cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Zhanghua
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 彰化 (Zhānghuà).
Senses: examples: text: In 1786, Lin Shuangwen staged an armed uprising in Taiwan. Previously, he had been a leader of the Heaven and Earth Society in Zhanghua, Taiwan. The organization was also known as the Triad Society, a popular, secret group that had its beginning during the reign of Kang Xi. It opposed the Qing regime and was most active in South China.[…]After capturing Zhanghua, he was declared “Marshal of Obedience to Heaven”. Meanwhile, another man named Zhuang Datian, having raised the standard of revolt in Fengshan (modem Gaoxiong), attacked and captured Fengshan.
ref: 1982 [1980 November], “The Ming-Qing Period: the Twilight of Feudalism”, in Bai Shouyi [白寿彝], editor, An Outline History of China [中国通史纲要] (China Knowledge Series), Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 398:
english: 中国通史纲要
translation: 中国通史纲要
text: In 1721 (60th year of the reign of Emperor Kangxi) an office of imperial supervisor for inspecting Taiwan was created and the Taiwan-Xiamen Patrol Command was renamed Prefecture Administration of Taiwan and Xiamen, incorporating the subsequently created Zhanghua County and Danshui Canton.
ref: 1996 [1993 August 13], Taiwan Affairs Office, “The Taiwan Question and Reunification of China”, in Winberg Chai, May-lee Chai, editors, Chinese Mainland and Taiwan: A Study of Historical, Cultural, Economic and Political Relations with Documents [中國大陸與臺灣], Kendall Hunt Publishing Company, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 274:
english: 中國大陸與臺灣
translation: 中國大陸與臺灣
text: Flower farming in Taiwan originates in Tianwei (田尾), a town of about 50,000 in Zhanghua County (彰化縣) and residents are used to these bright night scenes in the surrounding countryside from October through March every year.[…]
As such it was no surprise when Zhanghua County Magistrate Wong Chin-chu (翁金珠) chose Hsichou (溪洲), a town a few kilometers south of Tianwei, to host the country's biggest flower expo since 1945.
ref: 2004 January 18, Derek Lee, “A `Land of Flowers'”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 18 Feb 2004, Features, page 17:
text: Many Taiwanese companies have expanded into new business areas after investing in the mainland. For example, Ding Xin Group was originally a small mill making sesame oil in central Taiwan’s Zhanghua county when it relocated to the mainland early in 1989 to manufacture cooking oil.
ref: 2006, John Q. Tian, “Industrial Organization and Cross-Strait Economic Interactions”, in Government, Business, and the Politics of Interdependence and Conflict across the Taiwan Strait, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 105:
glosses: Alternative form of Changhua.
wear in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: wears in
form: wearing in
form: wore in
form: worn in
Senses: examples: text: It took a few weeks for my new hiking boots to wear in. Then it took another 12 years for them to wear out.
text: It took me a few weeks to wear in my new hiking boots. Then it took me another 12 years to wear them out.
synonyms: break in
coordinate_terms: wear off
wear down
wear through
wear out
glosses: To wear until becoming comfortable or fitting properly; to cause (something) to wear in this way (by using it).
monoethylene
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mono- + ethylene.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Having only one ethylene group in a molecule
Derived terms: alt: MEG
word: monoethylene glycol
Related terms: word: diethylene
word: -ene
word: eth-
word: ethane
word: ethene
word: ethenyl
word: ethyl
word: ethylene
word: ethyne
word: ethynyl
word: mono-
alt: PE
word: polyethylene
word: triethylene
word: -yl
silverpatch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: silverpatches
Senses: glosses: A tropical American butterfly of the genus Aides
prevailing wind
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prevailing winds
Senses: examples: text: The prevailing wind in the Roaring Forties is westerly.
text: West Midlands Mayor and WMCA Chairman Andy Street said: " A number of public infrastructure projects are facing understandable cost challenges, given the prevailing winds of inflation and supply chain pressures. […]"
ref: 2023 April 5, “Network News: West Midlands Metro extension receives £60 million bail-out”, in RAIL, number 980, page 9:
topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: A wind in a region of the Earth that blows predominantly from one direction.
prevailing winds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prevailing wind.
gun licence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gun licences
form: gun license
Senses: synonyms: firearms licence
glosses: A license or permit issued by a government authority (typically by the police) of a jurisdiction, that allows the licensee to buy, own, possess, or carry a firearm.
ground cypress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ground cypresses
Senses: glosses: A European shrub of species Santolina chamaecyparissus, with yellow flowers.
