cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
fawaffle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fəˈwɑːfəl/
ipa: /fəˈwæfəl/
ipa: /fəˈwɒfəl/
ipa: /fəˈwɑfəl/
rhymes: -ɒfəl
Forms: form: fawaffles
Etymology: Blend of falafel + waffle
Senses: examples: text: Remove the fawaffles when they are cooked through and evenly browned.
ref: 2014, Daniel Shumski, Will It Waffle?: 53 Irresistible and Unexpected Recipes to Make in a Waffle Iron, page 92:
text: Yonatan Armon and Maya Mordechay show off a plate of three fawaffles, served with mujadra (lentils and rice), hummus and Israeli coleslaw at their Surfer’s Wife stand at the Kakaako Farmers Market.
ref: 2019 December 3, Joleen Oshiro, “Going Gluten-Free: Fawaffles highlight Surfer’s Wife Kitchen menu”, in Honolulu Star Advertiser:
text: falafel goes into a waffle iron and emerges as “fawaffles,” which then become a partner for fried chicken, of course.
ref: 2021 May, “17 Restaurants Where New Yorkers Can Make Up for Lost Time”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Falafel that has been pressed in a waffle iron into the form of a waffle.
fawaffles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fawaffle
Lushi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: lo͞oʹshûʹ
Forms: form: Lu-shih
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 盧氏 /卢氏 (Lúshì).
Senses: examples: text: Damage Control
On August 10, 2001, the weekend edition of Gongren Ribao (Workers’ Daily) in Lushi County, Henan Province, published a long lead story exposing redundant and extravagant projects pursued by the county Party secretary.
ref: 2007, Qinglian He, “Media Control in China”, in Sharon Hom, Stacy Mosher, editors, Challenging China: Struggle and Hope in an Era of Change, The New Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 39:
text: Wang Fengying, 48, told her victims she was Princess Changping, a descendant of China’s Aisin Gioro, the family name of the Manchu emperors that ruled the country during the Qing dynasty (1644-1911), the Huashang Daily reported.
Yet in reality she was just an unemployed farmer from Lushi county, in Henan province.
ref: 2015 September 8, Alice Yan, “Royal aspirations: fake Chinese Qing dynasty princess jailed after 2.3 million yuan scam”, in South China Morning Post, archived from the original on 16 Dec 2015:
glosses: A county of Sanmenxia, Henan, China.
lithotomize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lithotomizes
form: lithotomizing
form: lithotomized
form: lithotomized
Senses: glosses: To carry out a lithotomy.
lithotomized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of lithotomize
lithotomizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of lithotomize
lithotomizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of lithotomize
litanywise
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From litany + -wise.
Senses: glosses: In the manner of a litany.
Linnaeanism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Linnaean + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Nowhere was the victory of Linnaeanism more complete than in Britain. When William Hudson's Flora Anglica, organized in the Linnaean manner, appeared in 1762, it displaced all previous floras.
ref: 2000, Daniel R. Headrick, When Information Came of Age, page 26:
glosses: The Linnaean system of nomenclature.
limitatively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: In a limitative manner.
likelihead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of likelihood.
liespfund
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: liespfunds
Senses: glosses: An Estonian unit of mass, equivalent to 8.6 kilograms.
liespfunds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of liespfund
archeen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: archeens
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of arshin.
archeens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of archeen
Lewanna
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name.
filibusterings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of filibustering
Evington
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburban area and electoral ward in the City of Leicester, Leicestershire, England (OS grid ref SK6203).
glosses: A hamlet in Leigh parish, Tewkesbury borough, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref SO8725).
glosses: A small settlement in Elmsted parish, Folkestone and Hythe district, Kent, England (OS grid ref TR1045).
glosses: An unincorporated community in Campbell County, Virginia, United States.
Nanyang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Nan-yang
Etymology: From Mandarin 南陽／南阳 (Nányáng).
Senses: examples: text: In one of theſe cities named Nanyang, is found a kind of ſerpent, the ſkin of which is marked with ſmall white ſpots : the Chineſe phyſicians ſteep it in wine, and uſe it afterwards as an excellent remedy againſt the palſy.
ref: 1798, “HONAN”, in Dobson's Encyclopædia, volume VIII, Philadelphia: Thomas Dobson, →OCLC, page 639:
text: Other villagers expressed a mix of resignation and worry. Residents in Nanyang, a city of 1.5 million about 20 miles to the south, have also voiced alarm on the Internet and called for the project to be scuttled.
“Here and around Nanyang, there’s opposition, but that’s futile,” said Li Chaoyong, 50, who builds and repairs homes around Hubin. “But if there are problems again like in Japan ...” His voice trailed off, and he shook his head.
ref: 2015 November 21, Chris Buckley, “China’s Nuclear Vision Collides With Villagers’ Fears”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 Nov 2015, Asia Pacific:
text: China Southern Airlines has been testing the use of facial recognition technology in the city of Nanyang.
ref: 2018 April 3, Frank Sieren, “Sieren's China: Facial recognition”, in Deutsche Welle, archived from the original on 22 Feb 2024, Technology:
text: Northern Hubei was centered around Xiangzhou, Xiangyang (modern Xiangfan of Hubei), the seat of local government of Xiangzhou, was a major gathering point for southward emigration out of the Central Plains due to its location at the intersection between the Han River and the trunk road from Nanyang to Jiangling.
ref: 2021, Jianxiong Ge, Yunsheng Hu, A Historical Survey of the Yellow River and the River Civilizations, →ISBN, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 184:
glosses: A prefecture-level city of Henan, China.
