cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Tasmanian cave spider
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Tasmanian cave spiders
Senses: examples: text: Quilty told me that some of the flora I may have noticed in the Andes were to be found elsewhere only in Tasmania […] and that insects like the Tasmanian cave spider were the sole family known outside Chile.
ref: 2004, Nicholas Shakespeare, In Tasmania, Harvill Press, p. 25
glosses: A species of large-clawed spider, Hickmania troglodytes, found in Tasmania.
Mid Beds
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Labour seizes Tamworth and Mid-Beds from Conservatives in UK by-elections
ref: 2023 October 20, Financial Times:
glosses: Mid Bedfordshire (an electoral district in Bedfordshire, England).
Tasmaniac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Tasmaniacs
Etymology: Blend of Tasmania + maniac.
Senses: examples: text: No-one was terribly interested to hear about the findings of the Menzies Institute, which showed that Tasmaniacs have a lower rate of congenital malformation than the Australian average.
ref: 2004, Nicholas Shakespeare, In Tasmania, Harvill Press, p. 27
text: Irving was shocked that the Tasmaniac even knew that word.
ref: 2015, Stephen Ostrow, Magic Irving and His Magic Shoppe:
text: I need to recharge my batteries to have the energy to take on whatever surprise-challenge some ‘Tasmaniac’ has lined up for me.
ref: 2016, Miroslav Vesely, The Nude Kitchen Hand:
glosses: A native or inhabitant of Tasmania, Australia.
public displays of affection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of public display of affection
Appel reaction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Appel reactions
Etymology: Named for Rolf Appel, a chemist who developed this reaction.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An organic reaction that converts an alcohol into an alkyl chloride using triphenylphosphine and carbon tetrachloride.
wikipedia: Rolf Appel
Glais
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Birchgrove community and Clydach community, City and County of Swansea, Wales (OS grid ref SN7000).
Ystalyfera
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Welsh.
Senses: glosses: A village and community in Neath Port Talbot borough county borough, Wales (OS grid ref SN7608).
cangaceira
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cangaceiras
Senses: glosses: A female cangaceiro.
cangaceiras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cangaceira
Cwmllynfell
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Welsh.
Senses: glosses: A village and community in Neath Port Talbot borough county borough, Wales (OS grid ref SN7412).
staffperson
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: staffpeople
Senses: examples: text: The gay representatives also made two specific requests to the Carter staffpeople.
ref: 1977 April 9, Neil Miller, “Carter Aides Pledge To Set Up Series of Meetings”, in Gay Community News, page 7:
glosses: A staff member.
summerfolk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Camilla Crawfords records the happenings of the Summer of '73 in a small resort community on eastern Long Island. Camilla's crowd is the "townie" crowd, mostly year-round members of the community, with some "summerfolk" thrown in for variety.
ref: 1977 April 9, Eric Rogers, “Teenage Books Grow Up”, in Gay Community News, page 9:
glosses: People who visit or temporarily reside in a place in the summer.
Related terms: snowbird
hodge-podgey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: hodge-podgier
form: hodge-podgiest
Senses: examples: text: Ten years hence, when critics look back to acknowledge the American playwright of this hodge-podgey decade most likely to succeed O'Neill, Williams, and Albee in our 20th century dramatic heritage, one of the prime candidates will be John Guare.
ref: 1977 April 9, Don Shewey, “Guare's Rich and Famous”, in Gay Community News, page 11:
glosses: mixed up, jumbled
Cwmtwrch
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Welsh.
Senses: glosses: A village and ward in Ystradgynlais community, southern Powys, Wales (OS grid refs SN7610, SN7511).
broad-billed flycatcher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: broad-billed flycatchers
Senses: glosses: A species of monarch flycatcher, Myiagra ruficollis, of northern Australia, southern New Guinea, and the Lesser Sundas, having a bill that is much broader than other species of the same genus.
broad-billed flycatchers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of broad-billed flycatcher
trip sitters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trip sitter
treeish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more treeish
form: most treeish
Senses: examples: text: The treeish thing looked stiff and clumsy, but it wasn't; it was fast and flexible and frighteningly strong.
ref: 1986, Jo Clayton, The Soul Drinker, page 343:
text: In The Lords of the Rings there are dark forces in the forest—the Huorn. Huorn are ents who have become more treeish, gone rogue. They can still move and speak, but only with the ents.
ref: 2017, Inga Simpson, Understory, Hachette UK, →ISBN:
glosses: Resembling a tree.
hopless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hop + -less.
Senses: examples: text: a hopless beer
glosses: Without hops.
Europolitician
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Europoliticians
Etymology: From Euro- + politician.
Senses: glosses: A politician involved in European politics.
Europolitics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Euro- + politics.
