cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Christmas Adam
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Reinterpreting Eve (“evening or day before (another day)”) as the name Eve, and referencing how, in Genesis, Adam came before Eve.
Senses: examples: text: Bob ended up at the discount store on “Christmas Adam,” buying just with creative recipes! about every Nerf gun the store had, plus a shopping cart full of other fun surprises. The evening before, the children had participated in a Christmas music pageant […]
ref: 2012 March 6, Michelle Duggar, Jim Bob Duggar, A Love That Multiplies: An Up-Close View of How They Make It Work, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 53:
text: "Happy Christmas Adam," James greeted him. [...] It was a family custom to call the twenty-third of December Christmas Adam, because it was the day before Christmas Eve, and Adam had come before Eve. Levi nodded to James now, glancing around again. “Happy Christmas Adam to you, too. Is everything all right?” James leaned on the counter[…]
ref: 2017 December 1, Regina Scott, His Frontier Christmas Family, Harlequin, →ISBN:
text: "[…] to the games on Christmas Adam." Layla's eyes popped open, and she counted in her head. "That's in two days. I haven't done the shopping for the games that are already on my list. Gracious." She sliced the turkey breast[…]
ref: 2023 August 22, Regina Walker, Miracle Inn, Regina Walker:
glosses: The day before Christmas Eve.
grey belt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: By analogy with green belt, in reference to such land generally being greyfield or brownfield land (as opposed to countryside).
Senses: glosses: Land designated as part of the green belt (which protects against development), despite being of low environmental, aesthetic and recreational value.
Allcard
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
intervalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: intervalizes
form: intervalizing
form: intervalized
form: intervalized
Etymology: From interval + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: The conventional Hopfield neural network with time delay is intervalized to consider the bounded effect of deviation of network parameters and perturbations yielding a novel interval dynamic Hopfield neural network (IDHNN) model.
ref: 1998 September, Xiaofeng Liao, Juebang Yu, “Robust Stability for Interval Hopfield Neural Networks with Time Delay”, in IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, volume 9, number 5, →DOI, page 1042:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To cause to occur at regular time intervals.
Kumarbhag Paharia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A variety of the Malto language, spoken in the Jharkhand and West Bengal states of India, and tiny pockets of Odisha state.
overselective
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Excessively selective.
non-abject
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more non-abject
form: most non-abject
Senses: examples: text: The abject is considered to be abject because it threatens the non-abject that is, the clean and proper (Kristeva 1982).
ref: 2012, Dave Holmes, Trudy Rudge, Abjectly Boundless: Boundaries, Bodies and Health Work:
text: Rather, abjection is revealing of the processes of exclusion that are central in the making of non-abject – in this case, white European or privileged Afropolitan – subjectivities.
ref: 2021, Anna-Leena Toivanen, Mobilities and Cosmopolitanisms in African and Afrodiasporic Literatures, page 172:
text: By occupying non-abject, empowered roles, people in prison ultimately create non-abject existences.
ref: 2022, Gregory Bruno, Theory and Practice for Literacy in the Prison Classroom, page 58:
glosses: Alternative form of nonabject.
Sauria Paharia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A variety of the Malto language, spoken in West Bengal, Jharkhand, and Bihar states of India.
nonabject
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nonabject
form: most nonabject
form: non-abject
Etymology: From non- + abject.
Senses: examples: text: Isn't that the thing about us? That we try to create meaning through a struggle of recognizing the nonabject in us, in recognizing that what exists in the first case is the desire to cooperate?
ref: 1998, Alison Leigh Brown, Subjects of Deceit: A Phenomenology of Lying, page 79:
text: Similarly, while the law abolished formal distinctions, social norms and mores were slower to change, on the part of erstwhile senmin and nonabject people alike.
ref: 2014, Joseph D. Hankins, Working Skin: Making Leather, Making a Multicultural Japan, page 21:
text: "Exalted" and "impoverished" forms of life impose an equally "insuperable gap" between themselves and the rest of humanity—the cause of unparalleled terror in the nonabject, nondivine ordinary human being.
ref: 2015, James M. Decker, Indrek Männiste, Henry Miller: New Perspectives, page 68:
text: Specifically the model for Spivak's subaltern is an indigenous woman in a nonabject state in British-colonized India who is silenced in several ways.
ref: 2019, Carlos Riobó, Caught Between the Lines:
glosses: Not abject.
black as your hat
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: qualifier: simile
glosses: Thoroughly black in color.
Bluchers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Blucher
Nggatokae
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An island in the New Georgia Islands within Western Province, Solomon Islands.
Pterry
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɛɹi/
rhymes: -ɛɹi
Etymology: From Terry, in reference to the kingdom of Djelibeybi in Pratchett's novel Pyramids, where names beginning with the letter T have a silent P in front, as in Ptraci. Coined on the Internet newsgroup alt.fan.pratchett.