cotton lavender
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cotton lavenders
Senses: glosses: ground cypress (Santolina chamaecyparissus)
holy flax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: holy flaxes
Senses: glosses: A European shrub, Santolina rosmarinifolia.
go sing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes sing
form: going sing
form: went sing
form: gone sing
Senses: glosses: Synonym of go whistle.
synonyms: word: go whistle
vac pack
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: vac packs
form: vac packing
form: vac packed
form: vac packed
Senses: glosses: Clipped compound of vacuum pack.
vac pack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vac packs
Senses: glosses: Clipped compound of vacuum pack.
vac packs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of vac pack
vac packs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vac pack
vac packing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of vac pack
vac packed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of vac pack
Minahasan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Minahasan
form: most Minahasan
Etymology: From Minahasa + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Minahasa.
Minahasan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Minahasans
Etymology: From Minahasa + -an.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Minahasa.
Minahasan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Minahasa + -an.
Senses: glosses: An Austronesian language spoken in the Minahasa Peninsula in Northern Sulawesi, Indonesia.
Minahasans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Minahasan
varispeed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: varispeeds
form: varispeeding
form: varispeeded
form: varispeeded
Senses: examples: text: By exhaustively trolling through the sound library, I found various recordings of junky cars and broken machines, and I began to combine them with the synthetic tones. I spent a considerable amount of time varispeeding the elements, […]
ref: 2012, David Lewis Yewdall, Practical Art of Motion Picture Sound, page 286:
text: In such instances, Martin discovered that his varispeeded notes bristled with the noise of the tiny hammers striking the piano strings as they were being recorded at half speed.
ref: 2019, Kenneth Womack, Solid State, page 155:
glosses: To modify the speed of playback of a sound.
varispeeded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of varispeed
varispeeds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of varispeed
varispeeding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of varispeed
variphones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of variphone
chimney cake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chimney cakes
Etymology: Calque of Hungarian kürtőskalács, from kürtős (“of or related to a chimney stack”) (from kürtő (“chimney stack”) + -s (adjective-forming suffix)) + kalács (“cake”).
Senses: glosses: A kind of long, cylindrical Hungarian pastry made from sweet yeast dough and roasted over charcoal, originating from the Székely people (kürtőskalács).
chimney cakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chimney cake
cherry slug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cherry slugs
Senses: glosses: Synonym of pear slug.
synonyms: word: pear slug
cherry slugs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cherry slug
pear slug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pear slugs
Senses: synonyms: cherry slug
glosses: The larva of the sawfly Caliroa cerasi, a major pest of fruit trees.
pear slugs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pear slug
MCIs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of MCI
Malinas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of Kapatagan, Lanao del Norte, Philippines.
Heraclitanism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Heraclitan + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Heracliteanism.
Pavlov's dog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Pavlov's dogs
form: Pavlov dog
Etymology: In reference to the Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov's work on classical conditioning: he discovered that dogs could be conditioned to salivate when a bell was rung, if it had previously been rung whenever food was given.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:Pavlov's dog.
glosses: A person who reacts instinctively to a stimulus, without thought or consideration.
Pavlov's dogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Pavlov's dog
Rubadub
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: When I began working for Stan, he brought in a big book. He wanted me to put in any days I couldn't work. 'You know,' he said. 'Special days, holidays and stuff.' 'I don't understand, Stan.' 'You know, like Christmas or Rub-a-dub. 'Ah, I think you mean Ramadan, Stan. But I'm not actually a Muslim.'
ref: 2015, Parmjit Dhanda, My Political Race: An Outsider's Journey to the Heart of British Politics:
glosses: Ramadan.
insuing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of insue
insued
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of insue
get one's head together
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gets one's head together
form: getting one's head together
form: got one's head together
form: got one's head together
form: gotten one's head together
Senses: glosses: To sort out one's thoughts.
hedonimeter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hedonimeters
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hedonometer.
hedonimeters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hedonimeter
hobandnobs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hobandnob
hobandnobbed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hobandnob
hobandnobbing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hobandnob
taps up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tap up
tapped up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tap up
giggle stick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: giggle sticks
Senses: glosses: A cannabis cigarette.
giggle sticks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of giggle stick
An-k'ang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 安康 (Ānkāng), Wade–Giles romanization: An¹-kʻang¹.
