cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Yongji
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /jɔŋ.d͡ʒi/
enpr: yüngʹjēʹ
Forms: form: Yung-chi
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 永吉 (Yǒngjí).
Senses: examples: text: Judging by the meteorites already re- covered, the shower covered an area of more than 500 square kilometres embracing six communes with a population of more than 100,000 on Kirin's outskirts and in Yungchi and Chiaoho counties.[…]
Large numbers of fragments fell in the area of the Lichia brigade of the Tatun Commune on the outskirts of Kirin and the Chiangmifeng Commune in Yungchi County. The larger fragments fell around the Chiutso and Nanlan brigades of the Chinchu Commune. The three largest meteorites continued southwesterly in the original direction of flight and fell in the Santaitzu brigade of the Chiuchan Commune and the Tahuangti brigade of the Kutientzu Commune on the outskirts of Kirin City and in the Kaoshan brigade of the Huapichang Commune in Yungchi County.
ref: [1976 April 22 [1976 April 21], “Meteorite Shower, Fireball in Kirin Province”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 79, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Peking NCNA, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China: Northeast Region, page L 1:
text: China's Premier Wen Jiabao waves to locals during his visit to the flood-hit Kouqian town of Yongji county, Jilin province August 3, 2010.
ref: 2010 August 4, Ben Blanchard, “China says waters on North Korean border surge”, in Miral Fahmy, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 14 May 2023, ENVIRONMENT:
glosses: A county of Jilin, Jilin, China.
Yongji
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /jɔŋ.d͡ʒi/
enpr: yüngʹjēʹ
Forms: form: Yung-chi
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 永濟 /永济 (Yǒngjì).
Senses: examples: text: On Thursday, the police arrested two labor inspectors from Yongji city in Shanxi who were accused of negligence and abuse of their powers, Xinhua reported.
ref: 2007 June 23, David Lague, “China Tries to Contain Scandal Over Slave Labor With Arrests and Apology”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 09 Apr 2009, Asia Pacific:
glosses: A county-level city of Yuncheng, Shanxi, China.
put one's fist to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: puts one's fist to
form: putting one's fist to
form: put one's fist to
form: put one's fist to
Senses: examples: text: […] Just remind him of the paper I signed at his request, and I fancy there'll be no trouble."
"I'll try, but I know he'll never put his fist to such a thing. Why , it would raise the very devil if it ever leaked out! […]
ref: 1912, Adele Ferguson Knight, The Right to Reign: A Romance of the Kingdom of Drecq, page 165:
glosses: To sign one's name to.
Ruicheng
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˌɹweɪˈt͡ʃʌŋ/
Forms: form: Juicheng
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 芮城.
Senses: examples: text: 9. Yongle Temple (Shanxi Province)
This temple located in Ruicheng County, in the southwestern corner of Shanxi Province, was originally situated on the banks of the Huanghe River in Yongle, a town bearing the same name as the temple.
ref: 1993, Foster Stockwell, “Visitor's Guide to Taoist Sites”, in 中国宗教概览 [Religion in China Today], Beijing: New World Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 80:
english: Religion in China Today
translation: Religion in China Today
text: A solar panel installation is seen in Ruicheng County in central China’s Shanxi Province.
ref: 2019 December 9, John Kerry, Ro Khanna, “Don’t Let China Win the Green Race”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 09 Dec 2019, Opinion:
glosses: A county of Yuncheng, Shanxi, China.
Yanhu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /jæn.hu/
enpr: yěnʹho͞oʹ
rhymes: -uː
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 鹽湖／盐湖 (Yánhú).
Senses: examples: text: The disappearances began in Yuncheng, Shanxi Province, last October.[…]Zhang Yunbao, police captain in the city’s Yanhu District, said he had received 10 similar reports.
ref: 2009 January 23, Annie Wei, “50 Shanxi teens kidnapped, beaten in Myanmar”, in Beijing Today, number 399, →ISSN, →OCLC, News, page 3, columns 1, 2:
glosses: A district of Yuncheng, Shanxi, China.
Manakau
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Maori.
