cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Liouying
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Liu-ying
form: Liuying
Etymology: From the Tongyong Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 柳營 (Liǒuyíng).
Senses: examples: text: Six symptomatic leaf samples of three different tomato plants from each infected field were collected in Liouying (LY3, 7, and 8) and Sigang (SG9, 13, and 18) townships in Tainan County.
ref: 2007 October, F.-J. Jan, S. K. Green, S. L. Shih, L. M. Lee, H. Ito, J. Kimbara, K. Hosoi, W. S. Tsai, “First Report of Tomato yellow leaf curl Thailand virus in Taiwan”, in Plant Disease, volume 91, number 10, American Phytopathological Society, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC:
text: The program, which was originally limited to land in industrial zones developed by the Industrial Development Bureau, will be expanded to include the first phase development area of the Liouying Industrial Park developed by the Tainan[...]
ref: 2008, 兩岸經貿通訊, →OCLC, page 48:
text: Chi Mei Medical Center, Liouying campus is a 900-bed regional hospital located in southern Taiwan with a 16-bed medical ICU.
ref: 2014, Wei-Lun Liu, Hsueh-Wen Liang, Mei-Feng Lee, Hsin-Lan Lin, Yu-Hsiu Lin, Chi-Chung Chen, Ping-Chin Chang, Chih-Cheng Lai, Yin-Ching Chuang, Hung-Jen Tang, “The Impact of Inadequate Terminal Disinfection on an Outbreak of Imipenem-Resistant Acinetobacter baumannii in an Intensive Care Unit”, in PLOS One, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 01 Oct 2015:
text: The incident took place at a karaoke lounge in Liouying District (柳營) on June 14 last year, with Mei carrying a modified handgun in a backpack, which he used to shoot Liu at close range.
ref: 2020 May 6, Jason Pan, “Police detective killer gets life in High Court ruling”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 May 2020, Taiwan News, page 3:
text: The Tainan City Fire Department dispatched five vehicles and 11 personnel to the scene of the accident. Paramedics found Liao slightly injured, and Ho was extracted from his vehicle at around 5:00 pm having lost vital signs.
Both drivers were rushed to Chi Mei Hospital, Liouying. Ho was declared dead shortly after arrival.
ref: 2021 October 20, Phillip Charlier, “Man drives wrong way in freeway fast-lane: 1 dead, 1 injured”, in Taiwan English News, archived from the original on 20 Oct 2021:
glosses: A district of Tainan, Taiwan.
Liuying
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Wade–Giles romanization of the Mandarin 柳營 (Liu³-ying²).
Senses: examples: text: The Teh Yuen Pei Reservoir project will rehabilitate a damaged reservoir, built in the Ching Dynasty, at Liuying, Tainan, a tributary of Chishui Creek.
ref: 1956, General Report of the Joint Commission on Rural Reconstruction, Joint Commission on Rural Reconstruction, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 115:
text: Theoretically, all descendants of Lai Yüan are entitled to some share in the profits of this estate, which currently consists of 1.7 hectacres of land located in neighboring Liuying township.
ref: 1972, Burton Pasternak, Kinship & Community in Two Chinese Villages, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 89:
text: The Tainan county government has also started to build a tourism network to include Hutoupei (Tigerhead Parapet) in Hsinhua and Chienshan-pei (Point-mountain Parapet) in Liuying.
ref: 1981 December 13, “Scenery, relics in Tainan”, in Free China Weekly, volume XXII, number 49, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2:
text: Additionally, a 20-year-old man fractured his upper-right arm, suffered lacerations on his forehead, and reported pain in his buttocks; a 21-year-old man had a swollen left cheek and pain in his right ankle. The two were sent to the Chi Mei Hospital in Liuying, Tainan, CNA reported.
ref: 2021 November 20, Stephanie Chiang, “South Taiwan early-morning freeway accident injures 7”, in Taiwan News, archived from the original on 20 Nov 2021:
text: A worker tends to a water buffalo at an animal sanctuary in Tainan’s Liuying District yesterday. The animal, which was named A-hua, was rescued by sanctuary personnel earlier this year.
ref: 2023 July 5, “Good news”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 Jul 2023, Taiwan News, page 3:
glosses: Alternative form of Liouying.
Krasnoyarsk Krai
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A krai of Russia.
Perm Krai
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A krai of Russia.
Stavropol Krai
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A krai of Russia.
monochronically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From monochronic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a monochronic manner.
polychronically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From polychronic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a polychronic manner.
bruncheonette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bruncheonettes
Etymology: From bruncheon + -ette.
Senses: glosses: A small diner or restaurant that serves brunch.
Related terms: luncheonette
bruncheonettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bruncheonette
brunailles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brunaille
Adelie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Adelies
form: Adélie
Senses: glosses: An Adelie penguin.