Senses: examples: text: Shan-nan at this period seems to have referred tothe upper Han River valley, extending down river at least as far as An-k‘ang in Shensi; this may be inferred from cases of Shan-nan in CS 44.7b, 8a and 8b, and CS 33.16a.
ref: 1962, “Notes on Translation”, in Albert E. Dien, transl., Biography of Yü-wen Hu (Chinese Dynastic Histories Translations), number 9, University of California Press, →OCLC, page 100:
text: Traditionally, the founder is given as Nan-yüeh Huai-jang (677-744),¹⁹⁰ who is known as a disciple of Hui-neng. Information about him is based on sources composed much later than his death; no mention is made of him in any eighth-century work, and with the last volume of the Pao-lin chuan missing, we cannot seek for material there. He is said to have been a native of An-k’ang in Chin-chou,¹⁹¹ and, after becoming a monk, to have studied under Hui-an, the disciple of the Fifth Patriarch, remarkable for the great age to which he attained.[…]
¹⁹¹ An-k’ang hsien, Shensi.[…]
An-k’ang; Ankang; 安康
ref: 1967, Philip Yampolsky, The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, pages 52–53, 185:
text: During the period of the Fourth Five-Year Plan, 1971-75, the Chuchou-Kueiting line, which forms part of the east-west trunk line from Hangchou to K'unming, was completed, while other possible construction included the central segment of a line linking Peking with Yuanping, Shanhsi province, and lines linking Wuhan through Ank'ang, Shenhsi province, with Chungking, Ssuch'uan province, and with Luehyang on the Paochi-Chengtu line.
ref: [1980, James Chan, edited by C. K. Leung and Norton Ginsburg, China: Urbanization and National Development, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 16:
text: Going west from here and upstream along the Han-shui River we encounter the An-k’ang and Han-chung districts of southern Shensi. In the An-k’ang district several sites were identified in the last decade, yielding mostly Li-chia-ts’un-type cord-marked pottery, with some mixture of Pan-p’o and Miao-ti-kou sherds.
ref: 1986, Kwang-chih Chang, The Archaeology of Ancient China, 4th edition, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 155:
glosses: Alternative form of Ankang.
wikipedia: Encyclopædia Britannica
Hasbury
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Old English hæsl (“hazel”) + byriġ, dative singular of burh (“fort”).
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Halesowen, West Midlands, England.
girl's blouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: girl's blouses
form: girls' blouses
Senses: glosses: Synonym of big girl's blouse (“effeminate or weak man”).
synonyms: word: big girl's blouse
extra: effeminate or weak man
eulogizings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eulogizing
adsorbtion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of adsorption.
mistletoeing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Kissing under the mistletoe (a Christmas tradition in some parts of the world)
nyctophobe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nyctophobes
Etymology: From nycto- (“night”) + -phobe.
Senses: examples: text: Across the hall, Tad Gillespie, a genuine nyctophobe with the nyctophobe's morbid fear of the dark, lay wide awake, eyes peeled, armed with a collection of quartz-halogen flash-lights whose total candlepower could have lighted the Washington Monument.
ref: 1989, David Michaelis, Boy, Girl, Boy, Girl, New York, N.Y.; […]: Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 173:
text: Before returning to the surface, we shut off our lamps and experienced total darkness. A nyctophobe would have gone insane.
ref: 1992, T. J. Burr, Rocky Mountain Adventure Collection: The Adventures of a Colorado Mountaineer, Santa Barbara, C.A.: Fithian Press, →ISBN, page 188:
text: The Brink has no sympathy for claustrophobes or nyctophobes, people who are afraid of the dark. People like me.
ref: 2009, J. C. Hutchins [pseudonym; Chris Hutchins], Personal Effects, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin's Griffin, →ISBN, page 14:
text: She was a borderline nyctophobe; had insisted on sleeping with a night-light on the entire time they'd been married.
ref: 2010, Bill Pronzini, The Hidden, New York, N.Y.: Walker & Company, →ISBN, page 35:
antonyms: nyctophile
glosses: Someone who is afraid of the night or darkness.
Related terms: nyctophobia
nyctophobic
Artemivsk
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Artemovsk
form: Artyomovsk
Etymology: From Ukrainian Арте́мівськ (Artémivsʹk).