Senses: glosses: European politics.
Europolitical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Europolitical
form: most Europolitical
Etymology: From Euro- + political.
Senses: glosses: Relating to European politics.
Europoliticians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Europolitician
groundkeeping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of groundskeeping.
OLR
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: OLRs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Order for Lifelong Restriction.
OLRs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of OLR
star wheel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: star wheels
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of starwheel.
star wheels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of star wheel
dadburned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dadburn.
downgrade dance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: downgrade dances
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A form of attack in which the malicious client negotiates with the server so as to establish a connection using an older, vulnerable version of the protocol.
downgrade dances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of downgrade dance
Mainite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mainites
Etymology: From Maine + -ite.
Senses: examples: text: Each year rotted and broken timbers, coins and bric-a-brac are tossed upon the Maine shore line. Some is bought by tourists; some is gathered by Mainites and much is ground to bits.
ref: 2018, Horace P. Beck, The Folklore of Maine:
glosses: Synonym of Mainer (“inhabitant of the US state of Maine”).
synonyms: word: Mainer
extra: inhabitant of the US state of Maine
Mainites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mainite
shadow IT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: However, there are also many shadow IT systems which might be a spreadsheet or database, and there can be anything up to 800 of those in place at any time. Add into this any number of services secretly buying systems without informing IT departments and it is a big spaghetti mess. One chief information officer (CIO) described trying to manage and reduce shadow IT systems as like playing a game of whack-a-mole—one goes down and another pops up.
ref: 2022, Victoria Betton, Towards a Digital Ecology: NHS Digital Adoption through the COVID-19 Looking Glass, CRC Press, →ISBN:
glosses: Software used or deployed without the approval of a central IT department, typically to bypass limitations and restrictions.
IUGR
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
obstetrics
sciences
glosses: Initialism of intrauterine growth restriction.
gestational diabetes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
obstetrics
sciences
synonyms: word: GDM
hypernyms: diabetes mellitus
glosses: A condition in which a woman without diabetes develops high blood glucose levels during pregnancy.
batonned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of baton
batonning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of baton
Cullis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
bathscape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bathscapes
Senses: examples: text: With these bathrooms of softly colored floors and walls there is a fine chance to get away from the crisply starched white curtains that have always been an integral part of the bathscape, even though they seem to be so neat and sanitary, using materials that imply a little more luxury.
ref: 1927, Architect and Engineer, page 60:
glosses: The assortment of decorations and utilities in and around a bathtub or shower; bathroom interior design.
leaftier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leaftiers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of leaf tier.
leaftiers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leaftier
Sparkhill
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An inner suburb of Birmingham, West Midlands, England, south-east of the city centre (OS grid ref SP0983).
Related terms: Sparkbrook
Bègles
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A commune in Gironde department, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France, a suburb of Bordeaux.
Wiknics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Wiknic
tier list
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɪə ˌlɪst/
ipa: /ˈtɪɚ ˌlɪst/
rhymes: -ɪst
Forms: form: tier lists
form: tierlist
Etymology: Compound of tier (“rank, grade”) + list.
Senses: examples: text: When discussing game balance in an asymmetric game, players often use a tier list.
ref: 2016, David Sirlin, “Game Balance”, in Henry Lowood, Raiford Guins, editors, Debugging Game History: A Critical Lexicon, Cambridge, Mass.; London: The MIT Press, →ISBN, page 173:
text: For most competitive tier lists, however, the rankings are cut at B because champions below B level are rarely if ever viable in competition.
ref: 2020, Phill Alexander, Esports For Dummies®, Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., →ISBN, page 60:
topics: video-games
glosses: A list of playable characters in a video game subjectively ranked by their respective viability.
examples: text: Next, based on the consensus of the group, obtained through the moderation of the authors, a tier list has been established which structures the existing and possible processes and methods to be used for technology commercialization. The list has four different levels, with most interviewees finding themselves and their institutions on the first two levels.
ref: 2020, Diana Dragomir, Diana Pitic, Mihai Dragomir, Daniela Popescu, “Overview of Technology Commercialization Options in Romania”, in Numan M. Durakbasa, M. Güneş Gençyılmaz, editors, Digital Conversion on the Way to Industry 4.0: Selected Papers from ISPR2020, September 24–26, 2020 Turkey (Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering), Springer, →ISBN, page 659:
text: “What am I getting myself into?” I asked. / “The usual amount of trouble,” Myalis said. / Lucy giggled. “‘Usual’ means that there’s also an unusual amount somewhere.” / “I have a tier list,” Myalis replied.
ref: 2022, RavensDagger [pseudonym], Stray Cat Strut, volume 2, Podium Publishing, →ISBN:
glosses: A ranked list of items in any subject.
