cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
green-carder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: green-carders
Senses: examples: text: The man with the fighting cock on his shirt was a Union green-carder who did not wish to cross the picket lines.
ref: 1971, Peter Matthiessen, Sal si puedes: Cesar Chavez and the new American Revolution, page 17:
text: In theory, the green-carder is identical to any other resident immigrant; in fact, this is not the case.
ref: 1973, Vernon M. Briggs, Jr., Chicanos and Rural Poverty, page 36:
text: If a commuting citizen or green-carder becomes a resident, he and his resident dependents would become eligible for federal food stamps, state benefits to medical indigents, and county general assistance
ref: 1978, Stephen H. Sosnick, Hired hands: seasonal farm workers in the United, page 422:
glosses: Alternative form of green carder.
green-carders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of green-carder
greencarder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: greencarders
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of green carder.
greencarders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Of major importance in evaluating the impact of the greencarder is that apart from the loss of jobs to resident workers and the suppression of wages, the situation forces upwards of 75 percent of the Mexican American population out of the area to find work.
ref: 1968, Civil Rights Digest - Volume 1, Issue 2, page 40:
text: The growers of California and the Southwest say they need the greencarder to do the stoopwork, but they refuse to pay the wages and grant the conditions which would allow us to work in dignity.
ref: 1968, El Malcriado: Voice of the Farm Worker:
text: Luckily, I'm not a greencarder, or I could be a "senior alien."
ref: 1992, Mel Krantzler, Patricia B. Krantzler, The seven marriages of your marriage:
glosses: plural of greencarder
Trumpeldor
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Hebrew טרוּמְפֶּלְדּוֹר.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Related terms: Trump
stoopwork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stoop work
Etymology: From stoop + -work.
Senses: examples: text: For some work such as grape picking, beet thinning, and the raising of vegetables and berries, the Japanese have been regarded as physically well adapted to the "stoopwork," as they are short of stature and endure the extreme heat found in a few localities better than most other races.
ref: 1911, United States. Immigration Commission (1907-1910), Immigrants in industries, page 67:
text: The growers of California and the Southwest say they need the greencarder to do the stoopwork, but they refuse to pay the wages and grant the conditions which would allow us to work in dignity.
ref: 1968, El Malcriado: Voice of the Farm Worker:
text: To be a farmer meant to do stoopwork and cultivating in ninety-degree heat, side by side with black croppers.
ref: 1996, Al Stump -, Cobb: A Biography, page 40:
glosses: Unskilled agricultural labor that involves stooping to reach low-growing plants.
stoop work
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Although Allos/Carlos has suffered with back-breaking pain and itch from field work, mass media and farm employers have spread the ideologies that Filipinos are “ideal for stoop work.”
ref: 2007, Youngsuk Chae, Politicizing Asian American Literature:
text: After Cobb had consulted with the experts at Texas Tech in Lubbock to learn which strains of cotton were appropriate for his new land, and when his first fields were planted by tractor, broad and open and requiring no stoop work by imported Mexicans, he heard from the college expert the bests news of all: "This year Lubbock cotton is bringing in top dollar."
ref: 2014, James A. Michener, Texas: A Novel, page 1266:
text: I had known these dirt-poor migrant workers so well frommy daysaccompanying them as they followed the harvests all over California– picking cotton in Corcoran, or doing back-breaking stoop work for ten cents an hour in the pea fields of Nipomo.
ref: 2014, Alan Parker, The Sucker's Kiss:
glosses: Alternative form of stoopwork.
get off at Redfern
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gets off at Redfern
form: getting off at Redfern
form: got off at Redfern
form: got off at Redfern
Senses: examples: text: When we asked if girls got pregnant, he said that occasionally that happened. How did most couples avoid it? He replied: The bloke would have to get off at Redfern instead of going on to Central.
ref: 1996, Peter M. West, Fathers, Sons and Lovers: Men Talk about Their Lives from the 1930s to Today, →ISBN, page 123:
glosses: Synonym of get off at Haymarket.
synonyms: word: get off at Haymarket
Dunmow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The bacon was nat fet for hem, I trowe, / That som men han in Essex at Dunmowe.
ref: 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “(please specify the story)”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC:
text: Nor let the supposition of matrimonial differences frighten you: honey-moon lasts not now-a-days above a fortnight; and Dunmow flitch, as I have been informed, was never claimed; though some say once it was.
ref: 1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter XXXII”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […], →OCLC:
glosses: Used with reference to a tradition in Little Dunmow, Essex, according to which a flitch of bacon would be awarded by the priory to a couple who could swear after a year of marriage that they had never had an argument or regretted getting married.
Dunmow
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Both Great Dunmow and Little Dunmow; the former Dunmow railway station was in Great Dunmow.
poroelastography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From poro- + elastography.
