cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
sea sawdust
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Coined by sailors on Captain James Cook's 1768-71 voyage (his first voyage) to the south seas and Australia.
Senses: examples: 1770, The Endeavour Journal of Sir Joseph Banks at Project Gutenberg Australia
The seamen who are now convinc'd that it was not as they had thought the spawn of fish began to call it Sea sawdust, a name certainly not ill adapted to its appearance.
glosses: Marine blue-green algae (cyanobacteria, actually brown coloured) of the genus Trichodesmium.
wikipedia: James Cook
asystolic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɒlɪk
Forms: form: more asystolic
form: most asystolic
Etymology: From a- + systolic.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to asystole.
examples: text: The patient was asystolic when he arrived at hospital.
glosses: Not having a heartbeat.
glosses: Not systolic.
cranial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹeɪ.ni.əl/
rhymes: -eɪniəl
Etymology: From cranium + -al.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to the cranium, or to the skull.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Synonym of cephalic.
synonyms: word: cephalic
Derived terms: abdominocranial
acranial
acrocranial
basicranial
brachycranial
caudocranial
cerebrocranial
cervicocranial
chondrocranial
circumcranial
cleidocranial
cranial base
cranial index
cranialization
cranially
cranialmost
cranial nerve
cranial orbit
dermatocranial
dolichocranial
dorsocranial
ectocranial
eleventh cranial nerve
endocranial
epicranial
exocranial
extracranial
first cranial nerve
fourth cranial nerve
hemicranial
holocranial
hyperbrachycranial
infracranial
intercranial
intracranial
intrauterine cranial decompression
laterocranial
mediocranial
mesocranial
nasocranial
neurocranial
ninth cranial nerve
noncranial
occipitocranial
osteocranial
otocranial
paracranial
pericranial
postcranial
posterocranial
precranial
proximocranial
pterygocranial
quadratocranial
second cranial nerve
seventh cranial nerve
sixth cranial nerve
splanchnocranial
subcranial
supracranial
third cranial nerve
transcranial
twelfth cranial nerve
ventrocranial
viscerocranial
anarchic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈnɑː.kɪk/
ipa: /ænˈɑː.kɪk/
ipa: /əˈnɑɹ.kɪk/
ipa: /ænˈɑɹ.kɪk/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)kɪk
Forms: form: more anarchic
form: most anarchic
Etymology: From anarchy + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, supporting, or likely to cause anarchy.
examples: text: Distinctions must be drawn here: love is anarchic, marriage is not.
ref: 1993, Ernst Jünger, Eumeswil, page 41:
text: The first of these is the potential for Central and Eastern Europe to become a region of unfettered and anarchic free market capitalism.
ref: 1998, Andrew Herod, Susan M. Roberts, An Unruly World?: Globalization, Governance, and Geography, page 174:
text: The Uganda Police Force described the planned protests as “potentially anarchic” in a statement on Monday, warning it “shall not tolerate disorderly conduct.”
ref: 2024 July 22, Nimi Princewill, “Uganda’s President Museveni warns citizens they are ‘playing with fire’ over planned protests”, in CNN:
glosses: Chaotic, without law or order.
examples: text: Lying is just another word for language at its most anarchic, free from any allegiance, or debt, to things as they are.
ref: 1979 April 28, Gerry McNamara, “Life for Art's Sake”, in Gay Community News, page 11:
text: Frazer comments on this tendency of his text not only directly, in the preface already quoted, but also indirectly, by taking as one of his principal themes various saturnalian festivals that, in their glorification of "general license, during which the ordinary restraints of society are thrown aside" (ibid., p. 666), in effect bring the principle of free play to its supreme, virtually anarchic expression.
ref: 1995, Elazar Barkan, Ronald Bush, Prehistories of the Future, page 150:
text: Wharton's anarchic celebration of a particular, “ illegitimate," passionate motherhood allows her to launch a devastating critique of "legitimate" family life within marriage and to reveal the centrality of female, sexual desire to her tales and the lives of her characters.
ref: 1997, Andrea O'Reilly Herrera, Elizabeth Mahn Nollen, Family Matters in the British and American Novel, page 180:
text: Revisiting The Wild Wigglers signified how anarchic, original and formative this work had been and how it informed and shaped our subsequent choreographic and performative language.
ref: 2006, Liz Aggiss, “Reconstruction: or why you can never step into the same river twice”, in Liz Aggiss, Billy Cowie, editor, Anarchic Dance, page 145:
text: Previously, jazz had encompassed a continual history of supposed death throes—be it the arrival of "sweet," white big-band music; militant bebop; softer cool jazz; or, finally, anarchic free jazz and rock-influenced fusion.
ref: 2013, Ajay Heble, Rob Wallace, People Get Ready: The Future of Jazz Is Now!, page 121:
text: Istanbul was also a simmering cauldron of urban energy: loud, anarchic and quirky as hell.
ref: 2014 July 21, Ivan Watson, “Loud, anarchic, quirky: My love affair with Istanbul”, in CNN:
glosses: Free-spirited; not bound by the rigors or expectations of society.
Synonyms: word: anarchial
Derived terms: anarchically
antianarchic
'80s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The ’80s were fun, at least for me. With great pride, I can now claim to have been the first mainstream critic on the mailing list of SST Records, writing, of their initial Black Flag issue, "This record, a relentless wall of noise that is never less than noisy, sounds unlike anything else I've heard this year."
ref: 2004, Neal Pollack, Never Mind the Pollacks: A Rock and Roll Novel, page 205:
text: In the mid-to late ’80s, the UCLA lab obtained access to a long-term study of gay men who enrolled without knowing whether they were infected with HIV.
ref: 2013 May 13, Judith Shulevitz, “The Lethality of Loneliness”, in The New Republic, archived from the original on 31 Mar 2015:
glosses: Alternative spelling of 80s.
