cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Bruin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Dutch bruin (“brown”), used as a name for the bear in Reynard the Fox.
Senses: examples: text: When he had driven some distance he met a pedlar. "Where is the sheriff off to, to-day?" said the pedlar; "he must have a long way and little time, since he is driving so fast." But Bruin did not say a word, for he had more than enough to do to hold on.
ref: 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 112:
glosses: A bear character in fairy stories, etc., especially when anthropomorphised.
Bruin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bruins
Etymology: * As a Dutch surname, borrowed from Dutch Bruin, from the adjective bruin (“brown”). Compare Braun.
* As an English surname, possibly a pronunciation of the French surname Brun, from the adjective brun (“brown”), related to above.
* As an Alemannic German surname, variant of Bruhin.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Dutch.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Elliott County, Kentucky, United States.
glosses: A borough of Butler County, Pennsylvania, United States.
Thorstenson
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Thorstensons
Etymology: Borrowed from Swedish Thorstenson.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Swedish.
McKeever
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: McKeevers
Etymology: Anglicized form of Irish Mac Íomhair.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish.
glosses: A hamlet in Herkimer County, New York, United States.
Thorstensons
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Thorstenson
Smylie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Smylies
Etymology: Variant of Smiley.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Sposito
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Spositos
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Sposito.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
Spositos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Sposito
Smylies
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Smylie
Berdan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Berdans
Etymology: Variant of Bardin.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
odylist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: odylists
Senses: glosses: A believer in odylism.
odylists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of odylist
Berdans
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Berdan
Tonghua
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: to͝ongʹhwäʹ
Forms: form: T'ung-hua
form: Tunghwa
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 通化 (Tōnghuà).
Senses: examples: text: The unit in Tonghua, Jilin province, signed an agreement with China Mobile – the largest wireless network operator – on March 23 to build the country’s first 5G checkpoint at Unbong, or Yunfeng Reservoir in Chinese, Legal Daily reported.
ref: 2019 April 8, Minnie Chan, “China to use 5G technology to tackle flow of refugees, smuggled goods over North Korean border”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 08 Apr 2019, Diplomacy:
text: An official in the northeastern Chinese city of Tonghua, where residents are barred from leaving their homes amid a strict lockdown, apologized to residents who said they had not been receiving enough food.
Tonghua, an industrial city of about two million people in Jilin Province, went into lockdown on Jan. 20 after the number of recent cases grew to nearly 100.
ref: 2021 January 26, Salman Masood, Lin Qiqing, “Chinese city apologizes over food shortages during lockdown, and other news from around the world.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 Jan 2021:
glosses: A prefecture-level city of Jilin, China.
examples: text: In order to improve the line of communications in Manchuria, the Chinese authorities are going to extend the Mukden-Hailung to Linkiang viá Hsinking and Tunghua as requested by the residents of these cities; but in view of the small amount of the product for export by the line, the prospect is not quite favourable. According to semi-official reports, the proposed extension will start at Hsinking for Tunghua, over 320 Chinese li away. Then 20 Chinese li east of Tunghua it will have to negotiate the mountainous region from Tungchangtai and Sanhotzu, necessitating the construction of an extensive tunnel.
ref: [1928 March 8 [1928 February 20], A.N.A., “NEW RAILWAYS IN MANCHURIA.”, in Hongkong Daily Press, number 21,732, Hong Kong, sourced from Peking, →OCLC, page 3, column 3:
text: Evidently negotiations were successful, since about this time the Red guerrillas" were reported to have expanded their forces by collaborating with the Big Swords in nearby Chinchuan Hsien and with the National Salvation Army in Tunghua and Liuho hsien.
ref: [1983, Chong-Sik Lee, “Radicalism versus United Front among the Guerrillas”, in Revolutionary Struggle in Manchuria: Chinese Communism and Soviet Interest, 1922–1945, University of California Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 214:
text: Kangmei Pharmaceutical Co Ltd
* Says to cooperate with government of Tonghua county, where healthcare market is worth over 3 billion yuan ($496 million), on medical services
ref: 2014 January 15, “China's Kangmei Pharma to cooperate with govt of Tonghua county on medical services”, in Reuters, sourced from Hong Kong and Singapore newsrooms, archived from the original on 05 Oct 2024:
glosses: A county of Tonghua, Jilin, China.
Tumlinson
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Tumlinsons
Etymology: Variant of Tomlinson.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Vanvoorst
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Vanvoorsts
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch van Voorst.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Dutch.
