cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
overmap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overmaps
Etymology: From over- + map.
Senses: examples: text: The overmap pretends to be a continuous space, but really it's just a discrete space. You could easily represent the overmap from, say, Final Fantasy VII in a menu, like this: […]
ref: 2012, Keith Burgun, Game Design Theory: A New Philosophy for Understanding Games, page 111:
topics: video-games
glosses: The map of an overworld.
overmaps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overmap
Cherri
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from English, variant of Cherry.
rerotates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rerotate
rerotating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rerotate
rerotated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rerotate
rerotation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rerotations
Senses: glosses: The act of rotating again.
rerotations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rerotation
nonvet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonvets
Etymology: From non- + vet.
Senses: glosses: Clipping of nonveteran.
nonvets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonvet
Deauvilles
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Deauville
Stanley Falls
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Henry Morton Stanley, who explored the region and noted the fishing technique of the Wagenya people.
Senses: glosses: Former name of Boyoma Falls.
Boyoma Falls
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: word: Stanley Falls
english: former name
translation: former name
hyponyms: Wagenia Falls
glosses: A series of seven cataracts along a curve of the Lualaba River between the river port towns of Ubundu and Kisangani (Boyoma) in the Orientale Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Clee Hills
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A range of hills in Shropshire, England, near Ludlow.
Related terms: Cleehill
Hanover Park
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Cook County and DuPage County, Illinois, United States.
glosses: A neighbourhood of the City of Cape Town, Western Cape province, South Africa.
Lützen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in the Burgenlandkreis district of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.
Shibin El Kom
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Shibin al-Kawm
Senses: synonyms: Shibin
glosses: A city in Egypt's Nile Delta, and the capital of the Monufia Governorate.
Shibin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of Shibin El Kom.
Shibin al-Kawm
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Shibin El Kom.
Fat Man's Misery
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A narrow, winding keyhole-shaped passageway in Mammoth Cave, Kentucky, United States.
Nivelles
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city and municipality of Wallonia, Walloon Brabant, Belgium.
North Charleston
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Berkeley, Charleston, and Dorchester counties in the U.S. state of South Carolina.
North Cowichan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A district municipality on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.
North Olmsted
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States.
North Royalton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States.
hothouser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hothousers
Etymology: From hothouse + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who hothouses.
hothousers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hothouser
Suzan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name.
Waikanae
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Maori Waikanae (literally “waters of the grey mullet”).
Senses: glosses: A town in Kapiti Coast district, Wellington region, New Zealand.
Related terms: Waianae
overvent
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overvents
form: overventing
form: overvented
form: overvented
Etymology: From over- + vent.
Senses: glosses: To vent excessively.
undervent
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: undervents
form: underventing
form: undervented
form: undervented
Etymology: From under- + vent.
Senses: glosses: To vent inadequately.
overvented
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overvent
overvents
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overvent
overventing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overvent
undervented
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of undervent
undervents
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of undervent
underventing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of undervent
Waianae
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Hawaiian [Term?] (literally “waters of the mullet”).
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Honolulu County, Hawaii, United States.
Related terms: Waikanae
time-marker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: time-markers
Senses: topics: human-sciences
medicine
physiology
psychology
sciences
glosses: An instrument that traces the timeline, usually in seconds, upon the smoked paper of a kymograph in physiologic experiments.
time marker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: time markers
Senses: glosses: An object or instrument that marks or indicates the elapsing of time; an automatic device that records this.
time-markers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of time-marker
time markers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of time marker
bowl-fulls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bowl-full
bowls-full
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bowl-full
time evolution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: time evolutions
Senses: topics: mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
glosses: The change of state caused by the passage of time, applicable to systems with an internal state.
time evolutions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of time evolution
actual flying time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: actual flying times
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
lifestyle
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
tourism
transport
travel
glosses: The total amount of time that an aircraft is in the air, excluding its time on the ground.
actual flying times
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of actual flying time
take the mask off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes the mask off
form: taking the mask off
form: took the mask off
form: taken the mask off
Senses: glosses: To drop a facade and reveal one's true nature.