Related terms: 1700s · 1710s · 1720s · 1730s · 1740s · 1750s · 1760s · 1770s · 1780s · 1790s
1800s · 1810s · 1820s · 1830s · 1840s · 1850s · 1860s · 1870s · 1880s · 1890s
1900s · 1910s · 1920s · 1930s · 1940s · 1950s · 1960s · 1970s · 1980s · 1990s
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'00s · '10s · '20s · '30s · '40s · '50s · '60s · '70s · '80s · '90s
00's · 10's · 20's · 30's · 40's · 50's · 60's · 70's · 80's · 90's
zeros
zeroes
aughts
noughties
oughts · oneties
tens
teens · twenties · thirties · forties · fifties · sixties · seventies · eighties · nineties
Hungry Forties · Gay Nineties · Naughty Nineties · Roaring Twenties · Dirty Thirties · Swinging Sixties
1980s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 1980's
Senses: examples: text: On the Alxa Plateau of Inner Mongolia, Gaxun Nur Lake (262 km²) dried in the 1970s and the Sogo Nur Lake in the 1980s.
ref: 2008, Robert Jellison, William D. Williams, Brian Timms, Javier Alcocer, Nikolay V. Aladin, “Salt lakes: values, threats and future”, in Nicholas V. C. Polunin, editor, Aquatic Ecosystems: Trends and Global Prospects, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 99, column 2:
text: Mr. Zhang said a main goal of moving people from Xihaigu was to turn the hills green, with a parallel planting program. More than two million acres have been converted to forest and pasture land, he said, citing the Guyuan area, where forest coverage was 22 percent last year, up from 4 percent in the 1980s.
ref: 2016 October 25, Edward Wong, “Resettling China’s ‘Ecological Migrants’”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 Oct 2016, World:
text: Stepnohirsk grew into a town from the village of Sukhoivanivka in the 1980s after vast deposits of manganese ore nearby were discovered.
ref: 2024 February 4, Sergey Panashchuk, Jannik Läkamp, Rebecca Jayne Husselbee, “On frontline in Ukrainian town making ‘final stand’ against Putin where bodies lie everywhere & shelling never stops”, in The Sun, archived from the original on 07 Feb 2024:
glosses: The decade beginning in 1980 and ending in 1989.
Synonyms: '80s
80s
eighties
Related terms: 1700s · 1710s · 1720s · 1730s · 1740s · 1750s · 1760s · 1770s · 1780s · 1790s
1800s · 1810s · 1820s · 1830s · 1840s · 1850s · 1860s · 1870s · 1880s · 1890s
1900s · 1910s · 1920s · 1930s · 1940s · 1950s · 1960s · 1970s · 1980s · 1990s
2000s · 2010s · 2020s · 2030s · 2040s · 2050s · 2060s · 2070s · 2080s · 2090s
2100s · 2110s · 2120s · 2130s · 2140s · 2150s · 2160s · 2170s · 2180s · 2190s
2200s · 2210s · 2220s · 2230s · 2240s · 2250s · 2260s · 2270s · 2280s · 2290s
00s · 10s · 20s · 30s · 40s · 50s · 60s · 70s · 80s · 90s
'00s · '10s · '20s · '30s · '40s · '50s · '60s · '70s · '80s · '90s
00's · 10's · 20's · 30's · 40's · 50's · 60's · 70's · 80's · 90's
zeros
zeroes
aughts
noughties
oughts · oneties
tens
teens · twenties · thirties · forties · fifties · sixties · seventies · eighties · nineties
Hungry Forties · Gay Nineties · Naughty Nineties · Roaring Twenties · Dirty Thirties · Swinging Sixties
1980s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 1980's
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
snowboarding
sports
glosses: plural of 1980
collegiate church
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: collegiate churches
Senses: glosses: A Christian church, other than a cathedral, that has a chapter of canons and a dean or provost.
reformist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more reformist
form: most reformist
Etymology: From reform + -ist. Originated around the end of the 16th century.
Senses: examples: text: [...] all the prose is German, all reformist, all moralising, and has little or practically no echo of antiquity.
ref: 1913, Émile Faguet, translated by Sir Home Gordon, Initiation into Literature:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Advocating reform of an institution or body.
glosses: Specifically, advocating reform and the gradual accumulation of small changes, as opposed to revolutionary action.
reformist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reformists
Etymology: From reform + -ist. Originated around the end of the 16th century.
Senses: glosses: One who advocates reform (of an institution).
glosses: Specifically, one who advocates reform of society and the gradual accumulation of small changes, as opposed to revolutionary action.
glosses: An advocate of reform in the Church of England; a Reformer.
glosses: An advocate or supporter of political reform in the United Kingdom. (Common from ca 1790 to 1830.)
qualifier: religious
glosses: A member of a reformed religious denomination.
ball washer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ball washers
Senses: glosses: A device found near the tee of some holes on a golf course, used for cleaning dirt off of one's golf ball.
glosses: A sycophant; a suckup.
Watergate
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɑtəɹˌɡeɪt/
Etymology: From the name of the Watergate Hotel; the complex itself was named after the "Water Gate" area where symphony orchestra concerts were staged on the Potomac River between 1935 and 1965.
Senses: glosses: An American political scandal (beginning with a burglary in the Watergate Hotel in Washington, DC, in 1972) that eventually led to the resignation of US President Richard Nixon.