Adelies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Adelie
citizenist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: citizenists
Etymology: From citizen + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A proponent of citizenism.
citizenists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of citizenist
armbarred
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of armbar
armbarring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of armbar
Kao-hsiung
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: gouʹshyo͝ongʹ
Etymology: From the Wade–Giles romanization of Mandarin 高雄 (Kao¹-hsiung²).
Senses: examples: text: Plans have been made by the National Resources Commission for the rehabilitation and expansion of three plants in Taiwan, at Kao-hsiung, Tsu-Tung and Suao (the latter is poorly located and was badly damaged by bombing); by the Kwa Hsin Cement Company for the development of a new plant at Tayeh, for the rehabilitation and expansion from 200 to 500 tons per day of the North China Cement Company, and the development of the Hunan Cement Company with a capacity of 500 tons per day.
ref: 1949, United States Relations With China, United States Department of State, page 796:
text: KUANG CHI LIANG, of Kao-hsiung, Formosa, China, M. D.
Taihoku Imperial University, 1945.
ref: 1951, Conferring of Degrees at the Close of the Seventy-fifth Academic Year, Baltimore, page 15:
text: After World War II Kao-hsiung came to handle more than half of the island's imports and nearly three-fourths of its exports, chiefly salt, sugar, cement and canned pineapples.
ref: 1968, Norton S. Ginsburg, “KAO-HSIUNG (Japanese TAKAO)”, in Encyclopedia Britannica, volume 13, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 224, column 1:
text: More indecision. The southern tip of Taiwan is nearly astern of us. This is where we are scheduled to cut loose from our tow. Everything depends on our captain, for we had all agreed in advance that he would have the last word in all nautical matters. Then he passes on his instructions to the towboat by radio: reverse course and head for Kao-hsiung.
ref: 1976 [1975], Kuno Knöbl, translated by Rita Kimber and Robert Kimber, Tai Ki: To the Point of No Return, Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 103:
text: On a tour to the free-trade zone in Kao-hsiung in southern Taiwan the poet notes sarcastically the discrepancy between the pride with which the senior official who guides the tour obviously speaks of Kao-hsiung as the “largest Chinese harbor” and the shame the poet keenly feels on seeing “all thirty-five thousand female workers leaving work at the same time.”
ref: 1998, “Introduction”, in No Trace of the Gardener: Poems of Yang Mu, Yale University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page xxvi:
text: She'd once had a boyfriend in Kao-hsiung, a journalist who'd died in a ferry accident seven years before. That man was an overseas Chinese from Indonesia but had lived in Taiwan most of his life.
ref: 2015, Ha Jin, A Map of Betrayal, Thorndike, Maine: Center Point Large Print, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 205:
text: National Sun Yat-sen University on Wednesday said that it would revoke the master’s degree of Kao-hsiung City Councilor Jane Lee (李眉蓁), the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) candidate in the Kaohsiung mayoral by-election on Saturday last week, as it has found that her thesis was largely plagiarized.
ref: 2020 August 22, “University voids Jane Lee’s degree”, in Taipei Times, archived from the original on 23 Aug 2020:
glosses: Alternative form of Kaohsiung.
Takow
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Takau
form: Takou
form: Takao
form: Dagou
Etymology: From either Mandarin 打狗 (Dǎgǒu) or directly from Hokkien, specifically Taiwanese Hokkien 打狗 (Tá-káu), from Siraya takau (“bamboo forest”).
Senses: examples: text: Anping has of late risen greatly in importance, the foreign firms making it their headquarters instead of Takow, which port in former years was considered of more significance.
ref: 1900, European Settlements in the Far East, London: Sampson Low, Marston & Company, page 39:
text: The three shipping companies maintaining regular services with this port are the Douglas Steamship Co. (British) touching at Foochow, Amoy, Swatow, and Kongkong; the China Merchants' Steam Navigation Co. (Chinese), whose steamers run between Foochow and Shanghai; and the Osaka Shosen Kaisha (Japanese), whose steamers touch at Foochow, Shanghai, Tientsin, Dairen, Amoy, Takow, and Keelung (the last two ports being in Formosa).
ref: 1919, Supplement to Commerce reports : daily consular and trade reports issued by the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, Department of Commerce, United States Department of Commerce, page 32:
text: A descendant of Robert Swinhoe, the first British consul in what was then known as Formosa, on Thursday visited the British Consulate at Takow (打狗英國領事館) in Kaohsiung, hoping to deepen his understanding of his ancestor.
Robert Swinhoe was stationed in Taiwan in July 1861 as the first British vice-consul, and he set up the first British Consular Office in Taiwan in Taiwanfu (modern-day Tainan), the Kaohsiung Bureau of Cultural Affairs said.
Three years later, Britain relocated the vice consulate from Taiwanfu to Takao (modern-day Kaohsiung), after the Port of Kaohsiung was opened.
ref: 2019, Huang Chia-lin, Jake Chung, “Descendant of Britain’s first consul visits Taiwan”, in Taipei Times:
glosses: Kaohsiung
Koryo-mar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Korean 고려말 (goryeomal).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The Korean dialect spoken in Russia and Central Asia.
