cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
shovelbill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shovelbills
Etymology: From shovel + bill.
Senses: glosses: A bird with a spatulate bill; the shoveler.
shovelbills
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shovelbill
alcade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alcades
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of alcaide.
alcades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alcade
bavaroy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbævəɹɔɪ/
Forms: form: bavaroys
form: bavary
form: beveroy
Etymology: Borrowed from French bavarois (“Bavarian”).
Senses: examples: text: Let the loop'd Bavaroy the Fop embrace, / Or his deep Cloak be ſpatter'd with Lace.
ref: [1716], [John] Gay, “Book I. Of the Implements for Walking the Streets, and Signs of the Weather”, in Trivia: Or, The Art of Walking the Streets of London, London: […] Bernard Lintott, […], →OCLC, page 4:
glosses: A kind of cloak or surtout.
bavaroys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bavaroy
crenulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crenulations
Senses: glosses: A minute crenation.
glosses: The state of being minutely scalloped.
Related terms: crenellation
crenulations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crenulation
cmt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cmts
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of comment.
toe stop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toe stops
Senses: glosses: An attachment placed underneath the front of a roller skate or ice skate, used to brake or for stability.
lifeworthy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lifeworthy
form: most lifeworthy
form: life-worthy
form: life worthy
Etymology: From life + -worthy.
Senses: examples: text: As long as the soul of a nation grows, it is lifeworthy, and its body will probably expand to suit the expansion of the spirit.
ref: 1921, Clayton Riley Lusk, Revolutionary Radicalism:
glosses: Worthy of or deserving of life.
examples: text: As a ship is made to be seaworthy, God made us "lifeworthy," or able to cope and endure whatever comes our way.
ref: 2008, Don Clifford, Grace Enough for Three:
glosses: Able to handle or cope with life; able to live; livable.
platinocyanic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: platinocyanhydric acid
glosses: A (possibly hypothetical) acid compound of platinous cyanide and hydrocyanic acid, obtained as a red crystalline substance.
Derived terms: platinocyanate
platinocyanate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: platinocyanates
Etymology: From platinocyanic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt or ester of platinocyanic acid.
platinocyanates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of platinocyanate
whipworthy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more whipworthy
form: most whipworthy
Etymology: From whip + -worthy.
Senses: examples: text: "The whipworthy rogue would not have used me so foully had he not outweighed me by two to one."
ref: 1960, Lyon Sprague De Camp, The bronze god of Rhodes:
text: "We'll give those whipworthy bastards what they deserve yet, see if we don't."
ref: 2001, Harry Turtledove, Sentry Peak:
text: Segal (1987, 137–169) recognized the omnipresent threat of the whip and, emphasizing that the whipworthy slave never gets whipped, put forward the idea of the comedy as carnival.
ref: 2012, Roberta Stewart, Plautus and Roman Slavery, page 95:
glosses: Deserving a whipping.
bionomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bionomy
bionomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒnəmi
Forms: form: bionomies
Etymology: From bio- + -nomy.
Senses: glosses: physiology.
Derived terms: bionomist
Related terms: bionomics
columbiad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: columbiads
Etymology: From Columbia (“the United States”).The term was first used for a type of cannon employed at Fort Columbus on Governor's Island in New York in 1808.
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A form of cannon from the 19th century, mostly used for seacoast protection. It is a large-caliber, smoothbore, muzzle-loading cannon designed for launching shot or shells with heavy charges of powder, at both high and low angles of elevation.
Related terms: Rodman gun
columbiads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of columbiad
terebratula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: terebratulas
form: terebratulae
Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Terebratula. Further from Latin terebrātus (“boring, drilling”) + Latin -ula (diminutive suffix), from terebrō (“to bore, to drill”), terebra (“borer, drill, gimlet”), and terō (“to rub, to wear upon”). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *terh₁- (“to rub, to turn, to pierce, to drill”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any of the genus Terebratula of brachiopods.
Related terms: terebratular
terebratulid
terebratuloid
terebratulas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of terebratula
amphictyonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /æmˌfɪktiˈɒnɪk/
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἀμφικτυονικός (Amphiktuonikós). By surface analysis, amphictyon + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: an Amphictyonic town or state
text: the Amphictyonic body
text: Of the duties of the Amphictyonic Council nothing will give us a better idea than the oath taken by its members. It ran thus “We will not destroy any Amphictyonic town, nor cut it off from running water in war or peace[…]
ref: 1854, William Smith, A History of Greece: From the Earliest Times to the Roman ... - Página 50:
qualifier: Ancient Greece
glosses: Of or relating to the amphictyons or their League or Council.
pistacia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pistacias
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of the tree genus Pistacia, including the pistachio.
pistacias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pistacia
chivachie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chivachies
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of chevauchee.
aponeurotomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aponeurotomy
aponeurotomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aponeurotomies
Etymology: From aponeurosis + -tomy.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: dissection of aponeuroses
cashworthy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cashworthy
form: most cashworthy
Etymology: From cash + -worthy.