Senses: examples: text: The salt mines near the village of Soledar, 13km from Artemivsk, are a real Donbas gem, and are comparable to Poland’s famous Wieliczka mine, Soledar actually translates as 'salt gift', and hosts one of the biggest salt beds in the world.[…]
To get to Soledar from Donetsk catch one of the frequent trains to Artemivsk, then take a taxi or a marshrutka from the local bus station (approximately 30 minutes).
ref: 2013, Andrew Evans, Massimiliano Di Pasquale, “Donbas”, in Ukraine: The Bradt Travel Guide (Bradt Travel Guides), 4th edition, →ISBN, →OCLC, Travel: Ukraine/Europe, page 392:
text: Reporters covering this part of eastern Ukraine are based now in Artemivsk, a town of salt miners at the terminus of this dangerous, 31-mile stretch of highway into Debaltseve. A pizzeria became crowded with print journalists, European television crews and freelance photographers.
I spent two days reporting in Artemivsk, and on what turned out to be a long, fruitless drive to a forlorn little checkpoint improbably called Peaceful Valley.
[…]I stayed in a ramshackle hotel in Artemivsk, Hotel Ukraine, which was packed with internally displaced people, or I.D.P.s, and soldiers because no rooms were open at the slightly more upscale Hotel Atlantic.
ref: 2015 February 3, Andrew E. Kramer, “Dispatch From Debaltseve: Reporter’s Notebook”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 01 Jul 2022, Story Behind the Story:
text: Shells landed Friday as far as Artemivsk, a government-held town 25 miles behind the front line. Associated Press reporters saw the body of a child killed after rocket fire hit a kindergarten there, and regional officials said the child and one other civilian died in the attack.
ref: 2015 February 13, Balint Szlanko, Peter Leonard, “Ukraine cease-fire deadline provokes bitter last-gasp battle”, in AP News, archived from the original on 10 Apr 2023:
text: Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko tried to restore some goodwill Wednesday by making an emergency trip to Artemivsk, where he met with commanders and shook hands with soldiers on the military base.
ref: 2015 February 18, Karoun Demirijian, “Ukrainian battalion’s soldiers recall desperate run to safety”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 Feb 2015, Europe:
text: Members of the Ukrainian armed forces gather on armoured vehicles on the roadside near the village of Vidrodzhennya outside Artemivsk, Donetsk region, Ukraine, June 9, 2015.
ref: 2015 June 13, Alessandra Prentice, Pavel Polityuk, “Six Ukrainian servicemen killed, 14 wounded in past 24 hours”, in Raissa Kasolowsky, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 10 Apr 2023, World News:
glosses: Former name of Bakhmut.
glosses: Former name of Kypuche.
pulled the string
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pull the string
pulls the string
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pull the string
pulling the string
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pull the string
Sunday Christians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Sunday Christian
Christens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Christen
Christabellas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Christabella
Hindustanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hindustane
Hindutvists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hindutvist
biconsonantals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biconsonantal
bideficiencies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bideficiency
biethnics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biethnic
BIFs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of BIF
ethnocratically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more ethnocratically
form: most ethnocratically
Senses: glosses: In an ethnocratic way.
BOATs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of BOAT
sailfin lizards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sailfin lizard
spotted sand lizards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spotted sand lizard
Eastwood's whip lizards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Eastwood's whip lizard
horned toads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of horned toad
ratcheting toadlets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ratcheting toadlet
toadheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of toadhead
Tonkin toads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Tonkin toad
Urungu toads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Urungu toad
true toad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: true toads
Senses: glosses: Any in the family Bufonidae of amphibians.
true toads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of true toad
white-headed ducks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of white-headed duck
duckdives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of duckdive
duck tours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of duck tour
butterfly agaves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of butterfly agave
paper kite butterflies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paper kite butterfly
peach fruit moths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of peach fruit moth
Sri Lankan tussar silk moths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Sri Lankan tussar silk moth
tree lucerne moths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tree lucerne moth
Washington udea moths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Washington udea moth
waterlily leafcutter moths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of waterlily leafcutter moth
web moths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of web moth
webmoths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of webmoth
white-edged hunter hawkmoths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of white-edged hunter hawkmoth
webworm moths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of webworm moth
white-fringed pyrausta moths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of white-fringed pyrausta moth
black moths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of black moth
chestnut clearwing moths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chestnut clearwing moth
cup moths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cup moth
Balitskiy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Balitskiys
form: Balitski
form: Balitsky
Etymology: Transliteration of Russian Бали́цкий (Balíckij).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
californium-252
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: An isotope of californium, ²⁵²₉₈Cf, with a half-life of 2.6 years; it is popular as a source of neutrons.
cutworm moths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cutworm moth
diamondback moths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diamondback moth
fox moths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fox moth
gold moths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gold moth
Laysan hedyleptan moths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Laysan hedyleptan moth
litter moths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of litter moth
northern scurfy Quaker moths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of northern scurfy Quaker moth
Balitsky
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Balicki
form: Balitski
form: Balitskiy
form: Balitskyi
Etymology: From Ukrainian Балицький (Balycʹkyj) or Баліцький (Balicʹkyj), Russian Бали́цкий (Balíckij), or a respelling of Polish Balicki.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
twist-boat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: twist-boats
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An arrangement of atoms in a cyclohexane ring molecule similar to and more stable than the boat arrangement, differing from it by being twisted at one end.