Related terms: Koryo-saram
Takau
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Takow
form: Takou
form: Takao
form: Dagou
Etymology: Borrowed from Hokkien, specifically Taiwanese Hokkien 打狗 (Tá-káu), from Siraya takau (“bamboo forest”).
Senses: examples: text: A Chinese mob in Takau insulted the members of the Japanese legation as they were returning from Peking. The mob's action led to a tumult which was tardily suppressed by the authorities.
ref: 1894 August 8, “Japanese Mob”, in The Climax, volume VIII, number 9, Richmond, KY, page 1:
text: After the war between Great Britain and China, which culminated in 1860 in the Treat of Tientsin, two Formosan ports, Takau and Tamsui, were thrown open to foreign trade in accordance with provisions in that treaty, and British subjects and missionaries were to be allowed safe-conducts in the island.
ref: 1902, Archibald Ross Colquhoun, The Mastery of the Pacific, Macmillan Company, page 385:
text: 原來「高雄」這名字本來是源自於京都右京區的高雄山（TAKAO），這是個很著名的賞楓勝地，有機會去京都遊覽的萌友不妨走一趟唷。而台灣南部的高雄，其實名字正是來自於此。馬卡道族昔稱這個地區為「打狗（TAKAU）」，到了日治時期，日本人利用日語諧音來稱呼此地，改寫作文雅許多的漢字「高雄（TAKAO）」，一直到二戰後，高雄市才使用中文威妥瑪式拼音將通行名稱改為中文發音的「Kaohsiung」，也就是我們現在習慣的用法了。
ref: 2015, 萌咩誌, “推特瘋傳到日本！超稀有「艦娘」塗裝痛卡車出沒南台灣”, in ETtoday新聞雲:
glosses: Synonym of Kaohsiung.
synonyms: word: Kaohsiung
Blacktown
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From black + town.
Senses: glosses: A suburb and local government area, the City of Blacktown, near Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
glosses: A suburb in Marshfield community, City of Newport, Wales (OS grid ref ST2681).
Fort Madison
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Originally a fort named after President James Madison.
Senses: glosses: A city in Iowa, United States and one of the two county seats of Lee County.
wikipedia: James Madison
United Kingdom Independence Party
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: Alternative form of UK Independence Party.
Synonyms: UKIP
Article 50
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Article 50 of the Lisbon treaty sets out how an EU country might voluntarily leave the union. The wording is vague, almost as if the drafters thought it unlikely it would ever come into play.
ref: 2016 June 25, Jennifer Rankin, Julian Borger, Mark Rice-Oxley, “What is article 50 and why is it so central to the Brexit debate?”, in The Guardian:
text: The Scottish cross-bench peer who wrote Article 50 - the procedure by which the UK would leave the EU - believed it was "not irrevocable". In a BBC interview, Lord Kerr of Kinlochard said the UK could choose to stay in the EU even after exit negotiations had begun.
ref: 2016 November 3, Glenn Campbell, “Article 50 author Lord Kerr says Brexit not inevitable”, in BBC News:
text: Today, therefore, I am writing to give effect to the democratic decision of the people of the United Kingdom. I hereby notify the European Council in accordance with Article 50 (2) of the Treaty on European Union of the United Kingdom’s intention to withdraw from the European Union.
ref: 2017 March 29, Theresa May, Theresa May’s Letter Invoking Article 50:
text: If the Liberal Democrats were to secure a majority in December, they would revoke Article 50, cancelling Brexit.
ref: 2019 November 24, Stephen Wynn-Davies, “Hastings and Rye candidates outline their stances on Brexit”, in The Hastings Observer:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Article 50 of the Treaty of Lisbon which holds the EU's exit clause, allowing and setting out rules for countries leaving the European Union.
exit clause
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exit clauses
Senses: examples: text: Eurosceptic Conservative MPs will still vote down the government’s Brexit deal even if Theresa May negotiates an exit clause from the Irish backstop, the former minister Steve Baker has insisted.
ref: 2018 November 8, Heather Stewart, Daniel Boffey, “Tory Brexiters planning to reject deal even with backstop exit clause”, in The Guardian:
topics: law
glosses: A provision in a legal document or lease allowing a signatory or lessee to terminate the contract legally and usually without penalty under certain circumstances.
divorce bill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The former British wife of a Russian billionaire, who was ordered to pay a 453 million pound ($572 million) divorce bill, has claimed the first sliver of the award after seizing and selling a helicopter, her advisers said on Thursday.
ref: 2018 December 13, Kirstin Ridley, “Ex-wife of Russian billionaire secures first sliver of $572 million divorce bill”, in Reuters:
glosses: Money agreed in settlement of a divorce.
examples: text: In part, this is because it is impossible to know what the UK’s divorce bill will be until the EU knows what the relationship looks likes after 2019: if the UK seeks to stay as a paying member within some programmes, for example, that would reduce the bill.