Senses: examples: text: The latter's loss of time between Manakau and Levin was due to the mishap of dropping the tablet at Ohau, which entailed an out-of-course stop of 3 min. to recover it.
ref: 1939 November 24, “Overseas Railways: Locomotive Performance in New Zealand”, in Railway Magazine, page 351:
glosses: A settlement in Horowhenua district, Manawatū-Whanganui, New Zealand.
dot-and-go-one
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: […] I shouted, though with inward misgivings on account of my game leg; and we started off towards camp as fast as we could go — which is not saying much, as I could only get over the ground in a dot-and-go-one sort of way.
ref: 1893, The Boy's Own Annual, volume 16, page 805:
text: Fathers of two feet, advance,
Dot and go ones, hop along,
Two feet missing need not dance,
But will join us in the song.
ref: 1922, James Elroy Flecker, The story of Hassan of Bagdad, and how he came to make the Golden Journey to Samarkand: A Play in Five Acts, page 37:
text: "I think the doctors messed it up a bit. They said he wouldn't limp or anything, but when he left here he was still completely dot and go one."
ref: 1928, Agatha Christie, The Mystery of the Blue Train, page 127:
synonyms: dot-and-carry-one
glosses: Having a lame or limping gait.
dot-and-go-ones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dot-and-go-one
Wenxi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: wǔnʹshēʹ
Forms: form: Wenhsi
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 聞喜 /闻喜.
Senses: examples: text: I arrived at the P’ei village in Wen-hsi county. I paid my respects at the shrine to the Duke of Chin (i.e. P’ei Tu, 764-839) and inquired after his descendants. There were still one or two hundred men who left their plowing to come and pay their respects together.
ref: [1973, Denis Twitchett, quoting Ku Yen-wu, “The Composition of the T’ang Ruling Class: New Evidence from Tunhuang”, in Arthur F. Wright, Denis Twitchett, editors, Perspectives on the T’ang (Asian Studies), Yale University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 52:
text: Li Haicang was the richest and most powerful man around. His company, Haixin Steel, accounts for two-thirds of the economic activity in Wenxi, a county of 340,000 people. Mr. Li paid wages, bought land, built roads and schools and, when people were unhappy, took blame.[…]
Wenxi County and the nearby city of Yuncheng have dispatched experts to figure out how to run Haixin, which was closely held by Mr. Li, his family and his business partners.
ref: 2003 February 1, Joseph Kahn, “In China, Quick Rise And Death Of a Tycoon”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 May 2015, World:
glosses: A county of Yuncheng, Shanxi, China.
Yuanqu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: yüǎnʹchüʹ
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 垣曲.
Senses: examples: text: In the fluvial deposits which have developed to the west of the village of T'ungeshanchen in Yuanchu County of Shenhsi^([sic – meaning Shanhsi]) Province, one can find the Nihewan fauna (Axis rugosus, etc.).
ref: [1963 June 24, Chung-chien Yang, “Questions of Neotectonics in the Northern Foothills of the Ch'inling”, in V. N. Pavlinov, editor, Works of the First Conference on Neotectonics in China, →OCLC, page 123:
text: Rescuers prepare to rescue villagers who are stranded in a flooding river in Yuanqu county, north China's Shanxi province July 30, 2007.
ref: 2007 July 31, “China floods put Three Gorges Dam to the test”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 05 Mar 2016, Technology:
text: After a 10-year fight for compensation, a Hong Kong businessman who says he is owed millions after his company was hijacked by officials in Yuanqu county, Shanxi, has received less than a third of his investment back.
ref: 2009 September 13, “HK businessman gets partial payout after 10-year fight over hijacking of Shanxi firm”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 02 Dec 2023:
glosses: A county of Yuncheng, Shanxi, China.
Qinshui
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 沁水.
Senses: examples: text: Chao Shu-li was a native of Chinshui County, Shansi Province.
ref: [1959, Ting Yi, “Literature in the Liberated Areas of the Path of Socialist Realism”, in A Short History of Modern Chinese Literature, Kennikat Press, published 1970, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 254:
text: The PEOPLE'S DAILY today frontpages a report introducing the experience of Chinshui county, Shansi, in developing diversified economy.[…]
Chinshui county is a hilly region with favorable conditions for developing a diversified economy.
ref: [1965 August 3 [1965 July 19], “Not Only for 'Pocket Money'”, in Daily Report: Foreign Radio Broadcasts, volume I, number 148, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Peking NCNA Domestic Service, translation of original in Chinese, →OCLC, Communist China: National Affairs, page CCC 1:
text: Li Shih-chün had connections with the judicial section of the puppet hsien government in Ch'in-shui. A few days later, the judicial section of the hsien government dispatched a runner to Wang-chai Village to summon Hsü Yin-yüan to appear before the court in Ch’in-shui.
ref: [1976, “A Cave with Two Entrances”, in Sidney L. Greenblatt, editor, The People of Taihang, White Plains, NY: International Arts and Sciences Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 84:
text: First-phase liquefaction and storage facilities are in Qinshui county, Shanxi province while the second phase is in nearby Yangcheng county.
ref: 2008 April 21, Eric Ng, “China Leason budgets 200m yuan to expand gas liquefaction”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 Aug 2023:
glosses: A county of Jincheng, Shanxi, China.
Yangcheng
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: yängʹchǔngʹ
Etymology: From Mandarin 陽城 /阳城 (Yángchéng).
