cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
prasada
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prasadas
form: prasadam
Etymology: Borrowed from Sanskrit प्रसाद (prasāda).
Senses: glosses: A religious offering, usually of vegetarian food consumed by worshippers after worship, in Hinduism and Sikhism.
conantokin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conantokins
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of small proteins present in the venom of cone snails of the genus Conus.
conantokins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of conantokin
consegregate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: consegregates
form: consegregating
form: consegregated
form: consegregated
Etymology: From con- + segregate.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Alternative form of cosegregate.
consegregated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of consegregate
coproporhyrinogen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of coproporphyrinogen.
corosolate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corosolates
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt or ester of corosolic acid
get off someone's case
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gets off someone's case
form: getting off someone's case
form: got off someone's case
form: got off someone's case
form: gotten off someone's case
Senses: glosses: To stop criticizing someone.
Related terms: get off someone's back
corticonigral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cortico- + nigral.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the cerebral cortex and the substantia nigra
costicosteroid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of corticosteroid.
crotapotin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: One of the components proteins of crotoxin
crystalizable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of crystallizable.
cyclohexylmethyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyclohexylmethyls
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A cyclohexyl derivative of a methyl radical
cyclopeptidic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cyclo- + peptidic.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Relating to, or composed of cyclopeptides
MSs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: MSes
form: MS's
Senses: glosses: plural of MS
starfrontlet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: starfrontlets
Etymology: From star + frontlet.
Senses: glosses: Any of several species of South American hummingbirds in the genus Coeligena.
Related terms: inca
sickass
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sickass
form: most sickass
Senses: examples: text: Sickass racists would have us believe that white women who follow the lead of black revolutionaries are only mindless cunts enslaved by gigantic black penises.
ref: 1976, Les Payne, Tim Findley, Carolyn Craven, Life & Death of the Sla, →ISBN, page 359:
text: Christopher's textbook of surgery, the notes of information, sickass drawings, and Rembrandt gifts—all out in the open as if to say fuck you.
ref: 2012, J.R. Angelella, Zombie: A Novel, →ISBN:
text: But behind his back...They try to Destroy him...Chop and Screw...Forming Secret Alliances...Like some sickass Empire.
ref: 2013, Allen Simmons, Lyrical Grim Reaper...Street Poet Tales!, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of sick-ass.
sick-ass
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sick-ass
form: most sick-ass
form: sickass
form: sick ass
Etymology: From sick + -ass.
Senses: examples: text: It's not all right for you to cover for your sick-ass, twisted son, just because he's yours and let him tear apart a woman and her family.
ref: 2007, L. A. Banks, The Wicked, →ISBN:
text: And I definitely didn't find anything that pointed towards her having any sort of an affiliation with a sick-ass killer.
ref: 2010, Alexander DeMarcus, The Whipping Man, →ISBN:
text: I was getting bigger for having this kid and basically homeless, and my mother hated me because her sick-ass husband thought he was in control of me.
ref: 2015, Ashley Lewis, Victim of Abuse, →ISBN:
text: You really are one sick-ass, crazy motherfucker.
ref: 2016, John Vitale, Last Man Standing, →ISBN:
glosses: Mentally disturbed or unsound; malevolently crazy.
examples: text: That caught the ear of Dr. Rhyme, one of hip hop's most influential producers, the genius behind Da Sick Niggaz Convention Rhyme put his trackers out to find that “crazy motherfuckah with the sick-ass lyrics and slick production.”
ref: 2004, Tim McLoughlin, Brooklyn Noir, →ISBN:
text: Living at home, not because you can't afford housing, but because your parents have a sick-ass spread right on Biscayne Bay, just across the street from Alex Rodriguez, and they promised you the pool house, as long as you don't mess with the $60,000 filtration system;
ref: 2011, H.L. Rogers, Peter Littleton, The Rogers & Littleton Guide to America's Douchiest Colleges, →ISBN, page 46:
text: There's a sick-ass poetry slam every month. Real good stuff.
ref: 2015, Ezra E. Fitz, The Morning Side of the Hill: A Novella, →ISBN:
glosses: Impressive.
sick ass
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sick ass
form: most sick ass
Senses: examples: text: I smirked silently, and said to myself, it all makes sense now; he is one sick ass bastard.
ref: 2010, G. D. Freightman, Ripped and Ready, →ISBN, page 19:
text: You're one sick ass dude, Scott!
ref: 2012, John D. McCray, Who Am I, →ISBN, page 180:
text: You little son of a bitch! I'm tired of fucking playing this sick ass game with you.
ref: 2015, Lawanda Johnson, Millie & Jesse, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of sick-ass.
linear span
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: linear spans
Senses: topics: linear-algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A linear subspace generated by all linear combinations of a given subset of vectors of a given vector space.
linear subspace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: linear subspaces
Senses: topics: linear-algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A subset of vectors of a vector space which is closed under the addition and scalar multiplication of that vector space.
linear sum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: linear sums
Senses: topics: linear-algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A linear subspace which is the linear span of the union of two subspaces (of some vector space).