ref: 2017 June 20, Daniel Boffey, “Brexit divorce bill: what is it and how does it affect talks?”, in The Guardian:
text: Theresa May has told MPs the UK could withhold payment of its £39bn Brexit "divorce bill" if a deal is not reached with Brussels.
ref: 2018 September 13, Alec McGuinness, “Theresa May says UK might not pay Brexit 'divorce bill' in 'no-deal' scenario”, in Sky News:
text: The Brexit party revealed plans today to slash the foreign aid budget and withhold the £39billion so-called 'divorce bill' from the EU if it takes power.
ref: 2019 November 1, David Wilcock, “Cut the foreign aid budget and don't give Brussels a penny of the £39billion 'divorce bill' - the Brexit Party reveals its general election manifesto”, in The Daily Mail:
text: The UK's Brexit divorce bill could soar to £42.5 billion after the Treasury increased its estimate of the payments owed to the European Union by more than £5 billion.
ref: 2022 July 21, Sam Blewett, “Brexit Divorce Bill Could Soar to £42.5 Billion as Treasury Boosts Estimate”, in Bloomberg:
topics: government
politics
glosses: The payment to be given to the EU on the UK's exit of the European Union, estimated at around £39bn.
Baalbeki
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Baalbeki
form: most Baalbeki
Senses: glosses: Of, from or relating to Baalbek.
Baalbeki
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Baalbekis
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Baalbek.
Willmar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname, apparently of Belgian and Luxembourgian origin.
glosses: A city, the county seat of Kandiyohi County, Minnesota, United States; named after Leon Willmar, a Belgian.
not on your nellie
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: 'Not on your nellie. Nobody's to know about this.
ref: 2007, John Lawton, Bluffing Mr. Churchill:
text: 'Not on your nellie,' Anna said. This latest phrase had been overheard in the kitchens of the hall, and was redeployed for the first time now.
ref: 2012, Jane Sanderson, Ravenscliffe:
text: 'No, Doctor. If I killed you, I would miss the satisfaction of abandoning you here, without a time machine, beyond any hope of salvation.' The Master waggled the blaster. 'The key'. 'Not on your nellie'.
ref: 2014, Alastair Reynolds, Doctor Who: Harvest of Time, page 241:
glosses: Alternative form of not on your Nellie.
not on your Nellie
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: “We can stand on each others shoulders and help each other over. Who wants to go first?” “Not on your Nellie!” said Professor Sluggy.
ref: 2006, Michelle Gannon, Woll the Wizard of Love and Laughter, page 68:
text: No matter what propagandists promote, the state government does not love you or your automobile; no sir-ee, not on your Nellie.
ref: 2014, Denis J. Linehan, The Shadows of August, page 49:
text: But were any of those going to quell the uprising? Not on your Nellie, Dean.
ref: 2014, Danny Wallace, Who is Tom Ditto?:
glosses: Alternative form of not on your nelly.
strikebreak
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: strikebreaks
form: strikebreaking
form: strikebroke
form: strikebroken
form: strike-break
Etymology: From strike + break.
Senses: examples: text: When the first three decided to strikebreak, Baker knew he could use them as a nucleus to train other crews.
ref: 1996, George E. Hopkins, Flying the Line, page 134:
text: OPSEU urged its members not to strikebreak.
ref: 1999, David Rapaport, No Justice, No Peace: The 1996 OPSEU Strike against the Harris Government in Ontario, page 110:
text: I told him we aren't about to strikebreak—there are too many spies around.
ref: 2012, Christopher Isherwood, Katherine Bucknell, Liberation: Diaries, page 347:
text: Third, the migration of foreign-born white workers into local labor markets does not appear to have significantly increased pressures for African Americans to strikebreak.
ref: 2014, Cliff Brown, Racial Conflicts and Violence in the Labor Market:
glosses: To break a strike; to work for a business where the union members are on strike.
strikebreaks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of strikebreak
strikebroke
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of strikebreak
strikebroken
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of strikebreak
strike-break
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: strike-breaks
form: strike-breaking
form: strike-broke
form: strike-broken
Senses: examples: text: At the AGM she was one of the most compelling speakers against the notion of a fundamental right to strike-break.
ref: 1985, New Statesman - Volume 109, page 14:
text: The dockers' leaders warned of armed conflict in the streets if troops were used to strike-break.
ref: 2003, Rob Sewell, In the Cause of Labour, page 124:
text: It sent advice to them on how they could resign from the union and strike-break without penalty.
ref: 2008, David Miller, William Dinan, A century of spin, page 133:
glosses: Alternative form of strikebreak.
strike-breaks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of strike-break
strike-broke
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of strike-break
strike-broken
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of strike-break
East Dubuque
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Jo Daviess County, Illinois, United States, across the Mississippi from Dubuque, Iowa.