Vanvoorsts
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Vanvoorst
Tumlinsons
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Tumlinson
McKeevers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of McKeever
Voegeli
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Voegelis
Etymology: Borrowed from German Vögeli.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Bomgardner
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bomgardners
Etymology: Variant of Bumgardner.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Bomgardners
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Bomgardner
Voegelis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Voegeli
Bocock
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bococks
form: Bocook
Etymology: From the Middle English personal name Bawcock, a pet form of Baldwin.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Middle English.
Allor
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Allors
Etymology: Canadian spelling of French Allard.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
Allors
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Allor
Bococks
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Bocock
Moose River
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A number of rivers and a town in the United States:
A town in Somerset County, Maine.
glosses: A number of rivers and a town in the United States:
A river in Maine, which passes the town.
glosses: A number of rivers and a town in the United States:
Four separate rivers in Minnesota.
glosses: A number of rivers and a town in the United States:
A minor river in New Hampshire.
glosses: A number of rivers and a town in the United States:
A river in upstate New York.
glosses: A number of rivers and a town in the United States:
A minor river in Vermont.
glosses: Rivers and communities in Canada:
A community in Pictou County, Nova Scotia.
glosses: Rivers and communities in Canada:
A community in Cumberland County, Nova Scotia.
glosses: Rivers and communities in Canada:
A river in Nova Scotia.
glosses: Rivers and communities in Canada:
A river in British Columbia.
glosses: Rivers and communities in Canada:
A river in northern Ontario.
glosses: Rivers and communities in Canada:
A river in Quebec.
Demaris
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Demarises
Etymology: Origin unidentified. Perhaps a variant of Desmarais.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Demarises
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Demaris
Thatch weave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of Thach weave.
Warby
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Warbys
Etymology: Perhaps from Old Norse vǫrðr (“warden, watcher”) + býr (“farmstead”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Old Norse.
Port Soderick
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A coastal hamlet south of Douglas, Isle of Man (OS grid ref SC3472).
Hanzhong
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: hänʹjo͞ongʹ
Forms: form: Han-chung
form: Hanchung
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 漢中 /汉中 (Hànzhōng).
Senses: examples: text: The Xinhua state news agency said the attack occurred at 8 a.m. at a kindergarten in Nanzheng County of Hanzhong City.
Liu Xiaoming, deputy director of the propaganda department of Hanzhong City, confirmed the deaths and injuries.
ref: 2010 May 12, “7 Children Killed in School in China”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 May 2010:
text: For Wang, the recent graduate, the CCP badge is essential. Raised in Hanzhong, a city of 3 million in Shaanxi province, by two civil servant parents, Wang applied to join the party in his first year at college. Uploading photos of himself dressed in dark suits with the bright red emblem of the party pinned to his lapel “gives people the feeling that you are mature and serious,” he said.
ref: 2022 August 15, Vic Chiang, Christian Shepherd, “In China, civil servant chic is the new look for straitened times”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 Aug 2022, Asia:
glosses: A prefecture-level city of Shaanxi, China.
Warbys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Warby
Desmarais
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Desmaraises
form: Demara
form: Demarest
Etymology: Borrowed from French Desmarais.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
Desmaraises
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Desmarais
Iwinskis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Iwinski
Midleton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈmɪdl̩tən/
Senses: glosses: A town in County Cork, Ireland (Irish grid ref W 8773).
Related terms: Middleton
Nordstrandischmoor
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: hypernyms: Hallig
glosses: A German island in the North Sea
Colao
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Colaos
Senses: glosses: A Chinese minister of state.
hauls one's ashes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of haul one's ashes
gear-up landing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gear-up landings
Senses: examples: text: The gear warning horn sounds if any of the gear are not down and locked when the throttle is pulled back to idle with the flaps down, providing a valuable protection against a gear-up landing.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A landing of an aircraft with the landing gear retracted due to the pilot(s) forgetting to extend the gear or to take some other action necessary for the gear to deploy.
Related terms: belly landing
gear-up landings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gear-up landing
Gröde
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: hypernyms: Hallig
glosses: A German island in the North Sea
Hunmanby
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Scarborough district, North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref TA0977).
Langeness
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From German Langeneß.
Senses: hypernyms: Hallig
glosses: A German island in the North Sea
Hooge
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: hypernyms: Hallig
glosses: A German island in the North Sea
hauling one's ashes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of haul one's ashes
land under
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ʌndə(ɹ)
Etymology: Calque of German Land unter.
Senses: glosses: Complete flooding of a North Sea Hallig during a storm tide.
hauled one's ashes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of haul one's ashes
Pool-in-Wharfedale
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: See Pool, Wharfedale.