Hyponyms: direct sum
learn to walk before one can run
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: learns to walk before one can run
form: learning to walk before one can run
form: learned to walk before one could run
form: learned to walk before one could run
form: learnt to walk before one could run
form: learnt to walk before one could run
form: know how to walk before one can run
Senses: examples: text: Optimal performances can also be used as platforms for achieving greater things in performance later. You might think of optimal performance as learning to walk before you can run or learning the arias before the whole role or running many ten-kilometer races before you try to run a marathon.
ref: 1998, Alma Thomas, Power Performance for Singers: Transcending the Barriers, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 29:
text: Our mathematics education —particularly our arithmetic education— began with the least important numbers and worked through the years to get us to the more important ones. I guess that follows the theory of having to learn to walk before you can run and defers to the lower capacity of the young child's mind to grasp more complex models.
ref: 2007, David A Herzog, Math You Can Really Use-Every Day, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 1:
glosses: Before one can perform a complicated task, one has to learn how to perform more simple tasks.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see learn, walk, before, run.
Related terms: look before one leaps
know how to walk before one can run
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: knows how to walk before one can run
form: knowing how to walk before one can run
form: knew how to walk before one could run
form: known how to walk before one could run
Senses: examples: text: Just like you need to know how to walk before you can run, you need to know how to use Access before you can start to use Access VBA.
ref: 2011, Alan Simpson, Access 2007 VBA Programming For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 9:
glosses: Alternative form of learn to walk before one can run.
Nith
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A river in south-west Scotland, mainly in Dumfries and Galloway council area; in full, the River Nith.
glosses: The Nith River in south-western Ontario, Canada
Derived terms: Nithsdale
Zhangzhounese
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Zhangzhou + -n- + -ese.
Senses: examples: text: Most varieties spoken in and around Xiamen (Hk: Ē-mûin, Ml: Emoei), Taiwan, and Southeast Asia constitute intermediate dialects with varying inclinations toward Zhangzhounese and Quanzhounese. As Zhangzhou was the chief Fujianese[…]
ref: 2021 August 15, Tom G. Hoogervorst, Language Ungoverned: Indonesia's Chinese Print Entrepreneurs, 1911–1949, Cornell University Press, →ISBN, page 39:
glosses: The Hokkien dialect of Zhangzhou
Zhangzhounese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Zhangzhou + -n- + -ese.
Senses: examples: text: In addition to the Fukeinese, Quanzhounese, Zhangzhounese and Sanjiangnese, the Cantonese flocked to Japan and established their own sphere of Chinese influence in Yokohama port when the Sino-Japan Recovery Contract was enacted in[…]
ref: 2005, 教育研究 [Educational Studies], volume 47, Mitaka, Japan: International Christian University, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 196:
english: Educational Studies
translation: Educational Studies
glosses: The people of Zhangzhou
Quanzhounese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Quanzhounese
Etymology: From Quanzhou + -n- + -ese.
Senses: examples: text: According to Chinese government statistics, there are more than two million Quanzhounese living abroad today - which compares to just half a million remaining in the entire municipal area.
ref: 2008, David Leffman, Rough Guide to China (Rough Guides), 5th edition, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 543:
text: I, a Quanzhounese, am half Kinmenese as well. In the past two to three years, I've been here nine times. Every trip to Taipei was for coming to Kinmen.[…]
ref: 2006, Cai Guo-Qiang, Guoqiang Cai, Bunker Museum of Contemporary Art, Kinmen Island: A Permanent Sanctuary for Art in a Demilitarized Zone:
glosses: A person from Quanzhou.
Kinmenese
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Kinmen + -ese.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Kinmen.
Kinmenese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Kinmen + -ese.
Senses: examples: text: The Kinmenese would collect the shrapnel and make knives; the metal was strong and sharp enough to cut through almost anything.
ref: 2010, Mei-Ling Hopgood, Lucky Girl, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, →ISBN, page 27:
text: Between the 1950s and 1970s, Kinmenese weren't permitted to move away.
ref: 2014, Steven Crook, Taiwan (Bradt Travel Guides), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 318:
text: The thaw began in 2001, when Kinmen opened transportation and trade links with the mainland. Since then, roughly 20 million Chinese tourists have streamed in from southern Fujian province, where the language, food and bowed "swallowtail" roofs on traditional homes are all recognizable on Kinmen. Until the 22-minute ferry rides were stopped during the coronavirus outbreak, Kinmenese made countless trips the other way for weekly shopping or visits to ancestral homes and temples. Those trips are welcomed — and assiduously courted — by Communist Party-linked liaison groups.
. . .
But peel back the jockeying among political parties, the talk of war or subjugation, and what remains is what many Kinmenese say is a basic fact: They simply don't feel Taiwanese.
. . .
When DPP leaders visit, Wang and her peers who voted for Tsai ask them to pay more attention to Kinmen, to promote investment that could lure young Taiwanese to settle there or young Kinmenese to move back.
ref: 2020 September 10, Gerry Shih, “On China’s front line, emerging Cold War haunts battle-worn Taiwanese islands”, in Washington Post:
glosses: The people of Kinmen islands.
Kinmenese
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Kinmen + -ese.
Senses: glosses: The variant of Hokkien spoken in Kinmen.
pseudorevolutionary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pseudorevolutionary
form: most pseudorevolutionary
form: pseudo-revolutionary
Etymology: From pseudo- + revolutionary.
Senses: glosses: Having the appearance, but not the essence, of a revolutionary.
pseudorevolutionary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudorevolutionaries
form: pseudo-revolutionary
Etymology: From pseudo- + revolutionary.