break-axe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: break-axes
Etymology: Calque of Spanish quebracho
Senses: examples: text: For strength and hardness, for towering height and size, the break-axe may be called the king of the Cuba forest.
ref: 1832, The Juvenile Miscellany, page 207:
text: The quiebra hacha is the celerated break-axe tree, noted for its durability.
ref: 1853, James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow, R. G. Barnwell, Edwin Bell, Debow's Review - Volume 14, page 100:
text: Quebracho wood derives its name from two Spanish words, "quebrar" to break and "hache" an axe, and this break-axe wood is one of the heaviest and hardest known, weighing some 85 pounds to the cubic foot, or over l/3 more than water, and "playing ducks and drakes" with axes, saws and other cutting tools.
ref: 1948, Joseph Earle Stevens, A Tale of two trees: Logwood & Quebracho, page 41:
glosses: A South American hardwood, Sloanea jamaicensis
break-axes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of break-axe
pipkrake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pipkrakes
Etymology: From Swedish pipkrake, from pip (“tube”) + krake (“thin, fine, weak”), coined by Swedish botanist Henrik Hesselman in 1907.
Senses: examples: text: The most widespread and familiar example of this process is that associated with the growth of needle ice or pipkrake (Figure 5.15), needles of clear ice commonly exceeding 5 cm in length. Growth of pipkrake is favoured by supercooling of the soil in conditions of marked radiative heat loss from the surface […]
ref: 1979, E. Derbyshire, Geomorphological Processes, Routledge, →ISBN, page 208:
glosses: Needle ice; ice structures formed when the air temperature is below 0℃ and the soil is not.
Logansport
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Logan + -s- + port.
Senses: glosses: A city, the county seat of Cass County, Indiana, United States.
glosses: A town in DeSoto Parish, Louisiana, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Marion County, West Virginia, United States.
conditional operator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conditional operators
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: synonym of ternary operator
synonyms: word: ternary operator
conditional operators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of conditional operator
Wildwood
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A rural locality in Victoria, Australia.
glosses: A hamlet in Yellowhead County, Alberta, Canada.
glosses: A neighbourhood of Calgary, Alberta.
glosses: A neighbourhood of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Santa Cruz County, California, United States.
glosses: A city in Sumter County, Florida, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Dade County, Georgia, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Lake County, Illinois, United States.
glosses: A neighbourhood of Chicago, Illinois.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Steuben County, Indiana, United States.
glosses: A small city in Jefferson County, Kentucky, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Koochiching County, Minnesota, United States.
glosses: A city in St. Louis County, Missouri, United States.
glosses: A city in Cape May County, New Jersey, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Clackamas County, Oregon, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Lane County, Oregon.
glosses: An unincorporated village in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States.
glosses: A neighbourhood of Roanoke, Virginia, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Lewis County, Washington, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in St. Croix County, Wisconsin, United States.
paperclip maximizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paperclip maximizers
form: paper-clip maximizer
form: paper clip maximizer
Etymology: Described by Swedish philosopher Nick Bostrom in 2003.
Senses: examples: text: The problem of managing powerful systems that lack human values is exemplified by “the paperclip maximizer,” a scenario that the Swedish philosopher Nick Bostrom raised in 2003.
ref: [2016 October 3, Tad Friend, “Sam Altman’s Manifest Destiny”, in The New Yorker:
text: An instructive and oft-repeated example introduced by Bostrom (2003c) is the paperclip maximizer. The seed AI is given the goal of producing as many paperclips as it can.
ref: [2016, Olle Häggström, Here Be Dragons: Science, Technology and the Future of Humanity, Oxford University Press, page 116:
text: A psychopathic leader in control of a sophisticated ANI system portends a far greater risk in the near term than a paperclip maximizer.
ref: 2017, Amir Husain, The Sentient Machine: The Coming Age of Artificial Intelligence, Souvenir Press:
text: If the Paperclip Maximizer destroys the world for a silly goal, why don’t you and I destroy the world, given our goals can be less than benign?
ref: 2019, Ben Orlin, Change Is the Only Constant: The Wisdom of Calculus in a Madcap World, New York: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, page 137:
glosses: A hypothetical artificial intelligence whose goal is to produce as many paperclips as possible and which achieves this by converting all matter in the universe into paperclips.
wikipedia: Nick Bostrom
single-digit salute
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: single-digit salutes
Senses: glosses: Synonym of one-finger salute
synonyms: word: one-finger salute
DNIs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of DNI
oloteras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of olotera
talajes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of talaje
cotrimerizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cotrimerization
counter-adaptation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counter-adaptations
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of counteradaptation.
counter-adaptations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of counter-adaptation
counterapologetics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: However, Danell, "St Paul," points out that in the later Jewish Targum on the Psalms, David applies the lordship to himself: "He [God] will make me lord of all Israel." Danell suggests that this change may reflect Jewish counterapologetics, to prevent the pasalm from being used to prove Jesus' lordship.)
ref: 1999, Raymond Edward Brown, The Birth of the Messiah:
text: So I wrote an encyclopedic counterapologetics book to answer that question titled Why I Became an Atheist, which I consider my magnum opus.
ref: 2016, John Loftus, Unapologetic: Why Philosophy of Religion Must End:
text: In addition to its enduring value as a contribution to biblical exegesis, He That Cometh is a sophisticated piece of counterapologetics—a 500-page scolding of the many modern scholars who find in the Hebrew Bible a praeparatio evangelica.
ref: 2017, Matthew V. Novenson, The Grammar of Messianism:
glosses: Alternative form of counter-apologetics.
counter-apologetics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From counter- + apologetics.