Senses: glosses: Nickname for Terry Pratchett (1948–2015), English author.
wikipedia: Pyramids (novel)
realine
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: realines
form: realining
form: realined
form: realined
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of realign.
realines
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of realine
realining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of realine
realined
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of realine
Petard
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
tiger meat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Raw beef often combined with egg, onion, salt and pepper, and other seasonings, typically served on crackers or as the filling in a cannibal sandwich.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see tiger, meat.
realinement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: realinements
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of realignment.
Related terms: alinement
realine
realinements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of realinement
one's own master
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Synonym of one's own boss (“able to make one's own decisions without being overruled”).
synonyms: word: one's own boss
extra: able to make one's own decisions without being overruled
Kalikoqu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An ethnic Melanesian tribe of the Solomon Islands.
wildcat sandwich
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wildcat sandwiches
Senses: glosses: Synonym of cannibal sandwich.
synonyms: word: cannibal sandwich
wildcat sandwiches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wildcat sandwich
Lunéville
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A commune in the northeastern French department of Meurthe-et-Moselle.
Madhya Bharat
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A former Indian state in west-central India.
Mahajanga
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city and an administrative district on the northwest coast of Madagascar.
Mahaweli
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A river in Sri Lanka.
Luhans'k
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Luhansk.
Lötschberg
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An Alpine mountain massif.
Makgadikgadi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A group of salt flats in the middle of the dry savanna of north-eastern Botswana.
Malekula
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Malakula.
Malakula
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Malekula
Senses: glosses: The second-largest island of Vanuatu.
Malmedy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city and municipality of Wallonia located in the province of Liège, Belgium.
Mamberamo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The second-longest river on the island of New Guinea.
Mangaia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The most southerly of the Cook Islands.
Manihiki
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: word: Island of Pearls
glosses: An atoll in the northern group of the Cook Islands.
Island of Pearls
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Island of Pearls
Senses: glosses: Manihiki.
Islamoterrorist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Islamoterrorists
Etymology: From Islamo- + terrorist.
Senses: glosses: One who commits Islamoterrorism.
Islamoterrorists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Islamoterrorist
Mascouche
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Algonquian, literally "bear plain".
Senses: glosses: An off-island suburb of Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Mbandaka
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Mbini
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in Equatorial Guinea.
Yabucoa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town and municipality in Puerto Rico.
Yawata
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Kyoto Prefecture, Japan.
Yeosu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Korean 여수(麗水) (Yeosu).
Senses: examples: text: The Lighthouse Winmore, which was chartered by a Taiwanese company, was impounded by South Korean customs authorities at the port of Yeosu on November 24 following an inspection.
ref: 2017 December 30, “Hong Kong ship crew questioned in S. Korea for oil transfer to North”, in France 24, sourced from Seoul (AFP), archived from the original on 30 Dec 2017, Live news:
synonyms: word: Yosu
english: former name
translation: former name
word: Reisui
english: former name
translation: former name
glosses: A city in South Jeolla Province, South Korea.
Reisui
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Former name of Yeosu.
Yosu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Former name of Yeosu.
Yauco
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town and municipality in southern Puerto Rico.
Yongin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Korean 용인(龍仁) (Yong'in).
Senses: examples: text: Yongin, a city of about a million people south of Seoul, the capital, has been in talks with the central government about financial support for businesses near the Ramada, Mayor Baek Gun-gi said at a news conference on Tuesday.
ref: 2020 July 4, Choe Sang-Hun, “How’s Your Quarantine? If No One’s Banging Gongs, Count Your Blessings”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 Jul 2020, The Coronavirus Outbreak:
text: Samsung Electronics is set to invest 500 trillion won ($375 billion) in the project, allocating 360 trillion won for six new production facilities in Yongin, located 33 kilometers (20 miles) south of Seoul.
ref: 2024 January 24, Martin Fritz, “South Korea invests big in becoming a global chip leader”, in Deutsche Welle, archived from the original on 24 Jan 2024, Technology:
glosses: A city in Gyeonggi Province, South Korea.
Zagazig
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Lower Egypt, the capital of the governorate of Sharqia.
Zlatoust
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia.
Ahwahnechee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ahwahneechee
Senses: glosses: A Native American people who traditionally lived in the Yosemite Valley.
Ahwahneechee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Ahwahnechee.
Limay
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality in the province of Bataan, Philippines.
Lochgilphead
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town and former burgh in Argyll and Bute, Scotland.
Longmont
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A home rule municipality in Boulder and Weld counties, Colorado, United States.
League City
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Texas, United States.
Lalitpur
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city and district of Jhansi division, Uttar Pradesh, India.
glosses: A district of Bagmati, Nepal.
Kioga
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Kyoga.
Kyoga
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kioga
Senses: synonyms: Lake Kyoga
glosses: A large shallow lake in Uganda.
Koudougou
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Burkina Faso's Boulkiemdé Province.
Krakatau
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Krakatoa.
Koshigaya
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Saitama Prefecture, Japan.
Kordofan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A former province of central Sudan.
Kopeysk
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia.