Senses: glosses: A village in Pool parish, Metropolitan Borough of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE2445).
levant and couchant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: But if the lands were not sufficiently fenced so as to keep to out cattle , the landlord cannot distrain them till they have been levant and couchant on the land
ref: 1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC:
glosses: Alternative form of couchant and levant.
Wharfedale
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Wharfe + dale.
Senses: glosses: The valley of the River Wharfe in North Yorkshire and West Yorkshire, England.
Derived terms: Burley in Wharfedale
Pool-in-Wharfedale
GSG
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: GSGs
form: GSG
Senses: examples: text: GSGs allow the gamer to consume history set by the developer and to compare it with their own historical experience and knowledge.
ref: 2021, Vera Lakmaker, "Aftr-Action Reports In Europa Universalis IV: How do AARs represent the past?", thesis submitted to Erasmus University Rotterdam, page 2
text: While the focus of this study is on grand strategy games the actual game being considered in the experiments is a generic game rather than a complete commercial GSG.
ref: 2022, Jen Ottander, "Fair Partitioning of Procedurally Generated Game Maps for Grand Strategy Games", thesis submitted to Umeå University, page 29
text: Therefore, this thesis has explored a possible improved rendering approach to enhance the graphical experience when playing GSG.
ref: 2022, Kajsa Buckard, "Hybrid Rendering in 3D Map-Based Grand Strategy Games", thesis submitted to the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, page 3
glosses: Initialism of grand strategy game.
Wharfe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: The name means "the bend;" see Middle English wharfe.
Senses: glosses: A river in North Yorkshire and West Yorkshire, England, which joins the Yorkshire River Ouse.
glosses: A hamlet in Austwick parish, North Yorkshire, previously in Craven district (OS grid ref SD7869).
Derived terms: Wharfedale
Austwick
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Craven district, North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SD7668).
Golob
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Golobs
Etymology: Borrowed from Slovene Golob.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Slovene.
ties the knot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tie the knot
tying the knot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tie the knot
tied the knot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tie the knot
IGS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of instrument guidance system.
Coordinate terms: VOR
VORTAC
ALS
PAPI
OLS
Related terms: GLS
ILS
MLS
lincolnensis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lincolnenses
form: lincolnensises
Etymology: From bacterial species, Streptomyces lincolnensis, discovered in Lincoln, Nebraska.
Senses: glosses: A bacterium of the species Streptomyces lincolnensis.
boo-hoo
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: boo-hoos
form: boo-hooing
form: boo-hooed
form: boo-hooed
Senses: examples: text: Two baby carriages, two par uv shoes, two soots uv klothes, two everything, too much! too much! too much! And he fairly boo-hooed.
ref: 1892, Two Hundred Popular Recitations and Readings:
text: Excited leaders of the people denounced it in unmeasured epithet, and the crowd boo-hooed outside its offices in Collins Street, but the writers of the journal went their unmoved way, as British journalists have a knack of doing.
ref: 1891, The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volumes 53-54:
glosses: Alternative form of boohoo.
whelphood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: the state of being a whelp, puppyhood
honeysome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more honeysome
form: most honeysome
Etymology: From honey + -some.
Senses: synonyms: honeyed
glosses: full of honey
synonyms: honeyed
glosses: sweet, sugary
lexical verb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lexical verbs
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A member of an open class of verbs typically expressing action, state, or other predicate meaning that includes all verbs except auxiliary verbs.
Synonyms: full verb
main verb
Hyponyms: linking verb
Coordinate terms: auxiliary verb
helping verb
light verb
nominalized adjective
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nominalized adjectives
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
hypernyms: adjective
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coordinate_terms: adjectival noun
glosses: An adjective used as a noun, having undergone nominalization.
postpositive adjective
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: postpositive adjectives
Senses: examples: text: In the sentence "She is beauty personified," the postpositive adjective is "personified", modifying "beauty".
text: The word "better" is a postpositive adjective in "I want something better", modifying "something".
text: In "This seems sufficient", "sufficient" is the postpositive adjective, modifying "this".
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: An adjective that follows the noun or pronoun that it modifies.