Related terms: mask-off
mask-off moment
D.A.R.E.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of DARE (“Drug Abuse Resistance Education”).
over-value
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: over-values
form: over-valuing
form: over-valued
form: over-valued
Senses: examples: text: The people were more than prompt in their response, but they over-valued the raw troops which then swarmed to Washington. They believed that because the men felt like fighting, that they knew how to do it.
ref: 1889, Elia W[ilkinson] Peattie, “‘We Are Coming, Father Abraham.’ […]”, in The Story of America: Containing the Romantic Incidents of History, from the Discovery of America to the Present Time, San Francisco, Calif.; Chicago, Ill.: R. S. King Publishing Company, page 538:
text: Indeed, an underlying theme in those legends is that Hette is an outstanding individual because she over-values certain ideals that those around her under-value: she over-values virginity, whereas her elder sister under-values it to the point of marrying (eloping?) a man other than the one her father had designated for her as a husband. Hette over-values marital fidelity, in direct contrast to the behaviour of her own husband. She over-values vegetarianism, in contrast with the meat-eating stepson, Batrabala.
ref: 1989, Paul Hockings, “The Badagas”, in Paul Hockings, editor, Blue Mountains: The Ethnography and Biogeography of a South Indian Region, Delhi; Oxford, Oxon; New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 228:
text: Many people at the time of publication were so happy to believe that [Evelyn] Waugh had returned to his old ways with The Loved One that they over-valued the book. It is a fine comic novel with a truly Wavian subject, but no masterpiece.
ref: 1999, David Wykes, “A Legitimate Contribution to the War Effort: 1939–51”, in Evelyn Waugh: A Literary Life, Basingstoke, Hants.; London: Macmillan Press Ltd; New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press, Inc., →ISBN, page 155:
glosses: Alternative form of overvalue.
over-values
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of over-value
over-valuing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of over-value
over-valued
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of over-value
-(s)
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: From -s (suffix forming regular plurals of nouns) and ( ) (encloses optional variants or variant elements).
Senses: examples: text: The dog(s) got into the garden.
text: The singer(s) will perform live.
glosses: Added to the end of a singular noun (which normally uses the suffix -s to become plural) to indicate that the noun represents an unknown number which may be one or more than one.
-(s)
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: From -s (suffix forming the third-person singular indicative present tense of verbs) and ( ) (encloses optional variants or variant elements).
Senses: examples: text: The dog(s) get(s) into the garden.
text: The singer(s) perform(s) live.
glosses: Added to the end of a verb in place of the suffix -s when the subject of the verb may be one or more than one.
Related terms: -s
Nazila
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Nazilas
Etymology: Borrowed from Persian نازیلا.
Senses: examples: Nazila Fathi, b. 1970
glosses: A female given name from Persian.
Pinglo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 平羅 /平罗 (Píngluó) Wade–Giles romanization: Pʻing²-lo².
Senses: examples: text: pinglo county in northern ningsia suffered from serious alkalinization. Last winter more than half of the county's manpower was mobilized to dig 600 drainage ditches to reduce the damage.
ref: 1971, Survey of China Mainland Press, numbers 4952-4965, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 31:
text: In this report some evidence of ancient earthquakes found in the north China region are presented as follows:[…]2. The offset of the Great Wall and fault scarps by the ancient earthquakes in the Hongguozigou area northwest of Pinglo County, Ningxia Autonomous Region;[…]
ref: 1981 May 22, Ding Menglin [0002 1125 7792] [丁夢麟], “Some Paleoseismic Evidence in the North China Region”, in China Report: Science and Technology, number 100, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Beijing DIZHEN DIZHI [SEISMOLOGY AND GEOLOGY], Vol 3 No 1, pp 67-74, translation of original in Chinese, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 72:
english: 丁夢麟
translation: 丁夢麟
glosses: Alternative form of Pingluo.
Qianxinan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 黔西南 (Qiánxīnán).
Senses: examples: text: The blast occurred in the Shazi district of Qianxinan city in Guizhou province, Xinhua said. No deaths have been reported.[…]
The fire was out as of 2:30 a.m. on Monday (7.30 p.m. BST on Sunday), the municipal government of Qianxinan Buyei and Miao Autonomous Prefecture said on its official Weibo account.
ref: 2018 June 11, Dominique Patton, Meng Meng, “CNPC gas pipeline explosion injures 24 people in southwest China - government”, in Joseph Radford, Tom Hogue, editors, Reuters, archived from the original on 28 Nov 2024:
glosses: A Buyei and Miao autonomous prefecture in Guizhou, China.
Qinglong
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: chǐngʹlo͝ongʹ
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 青龍 /青龙 (Qīnglóng).
Senses: glosses: A Manchu autonomous county in Qinhuangdao, Hebei, China.
Qinglong
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: chǐngʹlo͝ongʹ
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 晴隆 (Qínglóng).
Senses: glosses: A county of Qianxinan, Guizhou, China.
Pu'an
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: po͞oʹänʹ
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 普安.
Senses: glosses: A county of Qianxinan, Guizhou, China.
Xingyi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: shǐngʹēʹ
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 興義 /兴义 (Xīngyì).