Kinabalu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kinibalu
Etymology: From Central Dusun Kinabalu, either a contraction from Aki Nabalu "a revered place for the dead", or ki- (“having”) + nabalu (“mountain”).
Senses: glosses: The highest mountain in Malaysia, located in the state of Sabah.
glosses: A former electoral constituency in Sabah, Malaysia.
Derived terms: Kota Kinabalu
Kineshma
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in Ivanovo Oblast in Russia.
nonablebodied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nonablebodied
form: most nonablebodied
Senses: examples: text: That the abolition of outdoor relief to the nonablebodied is, in our judgment, wholly impracticable, and, even if it were possible it would be contrary to the public interest.
ref: 1912, New York (State). Department of Social Welfare, Report - Volume 1, page 32:
text: Although their studies illustrate once more the challenges of assessing and interpreting young children's attitudes, they also indicate at least mild preference for the ablebodied over the nonablebodied.
ref: 2013, Stephen C. Ainlay, Gaylene Becker, Lerita M. Coleman, The Dilemma of Difference: A Multidisciplinary View of Stigma:
text: Suppose work for private citizens is valued at the same rate as work for the collective farm or on the plot — the proportion of nonablebodied man hours in work for private citizens is higher than in work for the farm but lower than in work on the plot.
ref: 2022, Abraham Samuel Becker, Soviet National Income 1958-1964, page 300:
text: Offering an example of how all of the forms of ontological harm we discuss here can intersect, Averi, and agender, queer, asexual, nonablebodied, Jewish student activist quoted by Linder et al. (2019), explained: "I was just completely destroyed as a human in almost every way [in my] two years that I spent at [institution]....
ref: 2023, Alise de Bie, Elizabeth Marquis, Alison Cook-Sather, Promoting Equity and Justice Through Pedagogical Partnership:
glosses: Alternative form of non-able-bodied.
non-able-bodied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more non-able-bodied
form: most non-able-bodied
form: nonablebodied
form: non-ablebodied
form: nonable-bodied
form: non-able bodied
Etymology: From non- + able-bodied.
Senses: examples: text: It was directed in August 1877 that, on works under the Public Works Department, able-bodied labourers who did not perform the tasks should be paid only for the portion done, though the effect might be to reduce their wages below the rate paid on works under Civil Agency; but that non-able-bodied labourers should be paid not less than the Civil Agency rates.
ref: 1880, Henry Wilberforce Clarke, Report on the Railway Famine-traffic in the Presidencies of Madras and Bombay and the Province of Maisur, page 9:
text: I will next deal with the whole question of the non-able-bodied, dealing with the Bill as it treats the non-able-bodied as a whole.
ref: 1910, Parliamentary Debates (Hansard), page 801:
text: It will be admitted that a vast difference must occur between the numbers of those who are bedridden, cripple and wholly disabled and those merely of a non-able-bodied class, who can only earn one-third of their previous wages.
ref: 1914, Thomas Smith, Everybody's Guide to the Insurance Acts, 1911-1913, page 183:
text: One gets the distinct impression that Kirby, the genre's greatest master of superheroic action, doesn't quite know what to do with a non-able-bodied man who is not a villain.
ref: 2014, José Alaniz, Death, Disability, and the Superhero: The Silver Age and Beyond:
glosses: Not able-bodied; disabled.
non-ablebodied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more non-ablebodied
form: most non-ablebodied
Senses: examples: text: About 10 per cent. are non-ablebodied.
ref: 1912, Henry Roe Cloud, “My People and the Christian Road”, in The Assembly Herald, volume 18, page 89:
text: Of the non-ablebodied paupers—and it is for the non-ablebodied that the Scottish Poor Law lawfully provides—there remain only "the feebleminded," and the epileptic, and the persons of "unsound mind," who make up nearly one-fifth of the whole of Scottish pauperism.
ref: 1913, Sidney Webb, Beatrice Webb, English Poor Law Policy, page 301:
text: for three or more non-ablebodied family membes, 110 percent, and for two non-ablebodied family members, 100 per cent of the old-age pension calculated as provided for in Article 13 of the Law in percentage of earnings of the breadwinner;
ref: 1982, Legislative Acts of the USSR: 1980-1981, page 115:
glosses: Alternative form of non-able-bodied.
nonable-bodied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nonable-bodied
form: most nonable-bodied
Senses: examples: text: As the importance of a competent labor force increased, it became increasingly necessary to separate the able-bodied poor from the nonable-bodied.
ref: 1992, Peter Conrad, Joseph W. Schneider, Deviance and Medicalization: From Badness to Sickness, page 44:
text: When individuals are positioned beyond "the norm", what constitutes a socially valued identity frequently clashes with experiences of the self — for example, as black, as indigenous, as non-Anglo, as working class, as lesbian/gay/bi- or transsexual, as nonable-bodied, as a single parent, as ill,as fat, and so forth.