Senses: glosses: The graphical representation of poroelastic properties
Related terms: poroelastogram
postcryopreserved
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + cryopreserved.
Senses: glosses: Following cryopreservation
postfledging
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛdʒɪŋ
Etymology: From post- + fledging.
Senses: glosses: Following fledging
postrehabilitation
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + rehabilitation.
Senses: glosses: Following rehabilitation
postvitrification
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + vitrification.
Senses: glosses: Following vitrification
bye-lane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bye-lanes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of bylane.
multiplicative subset
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: multiplicative subsets
Senses: examples: text: If P is a proper prime ideal of a ring and M is the set complement, w.r.t. the ring, of P, then M is a multiplicative subset.
qualifier: commutative algebra
glosses: A subset of a ring which contains the ring’s unity and which is multiplicatively closed, i.e., it is closed with respect to the ring’s multiplicative operation.
predegradation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pre- + degradation.
Senses: glosses: prior degradation
prefracture
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + fracture.
Senses: glosses: Prior to (sustaining a) fracture
aitch-bones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aitch-bone
preinoculum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: preinocula
Etymology: From pre- + inoculum.
Senses: glosses: Material added before an inoculum
offers one can't refuse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of offer one can't refuse
preinocula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of preinoculum
preneural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + neural.
Senses: glosses: anterior to a neural plate
preplasmablast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: preplasmablasts
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A cell that will differentiate into a plasma cell
preplasmablasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of preplasmablast
prepleural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + pleural.
Senses: glosses: Anterior to the pleura
preprimed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + primed.
Senses: glosses: primed in advance
prerehabilitation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pre- + rehabilitation.
Senses: glosses: Prior rehabilitation
prespliceosomal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + spliceosomal.
Senses: glosses: Relating to prespliceosomes
red kuri squash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: red kuri squash
form: red kuri squashes
Etymology: From Japanese くり (kuri, “Japanese chestnut”).
Senses: examples: text: Red kuri squash can be baked, steamed, or simmered. Its peak season is from late summer through midwinter. Choose squash that are heavy for their size; avoid those with soft spots.
ref: 2015, Ron Herbst, Sharon Tyler Herbst, The Deluxe Food Lover's Companion, 2nd edition, Barron's Educational Series, →ISBN:
synonyms: Japanese squash
onion squash
orange Hokkaido
hypernyms: Hubbard squash
winter squash
glosses: A thin skinned orange colored winter squash, cultivar of species Cucurbita maxima.
strap-hanging
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The definitive London commute is from west London to the City in the east, and in his novel Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1936) George Orwell invoked 'the strap-hanging army that swings eastward in the morning, westward at night, in the carriages of the Underground'.
ref: 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 17:
glosses: Relating to standing passengers, hanging on to a strap or rail provided in a bus or train.
strap-hanging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: An important sporting event or historical pageant taxes London's Underground railways to the utmost limit, and strap-hanging is and always will be an everyday occurrence.
ref: 1948 January and February, C. R. L. Coles, “The Grouping Era”, in Railway Magazine, page 20:
glosses: The action of hanging on to a strap or rail on public transport.
strap-hanging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of strap-hang
by-pass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: by-passes
Etymology: From by- + pass.
Senses: examples: text: the Colnbrook By-Pass on the A4
text: The railway was in fact shifted in 1937 a little to the west, over a distance of a quarter-mile, to make room for the by-pass at this point, but complete abandonment was firmly vetoed because of the proved strategic value of the line.
ref: 1955 March, T. B. Sands, “The Didcot, Newbury & Southampton Railway—2”, in Railway Magazine, page 191:
text: In The Bus We Loved (2005) Travis Elborough describes the New Road [now named Euston Road and Marylebone Road] as 'London's first by-pass ... a kind of perimeter fence, a here be yokels boundary line between the burgeoning town and the country'.
ref: 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, pages 17–18:
glosses: Alternative form of bypass.
meningo-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: meninges + -o-
Senses: glosses: Forms medical terms relating to the meninges.
Derived terms: meningocele
meningocerebral
meningococcus
meningoencephalocele
meningoencephalocoele
meningoencephalomyelitis
meningoencephalopathic
meningoencephalopathy
meningogenic
meningomyelitis
meningovascular
meningoventriculitis
meningovertebral
by-passes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of by-pass
Ghose
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Ghosh: a surname from Bengali.
burn daylight
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: burns daylight
form: burning daylight
form: burned daylight
form: burned daylight
form: burnt daylight
form: burnt daylight
Etymology: Originally a reference to burning candles during the day.