Senses: examples: text: Local officials in Xingyi, Guizhou, denied that Mr. Wang’s death was driven by despair over his financial situation and inability to educate his younger children. But there was widespread speculation that it was so, with Mr. Wang having spent the days before his death anxiously asking local officials about the fine, which he couldn’t afford to pay, according to Chinese media reports.
ref: 2014 June 16, Didi Kirsten Tatlow, “Father’s Day Plea to Educate China’s ‘Illegal’ Children”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 May 2023, Sinosphere:
glosses: A county-level city of Qianxinan, Guizhou, China.
Xingren
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: shǐngʹrǔnʹ
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 興仁 /兴仁 (Xīngrén).
Senses: examples: text: Xingren county, in Guizhou province, also started military training last September for officials who were believed to be unqualified or negligent.
ref: 2015 April 20, Mandy Zuo, “Chinese civil servants have to learn discipline on PLA boot camp”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 Apr 2015, Society:
glosses: A county-level city of Qianxinan, Guizhou, China.
Anlong
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: änʹlo͝ongʹ
rhymes: -ʊŋ
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 安龍 /安龙 (Ānlóng).
Senses: examples: text: Amid the lush landscape of Guizhou in China a drone video shows a natural wonder: a series of mountains with a striking resemblance to the Egyptian pyramids.
The footage has captivated social media users worldwide, and its virality has sparked online debate.
Some speculate that the mountains in Anlong county conceal the tombs of ancient emperors while others believe they were crafted by the same extraterrestrial beings purported to have built the pyramids of Egypt.
ref: 2024 March 20, Zhang Tong, “Ancient mystery: netizens captivated by pyramid formations in southern China”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 20 Mar 2024, Science:
glosses: A county of Qianxinan, Guizhou, China.
Zhenfeng
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: jǔnʹfǔngʹ
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 貞豐 /贞丰.
Senses: glosses: A county of Qianxinan, Guizhou, China.
Ceheng
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: tsǔʹhǔngʹ
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 冊亨 /册亨 (Cèhēng).
Senses: examples: text: "In some parts of Tseheng County, class enemies incited people to promote sideline production on their own. The county CCP committee looked into the matter and held that this was a new trend by a handful of class enemies attempting to sabotage spring farming."
ref: [1972 May 4 [1972 May 2], “Kweichow Regional Conference on Agricultural Tasks”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 88, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Kweiyang Kweichow Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China: Southwest Region, page E 1:
text: The Supreme People's Procuratorate also said yesterday it had launched separate investigations into four former law enforcers suspected of corruption, Xinhua reported.
The four suspects are Sun Hai, former deputy chief of the provincial prison administration in Hebei; Liu Xianming, former police chief of Ceheng county, Guizhou; Wu Jianming, a former judge in Nancheng county, Jiangxi; and Lin An, a former prosecutor stationed at a local prison in Inner Mongolia.
ref: 2014 August 27, Andrea Chen, “China issues new rule to stop wealthy from buying their way out of jail”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 30 Aug 2014, China:
glosses: A county of Qianxinan, Guizhou, China.
Wangmo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: wängʹmǔʹ
Etymology: From Mandarin 望謨 /望谟 (Wàngmó).
Senses: glosses: A county of Qianxinan prefecture, Guizhou, China.
Lady Macbethian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Lady Macbethian
form: most Lady Macbethian
Etymology: From Lady Macbeth + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or relating to Lady Macbeth in William Shakespeare's play Macbeth, a determined and unscrupulous woman who urges her husband to commit murder to advance his rank.
Oirat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Oirats
form: Elet
form: Elut
form: Oird
Senses: glosses: A member of the westernmost group of the Mongols.
Oirat
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Elet
form: Elut
form: Oird
Senses: glosses: Their Mongolic language.
Elet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Elets
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Oirat.
Elut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Eluts
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Oirat.
Oird
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Oirds
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Oirat.
Oirats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Oirat
Elets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Elet
Eluts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Elut
Oirds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Oird
revoter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: revoters
Senses: glosses: One who votes again.
revoters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of revoter
syntality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: syntalities
Etymology: Coined by British-American psychologist Raymond Cattell.
Senses: glosses: The collective psychological traits of a group, analogous to the personality of an individual.
wikipedia: Raymond Cattell
syntalities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of syntality
Mecklenburg-West Pomerania
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.
Linchih
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 林芝 (Línzhī) Wade–Giles romanization: Lin²-chih¹.