Hyponyms: predicative adjective
predicate adjective
Coordinate terms: attributive adjective
prepositive adjective
Related terms: complement
prepositive adjective
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prepositive adjectives
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: An adjective that occurs on an antecedent basis within a noun phrase.
text-book
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: text-books
Senses: examples: text: I read the work and I consider it most useful for our colleges as a text-book, and of great advantage for those who have finished their studies, as well as for Catholics in general.
ref: 1891, Charles Coppens, A Brief Text-book of Logic and Mental Philosophy:
glosses: Obsolete form of textbook.
take down a notch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes down a notch
form: taking down a notch
form: took down a notch
form: taken down a notch
Senses: examples: text: Confident and near-cocky for the second straight debate […] [McCain] easily deflected Romney and Giuliani attempts to take him down a notch.
ref: 2008 January 10, Mark Halperin, “The Republican Candisates: John McCain”, in Time, retrieved 08 Feb 2021:
text: Yet it is Gervais who has always been considered […] a quasi-"man of the people" who dares to take the elites down a notch.
ref: 2019 November 13, Adam Whites, “Banal, unfunny and not as dangerous as he thinks: It's time we stopped glorifying Ricky Gervais at the Golden Globes”, in Independent, retrieved 08 Feb 2021:
text: Even discount superstore Wal-Mart, once considered a recession-proof business, was taken down a notch after it reported lackluster earnings last month.
ref: 2013 March 26, The Motley Fool, “Will Dollar General Make Investors 'Fistfuls of Dollars'?”, in Seattle Post-Intelligencer, retrieved 08 Feb 2021:
glosses: To cause a person's or group's self-esteem or importance to be decreased.
raw_tags: of a person or organization
examples: text: [M]any travel companies are holding prices steady or taking them down a notch.
ref: 2008 October 14, Michelle Higgins, “Europe Returning to Land of In-Reach”, in New York Times, retrieved 08 Feb 2021:
text: [A]n increase in clouds (and a slight weakening of the heat dome overhead) may take temperatures down a notch.
ref: 2015 May 21, Jason Samenow, “Record-challenging heat likely in D.C. in May’s final week”, in Washington Post, retrieved 08 Feb 2021:
text: Veteran hotelier Ian Schrager’s new venture in Manhattan takes luxury down a notch.
ref: 2017 June 25, Eva Wiseman, “Public, New York: the five-star hotel for half the price”, in Guardian, retrieved 08 Feb 2021:
glosses: To cause the quantity, degree, or intensity of something to be decreased.
raw_tags: of a thing
Synonyms: bring down a notch
bring down a peg
dial down a notch
knock down a notch
knock down a peg
move down a notch
move down a peg
pull down a notch
pull down a peg
take down a peg
Related terms: cut down to size
put someone in their place
bring down a notch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: brings down a notch
form: bringing down a notch
form: brought down a notch
form: brought down a notch
Senses: glosses: Synonym of take down a notch.
synonyms: word: take down a notch
dial down a notch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dials down a notch
form: dialing down a notch
form: dialling down a notch
form: dialed down a notch
form: dialed down a notch
form: dialled down a notch
form: dialled down a notch
Senses: glosses: Synonym of take down a notch.
synonyms: word: take down a notch
knock down a notch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: knocks down a notch
form: knocking down a notch
form: knocked down a notch
form: knocked down a notch
Senses: glosses: Synonym of take down a notch.
synonyms: word: take down a notch
move down a notch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: moves down a notch
form: moving down a notch
form: moved down a notch
form: moved down a notch
Senses: glosses: Synonym of take down a notch.
synonyms: word: take down a notch
pull down a notch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pulls down a notch
form: pulling down a notch
form: pulled down a notch
form: pulled down a notch
Senses: glosses: Synonym of take down a notch.
synonyms: word: take down a notch
bring down a peg
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: brings down a peg
form: bringing down a peg
form: brought down a peg
form: brought down a peg
Senses: glosses: Synonym of take down a notch.
synonyms: word: take down a notch
move down a peg
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: moves down a peg
form: moving down a peg
form: moved down a peg
form: moved down a peg
Senses: glosses: Synonym of take down a notch.
synonyms: word: take down a notch
Euler angle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Euler angles
Etymology: Named after Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler (1707–1783).
Senses: examples: text: Euler angles can also represent the orientation of a mobile frame of reference in physics or the orientation of a basis in 3-dimensional linear algebra.
text: The use of Euler angles or Quaternions to represent entity (i.e., vehicle) orientation in the draft military standard for Distributed Interactive Simulation has drawn fierce debate.
ref: 1991, “AIAA Flight Simulation Technologies Conference: A Collection of Technical Papers”, in AIAA, page 271:
text: We have not drawn a picture, since Euler angle pictures of three-dimensional rotations are notoriously difficult to comprehend; what is very useful is for the reader to make a set of wire axes with labels to help follow the sequence of rotations.
ref: 2006, Don Koks, Explorations in Mathematical Physics: The Concepts Behind an Elegant Language, Springer, page 171:
text: Why do we need to know what Euler angles are? Because we use them. Many commercial 3D computer animation packages that are available today use Euler angles to describe and change orientations of objects.
ref: 2008, Midori Kitagawa, Brian Windsor, MoCap for Artists: Workflow and Techniques for Motion Capture, Elsevier (Focal Press), page 188:
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Any one of three angles which together describe the orientation of a rigid body with respect to a fixed three-dimensional coordinate system, according to a formalism introduced by Leonhard Euler.
