopalakrishnan, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 19 Jan 2017, World News:
text: SHUFU COUNTY, KASHGAR
Teaching Uighur children in Mandarin will not bring stability to Xinjiang
"I CAN speak Chinese, I’m so awesome!” reads a sign on the wall of the Mingde primary school in Shufu, a town near the oasis city of Kashgar in the far western province of Xinjiang.
ref: 2015 June 27, “Tongue-tied”, in The Economist, volume 415, number 8944, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 35:
text: Adil Tursun, a chemistry teacher and faculty director at Kashgar Kona Sheher (in Chinese, Shufu) County No. 1 High School was arrested in 2016 and sentenced in 2018 to seven years in Xinshou Prison in Shanghai after already having served two years of detention, said Abduweli Ayup, a former student who is now a Uyghur activist and linguist based in Norway.
ref: 2022 March 11, Shohret Hoshur, “Uyghur educator serving 7-year sentence for instructing students in mother tongue”, in Radio Free Asia, archived from the original on 12 Mar 2022:
text: A list obtained and partially verified by the AP cites the names of more than 10,000 Uyghurs sent to prison in just Konasheher county alone, one of dozens in southern Xinjiang. In recent years, China has waged a brutal crackdown on the Uyghurs, a largely Muslim minority, which it has described as a war on terror.
ref: [2022 May 16, Huizhong Wu, Drake Kang, “Uyghur country in China has highest prison rate in the world”, in AP News, archived from the original on 16 May 2022:
glosses: A county of Kashgar prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
wikipedia: Defense Mapping Agency
Synonyms: sense: from Uyghur
word: Konaxahar
word: Konasheher
word: Kona Sheher
K'a-shih
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 喀什, Wade–Giles romanization: Kʻa¹-shih².
Senses: examples: text: I. Geological and Topographical Conditions
Geologically speaking, K'a-shih inland delta belongs to the western most end of Tarim Table. It is primarily sha-ch'e syneklise.
ref: 1966, Translations on People's Republic of China, United States Joint Publications Research Service, →OCLC, page 148:
text: From Peking air routes extend northward to Ch’i-ch’i-ha-erh in Manchuria, southeastward to Shanghai, southward to the island of Hainan, and westward to K’a-shih in Sinkiang.
ref: 1973, Chiao-min Hsieh, “Transportation”, in Christopher L. Salter, editor, Atlas of China, McGraw-Hill, Inc., →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 74, column 2:
text: K'a-shih has the most extensive cotton-growing area which amounted to 950 000 mou (6.3 million ares) in 1965.
ref: 1976, Chuen-Yan David Lai, “Developments of Cotton Cultivation in Sinkiang”, in Pacific Viewpoint, volume 17, number 2, →DOI, archived from the original on 30 Jun 2020, page 162:
glosses: Alternative form of Kashi (Kashgar)
wikipedia: Defense Mapping Agency
Encyclopædia Britannica
Frederick A. Praeger
Related terms: K'o-shih
pick-me girl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pick-me girls
form: pick me girl
form: pick me
form: pickmeisha
Etymology: From the phrase pick me + girl, the implication being that such women, like someone pleading "pick me!", are desperate to be chosen over their putative competition.
Senses: examples: text: Coordinate term: pick-me boy
text: Perhaps that's why Daniel saw her past the rest of the “pick me” girls.
ref: 2013, Stephen Hayes, Rock Haulter, eBookIt.com, →ISBN:
text: She kept changing her mind about which pick-me girl it would be from the Popular Group who would get to share her tent.
ref: 2020, Suzanne Daniel, A Girl in Three Parts, Knopf Books for Young Readers, →ISBN, page 55:
text: I have been called a handmaiden, a “pick me” girl, and been accused of vying for male attention.
ref: 2022 February 4, Marie Le Conte, “Feminism has been reduced to the transgender debate”, in The New Statesman:
synonyms: NLOG
pick-me
glosses: A woman who asserts that she is unlike (and sometimes better than) most other women, in order to gain attention, approval, or validation from men.
Related terms: Karen
simp
pick-me girls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pick-me girl
out-of-tree
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: out-of-tree driver
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
antonyms: in-tree
glosses: Located outside of a source tree.
examples: text: out-of-tree build
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
antonyms: in-tree
glosses: Taking place outside of a source tree.
out-of-tree
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: build the module out-of-tree
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
antonyms: in-tree
glosses: Outside of a source tree.
in-tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: in-trees
Senses: topics: computer
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
science
sciences
synonyms: parent pointer tree
hyponyms: cactus stack
saguaro stack
spaghetti stack
glosses: An n-ary tree data structure in which each node has a pointer to its parent node, but no pointers to child nodes.
in-tree
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
antonyms: out-of-tree
glosses: Located inside of a source tree.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
antonyms: out-of-tree
glosses: Taking place inside of a source tree.
in-tree
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
antonyms: out-of-tree
glosses: Inside of a source tree.