Senses: examples: text: [...] as historians have shown, that public pensions significantly improved the welfare of many mothers, the program still carefully discriminated between the cashworthy and untrustworthy widow.
ref: 1997, Viviana A. Rotman Zelizer, The social meaning of money:
glosses: Worthy or deserving of cash, or of being awarded cash.
becry
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪˈkɹaɪ/
ipa: /bəˈkɹaɪ/
Forms: form: becries
form: becrying
form: becried
form: becried
Etymology: From Middle English becrien, equivalent to be- (“about, at, over, upon”) + cry.
Senses: examples: text: Wisdom, becried on either hand, will steer very nicely a middle course between these extremes; allowing here, forbidding there.
ref: 1909, Harrington Sainsbury, Drugs and the drug habit:
text: "The Sun becried its death" — it rained during that fiesta celebrated on 4 May [...]
ref: 1985, Américo Castro, Willard F. King, Selma Margaretten, The Spaniards: An Introduction to Their History:
text: It is not in me to becry inequality in this scrying place I have often sought, yet never acknowledged If belief is futile and desire our burden, I shall find it hard to fly again.
ref: 2003, John A. Smith, Little Fish Big Pond:
text: “I look around, an' ev'rywhere my eye falls becries ye. Ye're ev'rywhere in this place.”
ref: 2010, Renee Wildes, Lycan Tides:
glosses: To cry about; cry over; lament; bemourn.
glosses: To accuse.
glosses: To bewitch.
yeartime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yeartimes
Etymology: From year + time. Compare Dutch jaartijd, jaargetijde (“season”), German Jahreszeit (“season, time of year”), Swedish årstid (“season”), English yeartide.
Senses: examples: text: Asters. My dearest blossoms of the yeartime hold Scant eulogy, save wandering children's meed — All scentless [...]
ref: 1910, Sallie Hoffman Perry, Poems:
text: [...], till another yeartime came to the yards of men, as still today the weather glory-bright always keeps its seasons.
ref: 1965, Rowland L. Collins, Beowulf:
text: Spring that deceive and plugs that won't spark where we made not fierce summer but October soft light lit by flashes I recognize as aurora borealis, a yeartime of loving out of a fled, raw afternoon.
ref: 1985, Maureen Duffy, Collected poems:
text: There is a “Water Falls” which spills and trickles depending upon the yeartime one visits its huge boulders.
ref: 2011, Alaya Chadwick, Alaya's Fables: Tales That Transform & Awaken:
glosses: A time of the year; a season.
examples: text: [...] even beetle — these thousands of pads in a yeartime of life — had matted the moss and nettle, [...]
ref: 1953, Jack Clement Badcock, The truants:
glosses: A year's time; the space of time equivalent to a year.
yeartime
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more yeartime
form: most yeartime
Etymology: From year + time. Compare Dutch jaartijd, jaargetijde (“season”), German Jahreszeit (“season, time of year”), Swedish årstid (“season”), English yeartide.
Senses: examples: yeartime variance
glosses: Seasonal.
examples: text: To see how valuable a consumer segment really is, calculating such a yeartime value is obviously not sufficient.
ref: 2001, Sonja Sulzmaier, Consumer-oriented business design:
glosses: Of or pertaining to the timespan of a year or years; yearly.
yeartimes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yeartime
Melekeok
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A state of Palau.
Related terms: Ngerulmud
cassada
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cassadas
Senses: examples: text: I raised, last year, rice, potatoes, and cassada, of which I had an abundance for my own use and a quantity for sale.
ref: 1845, The African Repository:
glosses: Alternative form of cassava.
cassadas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cassada
mesocaecum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From meso- + caecum.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: mesocolon
Related terms: mesocaecal
yearward
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more yearward
form: most yearward
Etymology: From year + -ward.
Senses: examples: text: In looking yearward at this time, it is difficult to forecast the immediate future of the lumber business, because of the War.
ref: 1940, Canada lumberman
glosses: In the direction of the year as a whole; toward the remainder of the year.
TRIGA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: TRIGA: Acronym of training, research, isotopes, General Atomics (“a type of nuclear reactor originally made by General Atomics”).
dextrocardias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dextrocardia
dextrocardiac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dextrocardiacs
Etymology: See dextrocardia.
Senses: examples: text: A dextrocardiac, said the smiling doctor. Your heart's in the right place.
ref: 1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, page 13:
glosses: One who has the heart on the right-hand side of the body.
dextrocardiacs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dextrocardiac
stormworthy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more stormworthy
form: most stormworthy
Etymology: From storm + -worthy.
