cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Port Orford
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Curry County, Oregon, United States.
Derived terms: Port Orford cedar
Langlois
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Langloises
form: Langlois
form: LAnglois
form: L'Anglois
form: l'Anglois
form: lAnglois
form: Anglois
Etymology: From French Langlois, from Middle French l'(le)+Anglois (literally “Englishman”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from French, equivalent to English English.
glosses: A census-designated place in Curry County, Oregon, United States.
compensation neurosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: accident neurosis
glosses: A psychic symptom of an injured claimant where he practices a rejectionist attitude towards gainful activity not because his sufferings induced by the injury have transformed into somatic complaints but due to character faults or perverse legal understanding and on this basis demands that the ensuing financial losses be compensated by the tortfeasor.
Nesika Beach
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Curry County, Oregon, United States.
accident neurosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of compensation neurosis.
synonyms: word: compensation neurosis
Pistol River
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Curry County, Oregon, United States.
stylostixis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: acupuncture
subfluid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subfluids
Etymology: From sub- + fluid.
Senses: glosses: A substance that is partly fluid, or between solid and liquid.
subfluids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subfluid
buddiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of buddyness.
selectably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From selectable + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: A selector valve selectably couples the second chamber either to the vacuum source or to a vent.
ref: 2013, Advances in Bioengineering Research and Application: 2013 Edition:
glosses: In a selectable manner; controlled by selection.
plummest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Somehow my father managed to land me the plummest job in town: clerk/cashier at the Andover Spa.
ref: 2017, Paul Monette, Reflections: The World of Paul Monette:
glosses: superlative form of plum: most plum (most lavish or preferred)
foveiform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more foveiform
form: most foveiform
Etymology: From fovea + -iform.
Senses: glosses: Resembling a fovea.
intrahumeral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + humeral.
Senses: glosses: Within or into the humerus.
interhumeral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + humeral.
Senses: glosses: Between the humeri.
tolarji
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tolar
snafued
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of snafu
snafuing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of snafu
KPs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of KP
overnegation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From over- + negation.
Senses: examples: text: Firmly based in meditative practice and reacting to a perceived overnegation tending toward the nihilistic in Madhyamaka teachings, Yōgacāra doctrines are concerned with the non duality ^([sic]) of subject and object, which for them are impositions upon the non-dual flow of perceptions, sometimes termed Mind.
ref: 1998, Gay Watson, The Resonance of Emptiness, page 80:
topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: Excessive negation.
rock-wallaby
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rock-wallabies
Senses: glosses: Any of the wallabies of the genus Petrogale.
Derived terms: black-footed rock wallaby
rock-wallabies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rock-wallaby
burying ground
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: burying grounds
form: burying-ground
Senses: examples: text: [H]is lordſhip had changed his mind about going to Flanders, but expected to meet him, on ſuch a day and hour, in the burying-ground near Red-lion-ſquare.
ref: 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, “The memoirs of a lady of quality”, in The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume III, London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC, page 143:
glosses: A burial ground; a graveyard or cemetery.
Alan Whicker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Rhyme for nicker (“pound sterling”), in reference to Alan Whicker (1921–2013), British journalist and broadcaster.
Senses: examples: text: I don't want five pound! I don't want four pound! I don't want three pound! I don't want two pound! I don't even want one and a half pound! Come on then, girls, a good old-fashioned bar! An Alan Whicker!
ref: 2006, David Eldridge, Market Boy (play)
glosses: A pound sterling; a quid.
wikipedia: Alan Whicker
hodegetria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hodegetrias
Etymology: v
Senses: glosses: An iconographic depiction of the Virgin Mary and Christ child
oligoneurid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oligoneurids
Senses: glosses: Any mayfly of the family Oligoneuridae
Lady Godiva
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Lady Godivas
Etymology: See Godiva.
Senses: examples: text: Equipped with what the Londoners called a Lady Godiva, which was Bongo's last five-pound note, Kurt took the Tube to Notting Hill.
ref: 2017, Al Gromer Khan, Kurt and Bongo and the Hippies:
glosses: A fiver; a five-pound note.
Lady Godivas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Lady Godiva
orthophosphite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orthophosphites
Etymology: From ortho- + phosphite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Phosphite.
orthophosphites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of orthophosphite
rully
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rullies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of rulley.
rullies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rully
floppyful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: floppyfuls
Etymology: From floppy + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: The manual reveals that the video commands of DOS's MODE are useless; in their stead the manufacturer has supplied a floppyful of software.
ref: 1986 February 25, Stephen Manes, “Fritter: The Ever-present Enemy”, in PC Magazine, volume 5, number 4, →ISSN, page 93:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The amount (of data) that a floppy disk can hold.
mask of pregnancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: masks of pregnancy
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Melasma when occurring in pregnancy.
pastaholic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pastaholics
Etymology: From pasta + -holic.