Senses: examples: text: The microfaction came to coincide with arguments used and positions adopted against our Revolution by Latin American pseudorevolutionaries and the United States Central Intelligence Agency.
ref: 1969, Leo Huberman, Paul Marlor Sweezy, chapter 11, in Socialism in Cuba, Monthly Review Press, page 211:
glosses: One who has the appearance, but not the essence, of a revolutionary.
Fukienese
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Fukienese
form: most Fukienese
Senses: examples: text: Naming it for the city-state’s Fukienese people, who hailed from Amoy, China, the company wove in Chinese-themed detailing throughout the hotel. Rooms are named with Fukienese surnames like “Chen” and “Huang”; employees don traditional Chinese cheongsams.
ref: 2014 November 11, Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan, “Hotel Review: Amoy Hotel in Singapore”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 Nov 2014, Travel:
text: Bridegroom's lanterns (新郎燈), a gift used in the traditional Southern Fukienese (閩南) wedding, play an important role in Kinmen's traditional wedding custom.[…]
In the Southern Fukienese language, the lantern is used to symbolize fertility.
ref: 2023 January 7, “The making of Kinmen's traditional wedding lantern captured on film”, in Ministry of Culture, archived from the original on 08 Apr 2023, Latest News:
glosses: Alternative form of Fujianese.
Fukienese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Fukienese
Senses: examples: text: Chen said that the temple is considered a bao zhong Yimin temple (褒忠義民廟), a specific type of temple reserved for those of Hakka heritage, but the owner of the plot of land on which the structure stands said that the temple was built in 1910 by Fukienese.
ref: 2016 October 22, Chang An-chiao, Jake Chung, “Temple harks back to uprising”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 Oct 2016, Taiwan News, page 4:
text: Miaoli County features cultural essence and rich tourism resources, embracing multi-ethnic groups of Fukienese, Hakka, and indigenous tribes.
ref: 2018 December 18, “"Blessing in Miaoli, Shining in the World."”, in Culture and Tourism Bureau, Miaoli County [苗栗縣政府文化觀光局], archived from the original on 29 Jun 2022, Tourism & Culture:
english: 苗栗縣政府文化觀光局
translation: 苗栗縣政府文化觀光局
glosses: Alternative form of Fujianese.
Kwangchow
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: note: unaspirated
ipa: /ˈkwɑŋˈt͡ʃoʊ/
note: unaspirated
ipa: /kwæŋˈt͡ʃəʊ/
Etymology: Borrowed from Mandarin 廣州／广州 (Guǎngzhōu).
Senses: examples: text: Red Guards whom he met in Peking, Shanghai, and Kwangchow were bright and cheerful and full of self-confidence, and he could explain this by the fact that they are children of peasant soldiers who have become a sort of privileged class since the establishment of the Communist regime.
ref: 1968, Robert Trumbull, editor, This is Communist China, New York: David McKay Company, Inc., →OCLC, page 97:
text: Although foreign companies are beginning to have an opportunity to show their products in China through national industrial fairs in Peking, negotiation for as much as one-half of all China's foreign trade is done at Kwangchow. Business firms interested or engaged in trade with China should make a point of attending these fairs regularly.
ref: 1973, J. Mark Mobius, Gerhard F. Simmel, Trading with China, Arco Publishing Company, Inc., →OCLC, page 45:
text: Faced with the evolving situation, in September 1962 the Soviet government decided to close the consulates general of the USSR in Harbin and Shanghai, and then the offices of the trade representatives of the USSR in Dal’nyy, Shanghai, and Kwangchow (Canton), and the “Sovfrakht” agencies in Chinese railroad stations in Manchouli (Lupin) and Tsinan.
ref: 1975, O. B. Borisov, B. T. Koloskov, Soviet-Chinese Relations, 1945-1970, Indiana University Press, →OCLC, page 225:
text: During our five days in Kwangtung Province in southern China, we visited Chung Shan County, an area of high incidence of nasopharyngeal cancer, and the city of Kwangchow, where a tumor institute and tumor hospital are affiliated with the Chung Shan Medical College. […] The Chung Shan County Hospital is located in the county seat of Shih-ch’i, which is about 70 km south of Kwangchow on the Pearl River delta.
ref: 1978, Henry S. Kaplan, Patricia Jones Tsuchitani, editors, Cancer in China, Alan R. Liss, Inc., →OCLC, page 7:
text: Quoting intelligence reports, the source said Wang Wei-ching was chief of Kwangchow City’s "telecommunications bureau" when he was arrested last February for smuggling electronic appliances and watches....The source said Teng Hsiao-ping, when he visited Kwangchow early this year, ordered the arrest of the younger Wang to enforce the new purification campaign.
ref: 1982 April 4, “Scandal triggers friction”, in Free China Weekly, volume XXII, number 13, Taipei, page 3:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of Guangzhou.
wikipedia: Encyclopædia Britannica
Kuangchow
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of Guangzhou.
Kuangtung
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Yang Yung-t'ai was born at Mao-ming Hsien, Kuangtung province, in 1880.
ref: 1925, “Mr. Yang Yung-tai 楊永泰字暢卿”, in M. C. Powell, editor, China Weekly Review, 3rd edition, Shanghai, page 914:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of Guangdong.
Kuangtong
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of Guangdong.