Derived terms: -gate
Watergate salad
Watergate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɑtəɹˌɡeɪt/
Forms: form: Watergates
form: Watergating
form: Watergated
form: Watergated
form: watergate
Etymology: From the name of the Watergate Hotel; the complex itself was named after the "Water Gate" area where symphony orchestra concerts were staged on the Potomac River between 1935 and 1965.
Senses: glosses: To treat in a manner reminiscent of the Watergate scandal.
glosses: To engage in activities associated with the Watergate scandal.
uh-huh
Language: English
Part of speech: particle
Pronunciation: ipa: [ʌ˨ˈɦʌ˩˧]
other: [ɦ]
other: [h]
Forms: form: uhhuh
form: uh huh
form: uhuh
Etymology: Imitative of non-verbal sounds used to indicate agreement or to allow the speaker to continue talking. Compare synonymous mhm.
Senses: examples: text: "So? Lived there long?" "Uh-huh, I--" began Mr. Wrenn.
ref: 1914, Sinclair Lewis, Our Mr. Wrenn:
glosses: Yes; yeah.
Synonyms: mhm
Derived terms: yeah-huh
ufology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌjuːˈfɑləd͡ʒi/
ipa: /ˌjuːɛfˈɑləd͡ʒi/
Forms: form: ufologies
form: UFOlogy
form: UFO-logy
Etymology: From UFO + -logy.
Senses: examples: text: I'm an expert in my field
Ufology, yes, it's all real
Ancient aliens, it's all true
I'm an expert just like you
ref: 2016, Neil Cicierega, “Touch-Tone Telephone”, in Spirit Phone, performed by Lemon Demon:
glosses: The study of UFOs.
Derived terms: ufologist
ufological
uh-uh
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: [ˈ(ʔ)ʌ̃˧.ʔʌ̃˩]
Forms: form: huh-uh
form: uhuh
form: nuh-uh
Etymology: Likely imitative of non-verbal sounds used to indicate disagreement or discomfort. Compare nope, wherein the -p may represent closure often uttered at the end of the word no. Compare also um used to indicate hesitation. Attested from 1888.
Senses: examples: "Have you eaten yet?" "Uh-uh..." "No way!"
glosses: no
ufologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌjuːˈfɑləd͡ʒɪst/
Forms: form: ufologists
form: UFOlogist
form: UFO-logist
Etymology: From ufolog(y) + -ist. By surface analysis, UFO + -logist.
Senses: examples: text: Still, something strange was afoot in Rendlesham, and even if the file is unlikely to satisfy either ufologists or debunkers, it suggests that the truth is still out there.
ref: 2002 December 8, Scott Veale, “Word for Word/The Rendlesham File; Let There Be Lights: Britons Get One Less Thing to Worry About”, in The New York Times:
text: But fear of abduction never stopped a good ufologist.
ref: 2010, Monte Dwyer, Red in the Centre: Through a Crooked Lens, Monyer Pty Ltd, page 122:
glosses: A person who studies UFOs.
Related terms: ufology
greenhorn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: grēn′hôrn′
ipa: /ˈɡɹiːnˌhɔːɹn/
ipa: /ˈɡɹinˌhoɹn/
ipa: /ˈɡɹiːnˌhoːɹn/
ipa: /ˈɡɾiːnˌhoːɾn/
rhymes: -iːnhɔː(ɹ)n
Forms: form: greenhorns
form: green-horn
form: green horn
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English grene horn, which is attested for “horn of a recently killed animal” and as the name of a horse. It may also have been used of young horned animals. In all cases “green” refers to the idea of “fresh, young, recent”, taken from plants and used in Middle English for all kinds of things irrespective of their colour, e.g. wounds, leather, fish, cheese (see green cheese). Figurative use for people dates from the 17th century. Compare semantically German Grünschnabel (literally “green-beak”). By surface analysis, green + horn.
Senses: examples: text: The powers of the Canadian voyageurs and hunters in the consumption of meat strike the greenhorn with wonder and astonishment; and are only equalled by the gastronomical capabilities exhibited by Indian dogs, both following the same plan in their epicurean gorgings.
ref: 1847, George Frederick Augustus Ruxton, Adventures in Mexico and the Rocky Mountains, page 267:
text: All you greenhorns who wanted to see Covenant up close...this is gonna be your lucky day.
ref: 2001 November 15, Bungie, Halo: Combat Evolved, v1.0, Microsoft Game Studios, Xbox, level/area: The Pillar of Autumn:
synonyms: word: abecedarian
word: alphabetarian
word: apprentice
word: amateur
word: beginner
word: bun
word: colt
word: first-timer
word: fledgling
word: fresh meat
word: freshman
word: greenhorn
word: greenie
word: greener
word: homo novus
word: inceptor
word: initiate
word: Johnny-come-lately
word: learner
word: neophyte
word: newbie
word: newb
word: newbro
word: new chum
word: newcomer
word: newling
word: noob
word: n00b
word: novice
word: novitiate
word: nozzer
word: nub
word: nubcake
word: puny
word: pup
word: probationer
word: probationist
word: probie
word: recruit
word: stranger
word: rookie
word: tenderfoot
word: trainee
word: tyro
word: younker
glosses: An inexperienced person; a novice, beginner, or newcomer.
examples: text: She lives in New Bedford, and her dad's not around much and her mum calls her boyfriend a Portagee, a fuckin' greenhorn,
ref: 1993, Common Lives, Lesbian Lives- Issues 47-49, page 37:
qualifier: chiefly Massachusetts
glosses: A Portuguese person.