Senses: glosses: Fit for weathering a storm; capable of outlasting, outliving, or surviving a storm; stormproof.
nimming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of nim
thoughtworthy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: thoughtworthier
form: more thoughtworthy
form: thoughtworthiest
form: most thoughtworthy
Etymology: From thought + -worthy. Compare obsolete Dutch gedachtwaardig, modern Dutch gedenkwaardig (“memorable”), German denkwürdig (“memorable, notable”).
Senses: examples: text: The most thoughtworthy task of thinking and speaking (logos) consists in bringing somehow Being into language, in letting Being come into words.
ref: 1990, George Kovacs, The question of God in Heidegger's phenomenology:
glosses: Worthy of thought or of being thought; considerable.
speechworthy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: speechworthier
form: more speechworthy
form: speechworthiest
form: most speechworthy
Etymology: From speech + -worthy.
Senses: examples: text: Further, whatever is speechworthy, whatever can be understood, is language.
ref: 1988, Proceedings of the american catholic philosophical association
glosses: Worthy of speech or of being spoken.
examples: text: [...] something most delegates would be able to appreciate at face value, and Llewellyn Smith had earmarked it as being speechworthy.
ref: 2002, Gordon Fraser, Antimatter: The Ultimate Mirror:
glosses: Fit for a speech.
onbringing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: onbringings
Etymology: From on- + bringing. Compare bring on. Compare also Dutch aanbrengen (“to apply, fix, put up”), German anbringen (“to install, apply, put on”).
Senses: examples: text: Should it be requisite to remove both tubes a small portion of one ovary, on the less affected side, should be preserved, to obviate the sudden onbringing of an artificial menopause with its unpleasant sequelae.
ref: 1907, The American journal of obstetrics and diseases of women and children:
glosses: A bringing on; an oncome; inducing; induction.
examples: text: The church is God's appointed means for the salvation of the world, for the onbringing of the Millennium of peace and blessedness, and therefore must know the disease, in order skilfully to apply the remedy.
ref: 1864, Sabbath school teacher, Moral statistics of Glasgow in 1863:
glosses: An ushering in.
onbringing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more onbringing
form: most onbringing
Etymology: From on- + bringing. Compare bring on. Compare also Dutch aanbrengen (“to apply, fix, put up”), German anbringen (“to install, apply, put on”).
Senses: examples: text: If this method of filling in the drain trenches with ashes is adopted, care should be taken that the drains are laid transversely to the slope of the ground, and that the onbringing carriers are placed just below the line of the underdrains, [...]
ref: 1911, George Bertram de Betham- Kershaw, Modern methods of sewage purification:
glosses: Bringing on; transportive.
onbringings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of onbringing
sulpharsenic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sulfarsenic acid
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A hypothetical sulphacid analogous to arsenic acid, known only in its salts.
Synonyms: thioarsenic acid
susceptivities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of susceptivity
susceptivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: susceptivities
Etymology: From susceptive + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: nor can we have any idea of matter , which does not imply a natural discerpibility and susceptivity of various shapes and modifications
ref: 1722, William Wollaston, The Religion of Nature Delineated:
glosses: Capacity for receiving; susceptibility.
Eupatrid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Eupatrids
Etymology: From Ancient Greek εὐπατρίδης (eupatrídēs), from εὐ- (eu-, “good”) + πατήρ (patḗr, “father”) + -ίδης (-ídēs, patronymic suffix).
Senses: glosses: In Ancient Greece, a member of the noble Attic landowning class.
Coordinate terms: patrician
Eupatrid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Ancient Greek εὐπατρίδης (eupatrídēs), from εὐ- (eu-, “good”) + πατήρ (patḗr, “father”) + -ίδης (-ídēs, patronymic suffix).
Senses: glosses: In Ancient Greece, belonging to the noble Attic landowning class.
mulierosity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Latin mulierositas.
Senses: examples: text: Both Gaspar Sanctus and he tax Antiochus for his mulierosity and excess in luxury.
ref: 1664, Henry More, Mystery of Iniquiry:
glosses: A fondness for women.
stratography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek στρατός (stratós, “army”) + -graphy.
Senses: glosses: A description of an army, or of what belongs to an army.
glosses: warfare
stratography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From strato- + -graphy.
Senses: glosses: The scientific description of geological strata.
ectrotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ectrotic
form: most ectrotic
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἔκτρωσις (éktrōsis, “abortion”).
Senses: examples: text: In this case none of the symptoms were present, and there can be no doubt that the ectrotic treatment really checked the progress of suppuration and modified the disease.
ref: 1865, John Hughes Bennett, Clinical Lectures on the Principles and Practice of Medicine, 4th edition, Adam and Charles Black, page 963:
text: In both sexes the ectrotic treatment of applying nitrate of silver to the inflamed surface, either in stick or in strong solution, is undesirable, being fraught with untoward results.
ref: 1887, John Milner Fothergill, The Practitioner's Handbook of Treatment, 3rd edition, Lea Brothers & Co., page 462:
text: 1892, William M. Welch, Small-pox, Hobart Amory Hare, Walter Chrystie, A System of Practical Therapeutics, Volume II, Lea Brothers & Co., page 257,
If any ectrotic measure were reliable, how easy it would be to limit the amount of cutaneous inflammation, to lessen, if not prevent, the so-called secondary fever, and thus obviate the danger from exhaustion.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: That tends to prevent the development of something, especially a disease.
notpologies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of notpology
not-pology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: not-pologies
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:notpology.
glosses: Alternative form of notpology.
not-pologies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of not-pology
LFTB
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of lean finely textured beef.