ref: 2005, Helen O'Grady, Woman's Relationship with Herself: Gender, Foucault and Therapy:
text: The distribution of food; the provision of security, shelter, education, child care, and medical care; indigenous interventions for mental and social ills and so forth from prehistory to the well-documented Elizabethan Poor Laws of 1601, which codified services for the able-bodied and nonable-bodied poor, are precursors and provided a template for human services in the early United States.
ref: 2014, Linwood H. Cousins, Encyclopedia of Human Services and Diversity:
glosses: Alternative form of non-able-bodied.
non-able bodied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more non-able bodied
form: most non-able bodied
Senses: examples: text: Given 50% of the inmates of an institution are men, 60% are aged (over 60), 80% non-able bodies, 35% aged men, 45% non-able bodied men, and 42% non-able bodied and aged, find the greatest and least proportions of non-able bodied aged men.
ref: 2004, Arun Kumar, Alka Chaudhary, Kirshna's Descriptive Statistics: (Statistical Methods), page 262:
text: In Hungary there is a specific scheme aimed at non-able bodied persons as well as those who are no longer entitled to social insurance benefits (e.g. unemployment insurance).
ref: 2012, I. Marx, K. Nelson, Minimum Income Protection in Flux, page 30:
text: In 1877, Natal's Emigrant Protector Lt-Col. Banastre Pryce Llyod recommended that indentured labourers should be classified into 'able bodied' and 'non-able bodied' and that the rate of wages should be fixed accordingly for each group.
ref: 2022, Esme Cleall, Global Histories of Disability, 1700-2015:
glosses: Alternative form of non-able-bodied.
the freaks come out at night
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Etymology: Inspired by the 1984 song Freaks Come Out at Night by the American rap group Whodini.
Senses: glosses: Those who are inclined to engage in mischievous or criminal behavior prefer to commit such activity during the evening.
wikipedia: Freaks Come Out at Night
Whodini
dialogical analysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A way that involves examining human communication by emphasizing the interactive aspects of language.
gas-lights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gas-light
bud tender
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bud tenders
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of budtender.
aortomyoplasty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A surgical procedure in which a strip of healthy muscle is wrapped around the aorta.
bud tenders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bud tender
cardioneuromyopathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Any disorder affecting the myocardium, nerves and the muscles.
electromyopotential
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: electromyopotentials
Senses: glosses: Synonym of myopotential.
synonyms: word: myopotential
fibromyopathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fibromyopathies
Senses: glosses: Any disorder that affects the muscle fibers.
hypermyopia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of hyperopia.
synonyms: word: hyperopia
myopericytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to myopericytes.
manxome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more manxome
form: most manxome
Etymology: Coined by British author and scholar Lewis Carroll in his nonsense poem “Jabberwocky” (see quotation below).
Senses: examples: text: He took his vorpal sword in hand: / Long time the manxome foe he sought— / So rested he by the Tumtum tree, / And stood awhile in thought.
ref: 1871 December 27 (indicated as 1872), Lewis Carroll [pseudonym; Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], “[Looking-Glass House.] Jabberwocky.”, in Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There, London: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, page 22:
text: Of only one adder were we ever possessed, which we kept, by collusion with a home-boarder, in a cucumber-frame at Harrow. In consideration of his providing the manxome beast with house-room (we early perceived that in our own house the adder would be unwelcome), and because we couldn't well get into his father's garden without him, we permitted him to share the fearful delight of routing our pet out with a rake (it was a retiring creature) "between Bills", and trying to make him eat frogs.
ref: 1907 September 28, “The Trial of the Serpent”, in The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science, and Art, volume 104, number 2709, page 389, column 1:
text: Out from the odex came a fang-gaping ilps, a vicious manxome monster which Governor Troop demolished with five well-placed immaculately-timed questions.
ref: 1987, Hugh Cook, The Wordsmiths and the Warguild (Chronicles of an Age of Darkness), Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire: Colin Smythe, →ISBN, page 192:
text: Caleb had only fought a few manxome foes in his short life, and this, a Jabberwock. It would take the height of readiness and strength to stand a hero's chance.
ref: 2016, E. S. Wesley, The Outs, Curiosity Quills Press, →ISBN, page 197:
glosses: Fearsome, monstrous.
wikipedia: Jabberwocky
myopericyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: myopericytes
Senses: glosses: A type of spindle-shaped cell residing within muscle tissue.
myopericytoma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: myopericytomas
Senses: glosses: A tumor characterized by the abnormal growth of myopericytes.
the sky will fall on your head
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: If you ever bite in any way Mr. Geraldo Riviera, the sky will fall on your head.
ref: 2012, Eddy Guerrier, An Opinionated Walk:
text: “And if you breathe a word to anyone about what we did, the sky will fall on your head.”
ref: 2022, Michael L. Lewis, The Fatal Oath:
glosses: Something unfortunate or disastrous will happen to you.
the rest is gravy
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: We have food, clothing and shelter, and the rest is gravy.
ref: 1993, Ronald B. Tobias, 20 Master Plots and How to Build Them:
glosses: After that, it is easy.
primaxial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: primaxial muscle
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: comprised of somitic cells only
play on someone's heartstrings
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: plays on someone's heartstrings
form: playing on someone's heartstrings
form: played on someone's heartstrings
form: played on someone's heartstrings
Senses: examples: text: I love you more each day
I love the music you play on my heartstrings
I feel you in every way
Reach for touch, you play on my heartstrings
ref: 1986, “Heartstrings”, performed by Berlin:
text: “Why can't you just tell me? You're my only friend.”