Senses: examples: text: O, Madam, no candles yet, I beseech you ; don't let us burn daylight.
ref: 1819, Sir Walter Scott, Ivanhoe, page 364:
text: It beginning to grow a little duskish, Candlemas lustily bawled out for lights, which was opposed by all the Days, who protested against burning daylight.
ref: 1835, Charles Lamb, Elia, page 71:
text: The place was but scantily lighted, for the community at present could ill afford to burn daylight.
ref: 1879, George MacDonald, The Marquis of Lossie:
text: High on the list of iniquities was “burning daylight,” resorting to artificial light unnecessarily during the day.
ref: 2013, A. Roger Ekirch, At Day's Close: A History of Nighttime:
glosses: To use artificial light during the daytime when one could simply use the sunlight.
examples: text: Mercutio. Come, we burn daylight, ho! Romeo. Nay, that's not so. Mercutio. I mean, sir, in delay. We waste our lights in vain, like lamps by day.
ref: 1595, William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet:
text: Brad calls out, “Let's not burn daylight when there's work to be done!”
ref: 2007, Tom Thunderhorse, Charlie Goodbear, page 47:
text: Said he knows how Jack hates to burn daylight—so he'll be here afore you pull out.
ref: 2010, Terry C. Johnston, Crack in the Sky: A Novel, page 267:
text: Now, let's head out, ma'am. We're burning daylight,”
ref: 2012, Douglas MacKinnon, Vengeance Is Mine:
text: You will find that the time goes quickly, so don't burn daylight—get marketing!
ref: 2012, Cheryl Kimball, Start Your Own Self Publishing Business:
text: Without anything to look forward to that night, I settled into a very slow pace just trying to burn daylight.
ref: 2012, Patrick McGlade, Six Miles Per Hour, page 191:
glosses: To waste time.
burns daylight
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of burn daylight
burning daylight
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of burn daylight
burned daylight
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of burn daylight
burnt daylight
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of burn daylight
slum-ridden
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more slum-ridden
form: most slum-ridden
Etymology: From slum + -ridden.
Senses: examples: text: Pearson's first idea, set out in 1839, was for a railway in a wide, covered-over cutting. It would connect a giant half-underground station at Farringdon with stations all over England. [...] The appeal of Farringdon was that this slum-ridden area was being redeveloped by Pearson's new employers, the Corporation of London.
ref: 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 22:
glosses: Full of slums.
raw_tags: of a populated area
harebrain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: harebrains
form: hairbrain
Etymology: From hare + brain.
Senses: examples: text: ...rash harebrain treating matters that require age and gravity;
ref: 1872, Thomas Carlyle, Critical and Miscellaneous Essays - Volume 3, page 452:
text: At the moment she was watching something behind my back, undoubtedly that harebrain who was hanging over the street.
ref: 1977, Vasa D. Mihailovich, White Stones and Fir Trees:
text: He smiled uncontrollably while driving; and then, thought that other drivers looking at his face would conclude there goes an unhinged harebrain.
ref: 2014, Dean O. Holiday, The Unfortunate Gift:
glosses: A person who lacks good sense; one who is foolish and reckless.
harebrain
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more harebrain
form: most harebrain
form: hairbrain
Etymology: From hare + brain.
Senses: examples: text: I mean it (saith the king) by that same harebrain, wild-fellow, my subject, the Earl of Suffolk, who is protected in your country, and begins to play the fool, when all others are weary of it."
ref: 1789, Saint Thomas More, The History of the Reigns of Edward V. and Richard III, page 122:
text: " They commonly call the most harebrain blood-suckers, strongest thieves, the most desperate villains, treacherous rogues, inhuman murderers, rash, cruel and dissolute caitiffs, courageous and generous spirits, heroical and worthy captains, brave men at arms, valiant and renowned soldiers, possessed with a brute persuasion of false honour," as Pontus Huter in his Burgundian history complains.
ref: 1871, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy:
text: I suppose they also handed on to me a harebrain humour, which it has been my chief delight to indulge.
ref: 1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, New Arabian Nights:
text: It is a harebrain idea but it could be done.
ref: 2012, Frederick A. Patchen, Boho’S Quest for God: An Adult Fairy-Tale, page 91:
glosses: Alternative form of harebrained.
harebrains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of harebrain
mirena
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mirenas
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Mirena.
burnination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From burninate + -ion.
Senses: examples: text: And then Trogdor smote the Kerrek, and all was laid to burnination.
ref: 2003 February 10, Michael Chapman; Matthew Chapman, “Strong Bad Email #62: interview”, in Homestar Runner, spoken by Strong Bad (Matthew Chapman):
text: Check out what happened to this metal framed laser cutter when it was left unattended by maker Joe Schlessinger. Serious burnination.
ref: 2012 October 22, Joseph Flaherty, “DIY Laser Cutter Raises Capital, Concerns”, in Wired, archived from the original on 10 Aug 2014:
text: From what the Dragonfire description said, it was blatantly obvious that those flames had far more properties and uses than pure burnination.
ref: 2018, J.A. Cipriano, Star Conqueror: Recompense, unnumbered page:
glosses: An instance of intense burning; conflagration.
burnination
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: From burninate + -ion.