Derived terms: greenhornish
greenhornism
buff the muffin
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: buffs the muffin
form: buffing the muffin
form: buffed the muffin
form: buffed the muffin
Etymology: buff (“to rub”) + the + muffin (“vagina”), chosen for the rhyme in the participle ("buffin' the muffin").
Senses: examples: 1999, Ericka, in alt.jokes.limericks http://groups.google.com/group/alt.jokes.limericks/msg/6a31a3b704183489?dmode=source
Dear Peter, I need your stuffin'
Your bod, your rod, and handcuffin'
While I wait for your ans-
wer, I'll take off my pants,
And start in on buffin' the muffin!
2003, Paul Austin, in alt.peeves http://groups.google.com/group/alt.peeves/msg/37b92cd0a72eaed4?dmode=source
"Dear Miss Manners, myself and my three girlfriends are playing buff the muffin this weekend and we'd like to know who's supposed to peel and slice the cucumbers for salad afterwards?"
2004, Christopher Moore, The Stupidest Angel http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0060590254&id=QNM4japF5g4C&pg=PA151&lpg=PA151&sig=kUORuHRpFvwKNOWpC8pTnEBlLqo
“Molly?” Lena said. “You sound out of breath. Are you okay?”
…
“Oh, yeah, I’m fine, Lena. Just buffing the muffin. …”
glosses: To masturbate.
samey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈseɪmi/
rhymes: -eɪmi
Etymology: From same + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Nowadays, its apartments go to finance workers who work nearby, while its bars are samey places encircled by moats of urine.
ref: 2014 June 24, Feargus O'Sullivan, “The Pernicious Realities of 'Artwashing'”, in Bloomberg:
text: This was a bubble, a mass delusion among operators convinced that Britain’s appetite for samey chain restaurants was insatiable.
ref: 2019 May 23, Tony Naylor, “No wonder Jamie’s went bust: Brits have lost their appetite for samey chains”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 05 Aug 2019:
text: Of course, there are only so many formerly blind people you can watch being given the gift of sight before it starts getting a little samey.
ref: 2025 June 3, Mark O’Connell, “‘The Mozart of the attention economy’: why MrBeast is the world’s biggest YouTube star”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 07 Jun 2025:
glosses: Exhibiting sameness, without variety; monotonous.
Derived terms: sameyness
solar calendar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: solar calendars
Senses: glosses: A calendar based on the movement of the Earth around the Sun, which defines the year. Dates indicate the position of the Earth during this revolution.
Hyponyms: Gregorian calendar
Julian calendar
Coordinate terms: lunar calendar
lunisolar calendar
Related terms: solar time
lone it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lones it
form: loning it
form: loned it
form: loned it
Senses: examples: text: 1955-1956, Allen Ginsberg, Howl
who loned it through the streets of Idaho seeking visionary indian angels
text: I had a long walk home and no company, but I usually lone it anyway, for no reason except that I like to watch movies undisturbed so I can get into them and live them with the actors. … So I loned it.
ref: 1967, S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders:
text: Gerry had taken hires he shouldn't have taken, loned it across the mountains in a season he shouldn't have.
ref: 1995, C.J. Cherryh, Rider at the Gate:
glosses: To go alone.
Synonyms: go it alone
MSP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Message Send Protocol.
glosses: Initialism of Minneapolis–Saint Paul.
MSP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: MSPs
Senses: examples: text: The Scottish government has hailed a “historic day for equality” after MSPs approved plans to make it easier and less intrusive for individuals to legally change their gender, extending the new system of self-identification to 16- and 17-year-olds for the first time.
ref: 2022 December 22, Libby Brooks, “Scottish government hails ‘historic day’ as MSPs pass gender recognition bill”, in The Guardian:
text: Almost four years on from the election of a record number of 58 female MSPs across all parties in 2021, 14 SNP women have so far said they will not stand again, accounting for 23% of the party’s current MSP group.
ref: 2025 March 23, Libby Brooks and Severin Carrell, “‘Hostile environment’ drives many of SNP’s female MSPs to step down before 2026 vote”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Initialism of Member of Parliament of the Scottish Parliament.
qualifier: spectroscopy
glosses: Initialism of microspectrophotometry.
glosses: Initialism of micro scalp pigmentation.
topics: business
glosses: Initialism of managed service provider.
synonyms: ESP
glosses: Initialism of mail service provider.
glosses: Initialism of monosodium phosphate.
desciption
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of description.
disapply
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: disapplies
form: disapplying
form: disapplied
form: disapplied
Etymology: From dis- + apply.
Senses: examples: text: If we were to accept Amendment No. 144D, the effect of that would be to disapply the definition from properties that are not yet on the market.
ref: 2004 October 19, House of Lords Hansard for 19 Oct 2004, pt 5:
text: Article 4 does not require Italy to disapply its domestic legislation governing the sale of insect repellent products on the ground that, in another Member State, Germany in this instance, their marketing is not subject to any authorisation or registration.
ref: 2004 February 12, Opinion of Advocate General Ruiz-Jarabo, Court of Justice of the European Communities, in Case C-443/02, point 54:
text: The hard-right New Conservatives grouping demanded that Sunak’s new legislation “must disapply the Human Rights Act”, while the former home secretary Suella Braverman, who was sacked by Sunak last week, said the new bill must exclude all avenues of legal challenge.
ref: 2023 November 19, Rajeev Syal, “Sunak could block Human Rights Act to force through Rwanda asylum plan”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
topics: law
glosses: To decline to apply a rule or law that previously applied
Related terms: unapply
dryth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɹaɪθ/
rhymes: -aɪθ
Forms: form: dryths
form: drith
Etymology: From dry + -th (abstract nominal suffix). Doublet of drought.