Senses: examples: text: I was eating salads, young coconut, and livioli, a raw-food version of ravioli, which was actually really good, even for a pastaholic.
ref: 2011, Joyce O'Brien, Choose to Live: Our Journey from Late Stage Cancers to Vibrant Health, New York, NY: Morgan James Publishing, →ISBN, page 135:
glosses: A person who is very fond of pasta.
pastaholics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pastaholic
Friendsmas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Friendsmases
Etymology: Blend of friends + Christmas.
Senses: examples: text: Few would have a greater mountain of unwanted Christmas gifts to climb than primary school teacher Kathleen Bevis, who splits her time between four Christmas's and one "Friendsmas" each year. […] "I couldn't get rid of it," Ms Bevis said. "I re-gifted it to a friend at Friendsmas, only to find it left behind."
ref: 2014 December 25, Eryk Bagshaw, “Unwanted Christmas gifts: $520 million worth of presents”, in The Sydney Morning Herald:
coordinate_terms: Friendsgiving
glosses: A Christmas celebration spent with one's friends.
Flewellen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Flewellens
Etymology: Variant of Llewellyn.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Welsh.
judicial police
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A type of police reporting to the judiciary, or responsible for certain criminal investigations
Synonyms: judiciary police
justice police
pokerholic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pokerholics
Etymology: From poker + -holic.
Senses: examples: text: The Happy Landing, one of the many places in Truk where food and drink are served, recently imported some poker machines which have turned many residents into pokerholics. High-winner so far to date is Fidel Irons.
ref: 1986, Pacific Magazine, volume 11, page unknown:
glosses: A person who is very fond of poker.
pokerholics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pokerholic
Newbold on Avon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Rugby, Warwickshire, England (OS grid ref SP4976).
broish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more broish
form: most broish
Etymology: From bro + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: While there’s no telling what will happen with Ello, it’s worth remembering that Budnitz isn’t just another broish Stanford grad with an app idea. His social dreams may not pay off big, but as the founder of the well-established, ultra-hip toy and design company Kidrobot, he doesn’t really need to strike it big as the next Mark Zuckerberg.
ref: 2015 April 3, Taylor Hatmaker, “Whatever happened to Ello, the social network that was supposed to kill Facebook?”, in The Washington Post:
text: Together they’ve helped both actors burrow deeply into their roles and have made sure that our sympathies divide neatly. In Mr. Horowitz’s Steve we see both bookish diffidence and broish expectations of how the world will treat him.
ref: 2018 April 10, Alexis Soloski, “Review: In ‘Dutch Masters,’ Subway Seatmates, So Close and Yet So Far”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of bros; broey.
greater whitethroat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: greater whitethroats
Senses: glosses: Synonym of common whitethroat.
synonyms: word: common whitethroat
Betley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Betleys
Etymology: From the Old English personal name *Betta + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”).
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish (served by Betley, Balterley and Wrinehill Parish Council) in Newcastle-under-Lyme borough, Staffordshire, England (OS grid ref SJ7548).
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
call balls and strikes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: calls balls and strikes
form: calling balls and strikes
form: called balls and strikes
form: called balls and strikes
Senses: examples: text: The San Rafael Pacifics and Vallejo Admirals, two independent (not major league-affiliated) minor league teams, recently played two games using a computer system, rather than the home plate umpire, to call balls and strikes.
ref: 2015 August 10, Alex Shultz, “Rise of the machines? Baseball weighs use of automated strike zone”, in LA Times:
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To act as a home plate umpire.
examples: text: Mayor-elect Lori Lightfoot said Thursday she wants and expects Inspector General Joe Ferguson to “call balls and strikes” during her administration and sees no reason their friendship would conflict with his role as a city watchdog.
ref: 2019 May 13, Fran Spielman, “Watchdog should stay, call ‘balls and strikes’ despite our friendship: Lightfoot”, in Chicago Sun-Times:
glosses: To act impartially.
Eurasian blackcap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Eurasian blackcaps
Senses: glosses: Sylvia atricapilla, an Old World warbler.
Synonyms: mock nightingale
chemoinfusion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chemoinfusions
Etymology: From chemo- + infusion.