Senses: examples: text: Burnination! O'Meara swore as I rolled up to my feet, pain pricking along my ribs where Feather's claws had found flesh.
ref: 2018, Daniel Potter, High Steaks:
glosses: A minced oath used to express anger, irritation, disappointment, annoyance, contempt, etc.
Kelenföld
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A neighbourhood of Budapest, Hungary, located in southern Buda, district XI (Újbuda).
squadcar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: squadcars
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of squad car.
probabilistics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From probable + -ist + -ics.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A branch of statistics that deals with probabilities
Related terms: probabilistic
processiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From processive + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of processivity.
synonyms: word: processivity
prodepressant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pro- + depressant.
Senses: glosses: That provokes depression
prorecovery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pro- + recovery.
Senses: glosses: That promotes recovery
protocerebron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of protocerebrum.
mistressly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mistressly
form: most mistressly
Etymology: From mistress + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Will he take from me the mistressly management, which I had not faultily discharged?
ref: 1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter XL”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […], →OCLC:
glosses: Pertaining to the mistress of a home or household.
glosses: Characteristic of a woman who is very proficient in some skill or activity; masterful.
tight-head
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tight-heads
Senses: examples: text: It took until the final quarter to establish clear forward-control but a rampaging 46th-minute score by tight-head Kyle Sinckler had already pushed Australia towards their earliest World Cup exit for a dozen years.
ref: 2019 October 19, Robert Kitson, “England into World Cup semi-finals after bruising victory over Australia”, in The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media:
glosses: Alternative form of tighthead.
broken field
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: broken fields
Senses: examples: text: Quarter-backs this year who have gained considerable notice are Fallis of Haskell Indians and Pooler of Kansas University, they both being very good in a broken field.
ref: 1905, Spalding's Official Foot Ball Guide, page 169:
text: The forward passer receives the ball, runs a yard or two as a feint, and then, with scarcely a look over the broken field, selects a person and a place and throws the ball.
ref: 1972, Chronicle of American Physical Education, page 383:
text: Barely two minutes after the interval the margin was reduced to just a single point after Elliot Daly, under a bit of pressure, knocked on 40 metres from his own line and gave the Wallabies a broken field to play with.
ref: 2019 October 19, Robert Kitson, “England into World Cup semi-finals after bruising victory over Australia”, in The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media:
topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
rugby
sports
glosses: A field in which there are defensive players from the other team between the player who has the ball and the goal.
examples: text: The birds are gregarious even during the nesting season, and in spring and summer seem to be equally busy “ ploughing up ” the earth in the already broken field with their long, crowlike bills; naturally such action creates trouble with the farmer, but on the whole, an examination of the constituents of the bird's diet, shows that he is a greater insect destroyer than a crop destroyer.
ref: 1906, Ferdinand Schuyler Mathews, Field Book of Wild Birds and Their Music, page 72:
text: My soul is a broken field Ploughed by pain
ref: 1916, Sara Teasdale, “The Broken Field”, in George Park Fisher, George Burton Adams, Henry Walcott Farnam, editors, The Yale Review, page 755:
topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: A field that has been plowed.
crosses the aisle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cross the aisle
front-rower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: front-rowers
Senses: examples: text: The Wallaby defence was too easily spilt by Farrell’s snappy midfield miss-pass, allowing a beaming Sinckler to storm untouched through the unguarded heart of the defence. The Harlequins front-rower used to be a fly-half in his youth but this was the stuff of any prop forward’s dreams.
ref: 2019 October 19, Robert Kitson, “England into World Cup semi-finals after bruising victory over Australia”, in The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media:
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
rugby
sports
glosses: A player in the front row
crossed the aisle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cross the aisle
prop forward
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prop forwards
Senses: examples: text: The Wallaby defence was too easily spilt by Farrell’s snappy midfield miss-pass, allowing a beaming Sinckler to storm untouched through the unguarded heart of the defence. The Harlequins front-rower used to be a fly-half in his youth but this was the stuff of any prop forward’s dreams.
ref: 2019 October 19, Robert Kitson, “England into World Cup semi-finals after bruising victory over Australia”, in The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media:
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
rugby
sports
glosses: A forward who acts as a prop in a scrum.
Farringdon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A district of the City of London, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ3181). Farringdon station is just to the north in the borough of Islington.
glosses: A village and civil parish in East Devon district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SY0191).
glosses: A civil parish in East Hampshire district, Hampshire, England, including the villages of Lower Farringdon and Upper Farringdon (OS grid ref SU7035).
glosses: A suburb of Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England (OS grid ref NZ3653).
glosses: A locality in southern New South Wales, Australia.