tierlist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tierlists
Senses: examples: text: Like the games themselves, the gaming field operates at many levels and has its own tierlist, from the casual to the hardcore, the couch co-op and Pass the Pad to strategy games and MOBAs (Multiplayer Online Battle Arena; the closest gaming has come to a real sport).
ref: 2016, Susie Dent, Dent’s Modern Tribes: The Secret Languages of Britain, London: John Murray, →ISBN:
text: It goes without saying that Shrek SuperSlam wasn't meant to be played at ultra-high levels, but as the scene grows, so does the infrastructure. A website called ShrekBoards keeps an up-to-date tierlist pinned to their front page.
ref: 2016 October 19, Luke Winkie, “How the Internet Accidentally Made 'Shrek SuperSlam' into an Esport”, in Vice, archived from the original on 12 Nov 2020:
text: […] (‘a tierlist is a list that helps to determine what are the characters or weapons with best potential to win competitions’).
ref: 2022 September, Rosalía Cotelo García, “Jelou pipol: Computer-mediated communication among Spanish-speaking gamers on Twitch”, in Internet Pragmatics, volume 5, number 2, John Benjamins Publishing Company, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 257–290:
text: To be clear, Steve haters have called the character overpowered for years now. A recent tierlist put together by UltRank that tallied votes from 71 pro Ultimate players ranked Steve in the top tier of characters in the game, along with Joker and Pyra/Mythra.
ref: 2023 March 6, Steven T. Wright, “Minecraft's Steve Is Finally Being Banned In Major Smash Bros. Tournaments”, in GameSpot, archived from the original on 06 Mar 2023:
glosses: Alternative form of tier list.
tier lists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tier list
tierlists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tierlist
masenqos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of masenqo
qababs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of qabab
qacs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of qac
QACs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of QAC
qaspeqs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of qaspeq
Qatifis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Qatifi
QEFs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of QEF
qilas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of qila
QLs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of QL
QNEDs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of QNED
QPAs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of QPA
QPMs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of QPM
QRNGs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of QRNG
QRTs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of QRT
QRTs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of QRT
quasifixations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quasifixation
quasiisometries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quasiisometry
quaterniums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quaternium
quaternary sectors of the economy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quaternary sector of the economy
QUESTs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of QUEST
querimans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of queriman
Queequegs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Queequeg
pathomorphologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pathomorphologist
pathohistologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pathohistologist
Provo all-stars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Provo all-star
cuiries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cuirie
evening classes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of evening class
consistorialraths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of consistorialrath
Consistorialraths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Consistorialrath
Constables
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Constable
BuzzFeedy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more BuzzFeedy
form: most BuzzFeedy
Etymology: From BuzzFeed + -y.
Senses: examples: text: One subplot involved the acquisition of Vaulter, a vaguely Vicey/Buzzfeedy/Gawkery website that was kept afloat on an empty wave of pure clickbait.
ref: 2020 June 8, Stuart Heritage, “Succession's 10 best moments: from Boar on the Floor to excruciating phone sex”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 Jan 2023:
text: When one of BuzzFeed’s famous quizzes went buggy and complaints went viral, Facebook—now more BuzzFeedy than BuzzFeed—liked what it saw.
ref: 2023 May 3, Nathan Heller, “BuzzFeed, Gawker, and the Casualties of the Traffic Wars”, in The New Yorker, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 02 Sep 2023:
synonyms: BuzzFeedish
glosses: Resembling the news and entertainment site BuzzFeed.
BuzzFeedish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more BuzzFeedish
form: most BuzzFeedish
Etymology: From BuzzFeed + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: I used to think that the web would become a strange pit of snark and conspiracy theories – and, in certain areas, it is. But the dominant tone on the web these days is one of Buzzfeedish enthusiasm and emojied exclamation marks and joining in to be part of the zeitgeist.
ref: 2015 March 4, Hadley Freeman, “So this is how the world ends: with us distracted by cute cats”, in The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 08 Dec 2022:
text: New York magazine's Jesse Singal helpfully suggests thinking of the generation as two distinct groups: "Old Millennials" and "Young Millennials." Singal pegs the main differences between the two to the rise of smartphones and the onset of the global financial crisis. BuzzFeed noticed the same divide and came up with what may be the most BuzzFeedish piece ever: " 45 Signs You're An Old Millennial."
ref: 2017 September 10, Whitney Blake, “9/11 and the Millennials”, in Washington Examiner, Washington, D.C.: MediaDC, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 Nov 2020:
synonyms: BuzzFeedy
glosses: Resembling the news and entertainment site BuzzFeed.
BuzzFeed
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A news and entertainment website launched in 2006, owned by BuzzFeed, Inc.
