cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
percussive maintenance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈkʌsɪv ˈmeɪnt(ə)nəns/
ipa: /-tɪ-/
ipa: /pɚˈkʌsɪv ˈmeɪnt(ə)nəns/
ipa: /-tɪ-/
Senses: examples: text: If percussive maintenance and other home remedies have failed, you should try running a general diagnostic utility. Better yet, run several.
ref: 1986, Neil J. Rubenking, PC Magazine: The Independent Guide to IBM-standard Personal Computing, volume 19, New York, N.Y.: PC Communications Corp., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 229, column 2:
text: Early trips reported trouble that seemed to be fixed by using a wrench to apply repeated doses of percussive maintenance.
ref: 1996, Alex Law, “Benz touts hydrogen-based fuel cell”, in Toronto Star:
text: There was a time when all that was required to use the office copier, printer or fax machine was the ability to fish out paper jams and a knack for percussive maintenance – known in layman's terms as a good hard thump.
ref: 2002 July 30, Adam Turner, “Multi-function devices ‘present untapped opportunities’”, in The Sydney Morning Herald, archived from the original on 25 Jul 2014:
text: Babies react with rage when their arms are suddenly pinned at their sides, and adults may lash out by swearing or breaking things when they hit their thumb with a hammer or are surprised by not getting what they expect (as in the technique of computer repair called percussive maintenance).
ref: 2011, Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence has Declined, New York, N.Y.: Viking Books, →ISBN:
text: An example for such can be ""percussive maintenance"", which is the art of utilizing physical measures (typically physical blows, hence the name) for an item to re-function.
ref: 2022, Strack, Defèr et al., “Development of a Learning Game for the Implementation of Maintenance & Reliability Systems for Onshore Wind Parks”, in CPSL Proceedings, page 341:
glosses: The use of physical concussion, such as a knock or a tap, in an attempt to make a malfunctioning device work.
Synonyms: technical tap
mechanical agitation
coitize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: coitizes
form: coitizing
form: coitized
form: coitized
Etymology: From coitus (“sexual intercourse”), from Latin coitus, + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: She attempts to get on top of smaller boys and pretends to coitize them, in a manner which is forbidden to "good women", […]
ref: 1948, Journal of Clinical and Experimental Psychopathology & Quarterly Review of Psychiatry and Neurology, Volume 9 (Psychiatry), page 443:
text: "Will you all allow me to coitize you? Now, traditionally, the man is viewed as the coitizer and the woman as the coitized one.
ref: 1959, Journal of the Hillside Hospital, Volume 8, Digitized edition (Psychiatry), published 2009, page 272:
glosses: To sexually penetrate.
Synonyms: go to bed with
sleep with
copulate with
mile-a-minute
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mile-a-minutes
form: mile a minute
Senses: glosses: Any of several species of fast-growing plants, some of which are extremely invasive outside their native range and undesirable.
Persicaria perfoliata; Polygonum perfoliatum; Asiatic tearthumb; kudzu of the North.
glosses: Any of several species of fast-growing plants, some of which are extremely invasive outside their native range and undesirable.
Kudzu; Pueraria lobata; Pueraria montana var. lobata.
glosses: Any of several species of fast-growing plants, some of which are extremely invasive outside their native range and undesirable.
Ipomoea cairica, a species of morning glory.
glosses: Any of several species of fast-growing plants, some of which are extremely invasive outside their native range and undesirable.
Mikania micrantha.
glosses: Any of several species of fast-growing plants, some of which are extremely invasive outside their native range and undesirable.
Fallopia baldschuanica.
glosses: Any of several species of fast-growing plants, some of which are extremely invasive outside their native range and undesirable.
Dipogon lignosus.
mile-a-minute
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: mile a minute
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Baird adds that this is not the first post-war example of a mile-a-minute timing in G.S.W.R. territory.
ref: 1961 April, “Talking of Trains”, in Trains Illustrated, page 194:
glosses: At the rate of one mile per minute; sixty miles per hour.
mile-a-minute
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: mile a minute
Senses: examples: text: He was all excited after the game, talking a mile-a-minute about the last-second shot.
glosses: Very fast.
molluscum contagiosum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin inflected forms of molluscus (“soft”), + contagiosus (“contagious”) (from contagio (“contact”)).
Senses: examples: text: The virus causing molluscum contagiosum is a member of the DNA pox family. It is particularly prevalent in underdeveloped countries, and afflicts over 20% of the population in some South Pacific regions. Children are its prime target, but adults can be affected as well.
ref: 2002, Mark B. Mengel, Warren Lee Holleman, Scott A. Fields, Fundamentals of Clinical Practice, page 774:
text: Molluscum contagiosum is a viral infection caused by the large poxvirus, and, as the name implies, it is spread by direct contact. In older adolescents and adults, it is most often passed by sexual contact.
ref: 2002, Richard B Birrer, Mary B. Cataletto, Pediatric Sports Medicine for Primary Care, page 156:
text: Molluscum contagiosum is a benign lesion usually seen on the skin and caused by a poxvirus.[…]An increased incidence of molluscum contagiosum has been observed in patients with HIV infection.[…]Molluscum contagiosum is extremely rare in the oral cavity.
ref: 2003, George Laskaris, Color Atlas of Oral Diseases, page 154:
text: It has been estimated that in the United States, office visits for molluscum contagiosum account for about 0.2% of total outpatient visits (22).
ref: 2010, Libby Edwards, Peter J. Lynch, Genital Dermatology Atlas, page 203:
topics: dermatology
medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A viral infection of the skin or (occasionally) mucous membranes, caused by Molluscum contagiosum virus (MCV), a DNA poxvirus.