Senses: glosses: chemotherapy by means of infusion
guavinoside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: guavinosides
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of benzophenone glycosides present in guava
guavinosides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of guavinoside
mechanotactical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mechanotactic.
contingency cost
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: contingency costs
Etymology: From contingency + cost. Do not confuse with cost contingencies.
Senses: topics: accounting
business
finance
glosses: An expense incurred precautionarily for a use that may not occur such as an event of damage or a change order.
wikipedia: cost contingency
contingency costs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of contingency cost
IRs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of IR
buffer beam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -iːm
Forms: form: buffer beams
form: bufferbeam
Senses: examples: text: This locomotive was fitted experimentally with a seat on the front buffer beam, for the inspection of station gardens.
ref: 1948 November and December, “The Holden 2-4-0 Locomotives of the L.N.E.R.”, in Railway Magazine, page 374, photo caption:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A transverse metal beam at each end of a rail vehicle on which buffers, couplings, brake pipes etc. are mounted.
Synonyms: headstock
buffer beams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of buffer beam
bufferbeam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bufferbeams
Senses: examples: text: The bufferbeam is another factor that must be carefully considered. The buffing and coupling centre is 3ft 5½in above rail level and the beam carries not only buffers and drawgear but a jumble of train connections such as jumpers and pipes.
ref: 1961 May, B. A. Haresnape, “Design on the railway: Part Three”, in Trains Illustrated, page 301:
glosses: Alternative form of buffer beam.
bufferbeams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bufferbeam
box-like
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more box-like
form: most box-like
Etymology: From box + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Once inside it widens, but only to make room for a big box-like building with the worn and greasy look of the slum tenement that is stamped alike on the houses and their tenants down here, […]
ref: 1890, Jacob A[ugust] Riis, “The Down Town Back-alleys”, in How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 31:
text: The majority of locomotive bodies have vertical sides, partly to simplify construction and partly to make the utmost use of the permissible loading gauge. This tends to produce a box-like appearance, which is uninteresting in itself but can be improved [...].
ref: 1961 May, B. A. Haresnape, “Design on the railway: Part Three”, in Trains Illustrated, page 302:
glosses: Alternative form of boxlike.
thrappling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of thrapple
thrappled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having a thrapple (“throat”) of the kind specified.
thrappled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of thrapple
Rennington
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish north of Alnwick, Northumberland, England (OS grid ref NU2118).
Ruislip Gardens
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb in the borough of Hillingdon, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ0986).
zitting cisticola
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zitting cisticolas
Etymology: The syllable "zit" is imitative of its call.
Senses: glosses: A passerine bird of species Cisticola juncidis, family Cisticolidae, distributed across Africa, Eurasia, and Australasia.
Synonyms: word: fan-tailed warbler
word: streaked fantail warbler
streaked fantail warbler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: streaked fantail warblers
Senses: glosses: Synonym of zitting cisticola.
synonyms: word: zitting cisticola
dual-frequency
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Trials with three experimental dual-frequency mixed-traffic locomotives intended for use on the Saar's 15kV 16⅔-cycle (German) and 25kV 50-cycle (French) lines have proved so successful that the German Federal Railway is contemplating the construction of a fleet of 20 to 25 similar machines.
ref: 1961 May, “New European motive power: I - German dual-voltage locomotives”, in Trains Illustrated, page 305:
topics: business
electrical
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Able to operate on two different electrical frequencies.
topics: broadcasting
media
radio
radio-communications
glosses: Able to receive and operate on two different radio frequencies.
Related terms: sense: sense 1
word: dual-voltage
lesser white-fronted goose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lesser white-fronted geese
Senses: glosses: Anser erythropus, a goose closely related to the larger white-fronted goose (Anser albifrons)
tundra bean goose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tundra bean geese
Senses: glosses: Any goose of species Anser serrirostris, that breeds in northern Siberia.
cackling goose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cackling geese
Senses: glosses: Branta hutchinsii, a North American bird of the genus Branta of black geese, which contains species with largely black plumage, distinguishing them from the grey Anser species.
red-breasted goose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: red-breasted geese
Senses: glosses: Branta ruficollis, a species of goose from Eurasia, with a large rust-colored area on its breast and throat.
American black duck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: American black ducks
Senses: glosses: Anas rubripes, a large dabbling duck in the family Anatidae.
asweep
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From a- + sweep.