Derived terms: BuzzFeeder
BuzzFeedish
BuzzFeedy
BuzzFeed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: BuzzFeeds
Senses: examples: text: Thanks to Facebook I saw tweets, memes, BuzzFeeds, and UpWorthy videos that gave me much-needed comic relief and valuable material you will read more about in the pages to come.
ref: 2014, Sophia A. McClennen, “[Preface and Acknowledgments] Sophia’s Acknowledgments”, in Sophia A. McClennen, Remy M. Maisel, Is Satire Saving Our Nation? Mockery and American Politics, New York, N.Y.: Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page xiv:
text: I scroll through my feed, clicking on Amazon links for my next read and also on some Buzzfeeds,^([sic]) because they make me laugh.
ref: 2014, Cassie Mae, chapter 17, in The Real Thing, London: Rouge, Ebury Publishing, →ISBN:
text: Get the BuzzFeeds you actually want to read / The viral content website has launched its own news app for personalised updates
ref: 2015, “Tutorials”, in Android Magazine, number 58, Bournemouth, Dorset: Imagine Publishing Ltd, →ISSN, page 36:
text: But with increasingly publicized private lives through a variety of social media, failing at a marriage proposal has now become an event that millions of strangers can watch and even comment on. Indeed, “proposal fails” is an entire genre of YouTube videos as well as the subject of various BuzzFeeds, Tumblr sites, and even Twitter feeds.
ref: 2019, Laurie Essig, “Marry Me?”, in Love, Inc.: Dating Apps, the Big White Wedding, and Chasing the Happily Neverafter, Oakland, Calif.: University of California Press, →ISBN, page 103:
text: And so I’m—maybe that’s a cautionary tale for print journalism, like do we run the risk of having so many Voxes—you know, Vox.com—that readers are kinds of sick of the BuzzFeeds and the Vox.com “listicles” and analyses, and then we revert back to the AP style with just the facts, like I’ve seen CNN try and make its name.
ref: 2019, Kimberly Meltzer, quoting Amber Phillips, “[Journalists’ Thoughts about the Future of News] Predictions about the Future of Newspapers”, in From News to Talk: The Expansion of Opinion and Commentary in US Journalism, Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, →ISBN, page 207:
text: “TODAY’S WRITERS,” HAH! I’LL STOP YOU RIGHT THERE! I’VE READ THE BUZZFEEDS, I KNOW ALL ABOUT THESE GEN WHAT-HAVE-YOUs-⁠- / THEY’RE SOFT, SELF-OBSESSED, GLUED TO THEIR PHONES ALL DAY. I DON’T HAVE THE TIME TO CODDLE THEIR DELICATE SENSIBILITIES! I’M LOOKING FOR HARD-EDGED JOURNALISM HERE-⁠-
ref: 2020, Nick Spencer, The Amazing Spider-Man, volume 8 (Threats & Menaces; numbers 37–43), New York, N.Y.: Marvel Entertainment, →ISBN:
glosses: A BuzzFeed article.
un-othering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: un-otherings
Senses: topics: government
human-sciences
philosophy
politics
sciences
synonyms: including
repairing
glosses: negative gerund of other: the process of perceiving or portraying someone or something as essentially related and included.
slap someone's wrist
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: slaps someone's wrist
form: slapping someone's wrist
form: slapped someone's wrist
form: slapped someone's wrist
Senses: glosses: Synonym of wrist-slap.
synonyms: word: wrist-slap
Coordinate terms: slap someone around
Huchou
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Li begged them not to betray him. "If you can find a way of taking me safely to Huchou in Chekiang, I will give you 30,000 taels."
ref: 1914, E. Backhouse, J. O. P. Bland, “Hsien Feng and T’ung Chih: The Facile Descent”, in Annals and Memoirs of the Court of Peking (From the 16th to the 20th Century), Houghton Mifflin Company, →OCLC, page 425:
text: I was born on August 21, 1900, in the Prefecture of Huchou, now the county of Wuhsin, Chekiang Province.
ref: 1994, “Early Years 1900–1925”, in The Storm Clouds Clear Over China: The Memoir of Chʻen Li-fu, 1900-1993, Hoover Institution Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2:
text: An hour later, we were on a bus bound for Huchou and our last province. Good-bye Kiangsu, hello Chekiang.
ref: 2016, Bill Porter, “Hermits & Pearls [隱者 真珠]”, in South of the Yangtze: Travels Through the Heart of China, Counterpoint Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 204:
english: 隱者 真珠
translation: 隱者 真珠
glosses: Alternative form of Huzhou.
Haibei
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: hīʹbāʹ
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 海北 (Hǎiběi).