Related terms: boat
chair
half-chair
jam doughnuts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jam doughnut
Boston cream donuts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Boston cream donut
s**ts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of s**t
s**ts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of s**t
bike stations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bike station
bikelocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bikelock
wind breakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wind breaker
putting away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of put away
puts away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of put away
putting the boot in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of put the boot in
puts the boot in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of put the boot in
put the kybosh on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: puts the kybosh on
form: putting the kybosh on
form: put the kybosh on
form: put the kybosh on
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of put the kibosh on.
half-chair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: half-chairs
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An arrangement of atoms in a cyclohexane ring molecule similar to but less stable than the chair arrangement, differing from it by being flattened at one end.
Related terms: boat
chair
twist-boat
Zhongshan Station
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Partial calque of Mandarin 中山站 (Zhōngshān Zhàn).
Senses: examples: text: The station will be named after Dr. Sun Yat-sen, as “Zhongshan Station”.[…]
He also took the opportunity to welcome compatriots from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, Overseas Chinese as well as scientists from friendly countries, to conduct research at the “Great Wall Station” and the future “Zhongshan Station.”
ref: 1988 August 25, “2d Antarctic Station Planned”, in Daily Report: China, number 165, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2, column 2:
text: Besides China, which has committed to spending more than $25 million on Plato in the next few years, the collaboration includes astronomers from the United States, Australia and Britain. China will bear the brunt of the logistical work, hauling supplies, equipment and people over land from its Zhongshan station on the Amery Ice Shelf.
ref: 2008 February 19, Dennis Overbye, “Long Nights, 90 Below. What More Could Astronomers Want?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 Jan 2018, Science:
text: The Chinese 25th Antarctic expedition team left Zhongshan Station Thursday for the highest icecap on the South Pole to set up the country’s first inland Antarctic research station.
ref: 2008 December 18, “PRESS DIGEST - China - Dec 19”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 08 Apr 2023, FINANCIAL SERVICES AND REAL ESTATE:
text: In early 2008 a six-tractor caravan left China’s Zhongshan Station, covering the 1300km traverse to Dome A in three weeks to set up the Plateau Observatory (PLATO).
ref: 2012 November, Alexis Averbuck, “East Antarctica & the South Pole”, in Antarctica (Lonely Planet), 5th edition, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 124, column 2:
text: The Chinese base, opened in 1989, was built for research relating to marine, glaciological, geological and atmospheric sciences. But, by 2021, under the guise of civilian research, China reportedly began employing advanced military capabilities, according to the Chinese military expert.
"In 2021, state media revealed that China had put a LIDAR — a laser radar — into the Zhongshan station to conduct ‘atmospheric research,'" Fisher told Fox News Digital. "Any kind of laser raises the possibility that the LIDAR could be upgraded to be a far more powerful laser."
ref: 2023 February 15, Caitlin McFall, “China ramps up surveillance, security threat with new satellite support from Antarctica”, in Fox News, archived from the original on 15 Feb 2023, China:
glosses: A research station in Antarctica.
Emersons Green
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Emerson's Green
Senses: glosses: A suburban area and civil parish (with a town council) in South Gloucestershire district, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref ST6676).
formalese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From formal + -ese.
Senses: examples: text: In the intricate formalese that marked relations between friends of the time, Mr. Washburn told Miss Hyde of his appreciation for a previous letter of hers and remarked on how it had buoyed up his spirit.
ref: 1946 December 6, “Letter Written in 1842 Tells of Life in Stowe”, in The Daily Messenger, number 274, St. Albans, Vt., page 4-A:
glosses: The style of language used in formal contexts.
ratted out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rat out
rats out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rat out
ratting out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rat out
Emerson's Green
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Emersons Green.
bodycount
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bodycounts
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of body count.
bodycounts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bodycount
Wall Streetese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Wall-Streetese
form: Wall Street-ese
Etymology: From Wall Street + -ese.