Senses: examples: text: This is a full-service manual of counter-apologetics.
ref: 2016, John W. Loftus, Christianity in the Light of Science:
glosses: A treatise or field of study critical of religious apologetics.
on one's Ls
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of on one's L's.
on one's Ps
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of on one's P's.
badgeman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: badgemen
Etymology: From badge + -man.
Senses: glosses: A man who wears a badge.
glosses: An almshouse man.
badgemen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of badgeman
blood, sweat, and tears
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pl
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of blood, sweat and tears.
badgerly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more badgerly
form: most badgerly
Etymology: From badger + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: It seemed to Max a very badgerly thing to do.
ref: 2012, Bill Willingham, Down the Mysterly River, page 22:
glosses: Characteristic of, relating to, or befitting a badger.
lactoferment
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lactoferments
form: lactofermenting
form: lactofermented
form: lactofermented
form: lacto-ferment
Etymology: From lacto- + ferment.
Senses: examples: text: Still others suggest that no salt at all is needed to properly lactoferment.
ref: 2010, Jennifer Megyesi, The Joy of Keeping a Root Cellar: Canning, Freezing, Drying, Smoking and Preserving the Harvest, Skyhorse Publishing Inc., →ISBN, page 171:
text: You can lactoferment mashed avocadoes, but the oil in them can spoil in a hurry and turn brown as it oxidizes.
ref: 2014, R. J. Ruppenthal, The Healthy Probiotic Diet: More Than 50 Recipes for Improved Digestion, Immunity, and Skin Health, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:
text: I think it should be possible to lactoferment any of the eat-all greens using standard recipes used with other greens.
ref: 2015, Carol Deppe, The Tao of Vegetable Gardening: Cultivating Tomatoes, Greens, Peas, Beans, Squash, Joy, and Serenity, Chelsea Green Publishing, →ISBN, page 170:
glosses: To cause (something) to undergo lactofermentation, i.e. lactic acid fermentation.
lactofermentation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lactofermentations
form: lacto-fermentation
Etymology: From lacto- + fermentation.
Senses: glosses: Lactic acid fermentation, a process by which certain sugars are converted into lactic acid, used especially to produce certain pickled/fermented foods such as sauerkraut and narezushi.
Related terms: lactoferment
lactofermented
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of lactoferment
lactoferments
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of lactoferment
lactofermenting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of lactoferment
lactofermentations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lactofermentation
truck bay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: truck bays
Senses: examples: text: John Lewis named the shed Magna Park 1, after the site where it stands: a “logistics campus” of warehouses, roads, shipping containers and truck bays east of Milton Keynes.
ref: 2019 November 21, Samanth Subramanian, “How our home delivery habit reshaped the world”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A platform where trucks load and unload.
live and die by
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lives and dies by
form: living and dying by
form: lived and died by
form: lived and died by
Senses: examples: text: The e-commerce industry lives and dies by metrics, a few of which give us some grasp over this phenomenon.
ref: 2019 November 21, Samanth Subramanian, “How our home delivery habit reshaped the world”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Be completely reliant upon.
fulfilment centre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fulfilment centres
form: fulfillment center
Senses: examples: text: Amazon’s biggest fulfilment centre in the UK, in Tilbury, Essex, occupies 2m sq ft. (In comparison, Amazon’s first shed, leased in 1997, was 93,000 sq ft.)
ref: 2019 November 21, Samanth Subramanian, “How our home delivery habit reshaped the world”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A location where orders are fulfilled, or assembled for shipping.
Strictly
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Strictly Come Dancing, a television show
hazel-eyed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having hazel eyes.
counter-battery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: We were firing at top speed day and night on counter-battery work, neutralisation, and aeroplane shoots, and all spare men were commandeered to help feed the guns.
ref: 2012, J.J. Webber, 178 Siege Battery R.G.A.: B.E.F. France: 1916-1918, page 15:
glosses: Alternative form of counterbattery.
countercastle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: countercastles
Senses: examples: text: When the king in 1136 began his policy of surrounding Ascalon by a ring of countercastles and built the castle at Beth Gibelin and entrusted it to the Knights of St. John, the patriarch was present.
ref: 1994, Hans Eberhard Mayer, Kings and lords in the Latin kingdom of Jerusalem:
text: These simple countercastle structures were all the more remarkable in that they proliferated at the same time that timber castles were giving way to stone ones.
ref: 2010, Clifford J. Rogers, William Caferro, Shelley Reid, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Medieval Warfare and Military Technology:
text: A countercastle could have been a base for what we might call a semisiege; not a full-scale containment to a castle or city but a neutralizing effort in which a moderate garrison could make foraging for food and resupplying difficult but not impossible.
ref: 2019, Peter Simpson, England in the Middle Ages: The Normans 1066-1154:
glosses: Alternative form of counter-castle.
countercastles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of countercastle
counter-castle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counter-castles
Etymology: From counter- + castle.