Nanyang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Nan Yang
form: Nan-yang
Etymology: From Mandarin 南洋 (Nányáng).
Senses: examples: text: In other parts of the Nanyang the Chinese were never prominent in Communist Parties except, later, in Sarawak, where the local Chinese Communist faction attempted with little success to gain control of the Sarawak United Peoples’ Party (S.U.P.P.), a party largely Chinese-supported, which emerged as one of the legal political parties after Sarawak obtained self-government in 1956.
ref: 1972, C. P. Fitzgerald, “China and the Nanyang Communities Today”, in The Southern Expansion of the Chinese People: "Southern Fields and Southern Ocean", London: Barrie & Jenkins, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 189:
text: Different areas of Southeast Asia received Chinese emigrants from different regions of China, so that in the Nanyang an enormous diversity can be found, reflecting the diversity of regions and villages from whence the emigrants flowed.
Some sense of this diversity, and the dominance in each of the nations of the Nanyang by people from one or two specific regions of China, can be obtained from Tables 1 and 2. Table 1 depicts the major language groups of the emigrants as well as the regions in China where those languages were spoken. Table 2 sets out the distribution by Southeast Asian country of Chinese regional dialects and shows the diversity that exists from country to country.
ref: 1985, Michael A. Goldberg, “The Backdrop: The Overseas Chinese and the Role of Land, Business, and Family in Chinese Society”, in The Chinese Connection: Getting Plugged in to Pacific Rim Real Estate, Trade, and Capital Markets, Vancouver: University of British Columbia, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 14–15:
text: I was the second of five sisters in an expatriate Chinese family in the Philippines, in the Nanyang or Southeast Asia, where throughout history Chinese were an underdog minority living a precarious, rollercoaster kind of existence.
ref: 1998, Betty Lim King, “Prologue”, in Girl on a Leash: The Healing Power of Dogs A Memoir, Sanctuary Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3:
glosses: Synonym of Southeast Asia vis-à-vis the Chinese and Peranakan cultures: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.
synonyms: word: Southeast Asia vis-à-vis the Chinese and Peranakan cultures
extra: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name
Xixia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: shēʹshyäʹ
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 西峽 /西峡 (Xīxiá).
Senses: examples: text: A 3,000-ton-per-year andalusite plant began operation in Xixia County, Hunan Province. The andalusite source for the plant was a deposit with proven reserves of 7.8 million tons.
ref: 1990, Michael J. Potter, Kyanite and Related Minerals, United States Bureau of Mines, →OCLC, page 3:
text: In Xixia county, in central Henan province, schools cleaned out a total of 6,000 books that were “inappropriate or had a poor outer appearance,” and 22,700 that had no value, local media reported.
ref: 2020 July 9, Huizhong Wu, “In echo of Mao era, China's schools in book-cleansing drive”, in Sara Ledwith, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 09 Jul 2020, APAC:
glosses: A county of Nanyang, Henan, China.
Xixia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: shēʹshyäʹ
Forms: form: Xi Xia
form: Hsi Hsia
form: Si-hia
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 西夏 (Xīxià).
Senses: examples: text: By minibus and taxi Getting here from Yinchuan’s Xingqing district is either expensive or difficult. If you favour the expensive option, just grab a cab — drivers will start the bidding at ¥150 (or more) one-way, though you should be able to get them down to ¥200 return, including they take up to 2hr to reach the tombs. Finally, you could waiting time. Alternatively, green and red buses (no number, though with Xixia written on the front) run from a stop just east of Nanmen Square; these cost just ¥2, though to reach the tombs. Finally, you could split the difference and take a bus to Xixia district (1hr; ¥1), from which it’s a far cheaper taxi-ride to the ruins (¥25 each way).
ref: 2014, “The Yellow River”, in Rough Guide to China (Rough Guides), 7th edition, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 225–226:
text: Zhang called the police after the confrontation. In a statement issued on Sunday, the public security bureau of Yinchuan’s Xixia district said Gao and her family have agreed to talk through the disagreement.
ref: 2022 February 15, Mandy Zuo, “Chinese woman dragged away by family in viral bride price dispute video asks the internet to calm down”, in South China Morning Post, archived from the original on 15 Feb 2022:
glosses: A district of Yinchuan, Ningxia autonomous region, China.
examples: text: […]eastern Kansu, northern Shensi and Ningsia. In 1038 Yuan Hao, leader of the Tanguts, declared himself emperor and called his country Hsia, known in Chinese history as Hsihsia. Hsingching (modern Yinchuan, Ningsia) was made the capital.
ref: [1965, Chi-ming Tung, A Short History of China: From Earliest Times to 1840, →OCLC, page 154:
text: The tribe which prided itself most on its strength was the Hsi-hsia, which had its main garrison in Hsing-ch’ing. Besides the Hsi-hsia, there was a tribe of Turfans based in Liang-chou, a tribe of Uighurs with its base in Kan-chou, and a Chinese, or Han, tribe based in westernmost Sha-chou.
ref: [1978, Yasushi Inoue, chapter II, in Jean Oda Moy, transl., Tun-huang: A Novel, 1st edition, Kodansha International Ltd., →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 20:
glosses: Synonym of Western Xia.
synonyms: word: Western Xia
Xixia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: shēʹshyäʹ
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 棲霞 /栖霞 (Qīxiá) incorrectly as Xīxiá.