Senses: examples: text: In an advertisement and in a report to his firm's customers, he advised that the market was due for a “reaction” (Wall Streetese for a drop). The time had come to take some profits.
ref: 1958 December 8, “Grass root gold for Wall Street: what small investors are doing to the market”, in Life, volume 45, number 23, page 30:
glosses: The jargon associated with the American financial markets.
Hsuanch'eng
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 宣城 (Xuānchéng), Wade–Giles romanization: Hsüan¹-chʻêng².
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Xuancheng.
Zhongguo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 中國 /中国 (Zhōngguó).
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: 3789 Zhongguo, an asteroid.
examples: text: Yes, the Chinese are as if they had just awakened from a long sleep. They are laughing in the sun, the streets are clean, the houses friendly and inviting. We never eat at our apartment but at a different place every night, and the people are always disarmingly kind and open-hearted. One of these days Zhongguo will be a great country.
ref: 1988, Jörg Schuldhess, Who They Are and What They Do, Patis, →ISBN, pages 27–28:
text: But did not the Chinese boast of their long written history? The answer to this puzzling question can be found in an unequivocal remark made by a Chinese student in Japan. He lamented: “Our Zhongguo does not have a national history.”
ref: 2001, Kai-wing Chow, “Narrating Nation, Race, and National Culture: Imagining the Hanzu Identity in Modern China”, in Kai-wing Chow, Kevin M[ichael] Doak, Poshek Fu, editors, Constructing Nationhood in Modern East Asia, Ann Arbor, Mich.: The University of Michigan Press, published 2004, →ISBN, part 1 (Narrative Schemes, Language, and Printed Texts), page 53:
text: [F]uture generations of Chinese leaders will recognize that a new Chinese civilization will not depend on China remaining a Party-state or becoming a nation-state. A broad and inclusive Zhongguo will need to go further to establish a civilization that its people all agree will be modern and admirable. That may or may not be the “socialist civilization with Chinese characteristics” that the Party wants for China today.
ref: 2013, Wang Gungwu, “Modernity, the State and Civilization”, in Renewal: The Chinese State and the New Global History, Sha Tin, N.T.: The Chinese University Press, →ISBN, page 124:
text: The great conclave of dragons will hear your petition. The invisible gate will open, allowing the yellow dragon, the Laolong, the faithful servant of Zhongguo, to return to its rightful home in the Great Wall of Ten Thousand Li.
ref: 2018, Justin Newland, “Pacing the Dragon”, in The Old Dragon’s Head, Kibworth Beauchamp, Leicestershire: Matador, →ISBN, page 251:
text: It seemed he met his end in the avalanche when he went to help the traders and monks from Zhongguo.
ref: 2019, Adity Kay, Emperor Vikramaditya, Gurugram, Haryana: Hachette India, →ISBN:
glosses: China.
Related terms: Middle Kingdom
silkvine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: silkvines
Senses: glosses: Periploca graeca, a vine of Europe and the Middle East with fuzzy purple flowers.
aromatic ginger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: cutcherry (Kaempferia galanga)
kencur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: cutcherry, Kaempferia galanga
Lackford
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Old English lēac (“leek”) + ford (“ford”).
Senses: glosses: A village in the Suffolk, England.
Lindale
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Old Norse lind (“limetree”) + dalr (“valley”).
Senses: glosses: A village in Cumbria, England.
glosses: Communities/cities in Georgia, Ohio, and Texas, United States.
glosses: A town on the North Island or New Zealand.
Maidford
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: "The maiden's ford", from Old English mæġden (“girl”) + ford.
Senses: glosses: A parish in West Northamptonshire, England.
Jesus bird
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Jesus birds
Etymology: So called because they appear to walk on water; walking on water was one of the miracles ascribed to Jesus Christ.
Senses: glosses: A jacana.
Jesus birds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Jesus bird
Jesus bar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Jesus bars
Etymology: From the notions (1) that one is praying to Jesus for protection when the vehicle is moving recklessly enough to require use of the handle, and (2) that sometimes when a passenger grabs this handle, they are also exclaiming Jesus! in an interjectory way. Compare also Jesus clip, Jesus nut, and angel gear.
Senses: glosses: A sturdy handle inside a vehicle designed to be held when the ride is bumpy.
Jesus bars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: So called because one hangs on tightly and calls out Jesus!
Senses: glosses: plural of Jesus bar
Jesus handle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Jesus handles
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Jesus bar.
synonyms: word: Jesus bar
Jesus handles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Jesus handle
HHE
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of heliohydroelectric.
Related terms: HE
heliohydroelectric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From helio- + hydro- + electric.