Hwang Ho
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: hwängʹ hōʹ
Senses: examples: text: In the opposite direction the farthest outposts of Chinese civilization were located on either side of the mouth of the Hwang Ho, which then entered the Gulf of Chihli near the modern Tientsin.
ref: 1922, Carl Whiting Bishop, “Geographical Factor in the Development of Chinese Civilization”, in Geographical Review, volume 12, number 1, page 29:
text: A new steel-producing centre has arisen recently on the Great Bend of the Hwang Ho.
ref: 1974, D. J. Dwyer, editor, China Now: an Introductory Survey with Readings, Longman, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 223:
text: For the last 500 miles (800 km) of its trip to the sea, the Hwang Ho passes over a giant flat plain.
ref: 1981, Melvin Berger, “The Hwang Ho”, in Disastrous Floods and Tidal Waves, Franklin Watts, →ISBN, page 20:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of Huang He.
Hwang-Ho
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of Huang He.
Hoang-Ho
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of Huang He.
Huanghe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Huang He.
Kansu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: kǎnʹso͞oʹ
gänʹso͞oʹ
Etymology: Borrowed from Mandarin 甘肅 /甘肃 (Gānsù).
Senses: examples: text: Soon after leaving the village we crossed some rising ground, meeting on the summit a caravan of forty mules laden with drugs from Lan-chou, the capital of the province of Kansu. These drugs are sent down by cart to the department city of Ch'in Chou, eight stages from the capital, and there transferred to and thence brought down by pack animals.
ref: 1914, Alexander Hosie, On the Trail of the Opium Poppy, volume I, Boston: Small, Maynard & Company, →OCLC, page 88:
text: "Famine conditions continue to be reported in Honan, Anhui, Shensi, Kansu, Szechuan, and Kweichow. Quite evidently the country faces one of the most severe famines of many years, and thousands have already died. A recent survey by the Szechuan Famine Relief Commission discovered that 30,000,000 people are now in the famine belt of that province, where bark and 'Goddess-of-Mercy' earth are being consumed by tens of thousands. There are said to be over 400,000 famine refugees in Shensi, over a million in Kansu, some 7,000,000 in Honan, and 3,000,000 in Kweichou. The famine in Kweichow is admitted by the official Central News to be the most serious in 100 years, affecting sixty districts of the province."
ref: 1937, Edgar Snow, Red Star Over China, Victor Gollancz Ltd, page 91:
text: The general boundaries of East Turkistan are the Altai range on the northeast, Mongolia on the east, the Kansu corridor or the Su-lo-ho basin on the southeast, the K'un-lun system on the south, the Sarygol and Muztay-ata on the west, the main range of the T'ien-shan system on the north to the approximate longitude of Aqsu (80 deg. E), then generally northeast to the Altai system which the boundary joins in the vicinity of the Khrebët Nalinsk and Khrebët Sailjuginsk.
ref: 1964, William Samolin, East Turkistan to the Twelfth Century, The Hague: Mouton & Co, →OCLC, →OL, page 9:
text: Refering^([sic]) to his personal experiences on the mainland, Chang said he had been sent to a remote area of Kansu Province in northeastern China to undergo labor reform (punishment) for 10 years.
ref: 1983 October 16, “Another Defector”, in Free China Weekly, volume XXIV, number 41, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3:
text: A magnificent find was first reported from Chin-ch'uan County, Kansu Province in 1963.¹
ref: 1993, Chinese Pen, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 99:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of Gansu.
Derived terms: Kansu Corridor
Kansuh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Even among the tributaries of the two great rivers of China, many rivers may be found of considerable length, and some scarcely inferior to the largest rivers of Europe. At the head of these are the Han-shwuy, which, rising in the mountains between Shense and Kansuh, empties itself into the Yang-tsze-keang at Han-yang-Foo, in Hoopih,—and the Ya-lung-keang, which rises in Kokonor, and after running for some time nearly parallel with the Yang-tsze-keang, empties itself into that river on the borders of Szechuen and Kansuh.
ref: 1832 June, “Ta-tsing Wan-neen Yih-tung King-wei Yu-too,—"A general geographical map, with degrees of latitude and longitude, of the Empire of the Ta-tsing Dynasty—may it last for ever." By Le Ming-che Tsing-lae.”, in The Chinese Repository, volume I, number 2, Canton, →OCLC, page 38:
text: Round Tsing-hae or Kokonor dwell some small tribes of Hoshoits, Choros, Khoits, Tourgouths, and Kalkas, divided into twenty-nine standards. These are governed by a Tseangkeun or General, who resides at Se-ning-foo in Kansuh.
ref: 1832 August, “Ta-tsing wan-neen yih-tung King-wei Yu-too,—“A general geographical map, with degrees of latitude and longitude, of the Empire of the Ta-tsing Dynasty—may it last for ever.” By Le Ming-che Tsing-lae.”, in The Chinese Repository, volume 1, number 4, Canton, page 119:
text: Ush Turfan, New Turfan, is a small town on the road from Kashgar to Aksu, and is not to be confounded with the better known Turfan which is situated in the far east on the highway to Kansuh.
ref: 1878, Demetrius Charles Boulger, The Life of Yakoob Beg; Athalik Ghazi and Badaulet; Ameer of Kashgar, London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., →OCLC, page 7:
text: Kansuh is bounded on the East and South by the provinces of Shensi and Szechuen respectively, the trackless desert is its great Northern neighbor, the Southwest adjoins Outer Tibet, and the vast Northwest was formed into a separate province not long ago, and is called the New Dominion.