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of Qixia.
Xichuan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: shēʹchwänʹ
Forms: form: Hsi-ch'uan
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 淅川 (Xīchuān).
Senses: examples: text: Some ten thousand peasants in Hsichuan county in Honan province used hoes, scythes, wooden poles, etc. as weapons and took over the county seat. They expanded their forces and held areas in two neighboring counties. The CC sent a force of one hundred thousand troops and fought the peasants for nearly two months before the uprising was put down.
ref: [1960, Ching-wen Chow, “The Awakening of the Chinese People”, in Lai Ming, transl., edited by Lai Ming, Ten Years of Storm: The True Story of the Communist Regime in China, New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 305; republished as “China in Chains”, in The Truth About Communism, number 8, Milwaukee, Wis.: THE TRUTH, Inc., 1961, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 4, column 2:
text: The revolutionary masses of Hsichuan County have completed, three months ahead of schedule, the construction of a bridge across the (Huang) River.
ref: [1969 February 4 [1969 January 30], “New Honan Bridge”, in Daily Report: Communist China, volume I, number 23, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Chengchow Honan Provincial, translation of original in Mandarin, →OCLC, Communist China: Central-South Region, page D 7:
text: "Owing to poor living adjustment, as well as the climate and poor acclimatization, not only is the spread of epidemics extremely serious, the death rate is about 30 percent," stated one 1961 government report from Xichuan County, Henan, which sent the dam migrants to Qinghai.
ref: 2009 February 27, Chris Buckley, “China farmers recall bitter days of famine for dam”, in Megan Goldin, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 23 Dec 2023, ワールド:
glosses: A county of Nanyang, Henan, China.
Neixiang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˌneɪˈʃjɑŋ/
Forms: form: Nei-hsiang
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 內鄉 /内乡.
Senses: examples: text: Continuing their fishing expedition, Tokyo propagandists gave wide play to the claim that one returned B-29 had been set afire by a Japanese raid on its base at Neihsiang in western Honan.
ref: [1944 June 17, “The War in the Pacific”, in Far Eastern Propaganda Analysis, number 710, San Francisco: Propaganda Analysis Section, Office of War Information, →OCLC, Intelligence From Enemy Broadcasts, page 8:
text: A drone image shows Muyuan Foods newly built multi-storey pig farm in Neixiang county, Henan province, China November 6, 2020.
ref: 2020 December 7, Dominique Patton, “Flush with cash, Chinese hog producer builds world's largest pig farm”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 07 Dec 2020, Change Suite:
glosses: A county of Nanyang, Henan, China.
Chirpăr
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Chirpăr.
Senses: glosses: A village and commune of Sibiu County, Romania.
Glogova
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Glogova.
Senses: glosses: A commune and village in Gorj County, Romania.
Rădăuți-Prut
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Rădăuți-Prut.
Senses: glosses: A village and commune of Botoșani County, Romania.
Nanzhao
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Nan-chao
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 南詔 /南诏 (Nánzhào).
Senses: glosses: a kingdom that flourished in present-day Yunnan, China, between 739 and 902 CE.
Nanzhao
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Nan-chao
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 南召.
Senses: examples: text: Chang Tiehtou or Iron Head Chang, another bandit ringleader, is now staying at Tenghsien in South Honan, with about 2,000 guns. Tsui Er-tan and Wei Kuo-chu, both famous bandit ringleaders, with about 7,000 guns, who had captured several villages in the Nanchao Hsien region and set some of them on fire are reported to have been defeated by the Government troops.
ref: [1931 April 4 [1931 March 27], “Banditry and Famine in Honan”, in The China Weekly Review, volume 56, number 5, →OCLC, page 156, column 1:
text: On 3 February some 10,000 proletarian revolutionaries, revolutionary masses, and PLA commanders and fighters in Nanchao County held a rally to celebrate the setting up of the Nanchao County revolutionary committee.
ref: [1968 February 8 [1968 February 6], “Honan County Committee”, in Daily Report: Communist China, number 28, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Chengchow Honan Provincial, translation of original in Mandarin, →OCLC, Chicom Regional Affairs, page ddd 24:
text: Since foreigners are still prohibited from entering most such areas, I was able to visit only those that had already benefited from international and government-supported microfinance programs (discussed below), specifically Yucheng County in the east and Nanzhao County in the southwest of the province.
ref: 2002, Kellee S. Tsai, Back-Alley Banking: Private Entrepreneurs in China, Cornell University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 185:
text: The couple, who were not named, took the raft trip in a natural park in Nanzhao county in northern Henan province, the report said.
ref: 2015 June 8, Angela Meng, “'Tacky' Chinese boyfriend criticised for making river rafting staff salute girlfriend on her birthday”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 09 Jun 2015, China:
glosses: A county of Nanyang, Henan, China.
Wolong
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwoʊ.lɔŋ/
enpr: wôʹlo͝ongʹ
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 臥龍 /卧龙 (Wòlóng).