Synonyms: word: MC
word: water wart
Related terms: MCV
Poxviridae
dog's breakfasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dog's breakfast
bif
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: LGBT
glosses: A public washroom.
hypocapnia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hypo- + capn- + -ia; more at capno- § Etymology.
Senses: examples: text: The patient Ms. Gompert seemed both to be fighting for breath and to be breathing rapidly enough to induce hypocapnia […]
ref: 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 69:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A state of diminished carbon dioxide in the blood.
Synonyms: hypocarbia
hypercarbia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hyper- + carb- + -ia.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: the condition of having an abnormally high concentration of carbon dioxide in the blood
Synonyms: hypercapnia
vibro-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: vibration
exchange student
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exchange students
Senses: glosses: A student who is participating in a student exchange scheme.
exchange students
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exchange student
eighty-oneth
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌeɪti ˈwʌnθ/
Etymology: From eighty-one + -th (ordinal suffix).
Senses: examples: text: If the diameter of the moon were the same as that of the earth, a body weighing one pound on the earth would weigh only one eighty-oneth part of a pound on the moon.
ref: 1907, Garrett Serviss, The moon: a popular treatise, page 35:
glosses: eighty-first
Synonyms: eighty-first
seventy-oneth
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌsɛvənti ˈwʌnθ/
Etymology: From seventy-one + -th (ordinal suffix).
Senses: glosses: seventy-first
seventy-oneth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌsɛvənti ˈwʌnθ/
Forms: form: seventy-oneths
Etymology: From seventy-one + -th (ordinal suffix).
Senses: examples: text: he found ... that the circumference was three times the diameter plus a quantity which was less than a seventh but more than ten seventy-oneᵗʰˢ.
ref: 1892, Frederic Harrison, “Archimedes”, in The new calendar of great men, page 124:
glosses: seventy-first (a fractional part of seventy-one)
sixty-oneth
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌsɪksti ˈwʌnθ/
Etymology: From sixty-one + -th (ordinal suffix).
Senses: glosses: sixty-first
sixty-oneth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌsɪksti ˈwʌnθ/
Forms: form: sixty-oneths
Etymology: From sixty-one + -th (ordinal suffix).
Senses: examples: text: With an area of 3367 square miles [Corsica] is only a sixty-oneth of the area of France and four thirty-thirds of that of Italy.
ref: 1899, Scottish Geographical Magazine vol. 15, page 641:
glosses: A fractional part of sixty-one
Synonyms: sixty-first
twenty-oneth
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌtwɛnti ˈwʌnθ/
Etymology: From twenty-one + -th (ordinal suffix).
Senses: glosses: twenty-first
twenty-oneth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌtwɛnti ˈwʌnθ/
Forms: form: twenty-oneths
Etymology: From twenty-one + -th (ordinal suffix).
Senses: examples: text: average ministerial age of pastors 22 years and nineteen twenty-oneths; average pastoral age, 13 years and ten twenty-oneths
ref: 1844, “VI. New London Association.”, in Minutes of the General Association of Connecticut, at their Meeting in New London: June, 1844., page Appendix, p. 32:
glosses: A fractional part of twenty-one, a twenty-first
Synonyms: twenty-first
thirty-oneth
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌθɜːti ˈwʌnθ/
ipa: /ˌθɚti ˈwʌnθ/
Etymology: From thirty-one + -th (ordinal suffix).
Senses: glosses: thirty-first
thirty-oneth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌθɜːti ˈwʌnθ/
ipa: /ˌθɚti ˈwʌnθ/
Forms: form: thirty-oneths
Etymology: From thirty-one + -th (ordinal suffix).
Senses: examples: text: about twenty thirty-oneths in value of such sales being made as hereinafter mentioned to a syndicate of persons in the United Kingdom, about seven thirty-oneths to residents in the United States, and about four thirty-oneths to residents in other European countries and the colonies.
ref: August 15, 1896, “Brooke & Co. (Limited) v. Commissioners of Inland Revenue”, in The Weekly Reporter vol. XLIV, Supreme Court of Judicature, House of Lords, London., page 671:
glosses: A fractional part of which thirty-one make up a whole
Synonyms: thirty-first
fifty-oneth
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌfɪfti ˈwʌnθ/
Etymology: From fifty-one + -th (ordinal suffix).
Senses: glosses: fifty-first
fifty-oneth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌfɪfti ˈwʌnθ/
Etymology: From fifty-one + -th (ordinal suffix).
Senses: examples: text: But the eye could only divine, could not measure, the difference between the fiftieth of a millimetre and the fifty-oneth, and she wished to measure.
ref: 1925, M. P. Shiel, The Black Box, page 81:
glosses: A fractional part of fifty-one.