Related terms: Tait-Bryan angle
Euler angles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Euler angle
Mengtsz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Mandarin 蒙自 (Méngzì).
Senses: examples: text: 1889, the opening of Mengtsz and relaxation of fiscal restrictions in Tonkin restored the Red River to its natural use as a trade route to Yunnan.
ref: 1908, Hosea Ballou Morse, The Trade And Administration Of The Chinese Empire, Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC, page 259:
text: Two lines of travel lead south and east from Yunnanfu. One is the route of the railway through Mengtsz to French Indo-China, with a caravan trail which branches off to Szemao in the southwest. The other road is the big east highway to Kwangtung. This road goes overland to Poseh at the head of navigation on the Si Kiang in western Kiangsi^([sic – meaning Kwangsi]), 355 miles distant, and requires twenty days of travel. From Poseh boats go down stream to Canton.
ref: 1934, George Babock Cressey, China's Geographic Foundations: A Survey of the Land and Its People, McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., →OCLC, page 379:
text: Upon arriving in Hokow, Huang Hsing found that the revolutionary forces there lacked fighting spirit. His strategy was to attack Mengtsz, the gateway to Kunming, the provincial capital of Yunnan, but he found the soldiers very reluctant to move.
ref: 1961, Chün-tu Hsüeh, Huang Hsing and the Chinese Revolution, Stanford, Cali.: Stanford University Press, published 1968, →OCLC, pages 70–71:
glosses: Alternative form of Mengzi (a county-level city in Yunnan, China).
Gejiu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: gǔʹjyōʹ
Forms: form: Kochiu
form: Ko-chiu
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 箇舊 /个旧 (Gèjiù).
Senses: examples: text: The Ko-chiu area in Yunnan is still the backbone of the Chinese tin industry, as it supplies about two-thirds of China's total output.
ref: [1973, Chiao-min Hsieh, ATLAS OF CHINA, McGraw-Hill, Inc., →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 97:
text: According to French Consul François, the governor-general and other leading officials personally attended the drill practices close to Yunnanfu. Five prefectures succeeded in organizing t’uan-lien, which paraded and drilled before dawn and before dusk in the villages.¹⁸ In the winter of 1903-4 an occasion arose to test the experiment. A revolt, antiforeign and antiofficial in inspiration, started among the perennially restive young tin miners in the Ko-chiu mining region.
ref: [1980, Donald S. Sutton, Provincial Militarism and the Chinese Republic: The Yunnan Army, 1905–25 (Michigan Studies on China), Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 56–57:
text: In Gejiu, a city of 310,000 people on a route favored by drug traffickers, initial rounds of AIDS testing in recent years found more than 1,000 people with H.I.V., nearly all drug users or prostitutes. Tong Waiyuan, a vice mayor, explained that Yunnan's new plan included needle exchanges, condom promotion, and more testing and education and counseling.
ref: 2005 June 16, Jim Yardley, “Chinese City Emerges As Model in AIDS Fight”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 May 2015, Asia Pacific:
text: An estimated 50,000 tonnes of capacity is expected to be closed in 2010 among 53 lead smelters in the Shadian industrial section of Gejiu city in Yunnan province which has 500,000 tonnes of lead smelting capacity a year, local officials said Thursday.
ref: 2010 June 3, “China's Gejiu area lead smelters face closure -industry”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 30 May 2022, Metals News:
glosses: A county-level city of Honghe prefecture, Yunnan, China.
Kochiu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Mandarin 箇舊／个旧 (Gèjiù).
Senses: examples: text: Tin comes from Kochiu, about twenty miles from the French port of Mengtsz, and about 5,000 tons are exported annually.
ref: 1911, Edwin J. Dingle, Across China on Foot: Life in the Interior and the Reform Movement, New York: Henry Holt and Company, →OCLC, →OL, page 428:
text: The village clings to the side of the hill and looks down over the broad valley of Meng-tsz. The view in all directions is superb, and the village is filthy. It deals principally with the two dirtiest commodities known to man—pigs and coal. The tin from the mines of Kochiu, both of which are on a spur railroad which branches off from the main line at a village called Pi-che-tchai.[...]The tin from the mines of Kochiu also passes through it, but only at intervals, whereas the pigs and the coal are its everyday affair.