Senses: examples: text: In 1966 with the warm support of fraternal workers in the motherland’s interior provinces, the Shanghai Weilun Woollen Textile Mill moved to Tibet and set up the region’s first such plant in Linchih.[…]
Linchih, formerly a desolate, bramble-filled gully, uninhabited and the haunt of wild animals, is now a newborn industrial city in Tibet.
ref: 1977, Yin Ming [尹明], “Surging Advance of Industry and Transport”, in United and Equal — The Progress of China's Minority Nationalities [中国少数民族在前进], 1st edition, Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →OCLC, page 53:
english: 中国少数民族在前进
translation: 中国少数民族在前进
text: An hour later, we crossed a long bridge and passed through a town named Linchih, where we stopped for breakfast in a restaurant that looked like a factory. Beyond Linchih, the forest closed in again and we had our tea in a wooded glen with a sparkling white peak at the head of it: a solitary spire, snowy and slender and framed with green.
ref: 1986, Brian M. Schwartz, “Tibet: 1982”, in Travels through the Third World, London: Sidgwick & Jackson, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 477:
text: Linchih, also on the Sichuan-Tibet highway, was established in 1966 ‘with the warm support of fraternal workers in the motherland’s interior provinces’. The Shanghai Weilun Woollen Textile Mill moved to Tibet and set up the region’s first plant in Linchih.
ref: 1987, A. Tom Grunfeld, “Tibet After 1959”, in The Making of Modern Tibet (Asia / History), →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 175:
glosses: Alternative form of Linzhi.
Medicine Bow
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The highest peak in the Snowy Range in Wyoming, United States.
Linzhi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Linchih
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 林芝 (Línzhī).
Senses: examples: text: The three cleanest cities, in order, were all in the far west: Linzhi in Tibet, Lijiang in Yunnan Province and Altay in Xinjiang.
ref: 2015 April 21, Edward Wong, “Hundreds of Chinese Cities Don’t Meet Air Standards, Report Finds”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 Apr 2015, Asia Pacific:
text: On Tuesday, we visited the town of Nyingchi, also known as Linzhi.
ref: 2016 September 16, Simon Denyer, “Tibet is harder to visit than North Korea. But I got in and streamed live on Facebook.”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 Sep 2016, World:
text: The disease was found in two counties and one district of the city of Linzhi, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs said in a statement; Linzhi is in southeastern Tibet near the border with India.
ref: 2019 April 8, Tom Daly, “China reports first African swine fever outbreak in Tibet”, in Richard Pullin, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 09 Dec 2024, Healthcare & Pharmaceuticals:
glosses: Synonym of Nyingchi: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.
synonyms: word: Nyingchi
extra: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name
Menzel Bourguiba
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Arabic منزل بورقيبة.
Senses: synonyms: word: Ferryville
english: former name
translation: former name
glosses: A town in the extreme north of Tunisia.
Ferryville
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Former name of Menzel Bourguiba.
M'Clure Strait
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the M'Clure Strait
form: McClure Strait
Etymology: Named for Robert McClure, an Irish Arctic explorer serving in the Royal Navy.
Senses: glosses: A strait on the edge of the Canadian Northwest Territories, forming the northwestern end of the Parry Channel which extends east all the way to Baffin Bay and is thus a possible route for the Northwest Passage.
McClure Strait
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the McClure Strait
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of M'Clure Strait.
Motlav
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Dated form of Mwotlap.
Kherlen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kern
form: Kerulen
Senses: examples: text: Three principal rivers meander through the area: the Kherlen, Halhaun, and Uldza. Two of these originate in the Kentey Mountains and flow through the lowlands in the northeastern part of the plain; the larger Kherlen empties into Hu-lun-ch'ih (Dalay) Lake in the Chinese People's Republic, while the Uldza, when it does not first dry up, empties into the Tooroy Lake in the Soviet Union.
ref: 1963 July 1, “Mongolia”, in Characteristics of Manchuria, Mongolia, and North China (Air Force Pamphlet), number 200-2-4, Washington, D.C.: Department of the Air Force, →OCLC, page 85:
text: The Khustyn Bulag site group is located in the upper basin of the Kherlen River in Tuv Aimag in Mongolia. It is located on a wide flat terrace on the northeastern shore of the Zuun Baidlag River, a tributary of the Kherlen River, and consists of many sites from the Paleolithic Age to the nineteenth century.
ref: 2022, Isao Usuki, “Introduction and Deployment of the Ceramic Industry in the Xiongnu Empire”, in Tomoko Nagatomo, Maria Shinoto, Daisuke Nakamura, editors, Kilns in East and North Asia: The adoption of ceramic industries (Archaeology of East Asia), volume 7, Oxford: BAR Publishing, →DOI, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 128:
glosses: A river in China and Mongolia, periodical tributary of Argun.