Senses: glosses: Dryness.
glosses: A drought.
ludic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈluː.dɪk/
rhymes: -uːdɪk
Forms: form: more ludic
form: most ludic
Etymology: From French ludique, from Latin ludo (“I play”).
Senses: glosses: Playful.
examples: text: What I have tried to do here is to draw a consistent frame which could explain most characteristics of both Xiangqi and Chess ludic structures.
ref: 2001, Jean-Louis Cazaux, “Is Chess a Hybrid Game?”, in netcologne.de, archived from the original on 27 Oct 2005, page 12:
glosses: Of or pertaining to play or games.
Derived terms: ludically
ludic fallacy
Related terms: ludenic
ludography
ludolect
ludology
underarm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʌndɚˌɑɹm/
Forms: form: underarms
Etymology: From under- + arm. The armpit sense is not old, historically speaking (1920s), and it is believed to have arisen as a euphemism in advertising.
Senses: examples: text: underarm deodorant
glosses: The armpit.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Old-fashioned and now outlawed style of bowling in which the arm is not swung over the shoulder.
Related terms: topics: cricket
ball-games
games
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
word: overarm
word: sidearm
underarm
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʌndɚˌɑɹm/
Etymology: From under- + arm. The armpit sense is not old, historically speaking (1920s), and it is believed to have arisen as a euphemism in advertising.
Senses: examples: text: A 1997 study found that about 104 million American women were using underarm deodorant products.
ref: 2001, Victoria Sherrow, For appearance' sake:
glosses: For use under the arm.
Derived terms: underarm crutch
underarm
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʌndɚˌɑɹm/
Forms: form: underarms
form: underarming
form: underarmed
form: underarmed
Etymology: From under- + arm. The armpit sense is not old, historically speaking (1920s), and it is believed to have arisen as a euphemism in advertising.
Senses: glosses: To supply with insufficient weaponry.
underarms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of underarm
undiscovered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + discovered.
Senses: examples: text: ⁠But thou and I have shaken hands,
⁠Till growing winters lay me low;
⁠My paths are in the fields I know,
And thine in undiscover’d lands.
ref: 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XXXIX”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 61:
glosses: That has not been discovered; unknown, unexplored.
undiscovered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From undiscover + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of undiscover
unrest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈɹɛst/
rhymes: -ɛst
Forms: form: unrests
Etymology: From Middle English unreste, equivalent to un- + rest. Cognate with West Frisian ûnrêst (“unrest”), Dutch onrust (“unrest”), German Low German Unrüst (“unrest”). Compare also Saterland Frisian Uunraue (“unrest”), German Unruhe (“unrest”), Danish uro (“unrest”), Swedish oro (“unrest”), Icelandic órói (“unrest”). Compare also Old English orrest (“battle”), Old Norse orrosta, orresta (“battle”).
Senses: examples: text: What words are these have fall’n from me?
⁠Can calm despair and wild unrest
⁠Be tenants of a single breast,
Or sorrow such a changeling be?
ref: 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XVI”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 26:
text: Few expect the unrest to stop anytime soon. The government may hope to outflank the protest movement by painting them as unwilling to accept compromise, but even some of Lam’s allies have publicly said that the withdrawal was too little, too late.
ref: 2019 September 4, James Griffith, “Hong Kong government’s attempt to outflank protesters is doomed to fail”, in CNN:
glosses: A state of trouble, confusion and turbulence, especially in a political context; a time of riots, demonstrations and protests.
examples: text: In her pyjamas, Sadie turned back the bedclothes to a single sheet, and settled down under it with a sigh of content; the languors of a body untroubled by mental unrests were a reward for the day's exertions.
ref: 1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 8:
glosses: Something that troubles or confuses; that which causes unrest.
Derived terms: civil unrest
tzaddik
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈtsɑː.diːk/
/ˈtsɑː.dək/
/ˈsɑː.dək/
Forms: form: tzaddiks
form: tzaddikim
form: zaddik
form: tsadik
form: tsadiq
form: tsaddik
form: tzadik
Etymology: From Hebrew צַדִּיק (tsadík, “righteous person”). Many pronunciations have come under the influence of Yiddish צדיק (tsadek).
Senses: examples: text: For in dreams one thinks with the eyes and the ears; speech has no nouns, just verbs; only in dreams is every person a zaddik, never a murderer….
ref: 1988, Milorad Pavić, translated by Christina Pribićević-Zorić, Dictionary of the Khazars, Vintage, published 1989, page 226:
glosses: A very righteous person, especially a Hassidic spiritual leader.
tzaddik
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈtsɑː.diːk/
/ˈtsɑː.dək/
/ˈsɑː.dək/
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tsade (“Semitic letter”).
Tsakonian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /tsəˈkəʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /tsəˈkoʊ.ni.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Forms: form: Tsaconian
form: Tzakonian
Senses: glosses: A Hellenic language spoken in Tsakonia, a part of the Peloponnese region of Greece.
Tsakonian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tsəˈkəʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /tsəˈkoʊ.ni.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Forms: form: Tsakonians
form: Tsaconian
form: Tzakonian
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Tsakonia.
Tsakonian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /tsəˈkəʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /tsəˈkoʊ.ni.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Forms: form: Tsaconian
form: Tzakonian
Senses: glosses: Of, in, or relating to the Tsakonian language.