Synonyms: fifty-first
forty-oneth
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌfɔːti ˈwʌnθ/
ipa: /ˌfɔɹti ˈwʌnθ/
Etymology: From forty-one + -th (ordinal suffix).
Senses: examples: (see table 9.1 with row numbers four, ten, and sixteen terminating respectively at the eleventh, twenty-ninth and forty-oneth place) —A. R. Rajwade, 2001. Convex polyhedra with regularity conditions and Hilbert's third problem, p. 72.
The begár ka Chamár receives a fortieth or forty-oneth part of the grain ; and for this he provides a man to work in the fields whenever special work is in hand, —Denzil Ibbetson, 1883. Report on the Revision of Settlement of the Panipat Tahsil & Karnal Parganah of the Karnal District, Chap. VII, Para. 284.
Provided that in estates in which before the passing of this Act engagements have been taken from the landholder for the payment of the land revenue and settlement cesses in one consolidated sum, ... one-forty-oneth part of such sum shall be deducted on account of such cesses —"Local Rates (Oudh)", Act no. V. 1894, Part II, The Consolidated Local Rate, 3, p. 103. Legislative Acts of Lieutenant Governor, 1887–1901, with amendments. United Provinces of Agra and Oudh (India)
glosses: forty-first
Synonyms: forty-first
arracachas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arracacha
oneths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oneth
villotta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: villottas
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian villotta.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A form of popular song from Friuli
feminocentric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more feminocentric
form: most feminocentric
form: feminacentric
Senses: examples: text: As has often been remarked, French prose fiction of the Enlightenment is more often feminocentric than its English counterpart.
ref: 1989, Joan E. DeJean, Fictions of Sappho, 1546-1937, page 116
text: The radical absence of women's experience — and, thus, of the actual feminine — from the ostensibly feminocentric terms of Plato's erotic doctrine should warn us not to interpret Plato's strategy simplistically […]
ref: 1999, Ronald Hutton, The Royalist war effort, 1642-1646, page 145
glosses: woman-centric, focused on women; of or pertaining to feminocentrism
Related terms: feminocentrism
gangboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gangboards
Etymology: From gang (“way, path, course of travel”) + board (“plank”).
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A board or plank used as a temporary footbridge between a ship and a dockside or any gap such as scaffolding.
examples: text: The brigantine's yawl under the port gangboard was put over, and three volunteers offered to row for help.
ref: 2005, Edward Rowe Snow, Jeremy D'Entremont, William Quinn, Storms and Shipwrecks of New England, Applewood Books, →ISBN, page 45:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A board or plank placed within or without the bulwarks of a vessel's waist for lookouts to walk or stand on.
glosses: The boards ending the hammock-nettings at either side of the entrance from the accommodation-ladder to the deck.
Related terms: gangplank
gangway
feminacentric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more feminacentric
form: most feminacentric
Senses: examples: text: Classification reflected category oppositions (superior—inferior, close—distant), mostly applied to a sibling pair or a married couple. From the terms of the B—Z pair, the characteristic feature of complementary opposition can be deduced. The classification was applied on a feminacentric principle in a majority of cases […] and viricentric […]
ref: 1968, John-Erik Oscar Elmberg, Balance and circulation: Aspects of tradition and change among the Mejprat of Irian Brapat, page 51:
glosses: Alternative spelling of feminocentric.
femalecentric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more femalecentric
form: most femalecentric
Senses: examples: text: But these days just as knitting, sewing, needlepoint, and so many other femalecentric traditions are coming back into vogue, the younger, hipper set is starting to see the value in taking up the trowel.
ref: 2005, Gayla Trail, You Grow Girl: The Groundbreaking Guide to Gardening, page 8:
text: Whether one has endured a single knockout blow, cumulative indignities, or sheer annoyance from a lifetime of milder femalecentric slights, a whole lot of women are admitting they just aren't feeling inclined to open up […]
ref: 2010, Kelly Valen, The Twisted Sisterhood: Unraveling the Dark Legacy of Female Friendships, page 80:
text: "It hit the nerve button," says Marcelle Karp, coeditor of the femalecentric zine Bust. "They made it okay for women to bond together like they did in the 70s […]"
ref: 1999 Sep, SPIN, volume 15, number 9, page 146:
glosses: Alternative spelling of female-centric
stickwater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From stick + water.
Senses: glosses: A solution of proteins and other bio-nutrients obtained as a coproduct in the processing of animal by-products; typically produced at a slaughterhouse, or at rendering facilities which processes fishmeal or meat and bone meal. Stickwater is furthermore processed and added to animal feeds as a source of nutrients.
subgames
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subgame
infrahuman
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more infrahuman
form: most infrahuman
Etymology: From infra- + human.
Senses: examples: text: By his hubristic defiance of time, Dorian wanders into an infrahuman realm where he is at the mercy of pitiless daemonic agents.
ref: 1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae:
glosses: Below the level of the human.
In a spiritual or metaphysical way.
antonyms: suprahuman
superhuman
glosses: Below the level of the human.