Kerulen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Kherlen.
Kagera
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An administrative region of Tanzania.
glosses: A river originating in Burundi and flowing into Lake Victoria.
Marsa Matruh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Marsa
form: Matruh
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic مَرْسَى مَطْرُوح (marsā maṭrūḥ).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Mersa Matruh, a port city in northwestern Egypt.
Hilton Head
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Captain William Hilton, who in 1663 identified a headland near the entrance to Port Royal Sound.
Senses: glosses: A Lowcountry resort town and barrier island in Beaufort County, South Carolina, United States.
Ash Fork
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named for the presence of ash trees growing at the townsite.
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Yavapai County, Arizona, United States.
Haight-Ashbury
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A district of San Francisco, California, one of the main centers of the counterculture of the 1960s.
Karon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: kâr′ən
ipa: /ˈkɛə.ən/
ipa: /ˈkɛː.ən/
ipa: /ˈkeɹ.ən/
ipa: /ˈkɛɹ.ən/
ipa: /ˈkeː.ən/
ipa: /ˈkiə̯.ən/
ipa: /ˈkeə̯.ən/
ipa: /ˈker.ən/
ipa: /ˈkeːʳ.on/
ipa: /ˈkæʳ.on/
rhymes: -ɛəən
rhymes: -ɛːən
homophone: Charon
Forms: form: Karons
Senses: glosses: A unisex given name.
glosses: A surname.
obe ata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Yoruba [Term?].
Senses: topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: A stew or mother sauce in Yoruba cuisine, made from tomatoes, peppers, onions, oil, and spices.
hecklable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hecklable
form: most hecklable
Etymology: From heckle + -able.
Senses: glosses: That can be heckled.
Mount of the Holy Cross
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A prominent mountain summit in the northern Sawatch Range of the Rocky Mountains of North America, having a distinctive cross-shaped snowfield on its northeast face.
bowls full
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bowl full
bowl fulls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bowl full
bowlfull
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bowlfulls
form: bowlsfull
Senses: examples: text: When indigestion begins, take large quantities of borage tea well sugared [212]; take 30 centigrammes of aloes (99), and, during the night, one or two bowlfulls of herb broth [104].
ref: 1846, F[rançois] V[incent] Raspail, translated by A. Fortier, “Indigestion, difficult digestion”, in Annual Diary of Health or Family Physician & Druggist, […], New Orleans, La.: [s.n.], part third (Family medicine, or detailed application of the principles given in the two preceding parts to the treatment of the most common diseases), section II (Particular application of the principles of our system of treatment to the several diseases), page 75:
text: The Persians are surprised at our small doses of medicine; for their own physicians administer their drugs in large bowlsfull.
ref: 1857, Robert B. M. Binning, “Route from Bushire to Kauzeroon.—Chughaduk.—Brazgoon.—Dâlikee.—Pass of Mullooh.—Persian Caravansary.—Kumaridj.—Arrival at Kauzeroon.”, in A Journal of Two Years’ Travel in Persia, Ceylon, etc. […], volume I, Wm. H. Allen and Co., […], page 166:
text: They stopped at the door and asked for milk; the mother brought them brimming bowlsfull and the shy little girl crept up behind her mother with her birch-bark baskets of berries.
ref: 1861, [Jane Andrews], “The Little Mountain Maiden”, in The Seven Little Sisters Who Live on the Round Ball That Floats in the Air, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, pages 51–52:
text: In some localities the women will amuse themselves by dashing bowlsfull of water on the passers by.
ref: 1870 July, Samuel J[ones] Smith, “[Local Items.] Songkran.”, in The Siam Repository. Containing a Summary of Asiatic Intelligence, […], volume 2, number 1, Bangkok: […] Smith’s Place, […], page 327, column 1:
text: All these ferry-boats, excepting the very smallest, form dwellings for their owners; and it is a curious sight towards evening to see them drawn up along the river bank, or up the creeks, in rows of three or four deep, with their occupants enjoying the evening meal, ladling into their mouths with chop-sticks bowlsfull of rice, or partaking of a more varied fare of vegetables, bits of pork, fish, or meat of a more questionable nature.
ref: 1872, A[rthur] D[rummond] Carlisle, “Canton”, in Round the World in 1870: An Account of a Brief Tour Made through India, China, Japan, California, and South America, London: Henry S. King & Co., […], pages 117–118:
text: I haven’t been able to work up an appetite all week, and now suddenly I feel as if I could eat anything! A mountain of tortillas—two bowlsfull of chili, oranges and papayas—and oceans of wine to wash it all down with!