Loyang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Mandarin 洛陽／洛阳 (Luòyáng).
Senses: examples: text: War, real but undeclared, broke out at Shanghai on January 28, 1932. Two days later the National government which Chiang Kai-shek had established five years before at Nanking was moved to Loyang, far from the menace of Japanese men-of-war on the Yangtse.
ref: 1938, Robert Berkov, Strong Man of China: The Story of Chiang Kai-shek, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, page 146:
text: This was the general plan of a royal tomb in the Han dynasty, and students of Chinese archaeology may verify this record with the series of Han royal tombs still to be seen on the hillsides of Sian and Loyang (346).
ref: 1967, Tê-kʻun Chêng, Archaeological Studies in Szechwan, Cambridge University Press, page 143:
text: 200 students in Loyang City, Honan Province, led by Liu Ching-yi, director of the cultural bureau of the province, paraded in the downtown area and shouted such slogans as “down with the small clique of ambitionists in the ‘central government,’ ” and “down the anti-revolutionists in the army.”
ref: 1976 December 19, “Armed conflict incidents rise”, in Free China Weekly, volume XVII, number 50, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3:
text: After much debate back and forth, you and Three Finger Tong agree to seek out Li Shi-min. Together the two of you head for the city of Loyang, where you are welcomed into the army of the great hero of China. At last your dream is realized.
ref: 1990, R.A. Montgomery, Chinese Dragons, Bantam Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 6:
text: Emperor Xuan Zong assigned General Bi Sichen to the east to guard the capital of Loyang, but An Lushan defeated the imperial forces that were hastily assembled....In the next year, Hui Qi, general of Emperor Dai Zong (Dai Tsung) (762-779) of the Tang dynasty, recovered Loyang, causing Shi Chaoyi to flee to Mozhou.
ref: 2012, Kong Liu, “An-Shi, Rebellion of (755-763)”, in Xiaobing Li, editor, China at War, ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 5:
glosses: Alternative form of Luoyang.
Chi-lin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: jēʹlǐnʹ
Etymology: From Mandarin 吉林 (Jílín) Wade–Giles romanization: Chi²-lin².
Senses: examples: text: Manchuria is crossed by the Chinese Eastern Railway (the Russian Trans-Siberian Railway), which enters the Hei-lung-chiang Province from the north-west and divides at Harbin (哈爾賓^([sic – meaning 哈爾濱])) in the Chi-lin Province, one branch going to Vladivostock (海参威) and the other to Dalny and Port Arthur.
ref: 1904, Charles Daniel Tenney, Geography of Asia, Macmillan and Co., page 23:
text: Conflicts among the cadres themselves were numerous, suggesting contentions among different units of between higher and lower units. For instance, a letter from three cadres of a Chi-lin machine factory said that they had to receive and entertain all kinds of inspection groups during the years, leaving them little time to perform routine duties.
ref: 1983, “Mass Media and Conflict Resolution: An Analysis of Letters to the Editor”, in Godwin C. Chu, Francis L.K. Hsu, editors, China's New Social Fabric, Kegan Paul International, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 188:
text: The capital of Parhae, called Sanggyŏng or "High Capital" was located at modern Tung-ching-ch'eng in Hei-lung-chiang province, Manchuria, and there were four secondary capitals- the "Central Capital" at modern Tun-hua in Chi-lin province, Manchuria, "Eastern Capital" at Hun-ch'un in Chi-lin, "Southern Capital" at Hamhŭng in South Hamgyŏng province, Korea, and "Western Capital" at Lin-chiang in Chi-lin [see map p. 70].
ref: 1984, Ki-baik Lee, translated by Edward Willett Wagner, A New History of Korea, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 89-90:
text: To make up for the absence of a natural barrier the Ming had built a defence line which ran from west of the mouth of the Yalu at K'ai-p'ing, 300 kilometres north of Peking, and another from Shan-hai-kuan to Chi-lin (Kirin).
ref: 1996, Jacques Gernet, translated by J. R. Foster and Charles Hartman, A History of Chinese Civilization, 2nd edition, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 436:
glosses: Alternative form of Jilin.
wikipedia: Army Map Service
Encyclopædia Britannica
Hei-lung-chiang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 黑龍江 /黑龙江 (Hēilóngjiāng) Wade–Giles romanization: Hei¹-lung²-chiang¹.