Senses: glosses: That which generates electricity by tapping the refilling flow of water into a basin emptied by solar-enhanced evaporation.
Synonyms: HHE
Derived terms: HHE
Related terms: electric
electrical
electricity
helio-
helioelectric
helioelectrical
helioelectricity
heliohydroelectrical
heliohydroelectricity
hydro-
hydroelectric
hydroelectrical
hydroelectricity
metric prefix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metric prefixes
Senses: glosses: A prefix, added to a unit-name to denote a multiple or submultiple, usually a power of 10; such as kilo- = 10³, or milli- = 10⁻³.
Related terms: metric system
metric prefixes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metric prefix
SI prefix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SI prefixes
Senses: glosses: Synonym of metric prefix
synonyms: word: metric prefix
SI prefixes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of SI prefix
NNUE
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: NNUEs
Etymology: Coined by Japanese computer scientist Yu Nasu in 2018 as an inversion of "Efficiently Updateable Neural Network" (stylized as ƎUИИ).
Senses: topics: board-games
chess
computer
computing
engineering
games
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A type of neural network able to run on a CPU, trained to evaluate a board game (usually chess or shogi) position.
NNUEs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of NNUE
snookery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From snooker + -y.
Senses: examples: text: The room's furnishings are redolent of leisured snookery evenings, joshing and cigar smoke, as the balls click, spin and glide across the faded baize.
ref: 1983, Trevor Fishlock, Gandhi's Children, New York, N.Y.: Universe Books, →ISBN, page 176:
text: Q-Ball is, I agree, a very snookery sounding game, but really 'anti-grav martian pool' would be of a more apt title.
ref: 1987 October, “Q-Ball”, in Commodore User, number 49, London: Paradox Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 82:
text: For Pool, Archer has taken the same code he used in Snooker, taken the snookery bits out, and put the pool bits in, and some more.
ref: 1992 November, “Archer Maclean's Pool”, in Amiga Format, number 40, Bath, Somerset: Future Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 99:
text: It's an awesome feed for those of you who have not checked it out. Chock full o' snookery goodness.
ref: 2004 June 19, Mike Gralnick, “Canadian Snooker Championships”, in rec.sport.billiard (Usenet):
glosses: Characterized by or resembling the game of snooker.
snookery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snookeries
Etymology: From snooker + -ery.
Senses: examples: text: One small room off the kitchen was set aside as the "snookery."
ref: 1930 April, “Temperament—Will It Make or Unmake Your Home?”, in Better Homes and Gardens, volume 8, number 8, Des Moines, I.A.: Meredith Corporation, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 102:
text: Finally, Mrs. Young just had to let the soldiers know that this mess hall, this "snookery", was ceasing operations as they had no more bread and not much of anything else.
ref: 1979, Calvin B. Hanson, A Gentile, With the Heart of a Jew, Nyack, N.Y.: Parson Publishing, page 160:
text: "Come along, chickens." Kit had somehow moved ahead of us, almost caught up with everyone else. "There's snookeries to see."
ref: 2017, Stephanie Kate Strohm, Prince in Disguise, Los Angeles, C.A.; New York, N.Y.: Hyperion, →ISBN, page 48:
glosses: A place where snooker is played.
snookery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snookeries
Etymology: From snooker (“to fool or bamboozle”) + -ery.
Senses: examples: text: He [Guy Cadogan Rothery] offers a preponderance of well established fact at a low price, and shows no sign of inventive "snookery".
ref: 1916 August, “Reviews”, in The Burlington Magazine, volume XXIX, London: The Burlington Magazine Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 214:
text: Zoe smiled bitterly. "You don't suppose a man like Mountclemens reported all his income, do you?" / "What did your husband think about that bit of snookery?"
ref: 1966, Lilian Jackson Braun, The Cat Who Could Read Backwards, New York, N.Y.: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., pages 174–175:
text: Greedy entrepreneurs, offering to diagnose children, to intimidate by incarceration (in the name of treatment), were no more than the agents of a more widespread snookery: a snookery entirely dependent on the medical, the scientific, authority granted to DSM-III-R.
ref: 1993, Louise Armstrong, And They Call It Help, Reading, M.A. […]: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 156:
text: "Do you believe in magic?" he asks the audience. "Well, you do believe your eyes, don't you? And our cameras do not lie. Really. They're seeing what you see without the slightest hint of technological trickery, sidearm snookery, hanky-panky, or ranny-gazoo."