ref: 1940, Nicol Smith, Burma Road, Garden City, NY: Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC, pages 136–137:
text: One of the most criminal uses of them was in the primitive tin mines at Kochiu, a semi-government enterprise. Once there, the boys often developed rickets, scabies and beri-beri. The shafts and tunnels in the mines were very small, hardly big enough for a boy to crawl in and out on his hands and knees, with the ore basket strapped to his back. As a result many became permanently deformed and were cast aside.
ref: 1958, Edgar Snow, Journey to the Beginning, New York: Random House, →OCLC, page 53:
glosses: Dated form of Gejiu.
gletcher ice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gletcher ices
Senses: examples: text: The main part of ice thickness consists of "gletcher ice", formed from atmospheric precipitations with included in it suspended articles of different origin and microbial cells.
ref: 2003 January 30, Irina N. Mitskevich, Margarita N. Poglazova, Sabit S. Abyzov, “Study of the Micro-Organisms Preserved in the Central Antarctic Glacier in Connection with the Problems of Astrobiology”, in Richard B. Hoover, Alexei Yu. Rozanov, Jere H. Lipps, editors, Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, →DOI, page 174:
text: Gletcher and sea ice should be distinguished among the ice covering the sea surface in high latitudes. The former is generated exclusively from precipitation, being compacted and transformed first into firn and then gletcher ice, after it has broken off glaciers into the sea.
ref: 2009, M. G. Khublaryan, edited by Martin Gaikovich Khublaryan, Types and Properties of Waters (Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems; 1), →ISBN, page 18:
glosses: A type of floating ice formed from precipitation.
Related terms: glacier
Polynesian Triangle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A region of the Pacific Ocean, settled by Polynesians, that is roughly triangular, extending from vertexes approximately at New Zealand, Easter Island, Hawaii. This is sometimes used to define the region of Polynesia.
Related terms: Bermuda Triangle
Dragon Triangle
Golden Triangle
Polynesia
Polynesian
Polynesians
triangle
Triangle
Shiukwan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Cantonese 韶關 /韶关 (siu4 gwaan1).
Senses: examples: text: Eight out of twelve Japanese planes were shot down when nineteen Chinese planes intercepted and surprised them at Namhung, ninety miles from Canton according to a Chinese communique. Eighteen other Japanese planes dropped sixty bombs on Shiukwan causing heavy casualties.—Reuter.
ref: 1938 August 31, “On Chinese Front”, in The Bombay Chronicle, page 1:
text: The country as I saw it from the train was magnificently green, and after Shiukwan it became seriously mountainous, so that the brave new railway wound precariously up the river-banks. At Pingshek, fourteen hours by train from Canton, I was only a few miles from Hunan.
ref: 1946, Richard P. Dobson, “Kwangtung”, in China Cycle, London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd., →OCLC, pages 46-47:
text: The Changshih people's commune near Shiukwan in northern Kwangtung has within a few months brought the living standards of the average household beyond that of former well-to-do peasants.
ref: 1959 January 14 [1959 January 14], “Commune Members' Income Raised”, in Daily Report: Foreign Radio Broadcasts, number 9, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Canton and Peking, NCNA, →OCLC, Communist China: National Affairs, page BBB 5:
text: All the intelligentsia, artisans, and officials from Canton seemed to be at Shiukwan. Even some of the bigger Canton schools had moved there, staff and students en masse.
Bidding farewell to Shiukwan after a twenty-four-hour stay, we proceeded by train to Hengyang, in Hunan Province, where after remaining overnight we transferred to another train for Kweilin, Kwangsi Province.
ref: 1964, Shu-fan Li, Hong Kong Surgeon, New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 188:
glosses: Synonym of Shaoguan: the Cantonese-derived name.
synonyms: word: Shaoguan
extra: the Cantonese-derived name
Sivas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Turkish Sivas and Ottoman Turkish سیواس (Sivas), from Byzantine Greek Σεβάστεια (Sebásteia), from Ancient Greek Σεβαστός (Sebastós) + -εια (-eia, “-ia: forming place names”), from σεβαστός (sebastós, “venerable, august”) used as a calque of Latin Augustus. Doublet of Sebastia.
Senses: glosses: A province in central Turkey.
glosses: A district of Sivas Province, Turkey.
glosses: A municipality, the capital of Sivas district and Sivas Province, Turkey; formerly, Sebastia.
glosses: A former eyalet of the Ottoman Empire.
Synonyms: sense: former province
word: Rum
sense: former province
word: Rûm
confides in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of confide in
confiding in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of confide in
confided in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of confide in
Tessica
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Probably a blend of Tess + Jessica.