Senses: examples: text: In the best caravans, that is those which go into the provinces of Kirin and Hei-lung-chiang and into Mongolia, a team usually consists of a pony in the shafts and six tracing mules three abreast.
ref: 1900, Alexander Hosie, Manchuria, page 12:
text: Manchuria is crossed by the Chinese Eastern Railway (the Russian Trans-Siberian Railway), which enters the Hei-lung-chiang Province from the north-west and divides at Harbin (哈爾賓^([sic – meaning 哈爾濱])) in the Chi-lin Province, one branch going to Vladivostock (海参威) and the other to Dalny and Port Arthur.
ref: 1904, Charles Daniel Tenney, Geography of Asia, Macmillan and Co., page 23:
text: From all reports, the increase in mechanization over the past three decades has been impressive, although much of the evidence comes form communes and production brigades which have had "model" or "demonstration" status, and from the state farms in frontier areas such as Hei-lung-chiang, which were pioneered by Japanese soldier-settlers during the Manchuko period in an attempt to establish a soldier-yeomanry that would provide protection against Russian threats to northern Manchuria.
ref: 1980, C. K. Leung, Norton Ginsburg, editors, China: Urbanization and National Development, page 269:
text: Ting Ling had disappeared from public life in 1958. She was accused of being a "Rightist" and was sent to a farm in Hei-lung-chiang Province in remote northeast China, worked there twelve years raising chickens, was in prison five years (1970-1975), and began to live in a village in Shansi in 1975.
ref: 1981, Hualing Nieh, editor, Literature of the Hundred Flowers, volume II, Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page xxxix:
text: The capital of Parhae, called Sanggyŏng or "High Capital" was located at modern Tung-ching-ch'eng in Hei-lung-chiang province, Manchuria, and there were four secondary capitals- the "Central Capital" at modern Tun-hua in Chi-lin province, Manchuria, "Eastern Capital" at Hun-ch'un in Chi-lin, "Southern Capital" at Hamhŭng in South Hamgyŏng province, Korea, and "Western Capital" at Lin-chiang in Chi-lin [see map p. 70].
ref: 1984, Ki-baik Lee, translated by Edward Willett Wagner, A New History of Korea, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 89–90:
glosses: Alternative form of Heilongjiang.
wikipedia: Encyclopædia Britannica
Shang-jao
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 上饒 /上饶 (Shàngráo), Wade–Giles romanization: Shang⁴-jao².
Senses: examples: text: After Pearl Harbor the Japanese ordered his arrest. But he had fled to Shang-jao in Kiangsi Province from which he and four Chinese preachers sustained national churches for several months. Because Shang-jao was still in "free" territory, he became a conduit for American funds sent to missionaries stranded in Shanghai.
ref: 1979, James C. Hefley, Marti Hefley, By Their Blood, mott media, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 66:
text: Wu Yüeh, a distant relative of Wang An-shih 王安石 (1021-86), was active from the late years of Hui-tsung's reign into Kao-tsung's, serving his last post as grand custodian in Shang-jao, Kiangsi.
ref: 1991, Richard Louis Edmonds, edited by Alfreda Murck and Wen C. Fong, Words and Images : Chinese Poetry, Calligraphy, and Painting, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 156:
text: A native of Le-p'ing (Kiangsi), for example, was on his way to the capital to take up his post as gate guardian of the Court of Judicial Review when he stopped with his maidservant to pray for good fortune at an unidentified shrine of Shang-jao (Kiangsi).
ref: 1993, Judith Magee Boltz, “Not by the Seal of Office Alone: New Weapons in Battles with the Supernatural”, in Religion and Society in T'ang and Sung China, University of Hawaii Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 247:
glosses: Alternative form of Shangrao.
wikipedia: Encyclopædia Britannica
T'ai-an
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 泰安 (Tài'ān), Wade–Giles romanization: Tʻai⁴-an¹.