. . .
Kansuh is one of the highways to the "Great Closed Land," hence an important factor as a stepping-stone in the evangelization of its barbarous hordes.
ref: 1907, David P. Ekvall, “Kansuh, and How to Get There”, in Outposts or Tibetan Border Sketches, New York: Alliance Press Co., →OCLC, pages 22–23:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of Gansu.
Kwangsi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: kwängʹsēʹ
kwǎngʹsēʹ
Senses: examples: text: The Si Kiang is one of China’s major rivers and forms the principal avenue of commerce for Liangkwang and the southwest. It is navigable for junks to the borders of Yunnan, while river steamers may reach Wuchow at the eastern margin of Kwangsi. Except for occasional sand bars and sharp bends, it might be utilized by ocean vessels.
ref: 1934, George Babock Cressey, China's Geographic Foundations: A Survey of the Land and Its People, McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., page 358:
text: Later CH'EN Ch'eng obtained permission for YEH to reside with him in En-shih, Hupeh on the personal responsibility of CH'EN; but soon after YEH and his family arrived CH'EN Ch'eng's new command in western Yunnan made it impossible for CH'EN himself to reside at En-shih. Thereupon CH'EN suggested to CHANG Fa-k'uei, a friend of YEH's, that the latter move with his family to Kwangsi.
ref: 1952, Hearings before the Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Eighty-second Congress, Second Session on the Institute of Pacific Relations, Washington: Government Printing Office, page 2474:
text: Liu Chung-kuei, a Maoist chieftain of Kwangsi province, speaking at a meeting May 7, criticized former vice premier Teng and anti-rightists.
ref: 1976 May 16, “Chou's will, a political rumor?”, in Free China Weekly, volume XVII, number 19, Taipei, page 3:
text: To gather information on agricultural mechanization in general and on the question of displacement of labor in densely populated areas in particular, Hsing Nan and others conducted a five-month investigation during late 1963 and early 1964. The tour included visits to regions of extensive cultivation in Heilungkiang, Liaoning (Fushin County), Inner Mongolia, and Peking. The investigation also examined mechanization of irrigation and processing in Hupeh (Hsinchou County and O-ch'eng County, both in the densely populated lakes region east and northeast of Wuhan), Hunan (Hoyang County), Kwangtung (Nanhai and Tungkuan counties, both fairly near Canton in the Pearl River Delta), and Kwangsi. Roughly half of Hsiang Nan's report was devoted to proving that mechanization was a proper policy in these densely populated areas.
ref: 1978, Benedict Stavis, The Politics of Agricultural Mechanization in China, Cornell University Press, page 206:
text: between 1956 and 1958 over 1000 teeth and 3 lower jaws were recovered from the region of southern Kwangsi in China.
ref: 1979, Peter Bellwood, Man's Conquest of the Pacific, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 44:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of Guangxi.
Kuangsi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of Guangxi.
Shansi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: On the road between this place and Fu Chou, two days further east, numerous large flicks of sheep and goats were passed. These poor animals were on their way to Shansi, and had already come a great distance.
ref: 1912, Robert Sterling Clark, Arthur de Carle Sowerby, Through Shên-kan: The Account of the Clark Expedition in North China, 1908-9., T. Fisher Unwin, page 76:
text: The province is separated by a range of hills from Shansi on the north and west, while in the south, the eastern end of a long mountain chain terminates near Ju Ning Fu.
ref: 1913, Rev. Murdoch Mackenzie, D.D., Twenty-five Years in Honan, Toronto: Hunter-Rose Co., page 2:
text: Headmen were selected on a rotation basis in Shansi but served indefinitely in Hopei and Shantung until illness or dissatisfaction with their responsibilities forced retirement.
ref: 1970, Ramon H. Myers, The Chinese Peasant Economy Agricultural Development in Hopei and Shantung, 1890-1949, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, page 259:
text: Ting-ts'un Man, who lived in the watersheds in southern Shansi, continued to use pebble and flake chopping-tools, crude flakes being obtained mainly from large hornfels pebbles.
ref: 1977, William Jerald Kennedy, Adventures in Anthropology, West Publishing, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 274:
text: We now know that he was born in Shansi province in 1921, but the next thing we know is that because of the "good work" Hua did in Mao's native province of Hunan, he was summoned to Peiping and given the post of public security minister.
ref: 1981 August 2, “What's ahead of demoted Hua?”, in Free China Weekly, volume XXII, number 30, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3:
text: China’s remaining poverty is primarily rural, mainly scattered among remote, mountainous, and minority nationality areas in the northwest and southwest. To address this challenge China is shifting from regional development projects to household-based initiatives that are increasingly directed at women. One especially successful example has been the poverty alleviation program sponsored by the Luliang Prefecture Women’s Federation (LPWF) in Shansi province.
ref: 2002, Sam Daley-Harris, Pathways out of Poverty: Innovations in Microfinance for the Poorest Families, Kumarian Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 137:
text: Jonathan Goforth, CIM missionary to China, who experienced several revivals in Manchuria, Shansi, and in Korea from 1906 to 1910, was very disappointed by the outcome of the Missionary Conference in Edinburgh in 1910.
ref: 2017, J. (Hans) Kommers, Triumphant Love, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 522:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of Shanxi.