ref: 1974, Rosemary Rogers, “Part Seven: ‘La Guerra’”, in Sweet Savage Love, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, page 599:
text: I told you not to drink two bowlfulls before you came out but of course you knew best.
ref: 2001, Howard Tilley, A Little Roman Therapy, Cambridge, Cambs.: Vanguard Press, →ISBN, page 203:
glosses: Now uncommon spelling of bowlful.
bowlfulls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bowlfull
bowlsfull
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bowlfull
Georges Bank
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: The 1610 Velasco map, prepared for King James I of England, used the name S. Georges Banck, a common practice when the name of the English patron saint, Saint George, was sprinkled around the English-colonized world.
Senses: synonyms: word: St. Georges Bank
english: former name
translation: former name
glosses: A large elevated area of the sea floor between Cape Cod, Massachusetts (United States), and Cape Sable Island, Nova Scotia (Canada), separating the Gulf of Maine from the Atlantic Ocean.
wikipedia: Saint George
Gannett
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Gannett Peak
Gannett Peak
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The highest mountain peak in the U.S. state of Wyoming.
Plain of Esdraelon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Plain of Esdraelon
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Ἐσδρηλών (Esdrēlṓn).
Senses: glosses: The region of the Jezreel Valley in Israel.
Foxe Basin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A shallow oceanic basin north of Hudson Bay, in Nunavut, Canada, located between Baffin Island and the Melville Peninsula.
Whitefish Bay
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A large bay on the eastern end of Lake Superior between Michigan, United States, and Ontario, Canada.
glosses: A village in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, United States.
Tunguskan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Tunguska + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the Tunguska event.
Tunguska event
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Tunguska event
Senses: synonyms: Tunguska incident
glosses: A huge explosion that occurred near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in Yeniseysk Governorate (now Krasnoyarsk Krai), Russia, on the morning of 30 June 1908, generally attributed to a meteor airburst.
Related terms: Tunguskan
unmotorised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of unmotorized.
motorized bancas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of motorized banca
Bamian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Bamyan.
Bamiyan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Bamyan.
Point Barrow
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: word: Barrow
english: former name
translation: former name
word: Nuvuk
glosses: A headland on the Arctic coast in the U.S. state of Alaska.
Nuvuk
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Point Barrow.
synonyms: word: Point Barrow
Point Mugu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A cape or promontory within Point Mugu State Park on the Pacific Coast in Ventura County, California.
Masan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Korean 마산(馬山) (masan).
Senses: examples: text: Lee Hyo-jae was born on Nov. 4, 1924, in Masan, a precinct of Changwon in Gyeongsang Province, during the Japanese occupation of Korea.
ref: 2020 November 14, Michael Astor, “Lee Hyo-jae, Champion of Women’s Rights in South Korea, Dies at 95”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 Nov 2020, Asia Pacific:
glosses: An administrative region of Changwon, South Gyeongsang Province, South Korea.
Maipú
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Chilean Spanish Maipú.
Senses: glosses: A commune of Santiago province, Chile.
Lidice
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality and village in Kladno District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic.
glosses: A former village in the same area, destroyed by the Nazis in 1942. See Lidice massacre.
Lulua
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A Bantu ethnic group settled along the Lulua River valley in south central Kasai-Occidental province, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Marblehead
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A coastal town in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States, along the North Shore.
Derived terms: Marbleheader
Marblehead squash
Marblehead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Marbleheads
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Marblehead squash.
synonyms: word: Marblehead squash
tabletopping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tabletop
Newberry Springs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: word: Newberry
english: former name until 1967
translation: former name until 1967
glosses: An unincorporated community and oasis in the Mojave Desert, San Bernardino County, California, United States.
Mount Catherine
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: Gabal Katrîne
Gebel Katherina
Jabal Katrinah
glosses: The highest mountain in Egypt.
glosses: A mountain peak in the Cascade Range in Washington state.
Neches
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A river in Texas, United States.
BTNP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Big Thicket National Preserve.
nonsync
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Short for nonsynchronous or nonsynchronized.
Senses: examples: text: The great Arri S and M models were workhorses of nonsync filming in the 1970s. They're still great cameras, and you can buy used ones for a pittance. If you're not recording dialogue, they'll be fine. […] If you don't mind windup, spring-driven cameras, the Bolex 16s are good nonsync cameras.
ref: 2012, Jack Anderson, Shooting Movies Without Shooting Yourself in the Foot, page 216:
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: Relating to a soundtrack that is not synchronized with the picture, but played back from a separate medium.