BLBT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of boneless lean beef trimmings.
lean, finely textured beef
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lean finely textured beef.
Wenzhou
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɛnˈd͡ʒəʊ/
ipa: /wʌnˈd͡ʒoʊ/
enpr: wǔnʹjōʹ
rhymes: -əʊ
Forms: form: Wenchow
form: Wen-chou
form: Wen-Chou
form: Wenchou
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 溫州 /温州 (Wēnzhōu).
Senses: examples: text: The issue of land ownership rights came into focus in Wenzhou in April after the local government demanded that homeowners whose land-use rights had expired after 20 years pay fees of up to a third of the value of their homes before they could sell their apartments. The decision provoked protests from property owners in Wenzhou, a coastal city of eight million that was one of the first to set up private enterprise after the government opened up the economy in the late 1970s.
ref: 2016 December 26, Sui-Lee Wee, “China Reassures Homeowners Worried About Land Rights”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 Dec 2016, Business:
text: Saola is not the only storm threatening China this weekend, as Haikui, a second Pacific typhoon, is expected to make landfall on Sunday in eastern China, south of the city of Wenzhou, the US Embassy in Beijing said in a weather alert.
ref: 2023 September 2, “Super typhoon Saola leaves trail of destruction in southern China”, in EFE, archived from the original on 28 Dec 2023:
glosses: A prefecture-level city of Zhejiang, in southeastern China.
wikipedia: Cambridge University Press
Defense Mapping Agency
Synonyms: word: Yongjia
word: Yung-chia
Derived terms: Wenzhounese
Bhilai
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Chhattisgarh, in eastern India.
Gujranwala
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Urdu گوجْران٘وَالَہ (gujrānvālā), from Punjabi گوجرانوالہ (gujranvālā).
Senses: glosses: A city in Punjab, in northeastern Pakistan.
Dammam
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: ad-Dammam
form: Ad Dammam
Senses: glosses: The capital city of Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia.
Taoyuan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: touʹyo͞o-änʹ
Forms: form: Taoyüan
form: T'ao-yuan
form: T'ao-yüan
Etymology: From Mandarin 桃園 (Táoyuán) Wade–Giles romanization: Tʻao²-yüan².
Senses: examples: text: One of the first 4-H members receives an official club banner during the inaugural meeting in Taoyuan.
ref: 1953 June, Cooperative Extension Service, “4-H Clubs Thrive in Formosa”, in Extension Service Review, volume 24, number 6, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 112:
text: An international seminar entitled "Land Consolidation: Its Potential for New Urbanization at the Rural Fringe" began June 7 at Taoyuan in northern Taiwan.
ref: 1979 June 10, “10 nations in talks on efficient use of land”, in Free China Weekly, volume XX, number 22, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1:
text: Chen Shui-bian has been transferred from a detention center, in which he was held for over 700 days, to a prison in Taoyuan, right outside of Taipei.
ref: 2010 December 3, Sarah Berning, “Taiwan's ex-president formally begins 19-year jail term”, in Anne Thomas, editor, Deutsche Welle, archived from the original on 16 Jul 2023:
text: Unlike many influential politicians in Taiwan and elsewhere, Lu Hsiu-lien does not come from an elite family. Her father, Lu Shi-sheng, ran a medium-size shop in the city of Taoyuan in northern Taiwan, and her mother Lu Huang-chin, had more children than she could financially support.
ref: 2014, Jerome A. Cohen, Lu Hsiu-lien, Ashley Esarey, My Fight for a New Taiwan, University of Washington Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 4:
text: Taiwan carried out an unprecedented military drill Tuesday, a day ahead of its National Day celebrations, in Taoyuan in northern parts of the country.
The drill was attended by Taiwanese president Tsai Ing-wen, and President of Paraguay Mario Abdo Benitez, who is on a state visit to Taiwan until Thursday.
ref: 2018 October 9, “Taiwan conducts massive military drills ahead of National Day”, in EFE, archived from the original on 18 Aug 2022:
text: After Yu Hsin-Hsien was elected to the City Council that year in Taoyuan, a city near Taipei, mysterious strangers began inquiring about buying his Facebook page, which had around 280,000 followers. Mr. Yu, 30, immediately suspected China.
ref: 2020 January 6, Raymond Zhong, “Awash in Disinformation Before Vote, Taiwan Points Finger at China”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 Jan 2020, Technology:
glosses: A city in northwestern Taiwan, formerly a county.
glosses: A district of Taoyuan, in northwestern Taiwan.