In a taxonomic way that views humans as innately superior to other primates and other mammals.
synonyms: nonhuman
subhuman
coordinate_terms: prehuman
infrahuman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: infrahumans
Etymology: From infra- + human.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: A creature that is not (yet) at the level of understanding of a human being, such as a presymbolic child or an animal.
infrahumans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of infrahuman
presymbolic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + symbolic.
Senses: examples: text: Those nonverbal means of communication that are used tend to be presymbolic.
ref: 1995, Kathleen Ann Quill, Teaching Children With Autism, page 18:
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: Not yet able to use symbols to communicate.
postsymbolic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + symbolic.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: Having reached the stage of being able to communicate by means of symbols.
topics: art
arts
glosses: Beyond traditional symbolic communications or representations.
prizings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpɹaɪzɪŋz/
Senses: glosses: plural of prizing
shrivings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shriving
promotingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more promotingly
form: most promotingly
Etymology: From promoting + -ly.
Senses: glosses: So as to promote.
diskos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diskoi
Etymology: From Ancient Greek δίσκος (dískos) (nominative plural δίσκοι (dískoi)). Doublet of dais, desk, disc, discus, dish, and disk.
Senses: topics: Christianity
qualifier: chiefly Eastern Orthodoxy
glosses: A small plate used to hold eucharistic bread which is to be consecrated; a paten.
diskoi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diskos
cobblerfish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cobblerfish
form: cobblerfishes
Etymology: From cobbler + fish.
Senses: glosses: Any of various catfish.
examples: text: Common pompano, carolina pompano, cobblerfish, butterfish.
ref: 1958, C. Richard Robins, Check List of the Florida Game and Commercial Marine Fishes, Including Those of the Gulf of Mexico and the West Indies, with Approved Common Names:
text: Florida Pompano--Trachinotus carolinus. Other names: pompano, cobblerfish, palometa
ref: 2008, David A. McKee, Fishes of the Texas Laguna Madre: A Guide for Anglers and Naturalists:
text: Also known as cobblerfish, the Carolina or Florida pompano is so similar in body construction to the permit that an ichthyologist may be needed to distinguish 2- or 3- pounds specimens of these species.
ref: 2016, Nick Karas, Sight Fishing the Flats and Beyond:
glosses: Trachinotus carolinus
Synonyms: sense: Trachinotus carolinus
word: cobbler
sense: Trachinotus carolinus
word: Florida pompano
sense: Trachinotus carolinus
word: pompano
sense: Trachinotus carolinus
word: palometa
sense: Trachinotus carolinus
word: butterfish
sense: Trachinotus carolinus
word: crevalle
cobblerfishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cobblerfish
khakkhara
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: khakkharas
Etymology: Borrowed from Sanskrit खक्खर (khakkhara, “beggar’s staff”).
Senses: topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: a monk's staff used especially by a Buddhist mendicant as a tool for begging or as a weapon
tag on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tags on
form: tagging on
form: tagged on
form: tagged on
Senses: examples: text: Contactless smart card readers can be mounted at each door of an LRT car, allowing a rider to “tag on” and “tag off” on boarding and alighting the vehicle.
ref: 2003, Daniel Fleishman, United States. Federal Transit Administration, National Research Council (U.S.). Transportation Research Board, Fare policies, structures and technologies: update, page 39
text: Tag-on/tag-off on bus services with variable fares and transfer rebates have worked very well in Singapore.
ref: 2006, Mike McDonald, Intelligent transport systems in Europe, page 40:
qualifier: chiefly public transport
glosses: To hover an RFID device such as a smartcard over a receiver, often with a graphical user interface, in order to make a payment or gain access to the vehicle.
Synonyms: swipe
flash
tag
touch in
tags on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tag on
tagging on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tag on
tagged on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tag on
tag off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tags off
form: tagging off
form: tagged off
form: tagged off
Senses: qualifier: chiefly public transport
glosses: To hover an RFID device such as a smartcard over a receiver, often with a graphical user interface, in order to confirm the end of use or one's exit from the vehicle.
Synonyms: touch out
crystal dick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crystal dicks
Senses: examples: text: A former hustler who has been at this bar every night this week says "crystal dick" isn't a problem for him, but he has seen others rub their dicks so raw that they bleed.
ref: 1998 May 26, Doug Sadownick, “Spinning out of control”, in The Advocate:
text: Users also report that crystal heightens sexual arousal and increases stamina by delaying orgasm, and they report highly intense orgasms. However, after long-term use, the urge to ejaculate becomes all-comsuming. Impotence is a long-term consequence, and users develop “crystal dick,” which is the inability to have an erection.
ref: 2003, Jeffrey N. Chernin, Melissa R. Johnson, Affirmative Psychotherapy and Counseling for Lesbians and Gay Men, Sage Publications, published 2003, →ISBN, page 95:
text: The impotence drug finally gave meth users a way around "crystal dick," the erectile dysfunction typical with crystal.
ref: 2005 September 27, Chad Graham, “Back from the Brink”, in The Advocate:
text: Some crystal users report that the combination of increased anal sensitivity and crystal dick tends to make them “instant bottoms” (Frosch, Shoptaw, Huber, Rawson, & Ling, 1996; Heredia, 2003).
ref: 2006, Michael Shernoff, Without Condoms: Unprotected Sex, Gay Men and Barebacking, Routledge, published 2006, →ISBN:
glosses: Erectile dysfunction caused by methamphetamine use or other drug use.
glosses: A penis that is flaccid as a result of methamphetamine or other drug use.