Senses: examples: text: A tutor from the Nanyang Museum of Science and Technology of Henan Province brought a “small robot’ to the classroom of the Experiment School in Wolong District of Nanyang.
ref: 2008, Xia Hewen [夏和文], “Education”, in Key Words for Better Understanding China [关键词读中国], 1st edition, Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 102:
english: 关键词读中国
translation: 关键词读中国
text: Located on Wolong Mound, west suburb of Nanyang, the temple was the farmstead of Zhuge Liang, a famous politician and strategist in the Three Kingdoms Period.
ref: 2008, Chen Xuejian, editor, Travel Around China, HarperCollins, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 590:
text: One of these report^([sic – meaning reports]) states that the Wolong District of Nanyang, Henan Province, has built a memorial to honest and upright officials, at which statues representing a number of feudal officials were erected together with ones to comrades Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai and Liu Shaoqi, and nine marshals of the People’s Republic.
ref: 2012 [1998 April 12], Jiang Zemin, “Leading Cadres Need to Increase their Political Discernment and Acuity”, in Selected Works of Jiang Zemin, volume II, Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 109:
text: A man has been detained in Nanyang , Henan province, for allegedly hiring six HIV carriers to intimidate residents into moving out to make way for a real estate project.
More than 10 households left the residential community in Wolong district after the group left threatening messages on building walls, yelled at residents and set off firecrackers at night, The Beijing News reported.
ref: 2014 December 26, Huifeng He, Li Jing, “HIV patients hired to ‘intimidate’ people out of homes in Henan province”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 Dec 2014, Society:
glosses: A district of Nanyang, Henan, China.
Xinye
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: shǐnʹyěʹ
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 新野 (Xīnyě).
Senses: examples: text: In the first year of [the period] Yung-shih,⁶ he enfeoffed [Wang] Mang as Marquis of Hsin-tu with an estate of fifteen hundred households in the Tu District of Hsin-yeh [County] in Nan-yang [Commandery].⁷
ref: [1970, “From the History of the Former Han Dynasty (Han Shu) by Pan Ku”, in William H. McNeill, Jean W. Sedlar, editors, Classical China, Oxford University Press, →OCLC, page 159:
text: Four macaque circus trainers charged with illegally transporting rare wildlife were acquitted on January 20 when an appellate court overturned guilty verdict in Xinye County, Henan province.
ref: 2015 January 30, Yang Xin, “Macaque Circus Trainers Cleared of Wildlife Transport Charges”, in Beijing Today, number 712, →ISSN, →OCLC, News, page 3, column 1:
text: Performance monkeys on break near their trainer during a daily training session last week at a monkey farm in Xinye County in China’s central Henan Province. In an area known for producing the animals and their trainers, the grizzled masters hope the Year of the Monkey brings new respect for their centuries-old tradition.
ref: 2016 February 8, Jason Lee, “Performance Monkeys in the Year of the Monkey”, in The New York Times, Reuters, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 09 Jun 2023:
glosses: A county of Nanyang, Henan, China.
stunsil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stunsils
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of stunsail.
stunsels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stunsel
stunsils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stunsil
Tanghe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: tängʹhǔʹ
Etymology: From Mandarin 唐河 (Tánghé).
Senses: examples: text: Feng Yuan-chun was born in 1900 in Tangho County, Honan Province. She graduated from the former Women’s Normal University in Peking and obtained the degree of Doctor of Literature at the Soibonne.
ref: [1958, Feng Yuan-chun, “About the Author”, in Yang Hsien-yi, Gladys Yang, transl., A Short History of Classical Chinese Literature (China Knowledge Series), Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →OCLC, page 124:
text: The afternoon of August 23rd in Tanghe County during a Bible study at a farmer's home, 31 house church leaders were arrested.
ref: 2006, Michael D. Suman, “Churches Established after the 1979 Revision”, in The Church in China: One Lord Two Systems, Bangalore, India: SAIACS, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 339:
text: In Nanyang Prefecture's Tanghe County, party secretary Bi Kedan was an enthusiast of the Great Leap Forward. In the autumn of 1958, Tanghe County set up 4,617 steel furnaces, and hoes, shovels, and other farming implements were sent to the smelters.
ref: 2012 [2008], Jisheng Yang, “The Epicenter of the Disaster”, in Tombstone: The Great Chinese Famine, 1958-1962, 1st American edition, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 82:
glosses: A county of Nanyang, Henan, China.
Tongbai
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: to͝ongʹbīʹ
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 桐柏 (Tóngbǎi).
Senses: examples: text: This paper records some plant impressions from the Wu-li-tui formation of the Wu-ch'eng basin in T'ung-pai hsien, Honan. The xerophytic Palibinia and small leaves of various kinds of leguminous plants are predominant.
ref: [1978 August 1 [1978 March], “Plant Fossils of Late Eocene From Wu-ch'eng, Honan and Their Significance in Botany and Paleoclimatology”, in People's Republic of China Scientific Abstracts, number 195, →OCLC, page 23:
text: A large deposit of high-grade natural soda reportedly has been found in Tungpai County of Honan Province, within the Paleogene system of Cenozoic rocks.
ref: [1979, International Minerals/Metals Review, McGraw-Hill, →OCLC, page 19:
text: George Holm successfully secured property in the town of Pingshih, Tungpeh County of Honan Province and began work there in the early part of the year. Pingshih was the largest market town in Tungpeh County, and a center of trade. In October, after the marriage of Holm and Lena Rygh, they moved to Pingshih and the work progressed encouragingly.
ref: [1980, Joseph H. Levang, “1911 - 1918: Consolidation and Growth”, in The Church of the Lutheran Brethren 1900-1975, Fergus Falls, Minnesota: Lutheran Brethren Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 89:
text: China recently announced discovery of a large trona deposit in Tongbai County, ranking it the largest trona deposit in Asia and second only to the Wyoming deposit.
ref: 2013 August, Eileen De Guire, “State of raw materials 2013”, in American Ceramic Society Bulletin, volume 92, number 6, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 28:
text: The Laowan mine in Tongbai county produced 208 tonnes of gold between 2011 and 2019, the bureau said.