Senses: examples: text: The crowd Wednesday included a few outdoor movie buffs and some casual Austen fans, but the majority were young women such as Tessica Venteicher, 30, who showed up last year for the “Pride and Prejudice” screening and was back now for “Emma.” Along for the ride: fiance Kevin Harber, who’s a good sport but not a true believer.
ref: 2015 July 18, Roxanne Roberts, “The Jane Austen film festival: Chick flicks for D.C.’s highbrow romantics”, in The Washington Post:
glosses: A female given name.
hides the sausage
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hide the sausage
hiding the sausage
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hide the sausage
primary stress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛs
Forms: form: primary stresses
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
synonyms: primary accent
coordinate_terms: secondary stress
glosses: The stronger of two degrees of stress in the pronunciation of a word.
Related terms: english: primary stress mark
translation: primary stress mark
word: ˈ
secondary stress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: secondary stresses
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
synonyms: secondary accent
coordinate_terms: primary stress
glosses: The weaker of two degrees of stress in the pronunciation of a word.
wikipedia: secondary stress
Related terms: secondary stress mark
hid the sausage
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of hide the sausage
hidden the sausage
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of hide the sausage
has sexual relations
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of have sexual relations
having sexual relations
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of have sexual relations
had sexual relations
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of have sexual relations
Standedge
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A moorland escarpment in the Pennines, between Greater Manchester and West Yorkshire, England, which lends its name to the Standedge Tunnels (OS grid ref SE0110).
Leiston
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town and civil parish (served by Leiston-cum-Sizewell Town Council) in East Suffolk district, Suffolk, England (OS grid ref TM4462).
Sizewell
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A coastal hamlet and nuclear power station in Leiston parish, East Suffolk district, Suffolk, England (OS grid ref TM4762).
Spreitzer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Spreitzers
Etymology: Borrowed from German Spreitzer. This surname is mostly found in Austria.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Stanbery
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Stanberys
Etymology: Variant of Stanbury.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Stanberys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Stanbery
Spreitzers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Spreitzer
Johannite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Johannites
Etymology: From Johan (“John”) + -ite. From Saint John, John the Baptist.
Senses: glosses: A follower of Johannism
glosses: A follower of the sect of Saint John the Baptist
Related terms: Johan
Johannism
John
John the Baptist
Saint John
Johannite
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Johannite
form: most Johannite
Etymology: From Johan (“John”) + -ite. From Saint John, John the Baptist.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to Johannism
Derived terms: Johannite Church
Johannite Church of Primitive Christians
Thivierge
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Thivierges
Etymology: Borrowed from French Thivierge.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
Teta
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Tetas
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Teta.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
Johannism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Johannisms
Etymology: From Johan (“John”) + -ism. From Saint John, John the Baptist.
Senses: glosses: A variety of messianic Judaism which believed that John the Baptist was the Saviour, the Christ.
glosses: A variety of Christianity which rejected Jesus of Nazareth as the Christ the Savior, and accepted John the Baptist as the Saviour Christ.
glosses: A sect which worships John the Baptist
glosses: A sect of followers of John the Baptist
Coordinate terms: word: Johannite Church
english: followers of John the Baptist
translation: followers of John the Baptist
word: Johannite Church of Primitive Christians
english: accused of practising Johannism, being Johannites, accepting John the Baptist as the Christ
translation: accused of practising Johannism, being Johannites, accepting John the Baptist as the Christ
word: Knights Templar
Related terms: Johan
Johannite
John
John the Baptist
Saint John
Gnosticism
Nestorianism
Tetas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Teta
Thivierges
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Thivierge
catamountain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kætəˈmaʊntɪn/
ipa: /-t(ə)n/
ipa: /kætəˈmaʊnt(ə)n/
ipa: [-ɾə-]
Forms: form: catamountains
form: cat-a-mountain
form: cat o' mountain
Etymology: From Late Middle English catamountain, from Middle English catte of the mountayne, cate of þe mounttaynne (“leopard, panther”).
Senses: examples: text: Goe, charge my Goblins that they grinde their ioynts / With dry Convultions, ſhorten vp their ſinewes / With aged Cramps, & more pinch-ſpotted make them, / Than Pard, or Cat o' Mountaine.
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i], page 16, column 1:
synonyms: catamount
glosses: A leopard, a panther (Panthera pardus); also, an ocelot (Leopardus pardalis).
glosses: A man living in the mountains.