Senses: examples: text: A Tibetan-nationality woman cadre in (Tolien) commune, Chilien County, Haipei Tibetan Autonomous Chou, fearing no hardships, made a 4-day journey on horseback to register for college enrollment in the county seat.
ref: [1972 August 23 [1972 August 19], “Tsinghai Stresses Enrollment Procedures for Colleges”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 165, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Sining Tsinghai Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China: Northwest Region, page H 4:
text: In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, rescue workers gather at the site of a coal mine accident in Haibei Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, northwestern China’s Qinghai Province, on Saturday, Aug. 14, 2021. A team of 200 Chinese police, emergency workers and experts on Sunday were trying to reach 19 coal miners trapped in the flooded mine in the northwestern Qinghai province. (Wu Gang/Xinhua via AP)
ref: 2021 August 15, “Flooded coal mine in China’s Qinghai kills 1, strands 19”, in AP News, sourced from BEIJING (AP), archived from the original on 20 Sep 2021:
glosses: A Tibetan autonomous prefecture in Qinghai, China.
Haiyan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: hīʹyěnʹ
Etymology: From the Mandarin 海晏 (Hǎiyàn).
Senses: glosses: A county of Haibei, Qinghai, China.
Gangca
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: the experience of kangcha county on the northern bank of chinghai lake, the biggest hinterland lake in china, shows how these achievements are made. the county has fine grasslands and rich water resources.
ref: [1973, Survey of China Mainland Press, numbers 5304-5325, United States Consulate General (Hong Kong), →ISSN, →OCLC, page 21:
text: The reports of the past few days have been made by the nine of us from around Gangcha county and Qilian county, because we wanted to really understand the avian influenza situation in Qinghai. We came disguised as tourists to carry out on-the-spot interviews ... only by coming to this place can you realise just how poor China can be. Anyone with a conscience would shed tears.
ref: [2005 June 24 [2005 May 26], Chris Taylor, anonymous quotee, “Outbreak cover-up?”, in Henry Niman (using Alta Vista's Babelfish translator), transl., South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 Oct 2018:
text: GANGCA, China[…]
But in places like this small, dusty town, located high on the Tibetan plateau in the western Chinese province of Qinghai, the most widespread problem is the dislocation of nomadic communities that comes with rapidly enforced top-down development.[…]
On a visit to Gangca earlier this month, I saw a large new hospital and well-maintained sports fields at the school. Housing developments painted a cheery canary yellow dotted the slopes behind the main street.
ref: 2013 February 25, Clarissa Sebag-Montefiore, “Dislocation, Dislocation, Dislocation”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 Oct 2022, Latitude: Views from Around the World:
glosses: A county of Haibei, Qinghai, China.
Qilian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 祁連 /祁连 (Qílián).
Senses: examples: text: A Tibetan-nationality woman cadre in (Tolien) commune, Chilien County, Haipei Tibetan Autonomous Chou, fearing no hardships, made a 4-day journey on horseback to register for college enrollment in the county seat.
ref: [1972 August 23 [1972 August 19], “Tsinghai Stresses Enrollment Procedures for Colleges”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 165, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Sining Tsinghai Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China: Northwest Region, page H 4:
text: The reports of the past few days have been made by the nine of us from around Gangcha county and Qilian county, because we wanted to really understand the avian influenza situation in Qinghai. We came disguised as tourists to carry out on-the-spot interviews ... only by coming to this place can you realise just how poor China can be. Anyone with a conscience would shed tears.
ref: 2005 June 24 [2005 May 26], Chris Taylor, anonymous quotee, “Outbreak cover-up?”, in Henry Niman (using Alta Vista's Babelfish translator), transl., South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 Oct 2018:
glosses: A county of Haibei, Qinghai, China.
Menyuan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Mandarin 門源 /门源 (Ményuán).
Senses: examples: text: The revolutionary committee of the Menyuan Hui Autonomous County recently called a conference to stir up an upsurge in agricultural mechanization throughout the country.
ref: 1968 August 8 [1968 August 6], “Menyuan Hui Calls Agricultural Conference”, in Daily Report: Communist China, volume I, number 155, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Sining Tsinghai Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →OCLC, Communist China: Northwest Region, page H 1:
text: Jen-to-ch’üan roughly corresponds to the seat of modern Men-yüan county in Tsinghai province.
ref: [2009, Ari Daniel Levine, “The Reigns of Hui-tsung (1100-1126) and Ch’in-tsung (1126-1127) and the Fall of the Northern Sung”, in The Cambridge History of Ancient China, volume 5, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 621:
text: China's official Xinhua news agency said there were no immediate reports of casualties from the tremor, which struck at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) in Menyuan county in Qinghai province.