Senses: examples: text: One advantage of using counter-castles was that it allowed prosecution of the blockade with a minimum of men, leaving the bulk of the king's army free to move against other targets.
ref: 1997, Stephen Morillo, Warfare Under the Anglo-Norman Kings, 1066-1135, page 137:
text: One method was to blockade the enemy fortification with a counter-castle.
ref: 2015, Paul Hill, The Norman Commanders: Masters of Warfare 911-1135, page 200:
text: He therefore decided to construct a counter-castle near Dunster to restrict the activities of the castle's garrison, and he left the counter-castle under the command of Henry de Tracy.
ref: 2018, Dan Spencer, The Castle at War in Medieval England and Wales:
glosses: A castle built to secure a lord's territorial claims or to conquer the territory of a rival ruler.
counter-castles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of counter-castle
counter-Earth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From counter- + Earth.
Senses: examples: text: Possibly to explain eclipses, and possibly to achieve for the astral world the perfection of the number Ten, Philolaus imagined that a dark Counter-Earth existed, invisible to the Earth.
ref: 2001, B. K. Ridley, On Science:
text: These ten Spheres were the sun, moon, Earth, the five additional known planets at the time—Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn—the counter-Earth, and the central hearth.
ref: 2005, Dimitra Karamanides, Pythagoras:
text: His convoluted ideas, derived before the concept of the gravitational force was known, had the Earth and the counter-Earth orbiting a central fire of the universe, which was not the Sun.
ref: 2010, Neil F. Comins, What If the Earth Had Two Moons?:
text: The Earth has its counter-Earth, matter its anti-matter and each reality has its counter-reality, all of it wrapped into the Ultimate Essence.
ref: 2014, George Lysloff, Personal Journals of a Would-Be Philosopher, page 58:
glosses: Alternative form of counter-earth.
counterearth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The central fire is at the center of the universe, followed by antichthon—the counterearth— and finally Earth.
ref: 1979, Gerald E. Tauber, Man's view of the universe, page 43:
text: Nearest to the central fire revolves a body called the counterearth. which always accompanies the earth, the earth's orbit coming next to that of the counterearth: next to the earth, reckoning in order from the central fire outward, come the moon, the sun, the five planets, and last of all, ooutside the orbits of the planets, the sphere of the fixed stars.
ref: 2004, Jean Louis Tassoul, Monique Tassoul, A Concise History of Solar and Stellar Physics, page 7:
text: And they say that the counterearth, which is an earth, moves around the centre (they call it the counterearth because it lies opposite to this earth), and they say that the earth comes after the counterearth and it, too, moves around the centre and the moon comes after the earth (this is what he recounts in hiis work on the Pythagoreans).
ref: 2014, Simplicius, Simplicius: On Aristotle On the Heavens, page 51:
glosses: Alternative form of counter-earth.
flying white
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Calque from Chinese 飛白／飞白 (fēibái).
Senses: topics: arts
calligraphy
communications
journalism
literature
media
publishing
writing
glosses: A kind of calligraphic technique that involves applying a relatively dry brush at high speed to create dry, streaky strokes.
reductionistically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more reductionistically
form: most reductionistically
Etymology: From reductionistic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a reductionistic manner.
reductivistically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more reductivistically
form: most reductivistically
Etymology: From reductivistic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a reductivistic manner.
reductivistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more reductivistic
form: most reductivistic
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to reductivism.
party piece
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: party pieces
Senses: hyponyms: party trick
glosses: A trick or routine that a person uses to entertain others.
party pieces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of party piece
Daytona Beach
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after tycoon and founder Matthias Day.
Senses: glosses: A resort city in Volusia County, Florida, United States.
Daytona
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /deɪˈtəʊnə/
ipa: /deɪˈtoʊnə/
rhymes: -əʊnə
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of Daytona Beach: a resort city in Volusia County, Florida, United States.
dome car
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dome cars
Senses: examples: text: The Canadian Pacific Railway is about to introduce dome cars, already popular in the United States, which will add, if possible, to the scenic delights of the journey through the Rockies.
ref: 1954 February, Trevor Holloway, “Canada's Transcontinental Routes”, in Railway Magazine, page 130:
text: The "Rheinpfeil", from Dortmund to Munich, with which the "Rheingold" exchanges coaches at Duisburg, is now composed of similar air-conditioned stock, apart from a dome car, which continues to operate only between Dortmund and Basle; [...].
ref: 1963 June, “The "Rheingold" beats the "Mistral"”, in Modern Railways, page 385:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A railroad passenger car with a glass observation dome.
aquicludal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From aquiclude + -al.