Fustat
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Fostat
Etymology: From Arabic الفُسطاط (al-Fusṭāṭ).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Cairo, a city in Egypt, as the capital of Egypt under the Rashidun, Umayyad, and Abbasid Caliphates and as the capital of the Fatimid Caliphate.
synonyms: word: Cairo
extra: a city in Egypt, as the capital of Egypt under the Rashidun, Umayyad, and Abbasid Caliphates and as the capital of the Fatimid Caliphate
off-trail
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
skiing
sports
glosses: Synonym of off-piste (“not prepared or designated for skiing”).
synonyms: word: off-piste
extra: not prepared or designated for skiing
examples: text: The off-trail novel has a slim chance here, and fantasy will be limited chiefly to science fiction.
ref: 1953, The Writer, volumes 66-67, page 30:
glosses: Synonym of off-piste (“unconventional”).
synonyms: word: off-piste
extra: unconventional
olivesheen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From olive + sheen.
Senses: examples: text: […] looking out / on a Sargenty smear of pearl and dress silk, / olivesheen / and the vanishing stain of a passing car's taillights.
ref: 2000, Jennifer Atkinson, The Drowned City, page 27:
glosses: A dull grayish-yellow color.
olivesheen
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From olive + sheen.
Senses: examples: text: […] a young man in an olivesheen business suit and derby sitting in the lotus position under a banyan tree.
ref: 1994, Lance Olsen, Tonguing the Zeitgeist, page 11:
glosses: Of a dull grayish-yellow color.
Fostat
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Fustat.
ophic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ophi- + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: […] there were reasons for believing that the sacred cords of the East Indies could be traced back to an ophic origin […]
ref: 1892, Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, page 574:
glosses: Relating to snakes.
oppy.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: By Miss Sally Lee's desire I am to Inform you that she Indeavour'd to be very Angry at your not writing to her, but if you will write a few lines by next oppy. the storm may blow over […]
ref: quoted in 1898, Bulletin of the New York Public Library (volume 2, page 332)
glosses: Abbreviation of opportunity.
Queen's Indian Defence
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: board-games
chess
games
synonyms: word: QID
glosses: A chess opening characterized by the moves 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 b6.
ornify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ornifies
form: ornifying
form: ornified
form: ornified
Etymology: From Latin ōrnāre (“to adorn, to decorate”) + -ify.
Senses: examples: text: You marryed wiues, that are ornified with honestie, wisedome, and vertue, I doe acknowledge you to be the glory of your husbands.
ref: quoted in 1844, Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages (page 12)
text: Mist' Abram, he done went an' bought dis here paycock blue ca'fsmere and dis cream lace fo' to ornify me fo' de weddin' […]
ref: 1902, Werner's Readings and Recitations, page 190:
glosses: To ornament.
ornified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ornify
ornifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ornify
ornifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ornify
ouricury palm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ouricury palms
Senses: glosses: The Brazilian feather palm, Syagrus coronata, from which ouricury wax is obtained.
ouricury palms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ouricury palm
Helendale
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Helen + dale. Originally named Point of Rocks, renamed Helen in 1897, after the daughter of a railroad official, and again to Helendale in 1918.
Senses: synonyms: Silver Lakes
glosses: An unincorporated community and census-designated place in the Mojave Desert, San Bernardino County, California, United States.
dislocationary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From dislocation + -ary.
Senses: glosses: Relating to a dislocation.
Orowan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname
Derived terms: Orowan equation
Orowan's equation
Orowan loop
Orowan model
Orowan's law
Orowan stress
Taylor-Orowan dislocation
Taylor-Orowan equation
Moufang plane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Moufang planes
Etymology: Named after Ruth Moufang.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A type of projective plane whose every line is a translation line.
wikipedia: Ruth Moufang
Moufang planes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Moufang plane
Prechter
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
socionomic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to socionomics.
socionomics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Coined by Robert Prechter, from socio- + -nomics.
Senses: glosses: The theory that social mood drives financial, macroeconomic and political behavior.
wikipedia: Robert Prechter
Related terms: socionomic
socionomy
hydroxymycin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Hydroxymycin shares with paromomycin (Humatin) the property of slow activity; both substances immobilized trichomonads, if at all, only after long exposure […]
ref: 2013, R. J. Schnitzer, Frank Hawking, Experimental Chemotherapy, page 303:
glosses: An antibiotic that is active against Trichomonas vaginalis.
Pappus's hexagon theorem
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Attributed to the Ancient Greek mathematician Pappus of Alexandria (c. 290–c. 350 AD).