Taoyuan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: touʹyo͞o-änʹ
Forms: form: Taoyüan
form: T'ao-yuan
form: T'ao-yüan
Etymology: From Mandarin 桃源 (Táoyuán).
Senses: glosses: A district in northeastern Kaohsiung, Taiwan, formerly a rural township.
examples: text: The important mining center Paoking is connected with Siangtan by a road through Hsiang Hsiang. It is also connected with Yuanchow by way of Wukang and with Changteh by way of Hsin Hua, An Hua, and Taoyuan.
ref: 1915 September 24, Nelson T. Johnson, “Hunan Province”, in Supplement to Commerce Reports, number 52i, page 27:
text: By December 4 the advance upon Changsha had come to a standstill. After several days' indecisive fighting around Changteh and the town of Taoyuan, 15 miles to the west, which had been taken by the enemy after a heavy air raid supported by parachutists on November 21, the Japanese retreated northwards.
ref: 1944, Philip Graves, The Seventeenth Quarter, Hutchinson & Co., pages 157–158:
text: At 1600 on 21 November 1943 Japanese paratroopers attacked Taoyuan, Hunan, as a phase of their Tungting Lake campaign.
ref: 1945 July 1, Japanese Parachute Troops, Washington, D.C.: Military Intelligence Service, page 29:
text: Sung Chiao-jen was born into a lower gentry household in T’ao-yüan County, Hunan. At the local Chang-chiang Academy, he is reported to have shown interest in statecraft, textual criticism, and neo-Confucian self-cultivation.
ref: [1992, “SUNG CHIAO-JEN”, in Edwin Pak-wah Leung, editor, Historical Dictionary of Revolutionary China, 1839-1976, Greenwood Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 396:
text: The frequent ceremonies, which are meant to release the souls of the dead from purgatory, come as China’s worst outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic spreads further into its rural, more vulnerable areas.
“It has never been this many all at once,” said a 24-year-old visiting her home village in Taoyuan County, in the southern province of Hunan, for the Lunar New Year, China’s biggest holiday.
ref: 2023 January 17, Jennifer Jett, Livia Liu, “China's first Lunar New Year without Covid restrictions fuels fears of a rural crisis”, in NBC News, archived from the original on 17 Jan 2023, World:
glosses: A county of Changde, in northern Hunan, China.
Barranquilla
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in northern Colombia; the capital of Atlántico department.
Kuwait City
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Richard now briefed me on the developing situation, and suggested that I phone Saddam Hussein to try to convince him not to attack. As we spoke, Brent took a call from Bob Kimmit of the State Department and learned that our embassy was reporting shooting in downtown Kuwait City. “So much for calling Saddam,” I said, shaking my head. Brent and Richard left to find out more about what was happening.
ref: 1998, George H. W. Bush, Brent Scowcroft, A World Transformed, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 302:
glosses: The capital city of Kuwait.
Palembang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city, the provincial capital of South Sumatra, Indonesia.
synonyms: Palembang Malay
glosses: A language of South Sumatra, Indonesia.
Toluca
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city, the capital of the State of Mexico, in central Mexico.
glosses: A city in Marshall County, Illinois, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Lincoln County and Cleveland County, North Carolina, United States.
Derived terms: Nevado de Toluca
Toluca Lake
Cochin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cochins
Senses: synonyms: Cochin China
glosses: A domestic hen of a large variety with feathered legs, full breast, and small tail.
Cochin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Malayalam കൊച്ചി (kocci).
Senses: glosses: Former name of Kochi: a city in Kerala, India.
Derived terms: Cochin ginger
Santos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Senses: glosses: plural of Santo
Santos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Portuguese Santos.
Senses: glosses: A municipality of São Paulo, Brazil.
Santos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Santoses
Etymology: From Romance (Spanish Santos, Portuguese Santos).
Senses: examples: text: When Larissa Santos opened her front door and saw Rachel Bush for the first time, she was immediately flooded with emotions.
ref: 2023 August 18, Francesca Street, “Her flight was canceled. Then she ended up on the doorstep of her future wife”, in CNN:
glosses: A surname from the Romance languages
Semarang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The capital and largest city of Central Java, Indonesia.
Nizhniy Novgorod
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Nizhny Novgorod.
Vishakhapatnam
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Visakhapatnam.
Asansol
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in West Bengal, in eastern India.
buke muslin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of book muslin.
rectitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From rect- + -itis.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: proctitis.
Kaduna
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Hausa Kaduna.
Senses: glosses: A state of Nigeria in the North West geopolitical zone. Capital and largest city: Kaduna City.
examples: text: It was out of nowhere — we’d been talking about her fishponds and catfish in Kaduna.
ref: 2023, Stephen Buoro, The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa, Bloomsbury Circus, page 137:
glosses: The largest city and state capital of Kaduna State, Nigeria.