Phone services in Menyuan, home to around 150,000 people, were operating normally, it said.
ref: 2016 January 20, Dean Yates, “Magnitude 6.1 earthquake hits central China, no reports of casualties”, in John Stonestreet, Toni Reinhold, editors, Reuters, archived from the original on 24 Jan 2016, Green Business:
glosses: A Hui autonomous county in Haibei, Qinghai, China.
walking-about money
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of walking-around money.
horny toad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: horny toads
Senses: glosses: Synonym of horned lizard, often especially the regal horned lizard.
synonyms: word: horned lizard
word: often especially the regal horned lizard
NFTing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of NFT
NFTed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of NFT
NFT'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of NFT
Fischer esterification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Fischer esterifications
Etymology: Named for Emil Fischer, the chemist who first described this reaction.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The esterification of a carboxylic acid by heating it with an alcohol in the presence of a strong acid as the catalyst.
wikipedia: Emil Fischer
disco nap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disco naps
Etymology: From disco + nap, United States.
Senses: examples: text: "It's the leather circuit," explains David, 34, an actor-director, similarly attired. "Took a disco nap around eight, then we cruised, drank, and had a lot of personal drama.'
ref: 1997 December 8, Ian Spiegelman, “The End of the World Cafe”, in New York, volume 30, number 47, page 51:
text: Take a disco nap before you head out for a night on the town, and get plenty of rest the next day.
ref: 2010 July 24, Esther Blum, Eat, Drink, and Be Gorgeous: A Nutritionist's Guide to Living Well While Living it Up, Chronicle Books, →ISBN, page 117:
text: "What's a disco nap?" he asks. "It's a nap you take before clubbing," I say. "Maybe for you it is," Kent says, a twinkle in his eye. Tom doesn't look so sure of himself anymore.
ref: 2023 April 4, Tony Correia, One Summer in Vancouver, Lorimer, →ISBN, page 108:
glosses: A nap taken to elevate (refresh) one's energy, often before an activity or outing.
wikipedia: Taylor & Francis
Related terms: siesta
tiger snooze
disco naps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disco nap
aldol condensation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aldol condensations
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A condensation reaction in which an enol or enolate ion reacts with an aldehyde or ketone to form a β-hydroxyaldehyde or β-hydroxyketone (an aldol reaction), which is then followed by dehydration to give a conjugated enone.
opaquers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of opaquer
Spooktober
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Spooktobers
Etymology: Blend of spooky + October, from the association of Halloween with October.
Senses: examples: text: In developing a new theme for this year’s rounds of Spooktober posts, we decided to look beyond the realm of strictly horror games to cover a topic that we hadn’t touched on before, one that encompasses games generally and allows for a little “outside the box” thinking. Our Spooktober theme this year is “The Horror that Surrounds.”
ref: 2024 October 3, CARY, “Spooktober: The Horror that Surrounds”, in VIRTUAL BASTION:
glosses: Synonym of October.
synonyms: word: October
Spooktobers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Spooktober
EECR
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: EECRs
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
hypernyms: cosmic ray
coordinate_terms: zevatron
GZK limit
glosses: Initialism of extremely energetic cosmic ray/extreme-energy cosmic ray (“a cosmic ray particle exceeding the GZK limit”).
derweesh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: derweeshes
Senses: examples: text: The son of a merchant in a city of Hindostan, having been driven from his father's house on account of his undutiful conduct, assumed the garb of a Kalenderee or wandering Derweesh, and left his native town.
ref: 1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 20:
glosses: Archaic form of dervish.
derweeshes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of derweesh
sheytân
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sheytâns
Senses: examples: text: When Adam was created, God commanded the angels to worship him; and they all obeyed except Iblees, who, for his disobedience, was turned into a Sheytân or Devil, and he became the father of the Sheytâns.
ref: 1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn:
glosses: Alternative spelling of shaitan.
sheytâns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sheytân
GZK limit
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: GZK Limit
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin limit.
Zatsepin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Zatsepins
Etymology: From Russian Заце́пин (Zacépin).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Russian
glosses: A surname from Russian
A male surname from Russian, feminine equivalent Zatsepina
Derived terms: Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin cutoff
Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin limit
GZK
Related terms: Zatsepina
cannot make it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: CMI
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cannot, make it.
examples: text: A noble effort but somehow the only words that came to mind were “cannot make it, lah”.
ref: 2006 July 20, Zul Othman, Today, quoted in Jack Tsen-Ta Lee, A Dictionary of Singlish and Singapore English, Singapore: Mediacorp Press, page 37:
text: […] “it never ended preliminarily at ‘he cannot make it’, […] it was always ‘let's do this or that to help him’.”
ref: 2023, Dan Goodley, Kuansong Victor Zhuang, Meng Ee Wong, Not Without Us: Perspectives on Disability and Inclusion in Singapore, →ISBN:
glosses: Cannot reach satisfactory or expected standards or do something competently; describes someone in a hopeless situation.