Tapanes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Tapaneses
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Tapanes. This surname is mostly found in Cuba.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish.
cat o' mountain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cat o' mountains
Senses: examples: text: Goe, charge my Goblins that they grinde their ioynts / With dry Convultions, ſhorten vp their ſinewes / With aged Cramps, & more pinch-ſpotted make them, / Than Pard, or Cat o' Mountaine.
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i], page 16, column 1:
glosses: Alternative spelling of catamountain.
Suon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Suons
Etymology: Perhaps borrowed from the Khmer given name សួន (suən).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Khmer.
Suons
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Suon
Tapaneses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Tapanes
Schatzman
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Schatzmans
Etymology: Variant of German Schatzmann.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Sculley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sculleys
Etymology: Variant of Scully.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Sculleys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Sculley
Schatzmans
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Schatzman
I put it to you
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: I put it to you that the accused planned the attack beforehand.
glosses: I suggest (to you), I propose
Shetterly
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Shetterlys
Etymology: Origin unidentified.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
bear a grudge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bears a grudge
form: bearing a grudge
form: bore a grudge
form: borne a grudge
Senses: examples: text: Barlow, 73, bears no grudge that she spent decades being neglected by both commercial and public galleries.
ref: 2017 May 10, Hannah Ellis-Petersen, “Phyllida Barlow: I couldn't have coped if fame had come 20 years ago”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Synonym of hold a grudge.
synonyms: word: hold a grudge
Pioquinto
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Pioquintos
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Pioquinto.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish.
Pioquintos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Pioquinto
Shetterlys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Shetterly
Petteway
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Petteways
Etymology: Variant of Pettaway.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Quakenbush
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Quakenbushes
Etymology: Variant of Quackenbush.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Quakenbushes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Quakenbush
Petteways
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Petteway
Scullys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Scully
scud run
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: scud runs
form: scud running
form: scud ran
form: scud ran
Senses: examples: text: When the weather worsened, the pilot elected to scud run and flew into a hill three miles past the end of the runway. I wisely elected to wait until conditions improved.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To fly below the bases of low clouds and close to the ground in an attempt to maintain external visual reference in weather ordinarily considered too poor for visual flying.
Stanburys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Stanbury
Wrabness
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small village and civil parish in Tendring district, Essex, England (OS grid ref TM1831).
devegetation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From de- + vegetation.
Senses: examples: text: December 2023 remains the target date for the first services over the reopened 5½-mile line from Thornton Junction. Devegetation of the old alignment is almost complete.
ref: 2021 February 10, Howard Johnston, “Regional News: Scotland: Levenmouth”, in RAIL, number 924, page 25:
glosses: The removal of vegetation.
Related terms: devegetate
absque dubio
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From Latin absque (“without”) + dubiō (“doubt”).
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Without doubt; used in pleadings where a statement needs no proof.
karkhana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: karkhanas
form: karkana
Senses: glosses: A factory.
South Newsham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A minor suburb of Newsham, Blyth parish, Northumberland, England (OS grid ref NZ3078).
Westoe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɛstˈəʊ/
Senses: glosses: A suburb of South Shields, Metropolitan Borough of South Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, England (OS grid ref NZ3766).
have several seats
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: take several seats
Etymology: From have a seat (and take a seat).
Senses: qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: A directive for someone to calm down or modify their attitude, and to refrain from speaking about an issue in which they have limited knowledge or experience.
notarizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: notarizers
Etymology: From notarize + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who notarizes.
notarizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of notarizer
ERCOT
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Acronym of Electric Reliability Council of Texas.
PUCT
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Public Utility Commission of Texas.
semiwave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semiwaves
Etymology: From semi- + wave.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Half of a wave.
semiwaves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of semiwave
king cricket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: king crickets
Senses: glosses: An insect of the family Anostostomatidae.
king crickets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of king cricket
observer's paradox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: observer's paradoxes
Senses: glosses: The situation in which a phenomenon being observed for study is unintentionally influenced by the presence of the observer.
sure as the world
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: Ellipsis from various similar phrases: "sure as the world exists", "goes round", "spins", "stands", etc.
Senses: qualifier: simile
glosses: sure enough
natural laws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of natural law
I'll be dipped
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of I'll be dipped in shit (“expression of astonishment”).
Eurorealist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Eurorealists
Etymology: From Euro- + realist.
Senses: glosses: A proponent of Eurorealism.
Eurorealists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Eurorealist
Eurorealism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Euro- + realism.
Senses: glosses: A realist (rather than idealist) stance toward the European Union.
Related terms: Eurorealist
Euroscepticism
Ridgmont
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Central Bedfordshire district, Bedfordshire, England (OS grid ref SP9736).