Senses: examples: text: A group of inscriptions on three precipices, including an incantation and partial text of the Paramita sutra and the Maha-prajna-paramita sutra, was engraved in A.D. 570 on the Tsu-lai Mountain in T’ai-an.
ref: 1962, Tsuen-hsuin Tsien, Written on Bamboo and Silk: the Beginnings of Chinese Books and Inscriptions, University of Chicago Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 80:
text: On the morning of 6 May Chiang and his armies withdrew southward toward T'ai-an, where a new Kuomintang regime in Shantung was established.
ref: 1978, David D. Buck, Urban Change in China, University of Wisconsin Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 162:
text: When climbing the 7,000 steps of T'ai Shan, from the town of T'ai-an to the Temple of the Jade Emperor at its peak, the visitor encounters temples, groves of cypress and pine, waterfalls and cascades.
ref: 1987, Jennifer Westwood, editor, Mysterious Places, Marshall Editions Ltd, published 1998, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 18:
glosses: Alternative form of Tai'an.
wikipedia: Defense Mapping Agency
Lan-t'ien
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 藍田 /蓝田 (Lántián) Wade–Giles romanization: Lan²-tʻien².
Senses: examples: text: On this king Hwâi called out all the military strength of his kingdom and led it deep into Chʻin, with whose forces another battle was fought at Lan-tʻien.²
. . .
² Meaning "Indigo Fields." A district of the department of Hsî-an still bears the name.
ref: 1895, James Legge, “The Lî Sâo Poem and its Author”, in Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Stephen Austin and Sons, page 85:
text: We have imagined the habitat of Lan-tʻien Man and his palaeolithic successors to be relatively open terrain of woods and grassland.
ref: 1974, William Watson, Ancient China: The Discoveries of post-Liberation Chinese archaeology, New York Graphic Society, →ISBN, page 19:
text: The first real human beings in China lived about 600,000 years ago. Fossils of Gigantopithecus, a Latin name for Giant Ape, were dug up at Lan-t'ien in the early 1960s. Though they looked a lot like apes, the Lan-t'ien people were among the first of our species to make tools.
ref: 1983, Valjean McLenighan, China, A History to 1949, Chicago: Children's Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 10:
text: Of more importance are Wang Wei's descriptions of landscapes, particularly those at his country home at Lan-t'ien southeast of Ch'ang-an.
ref: 2008, William Watson, “Wang Wei”, in Jelena Krstovic, editor, Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, volume 100, Gale Cengage Learning, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 286:
glosses: Alternative form of Lantian.
wikipedia: Defense Mapping Agency
Encyclopædia Britannica
Tan-feng
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 丹鳳 /丹凤 (Dānfèng), Wade–Giles romanization: Tan¹-fêng⁴.
Senses: examples: text: The mountainous terrain of the areas on the Shensi-Hupeh border favored us if we should engage the enemy, but the place was so poor that both food and cloth were scarce. So we had to turn our way towards more prosperous districts like Tan-feng, Shang-hsien, and Lo-nan in southern Shensi.
ref: 1972, Chang Kuo-t’ao, The Rise of the Chinese Communist Party 1928-1938, volume II, University Press of Kansas, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 312:
text: ¹⁹²Located southeast of modern Tan-feng 丹鳳 County in Shensi near the intersection of the three modern provinces of Honan, Shensi, and Hupei (Wang Li-ch'i, 6:127n.).
ref: 1994 [145–86 BCE], Ssu-ma Ch'ien, edited by William Nienhauser, The Grand Scribe's Records, volume 1, Indiana University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 143:
text: Several excavated examples are on record, including one from Tan Feng Hsien in Shensi which bears the date 1119.
ref: [1997, William Watson, Studies in Chinese Archaeology and Art, volume 1, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 112:
glosses: Alternative form of Danfeng.
wikipedia: Defense Mapping Agency
Saharo-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: examples: the Saharo-Arabian Region
glosses: Sahara.
Proto-Tocharian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -ɛəɹiən
Etymology: From proto- + Tocharian.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The reconstructed ancestor of the Tocharian languages.
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Proto-Tocharian terms
Sinanché
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Sinanché, from Yucatec Maya, from síinaʼancheʼ (“a kind of tree (Zanthoxylum caribaeum)”), from síinaʼan (“scorpion”) + cheʼ (“tree”).
Senses: glosses: A town in Yucatán, Mexico.
glosses: A municipality of Yucatán, Mexico, whose municipal seat is the town of the same name.
draids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɹeɪdz/
rhymes: -eɪdz
Etymology: Blend of dreadlocks + braids.
Senses: glosses: A hairstyle worn after braided locks of hair have become matted resembling dreadlocks.
Pensford
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Publow parish, (served by Publow with Pensford Parish Council), in Bath and North East Somerset district, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST6263).
M/L ratio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: M/L ratios
Senses: topics: astrophysics
glosses: Initialism of mass-to-light ratio.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of media-to-lumen ratio.
LAs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of LA
Publow
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small village and civil parish (served by Publow with Pensford Parish Council) in Bath and North East Somerset district, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST6264).
MacBeath
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
dialecticalisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dialectical + -isation.