Ninghsia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Accordingly an army was sent into Corea. It met the Japanese before the walls of Pʻing Jang (平壤), where it was annihilated and its commander, Tsu Chʻêng-hsun, (祖承訓), barely escaped with his life. The next Chinese army under the command of Li Ju-sung (李如松), fresh from a successful campaign against a Mongol rebel in Ning Hsia (甯夏), gained a victory over the Japanese in Pʻing Jang; but, elated by this success, the Chinese general allowed himself to be led into an ambuscade near Seoul and overthrown (1593).
ref: [1914, Li Ung Bing, “The Ming Dynasty (Continued)”, in Joseph Whiteside, editor, Outlines of Chinese History, Shanghai: The Commercial Press, →OCLC, page 251:
text: THERE is only one way in which open competition could be established once more in the interior markets which are accessible to Russia. That would be by constructing a railway into Kansu Province, either by completing the present branch line from the Pekin-Hankow line through Shensi, or by continuing the Pekin-Suiyuan line, which now stops at the Yellow River, up past Ninghsia to Lanchow.
ref: 1928, Owen Lattimore, “The Danger Line in the Far East”, in North American Review, volume 226, New York, page 492:
text: Wall posters written by anti-Communist organizations formed by Moslem people in the North China mainland province of Ninghsia cropped up one after the other in early last April, accusing the Chinese Communists of persecuting the Moslem people and calling on the people to join guerrilla forces in the mountains, according to intelligence reports from the area.[...]
According to residents of Yinchuan City, capital of Ninghsia, some 1,000 educated Moslem youths have gone up the Yun Wu Mountains and are ready to sabotage Communist farm facilities at any time.
ref: 1978 June 4, “More anti-Red posters”, in Free China Weekly, volume XIX, number 22, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3:
text: The Hui now number about three and half million and live mostly in the Ninghsia autonomous area and in smaller autonomous areas in Kansu, Sinkiang, and several of the southern provinces.
ref: 1979, Murray L. Eiland, Chinese and Exotic Rugs, Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 6:
text: "Oh, I trekked through Burma and across the Gobi, photographed some camel races for National Geographic. I lived for a year in the mountains of Kyrgyzstan, but it started to get too touristy. I moved on to Ninghsia where I entered a Buddhist monastery as a novitiate monk."
ref: 2010, Jeanne Matthews, Bones of Contention, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 168:
glosses: Alternative spelling of Ningxia.
Ningsia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 寧夏／宁夏 (Níngxià).
Senses: examples: text: Automobiles are used in some parts of eastern Ningsia, but the roads are primitive. Many motor roads are mere tracks in the desert, their bridges built with a gap down the middle to prevent horsedrawn carts from using them.
ref: 1940 March 11, “China's Ningsia Province Penetrated by Japanese Troops”, in Geographic News Bulletins, volume 19, number 4, National Geographic Society, page 8?:
text: "Where?"
"To Ningsia."
"Ningsia?"
"You do not know it, perhaps? It is the capital of the province of the same name. To the northwest of here, near the border of Mongolia."
ref: 1953, James Ramsey Ullman, The Sands of Karakorum, J. B. Lippincott Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 70:
text: A Chinese Communist battalion stationed in Ningsia defected to the Russians in Outer Mongolia last October as a result of Moscow’s systematic undermining of troop morale of Maoist forces deployed border, an intelligence source disclosed April 30.
ref: 1975 May 4, “Military defection”, in Free China Weekly, volume XVI, number 17, Taipei, page 3:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of Ningxia.
Chinghai
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Sometimes one of the two oracles goes into a trance and is able to indicate where the new Dalai Lama lives. In the case of the present Dalai Lama, the oracle of Samye, after going into a trance, following a fruitless four-year search, advised that the investigation should be extended to the Chinese province of Chinghai, who Amdo region is largely populated by Tibetans. Incidentally the great Tsong Ka-pa was born in Amdo. Here, along the shores of the Lake Koko Nor, the fourteenth Dalai Lama, child of a humble peasant family, was discovered.
ref: 1960, Frank Moraes, The Revolt in Tibet, The Macmillan Company, page 47:
text: Ma Pu-fang, who rules Chinghai, is a trim, soldierly man with a very Muslim-looking beard, and he is the third member of a local family dynasty that has controlled the province for the past two decades. His father, Ma Ch'i, became provincial chief in 1929, soon after Chinghai was made into a province. Ma Ch'i was succeeded by his brother, Ma Ling, and then, in 1938, Ma Pu-fang inherited the governorship from his uncle.
ref: 1963, A. Doak Barnett, China on the Eve of Communist Takeover, Frederick A. Praeger, page 185:
text: The river begins its journey in the Kokoshili Mountains, which rise out of the largest plateau in the world, the Tibetan-Chinghai plateau. The southwestern part of this plateau lies in the country of Tibet. The northeastern part of it belongs to the Chinese province of Chinghai.
ref: 1970, Margaret Rau, “The Wild Female Yak River”, in The Yangtze River, New York: Julian Messner, →ISBN, page 7:
text: According to a military report by Peng Te-huai, between 1949 and 1950 in Suiyuan Province, 58,000 Muslims were killed by the Chinese Communists. In addition, according to the "governor" of Chinghai Province, 340 believers there were executed on charges of gathering together at mosques, which the Chinese Communists interpreted as an action in violation of Communist authority.
ref: 1982 March 7, “Muslims lose religious freedom through Communist persecution”, in 自由中國週報 [Free China Weekly], volume XX, number 39, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3, column 3:
english: Free China Weekly
translation: Free China Weekly
glosses: Obsolete spelling of Qinghai.
