cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Jinjiang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /tʃɪnˈtʃ(i)æŋ/
note: hyperforeign
ipa: /d͡ʒɪnˈd͡ʒ(i)æŋ/
Forms: form: Chin-chiang
form: Chinchiang
form: Tsinkiang
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 晉江 /晋江 (Jìnjiāng, “Jin River”).
Senses: examples: text: Jinhua and others are spending big to get there. In Jinjiang, a city in Fujian Province once known as a shoe-manufacturing center, Jinhua’s new factory is almost finished. Rising five stories and stretching several football fields long, the structure boasts 100,000 square feet of new office space.
ref: 2018 June 22, Paul Mozur, “Inside a Heist of American Chip Designs, as China Bids for Tech Power”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 Jun 2018, Technology:
text: The Taiwanese-controlled island of Kinmen located just off the Chinese coast has begun importing water from its neighbor via a pipeline despite heightened tensions between Beijing and Taipei.
Water from Jinjiang in China’s Fujian province began flowing through the 16-kilometer (10-mile)-long pipeline Sunday under a 30-year contract.
ref: 2018 August 6, “Taiwan’s Kinmen island begins importing water from China”, in AP News, archived from the original on 07 Mar 2023:
text: Social media video showed eletrical power lines sparking and bursting into flames as winds thrashed Jinjiang, a city of two million, while in Quanzhou massive trees were uprooted and left in the middle of roads.
ref: 2023 July 28, Bernard Orr, Yimou Lee, “Typhoon Doksuri destroys power lines, closes factories as it rips into China”, in Michael Perry, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 28 Jul 2023, Asia Pacific:
glosses: A county-level city of Quanzhou, Fujian, China.
Synonyms: sense: from Hokkien
word: Chinkang
word: Chin-kang
word: Chin Kang
chimes in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of chime in
chiming in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of chime in
chimed in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of chime in
Hautes-Alpes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From French Hautes-Alpes.
Senses: glosses: A department of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France. Capital: Gap.
thersite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thersites
Senses: glosses: A thersitical person
birational geometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Birational geometry amounts to the study of mappings given by rational functions rather than polynomials.
text: 1999, Yongbin Ruan, Surgery, Quantum Cohomology and Birational Geometry, Ya. Eliashberg, D. Fuchs, T. Ratiu, Alan Weinstein (editors), Northern California Symplectic Geometry Seminar, American Mathematical Society, Translations, Series 2, Volume 196, page 183,
Recently, some amazing relations between quantum cohomology and birational geometry have been discovered.
text: 2008, Paltin Ionescu, Birational geometry of rationally connected manifolds via quasi-lines, Ciro Ciliberto, et al., Projective Varieties with Unexpected Properties, Walter de Gruyter, page 317,
This is, mostly, a survey of results about the birational geometry of rationally connected manifolds, using rational curves analogous to lines in ℙⁿ (quasi-lines).
text: 2009, Claudio Bartocci, Ugo Bruzzo, Daniel Hernández Ruipérez, Fourier-Mukai and Nahm Transforms in Geometry and Mathematical Physics, Springer (Birkhäuser), Progress in Mathematics 276, page 233,
In this chapter we offer some applications of Fourier-Mukai transforms, namely, a classification of the Fourier-Mukai partners of complex projective surfaces, some issues in birational geometry, and an approach to the McKay correspondence via Fourier-Mukai transform.
topics: algebraic-geometry
geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A field of algebraic geometry in which the aim is to determine under what conditions two algebraic varieties are isomorphic outside lower-dimensional subsets.
Related terms: birational automorphism
birational automorphism group
birational equivalence
birational invariant
birational mapping
birational morphism
blowup
plurigenus
Bartoszyce
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Polish Bartoszyce.
Senses: glosses: A town in Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, Poland.
andartes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Greek αντάρτες (antártes).
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: The Greek resistance, and its members, during World War II
Działdowo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Polish Działdowo.
Senses: glosses: A town in Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, Poland.
Ostróda
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Polish Ostróda.
Senses: glosses: A town in Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, Poland.
Second City
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Second City
Etymology: So named because Chicago was the second largest city in the United States (after New York City) from 1889 to 1984.
Senses: synonyms: Windy City
glosses: Nickname for the city of Chicago, Illinois, in the United States of America.
Adit
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈadɪt/
/ˈædɪt/
Etymology: Hypocorism of Aditya.
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the male given name Aditya, from Sanskrit.
Łomża
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Polish Łomża.
Senses: glosses: A city in Podlaskie Voivodeship, Poland.
Augustów
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Polish Augustów.
Senses: glosses: A city in northeastern Poland.
miso-Christian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more miso-Christian
form: most miso-Christian
Etymology: From miso- + Christian.
Senses: glosses: Exhibiting or pertaining to hatred towards Christians or Christianity.
miso-Christian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: miso-Christians
Etymology: From miso- + Christian.
Senses: glosses: One who hates Christians or Christianity.
Related terms: Christianophobia
edit warrior
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: edit warriors
Etymology: From edit + warrior.