Senses: examples: text: the line that goes wavingly asweep round the base of the holy mountain, separating it from the common earth.
ref: 1842, John Wilson, chapter 3, in The Recreations of Christopher North, volume 1, Edinburgh: William Blackwood, page 175:
text: Where fierce hot winds have set the pine and myall boughs asweep
ref: 1890, Banjo Paterson, “The Man from Snowy River”, in The Man from Snowy River and Other Verses, London: Macmillan, published 1896, page 49:
text: When winds are asweep through the Pecos Valley, they whimper and moan in the barbed-wire fence like troubled ghosts.
ref: 1926, Walter Noble Burns, chapter 20, in The Saga of Billy the Kid, Garden City, NY: Garden City Publishing, page 294:
text: I thought of Mr. O’Neill, who was tall, pale and melancholy, with long white hair asweep, very like the picture of composers of my music book-covers.
ref: 1962, Austin Clarke, chapter 4, in Twice Round the Black Church, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, page 36:
text: […] low and gently rolling hills, some forested, some asweep with velvety swaths of rippling, growing grain.
ref: 1993, Dewey Lambdin, The Gun Ketch, New York: Donald J. Fine, Book 1, Chapter 1, p. 11:
glosses: Sweeping, making a sweeping motion.
European spotted flycatcher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: European spotted flycatchers
Senses: glosses: Synonym of spotted flycatcher.
synonyms: word: spotted flycatcher
Applebottom
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname from Middle English.
eutric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more eutric
form: most eutric
Senses: qualifier: soil science
glosses: Having a base saturation of greater than 50%.
Derived terms: endoeutric
epieutric
hypoeutric
orthoeutric
self-energising
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: self-energizing
Etymology: From self- + energising.
Senses: examples: text: [...] but the voltage between the steps is automatically increased by the use of a self-energising, servo-controlled double transductor (magnetic amplifier), giving perfectly smooth take-up at the price of the extra weight of the installation.
ref: 1961 May, “New European motive power: I - German dual-voltage locomotives”, in Trains Illustrated, page 307:
glosses: Containing means for augmentation of power within itself.
self-energizing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -aɪzɪŋ
Etymology: From self- + energizing.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of self-energising.
excysting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of excyst
axleload
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: axleloads
Etymology: From axle + load.
Senses: examples: text: The weight of the V160, 74 tons loaded, and its axleload, 18½ tons, compare with the V200's 84 and 21 tons respectively.
ref: 1961 May, “New European motive power: 2 - Recent German and Austrian diesel units: The German V160”, in Trains Illustrated, page 306:
text: Ultimately the four-wheel type was selected which, weighing 45 tons fully loaded, is just within the 22½-ton maximum axleload.
ref: 1962 December, “Iron ore traffic for the Spencer works”, in Modern Railways, page 411:
glosses: Alternative form of axle load.
axleloads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of axleload
Pegler
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
trochozoans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trochozoan
Alfalfa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From alfalfa, from Spanish, from Arabic.
Senses: glosses: An unincorporated community in Deschutes County, Oregon, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Caddo County, Oklahoma, United States, originally named Boise.
glosses: Ellipsis of Alfalfa County: One of 77 counties in Oklahoma, United States.
Related terms: alfalfa
Alfalfa County
County of Alfalfa
upscaler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: upscalers
Etymology: From upscale + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone or something which upscales.
upscalers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of upscaler
obruption
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: By surface analysis, ob- + ruption.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Quick burial.
teachy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /tiːt͡ʃi/
rhymes: -iːtʃi
Forms: form: more teachy
form: most teachy
Etymology: From teach + -y, q.v.
Senses: examples: text: What you describe of your parents is a child’s view of people who, apparently, thought that being a parent meant being strict and teachy all the time.
ref: 2017, Carolyn Hax, It may be time to look at your parents from a new prespective:
text: Director George Tillman Jr. gets pulled in different directions, too, juggling teen drama and teachy diatribe.
ref: 2018, Bob Brown, Lives in the balance: The Hate U Give tackles important topics but offers hollow advice:
glosses: Preachy, didactic, tending toward excessive moraling or personal instruction.
Synonyms: preachy
didactic
moralizing
pious
sanctimonious
sermonizing
teachy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /tiːt͡ʃi/
rhymes: -iːtʃi
Etymology: Variant of tetchy, of uncertain etymology.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tetchy.
Banan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: bäʹnänʹ
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 巴南 (Bānán).