Hopei
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: At vast demonstrations held at Peiping, Canton, Shanghai, and elsewhere, thousands of students denounced the seditious movement in Eastern Hopei.
ref: 1936, H. Hessell Tiltman, The Far East Comes Nearer, Jarrolds, page 247:
text: I am personally willing to assist in any international group to visit various localities in Hopei to verify the burial alive of hundreds of people who refused to co-operate with the "anti-Japanese" Red regime and were therefore "traitors". Such things do not make Edgar Snow angry.
ref: 1946, Lin Yutang, The Vigil of a Nation, William Heinemann, page viii:
text: Chang, nicknamed the "Flying Butterfly" because of his graceful movements, learned his skill from the age of seven in his native province of Hopei on the China mainland, which is considered the cradle of kung fu.
ref: 1980 November 16, “Police of New York town learn martial art from Taiwan champ”, in Free China Weekly, volume XXI, number 45, Taipei, page 2:
text: Different places have different names for shadow puppet theater.[…]
In Hopei Province, it is known as "Luanchou Shadow Theater,"
ref: n.d., “Other Names for Shadow Puppet Theater”, in Kaohsiung Museum of History, archived from the original on 07 Oct 2023:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of Hebei.
Related terms: Not to be confused with Hupei
Ho-pei
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: hōʹpā
Etymology: From Mandarin 河北 (Héběi), Wade–Giles romanization: Ho²-pei³.
Senses: examples: text: Soon afterwards his wife died of old age, and his sons begged him to marry again into some good family ; but he said he should be obliged to go to Ho-pei first ; and then, calculating his dates, found that the appointed time had arrived. So he ordered his horses and servants, and set off for Ho-pei, where he discovered that there actually was a high official names Lu.
ref: 1909, Herbert A. Giles, transl., Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio, 2nd edition, T. Werner Laurie, page 150:
text: By 1985, a volume of the famous scholar Jao Tsung-I/Rao Zongyi (together with Tseng Hsien-tung/Zeng Xiantong) appeared under the title “Studies on the Inscriptions of the Bells and Chimes From the Tomb of Marquis Yi of the Tseng State at Sui-Hsien” (Province of Ho-pei/Hebei, county of Sui).
ref: 1989, Fritz A. Kuttner, “Bronze Bells”, in The Archaeology of Music in Ancient China, 1st edition, New York: Paragon House, published 1990, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 31:
text: With this huge following, he could take over the Empire. But other advisors urged Li Ching-yeh first to go north to the province of Ho-pei, where the finest fighting men were to be found and where the people were the most resentful of the rule of the Dowager Empress.
ref: 2007, Nigel Cawthorne, Daughter of Heaven, Oneworld Publications, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 126:
glosses: Alternative form of Hebei.
wikipedia: Encyclopædia Britannica
Hopeh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: hōʹpā
Etymology: From the Postal Romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 河北 (Héběi).
Senses: examples: text: As a top political officer in north China, Lo took an active part in a series of campaigns, mainly in Hopeh, from the fall of 1947 to January 1949.
ref: 1971, Donald W. Klein, Anne B. Clark, “Lo Jui-ch’ing”, in Biographic Dictionary of Chinese Communism 1921-1965, volume II, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 643, column 1:
text: Until 1958 Tientsin was an independent municipality administered directly by the government in Peking; at that time it became a part of the province of Hopeh and also the provincial capital.
ref: 1972, “TIENTSIN (T'IEN-CHING)”, in Encyclopedia Britannica, volume 21, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1140, column 1:
text: We left Tachai in the morning to catch a train for Chengchow via Shih-chia-chuang, the capital of Hopeh Province.
ref: 1977, Yee Chiang, China Revisited, New York: W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 100:
glosses: Alternative form of Hebei.
wikipedia: Army Map Service
Related terms: Not to be confused with Hupeh
Hobei
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of Hebei.
Szechuen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: IN the Keen-chang district of the province of Szechuen there grows in abundance the ligustrum lucidum, an evergreen tree with pointed leaves, on the twigs of which myriads of insects spread themselves, like a brownish film, in the Spring of each year.
ref: 1880 April 15, “WHITE WAX OF CHINA.”, in The Juvenile Instructor, volume XV, number 8, Salt Lake City, →OCLC, page 93, column 2:
text: YOU may have noticed that the last tooth brush you bought was not quite so good as the previous one of the same brand. You may also have read that the Chinese government has recently been sending soldiers to clear the bandits and communists from Szechuen, that amazingly rich and populous province which borders on mysterious and inaccessible Thibet. It probably never occurred to you that there was any connection between the two incidents of that banditry around the head waters of the Yangtsze would affect the quality of an English tooth brush.
ref: 1937, Carl Crow, “This Neighbourly World”, in Four Hundred Million Customers, 3rd edition, Harper & Brothers, →OCLC, page 316:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of Sichuan.
Hinduphobic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Hinduphobic
form: most Hinduphobic
Etymology: From Hindu (“Hindu”) + -phobic.