Related terms: Faringdon
Subei
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Su-pei
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 肅北 /肃北 (Sùběi).
Senses: examples: text: In western Gansu, including Subei and Minle Counties, the lower part of the Xiaoshihugou Formation contains purple-red, thick- to thin-bedded, fine-grained sandstone.
ref: 1986, Mu En-zhi, A. J. Boucot, Chen Xu, Rong Jia-yu, Correlation of the Silurian Rocks of China, Geological Society of America, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 32:
text: CHINA Some of China's main nuclear facilities: Subei: Jiuquan Atomic Energy Complex, including plutonium production and weapons assembly.
ref: 1998 May 14, Kenneth J. Cooper, “INDIA CONDUCTS 2ND ROUND OF NUCLEAR TESTS”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 Aug 2017:
text: Twenty two people have been put in quarantine in Subei county near Jiuquan after a man died last week from pneumonic plague, the West China Business News reports. The national health authorities have sent experts to help deal with the case.
ref: 2014 October 19, “Row over smoke from dog meat eatery; dad stabs son, 9, over bed-wetting; teens rescued from sex trade”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 Oct 2014, China Insider:
glosses: A Mongol autonomous county in Jiuquan, Gansu, China.
gunful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gunfuls
Etymology: From gun + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: It is better to use only one-half gunful at a time, and give it little jabs ever so often, than to use a whole gunful at a time.”
ref: 1920, The Motorcycle Enthusiast in Action: The Magazine for More Motorcycling Pleasure, page 55:
text: Pump one gunful of oil into the upper pressure fitting of the seal.
ref: 1965, NAVDOCKS., page 170:
text: “Just say one word, that's all!” he threatened. “Just you mention my name and I'll pump a gunful of bullets—”
ref: 2015, Edgar Wallace, 90 CRIME NOVELS: Complete Collection (The Secret House, The Daffodil Mystery, The Angel of Terror, The Crimson Circle, The Black Abbot, The Forger, The Green Archer, The Avenger, Jack O'Judgement…): From the prolific author known for the creation of King Kong, The Four Just Men, Detective Sgt. Elk, Mr. J. G. Reeder, Educated Evans, Smithy and Nobby, The Clue of the Twisted Candle and more, e-artnow, →ISBN:
glosses: as much as a gun can hold.
adakites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of adakite
adakite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adakites
Etymology: From Adak Island in Alaska, from "adaq" in Aleut language, meaning "father".
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A kind of volcanic rock, of intermediate to felsic composition, with high strontium to yttrium ratio, and enriched in light rare earth elements compared with the heavy rare earths
Related terms: adakitic
well-thriven
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more well-thriven
form: most well-thriven
Senses: examples: text: Then I have a sort of quarrel against his face, though in his person, for a well-thriven man, tolerably genteel.
ref: 1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter XLVI”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […], →OCLC:
glosses: That has developed well; flourishing, thriving, healthy.
oh girl
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: Oh, girl! I can't wait to tell my friends about this!
text: Oh, girl. This is going to be a lot of work.
text: Oh, girl. Now what do I do?
glosses: An expression of delight and joy, or, sarcastically, dismay, resignation, frustration, or annoyance.
Related terms: oh man
blinks of an eye
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blink of an eye
Metropolitan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to London, United Kingdom.
Metropolitan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: The Metropolitan Line of London Underground, which has its ancestry in the Metropolitan Railway.
Synonyms: Met
take the chair
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes the chair
form: taking the chair
form: took the chair
form: taken the chair
Senses: examples: text: I took the chair at the meeting.
glosses: To chair; to preside over as chairperson.
Related terms: take a chair
sheep in wolf's clothing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sheep in wolves' clothing
Etymology: Humorous alteration of wolf in sheep's clothing.
Senses: examples: text: The hunter-insects, as we have seen, disguise themselves so as to get near their victims unawares, and the hunted disguise themselves very often in the same way so as to avoid being seen, but sometimes in such a way that if they are seen they may appear to be much more terrible creatures than they really are. And so we have the sheep in wolves’ clothing.
ref: 1910, Douglas English, A Book of Nimble Beasts: Bunny Rabbit, Squirrel, Toad, and “Those Sort of People”, London: Eveleigh Nash, page 221:
synonyms: paper tiger
antonyms: wolf in sheep's clothing
glosses: Someone or something that appears fierce or threatening but is actually harmless or means no harm.
Related terms: one's bark is worse than one's bite
gentle giant
Ackroyd
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ackroyds
Etymology: Topographic surname, from Middle English ake (“oak”) + royd (“clearing”).