Senses: examples: text: By 2006, after working in the city for nearly twenty years, Yu bought his first apartment in Chongqing’s Ban’an^([sic – meaning Banan]) District for US$20,000, securing a 70 per cent mortgage from a local rural credit company, now part of the restructured Chongqing Rural Credit Commercial Bank.
ref: 2012, Tom Miller, China's Urban Billion: The story behind the biggest migration in human history, Zed Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 60:
text: Its Indian arm, Maruti Suzuki, is the largest passenger-car manufacturer on the subcontinent, and Suzuki’s joint venture in China with Changan Automobile recently announced it would build a second plant in the Banan District of Chongqing. The plant will give the venture an annual capacity to build 500,000 cars.
ref: 2012 April 19, Paul Stenquist, “Suzuki: Going Places Elsewhere, but Not in America”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 07 Apr 2023:
text: It was reported that Decathlon, the biggest global sports products retailer, is investigating the road logistics base in Banan District, which is planned to create a Southwest logistics distribution centre in Chongqing.
ref: 2014, Retail Market Study Worldwide 2014, 6th edition, →ISBN, page 879:
text: One of China’s top titanium producers has halted production at its unit in Chongqing after members of staff were found to be infected with the new coronavirus, a local government official said on Friday.
Pangang Group Vanadium Titanium and Resources, which produces around 220,000 tonnes per year of titanium dioxide - used as white pigment in paints, paper, plastics and textiles - subsequently put the facility in Chongqing’s Banan district under lockdown, the Banan official said.
ref: 2020 February 14, Min Zhang, Tom Daly, “China titanium producer Pangang shuts unit as coronavirus cases found”, in David Evans, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 14 Feb 2020, Commodities:
text: Extreme heat in China’s southwestern Chongqing municipality has left the city parched and several mountains ablaze.
At least four districts have reported fires since Thursday, forcing 1,500 people from 540 households to be evacuated.
The latest blaze broke out in Banan district on Sunday, while another in Jiangjin district that had been burning since Thursday was not put out until Monday morning.
ref: 2022 August 22, Nick Yang, “Fires blaze in southwest China as extreme heat scorches region”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 Aug 2022, Politics:
glosses: A district of Chongqing, China.
keep measures
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: keeps measures
form: keeping measures
form: kept measures
form: kept measures
form: keep measure
form: observe measures
Senses: examples: text: He keeps no measure in his contempt for him.
ref: 1863, Charles Cowden Clarke, Shakespeare-characters:
glosses: To show restraint; to behave with moderation.
examples: text: Upon my return to Bath, I was again harrassed by lord —, who came thither accompanied by my father, whom I was very glad to see, though he importuned me to comply with my husband's desire, and for the future keep measures with the world.
ref: 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:
glosses: To act in due consideration with (a person, opinion etc.).
keeps measures
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of keep measures
paleovolcanism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From paleo- + volcanism.
Senses: glosses: prehistoric volcanism
Related terms: paleovolcanic
paleovolcano
paracriny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The secretion of paracrine hormones
lay one's account
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lays one's account
form: laying one's account
form: laid one's account
form: laid one's account
Senses: examples: text: But as the place of my abode was now discovered, I laid my account with having a visit from his employer: I therefore planted spies upon the road […].
ref: 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:
text: The jurors must have laid their account with appearing before the Star-chamber.
ref: 1827, Henry Hallam, The Constitutional History of England:
glosses: To reckon with (also on or for) some future act or event; to expect, to plan (for).
re-gift
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: re-gifts
form: re-gifting
form: re-gifted
form: re-gifted
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of regift.
re-gifting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of re-gift
re-gifts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of re-gift
re-gifted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of re-gift
putting horns on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of put horns on
polite notice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A heading commonly placed on certain notices, such as "no parking" notices, originally intended to be misread at a glance as "police notice", thus imparting a spurious authority, and often using similar typography to genuine police notices; may now be meant or read literally by those unaware of the original purpose.
at scale
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: This manufacturing process is fine for a cottage industry, but it can't be done at scale.
text: The formula for amassing an audience that would ostensibly click on your articles or buy your books or trust your judgment has become a matter of appearing likable at scale, or at least gesturing toward your status as a fellow human.
ref: April 14 2022, Delia Cai, “Severance, the New York Times’s Twitter Guidelines, and the Forever Illusion of Work-Life Balance”, in Vanity Fair:
glosses: On a large scale: involving large amounts or volumes of something.
sarabi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sarabis
head_nr: 1
Senses: head_nr: 1
glosses: A breed of large dogs originating from Iran, used for guarding livestock against bears, wolves, and other local predators
Willcocks
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Related terms: Willcock
Willcox
Wilcox
nature-friendly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nature-friendly
form: most nature-friendly
Senses: glosses: Having a minimal impact on the natural environment; environmentally friendly.