Henan is China’s second-largest gold producing province after northeastern Shandong province.
ref: 2022 August 23, Emily Chow, “China's Henan province ups gold resource at Laowan mine”, in Richard Pullin, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 14 Jul 2023, COMMODITIES:
text: Another Douyin video, uploaded by the police department of Tongbai county in Henan province, showed a policewoman trying to identify spies by quizzing pedestrians about lines from sketch shows that only Chinese people – but not foreigners – would know.
ref: 2023 August 26, Jack Lau, “Be alert: China enlists the public in push back at US spying efforts”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 Aug 2023, Politics:
glosses: A county of Nanyang, Henan, China.
Derived terms: tongbaite
Wancheng
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: wänʹchǔngʹ
Etymology: From Mandarin 宛城 (Wǎnchéng).
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Li Yansen, 67, is a retired engineer from Bayi Manufacturing in Nanyang City. During the morning of March 5, 2004, five police officers from Wancheng District came to his home and illegally searched it without showing a warrant or identification.
ref: 2004 November 16, “Five People Recently Abducted and Tried in the Wancheng District, Nanyang City, Henan Province”, in Falun Dafa - Minghui.org, archived from the original on 16 Aug 2022:
text: In Henan province, in the Wancheng District of Nanyang City, another house church was raided. All occupants of the church were arrested except for one elderly woman. Two foreign pastors, one from the United States and the other from Russia, both present at the time of the raid, were arrested along with their translator. Ma Hanzhong, a member of the house church and arrested with the others was beaten. The location of the two foreign pastors are unknown at this time (p.4).
ref: 2012 July, Emeka C. Ekeke, “Persecution and Martyrdom of Christians in the Roman Empire from AD54 to 100: A Lesson for the 21st Century Church”, in European Journal of Scientific Research, volume 8, number 16, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 185:
glosses: A district of Nanyang, Henan, China.
Sheqi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 社旗.
Senses: examples: text: Honan Province
Established Shechi County under the jurisdiction of Nanyang Special District.
ref: [1966 March 24 [1966 March 22], “Changes of Administrative Divisions Listed”, in Daily Report: Foreign Radio Broadcasts, number 57, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Peking NCNA Domestic Service, translation of original in Chinese, →OCLC, Communist China National Affairs, page CCC 3:
text: In 1988 he did so, but it was risky. Foreigners at that time were able to travel to Zhengzhou, capital of Henan Province, but were normally prohibited from traveling farther into the countryside. Ding Hei and others arranged for a motor-powered three-wheel taxi to pick Balcombe up in Zhengzhou and drive him several hours through the night to Macheng village in Sheqi County, next to Fangcheng County.
ref: 2003, David Aikman, “Foreigners”, in Jesus in Beijing: How Christianity is Transforming China and Changing the Global Balance of Power, Regnery Publishing, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 275:
text: Students attend class at a rural primary school in Sheqi county, in China's Henan province.
ref: 2021 June 13, Jay Matthews, “Big hole in popular view that China beats U.S. in education”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 Jun 2021, Education:
glosses: A county of Nanyang, Henan, China.
Fangcheng
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: fängʹchǔngʹ
Etymology: From Mandarin 方城.
Senses: examples: text: Chang Shih-chih,⁷¹ whose style was Chi, was a native of Che-yang⁷² of the Nan-yang commandery.
ref: [1972 [Eastern Han], Hsün Yüeh, “Supported by Elder Brother”, in T’ung-tsu Ch’ü, transl., edited by Jack L. Dull, Han Social Structure, Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, sourced from 漢紀 50:1a SPTK ed., translation of original in Chinese, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 266–267:
text: The raid was conducted in a village about 27 miles south of Fangcheng, a city in Henan province in central China.
ref: 1994 February 16, Daniel Southerl, “CHINESE DETAIN 7 CHRISTIAN ACTIVISTS -- 3 FROM U.S.”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 Oct 2023:
text: Quan Zhaoquan remembers that period well. A resident of Guan Zhuang village in Yangji Township, in Henan’s Fangcheng County, he was the village leader in 1968, a position frequently targeted by Red Guards looking for “capitalist-roaders,” as followers of Mao’s political target Liu Shaoqi were often called.
ref: 2003, David Aikman, Jesus in Beijing: How Christianity is Transforming China and Changing the Global Balance of Power, Regnery Publishing, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 75:
text: Guangdong Chant Group Inc. :
* Says it signed biomass power project with investment at about 320 million yuan in Fangcheng County, Henan Province
ref: 2016 November 23, “BRIEF-Guangdong Chant Group signs biomass power project, investment about 320 mln yuan”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 24 Nov 2016, Consumer Goods and Retail:
glosses: A county of Nanyang, Henan, China.
Fangcheng
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: fängʹchǔngʹ
Etymology: From Mandarin 防城 (Fángchéng).