Senses: examples: text: Above left, Kathryn Bigelow with the cinemaphotographer Barry Ackroyd on the set of The Hurt Locker.
ref: 2009 June 21, Manohla Dargis, “Action!”, in The New York Times:
glosses: A surname from Middle English.
pseudobacteremia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pseudo- + bacteremia.
Senses: glosses: The presence of pseudobacteria in the blood
pseudolexical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pseudo- + lexical.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Describing terms (such as prefixes or suffixes) that cannot stand alone as words.
pseudomicellar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pseudo- + micellar.
Senses: glosses: Relating to pseudomicelles
pseudomicelle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudomicelles
Etymology: From pseudo- + micelle.
Senses: glosses: A particle that has the outward appearance of a micelle
Related terms: pseudomicellar
pseudomicellization
pseudomicelles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudomicelle
pseudomyxoma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudomyxomas
form: pseudomyxomata
Etymology: From pseudo- + myxoma.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A cancer that has some characteristics of a myxoma
Derived terms: pseudomyxoma peritonei
Related terms: pseudomyxomatosis
pseudomyxomatous
there's none so blind as those who will not see
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of there are none so blind as those who will not see.
pseudonymisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudonymisations
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pseudonymization.
purination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: purinations
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Reaction with, or conversion to a purine
Derived terms: depurination
quimioluminiscence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of chemioluminescence.
Westbourne
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Old English west + burna (“bourne”).
Senses: examples: text: The river carried in the pipe at Sloane Square is the Westbourne, and the pipe is said to shake in a rainstorm. Behind one of the innocent-looking doors on the platform at Sloane Square is a horizontal metal grille, beneath which is a pump, working away in the seething tributaries of the Westbourne.
ref: 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 31:
glosses: A river, the River Westbourne in London, England, which is now placed underground.
glosses: An area of the borough of the City of Westminster, Greater London near Bayswater and Paddington (OS grid ref TQ2581). Another name used here is Westbourne Park.
glosses: A suburb of Bournemouth, Dorset, England (OS grid ref SZ0791).
glosses: A suburb of Ipswich, Suffolk, England (OS grid ref TM1445).
glosses: A village and civil parish in Chichester district, West Sussex, England (OS grid ref SU7507).
glosses: A community in the Municipality of WestLake-Gladstone, Manitoba, Canada.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Campbell County, Tennessee, United States.
rastereography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: raster photogrammetry
Related terms: rastereographic
rastereographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to rastereography
reproliferation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reproliferations
Etymology: From re- + proliferation.
Senses: glosses: A second or subsequent proliferation
Related terms: reproliferate
retinosome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: retinosomes
Senses: glosses: A lipid organelle present in retinal epithelium
retinosomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of retinosome
retrotranslocates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of retrotranslocate
periodontitides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of periodontitis
epochful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From epoch + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: First, an habitually good child sometimes has a saturnalia of defiance and disobedience; a series of insubordinate acts are suddenly committed which really mark the first sudden epochful and belated birth of the instinct of independence and self-regulation, on which his future manliness will depend.
ref: 1907, Granville Stanley Hall, Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene, page 341:
text: This makes the end of the century epochful and momentous.
ref: 2003, William Sweet, Mark Spencer, Race, Gender, And Supremacy, A&C Black, →ISBN, page 209:
text: Kaes and Vulpius are in impressive agreement that the age of the later teens is epochful for the development of the middle layer, which then begins a new and prolonged period of growth.
ref: 2013, G. Stanley Hall, Adolescence - Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology, Sociology, Sex, Crime, and Religion (1931), Read Books Ltd, →ISBN:
glosses: important, momentous.
raw_tags: of an event
drain-like
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more drain-like
form: most drain-like
Etymology: From drain + -like.
Senses: examples: text: It is possible that the Waterloo & City line is nicknamed 'The Drain' because of the water pumped away, but there are other theories, the line being drain-like in so many ways.
ref: 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 31:
glosses: Alternative form of drainlike.
dysarteriotony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Occurring always together in apparently similar manner, the symptom triad of dyshydrocephalotony, dysarteriotony, and toxemia constitutes a physical syndrome connected with constitutional psychopathic personality.
ref: 1919 August 14, Claës Julius Enebuske, “A Neurological Syndrome”, in The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, page 202:
text: The results of a study of manipulative treatment of dysarteriotony associated with cervical spondylosis are reported in the paper.
ref: 1991, W Guikang, “A study of manipulative treatment of dysarteriotony associated with oervioal spondyilsis”, in The Journal of Traditional Chinese Orthopedics and Traumatology:
text: The extubation time, PACU staying time and ICU staying time as well as the incidence of postoperative arrhythmias and dysarteriotony were not significantly different among the four groups […]
ref: 2017 September 28, Kai Hui Zeng, “Effect of dexmedetomidine combined with sevoflurane on myocardial injury and oxidative stress response after non-cardiac surgery in patients with coronary heart disease”, in Journal of Hainan Medical University:
glosses: Abnormal blood pressure.
raw_tags: in China
millennial pink
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: millennial pinks
Etymology: Named for its popularity in fashion and design in the late 2010s among millennials.