My words play on her heartstrings like I hoped they would, because her features soften.
ref: 2015, K Webster, Becoming Her Series:
synonyms: pull at someone's heartstrings
tug at someone's heartstrings
glosses: To produce strong emotions of sadness or pity in someone.
make someone's head spin
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes someone's head spin
form: making someone's head spin
form: made someone's head spin
form: made someone's head spin
Senses: glosses: To cause someone to be dizzy.
the fat hit the fire
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Trouble happened.
Related terms: pull the fat out of the fire
pull someone's fat out of the fire
the fat is in the fire
take someone for all they've got
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes someone for all they've got
form: taking someone for all they've got
form: took someone for all they've got
form: taken someone for all they've got
Senses: examples: text: YANK:[…] And if I can't find her I'll take it out on de gang she runs wit. I'm wise to where dey hangs out now. I'll show her who belongs! I'll show her who's in de move and who ain't. You watch my smoke!
VOICES:Dat's de talkin'!
Take her for all she's got!
ref: 1922, Eugene O'Neill, The Hairy Ape:
glosses: To totally deplete something from someone.
fine-feathered friend
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fine-feathered friends
Senses: qualifier: perhaps humorous or dated
glosses: A well-dressed person.
royal commission
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: royal commissions
Senses: glosses: A major ad-hoc formal public inquiry into a particular issue, in some monarchies.
recognition of prior learning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: education
synonyms: RPL
prior learning assessment
PLA
prior learning assessment and recognition
PLAR
glosses: a process to evaluate skills and knowledge acquired outside the classroom for the purpose of recognizing competence against a given set of standards, competencies, or learning outcomes.
police ambulance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: police ambulances
Senses: glosses: A police vehicle for transporting patients, especially prisoners.
Tayleur
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Le Petit-Quevilly
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A commune near Rouen, Seine-Maritime department, Normandy, France.
Related terms: Le Grand-Quevilly
Kewanmainim
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kewanmainims
Etymology: Borrowed from Hopi.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Hopi.
Iswuhti
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Iswuhtis
Etymology: Borrowed from Hopi.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Hopi.
Liangjiang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 兩江 /两江 (Liǎngjiāng).
Senses: examples: text: At the headquarters of the Liangjiang New Area, billed as China’s third-largest development zone, visiting delegations were once greeted with a video of Mr. Bo championing the area’s industrial prowess. The screens are now dark.
ref: 2012 May 5, Dan Levin, “China, in Old Tradition, Races to Airbrush Fallen Leader Out of Public Life”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 May 2012, Asia Pacific:
glosses: A new area in Chongqing, China.
Related terms: Ryanggang
Chuka
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Chukas
Etymology: Borrowed from Hopi.
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Hopi.
creaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: creasters
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Chreaster.
creasters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of creaster
oo oo aa aa
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʔuːʔuː ˈʔɑːʔɑː/
ipa: /ˈʔuʔu ˈʔɑʔɑ/
Forms: form: ooh ooh aah aah
Etymology: Imitative of a monkey’s cry.
Senses: examples: text: Holonyms: monkeyese, monkeyspeak
text: [He] asked to meet me in front of the monkey cage at the zoo in Jardin des Plantes. I'm standing there waiting, leaning against the fence eating licorice, when I hear behind me, "Oo, oo! Aa, aa!" And wouldn't you know, he's leaping up and down wearing a gorilla mask—and probably a two-thousand-euro Lanvin suit—doing monkey impressions, and he finishes by throwing himself into the bushes. I died laughing! What lunatic would be so elegant and so bananas?
ref: 2007, Kirsten Lobe, chapter 7, in French Trysts: Secrets of a Courtesan, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Griffin, St. Martin’s Press, →ISBN, page 91:
text: The minute I start eating, two lads I can only describe as retards on Prozac started making monkey calls and picking on me. ‘Oo oo aa aa, hey monkey man, want a banana?’ Said one of them.
ref: 2011, Eddie Kwadjo Danso, “Living the Life”, in Cockney Zulu, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN, page 78:
text: "He said he's got a pet monkey!" shouted Bobby. […] "Of course it doesn't talk!" interrupted Suzie Limpten, the class know-it-all. "They make noises, you know, like ooh-ooh, aah-aah!"
ref: 2012, Deshka Peneff, “Eric the Parrot”, in Monkey Tales, Bloomington, Ind.: iUniverse, published 15 April 2013, →ISBN, page 17:
text: Max and Kai had fun and returned to play regularly. Finishing a rally, Max [a monkey] hollered, "Oo-oo, Aa-aa!"