OMG Particle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Oh-My-God particle.
OMG particle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Oh-My-God particle.
GZK Limit
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: GZK limit
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin limit.
fluffy-backed tit-babblers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fluffy-backed tit-babbler
yesterday-today-and-tomorrows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yesterday-today-and-tomorrow
sukkun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sukun.
shaddah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shaddahs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of shadda.
shaddahs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shaddah
Alrakis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Arabic الرَّاقِص (ar-rāqiṣ, “the dancer”).
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Mu Draconis A, a star in the constellation of Draco.
coachmate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coachmates
Etymology: From coach + -mate.
Senses: glosses: One whom someone shares a coach ride with; a passenger on the same coach.
coachmates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coachmate
Harawayan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Harawayan
form: most Harawayan
Etymology: From Haraway + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Donna Haraway (born 1944), American scholar of science and technology studies and feminist theory.
Haraway
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Harawayan
Vetluga
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Transliteration of Russian Ветлуга (Vetluga), from Finno-Ugric languages.
Senses: glosses: A river in Russia.
glosses: A city in Russia located on the river
antimeaning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From anti- + meaning.
Senses: examples: text: Freud's adoption of the spatial metaphor of a subterranean "unconscious" at the end of the nineteenth century codified an imaginable space of antimeaning in which socially unrealizable goals could nevertheless still convey power.
ref: 2003, Marilyn C. Wesley, Violent Adventure: Contemporary Fiction by American Men, page 156:
text: […] Lifton suggests that any 'action' became 'part of the general absurdity, the antimeaning' (Home from the War, p. 38). For a longer discussion of the effect of this antimeaning on the psyche of the returning soldier see pp. 38–40.
ref: 2015, Carol Acton, Jane Potter, Working in a world of hurt:
glosses: Deliberate absence of meaning.
lip wrestle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lip wrestles
form: lip wrestling
form: lip wrestled
form: lip wrestled
Senses: glosses: To kiss passionately.
lip wrestled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of lip wrestle
lip wrestles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of lip wrestle
lip wrestling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of lip wrestle
mellow yellows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mellow yellow
mellowedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mellowed + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being mellowed.
Uncle Sucker
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of Uncle Sam + sucker
Senses: examples: text: They are increasing their productivity to the point where they will top the United States and also Russia, which is No. 2. At the same time the only way they can dispose of the steel is through export — and Uncle Sucker will be the buyer. But the United States is going to run out of money one of these days.
ref: 1971, Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates..., page 26233:
text: Sure, if we own an aerospace contracting company, a five-thousand-acre sugar-beet farm, or a savings and loan with the president's son on the board of directors, we can soak Uncle Sucker for millions.
ref: 2015, P. J. O'Rourke, Thrown Under the Omnibus: A Reader:
glosses: A personification of the United States federal government, regarded as being exploited by unscrupulous citizens or businesses.
key finder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: key finders
Senses: glosses: A small electronic device that can be fitted to keys, luggage, etc. and emits a signal to allow the object to be located if it is misplaced.
key finders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of key finder
Allman style
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after American computer programmer Eric Paul Allman (born 1955).
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: An indentation style for source code in which the brace associated with a control statement is placed on the following line, indented to the same level as the control statement. Statements within the braces are indented to the next level.
antinomial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antinomial
form: most antinomial
Senses: glosses: Synonym of antinomic.
synonyms: word: antinomic
schismogenically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more schismogenically
form: most schismogenically
Etymology: From schismogenic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a schismogenic manner.
versed cosine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: versed cosines
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
trigonometry
glosses: The trigonometric function 1 + cos(x).
versed cosines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of versed cosine
non-rotating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + rotating.
Senses: examples: text: Recent freight accidents have already identified the lack of lineside technology to detect non-rotating wheels.
ref: 2023 October 18, Mel Holley, “Network News: Severe wheel flat led to freight derailment”, in RAIL, number 994, page 17:
glosses: Alternative form of nonrotating.
rambizzy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: [ˈrambɪzi~ˈræmbɪzi]
ipa: [ramˈbɪzi~ræmˈbɪzi]
rhymes: -ɪzi
Forms: form: rambizzies
Etymology: From rambo + -izzy (suffix forming hip-hop-sounding words).