Virginia Beach
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Virginia Beach actually had a large landfill before it was turned into a public park.
glosses: An independent city in Virginia, in the eastern United States.
Bursa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Turkish Bursa, from Ottoman Turkish بورسه (Bursa), from Byzantine Greek Προῦσα (Proûsa), from Ancient Greek Προυσίας (Prousías, “Prusias”) + -α (-a). Doublet of Prusa.
Senses: glosses: A province and metropolitan municipality in northwestern Anatolia Turkey, on the Sea of Marmara.
glosses: A city, the capital of Bursa Province, Turkey.
Synonyms: word: Prusa
Kitakyushu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A large city in Fukuoka Prefecture, on the island of Kyushu, Japan.
dissental
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dissentals
Etymology: From dissent + -al.
Senses: examples: text: Increasing numbers of circuit judges are writing dissents from, and concurrences in, orders denying rehearing en banc—colloquially known as dissentals and concurrals.
ref: 2012, Alex Kozinski, James Burnham, “I Say Dissental, You Say Concurral”, in The Yale Law Journal Online:
text: While dissentals are more common, judges on both this and other courts have, on occasion, penned dissents from the grant of en banc review. ... These disgrantles are understandably rare....
ref: 2024, Lawrence VanDyke, United States v. Duarte, page 2:
topics: law
glosses: A dissent from an order denying rehearing en banc.
concurral
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: concurrals
Senses: examples: text: Increasing numbers of circuit judges are writing dissents from, and concurrences in, orders denying rehearing en banc—colloquially known as dissentals and concurrals.
ref: 2011, Alex Kozinski & James Burnham, "I Say Dissental, You Say Concurral", The Yale Law Journal Online (paywall)
topics: law
glosses: A concurrence in an order denying rehearing en banc.
Kolhapur
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Colapore
Etymology: Borrowed from Marathi कोल्हापूर (kolhāpūr).
Senses: glosses: A city in Maharashtra, in western India.
Mbuji-Mayi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city, the capital of Kasaï-Oriental province, in the southern Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Synonyms: Bakwanga
hippurite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hippurites
Etymology: Ancient Greek ἵππος (híppos, “horse”) + οὐρά (ourá, “tail”) + -ite
Senses: topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: A fossil bivalve mollusk of the genus Hippuritida, having a conical, cup-shaped undervalve, with a flattish upper valve or lid.
Derived terms: hippuritic
hippurites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hippurite.
Benares
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi बनारस (banāras).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Varanasi: a city in Uttar Pradesh, India.
subuliform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more subuliform
form: most subuliform
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: subulate
Mosul
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈməʊsəl/
Etymology: Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish موصل (mosul) , from Arabic الْمَوْصِل (al-mawṣil).
Senses: synonyms: Nineveh
glosses: The capital city of the Nineveh governorate, Iraq.
glosses: A former province of the Ottoman Empire with its capital at Mosul.
Coordinate terms: Moslawi
Related terms: Nineveh
muslin
Taizhou
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /taɪˈd͡ʒoʊ/
Forms: form: Taichow
form: T'ai-chou
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 台州 (Tāizhōu).
Senses: examples: text: Another kind mentioned in the Pêntsao is 天竺桂 (T‘ien-chu-kuei). Porter Smith, on the supposition that the first two characters meant India, identified this with Cinnamomum tamala. But Li Shih-chen says that it is so named from a place called T‘ien-chu, in the prefecture of Taichou, Chekiang, where it grows plentifully. It is a large tree, bearing abundant flowers and a fruit the size of a lotus nut.
ref: [1911, “Vegetable Kingdom”, in Chinese Materia Medica, →OCLC, page 109:
text: On Friday, congregants at the Wenling Church in the city of Taizhou faced off with as many as 4,000 police officers but failed to prevent the removal of two crosses from atop their building.[…]
One of the two crosses that were removed on Friday from the Wenling Church in Taizhou in Zhejiang Province, China.[…]
At the Wenling Church in Taizhou, congregants said hundreds of Christians sang hymns at daybreak on Friday as the riot police surrounded the church, which is anchored by a distinctive clock tower capped by a bright red cross.
ref: 2014 July 28, Andrew Jacobs, “China Removes Crosses From Two More Churches in Crackdown”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 Jul 2014, Asia Pacific:
glosses: A prefecture-level city of Zhejiang, in eastern China.
Taizhou
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /taɪˈd͡ʒoʊ/
Forms: form: Taichow
form: T'ai-chou
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 泰州 (Tàizhōu).