Senses: examples: text: The Mandarin of Yangcheng was a powerful figure. In that part of mountainous southern Shansi, the principal city was Tsechow. Several days' journey away, circling out from the capital, were the four smaller sister cities: Yangcheng, Chin Shui, Kaoping and Lingchuang, tiny walled citadels nestling among the high mountains. The Mandarin of Yangcheng ruled his city and district by decree from the governor and war lord at Taiyuan, the capital of Shansi far to the north. The government at Taiyuan owed nominal allegiance to the Nationalists. Yangcheng lay deep in the mountains.
ref: 1957, Alan Burgess, chapter 6, in 小婦人 [The Small Woman], New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., →OCLC, page 76:
english: The Small Woman
translation: The Small Woman
text: A year after I had left Southeast Shansi, trying to keep track of my friends there, I learned that the young hsien chang of Yangcheng, the one who had majored in government, had been purged—but by whom, or which group, or for what cause, I never found out.
ref: 1978, Theodore H. White, In Search of History: A Personal Adventure, Jonathan Cape, published 1979, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 100:
text: A statement from Yangcheng County in Shanxi province said the carbon disulfide leak occurred Saturday morning at a plant belonging to the Ruixing chemical company.
ref: 2015 May 16, “Chemical leak in northern China kills 8, injures 2”, in AP News, archived from the original on 16 Jul 2022:
glosses: A county of Jincheng, Shanxi, China.
henroach
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: henroaches
Etymology: From a folk etymological understanding of cockroach as a compound of cock and roach.
Senses: glosses: A female cockroach
Zezhou
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: dzǔʹjōʹ
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 澤州 /泽州 (Zézhōu).
Senses: examples: text: The Qinglian Temple is on the side of Xiashi Mountain in Zezhou County, Jincheng, Shanxi Province.
ref: 2010, Zhao Wenbing [肇文兵], “Integration of Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism”, in Wang Wenliang [王文亮], Kang Jian [康健], Han Huizhi [韩慧枝], Xiao Ying [肖颖], transl., Chinese Sculpting: History Through Centuries of Sculpting [中国雕塑], China Intercontinental Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 94:
english: 中国雕塑
translation: 中国雕塑
text: Zhai Meng, who ran a Liren library in Zezhou County, Shanxi Province, said officials from the local cultural affairs department conducted two inspections of the library in August, both “appearing to be targeting foreign publications.”
ref: 2014 September 22, Vanessa Piao, “Rural Library Chain Closes, Citing ‘Tremendous Pressure’”, in New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 02 Jul 2022, Sinophere:
text: At the same time, fengshui has also been taken into consideration in terms of spacial environment. For example, Zhou Village in Zezhou County faces Xiaonanling Mountain in the south, and lies on Huangshaling Mountain, with other mountain and hills on its left and right, forming a relatively enclosed space.
ref: 2021, Traditional Chinese Villages: Beautiful Nostalgia, Springer, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 245:
text: In Zezhou county, Shanxi province, students born as the second or third child after January 30, 2013 will automatically have 10 extra points added to their total grades for high school entrance exams, according to a plan issued by the county government at the end of last year.
ref: 2023 March 23, Mandy Zuo, “China population: city dangles free high school education for a family’s third child amid birth rate crisis”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 Mar 2023, China Economy:
glosses: A county of Jincheng, Shanxi, China.
Te Horo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Maori.
Senses: glosses: A locality in Kapiti Coast district, Wellington region, New Zealand.
Gaoping
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: gouʹpǐngʹ
Forms: form: Kao-p'ing
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 高平 (Gāopíng).
Senses: examples: text: Revolutionary committees at all levels in Kaoping County have seriously implemented Chairman Mao's instructions on developing pig breeding and have developed pig breeding in a big way for the revolution.
ref: [1970 October 14 [1970 October 12], “Pig Breeding Studied, Improved by Shansi County”, in Daily Report: Communist China, volume I, number 200, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Taiyuan Shansi Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →OCLC, page F 5:
text: Interlude at Kaoping
We left Tsincheng early one morning for Changchih County and drove first to Kaoping where we halted for a while to see a modern silk weaving and dyeing factory set up in 1960 there, which by 1971 was producing 1,850,000 metres of woven and dyed material, with a value of 4,200,000 yuan.