ref: 2016, Oliver [Clyde] Chin, edited by Don Menn, The Year of the Monkey: Tales from the Chinese Zodiac = 十二生肖故事系列：猴年的故事 (Tales from the Chinese Zodiac; 11), San Francisco, Calif.: Immedium, →ISBN:
text: Planet of the Apes by George Racket / Ooh-ooh, aah-aah! Ooh-ooh, aah-aah! / Ooh-ooh, aah-aah! Ooh-ooh, aah-aah! / Ch-ch-ch-chimp, chimp, chimp in outer space / Said goodbye to the human race / The first on Earth to ever escape, / To find his very own personal p-p-p-planet of the apes.
ref: 2022, Tom Fletcher, “Track 5: Armstrong”, in Space Band, London: Puffin Books, →ISBN:
text: "See? There's only the two of us, and your Frankie wouldn't ever let anything happen to you. Okay? Now, eat your banana, little monkey." She nodded at Annabelle's hand. "Go ahead, Anna Banana." Annabelle looked down. […] "Oo-oo-aa-aa," she whispered.
ref: 2024, Robin W. Pearson, chapter 1, in Kathryn S. Olson, editor, Dysfunction Junction […], Carol Stream, Ill.: Tyndale House Publishers, →ISBN, page 5:
synonyms: ooh-ah-ah
ooh ah ah
ook
glosses: Used to represent the sound of a monkey's cry.
Related terms: goo goo ga ga
monkey talk
myopexia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: myopexias
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of myopexy.
myophysical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to myophysics.
myophysics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The study of muscle physics.
Belcoo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, on the border with Ireland (Irish grid ref H0838).
wikipedia: Lough MacNean
myopigenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The development of myopia.
myoplastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to myoplasty.
Presburg
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: Pressburg
Forms: form: Presburgs
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Related terms: Presburger
Pressburg
Pressburger
Corrofin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Corofin, for both places in Ireland.
Christmassed up
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Christmassed up
form: most Christmassed up
Senses: glosses: Decorated in Christmas style.
myoprocessor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: myoprocessors
Senses: glosses: A system that uses computer-generated models to simulate human muscles in real time.
myoprotection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The protection of muscle tissue from damage.
nonmyopathic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + myopathic.
Senses: glosses: Not myopathic.
nonmyopically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: In a nonmyopic manner.
osteomyoplastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to osteomyoplasty.
osteomyoplasty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A surgical procedure in which a section of bone and the surrounding muscle is transferred to another part of the body.
Presburger
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: Pressburger
Forms: form: Presburgers
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: Mojżesz Presburger (Polish mathematician)
Derived terms: Presburger arithmetic
Related terms: Presburg
Pressburg
Pressburger
Pressburger
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: Presburger
Forms: form: Pressburgers
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Related terms: Presburg
Presburger
Pressburg
polymyopathic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to polymyopathy.
Mount Kembla
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb and mountain in the City of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia.
Related terms: Port Kembla
polymyopathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polymyopathies
Senses: glosses: A form of myopathy that affects multiple muscle groups.
Arvaikheer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mongolian Арвайхээр (Arvajxeer).
Senses: examples: text: “I asked before the election and I am still asking,” the gruff-voiced Battulga told a town hall meeting in Arvaikheer in central Mongolia last month. “Why are the people of a country so rich in resources still so poor?”
ref: 2018 June 17, Simon Denyer, “Mongolia’s president, a former martial-arts champion, wrestles with some major problems”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 Jun 2018, Asia & Pacific:
text: Gavaadandov, who lives on the outskirts of the central city of Arvaikheer, became a Catholic about 18 years ago, soon after a mission set up in her neighbourhood, being drawn initially by her curiosity at the foreigners speaking accented Mongolian.
ref: 2023 August 30, Joseph Campbell, “Mongolian woman eager to welcome Pope Francis keeps up tea-spilling tradition”, in Clarence Fernandez, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 31 Aug 2023:
glosses: A city in Övörkhangai, Mongolia.
Baruun-Urt
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mongolian Баруун-Урт (Baruun-Urt).
Senses: examples: text: BARUUN URT
There is little to say about this unattractive town of 18,000 inhabitants, located 190 kilometres south-west of Choibalsan and 557 kilometres from Ulaanbaatar. Baruun Urt (981 m) features a small town square dominated by the revolutionary hero Sukhbaatar riding a horse. This one is less dynamic than his statue in Ulaanbaatar. A few shops and a couple of hotels are nearby, but there is no town market.
ref: 2002, Claire Sermier, “Eastern Aimags”, in Helen Loveday, transl., Mongolia: Empire of the Steppes, Airphoto International Ltd., →ISBN, →OCLC, page 226:
text: The experts erected 30 traffic signs along the 543 km highway from Baruun-Urt to Khulunbuir on the spots where the gazelle herds cross. This will allow drivers to slow down in places where wildlife may appear, thus reducing the likelihood of wildlife crashes.
ref: 2020 January 20, “Traffic signs have been set up on the road to eastern side”, in World Wide Fund for Nature, archived from the original on 20 Jul 2025:
glosses: A city in Sükhbaatar, Mongolia.