Senses: glosses: Relating to an aquiclude.
aquitardal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From aquitard + -al.
Senses: glosses: Relating to an aquitard.
halfway covenant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: halfway covenants
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: A form of partial church membership adopted by the Puritan-controlled Congregational churches of colonial New England in the 1660s, allowing baptized but unconverted parents to present their own children for baptism, but denying them the other privileges of church membership.
halfway covenants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of halfway covenant
dome cars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dome car
bergmote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bergmotes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of barmote.
barghmote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barghmotes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of barmote.
berghmote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: berghmotes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of barmote.
bergmotes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bergmote
barghmotes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of barghmote
berghmotes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of berghmote
chamferings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chamfering
gram degree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gram degrees
form: gramme degree
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: gram calorie
gram degrees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gram degree
Long Branch
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The name of a number of watercourses in the United States of America.
glosses: A beachside city in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States.
glosses: A borough of Washington County, Pennsylvania, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Panola County, Texas, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Caroline County, Virginia, United States.
glosses: A census-designated place in Fairfax County, Virginia.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Fayette County, West Virginia, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Wyoming County, West Virginia.
glosses: A neighbourhood of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
agrotransformant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: agrotransformants
Etymology: From agro- + transformant.
Senses: glosses: A genetically modified plant produced by agrotransformation
agrotransformants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of agrotransformant
alcoxyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alcoxyls
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A univalent radical derived from an aliphatic alcohol by loss of a proton
Synonyms: alkoxy group
allonamide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The amide of allonic acid
allonic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The carboxylic acid 2,3,4,5,6-pentahydroxy hexanoic acid
allosensitised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From allo- + sensitised.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of allosensitized.
anteriormedial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of anteromedial.
antibilharzial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + bilharzial.
Senses: glosses: That counters bilharzia
antichlamydials
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antichlamydial
antidipsotropic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + dipso- + -tropic.
Senses: glosses: That reduces or prevents the consumption of alcoholic drinks.
antidipsotropic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antidipsotropics
Etymology: From anti- + dipso- + -tropic.
Senses: glosses: Such a drug.
antihypercalcemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + hypercalcemic.
Senses: glosses: That counters hypercalcemia
bertram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From German Bertram (according to Kluge appearing first in English in 1578), well-known, from Middle High German bertram, berhtram, from Old High German berhtram, from Latin pyrethrum, from Ancient Greek πύρεθρον (púrethron).
Senses: glosses: A flowering plant of species Anacyclus pyrethrum.
wikipedia: Etymological Dictionary of the German Language
Synonyms: sense: Anacyclus pyrethrum
word: bastard pellitory
sense: Anacyclus pyrethrum
word: pellitory of Spain
sense: Anacyclus pyrethrum
word: peleter
sense: Anacyclus pyrethrum
word: piretre
sense: Anacyclus pyrethrum
word: pyrethrum
sense: Anacyclus pyrethrum
word: Roman pellitory
sense: Anacyclus pyrethrum
word: Spanish chamomile
sense: Anacyclus pyrethrum
word: Mount Atlas daisy
sense: Anacyclus pyrethrum
word: akarkara
aortogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The formation of tissue of the aorta, typically in the fetus
archeospores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of archeospore
astrogliopathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: astrogliopathies
Etymology: From astro- + gliopathy.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: gliopathy of astroglia
autotransduction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From auto- + transduction.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: transduction between cells of the same organism
cache buster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cache busters
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A tag or value included in a request (such as a URL) purely to differentiate it from previous requests and thus avoid receiving a cached response.
cache busters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cache buster
grab iron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grab irons
Senses: examples: text: These alterations included a bevelled nose, modifications to the footsteps, grab irons, and lower cowls around the fans in the roof, to overcome height restrictions on some Southern Pacific lines in the east.
ref: 1985, Rodger Bradley, Amtrak: The US National Railroad Passenger Corporation, Blandford Press, pages 71–72:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A metal bar attached to the side of locomotives and railroad cars for use as a handhold.
Related terms: grab handle
grab rail
azaspirene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A particular spirolactam
grab irons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grab iron
mixed monarchies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mixed monarchy
bacteriohopanepentol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bacteriohopanepentols
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A bacteriohopanepolyol that has five hydroxyl groups
bacteriohopanetetrol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bacteriohopanetetrols
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A bacteriohopanepolyol that has four hydroxyl groups
bimineralic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + mineralic.
Senses: glosses: Composed of two minerals
binarises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of binarise
biopacemaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biopacemakers
Etymology: From bio- + pacemaker.
Senses: glosses: A biological pacemaker