Kaoping I had known in the past as a famous place for its pears, which are especially juicy.
ref: [1973, Rewi Alley, “New Life of a 3,000-year-old City and Its Surroundings”, in Eastern Horizon, volume XII, number 3, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 20, column 1:
text: Feng Ying-ts’e is a native of Chi-t’an Village, Kao-p’ing hsien, Shansi Province, and a member of San-chia People’s Commune there.[...]Under the Party's direction, she was involved in communication and liaison missions in the border area of the three hsien of Chin-ch’eng, Ling-ch’uan, and Kao-p’ing.
ref: [1976, Sidney L. Greenblatt, editor, The People of Taihang, White Plains, NY: International Arts and Sciences Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 110, 196:
text: But it said the pit dates to the cruelest military campaign of the Warring States period of 476 to 221 B.C. When commander Zhao Kuo was killed, 300,000 of his troops surrendered to rival Qin forces. All were buried alive.
The pit was discovered in Gaoping, a city 350 miles southwest of Beijing in central China’s Shaanxi^([sic – meaning Shanxi]) province.
ref: 1995 October 31, “Archaeologists Find Remains of Soldiers Buried Alive 2,000 Years Ago”, in AP News, archived from the original on 17 Mar 2023:
text: More senior officials from Shanxi are under investigation for alleged corruption, the latest in a series of anti-graft probes focused on the coal-rich province.
The government's anti-corruption investigation department said yesterday that the mayor of Gaoping, Yang Xiaobo, and the deputy head of the work committee for the provincial Communist Party, Guo Zhongshi, were accused of "serious violations of discipline", a term often used to describe graft.
ref: 2014 May 1, Zhang Hong, “More Shanxi officials investigated for corruption”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 03 May 2014, China:
glosses: A county-level city of Jincheng, Shanxi, China.
Lingchuan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: lǐngʹchwänʹ
Forms: form: Ling-ch'uan
Etymology: From Mandarin 陵川.
Senses: glosses: A county of Jincheng, Shanxi, China.
Lingchuan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: lǐngʹchwänʹ
Forms: form: Ling-ch'uan
Etymology: From Mandarin 靈川 /灵川 (Língchuān).
Senses: examples: text: A man from Lingchuan county near Guilin has been arrested for allegedly posing as an employee at the state power company and stealing electricity meters from more than 80 homes, the Guilin Evening News reports.
ref: 2014 October 20, “Teen invents cheap 3D printer; ‘drunks’ in police car that sped from scene”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 Oct 2014, China Insider:
glosses: A county of Guilin, Guangxi autonomous region, China.
Ohau
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Maori.
Senses: examples: text: The latter's loss of time between Manakau and Levin was due to the mishap of dropping the tablet at Ohau, which entailed an out-of-course stop of 3 min. to recover it.
ref: 1939 November, “Overseas Railways: Locomotive Performance in New Zealand”, in Railway Magazine, page 351:
glosses: A village and semi-rural community in Horowhenua district, Manawatū-Whanganui, New Zealand.
West Betuwe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch West Betuwe.
Senses: glosses: A municipality of Gelderland, Netherlands.
behind post
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: behind posts
Senses: qualifier: Australian rules football
glosses: One of a pair of shorter outer posts at either end of the field; a ball kicked between a behind post and a goal post scores one point.
behind posts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of behind post
Puyang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: po͞oʹyängʹ
Forms: form: P'u-yang
Etymology: From Mandarin 濮陽 /濮阳 (Púyáng).
Senses: examples: text: Shantung, Hopei and Honan troops are all converging on Puyang, in the extreme south of Hopei near the Hopei-Shantung border, for a joint attack on the Liu rebels.
ref: 1932 June 25, “Concerted Drive on Communists Is Begun”, in The China Weekly Review, volume 61, number 4, →OCLC, page 138, column 2:
text: A celadon jar with lotus pattern of the sixth century found at Puyang, Honan.
ref: 1976, “Celadons, Old and New”, in Eastern Horizon, volume XV, number 4, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 35:
text: It’s in poor places like Puyang that the ruling Communist party’s battle to narrow China’s yawning wealth gap will be won or lost.
Many residents of this county town about six hours’ drive south of Beijing say their lives have improved thanks to tax cuts and increased spending on education, medical insurance and welfare.
But not everyone is content. Puyang, nestled in the northeastern corner of Henan province, is a study in contrasts.
ref: 2008 January 17, Liangi Chiang, “Corruption blurs China's goal of harmonious society”, in Alan Wheatley, Megan Goldin, editors, Reuters, archived from the original on 09 Jan 2020, Business News:
glosses: A prefecture-level city of Henan, China.
glosses: A county of Puyang, Henan, China.
Tashlinian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Tashlinian
form: most Tashlinian
Etymology: From Tashlin + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Frank Tashlin (1913–1972), American animator, cartoonist, children's writer, illustrator, screenwriter, and film director.
carried a torch for
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of carry a torch for
sluice one's bolt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sluices one's bolt
form: sluicing one's bolt
form: sluiced one's bolt
form: sluiced one's bolt
Senses: examples: text: When his heart has been the least thing warmed with sluicing his bolt and cocking his broseley, he has told us strange stories of foreign countries, so that even old Zingary has turned up the whites of his eyes.
ref: 1845, George William MacArthur Reynolds, The Mysteries of London:
glosses: To drink alcohol.