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A theorem valid for projective planes over any field, stating that, given one set of collinear points A,B,C, and another set of collinear points a,b,c,, the intersection points X,Y,Z of line pairs Ab and aB,Ac and aC,Bc and bC are collinear, lying on the "Pappus line". These three points are the points of intersection of the "opposite" sides of the hexagon AbCaBc.
wikipedia: Pappus of Alexandria
Related terms: Pappian
Pappus line
Oro Grande
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Spanish oro + grande (“big gold”).
Senses: glosses: An unincorporated community in the Mojave Desert, San Bernardino County, California, United States.
Rosario de Mora
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Rosario de Mora.
Senses: glosses: A town in San Salvador department, El Salvador.
namee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: namees
Etymology: From name + -ee.
Senses: examples: text: The namee is, in effect, naming herself by providing the salient information, while the namer serves as an interpreter, getting the words into a natural order that is befitting of a name.
ref: 2020, Mark Warren, Fire-Making, Storytelling, and Ceremony: Secrets of the Forest, page 177:
glosses: That which is given a name.
ABTC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ABTCs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of APEC Business Travel Card.
ABTC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Animal Behaviour and Training Council.
ABTCs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ABTC
Le Tellier
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Le Telliers
Etymology: Borrowed from French Le Tellier.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
Related terms: Letellier
Tellier
socionomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of sociology + economy; coined by Egon Orowan.
Senses: glosses: The study of how sociological factors affect the economy.
wikipedia: Egon Orowan
Related terms: socionomics
isophlorin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isophlorins
Senses: examples: text: Isophlorins are the latest addition to the increasing list of porphyrin derivatives.
ref: 2011, G. Maroulis, T. Bancewicz, B. Champagne, Atomic and Molecular Nonlinear Optics, page 94:
text: The possible formation of an isophlorin was first noted during the total synthesis of chlorophyll by Woodward […]
ref: 2017, Takashiro Akitsu, Descriptive Inorganic Chemistry Researches of Metal Compounds:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A π-ekectron N,N'-dihydroporphyrin; a nonaromatic complex derived from porphyrin with properties similar to a porphyrinoid.
isophlorins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of isophlorin
oils up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of oil up
Old Covenant
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Old Covenant
Senses: topics: Christianity
coordinate_terms: New Covenant
glosses: Synonym of Mosaic covenant.
synonyms: word: Mosaic covenant
Related terms: New Testament
Old Testament
oiling up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of oil up
oiled up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of oil up
oiled up
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more oiled up
form: most oiled up
Senses: examples: text: Some of the bearings on this machine have oil cups. Make sure you keep it oiled up.
synonyms: well-oiled
hypernyms: lubed up
;
oiled
;
lubricated
coordinate_terms: greased up
glosses: Well oiled; thoroughly lubricated with oil.
examples: text: Yesterday he helped us get the machinery oiled up, and then last night he went to the hotel bar and got oiled up himself.
glosses: Drunk: having been drunkened.
Mosaic covenant
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Mosaic covenant
Senses: examples: Coordinate term: New Covenant
topics: Christianity
synonyms: Old Covenant
Sinaitic covenant
glosses: A covenant between the Israelite tribes and God, including the entirety of the laws brought by Moses.
time-of-arrival technique
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the time-of-arrival technique
Senses: glosses: The determination of the location of something, such as a radio signal or a lightning radiation source, by comparing the slightly different times of arrival at multiple sensors or receivers.
moral circle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moral circles
Senses: examples: text: "[...] it’s called humanity’s expanding moral circle. The circle is the imaginary boundary we draw around those we consider worthy of moral consideration. Over the centuries, it’s expanded to include many people who were previously left out of it. As they were brought into the circle, those people won rights. Slavery was abolished. Women got the vote. Same-sex marriage was legalized."
ref: 2019 April 4, Sigal Samuel, “Should animals, plants, and robots have the same rights as you?”, in Vox:
glosses: The range of beings considered by an individual or culture to merit moral consideration.
moral circles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of moral circle
Scrioaștea
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Scrioaștea.
Senses: glosses: A village and commune of Teleorman County, Romania.
outclearing book
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: outclearing books
Senses: topics: business
finance
synonyms: out-book
glosses: A book in which documentation is recorded of bills and cheques sent by a bank to a clearing house.
out-book
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: out-books
Senses: glosses: Synonym of outclearing book.
synonyms: word: outclearing book
outclearing books
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of outclearing book
out-books
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of out-book
jaw breaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jaw breakers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of jawbreaker.
jaw breakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jaw breaker
hell's no
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hell no.
hells yeah
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Synonym of hell yeah.
synonyms: word: hell yeah