Senses: examples: text: In eastern Jiangsu province anxious investors gathered on Wednesday morning outside company offices in Taizhou city, while similar protests have been reported in Anhui and unpaid workers have demanded their wages in Ezhou city, Hubei.
ref: 2021 September 15, “China's embattled Evergrande tries to pay bills with parking spots”, in France 24, archived from the original on 15 Sep 2021:
glosses: A prefecture-level city of Jiangsu, in eastern China.
Khulna
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city, the administrative center of the Khulna District, Khulna Division, in western Bangladesh.
Weifang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: wāʹfängʹ
Forms: form: Wei-fang
Etymology: From Mandarin 濰坊 /潍坊 (Wéifāng).
Senses: examples: text: The haste with which marriages are contracted by young people who are experimenting for the first time with unobstructed choice of mates is typified by such a current remark as that which Tzu Chi reports from Weifang, Shantung: “First let’s go to the movies and then let’s get married.”
ref: 1959, Ruth Nanda Anshen, The Family: Its Function and Destiny, Rev. edition, New York: Harper & Brothers, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 160:
text: Weifang officials knew the policy meant trouble for them. China has other concentrations of Falun Gong believers, such as in the northeast. But those areas are remote from the capital. Weifang is located just three hundred miles southeast of Beijing, making it easy for protesters to travel to the capital even after the city had taken the initial precaution of sending security agents to train and bus stations to head them off before they left town.
ref: 2004, Ian Johnson, Wild Grass, Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 282:
text: The wide new boulevards that cut across parts of Weifang in eastern China are largely free of traffic, a quiet reminder of the coastal city’s big ambitions.
ref: 2015 August 6, Neil Gough, Cao Li, “As China Reduces Local Spending, Cities Woo Private Investors”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 09 Aug 2015, INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS:
glosses: A prefecture-level city of Shandong, in northeastern China.
Synonyms: Weihsien
Ciudad Juárez
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Ciudad Juárez, named after Mexican politician Benito Juárez.
Senses: glosses: A city in Chihuahua, in northern Mexico.
Kozhikode
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Calicut
Etymology: From Malayalam കോഴിക്കോട് (kōḻikkōṭŭ). The name probably corresponds to Ancient Greek Καλαικαρίας (Kalaikarías), mentioned by Ptolemy, of uncertain meaning. The second element is likely Sanskrit कोट (koṭa, “fortress, palace”). The first element could be from Kali, wife of Shiva, meaning "palace of Kali," or it could instead be a Dravidian name கல்லியை (kalliyai).
The anglicized variant of the name is Calicut.
Senses: glosses: A city in Kerala, in southwestern India.
Related terms: calico
Calicut
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Portuguese Calicut, from Malayalam കോഴിക്കോട് (kōḻikkōṭŭ), perhaps through Arabic قليقوط (“qālīqūṭ”).
Senses: glosses: Former name of Kozhikode: a city in Kerala, India.
Derived terms: calico
Mandalay
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmæn.dəˈleɪ/
Etymology: Borrowed from Burmese မန္တလေး (manta.le:).
Senses: glosses: A city in central Burma (Myanmar)
glosses: A region of Burma (Myanmar)
Christly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈkɹaɪstli/
Forms: form: more Christly
form: most Christly
Etymology: From Christ + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The design was, it would seem, to prepare a Christly past, to show whole ages of faith populated with men who were able, coming after their Master and bearing his cross, to suffer with him[…]
ref: 1858, Horace Bushnell, Sermons for the New Life:
glosses: Christlike
Derived terms: Christliness
Christly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /ˈkɹaɪstli/
Etymology: From Christ + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: It is Christly hot. She wipes her forehead with the back of her hand.
ref: 1986, The Malahat Review, numbers 73-76, page 104:
glosses: Extremely; very.
protovertebra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɜː(ɹ)tɪbɹə
Forms: form: protovertebrae
Etymology: From proto- + vertebra.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: One of the primitive masses, or segments, into which the mesoblast of the vertebrate embryo breaks up on either side of the anterior part of the notochord; a mesoblastic, or protovertebral, somite.
Related terms: protovertebrate
protovertebrae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of protovertebra
capiases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of capias
lacinula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lacinulae
Etymology: See -ule.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A small lacinia.
lacinulae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lacinula
preindesignate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + indesignate.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Having no sign expressing quantity; indefinite.
Related terms: predesignate
terre-verte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: terres-vertes
form: terre-vertes
Etymology: From French terre (“earth”) + vert, verte (“green”).
Senses: glosses: green earth
terre-vertes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of terre-verte
terres-vertes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of terre-verte
singult
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsɪŋɡəlt/
Forms: form: singults
Etymology: From Latin singultus.