Synonyms: erectile dysfunction
crystal dicks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crystal dick
ridealong
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ridealongs
Etymology: Deverbal from ride along.
Senses: examples: text: It is these small payload experiments that could potentially benefit from low cost ridealong opportunities.
ref: 1996, Mohamed S. El-Genk (University of New Mexico, Institute for Space and Nuclear Power Studies, United States Defense Nuclear Agency), Space Technology and Applications International Forum, link
text: The ridealong probe questions used to initiate the unstructured interviews are listed in Appendix A.
ref: 2006, Edward J. Glantz (Pennsylvania State University), Challenges supporting cognitive activities in dynamic work, page 46
text: But even before the ridealong, a good police psychologist has examined the job description and the job analysis.
ref: 2010, Peter A. Weiss, Personality Assessment in Police Psychology: A 21st Century, page 42:
glosses: The act of accompanying, or volunteering with, a police, paramedic, or firefighting group, usually by a student seeking hands-on experience.
examples: text: Bouza also confirmed that the police had brought two civilians with tem, including the 19-year-old son of one officer who helped to carry out the beer which was seized as evidence. Both were registered as "ride alongs" that night and their presence did not violate any laws, but Bouza saw this as another instance in which the officers showed "questionable judgment."
ref: 1983 August 20, Ruth Borenstein, “Harassment, Bad Judgment Cited in Twin Cities Bust”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 6, page 6:
glosses: One who participates in this.
ride along
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rides along
form: riding along
form: rode along
form: ridden along
Senses: glosses: To go for a ride with another or others; especially, to join police officers on their patrol in a patrol car.
ride along
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ride alongs
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of ridealong.
ride alongs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ride along
ridealongs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ridealong
accompanyings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of accompanying
Vietnamese balm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A Southeast Asian herb used in food for its lemon flavor, especially in Vietnamese cuisine, Elsholtzia ciliata
Thai basil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Thai basils
Senses: glosses: A type of sweet basil from Southeast Asia, notable for the anise/tarragon overtones in its flavor, and for the attractive purple color of the leaves and bracts in its flower spikes.
wikipedia: Thai basil
lemon basil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lemon basils
Senses: glosses: Any Southeast Asian basil of species Ocimum × citriodorum, notable for the lemon/citrus overtones to its flavor.
lemon basils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lemon basil
girsha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: girshas
Etymology: From Irish girseach.
Senses: glosses: A young girl.
Vietnamese coriander
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: hot mint
Vietnamese mint
Vietnamese cilantro
Cambodian mint
laksa leaf
praew leaf
glosses: Persicaria odorata, a cilantro-flavored herb used in Vietnamese cuisine.
garland chrysanthemum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: garland chrysanthemums
Etymology: From garland + chrysanthemum.
Senses: glosses: An herb eaten in Asia as greens, Glebionis coronaria.
Synonyms: chop suey greens
crown daisy
edible chrysanthemum
garland chrysanthemums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of garland chrysanthemum
caninophile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: caninophiles
Etymology: From canine + -o- + -phile.
Senses: examples: text: What was the name of her father, the old banker who made love to his dog and wintered in Portugal – a caninophile, gone in the tooth, gone in the wind?
ref: 1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 930:
text: Of course Justice Mariner is something of a caninophile himself, never mind that Stong, his idiot golden retriever, is now in Penny Mariner's sole custody and I am actually the loyal companion animal […]
ref: 2005, Jeffrey Miller, Murder's Out of Tune, ECW Press:
text: I am as much of a caninophile as the next Englishman. I had a beagle at the time, name of Biggles, and I adored him as if he were my own child, almost.
ref: 2010, Simon Winchester, “Speciality of the House”, in A Moveable Feast, Lonely Planet, published 2010, page 191:
glosses: Someone who loves dogs.
caninophiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of caninophile
Celestial Empire
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Celestial Empire
Etymology: Calque of Literary Chinese 天朝 (Tiāncháo).
Senses: examples: text: It is true, there is Turkish of which I had picked up a few phrases, and there is Chinese of which I did not understand a single word. But I had no fear of remaining dumb in Turkestan and the Celestial Empire.
ref: a. 1905, anonymous translator, The Adventures of a Special Correspondent Among the Various Races and Countries of Central Asia, translation of Claudius Bombarnac by Jules Verne:
text: Had it not been for the casual discovery in the year 1625 of a deeply buried black marble tablet near Hsi-an containing nearly 1,700 Chinese characters, and a long list of names of priests in Syriac, the fact that such a sect rooted itself in the Celestial Empire would never have been believed, as indeed after the tablet was unearthed it was for a long time discredited.
ref: 1912, Arthur Henderson Smith, “Uplifting Leaders”, in The Uplift of China, →OCLC, page 117:
text: LIKE THE MANDARINS of old, the rulers of China live behind high walls. When they emerge, which they rarely do, they travel in cars with rear windows curtained like sedan chairs.