Koputaroa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Maori.
Senses: glosses: A rural community of Horowhenua district, Manawatū-Whanganui, New Zealand.
Vatra Dornei
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Romanian Vatra Dornei.
Senses: glosses: A city in Suceava County, Romania.
Vintileasca
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Romanian Vintileasca.
Senses: glosses: A commune of Vrancea County, Romania.
glosses: A village in Vintileasca, Vrancea County, Romania.
antialdosterone
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + aldosterone.
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: That counters the effects of aldosterone
artepillin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: artepillins
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of prenylated derivatives of coumaric acid that has antioxidant properties
artepirin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: artepirins
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of artepillin.
Dimmocks
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Dimmock
ctenocheyid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ctenocheyids
Senses: glosses: Any fish of the genus Ctenochaetus
ctenocheyids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ctenocheyid
twelve godfathers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A jury of twelve people.
Plimmers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Plimmer
dehydrobenzperidol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: droperidol
deoxygalactonojirimycin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A deoxy derivative of galactonojirimycin, 1,5-dideoxy-1,5-imino-D-galactitol
Limmer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Limmers
Etymology: Various origins:
* English occupational surname for an illuminator of manuscripts, from Middle English luminour, lymnour.
* Borrowed from German Limmer, an habitational surname from any of several places in Germany.
* Borrowed from Dutch Limmer, from a Germanic personal name composed of Proto-Germanic *liudiz (“people”) + *mēraz (“famous, renowned”).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
dogboning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The excessive, non-uniform expansion of an angioplasty stent
glucosphingosine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The glycolipid glucosyl sphingosine; (2R,5S,6R)-2-[(E,2S,3R)-2-amino-3-hydroxyoctadec-4-enoxy]-6-(hydroxymethyl)oxane-3,4,5-triol
supraclavicular nerve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supraclavicular nerves
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
neuroanatomy
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: Any of three nerves that are descending branches of the cervical plexus arising from the third and fourth cervical nerves and that supply the skin over the upper chest and shoulder.
Lupinacci
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Lupinaccis
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Lupinacci.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
Lupinaccis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Lupinacci
Limmers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Limmer
mendeliome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mendeliomes
Etymology: From Mendelian + -ome.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: All the genes associated with Mendelian inheritance
put bread on the table
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: puts bread on the table
form: putting bread on the table
form: put bread on the table
form: put bread on the table
Senses: glosses: Synonym of put food on the table.
synonyms: word: put food on the table
Synonyms: put food on the table
bring home the bacon
Related terms: bread-and-butter issue
breadwinner
daily bread
microactivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microactivities
Etymology: From micro- + activity.
Senses: glosses: Very small-scale activity
Moultry
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Moultrys
Etymology: Variant of Moultrie.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
sarten
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sartin.
money does not smell
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Forms: form: money has no smell
form: money does not stink
Etymology: Calque of Latin pecūnia nōn olet.
Senses: glosses: The value of money is not affected by the business it comes from, even from the most unpleasant one.
Related terms: where there's muck there's brass
dirty money
ill-gotten gains never prosper
stemwards
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From stem + -wards.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
nautical
transport
glosses: Towards a stem
Mroczkowskis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Mroczkowski
unifactoriality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The condition of being unifactorial
over the head
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: She hit me over the head with a baseball bat.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see over, the, head.
examples: text: After I said that, they would not give me a break. They just kept beating me over the head with it.
text: Her exploration of emotion, too, is slightly muted. You have to stop and consult yourself. Pain — or joy or passion — creep up afterwards. These poems never hit you over the head.
ref: 1982 August 28, Andrea Loewenstein, “Becker's Experience Talks Back”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 7, page 11:
glosses: Dished out in an overly censorious way.
Related terms: over one's head
hang over someone's head
Moultrys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Moultry
Neitz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Neitzes
Etymology: Borrowed from German Neitz.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Okuda
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Okudas
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 奥田 (Okuda).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Japanese.
Okudas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Okuda
Neitzes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Neitz
Waardenburg
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Klein-Waardenburg syndrome
Shah-Waardenburg syndrome
Waardenburg syndrome
Waardenburg-Klein syndrome
Waardenburg-Shah syndrome
keep it simple, stupid
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: KISS
Senses: glosses: Simplicity should be a key aspect in design; don't overcomplicate something.
Derived terms: KISS principle
Pieczynski
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Pieczynskis
Etymology: Borrowed from Polish Pieczyński.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Polish.