Senses: examples: text: There an huge heape of singults did oppresse / His strugling soule […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: So when her tears were stopp'd from either eye, / Her singults, blubberings, seem'd to make them fly
ref: 1613–1616, William Browne, “(please specify the page)”, in Britannia’s Pastorals. (please specify |book=1 or 2), London: […] George Norton:
glosses: A sob.
singults
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of singult
commensurably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more commensurably
form: most commensurably
Etymology: From commensurable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a commensurable manner; so as to be commensurable.
sarcocarp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsɑː(ɹ)kəkɑː(ɹ)p/
Forms: form: sarcocarps
Etymology: From sarco- + -carp.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The mesocarp (fleshy middle layer of the pericarp of a fruit).
glosses: Any fruit which is fleshy throughout.
sarcocarps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sarcocarp
ingrapple
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ingrapples
form: ingrappling
form: ingrappled
form: ingrappled
Senses: examples: text: Looke how two Lyons fierce, both hungry, both pursue
One sweet and selfe-same prey, at one another flie,
And with their armed pawes ingrappled dreadfully,
ref: 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, song 12 p. 201:
glosses: To seize; to clutch; to grapple.
ingrappled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ingrapple
ingrapples
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ingrapple
ingrappling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ingrapple
Gadang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An East Chadic language spoken by about 2500 people in Chad.
IP camera
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: IP cameras
Senses: glosses: A wireless webcam used specifically for surveillance as a security measure.
IP cameras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of IP camera
dealio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: What's the dealio?
glosses: Alternative form of dillio.
down-town
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of downtown.
non-degenerate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nondegenerate.
plow stop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plow stops
form: plough stop
Senses: qualifier: roller skating
glosses: A method of stopping by bringing the back of the skates outwards, and the front inward, imitating a snowplow.
plow stop
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: plow stops
form: plow stopping
form: plow stopped
form: plow stopped
form: plough stop
Senses: glosses: To perform a plow stop.
conventional PCI
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: conventional + PCI
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: PCI (the computer bus), as opposed to the newer PCI Express.
parturients
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parturient
zappings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zapping
non-recurring
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more non-recurring
form: most non-recurring
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of nonrecurring.
rolling hitch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rolling hitches
Senses: glosses: A type of bend knot used to provide lengthwise grip of one rope to another. There are 2 types. Type 1 is also known as the magnus hitch and type 2 leads to the midshipman's hitch
rolling hitches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rolling hitch
NRI
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: NRIs
Senses: examples: text: Reza had almost become an NRI. When he was very young, his family moved to Canada.
ref: 2020, Avni Doshi, Burnt Sugar, Hamish Hamilton, page 153:
topics: law
glosses: Initialism of non-resident Indian (an Indian citizen who is not treated as a resident by Indian income tax law).
topics: accounting
business
finance
glosses: Initialism of nonrecurring item.
Albright knot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Albright knots
Etymology: Named after Jimmy Albright, a guide in the Florida Keys.
Senses: glosses: A type of bend knot used to join ropes of very different diameters and materials to one another.
Albright knots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Albright knot
butterfly knot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: butterfly knots
Senses: glosses: A type of knot used to provide an anchor point on a long line. Much used by mountaineers. Also known as the alpine butterfly knot.
glosses: A small decorative woven knot using one or two cords.
Derived terms: butterfly-knotted
butterfly knots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of butterfly knot
butterfly bend
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: butterfly bends
Senses: synonyms: strait bend
glosses: A type of bend knot, very similar to the butterfly knot, but used to join two ropes.
Derived terms: alpine butterfly bend
butterfly bends
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of butterfly bend
psalmodize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: psalmodizes
form: psalmodizing
form: psalmodized
form: psalmodized
Etymology: From psalmody + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: the psalmodizing art
ref: a. 1769, John Gilbert Cooper (translating Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset), "Ver-Vert" Canto 2
text: if their [the Jews'] religion had been the established religion, the aforesaid psalmodising would have been characterized with the name of "mauscheln".
ref: 1871, Heinrich Heine, translated by Charles Godfrey Leland, Pictures of Travel:
text: the singers seem to be psalmodizing among themselves,
ref: 1904, American Ecclesiastical Review, volume 30, number 2:
glosses: To write or sing psalms.
Related terms: psalmody
psalmodized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of psalmodize
psalmodizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of psalmodize
psalmodizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of psalmodize
chondrology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From chondro- + -logy. Compare French chondrologie.
Senses: glosses: The branch of anatomy that deals with cartilage.
nonparturient
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + parturient.
Senses: glosses: Having never given birth.
glosses: Not the one who gave birth to the child or children.
raw_tags: of a caregiver
Synonyms: sense: having never given birth
word: nonparous
sense: having never given birth
word: nonparturitive
sense: having never given birth
word: nulliparous
deoppilation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deoppilations
Etymology: From de- + oppilation.
Senses: examples: text: yet are the dissoluble parts extracted, whereby it becomes effectual in deoppilations, and therefore for speedier operation we make extinctions, infusions, and the like
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
glosses: The removal of an obstruction.
deoppilations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deoppilation
reule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reules
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of rule.
reule
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reules
form: reuling
form: reuled
form: reuled
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of rule.
reules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reule