They live in the Chung Nan Hai, a walled park adjacent to the Forbidden City from where ancient dynasties ruled the Celestial Empire.
ref: 1991, Chris Mullin, The Year of the Fire Monkey (Fiction), London: Chatto & Windus, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 252:
text: […] Does China want to supplant the U.S. wholesale as the global superpower[…]? Or does it want to retreat and become the celestial empire once more, as the Qing dynasty once called itself—close the doors against all of the barbarians, seize Taiwan because it must[,] to fulfill the aims of Mao in the Civil War, and mostly dominate its near neighbors?
ref: 2025 September 4, Ross Douthat, quoting Dan Wang, “This Is Why America Is Losing to China”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
synonyms: Cathay
China
Empire of China
glosses: The Empire of China.
Derived terms: english: a person from the Celestial Empire
translation: a person from the Celestial Empire
word: celestial
Related terms: Celestial City
Son of Heaven
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Son of Heaven
Etymology: Calque of Literary Chinese 天子 (tiānzǐ), from the Emperor having the Mandate of Heaven.
Senses: glosses: Emperor of China
Related terms: word: Mandate of Heaven
word: Celestial Empire
english: Japanese equivalent
translation: Japanese equivalent
word: God Emperor
Inner Tibet
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: the area of high ethnic Tibetan populations that are outside of the area roughly equivalent to the Tibetan Autonomous Region, but inside of China
Coordinate terms: Tibet
Greater Tibet
Outer Tibet
South Tibet
Outer Tibet
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The British Government never recognised that China had the right to march troops into Tibet to settle any issue between them. China’s suzerainty over Outer Tibet was only nominal.
ref: 1960, Girilal Jain, “India's Failure in Tibet”, in Panchsheela and After: A Re-appraisal of Sino-Indian Relations in the Context of the Tibetan Insurrection, Asia Publishing House, →OCLC, page 46:
glosses: The area of predominantly ethnic Tibetan populations that is roughly equivalent to the Tibet Autonomous Region
Coordinate terms: Tibet
Greater Tibet
Inner Tibet
South Tibet
South Tibet
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Calque of Chinese 藏南 (Zàngnán).
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see south, Tibet. (the southern part of Tibet)
examples: text: The Sino-Indian border dispute involves about 13, 500 square miles in Ladakh and Aksai Chin and about 35,000 square miles in the northeastern Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh, which China calls South Tibet.
ref: 2020 June 19, Ajai Shukla, “How China and India Came to Lethal Blows”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 Jun 2020, Opinion:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see south, Tibet. (the southern part of Tibet)
Those areas located south of the McMahon Line, which are administered as the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh, and claimed by China as a part of Tibet.
raw_tags: in particular
in the People's Republic of China
Coordinate terms: Tibet
Greater Tibet
Inner Tibet
Outer Tibet
Zangnan
Tibetan Autonomous Region
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Tibet Autonomous Region.
synonyms: word: Tibet Autonomous Region
South Manchuria
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: DAIREN, South Manchuria, Oct. 12. -- South China with its Communists, the Yangtse Valley with rampant anti-foreignism and incessant civil warfare and Peking with Marshal Chang Tso-lin attempting to consolidate his dictatorship and found a stable central Government -- these seem to be the major constituents of the Chinese problem until one visits Manchuria.
ref: 1927 November 13, Hallett Abend, “GRIM STRUGGLE ON TO RULE MANCHURIA; China, Russia and Japan Bid for Supremacy of Vast Domain, Realizing It May End in War. DAIREN A SPOTLESS CITY Built by Japan, It Is Clean and Modern In Contrast to Dirty and Inefficient Towns of South. GRIM STRUGGLE ON TO RULE MANCHURIA”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 Jan 2024, EDITORIALE, page 1:
text: Operations in South Manchuria have now gone deeply into the preliminary phase of a drive from Yingkow northwestward along the Yingkow branch of the Peiping-Mukden Railroad.
ref: 1931 December 28, Hugh Byas, “BIG JAPANESE FORCE REACHES MANCHURIA AS NEW DRIVE OPENS; 4,000 to 5,000 Men Arrive by Sea and Land and Tokyo Will Send More." FROZEN RIVER IS CROSSED Tamon, Captor of Tsitsihar, Reported in Sharp Fights on Way to Chinchow. CHINESE TRY TO CHECK HIM Corps of 2,400 Students Reaches Threatened City--America Makes Protest on "Open Door." Concentration at Yingkow. Troops Arrive By Sea and Land. BIG JAPANESE FORCE REACHES MANCHURIA Sharp Fighting Reported.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 Oct 2023, page 1:
glosses: the region of Japanese control of Northeast China, prior to the establishment of Manchukuo
Related terms: Inner Manchuria
Outer Manchuria
Empire of Manchuria
Inner Manchuria
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Distinguishing this region of Greater Manchuria from Outer Manchuria from the perspective of China proper. Cf. Inner Mongolia.