Parrent
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Parrents
Etymology: Variant of Parent.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
of the moment
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: We should not give in to the pressures of the moment, but instead think long-term.
glosses: That has fleeting significance; having heightened relevance or importance in the short-term.
Parrents
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Parrent
Pieczynskis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Pieczynski
Seeberger
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Seebergers
Etymology: Borrowed from German Seeberger.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Swygert
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Swygerts
Etymology: Variant of Swigert.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Swygerts
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Swygert
Seebergers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Seeberger
Swander
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Swanders
Etymology: Altered spelling of German Schwander.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Trapasso
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Trapassos
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Trapasso.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
Trapassos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Trapasso
Swanders
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Swander
McNiff
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: McNiffs
form: McEniff
form: McGriff
form: McNeff
form: McNuff
Etymology: Anglicized form of Irish and Scottish Gaelic Mac Conduibh, a patronymic from the personal name Cú Dhubh, composed of the elements cú (“hound”) + dubh (“black”).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Dimmick
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Dimmicks
form: Dimick
form: Dimmock
Etymology: Habitational surname from Dymock, in Gloucestershire, named perhaps from a British word akin to Welsh tymoch (“pigsty”), but more probably from Proto-Celtic *din (“fort”) + an adjectival suffix.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
wikipedia: Dymock
Dimmicks
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Dimmick
Bermuda buttercup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bermuda buttercups
Senses: synonyms: soursop
glosses: Cape sorrel, any of species Oxalis pes-caprae of tristylous plants with yellow flowers.
Bermuda buttercups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bermuda buttercup
Meises
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Meis
McNiffs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of McNiff
Bermuda onion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bermuda onions
Senses: glosses: A variety of sweet onion grown on the island of Bermuda.
Bermuda onions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bermuda onion
zip coded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of zip code
zip coding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of zip code
palichthyology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of palaeoichthyology.
palichnology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of paleoichnology.
paleopsychological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From paleo- + psychological.
Senses: glosses: Relating to paleopsychology.
minorizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minorization
Longburn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A rural settlement just outside Palmerston North, Manawatū-Whanganui, New Zealand.
demure as a whore at a christening
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: as demure as an old whore at a christening
Senses: qualifier: simile
glosses: Utterly demure.
Taiqian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˌtaɪˈt͡ʃjæn/
/ˌtaɪˈt͡ʃjɛn/
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 台前.
Senses: examples: text: In Henan, out-of-plan cotton mills set up illegal purchasing stations in Taiqian County, bid up prices, and fought with official stations for farmers’ crops.
ref: 2003, Andrew H. Wedeman, “Export Protectionism”, in From Mao to Market: Rent Seeking, Local Protectionism, and Marketization in China, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 107:
text: Six people were killed and six injured in three detonator blast accidents in a central Chinese province, Xinhua news agency said on Wednesday.
The first accident happened on Sunday when villagers in Taiqian county, Henan province, were making detonators in a residential building.
ref: 2007 July 17, “Six killed in three China detonator blasts”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 18 Aug 2022, Latest Crisis:
text: Taiqian county in Henan province has issued guidelines saying grooms should pay no more than 60,000 yuan (HK$67,000) as a “bride price”, the Chinese tradition that a male partner offers money to his fiancée’s family to secure their marriage.
ref: 2017 January 4, Liu Zhen, “Don’t pay over 60,000 yuan for a bride, say Chinese officials”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 Jan 2017, China:
glosses: A county of Puyang, Henan, China.
Pontin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Hualong
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: hwäʹlo͝ongʹ
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 化隆 (Huàlóng).
Senses: examples: text: "The aim of the warning shots was to stop local people from obstructing construction work," the government of Qinghai's Hualong Hui Autonomous County said in a statement.
ref: 2014 August 15, Gao Shan, Wen Yuqing, Luisetta Mudie, “Chinese Police Fire 'Warning Shots' Amid Clashes Over Solar Farm”, in Luisetta Mudie, transl., Radio Free Asia, archived from the original on 26 Aug 2014:
glosses: A Hui autonomous county in Haidong, Qinghai, China.
Hualong
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: hwäʹlo͝ongʹ
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 華龍 /华龙.