Quebecian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Quebecian
form: most Quebecian
form: Québecian
form: Quebeckian
Etymology: From Quebec + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: But let the humble “subjects” of the rotten, tottering trans-Atlantic monarchies, the humble Quebecian “subjects” of Victoria of England included, once for all learn and not forget that America is not Africa; and that American freemen will not submit to be treated like African savages.
ref: 1891, John Gmeiner, The Church and Foreignism, St. Paul, Minnesota: Brown, Treacy & Co., page 6:
text: In his effort his Quebecian title had been pre-occupied for another formation; in Cary substitute another title had already been a valid name for the till itself.
ref: 1938, The Pan-American Geologist, page 56:
text: The Quebecian grammarian Jean-Marcel Léard has identified five morphological features which differentiate what he calls the Quebecian variety of French from the hexagonal variety (Léard 1995, based on the Estric corpus for Quebecian facts):[…]Most of these changes are not completely unknown in European French:[…]What then could be said to be Quebecian here?
ref: 2011, Grammar & Corpora 2009: Third International Conference, →ISBN, pages 97, 98:
glosses: Synonym of Québécois.
synonyms: word: Québécois
Quebecian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Quebecians
form: Québecian
form: Quebeckian
Etymology: From Quebec + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: When the Quebecians wish to get out, the Ontarians try to persuade them to stay in.
ref: 1968, Monograph, page 314:
text: “Oh, yes.” I said, again. “Oh, yes.” Nearly choking. Who is this man? I kept thinking. This Quebecian.
ref: 1975, Quadrant, volume 19, page 66:
text: Domestic responses to national database projects have been highly variable. Britons, Estonians, Quebecians, and Swedes have paid minimal attention to developments in their own contexts, whereas in Iceland there was extensive public debate for over two years.
ref: 2007, Gísli Pálsson, Anthropology and the New Genetics, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 144:
glosses: Synonym of Québécois.
synonyms: word: Québécois
Quebecians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Quebecian
Québecian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Québecian
form: most Québecian
Etymology: From Québec + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: We enhance the term ‘belief’ because here, with Camden’s text as well as with Québecian associations, we cannot consider these allegations of “synchronicity” as facts.
ref: 1988, Lake Monster Traditions: A Cross-cultural Analysis, →ISBN, page 158:
text: In this respect the Québecian position differs considerably from the one found in the continental or continentally influenced systems where the revocability usually lapses automatically with the death of the donor, and not of the donee.
ref: 2000, Festschrift für Otto Sandrock zum 70. Geburtstag, Heidelberg: Verlag Recht und Wirtschaft GmbH, →ISBN, “Revocability of Donations and Beneficiary Clauses in Life Insurance Contracts — Some Comparative Remarks (Jean C. Sonnekus)”, “VI. Common Law”, “1. Québec”, page 942:
text: I thought I once talked to you about this. Probably to another Québecian NROSer back in the days ;)
ref: 2000 February 28, ymenard, “Re: Survey - needed for review.”, in rec.autos.simulators (Usenet), message-ID <x8nu4.9321$pf4.325065@news20.bellglobal.com>:
glosses: Alternative spelling of Quebecian.
Brocklehurst
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A neighbourhood of Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada.
PAA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: PAAs
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
synonyms: PAAc
glosses: Initialism of polyacrylic acid.
PAAc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
synonyms: PAA
glosses: Initialism of polyacrylic acid.
PAAs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of PAA
Lapège
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Ariège department, Occitania, France.
Weigh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Hoboken
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: The name for the city in New Jersey likely comes from the Lenape phrase "Hopoghan Hackingh", meaning "land of the tobacco pipe". Alternatively, from the Dutch Hoebuck, meaning "high bluff". Though it is entirely possible Dutch settlers successively adapted the original Lenape name to more familiar forms, eventually landing upon the present form, possibly from influence of Hoboken, the district of Antwerp in Belgium.
Senses: glosses: A district of Antwerp, Belgium.
glosses: A city in Georgia, United States.
glosses: A city in Hudson County, New Jersey, United States.
Z-plasty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Z-plasties
Etymology: From Z + -plasty.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
coordinate_terms: S-plasty
glosses: A versatile plastic surgery technique involving a Z-shaped incision that is used to improve the functional and cosmetic appearance of scars.
oasisless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more oasisless
form: most oasisless
Etymology: From oasis + -less.
Senses: glosses: Lacking oases.
petroeuro
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: petroeuros
Etymology: From petro- + euro, modelled on petrodollar.
Senses: glosses: Money in the euro currency earned from the sale of oil.
U-47700
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
synonyms: word: pink
word: pinky
glosses: An opioid analgesic drug developed in the 1970s and having around 7.5 times the potency of morphine, also used for recreational purposes.