Senses: glosses: Having or showing a dislike of, prejudice, or hatred against Hindus or Hinduism.
examples: Hinduphobic abuse
glosses: Relating to or characteristic of Hinduphobia or Hinduphobes.
topics: government
politics
glosses: Opposed to Hindutva or Hindu nationalism.
topics: government
politics
glosses: Leftist; liberal; supportive of Western or Islamist interests.
Related terms: word: Hinduphobia
word: Hinduphobe
word: Hindumisia
english: hatred of Hindu people or Hinduism
translation: hatred of Hindu people or Hinduism
word: Hindumisic
Hinduphobic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hinduphobics
Etymology: From Hindu (“Hindu”) + -phobic.
Senses: glosses: A Hinduphobe.
Related terms: sickular
Hinduphobes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hinduphobe
parade rest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: […] no audible or visible order was given, but the ten thousand soldiers executed the movement of parade rest as a man.
ref: 1959, Kurt Vonnegut, chapter 4, in The Sirens of Titan, New York: Dial, published 2006, page 98:
text: A stern, sawed-off soldier, whom Colonel Eiger had referred to as a master sergeant, whispered something to the honor guard, who stood at parade rest and glanced anxiously at Colonel Eiger […]
ref: 1989, John Irving, chapter 9, in A Prayer for Owen Meany, New York: William Morrow, page 494:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A position of rest in which the feet are 12 inches apart and the hands clasped behind the back, or the left hand is behind the back and the right hand holds the rifle with its butt on the ground.
Related terms: at ease
Hinduphobe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hinduphobes
Etymology: From Hindu + -phobe.
Senses: glosses: A person who hates, dislikes or is prejudiced against Hinduism and Hindus.
Related terms: Hinduphobia
Hinduphobic
hypercentralization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyper-centralisation
form: hypercentralisation
form: hyper-centralization
Senses: examples: text: This implies a situation in which the logic of the plan—not capitalist imperatives—remains central, but where the leadership becomes at best one whose impatience with the people lead it toward a hypercentralization of power and toward a self-defeating forcing of the pace of development.
ref: 1985, John S. Saul, editor, A Difficult Road: The Transition to Socialism in Mozambique, New York: Monthly Review Press, →ISBN, page 18:
text: Facing the problem of an undergovernment inherent in a huge and backward country, […] Stalin tried to cure it by hypercentralization […]
ref: 2018, Olga Velikanova, Mass Political Culture Under Stalinism, page 65:
topics: government
politics
glosses: An intense concentration in centralization.
davanone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: davanones
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Amy of several ketones, derived from tetrahydrofuran, that are used in perfumes
ultrapoverty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ultra-poverty
Etymology: From ultra- + poverty.
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
synonyms: word: hyperpoverty
word: superpoverty
glosses: Extreme poverty.
davanones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of davanone
decentile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: decentiles
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of decile.
decentiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of decentile
declaratives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of declarative
deflavinated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: From which the flavin component has been removed
deglucuronidation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deglucuronidations
Etymology: From de- + glucuronidation.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The removal of glucuronic acid derivatives from a molecule
denaturates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of denaturate
Lucheng
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: lo͞oʹchǔngʹ
Forms: form: Lu-ch'eng
Etymology: From the pinyin romanization of Mandarin 陸城 /陆城 (Lùchéng).
Senses: glosses: A subdistrict of Yidu, Yichang, Hubei, China.
Lucheng
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: lo͞oʹchǔngʹ
Forms: form: Lu-ch'eng
Etymology: From Mandarin 鹿城 (Lùchéng).
Senses: examples: text: In a statement on Wednesday, Mr. Yang urged the government in Wenzhou to release Mr. Zhang and his assistant, Liu Peng, who is also missing. Police officers in Lucheng District, Wenzhou, where the two men were last seen, either refused to say anything or said they did not know anything when called.
ref: 2015 August 27, Chris Buckley, “Lawyer Who Represented Churches in China Is Missing”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 Aug 2015, Asia Pacific:
glosses: A district of Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China.
Lucheng
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: lo͞oʹchǔngʹ
Forms: form: Lu-ch'eng
Etymology: From Mandarin 潞城 (Lùchéng).
Senses: examples: text: THIS BOOK is based on extensive notes gathered in the village of Long Bow, Lucheng County, Shansi Province, China, during the spring and summer of 1948.* At that time, local land reform, which had already been in progress for two years, was under investigation by a work team dispatched jointly by the People's Government and the Communist Party Committee of Lucheng County.
ref: 1966, William Hinton, “Preface”, in Fanshen: A Documentary of Revolution in a Chinese Village, Vintage Books, →OCLC, →OL, page ix:
text: The many hardships endured by the refugee Shanxi missionaries, as well as the faith with which they faced those trials, are both evident in E. J. Cooper's (CIM in Lucheng near modern day Changzhi) August 18, 1900 letter to his mother.
ref: 2016, Andrew T. Kaiser, “The Boxer Turmoil (1900)”, in The Rushing on of the Purposes of God: Christian Missions in Shanxi since 1876, Pickwick Publications, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 98:
glosses: A district of Changzhi, Shanxi, China.
densiometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: densiometers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of densitometer.
glosses: A device used to measure the density of the canopy of a woodland or forest
densiometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of densiometer