Senses: examples: text: Millennial pink is a streetwear staple.
ref: 2017, Lisa De Pasquale, The Social Justice Warrior Handbook: A Practical Survival Guide for Snowflakes, Millennials, and Generation Z, page 23:
text: […] when they talk about their jobs or their dating lives or how they're secretly kind of sick of millennial pink.
ref: 2018, Rebecca Soffer, Gabrielle Birkner, Modern Loss: Candid Conversation About Grief, unnumbered page:
text: Millennial pink started to crop up around 2012, and by 2015 it was ubiquitous.
ref: 2019, Kaye Blegvad, The Pink Book: An Illustrated Celebration of the Color, from Bubblegum to Battleships, page 76:
glosses: A light rosy pink colour.
millennial pink
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Named for its popularity in fashion and design in the late 2010s among millennials.
Senses: examples: text: But on Instagram she found a world of recovery houses — many of them decorated in a millennial pink, hyperfeminine aesthetic — where she would be healing alongside other women who had just gone through the same procedure and would be cared for by a team of women who would cook for her, […]
ref: 2022 May 11, Sandra E. Garcia, “Butt Lifts Are Booming. Healing Is No Joke.”, in The New York Times Magazine:
glosses: Of a light rosy pink colour.
woodship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: woodships
Senses: examples: text: Apparently Marconi could not give his ideas on the subject a practical shape himself but Taylor and Young of the Naval Research Laboratory (U.S. A.) seemed to have made use of his ideas when late in 1922, they used a 5m wavelength CW transmitter to detect a woodship.
ref: 1965, Journal of the Institution of Engineers Pakistan, page 154:
text: Also, another woodship from America with my cousin who is like a brother to me will come to these islands.
ref: 1982, Karen Harper, Island Ecstasy, page 471:
text: Land could be available for a fleet base and armament depot, but the only possible site for an armament wharf is on Munganno Point (where the woodship wharf is already located).
ref: 1988, Maritime Studies - Issues 40-49, page 22:
text: An unknown woodship carrying 15 to 40ft (4.3-12.2 m) logs .of over 4 ft (1.2m) girth was wrecked in January 1804.
ref: 1997, Alexander Fenton, The Northern Isles: Orkney and Shetland, page 112:
glosses: A wooden ship.
examples: text: His successors, Earls of Glocester, held the manor of the Abps. of Canterbury, on condition that they should be stewards at the Abps. installments, and grant them the woodship of their children; but this tenure, after long dispute, was compounded.
ref: 1751, Stephen Whatley, England's Gazetteer:
text: There were two other parties of messieurs going into the woods at the same time, and they were having contraverbial discussions by the bushel over every sort of thing, you know, in association with woodship.
ref: 1902, Scribner's Magazine - Volume 32, page 223:
text: Charmed by Aunt Matilda, affable and cunning, hilltop household find themselves at The Great War's end in command of a corporation that had its origin in Grandfather Pawley's woodship and William's groggy head.
ref: 2010, Charles E. Miller, The Critics' Review, page 66:
glosses: Control over and responsibility for a wooded area.
start a hare
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: starts a hare
form: starting a hare
form: started a hare
form: started a hare
form: start a hare running
Etymology: From the once common practice of hunting rabbits for sport.
Senses: glosses: To introduce a conversational topic.
Derived terms: start a fresh hare
start a hare running
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: starts a hare running
form: starting a hare running
form: started a hare running
form: started a hare running
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of start a hare.
natural protection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: climbing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Trees, rocks and other natural features which are used to anchor safety equipment.
green-shave
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: green-shaves
form: green-shaving
form: green-shaved
form: green-shaved
form: green shave
Senses: examples: text: There are diverse opinions as to the relative value of liming or sweating, pin-wheeling, milling, green-shaving or “ fleshing,” and whether “sewed” or “open-tanned” goat-skins are preferable.
ref: 1885, Henry Mills Alden, Harper's New Monthly Magazine - Volume 70, page 279:
text: In a machine for unhairing or green-shaving hides or skins, the combination of the following instrumentalities, to wit : a rotary table, means for securing a hide or skin to said table, a journalled roll provided peripherally with scrapers or cutters, means for causing said scrapers or cutters, means for causing scrapers or cutters to press against the hide or skin and operative mechanism for the table and roll, substatially as set forth.
ref: 1887, Canadian Patent Office Record - Volumes 15-16, page 8:
text: The sides, after being unhaired, are put in clean water over night, then green-shaved and put in a bate of hen manure four or five days.
ref: 1889, Annual report of the Bureau of Animal Industry - Volume 4, Parts 1887-1888, page 425:
text: The most convincing argument for those tanners who continue to green-shave their hides would be to pick out several of the large green shavings and tan them.
ref: 1891, John W. Stevens, Leather Manufacture:
glosses: To scrape the flesh side of an untanned hide.