Bayankhongor
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mongolian Баянхонгор (Bajanxongor).
Senses: examples: text: Not long after completing the colossal project, Ganna was ready for his next monumental challenge. The idea for the World Peace Pagoda hatched out of a 16-foot-tall stone stupa set in the unforgiving landscape of Bayankhongor province in western Mongolia, the birthplace of Ganna’s parents. In the summer of 2013, the community had commissioned the artist to construct the religious structure, selling goats and belongings to raise $60,000 to fund it. His creative vision expanded from the provincial to the universal.
ref: 2015 April 30, Andrea Sachs, “Could a mask maker’s quest to see the Dalai Lama bring about world peace?”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 08 May 2015:
text: Monkhbaatar’s great-grandfather had been a prominent lama in the southwestern province of Bayankhongor.
ref: 2023 November 9, Aatish Taseer, “An Epic Pilgrimage Across Three Great Religions”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 09 Nov 2023:
glosses: A city, district, and province of Mongolia.
Bor-Öndör
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mongolian Бор-Өндөр (Bor-Öndör).
Senses: examples: text: Copper reserves are big enough for another 60 years. Other mines include fluorspar at Bor-Ondör and gold at Ih-altat.
ref: 2000, “Mongolia”, in Nations of the World: A Political, Economic & Business Handbook, 1st edition, Lakeville, CT: Grey House Publishing, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 903, column 2:
text: I’d like to share a childhood and teenage memory from the years 1985 to 1993. Our family lived in a small settlement called Bor-Öndör, located in Hentii Province, for five years. After that, we relocated back to Ulaanbaatar, where I attended school for the remaining three years before completing my secondary education.
ref: 2025, Baasanjav Terbish, “The Cat”, in Humans, Dogs and Other Beings: Myths, Stories, and History in the Land of Genghis Khan, Open Book Publishers, →DOI, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 198:
glosses: A city in Khentii, Mongolia.
Bulgan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: bo͞olʹgän
Etymology: From Mongolian Булган (Bulgan).
Senses: glosses: A city, district, and province of Mongolia.
Choir
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mongolian Чойр (Čojr).
Senses: examples: text: The United States may seek access rights to an air base built by the Soviets outside the city of Choir in Mongolia.
ref: 2008, Michael L. Levin, “U.S. Foreign Policy, The Debt Explosion, and Demographic Trends”, in The Next Great Clash: China and Russia vs. the United States, Praeger Security International, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 33:
glosses: A city in Govisümber, Mongolia.
Port Kembla
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb and port in the City of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia.
Related terms: Mount Kembla
Dalanzadgad
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mongolian Даланзадгад (Dalanzadgad).
Senses: examples: text: In Bayangovi, we haggled with a local driver for a vehicle to take us southeast through the desert to Dalanzadgad for $135 each, stopping at the major attractions along the way. His furgon looked sickly, but we were glad to finally head into the Gobi.[…]
We arrived in Dalanzadgad dusty and weary but satisfied, carrying something of the immense vistas away with us. With no time to rest, we boarded a public furgon for a 16-hour overnight ride to Ulan Bator.
ref: 2003 October 5, Michael Benanav, “A Nomad Among Nomads In Mongolia”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 May 2015, Travel:
text: The extreme February temperatures in eastern China were preceded by a pair of national records in Mongolia. The country set an all-time February record on Friday in the central city of Tsetserleg, when a high temperature of 59.7 degrees was measured. The previous record of 58.4 degrees was set in 1992 in Dalanzadgad, farther to the southeast.
ref: 2021 February 22, Matthew Cappucci, “Beijing soars to 78 degrees, its warmest winter temperature on record”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 Feb 2021:
glosses: A city in Mongolia.
Kharkhorin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mongolian Хархорин (Xarxorin).
Senses: examples: text: Erdene Zuu monastery, in the grasslands on the edge of the ancient capital of Kharkhorin, about 230 miles southwest of Ulan Bator, housed 1,500 lamas before it was destroyed in 1936.
ref: 2006 August 19, Lindsay Beck, “Buddhism Making a Revival in Mongolia”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 Apr 2024:
text: After two days of sightseeing in Ulaanbaatar, wordsmiths head to Kharkhorin, the town that was the Mongol Empire’s capital in the 13th century, where the retreat truly begins.
ref: 2025 February 13, Ginanne Brownell, “Sometimes the Best Gift Is Time Alone”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 Feb 2025, Fashion:
glosses: A city in Övörkhangai, Mongolia.
Khovd
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mongolian Ховд (Xovd).
Senses: glosses: A city in Khovd, Mongolia.
Mandalgovi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mongolian Мандалговь (Mandalgovʹ).