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Tsakonian terms
tsamba
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈ(t)sɑmbə/
Forms: form: tsampa
Etymology: Borrowed from Tibetan རྩམ་པ (rtsam pa).
Senses: examples: text: They bear to the contemplative Lamas their modest offerings of butter, tea and tsamba, and receive in exchange benedictions and prayers for good pasturage and prosperous flocks.
ref: 1928, Evariste Régis Huc, Joseph Gabet, Travels in Tartary, Thibet and China, 1844–1846, Psychology Press, published 2005, →ISBN, page 115:
coordinate_terms: gofio
glosses: A form of porridge made from roasted barley in Tibet.
tsantsa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tsantsas
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish tsantsa, itself borrowed from Shuar tsantsa.
Senses: glosses: A shrunken head made by the Shuar and related people of South America.
tsao shu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌtsaʊ ˈʃuː/
Forms: form: caoshu
Etymology: From Wade–Giles romanization of Mandarin 草書／草书 (cǎoshū).
Senses: glosses: grass script (a style of cursive script used in Chinese calligraphy)
tsarate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tsarates
Etymology: From tsar + -ate.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of czarate.
czarate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: czarates
form: tsarate
Etymology: From czar + -ate (forms nouns denoting rank or office or the concrete charge of it).
Senses: glosses: The territory ruled by a czar.
glosses: The rank of a czar.
tsardom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈ(t)sɑː(ɹ)dəm/
/ˈzɑː(ɹ)dəm/
Forms: form: tsardoms
form: czardom
form: tzardom
Etymology: From tsar + -dom.
Senses: glosses: The territory ruled by a tsar.
glosses: The role or status of tsar.
Derived terms: Tsardom of Bulgaria
Tsardom of Russia
czardom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: czardoms
Etymology: From czar + -dom.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of tsardom.
ectopia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛkˈtəʊ.pi.ə/
ipa: /ɛkˈtoʊ.pi.ə/
rhymes: -əʊpiə
Forms: form: ectopias
Etymology: Learned borrowing from New Latin ectopia, derived from Ancient Greek ἔκτοπος (éktopos, “away from a place”), from ἐκ- (ek-) + τόπος (tópos).
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The condition where an organ or other body part has an abnormal position.
Synonyms: ectopy
dystopia
heterotopia
malposition
Derived terms: ectopia cordis
ectopia lentis
ectopic
splenectopia
tsarevna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /(t)sɑːˈɹɛvnə/
ipa: /zɑːˈɹɛvnə/
Forms: form: tsarevnas
form: tsarevny
form: czarevna
form: tsesarevna
form: tzarevna
form: Tsarevna
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian царе́вна (carévna).
Senses: examples: text: The Tsaréviches and Tsarévnas have each separate apartments and servants to look after them.
ref: 1967, Leo Wiener, Anthology of Russian Literature from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, volume 1, page 138:
text: The ban on marriage for the tsarevny was clearly linked with developments in Russia’s political structure and religious status.
ref: 1990, Lindsey Hughes, Sophia, Regent of Russia: 1657–1704, New Haven, Conn.; London: Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 18:
text: If my research treats the potential of Muscovite tsaritsy and tsarevny to participate in affairs of the realm optimistically, this does not imply that I deny the difficulties of their position.
ref: 2001, Isolde Thyrêt, Between God and Tsar: Religious Symbolism and the Royal Women of Muscovite Russia, Northern Illinois University Press, →ISBN, page 14:
text: And a long line of bridegrooms courted the tsarevna one after another:[…]Perhaps the fastidious tsarevna might even have found some of the bridegrooms to her liking.
ref: 2004, Evgeniĭ Viktorovich Anisimov, Five Empresses: Court Life in Eighteenth-Century Russia, page 186:
text: There he became acquainted with maids in service to Ekaterina Alekseevna, Peter the Great's half-sister, and through them, he gained the tsarevna’s favor.
ref: 2010, Yelena Mazour-Matusevich, Alexandra S. Korros, Aron I͡Akovlevich Gurevich, Saluting Aron Gurevich: Essays in History, Literature and Other Related Subjects, page 120:
text: And no women were more walled in than the tsarevny, the daughters of the tsars, for they were prohibited from marrying on the grounds that no Russian was high-ranking enough for them and no suitably prestigious royal foreigner professed the true faith, that is, Russian Orthodoxy. So the grandiose ambitions of the tsarevny’s fathers led to lifelong spinsterhood for them.
ref: 2012, Barbara Evans Clements, A History of Women in Russia: From Earliest Times to the Present, Indiana University Press, →ISBN, pages 37–38:
glosses: The daughter of a tsar.
Related terms: tsar
tsarevich
tsarina
tsaritsa
czarevna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: czarevnas
Senses: examples: 1975, Olga May (translator) The Sorcerer and His Apprentice, [selected and translated from 1931, Mark Azadovskij (editor), Russkaja skazka: Izbrannye mastera], in Richard M. Dorson (editor), Folktales Told Around the World, University of Chicago Press, 1978, Paperback, page 126,
The Czarevna did not want even to talk about the ring. “Let Papa give away half of his domain, but I won't give away this ring.”
glosses: Alternative spelling of tsarevna.
ectopic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɒpɪk
Forms: form: more ectopic
form: most ectopic
Etymology: From ectopia + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to ectopia.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Being out of place; having an abnormal position.
Derived terms: ectopically
ectopicity
ectopic pregnancy
nonectopic
ectopic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒpɪk
Forms: form: ectopics
Etymology: From ectopia + -ic.