Senses: examples: text: But behind the impressive infrastructure already in Puyang, that includes broad streets and big squares, is a mountain of local debt. According to a government document, Hualong, the downtown district that houses the current railway station and future high-speed railway terminal, had implicit off-budget liability – borrowing through local financing vehicles or from guaranteeing local development loans – of 2.6 billion yuan (US$378 million) at the end of June 2018, three times its on-budget debt.
ref: 2019 July 8, Frank Tang, “China struggling with slow progress on high-speed rail network expansion due to local financing problems”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 08 Jul 2019, China Economy:
text: Among the 8 urban cancer registration areas, the age-specific incidence rate of lung cancer in males was the highest in Hualong District of Puyang City (82.90/105), followed by Luohe City and Shihe District of Xinyang City. In females, it was the highest in Hualong District of Puyang City (45.92/105), followed by Luoyang City and Shihe District of Xinyang City. The highest age-standardized mortality rates in both males (74.57/105) and female (22.87/105) were in Hualong District of Puyang City. (Figure 5-10g)
ref: 2020, Jiangong (张建功) Zhang, edited by 张韶凯 [Zhang Shaokai], 2019河南省肿瘤登记年报 [Cancer Report in Henan, 2019], 河南科学技术出版社, →ISBN, page https://books.google.com/books?id=8BQpEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT260:
english: Cancer Report in Henan, 2019
translation: Cancer Report in Henan, 2019
glosses: A district of Puyang, Henan, China.
McKevitts
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of McKevitt
Qingfeng
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 清豐 /清丰.
Senses: examples: text: 頓邱 A district belonging to the Wei State 衛國. It was located about 25 li southwest of what is now Ch’ing-fêng-hsien 清豐縣 Hopei.
ref: [1934, “The Travels of Emperor Mu”, in Chêng Tê-k’un, transl., Journal of the North China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society for the Year 1934, volume LXV, Shanghai: Kelly & Walsh, Limited, →OCLC, page 135:
text: Two men have been detained in Qingfeng county, Puyang , for allegedly using nude photos and sex videos to blackmail dozens of prostitutes,[…]
ref: 2013 February 1, “China Digest, February 1, 2013”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 20 Aug 2023, China:
text: The youngsters, aged seven and nine, had gone with their mother Li Xiaoli at the end of last month to visit a man-made lake near the village of Xizhaolou in Qingfeng county, in central China's Henan province.
ref: 2015 March 5, Corey Charlton, “Begging for forgiveness, woman whose daughters were saved by student who drowned as he pulled them from a lake... only for the mother to tell her girls to LIE about his death in case she was blamed”, in Daily Mail, archived from the original on 20 Apr 2015:
glosses: A county of Puyang, Henan, China.
Nanle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: nänʹlôʹ
Etymology: From Mandarin 南樂 /南乐 (Nánlè).
Senses: examples: text: In 1993, the district government’s unreasonable grain tax incited a collective tax refusal by the peasant inhabitants of Jing Degu village in Jing Degu district in Nanle county (Henan province).
ref: 1997, Ralph A. Thaxton, Jr., “Everyday Forms of Resistance”, in Protest, Power, and Change: An Encyclopedia of Nonviolent Action from ACT-UP to Women's Suffrage, Garland Publishing, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 175:
text: In another case in Nanle County of Henan, the authorities arrested the leader of the Protestant Three-Self Patriotic Movement Committee and several coworkers. This Christian leader in the officially sanctioned church had engaged in a series of weiquan activities.
ref: 2016, Fenggang Yang, “The Growth and Dynamism of Chinese Christianity”, in Christianity and Freedom, volume II, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 181:
text: Meanwhile, the Weiquanwang rights website reported growing fears for the health of Henan Protestant pastor Zhang Shaojie, who is halfway through a 12-year jail term for "gathering a crowd to disrupt public order" after his church ran afoul of authorities in Henan's Nanle county.[...]
After officials seized control of Zhang's state-sanctioned church in 2013, sealing it off from the congregation, hundreds of Protestant worshipers from Shenzhen, Shanghai, Jiangsu, Hebei, Shandong, and Beijing converged on Nanle county over Christmas to show support for the church, which was a member of the Chinese Communist Party's Three-Self Patriotic Association of Protestant churches.
ref: 2019 December 23, Gao Feng, Wang Yun, “Beijing Denies Report of 'Forced Labor' Hidden in Christmas Card Made in China”, in Luisetta Mudie, transl., edited by Luisetta Mudie, Radio Free Asia, archived from the original on 23 Dec 2019:
glosses: A county of Puyang, Henan, China.
Hampdens
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Hampden
subimperialisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sub-imperialisms
Senses: glosses: plural of subimperialism
rerivet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rerivets
form: reriveting
form: rerivetting
form: reriveted
form: reriveted
form: rerivetted
form: rerivetted
Etymology: From re- + rivet.
Senses: glosses: To fit with new rivets.
reriveted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rerivet
rerivets
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rerivet
reriveting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rerivet
rescratch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rescratches
form: rescratching
form: rescratched
form: rescratched
Etymology: From re- + scratch.