Senses: examples: text: Finally, at the beginning of September, the commanders of the two companies of Kwangsi troops defending the unwalled district city of Fang-ch’eng, west of Ch’in-chou, abruptly defected to the revolutionary side. Why they defected is not clear. A native of Kwangsi himself, Wang may have played upon their common provincial ties; or he may have bribed them. In any case, with their help, Wang Ho-shun and several hundred followers captured Fang-ch’eng without a fight on September 3.
ref: [1975, Edward J. M. Rhoads, “Middle Years of the Post-Boxer Decade, II: Revolution”, in China's Republican Revolution: The Case of Kwangtung, 1895–1913, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 115:
text: The agency also said there was an attack in Fangcheng County in Guanxi^([sic – meaning Guangxi]) Province and artillery fire directed against Yunnan Province
ref: 1979 August 25, “China Accuses Vietnam of Raids And Artillery Attack Near Border”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 10 Mar 2018, page 4:
glosses: A district of Fangchenggang, Guangxi autonomous region, China.
Pingdingshan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: pǐngʹdǐngʹshänʹ
rhymes: -æn
Forms: form: P'ing-ting-shan
form: Pingtingshan
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 平頂山 /平顶山 (Píngdǐngshān).
Senses: examples: text: Together with nearby Lushan county, Pingdingshan was the champion in Henan province’s iron and steel production. Here more than forty thousand agriculture laborers had been diverted to make iron and steel.
ref: 2013, Xun Zhou, “Unnatural Disasters”, in Forgotten Voices of Mao's Great Famine, 1958-1962: An Oral History, Yale University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 112:
glosses: A prefecture-level city of Henan, China.
wikipedia: Encyclopedia Britannica
Șaru Dornei
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Romanian Șaru Dornei.
Senses: glosses: A commune of Suceava County, Romania.
glosses: A village in Șaru Dornei, Suceava County, Romania.
Șieuț
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Șieuț.
Senses: glosses: A village and commune of Bistrița-Năsăud County, Romania.
Șărmășag
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Șărmășag.
Senses: glosses: A village and commune of Sălaj County, Romania.
Shilong
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 石龍 /石龙 (Shílóng).
Senses: examples: text: A pipeline transporting ammonia at a chemical factory in Shilong district of Pingdingshan city ruptured at around 6.30am yesterday.
ref: 2015 September 19, Nectar Gan, “Children cough blood and animals die as Chinese factory leaks ammonia”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 Jan 2024, China:
glosses: A district of Pingdingshan, Henan, China.
glosses: A town in Dongguan, Guangdong, China.
Baofeng
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: bouʹfǔngʹ
Forms: form: Pao-feng
form: Paofeng
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 寶豐 /宝丰 (Bǎofēng).
Senses: examples: text: News also had been received of a rising at Pao-feng, twenty-three miles west, where the people were mid to be looting the granaries of the wealthy.
ref: [1901, Marshall Broomhall, quoting C. Howard Bird, “My Escape from Siang-Ch’eng”, in Martyred Missionaries of the China Inland Mission, →OCLC, →OL, page 244:
text: According to the annotations by Tu Yü (杜預), the state of Ying lay to the southwest of present-day Pao Fêng (寶豐) County in Central Honan.
ref: [1960, Mo Jo Ko, “Notes on the Ying Chien Hsien”, in Acta Archaeologica Sinica, number 1, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 8:
text: In late July Father set off from Baofeng County, Henan Province, where the Central Plains Field Army was stationed, to attend the meeting in Xibaipo in his capacity as first secretary of the Central Plains Bureau.
ref: 1995 [1993], Maomao (Xiao Rong) Deng, Deng Xiaoping: My Father, Basic Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 427:
text: The 12 were repairing a shaft at a colliery in Henan province's Baofeng county when an explosion tore through the pit on Friday.
ref: 2007 September 4, “Rescuers pull 12 bodies from China coal mine”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 07 Apr 2023, Latest Crisis:
glosses: A county of Pingdingshan, Henan, China.
Ruzhou
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 汝州 (Rǔzhōu).
Senses: examples: text: Ju-yao or Juchou porcelain.—Chinese authors state that the porcelain manufactured at Tingchou (see p. 402), being unfit for presentation to the emperor, the establishment of a factory for the manufacture of more suitable articles was ordered at Juchou, in Honan province.
ref: [1890, Alfred E. Hippisley, A Catalogue of the Hippisley Collection of Chinese Porcelains, with a Sketch of the History of Ceramic Art in China., Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 399:
text: The Ju Yao of the Sung dynasty was made at Ju-chou, the modern Ju-chou-fu, in the province of Honan.
ref: [1908, Yuan-p'ien Hsiang, translated by Stephen W. Bushell, Chinese Porcelain: Sixteenth-Century Coloured Illustrations with Chinese ms. Text, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 12:
text: Ruzhou, a town surrounded by coal mines in Henan Province, borrowed and spent in line with China’s government-driven fads, which helped guarantee that Beijing would pay for much of it.
ref: 2019 November 10, Alexandra Stevenson, Cao Li, “How Bad Is China’s Debt? A City Hospital Is Asking Nurses for Loans”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 10 Nov 2019:
text: In Ruzhou, a city southwest of Zhengzhou, streets have been turned into torrents, sweeping away cars and other vehicles, footage on social media showed.
ref: 2021 July 20, Ryan Woo, “Dozen central Chinese cities under water as river banks burst”, in Nick Macfie, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 20 Jul 2021, Environment:
glosses: A county-level city of Pingdingshan, Henan, China.