McWilliam
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: McWilliams
form: McWilliams
Etymology: Anglicized form of Irish and Scottish Gaelic Mac Uilleim (“son of Uilleam”), a Gaelicized form of William.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Z-plasties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Z-plasty
Coakes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Piedmontization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Piedmont + -ization.
Senses: glosses: The modernisation of Italy following unification and the dominance of Piedmont
Haylock
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
pylorotomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pylorotomies
Etymology: From pyloro- + -tomy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: Incision of the pylorus.
pyrenophore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pyrenophores
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian pirenoforo.
Senses: examples: text: The neuron is characterized by a central zone, called pyrenophore, which contains the nucleus and the organelles and a peripheral one, consisting of the cytoplasmic extensions, the dendrites and the axon.
ref: 2017, Martina Chianese, “Synthesis and study of catalytic antioxidant activity of mono and dinuclear copper(II) complexes”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
text: In seven animals, the degeneration/atrophy of pyrenophores in the vicinity of the epaxial muscles was detected.
ref: 2020, Sara Ciulli, “Multifactorial Causes of Chronic Mortality in Juvenile Sturgeon (Huso huso)”, in Animals, volume 10, number 10, page 1866:
topics: medicine
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: The central zone of a neuron containing the nucleus and organelles.
raw_tags: in translation from Italian
pyroelectrometallurgy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: pyroelectric metallurgy
pithecology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek πίθηκος (píthēkos, “ape”) + -ology.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The scientific study of apes.
gerrout
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: qualifier: representing slurred pronunciation
glosses: Get out.
Related terms: gerroff
plasmochemistry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From plasmo- + chemistry.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: chemistry within a plasma (state of matter)
Related terms: plasmochemical
plasmopoiesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The formation of plasmocytes
pluriparity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The condition of being pluriparous
plutophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pluto- + -phobia.
Senses: examples: text: The development of plutophobia typically stems from a complex interplay of psychological, social, and experiential factors.
ref: 2024 December 10, “What Is Plutophobia? Understanding the Fear of Wealth”, in Asana Recovery:
glosses: An aversion to wealthy people.
Related terms: plutophobic
mis-spelled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mis-spell
aswish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From a- + swish.
Senses: examples: text: […] some brisk little flickering fish […] / set the ripples a-swish
ref: 1922, Walter de la Mare, “The Stranger”, in Down-Adown-Derry,, London: Constable, page 20:
text: […] the cows, tails aswish, clustering already for milking
ref: 1961, Janet Frame, Faces in the Water, New York: George Braziller, published 1982, Part 1, Chapter 8, p. 61:
text: […] there were bungalows set back from blackened garden walls, the air around them aswish with coconut trees.
ref: 1994, Kirin Narayan, Love, Stars, and All That, New York: Washington Square Press, Part 2, Chapter 6, p. 230:
text: […] he stumbled into the bedroom and delved into the closet, swimming past the hems of the skirts and dresses aswish in plastic, to the spot behind the line of never-worn shoes.
ref: 2003, Kerri Sakamoto, chapter 10, in One Hundred Million Hearts, Toronto: Knopf Canada, page 200:
glosses: Swishing, making a rustling sound while moving.
Winscombe and Sandford
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A civil parish in North Somerset district, Somerset, England.
voc-ed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: voc ed
Senses: topics: education
glosses: Clipping of vocational education.
doctor bird
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɒktɚ ˈbɝd/
ipa: /ˈdɒktə(r)ˈbɜː(r)d/
Forms: form: doctor birds
Etymology: Compound of doctor + bird. The bird, endemic to Jamaica, is so named because its tail resembles a stethoscope.
Senses: examples: text: He listened to the zip of doctor birds at the window and the peach trees in the wind.
ref: 2021, Leone Ross, This One Sky Day, Faber & Faber Limited, page 125:
glosses: Trochilus polytmus; a red-billed streamertail; scissor-tail hummingbird; scissors tail hummingbird (hummingbird)
Related terms: hummingbird
streamertail
Copley Hill
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Batley, Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE2326).
Wetherhead
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
aswagger
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From a- + swagger.