ref: 2006, Joseph McBride, What Ever Happened to Orson Welles?: A Portrait of an Independent Career, Lexington, K.Y.: The University Press of Kentucky, →ISBN, page 259:
text: Rubbing its nose in the dirt, the embarrassment it caused, sheer snookery was the message.
ref: 2010, Ed Lane, A Circling of Vultures, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire: FastPrint Publishing, →ISBN, page 256:
glosses: Trickery.
snookeries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snookery
ranny-gazoo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: "Do you believe in magic?" he asks the audience. "Well, you do believe your eyes, don't you? And our cameras do not lie. Really. They're seeing what you see without the slightest hint of technological trickery, sidearm snookery, hanky-panky, or ranny-gazoo."
ref: 2006, Joseph McBride, What Ever Happened to Orson Welles?: A Portrait of an Independent Career, Lexington, K.Y.: The University Press of Kentucky, →ISBN, page 259:
glosses: Alternative form of rannygazoo.
NTM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: NTMs
Etymology: By initialism.
Senses: glosses: Initialism of nontuberculous mycobacteria.
examples: text: Labour says its new agricultural deal will mean fewer checks on meat, fish, fruit and vegetables imported from the EU, and an end to the current export-licensing scheme. A report on Tuesday from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs said these costs had been particularly burdensome for smaller business, warning: “These firms often lack the capacity and economies of scale to manage the administrative and compliance demands associated with NTMs (non-tariff measures). This has created a competitive disadvantage between smaller firms and larger operators with in-house capability – although all stakeholders report increased costs.”
ref: 2025 August 26, “Post-Brexit licences for exporting food to EU cost UK firms up to £65m last year. Government to promise it will scrap existing scheme by reaching new deal with Brussels in next 18 months”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: NTB
non-tariff barrier
glosses: Initialism of nontariff measure.
Telkes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Telkeses
Etymology: From Hungarian Telkes.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Hungarian
Coleroon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Colderon
form: Colderoon
form: Coloran
form: Kalderon
Senses: glosses: Former name of Kollidam (“Indian river”).
Colderon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Coleroon.
Colderoon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Coleroon.
Kalderon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Coleroon.
Coloran
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Coleroon.
Kollidam
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: word: Coleroon
english: former name
translation: former name
glosses: A river in southeastern India, the northern distributary of the Kaveri River as it flows through the delta of Thanjavur.
comboys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of comboy
Cokun
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of Konkan.
Cuncan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of Konkan.
Cunkan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of Konkan.
Kokan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of Konkan.
mathophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mathphobia
Etymology: From math + -o- + -phobia.
Senses: examples: text: "Americans," contends M.I.T.'s curriculum reformer, Dr. Jerrold Zacharius, "have mathophobia." They are "scared to death" of math, he says, because most teachers are afraid of it themselves and fail "to make it exciting."
ref: 1967 March 17, Anonymous, "The Price of Mathophobia" in the Education section of Time
text: As some of the negative actions are very probably a consequence of mathophobia, the spirit of this book may cure at least a few present or future deciders from that affliction.
ref: 2011, Alexander Soifer, The Colorado Mathematical Olympiad and Further Explorations, page VII:
text: So how did this translate into an exhibition that, if all went well, could 'cure' at least some people from severe attacks of mathophobia? The choice of Pythagoras' theorem had an additional motivation besides the one mentioned above.
ref: 2014, Paul Smeyers, Marc Depaepe, Educational Research: Material Culture and Its Representation, page 174:
glosses: An aversion to mathematics.
conjee house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conjee houses
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of congee house.
conjee houses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of conjee house
congee house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: congee houses
Senses: glosses: The temporary lockup of a regiment in India, used as a disciplinary measure.
glosses: A pound for cattle.
congee houses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of congee house
pishcashing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pishcash
pishcashed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pishcash
crori
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: croris
Senses: glosses: The possessor or collector of a crore, or ten million, of any given kind of money; especially an official collector of revenue to the extent of a crore of dāms, or 250,000 rupees, who was also at various times invested with the general superintendence of the lands in his district, and the charge of the police.
croris
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crori
Changma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Changmas
form: Changma
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Chakma.
Changma
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Chakma.
Changmas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Changma
Kurachee
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of Karachi.
Crotchey
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of Karachi.
gravedanced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of gravedance
Chinesca
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Spanish Chinesca.
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of La Chinesca: a district of Mexicali, Mexico; the Chinatown of Mexicali, the largest Chinatown in Mexico.
kanchani
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kanchanis
Etymology: From Hindi [Term?].
Senses: glosses: A dancing girl.
kanchanis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kanchani