Senses: glosses: To scratch again.
rescratches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rescratch
rescratching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rescratch
rescratched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rescratch
reshunt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reshunts
form: reshunting
form: reshunted
form: reshunted
Etymology: From re- + shunt.
Senses: glosses: To shunt again.
reshunts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reshunt
reshunting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reshunt
reshunted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reshunt
reshut
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reshuts
form: reshutting
form: reshut
form: reshut
Etymology: From re- + shut.
Senses: glosses: To shut again.
reshut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Hebrew רְשׁוּת.
Senses: examples: text: Arvit is a reshut (an optional prayer) and although it has become established and is now mandatory, the Amidah is not repeated by the Sheli'ah Tzibbur.
ref: 1996, Macy Nulman, The Encyclopedia of Jewish Prayer, page 162:
glosses: An optional prayer.
Derived terms: milchemet reshut
reshutting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reshut
reshuts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reshut
reslide
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reslides
form: resliding
form: reslid
form: reslid
Etymology: From re- + slide.
Senses: glosses: To slide again.
reslid
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reslide
reslides
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reslide
resliding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reslide
resnap
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: resnaps
form: resnapping
form: resnapped
form: resnapped
Etymology: From re- + snap.
Senses: glosses: To snap again.
resnapped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of resnap
resnaps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of resnap
resnapping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of resnap
retardingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more retardingly
form: most retardingly
Etymology: From retarding + -ly.
Senses: glosses: So as to retard or hinder.
returnlessly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From returnless + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Without returning.
Reubenite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈruː.bə.naɪt/
ipa: /ˈru.bə.naɪt/
Forms: form: Reubenites
Etymology: From Reuben + -ite.
Senses: glosses: A descendant of Reuben, first son of Jacob.
glosses: A descendant or member of the tribe of Reuben.
Reubenite
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈruː.bə.naɪt/
ipa: /ˈru.bə.naɪt/
Etymology: From Reuben + -ite.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Reuben, or to the tribe of Reuben.
Related terms: word: Abraham
word: Isaac
word: and Jacob
sense: descendants of the patriarch Jacob, later renamed Israel
alt: Asherite
word: Asher
alt: Benjaminite
word: Benjamin
alt: Danite
word: Dan
alt: Gadite
word: Gad
alt: Issacharite
word: Issachar
alt: Josephite: Ephraim (Ephraimite); Manasseh (Manassite)
word: Joseph
alt: Judahite
word: Judah
alt: Levite
word: Levi
alt: Naphtalite
word: Naphtali
alt: Reubenite
word: Reuben
alt: Simeonite
word: Simeon
alt: Zebulunite
word: Zebulun
word: Israel
word: Israeli
word: Israelite
word: Israelitic
word: Israelitish
word: Jew
word: Jewish
word: Judah
word: Judean
Reubenites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Reubenite
reundercut
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reundercuts
form: reundercutting
form: reundercut
form: reundercut
Etymology: From re- + undercut.
Senses: glosses: To undercut again.
reuplift
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reuplifts
form: reuplifting
form: reuplifted
form: reuplifted
Etymology: From re- + uplift.
Senses: glosses: To uplift again.
reundercutting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reundercut
reundercuts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reundercut
reuplifted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reuplift
reuplifts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reuplift
reuplifting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reuplift
reversingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From reversing + -ly.
Senses: glosses: While reversing.
reviolation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: violation again
rewelcome
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rewelcomes
form: rewelcoming
form: rewelcomed
form: rewelcomed
Etymology: From re- + welcome.
Senses: glosses: To welcome again.
rewelcomed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rewelcome
rewelcomes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rewelcome
rewelcoming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rewelcome
rewithdraw
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rewithdraws
form: rewithdrawing
form: rewithdrew
form: rewithdrawn
Etymology: From re- + withdraw.
Senses: glosses: To withdraw again.
rewithdrawn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of rewithdraw
rewithdraws
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rewithdraw
rewithdrawing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rewithdraw
rewithdrew
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of rewithdraw
revolunteer
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: revolunteers
form: revolunteering
form: revolunteered
form: revolunteered
Etymology: From re- + volunteer.
Senses: glosses: To volunteer again.
revolunteered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of revolunteer
revolunteers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of revolunteer
revolunteering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of revolunteer
romanticistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more romanticistic
form: most romanticistic
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to romanticism.
Romishly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more Romishly
form: most Romishly
Etymology: From Romish + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a Romish manner.
Romishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Romish + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being Romish.
roomward
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From room + -ward.
Senses: glosses: Toward a room.
Criggion
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small village in Bausley with Criggion community, Powys, Wales, originally in Montgomeryshire (OS grid ref SJ2915).
roughhouser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: roughhousers
Etymology: From roughhouse + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who roughhouses.
roughhousers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of roughhouser