Horoatu Crasnei
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Horoatu Crasnei.
Senses: glosses: A village and commune of Sălaj County, Romania.
Elmsted
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Folkestone and Hythe district, Kent, England (OS grid ref TR1144).
Related terms: Elmstead
Zhanhe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: jänʹhŭʹ
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 湛河 (Zhànhé).
Senses: examples: text: Located in the southern part of Pingdingshan City, Zhanhe District covers an area of 123.5 sq km with a population of 210,000. It is made up of one township and one town and 71 administrative villages.
ref: 1999, 中国新兴城市: 河南卷, volume 2, 新华出版社 [Xinhua], →ISBN, →OCLC, page 242, column 1:
english: Xinhua
translation: Xinhua
text: The Pingdingshan City Labour Dispute Arbitration Committee rejected Zhou Xianghua's appeal. Subseuqently, Zhou sued her work unit in court. On 9 December 2005, the case was tried by the Zhanhe district court of Pingdingshan. After hearing both sides of the argument, the collegiate panel delivered the verdict: Zhou lost her case.
ref: 2009, Xinyu Wang, “A Study of Current Employment Discrimination against Women”, in Yuwen Li, Jenny Goldschmidt, editors, Taking Employment Discrimination Seriously: Chinese and European Perspectives, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 117:
text: Note: 1. The Government of Zhanhe District is located at Shuguang Street, Xinhua District, Pingdingshan City;[…]
ref: 2010 May 31, “Appendix A The Seismic Precautionary Intensity, Basic Acceleration of Ground Motion and Design Earthquake Groups of Main Cities and Towns in China”, in 建筑抗震设计规范 [Code for Seismic Design of Buildings], Beijing: China Architecture & Building Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 186:
english: Code for Seismic Design of Buildings
translation: Code for Seismic Design of Buildings
text: Objective: To analyze the epidemiological factors, epidemic law and change trend of hand-foot-mouth disease (HFMD) in Zhanhe District of Pingdingshan City, provide scientific basis for making the prevention and control strategies. Methods: The epidemic data of HFMD in Zhanhe District from 2008-2011 were analyzed with descriptive epidemiology. Results: A total of 1 956 HFMD cases were reported in Zhanhe District from 2008-2011, the average annual incidence rate was 192.21/lakh, the severe rate was 8.08%, and there was no death case.
ref: 2013, Chen ShengLi, Wang XiangLi, Li XiaoYan, Luo Jun, “Epidemiological analysis on hand-foot-mouth disease in Zhanhe District of Pingdingshan City from 2008-2011.”, in Occupation and Health [职业与健康], volume 29, number 7, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 Aug 2024:
english: 职业与健康
translation: 职业与健康
glosses: A district of Pingdingshan, Henan, China.
whatstheirname
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whatstheirnames
Etymology: A compound of what is their name.
Senses: examples: text: Many old names, hairstyles, and mustaches that I'd already forgotten: Mirko Votava, Tom Dooley, Vladimir Beschastnych, Manni Bender, Heiko Scholz, Alain Sutter, and whatstheirname
ref: 2018, Philipp Winkler, Hooligan:
text: Maybe now you can see the outstanding job they are doing for you as you call for “that letter about the pipe joints rom Whatstheirname's warehouse,"
ref: 1973, Records Management Quarterly, page 9:
glosses: A person whose name is either unknown or forgotten.
Related terms: whatshisname
whatshername
Weidong
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: wāʹdo͝ongʹ
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 衛東 /卫东.
Senses: examples: text: The 72 miners were trapped after stored explosives blew up at the Xingdong No.2 Mine in Weidong district of Pingdingshan in Henan province, it said.
ref: 2010 June 21, Huang Yan, Lucy Hornby, “Coal mine explosives blast kills 46 in China”, in Sugita Katyal, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 27 Sep 2024:
text: Eight mines of Pingdingshan is China's own design and construction of the first large-scale mine, administrative area under the Weidong District, Pingdingshan City .
ref: 2017 November, Pei-yang Wang, Feng You-li, “Geological Hazards in Pingdingshan Coal Mine District and Controlling Countermeasures”, in International Journal of Scientific and Technical Research in Engineering, volume 2, number 11, →ISSN, page 23:
glosses: A district of Pingdingshan, Henan, China.
Wugang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: wo͞oʹgängʹ
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 武岡 /武冈 (Wǔgāng).
Senses: examples: text: (Chao Han-ching) is deputy secretary of the CCP committee of Wukang County, Hunan, and (Chao Ying-shan) is secretary of the committee.
ref: [1971 August 20 [1971 August 18], “Hunan County CCP Officials”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 162, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Changsha Hunan Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China: Central-South Region, page D 5:
text: Hengjiang Village is nestled in the lush mountains of China's Hunan province, just a few kilometers from the bustling city of Wugang.
ref: 2009 September 2, Emily Chang, “Plants shut for lead poisoning in south China; thousands sickened”, in CNN, archived from the original on 03 Sep 2009:
glosses: A county-level city of Shaoyang, Hunan, China.
Wugang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: wo͞oʹgängʹ
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 舞鋼 /舞钢 (Wǔgāng).