Senses: examples: text: Dundgov can’t always promise you an epic dust storm like that one, although we did run into another — a simpler all-day blow — at its eastern end returning on the main road. In a remote desert plain northwest of the pleasant-looking aimag centre of Mandalgovi is Baga Gazriyn Chuluu, a lovely rock-strewn range full of canyons, caves, a couple of old monasteries and a solitary lake.
ref: 2010, Carl Robinson, “The Gobi”, in Mongolia: Nomad Empire of Eternal Blue Sky, Odyssey Books & Guides, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 300:
glosses: A city in Dundgovi, Mongolia.
Ölgii
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mongolian Өлгий (Ölgii).
Senses: examples: text: Olgii is the capital and, indeed, the only town of the Bayan-Olgii aimag. The majority of the population of the aimag are Kazak.
ref: [1997, Hazel Barker, David Thurlow, “Mongolia”, in Russia & Central Asia by Road (Bradt Travel Guides), Bradt Publications, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 170:
text: In Olgii, capital of Bayan-Olgii, the symbolic importance of the eagle to the ethnic identity of the Altai Kazakhs is clear. Building walls are adorned with photos of eagle hunters, and the eagle is in the provincial coat of arms.
ref: [2018 December 22, Hannah Reyes Morales, “At 14, She Hunts Wolves and Takes Selfies With Cherished Eagle in Mongolia”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 Jul 2020, Mongolia Dispatch:
glosses: A city in Bayan-Ölgii, Mongolia.
Öndörkhaan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mongolian Өндөрхаан (Öndörxaan).
Senses: examples: text: Ondorkhaan is located 290 km east of Ulaanbaatar. It has a population of roughly 15,000 persons and serves as the capital of Khentii province.
ref: [2016 June 29, “80-km road links Ondorkhaan and Choibalsan towns of Mongolia”, in AKIpress News Agency, archived from the original on 08 Dec 2024, Business:
text: Öndörkhaan is a sleepy town in Mongolia of around 20,000 people on the windswept plains of the Asian steppe that derives its livelihood mostly from coal mining. At first glance, it seems like an unlikely stage for a drama-filled episode of international intrigue.
Yet in 1971, Öndörkhaan, recently renamed Chinggis City in honor of Mongolia’s legendary ruler Genghis Khan, who was born nearby, became a flashpoint for global intrigue that highlighted the power for revenge within the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
ref: 2023 August 24, James Gethyn Evans, “A Plane Crash and Prigozhin’s Lin Biao Moment”, in The Diplomat, archived from the original on 24 Aug 2023, China Power:
glosses: A city in Khentii, Mongolia.
Sainshand
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mongolian Сайншанд (Sajnšand).
Senses: examples: text: His knowledge was finally put to use when Mongolia opened up to democracy in 1990 and restrictions on religion were eased. He recovered about half the boxes his grandfather had buried, and opened a museum in Sainshand, 460 miles southeast of Ulan Bator, the capital. Lacking proper storage for the relics, Mr. Altangerel decided to leave the remaining 30 or so boxes underground.
ref: 2002 August 12, Michael Kohn, “A Lonely Battle in Mongolia to Save Buddhist Relics”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 28 Nov 2010, World:
text: “Mongolian national hero,” Galsansuh says of Battulga as we settle into the restaurant. “He has no Chinese blood — he is pure Mongolian. And that statue of Chinggis Khan [Ghengis Khan], it’s a tool we need to keep us from becoming part of China.” Galsansuh laughs — a few bemused snorts — and soon he praises another Battulga scheme: The MP is pushing to build a $10 billion industrial city near Sainshand, a town in the Gobi, to process Mongolian coal and copper. He recently persuaded the Mongolian government to give him $1 million for preliminary planning.
ref: 2013 September 20, Bill Donahue, “Mongolia’s economy is soaring, but at what cost?”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 Aug 2024, Magazine:
glosses: A city, the provincial capital of Dornogovi province, Mongolia.
Sharyngol
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mongolian Шарынгол (Šaryngol).
Senses: examples: text: The economy has since made small strides, thanks to grain production and some requisite coal mining at nearby Sharyngol. The city is not actually part of Selenge aimag, but an autonomous municipality, Darkhan-Uul.
ref: 2008 May, Michael Kohn, “Northern Mongolia”, in Mongolia (Lonely Planet), 5th edition, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 138, column 1:
text: The optimum Cu/Zn ratio for the unpolluted terrestrial plants is 0.27. The woody plants growing in Sharyngol undergo the most significant imbalance in the provision of enzyme synthesis because of Zn excess and Cu deficiency.
ref: 2016, Natalia E. Kosheleva, Ivan V. Timofeev, Nikolay S. Kasimov, Tatiana M. Kisselyova, Alexy V. Alekseenko, Olga I. Sorokina, “Trace Element Composition of Poplar in Mongolian Cities”, in Olga V. Frank-Kamenetskaya, Dmitry Yu. Vlasov, Elena G. Panova, editors, Biogenic—Abiogenic Interactions in Natural and Anthropogenic Systems, Springer, →DOI, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 175:
glosses: A city in Darkhan-Uul, Mongolia.