Senses: examples: text: In the north, however, the Russians and Japanese had other ideas and looked to lop bits off the old empire that they could control in a more formal way. Russia gained Outer Manchuria in the 1860s, and in 1895 Japan gained Taiwan.
What happened next confirmed the worst fears of those who believed that imperialism must lead to war. In 1905, the two rivals went to war over Inner Manchuria, which Russia considered vital because it gave it access to a warm-water port on the Pacific,* and to which Japan felt entitled after its victory in 1895, even if it had been forced to return the Chinese cession of the area in the face of the opposition of the Western powers.
ref: 2015, James MacDonald, “The First Era of Globalization”, in When Globalization Fails: The Rise and Fall of Pax Americana, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 48:
text: The Convention of Peking, one of several unequal treaties, moreover assigned the parts in the East of the Ussuri River (Wusulijiang) to Russia. Outer Manchuria, also called Russian Manchuria was never claimed to be part of a Chinese nation-state. Today it belongs to the Russian Federation, is no longer referred to as Outer Manchuria, and is considered to be part of Siberia. Consquently, the name Manchuria refers only to Inner Manchuria today. In the following, I will refer to Inner Manchuria as Manchuria.
ref: 2017, Julia C. Schneider, “The New Setting: Political Thinking after 1912”, in Nation and Ethnicity: Chinese Discourses on History,, →ISBN, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 277:
glosses: Synonym of Manchuria as the three northeastern provinces of China.
synonyms: word: Manchuria as the three northeastern provinces of China
Coordinate terms: Outer Manchuria
Related terms: South Manchuria
zanza
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zanzas
Senses: examples: text: Idealized membranes, plates and bars are clearly inadequate and give way to the reality of tablas, gongs and zanzas.
ref: 2013, Simon Emmerson, Living Electronic Music, page 20:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A kind of thumb piano from Africa.
gueridon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gueridons
form: guéridon
Etymology: Borrowed from French guéridon.
Senses: glosses: A small table supported by one or more columns, or sculptural human or mythological figures, often with a circular top.
zerovalent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From zero + -valent.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Having a valency of zero
heptavalent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hepta- + -valent.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Having an atomic valence of 7.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Having a vaccine valence of 7.
Synonyms: septivalent
guéridon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: guéridons
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gueridon.
FUBARed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more FUBARed
form: most FUBARed
Etymology: From the acronym "Fucked Up Beyond All Recognition (or Repair)".
Senses: glosses: Very fucked up to the extent that repair is impossible.
Parkes process
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: For Alexander Parkes, English metallurgist
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A process for removing silver from lead by preferential solution in liquid zinc
ziqqurat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ziqqurats
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of ziggurat.
Agrippina
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Latin Agrippina.
Senses: glosses: The mother of Caligula; the mother of Nero.
raw_tags: in Ancient Rome
Derived terms: Agrippinian
fanout
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fanouts
Etymology: From fan + out, from the phrasal verb.
Senses: examples: text: B+ trees have very high fanout, which reduces the number of I/O operations required to find an element in the tree.
text: The fanout of a logic gate output is the number of gate inputs to which it is connected.
topics: business
computing
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
glosses: The degree to which something fans out, or splits into separate sections.
Related terms: fanin
fanouts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fanout
mobey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mobeys
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of moby (“a mobile phone”).
downtrod
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: downtrods
form: downtrodding
form: downtrod
form: downtrodden
Etymology: Back-formation from downtrodden; see downtread.
Senses: examples: text: And I don't know of any manufacturer or any industry that wants to downtrod the farmer.
ref: 1935, The Cotton Oil Press, Vol.19, Digitized edition, published 2009, page 36:
text: I've heard wicked rumors that FAA and wives try to downtrod small aircraft pilots.
ref: 1967, The AOPA pilot: Volume 10, Part 1 (Aeronautics), Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association, page 64:
text: And having an entire group of people constantly waiting in the wings to downtrod even the slightest POSITIVE moves does not help matters.
ref: 2009 July 11, JF, comment, “Top House Republican slams Obama over stimulus, jobs”, in CNN, archived from the original on 17 Feb 2012:
synonyms: downtread
glosses: to oppress, suppress, exploit, persecute, step down on; put down; denigrate, subjugate
downtrod
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more downtrod
form: most downtrod
Etymology: From down- + trod.
Senses: examples: text: I will lift the downtrod Mortimer
ref: c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:
text: Consider the lowly, downtrod worm.
ref: 1942, Richard Armour, Yours for the Asking: A Book of Light Verse:
glosses: downtrodden; abused by superior power
auditual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Or say that the second hypothesis were preferred, and that by some hitherto unexplained affections of Swedenborg's brain and nervous system, he from the year 1743, thought and reasoned through the medium and instrumentality of a series of appropriate and symbolic visual and auditual images, spontaneously rising before him, and these so clear and so distinct, as at length to overpower perhaps his first suspicions of their subjective nature, and to become objective for him […]
ref: c. 1827, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on Noble's Appeal:
glosses: auditory
bipartible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: See bipartite.