Senses: examples: text: Big rambizzy down your throat ain't banter
ref: 2016 March 16, “Blackbox Freestyle” (track 13), in (OFB) Abra Cadabra (lyrics), Yamaica (music), Ounto Nation, 3:38:
text: Big rambizzy by my side when I do road, I’m a grown yout, so allow mum's kitchen
ref: 2016 June 24, “Who’s Next”, (OFB) Abra Cadabra (lyrics), Sir Spyro (music), 0:35:
text: Big rambizzy pon my side, it's a mad ting
ref: 2016 September 9, “Art Of War”, (OFB) Abra Cadabra (lyrics), 1:07:
text: I was getting busy with a rambizzy
You was getting bae round for a snog (How?)
ref: 2018 July 10, “Who’s Next”, (ZT) Balistik (lyrics), Sebz Beats (music), 3:14:
text: Got a rambiz’ on me, that’s typical
So let’s keep the chat to a minimal
ref: 2022 March 5, “Typical”, Rambo Rich (lyrics):
text: Gang-gang fell in love with splashing, but we got gunners in place like Arsenal
I ain't too picky, waps, rambizzies
Tryna sue man like Meghan Markle
ref: 2022 August 2, “Still Active”, (ActiveGxng) 2smokeyy (lyrics), 1:04:
text: Rambizzy ist tucked auf Hüfte lurk on Opps und ich krieg euch
ref: 2023 October 13, “No Lies” (track 1), in Smokey (FHB) (lyrics), No Lies (in German), 1:07 and oftener:
english: Rambizzy tucked on hip, lurking on opps, and I get you
translation: Rambizzy tucked on hip, lurking on opps, and I get you
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glosses: Alternative form of rambo.
propargyl alcohol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The compound HC≡CCH₂OH; the simplest stable alcohol containing an alkyne functional group.
Alphonse and Gaston
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the name of an American comic strip and its characters, featuring a bumbling pair of Frenchmen with a penchant for politeness.
Senses: examples: text: I have noticed myself that even for a single cyclist Palo Alto motorists are too well-wishing, creating the Alphonse and Gaston syndrome that neither will proceed at minor intersections.
ref: 1981, Bob Evatt, FLOWMAP, page 52:
text: For years, China and the United States have engaged in a dangerous Alphonse-and-Gaston routine, using each other's inaction to shirk their responsibility.
ref: 2009 September 23, New York Times, editorial:
text: Collins hit a fly ball, and this time Cobb and Veach did the "Alphonse and Gaston" act, with Collins making it to third base.
ref: 2014, Richard Adler, Mack, McGraw and the 1913 Baseball Season, page 108:
glosses: A situation where two people or entities are waiting for each other to proceed, so that neither can take action.
Related terms: after you, Alphonse
deadlock
alpine salamander
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alpine salamanders
Senses: glosses: Salamandra atra, a black salamander found in certain mountainous parts of Europe.
alpine salamanders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alpine salamander
geoformational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to geological formations.
Americanocracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒkɹəsi
Etymology: From American + -o- + -cracy.
Senses: examples: text: 2018, Vassilis Vassilikos, ... And Dreams Are Dreams
His daughters were serious. In fact the elder one had joined the Communist Youth, where the kids were almost puritanical, growing up with principles in the face of the triple enemy: capitalism-imperialism-Americanocracy.
text: Americanocracy was often perceived as the continuation of the German occupation with Nazism and American imperialism converging in the left-wing discourse.
ref: 2023, Dimitris Tziovas, Greece from Junta to Crisis, page 45:
glosses: Rule by Americans.
HWL
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: HWLs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of high water line.
HWL
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Initialism of Hawaii Winter League.
HWLs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of HWL
local authority
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: local authorities
Senses: examples: text: Some preliminary legal arrangements were made, but the scheme proceeded no further, as the various local authorities concerned were unwilling to speculate public funds on what was, even at that date, a will o' the wisp.
ref: 1951 May, R. K. Kirkland, “The Cavan & Leitrim Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 345:
text: Controversy has surrounded some of the schemes, which local authorities and commuters have seen as putting money-making before travel.
ref: 2023 October 18, “Network News: TfL creates property company to raise funds”, in RAIL, number 994, page 17:
glosses: An administrative body in local government, such as a city council.
Hypolocrian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hypo- + Locrian.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Being or relating to the plagal counterpart to the Locrian mode.
local authorities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of local authority.
plagally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From plagal + -ly.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: In a plagal manner.
self-soared
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of self-soar
self-soaring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of self-soar
self-soars
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of self-soar
Iñapari
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An indigenous South American language spoken in Perú along the Las Piedras river near the mouth of the Sabaluyoq river.
peanut-headed lanternfly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peanut-headed lanternflies
Senses: glosses: machaca (Fulgora laternaria)
Isherwood system
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Isherwood system
Etymology: Named after British naval architect Sir Joseph Isherwood, who patented it in 1906.
Senses: glosses: A method of ship construction in which large, widely-spaced transverse frames are used in conjunction with light, closely-spaced longitudinal members.