Senses: examples: text: Fraud
Wu-kang district (舞鋼區), Honan province, lies between P'ing-ting-shan city (平頂山市) and Hsü-ch'ang city (許昌市), and[...]
ref: [1980, China News Analysis, numbers 1181-1201, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 5:
text: The incidents occurred in Henan Province in an area known to have many "house churches."[…]
Mr. Zhang said that 40 worshipers at a house church were arrested on Oct. 26 in the city of Wugang and that more than 100 were detained on Nov. 5 in Nanyang.
ref: 1998 November 11, Elisabeth Rosenthal, “China Detains 140 From 2 Protestant Groups”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 May 2015, Section A, page 5:
text: On October 26, 1998, the PSB assaulted a group of 40 at a house gathering, in Liuwan Village of Wugong County near Wugang City in Henan Province.
ref: 2006, Michael D. Suman, The Church in China: One Lord Two Systems, Bangalore, India: SAIACS, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 338:
text: Wugang in Henan Province announced a citywide lockdown starting July 11, making it the latest Chinese city to enact strict mobility curbs amid the country’s ongoing Covid flareup. The city of about 300,000, home to Wuyang Iron & Steel Co., is requiring all residents to stay at home unless they’re getting tested for Covid, according to a local government statement Monday.
ref: 2022 July 12, “China Locks Down a Steel Hub For Three Days on One Covid Case”, in Bloomberg News, archived from the original on 12 Jul 2022:
glosses: A county-level city of Pingdingshan, Henan, China.
Zhumadian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: jo͞oʹmäʹdyěnʹ
Forms: form: Chu-ma-tien
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 駐馬店 /驻马店 (Zhùmǎdiàn).
Senses: examples: text: The Chumatien prefecture is 14,710 square kilometres in extent. It has 773,330 hectares of arable land, 4,000 hectares of which is. in hilly country, 66,670 in marsh, and 166,670 in plains. Its two main rivers are the Hung and the Ju, which join together at the Anhwei boundary, and flow into the Hwai River.
ref: [1978 February, Rewi Alley, “The Epic of Chumatien”, in Eastern Horizon, volume XVII, number 2, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 5, column 1:
text: The Wuhan forces had won the battle at Chumatien (the victory Tom Mann had so boisterously celebrated) but, as those back in Wuhan subsequently found out, only at a terrible cost.
ref: [1981, Dan N. Jacobs, “Going Home”, in Borodin: Stalin's Man in China, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 272:
text: The size of the protest in Suixian County is extraordinary, but it is not an isolated phenomenon. Recently, farmers from the villages of Chenglao and Wenlou have been detained in the city of Zhumadian, where they went to press local officials for more help.
Wenlou, the only village in Henan that the government has acknowledged by name to have an AIDS problem, has become something of a showcase for the disease, its AIDS victims visited by officials from Beijing and given a clinic and a modicum of free medical care.
But villagers say the drugs dispensed there are worthless against their disease, and at the end of November eight villagers with H.I.V. marched into the Zhumadian health office and refused to leave without a promise of more help.
ref: 2001 December 11, Elisabeth Rosenthal, “Spread of AIDS in Rural China Ignites Protests”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 May 2015, World:
text: Conditions vary across the vast agricultural belt. In Henan province, often called China's granary, a farmer surnamed Ma who runs a 50-acre (20.23 hectares) farm in Xinxiang said his output held steady because of irrigation.
But damage was clear elsewhere in the province.
In Zhumadian, another farmer, named Zhang, said he harvested 1.65 acres of wheat on May 23, more than a week earlier than usual due to the heat. Zhang, who spoke over the phone, said his yield was down 40%, similar to 2023 when floods led to sprouting and blight.
ref: 2025 June 4, Ella Cao, Florence Lo, Xiaoyu Yin, “Drought bakes China's wheat belt, slashing harvests for some”, in Tony Munroe, Kate Mayberry, editors, Reuters, archived from the original on 27 Jul 2025:
glosses: A prefecture-level city of Henan, China, formerly a prefecture.
Biyang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: bēʹyängʹ
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 泌陽 /泌阳 (Bìyáng).
Senses: examples: text: That Honan was the locus of manufacture for wares of the splashed black-glazed variety is suggested by the number of examples excavated in that province (for a reference to wares of this type excavated in Hsi-p’ing-hsien, Honan, see Sekai Tōji Zenshū, IX, 191; for a blue-glazed jar—similar in glaze and in the shape and disposition of its spots to the Palace Museum jar mentioned earlier—excavated at Pan-ch’iao, Mi-yang-hsien, Honan, see Wen Wu, 1954/9, Plate 59).
ref: [1968, “Ceramics: Han-Sung”, in Chinese Art from The Cloud Wampler and other Collections in the Everson Museum, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 58:
text: The village of Nia Seng in Piyang county is famous as the birth place of two famous generals of the Six Dynasties period (AD 222-589). But that county is perhaps more famous today for its luscious pears, perhaps China’s best.[…]
The town was saved. Then there was a militiaman, Liu Hsiao-mo, of the Yangcheng brigade in Shahotien of Piyang county. He took a small boat and res- cued many people.
ref: [1978 February, Rewi Alley, “The Epic of Chumatien”, in Eastern Horizon, volume XVII, number 2, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, pages 5, 7:
glosses: A county of Zhumadian, Henan, China.
puts one's money where one's mouth is
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of put one's money where one's mouth is
putting one's money where one's mouth is
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of put one's money where one's mouth is
put one's money where one's mouth was
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of put one's money where one's mouth is