Senses: examples: text: he tries to walk a-swagger with a military chest
ref: 1911, Robert J.C. Stead, “The Son of Marquis Noddle”, in Songs of the Prairie, Toronto: William Briggs, page 55:
text: [she] looked at her husband, a-swagger with his hat on the back of his head and a laugh on his lips,
ref: 1926, Wilbur Daniel Steele, “Out of the Wind”, in Urkey Island, New York: Harcourt, Brace, page 276:
text: Crisp little men aswagger with assets.
ref: 1997, Don DeLillo, Underworld, Part 5, Chapter 4, p. 570:
text: The other is all aswagger as she brandishes / her implacable sword.
ref: 2001, chapter 29, in David Tod Roy, transl., The Plum in the Golden Vase, volume 2, Princeton University Press, page 191:
glosses: Swaggering, with a proud or boastful swaying gait.
fade-away
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fade-aways
Senses: examples: text: To call this music bland is to ignore the down-the-drain vocal fade-aways, the extended sax sustains […]
ref: 2011, Chuck Eddy, Rock and Roll Always Forgets, page 265:
text: Instead of using a theatre's large stage, the video works with close-ups, side shots, exaggerated silhouettes and fade-aways, which are more suitable for the television screen.
ref: 2015, Gabriele Rippl, Handbook of Intermediality: Literature – Image – Sound – Music, page 558:
glosses: Alternative spelling of fadeaway.
halfa grass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: halfa grasses
Etymology: From Arabic حَلْفَا (ḥalfā).
Senses: synonyms: kusha grass
glosses: A north African and south Asian grass, Desmostachya bipinnata, with tough stems woven into rope, sandals, mats, etc., and sacred in Hinduism, Buddhism and other religions.
glosses: Other north African grasses with similar uses, such as sparto (Stipa tenacissima and Lygeum sparticum) and cogongrass (Imperata cylindrica)
straightwash
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: straightwashes
form: straightwashing
form: straightwashed
form: straightwashed
form: straight-wash
Etymology: From straight + wash, by analogy with pinkwash.
Senses: examples: text: Rather than focus on ostensibly queer games, I want to show how doing a queer analysis of mainstream games provides critical ways to demonstrate how most video games strategically deploy and ultimately recuperate and straightwash queer possibilities.
ref: 2015, Edmond Y. Chang, “Love Is in the Air: Queer (Im)Possibility and Straightwashing in FrontierVille and World of Warcraft”, in QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking, volume 2, number 2, →DOI, pages 9–10:
text: While Undertales queer representational aspects have been straightwashed' by significant sectors of the game's reception, its LGBTQ characters and storylines have proven immensely meaningful for many of the game's queer players.
ref: 2018, Bonnie Ruberg, “Straightwashing Undertale: Video games and the limits of LGBTQ representation”, in Transformative Works and Cultures, volume 28, 4.3, →DOI:
text: For all that her character has been created in the interests of reassuring the audience and normalising and straightwashing the story, she has an excellent moment in the climactic scene when Hogancamp declares his feelings for her.
ref: 2018 December 19, Peter Bradshaw, “Welcome to Marwen review: Steve Carell on icky form in straightwashed misfire”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: It took me a long time, but I'm so happy that I'm finally in a place where I no longer feel the need to whitewash or straightwash myself in order to fit in.
ref: 2019, Tan France, “Crossed Legs”, in Naturally Tan: A Memoir, St. Martin's Publishing Group, →ISBN:
glosses: To interpret or present a queer figure, relationship, or situation as exclusively heterosexual.
straightwashes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of straightwash
straightwashed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: […] the result of the decline of the studio-era Production Code (which forbade depictions of homosexuality, leading to 'straightwashed' biopics of figures like Cole Porter in Night and Day […]
ref: 2017, Jonathan Lupo, “Blending in and standing out: Storytelling and genre in the LGBT biopics Milk and Pedro”, in Queer Studies in Media & Popular Culture, volume 2, number 2, →DOI, page 230:
text: Welcome to Marwen review: Steve Carell on icky form in straightwashed misfire [title]
ref: 2018 December 19, Peter Bradshaw, “Welcome to Marwen review: Steve Carell on icky form in straightwashed misfire”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: With references to nonstraight sexual orientations omitted or removed.
straightwashed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of straightwash
straightwashing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The act of removing or omitting nonstraight sexual orientations from an account of a person, relationship, or situation.
straightwashing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of straightwash
sinus rhythm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sinus rhythms
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: any cardiac rhythm in which depolarization of the myocardium begins at the sinus node, characterised by the presence of correctly oriented P waves in an electrocardiogram
sinus rhythms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sinus rhythm
Fermi bubble
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Fermi bubbles
Etymology: First observed by the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A region of the galaxy, rich in gamma rays, thought to be caused by the central supermassive black hole.
wikipedia: Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
Brentnall
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Vidler
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Beevers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Beevers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Beever
Uplawmoor
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in East Renfrewshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS4355).
Muirend
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A southern suburb of Glasgow, City of Glasgow council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS5759).