Senses: topics: cardiology
medicine
sciences
glosses: Ectopic beat.
topics: medicine
obstetrics
sciences
glosses: An ectopic pregnancy.
tsarian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: czarian
form: tzarian
Etymology: From tsar + -ian.
Senses: glosses: of, relating to, or ruled by a tsar
czarian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more czarian
form: most czarian
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of tsarian.
tsaric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈzɑɹɪk/
Forms: form: more tsaric
form: most tsaric
Etymology: From tsar + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of, relating to, or being a tsar; czaric.
czaric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more czaric
form: most czaric
Etymology: From czar + -ic.
Senses: glosses: of, relating to, or being a czar; tsaric
tsaricide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈ(t)sɑːɹɪsaɪd/
ipa: /ˈzɑːɹɪsaɪd/
Forms: form: tsaricides
form: czaricide
Etymology: From tsar + -i- + -cide.
Senses: glosses: The murder of a tsar.
czaricide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: czaricides
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of tsaricide.
tsarish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tsarish
form: most tsarish
Etymology: From tsar + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Of or resembling a tsar; czarish.
czarish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more czarish
form: most czarish
Etymology: From czar + -ish.
Senses: glosses: of, or resembling a czar; tsarish
tsarism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tsarisms
form: czarism
form: tzarism
Etymology: From tsar + -ism.
Senses: glosses: A system of government ruled by a tsar.
glosses: A supporter of monarchy ruled by a tsar.
Related terms: tsarist
czarism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: czarisms
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of tsarism.
tsaritsa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /(t)sɑːˈɹɪtsə/
ipa: /zɑːˈɹɪtsə/
Forms: form: tsaritsas
form: tsaritsy
form: czaritsa
form: czaritza
form: tzaritza
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian цари́ца (caríca).
Senses: examples: text: By engaging in public pilgrimages to the shrines of these saints, the tsaritsy were acting as symbolic extensions of their royal husbands through their exercise of charity and justice along the pilgrimage path.
ref: 2003, Isolde Thyrêt, “Women and the Orthodox Faith in Muscovite Russia: Spiritual Experience and Practice”, in Valerie Ann Kivelson, Robert H. Greene, editors, Orthodox Russia: Belief and Practice Under the Tsars, The Pennsylvania State University Press, →ISBN, part III (Encountering the Sacred), page 165:
text: Portraying the tsaritsy as exemplars of Muscovite femininity and consorts of powerful tsars did not increase the powers granted them by custom.
ref: 2012, Barbara Evans Clements, A History of Women in Russia: From Earliest Times to the Present, Indiana University Press, →ISBN, page 37:
text: On the one hand, the tsar’s wife (tsaritsa), sisters, and daughters (tsarevny) were players in court politics—tsaritsy were behind-the-scenes marriage brokers; they could represent their fathers’ and brothers’ interests; […]
ref: 2017, Nancy Shields Kollmann, The Russian Empire 1450–1801, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 135:
glosses: a tsarina
czaritsa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: czaritsas
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of tsaritsa.
worships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of worship
worships
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of worship
tsarship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tsarships
Etymology: From tsar + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The rank of a tsar; czarship.
czarship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: czarships
Etymology: From czar + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The rank of a czar; tsarship.
worshiped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɝʃɪpt/
ipa: /ˈwɜːʃɪpt/
Forms: form: worshipped
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of worship
worshiping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: worshipping
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of worship
worshiping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: worshipings
form: worshipping
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of worshipping.
worshipping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: worshiping
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of worship
worshipping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: worshippings
form: worshiping
Senses: examples: text: […] some will think they are religious enough, if their worshippings have in them the prevailing ingredient […]
ref: 1651, Jeremy Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Dying:
glosses: An act of worship.
lekgotla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lekgotlas
Etymology: From Tswana lekgotla (“a public place where consultation and judicial proceedings are conducted”).
Senses: examples: text: 'Cabinet held its second lekgotla for the year on 23-25 July 2001. The mid-year meeting was aimed at reviewing the implementation of the programme government announced at the beginning of the year'.
ref: 2001, media briefing by President Thabo Mbeki
glosses: A consultative process between groups pursuing a common goal.
Setswana
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɛtˈswɑːnə/
enpr: sĕt-swäʹnə
ipa: /sɛtˈswɑnə/
rhymes: -ɑːnə
Etymology: Borrowed from Tswana Setswana.
Senses: glosses: A language spoken widely in Southern Africa, mainly in Botswana and South Africa in the Northern Cape, the central and western Free State and in the North West province, and also, to a lesser extent, in Namibia, also known as Tswana.
Synonyms: Tswana
Related terms: Sekgalagadi
Shilozi
tsn ⁠
Wikipedias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Wikipedia
Wikipedias
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Wikipedia
tonation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tonations
Senses: glosses: The tonal properties of a sound.
LIAT
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Leeward Islands Air Transport.
grass script
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Calque from Chinese 草書／草书 (cǎoshū), mistaking the character 草 (cǎo) as meaning grass, when in fact it refers to writing which is careless; sloppy; hasty, for example the meaning implied in the compound words 潦草 (liáocǎo) and 草率 (cǎoshuài).
Senses: glosses: A style of cursive script used in Chinese calligraphy.
Synonyms: caoshu
tsao shu
grass hand
tsatske
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtsɒtskə/
ipa: /ˈtsɑtskə/
Forms: form: tsatskes
Etymology: From Yiddish צאַצקע (tsatske, “trinket”); compare tchotchke.