Derived terms: word: green-shaving
green-shaves
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of green-shave
green-shaving
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: green-shavings
Senses: glosses: The action of scraping the flesh side of an untanned hide.
green-shaving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of green-shave
green-shaved
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of green-shave
green shave
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: green shaves
form: green shaving
form: green shaved
form: green shaved
Senses: examples: text: Machines for unhairing and green shaving hides and skins.
ref: 1887, Society of Chemical Industry (Great Britain), Journal of the Society of Chemical Industry, page 621:
text: In September of that year William Coupe came from Pawtucket to do what is called "green shaving" for Mr. Knowles.
ref: 1894, John Daggett, Amelia Daggett Sheffield, A Sketch of the History of Attleborough, page 353:
text: A few tanners "green shave," or flesh out of the lime, and do not flesh out of the water soak at all.
ref: 1897, Charles Thomas Davis, The Manufacture of Leather:
text: It was very delicate work to clean the flesh side, or green shave it.
ref: 1914, Leather & Shoes - Volume 47, page 24:
glosses: Alternative form of green-shave.
green shaves
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of green shave
green shaving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of green shave
green shaved
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of green shave
dusty rose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: His heart leaped when he saw how fetching she looked in her afternoon dress, silk chiffon with pleated sleeves, in a becoming shade of dusty rose.
ref: 1999, John Jakes, American Dreams, page 80:
text: She'd locked the door of her Old Hollywood-inspired office, decorated in dusty rose and high-gloss white, […]
ref: 2009, Bridie Clark, The Overnight Socialite, page 138:
text: The sun was setting, and the Eiffel Tower was a dusty rose in the distance.
ref: 2014, Harper Lin, Croissant Murder, unnumbered page:
glosses: A light, puce-like greyish pink color, like a rose covered in dust.
Hawarden
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and community in Flintshire, Wales (OS grid ref SJ3165).
glosses: A village in the Rural Municipality of Loreburn, Saskatchewan, Canada.
glosses: A city in Sioux County, Iowa, United States.
glosses: A small town in Hurunui district, north Canterbury, New Zealand.
glosses: A surname.
cover one's tracks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: covers one's tracks
form: covering one's tracks
form: covered one's tracks
form: covered one's tracks
Senses: examples: text: C.I.E. Class "D14" 4-4-0 No. 89 covers its tracks with a magnificent smokescreen as it pulls out of Dun Laoghaire with the 9.0 a.m. boat train for Dublin. [in this case, railway tracks]
ref: 1959 September, “Talking of Trains”, in Trains Illustrated, page 401, photo caption:
glosses: To conceal how one has arrived at a certain result or position.
glosses: To conceal, hide or destroy evidence of one's actions or identity.
antique rose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Molly pulled the heavy antique-rose drape away from the window and peered out.
ref: 2006, Linda Goodnight, A Very Special Delivery, page 270:
text: The walls had been painted an antique-rose hue but he'd left the plates off the outlets.
ref: 2014, Christopher Golden, Snowblind, unnumbered page:
text: Just before eight o'clock, Sorcha finally settles on an outfit for the morning: we're talking a delaine twill blazer in antique rose by Theory, […]
ref: 2015, Ross O'Carroll-Kelly, Seedless in Seattle, unnumbered page:
glosses: A rosy pink color with a slight grayish tinge, like an old dried rose.
parliamentary train
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parliamentary trains
Senses: examples: text: He [Gladstone] also required the operators to run 'Parliamentary Trains' - one each day calling at every station at a fare of not more than a penny per mile for Third Class.
ref: 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 34:
text: 1885, W. S. Gilbert, The Mikado, Act II, in The Mikado, and Other Plays, New York: Modern Library, 1917, p. 42, https://archive.org/details/mikadootherplays00gilb
The idiot who, in railway carriages, / Scribbles on window panes, / We only suffer / To ride on a buffer / In Parliamentary trains.
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: Originally a requirement in the Railway Regulation Act 1844 for railways to run at least one train a day each way, at a cost to passengers of no more than one penny a mile, on every railway line in the country. Presently the term is used for passenger trains that serve a line or station only once a day or week to avoid the cost of applying for closure.
parliamentary trains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parliamentary train
Sopuru
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Igbo sópuru (“respect”).
Senses: glosses: A male given name.