Senses: examples: text: a bipartible capsule
text: bipartible gland
text: bipartible line
glosses: Capable of being divided into two parts.
hendy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hendy
form: most hendy
Senses: examples: text: One way or t'other hendiest is
To ketch the people nappin'; […]
ref: 1893, F. E. Marshall Steele, The Encore Reciter: Humorous Serious and Dramatic Selections:
text: The hendier 't is for Guv'ment, sence it henders trouble brewin'; […]
ref: 1896, James Russell Lowell, Complete Poetical Works, page 213:
glosses: Obsolete or dialectal form of handy
nephrolithic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nephrolithic
form: most nephrolithic
Etymology: From nephrolith + -ic.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to gravel, or renal calculi.
papaverous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈpævəɹəs/
Forms: form: more papaverous
form: most papaverous
Etymology: From Latin papāver + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: Now instead of a smell of Delight our Mandrakes afford a papaverous and unpleasant odor, whether in the leaf or apple, as is discoverable in their simplicity or mixture.
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
text: The morphology of stamens and carpels of the crucifer flower as well as their anatomy bears testimony to a papaverous ancestry.
ref: 1988, Subhash C. Datta, Systematic Botany, New Age International, →ISBN, page 259:
text: The mountains are dry and brown and so remote that not even helicopters fly overhead, spraying their poison over papaverous hillsides.
ref: 2005, Mack Friedman, Setting the Lawn on Fire, University of Wisconsin Press, →ISBN, page 139:
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the poppy.
examples: text: He reduced the chaos of Smith to some order, and his style is sufficiently classical, but not the less prolix and papaverous on that account.
ref: 1837 April, “The Tuckahoe”, in Southern Literary Messenger, page 235:
text: "Then," said Mr. Eupheme, smiling benevolently, "the papaverous influences of Somnus or Morpheus deprived you of the advantage of ascertaining the modus operandi used in conducting an examination."
ref: 1841, Theodore Hook, editor, Peter Priggins, The College Scout, volume III, Henry Colburn, page 104:
text: Was it prudently considered that the dullest of critics can read only as long as his eyes are open? and that the function of judge must incessantly bring under his congnisance papaverous volumes, with which only a superhuman endowment of vigilance could hope successfully to contend?
ref: August 1845, “North's Specimens of the British Critics”, in The Edinburgh Monthly Magazine, pages 242–243:
text: These were sometimes stinging like the preachers at Paul's Cross, often eloquent like Bossuet, and the louder the Doctor's flock snored the greater satisfaction his conscience; indeed it was safest to be hard on them when they were asleep. At any rate he it was probably first diffused in Trinity the papaverous air which still exists there.
ref: 1860, anonymous author, Narragansett; or, The Plantations: A story of 177—, volume II, Chapman and Hall, page 26:
text: But why are the heaven-bathed souls consumed by the yearning to sleep, to embrace the narcotic, papaverous hymns of Orpheus to Night and Sleep, to leave being for becoming?
ref: 2004, Michael J. B. Allen, “Life as a Dead Platonist”, in Michael J. B. Allen, Valery Rees, Martin Davies, editors, Marsilio Ficino: His Theology, His Philosophy, His Legacy, Brill, published 2002, →ISBN, page 166:
glosses: Inducing sleep; soporific.
Related terms: papaveraceous
altercative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more altercative
form: most altercative
Etymology: See altercation.
Senses: examples: text: 1731, Henry Fielding, The Tragedy of Tragedies; or, The Life and Death of Tom Thumb the Great, London: J. Roberts, Act II, Scene 7, p. 30, footnote z,
I know some of the Commentators have imagined, that Mr. Dryden, in the Altercative Scene between Cleopatra and Octavia […] is much beholden to our Author.
text: His cab, delayed by a red newspaper cart, jammed in altercative contact with a dray full of brown barrels, paused in Cannon Street.
ref: 1903, E. Nesbit, “Rounding Off a Scene”, in The Literary Sense, New York and London: Macmillan, page 14:
glosses: Characterized by altercation
Related terms: altercation
catelectrode
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: catelectrodes
Etymology: From cata- + electrode.
Senses: examples: text: the catelectrode or cathode, that is, the way by which electricity goes out of substances through which it passes
ref: 1843, “Voltaic Electricity”, in The Christian Remembrancer:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The negative electrode or pole of a voltaic battery.
catelectrodes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of catelectrode
scheelium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Scheele + -ium, after Carl Wilhelm Scheele, who discovered it
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: (obsolete) tungsten (metal)
wikipedia: Carl Wilhelm Scheele
Related terms: scheelite
stulty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more stulty
form: most stulty
Etymology: From Middle English stulty, probably from Latin stultus (“foolish”) + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Shal fyre ben blamed for it brende a foole naturelly by his own stulty wytte in sterynge?
ref: c. 1384, Thomas Usk, The Testament of Love:
text: "[…] I was a Jamie too, before that, and Port Jamison is a stulty, priggy town on a planet that's the same."
ref: 2012, George R. R. Martin, Dreamsongs, volume 1, page 284:
text: Dearest, I love you. I miss you. I count the stulty moments, “creeping in their petty pace", till next I see and am with you...[…]
ref: 2020, Robin Langstaff-French, Brothers, Lift Your Voices, page 180:
glosses: Foolish; silly, stupid.