Senses: examples: text: My mother is still convinced that her little boy doesn't eat enough (I've gained 15 pounds the last six months), and that he doesn't get enough sleep (I average a good nine hours a night), […] She is always giving me advice, chiding me for the error of my ways, warning me not to drive too fast, and in general behaving as if her tsatske hasn't got enough sense to get in out of the rain.
ref: [1947 December 15, Sydney J[ustin] Harris, “Strictly Personal: Harris says offspring always children to mom”, in Waterloo Daily Courier, volume 89, number 298, Waterloo, Iowa: W. H. Hartman Company, →OCLC, page 4, column 2:
text: The idea of a discount operation, of course, is that it shouldn't look like a boutique. Presumably the price tags are decoration enough. "Décor doesn't add to the glamour of a suit," an owner pointed out. "You're not buying the rugs or the lamps or the tsatskes."
ref: 1974 July 12, Georgia Dullea, “Inflation-weary men turn to discount stores”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 Apr 2024, page 31:
glosses: Alternative spelling of tchotchke.
tschaike
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tschaikes
Senses: glosses: A type of ship once used on the Danube.
tscheffkinite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tscheffkinites
Senses: glosses: a complex silicate mineral of calcium, cerium, thorium, iron, magnesium and titanium
tschermigite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: a water-soluble mineral, ammonium aluminium sulphate (NH₄)Al(SO₄)₂·12(H₂O) found in fumaroles and similar environments
Synonyms: ammonia alum
deodorant stone
tschinke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɪŋkə/
rhymes: -ɪŋkə
Forms: form: tschinkes
Senses: topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: A light wheellock hunting rifle once used for shooting wildfowl.
organdy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɔːɡəndi/
Forms: form: organdies
form: organdie
Etymology: From French organdi, possibly derived from the French name of the city Urgench.
Senses: examples: text: “I took it to garden-parties after I came out, with my hair curled and an organdie hat on top of the whole thing […].”
ref: 1934, Kay Boyle, My Next Bride, Virago, published 1986, page 317:
text: Beside them stood a puzzled female dwarf with a hideously rouged face as if ready for the circus; she was clad in white organdie with a marriage veil.
ref: 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 445:
glosses: A fine, transparent type of muslin, usually stiffened.
Related terms: organza
Tsimshian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsɪmʃiən/
Forms: form: Tsimshians
form: Chimmesyan
form: Tsimpshean
form: Tsimpshian
form: Tsimshean
Senses: glosses: A member of a Native American people who inhabited the coastal waters of western British Columbia and southeast Alaska.
Tsimshian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈsɪmʃiən/
Forms: form: Chimmesyan
form: Tsimpshean
form: Tsimpshian
form: Tsimshean
Senses: glosses: The Penutian language of this people.
Related terms: tsi ⁠
Tsinandali
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -ɑːli
Etymology: Borrowed from Georgian წინანდალი (c̣inandali).
Senses: glosses: A village in Kakheti, Georgia (country).
glosses: A dry white wine, from the Telavi and Kvareli regions of Georgia, made from Rkatsiteli and Mtsvane grape varieties
Malayan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈleɪən/
rhymes: -eɪən
Forms: form: Malayans
Etymology: From Malaya + -an.
Senses: examples: text: The third class is intended to provide cheap travel for the poorest Malayans; wooden seats are the rule, the compensation lying in the fare of four cents a mile (about 1d).
ref: 1950 October, R. A. Marshall, “Kuala Lumpur, an important Malayan Railway Centre”, in Railway Magazine, page 706:
glosses: A person of whatever ethnicity from the former Malaya or Peninsular Malaysia
glosses: Either of two lycaenid butterflies of the genus Megisba of Asia and Australasia.
Malayan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈleɪən/
rhymes: -eɪən
Forms: form: more Malayan
form: most Malayan
Etymology: From Malaya + -an.
Senses: glosses: of, or relating to the former Malaya; Malay
Derived terms: Malayan bear
Malayan tapir
Malayan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈleɪən/
rhymes: -eɪən
Forms: form: Malayans
Etymology: Borrowed from Armenian Մալայան (Malayan).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Armenian.
tsine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: banteng
banting
glosses: A Malayan wild ox, Bos javanicus.
Tsingtao
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: tsǐngʹtouʹ
chǐngʹdouʹ
Etymology: From the Postal Romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 青島／青岛 (Qīngdǎo).
Senses: examples: text: But the most serious situation developed out of Japanese participation in the World War. In the first place, the Japanese advance on Tsingtao put China as a neutral power in an anomalous position.
ref: 1928, Harold M. Vinacke, A History of the Far East in Modern Times, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, page 224:
text: Wagner was a German agricultural economist who in 1911 went to Tsingtao to teach in a German-Chinese Middle School. He later worked at the Litsun Agricultural Experimental Station in Shantung where he continued his studies of agriculture both past and present.
ref: 1970, Ramon H. Myers, The Chinese Peasant Economy Agricultural Development in Hopei and Shantung, 1890-1949, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, page 22:
text: Into Nelson Bell's earphones squawked a message from the consul at Tsingtao and then from the American minister himself, "insisting that we leave." The decisive factor, however, was a frank acceptance that to stay might increase the difficulties of Chinese Christians when the victorious revolutionary army poured into North Kiangsu.
ref: 1971, John C. Pollock, A Foreign Devil in China, Minneapolis, Minn.: World Wide Publications, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 98:
text: 1927, September 20. The Japanese steamship Gentoku Maru capsized in Tsingtao (Ch'ing-tao) Bay, China, killing 278.
ref: 1996, David Ritche, Shipwrecks: An Encyclopedia of the World's Worst Disasters at Sea, Facts On File, →ISBN, page 269:
glosses: Alternative form of Qingdao.