Senses: examples: text: One masterly way to avoid that danger is by a cultural revolution, that dialecticalisation which has no yesterday, today or tomorrow and which avoids becoming static because it is an ongoing effort for change.
ref: 1974, The Month, volume 235, Simpkin, Marshall, and Company, pages 576–577:
text: What ways, then, remain open to the will of knowledge? None, directly speaking. From the moment that truth and falsehood, good and evil, life and death are no longer confronting each other, it is no longer appropriate to speak of Umkehrung—even if one retains the word when one is considering its consequences alone—but of a Grundverschiebung. The deadly system of the will to truth is to be succeeded by a will to know whose system will not be a mere dialecticalisation of the former one.
ref: 1981, Nietzsche and Christianity, T. & T. Clark, translation of original by Geffré, Claude and Lefébure, Marcus, page 5:
text: Foucault argues that this synthesis of particularity into universality represents the end of the discourse of ‘politics as war’, at least in this instance. It is a ‘self-dialecticalisation of historical discourse’ that marks ‘the elimination of war’s function as an analyser of historico(-)political processes, or at least its strict curtailment’ (Foucault, 2003b: p. 236).
ref: 2008 September 25, Foucault on Politics, Security and War, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 55:
text: Bhaskar’s levels of rationality outline the types of knowledge which are necessary for the possibility of emancipation. These levels of rationality first appear in SRHE (Scientific Realism and Human Emancipation) before the dialecticalisation of CR.
ref: 2010 July 20, Brad Shipway, A Critical Realist Perspective of Education, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page 104:
text: The emerging insights we experienced in our dialectical struggles to learn in integrative ways that bring hope to the challenges of the day are reflected in how Bhaskar (The Philosophers’ Magazine, 2013, p. 3) notes that ‘the full implications traced through this dialecticalisation of ontology are very radical indeed, and presuppose a vision of how the good society viewed as implicit in every human action or remark.’
ref: 2015 December 14, Leigh Price, Heila Lotz-Sistka, editors, Critical Realism, Environmental Learning and Social-Ecological Change, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page 175:
glosses: Alternative spelling of dialecticalization.
Hampstead Norreys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hampstead Norris
Etymology: The manorial affix is from the Norreys family.
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in West Berkshire district, Berkshire, England (OS grid ref SU5276).
wikipedia: Norreys
Hampstead Norris
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Hampstead Norreys.
binioù
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bignou
form: biniou
Senses: glosses: A kind of Breton bagpipe.
FRCSC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: FRCSCs
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Canada.
Related terms: MRCSC
FRCPC
FRCPC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: FRCPCs
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Canada (Division of Medicine).
Related terms: MRCPC
FRCSC
DRCPSC
RCPSC
freaking gosh
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: freaking gosh !
Etymology: Minced oath of the expletive fucking God!
Senses: qualifier: minced oath
glosses: Used to express surprise
MRCPC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: MRCPCs
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of member of the Royal College of Physicians of Canada.
Related terms: FRCPC
MRCSC
MRCSC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: MRCSCs
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of member of the Royal College of Surgeons of Canada.
Related terms: FRCSC
MRCPC
DRCPSC
RCPSC
DRCPSC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: DRCPSCs
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of diplomate of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.
Related terms: MRCPC
MRCSC
FRCPC
FRCSC
RCPSC
Mann Act
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named for the law's author, Congressman James Robert Mann.
Senses: examples: text: Enacted during a time of great change and "moral panic," the Mann Act was originally designed to combat forced prostitution.
ref: 2008 March 11, Eric Weiner, “The Long, Colorful History of the Mann Act”, in All Things Considered:
topics: law
glosses: A federal law passed in 1910 prohibiting transportation of women across state lines for immoral purposes.
wikipedia: James Robert Mann (Illinois politician)
ship-shape
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ship-shape
form: most ship-shape
Senses: examples: text: SHIP-shape, in a seaman-like manner; as "That mast is not rigged ship-shape;" "Put her about ship-shape," &c.
ref: [1801, J. J. Moore, “SHIP-shape”, in The British Mariner’s Vocabulary, […], London: […] T. Hurst [et al.], →OCLC:
text: [I]t would have been more ship-shape to lower the bight of a rope, or a running bow-line, below me, than to seize an old sea-man by his head-lanyard; [...]
ref: 1823, [James Fenimore Cooper], chapter V, in The Pioneers, or The Sources of the Susquehanna; […], volume II, New York, N.Y.: Charles Wiley; […], →OCLC, page 83:
glosses: Archaic spelling of shipshape.