Senses: examples: text: As Wikipedia has grown, Wales has been forced to impose some more centralized, policelike measures–to guard against “edit warriors,” “point-of-view warriors,” “revert warriors,” and all those who have difficulty playing well with others.
ref: 2006, Brendan I. Koerner, The Best of Technology Writing 2006, →ISBN, page 113:
text: Amid the scores of single-issue edit-warriors with screen names like PalestineRemembered, HumusSapiens, and G-Dett, two Wikipedians stand out for their tenacity and influence, and for the resourcefulness of their wikilawyering: Jayjg and SlimVirgin.
ref: 2007, Bidoun: A Quarterly Forum for Middle Eastern Talent, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 60:
text: Edit warriors, however, are more often than not myopic in their view of Wikipedia, believing that a “wrong” version should not be allowed to stand on Wikipedia—even for a day!
ref: 2008, Phoebe Ayers, Charles Matthews, Ben Yates, How Wikipedia Works: And how You Can be a Part of it, →ISBN, page 389:
text: As the volume of work and of disputes grew, a Mediation Committee aiming to find common ground between edit warriors was established; it had no coercive power.
ref: 2009, Mathieu O'Neil, Cyberchiefs: Autonomy and Authority in Online Tribes, →ISBN, page 157:
qualifier: wiki jargon
glosses: One who engages in an edit war.
antislavism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From anti- + Slav + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Antislavic sentiment, in general: negative attitude towards Slavic peoples.
anti-Slavism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From anti- + Slav + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Anti-Slavic sentiment, in general: negative attitude towards Slavic peoples.
Related terms: anti-Slavic
poorga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poorgas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of purga.
poorgas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of poorga
glissing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gliss
glissed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡlɪst/
rhymes: -ɪst
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of gliss
distantiates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of distantiate
distantiating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of distantiate
distantiated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of distantiate
textology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From text + -ology.
Senses: glosses: The linguistic analysis of a complete text.
Derived terms: textological
textologist
tetragyny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The condition of being tetragynous
tetrandry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The condition of being tetrandrous
Scales
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Old Norse skáli (“shed, hut”). Doublet of Scholes.
Senses: examples: text: Both Bobba and Coristine are listed in internal OPM records reviewed by WIRED as “experts” at OPM, reporting directly to Amanda Scales, its new chief of staff. Scales previously worked on talent for xAI, Musk’s artificial intelligence company, and as part of Uber’s talent acquisition team, per LinkedIn.
ref: 2025 February 2, Vittoria Elliott, “The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Government Takeover”, in WIRED, archived from the original on 02 Feb 2025:
glosses: A surname.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Sierra County, California, United States.
glosses: A small village in Aldingham parish, Westmorland and Furness district, Cumbria, England, previously in South Lakeland district (OS grid ref SD2772).
glosses: A hamlet in Kirkoswald parish, Westmorland and Furness district, Cumbria, previously in Eden district (OS grid ref NY5743).
glosses: A hamlet in Threlkeld parish, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, previously in Eden district (OS grid ref NY3426).
Related terms: Newton-with-Scales
virusses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: In the cases which have been cited to prove the identity of the two virusses, it has been said that a diseased individual having had connection with several healthy persons, these latter would be variously affected; some would have chancres, some gonorrhœa, and others both together.
ref: 1843, The Medical Examiner, and Retrospect of the Medical Sciences, volume VI, page 283:
text: In recent times the question of the origin of life is connected with the problem of the living or non-living character of the virusses.
ref: 1952, Free University Quarterly, page 143:
text: but it was only in recent years that it was discovered that certain organisms, namely virusses, are responsible for this degeneration. Leafroll is caused by a single virus, while most of the mosaic diseases are caused by one of the X, Y or A virusses.
ref: 1958, Science Bulletin - Republic of South Africa. Department of Agricultural Technical Services, page 21:
text: (a) infection by virusses, bacteria or parasites / […]
ref: 1963, Food Science and Technology: Biological and Microbiological Aspects of Foods, page 91:
text: These protein-like substances are very efficient in neutralising virusses, but are present in small numbers for a relatively short period of time.
ref: 1987, Pluimvee Bulletin: Poultry Bulletin:
text: Next we recapitulate some basic facts on liquid crystals. The building blocks of these materials are anisotropic particles, e.g., elongated molecules, associated structures such as wormlike micelles, or even rodlike virusses.
ref: 2006, Mauro Ferrario, Giovanni Ciccotti, Kurt Binder, editors, Computer Simulations in Condensed Matter: From Materials to Chemical Biology, volume 2, →ISBN, page 235:
text: Rightside-out plasma membrane derivatives can be obtained by making use of specific virusses. Enveloped virusses such as the influenza virus (Lenard and Rothman, 1976) and Semliki Forest Virus (Van Meet et al., 1981) bud through the plasma membrane of the host cell and obtain this way their lipid bilayer directly from the host cell plasma membrane.
ref: 2013, Op den Kamp, edited by Jos A. F., Membrane Biogenesis, →ISBN, page 73:
text: Computer virusses are programs which can self-replicate and propagate via digital media. Prior to the Internet becoming commonplace, the common medium was the floppy disc. Nowadays virusses are passed over the Internet.
ref: 2014, Kenneth A. Spencer, All About Your Computer: An Explanation of the Computer for the Interested User, →ISBN, page 210:
glosses: plural of virus
musk stick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: musk sticks
Senses: glosses: A pink coloured confectionery in the shape of a rod or stick and flavoured to taste and smell like musk.
musk sticks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of musk stick
slate pencil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slate pencils
Senses: glosses: A pencil designed to be used on a writing slate.
glosses: A hard, grey coloured, aniseed flavoured, sugar-based confectionery in the shape of a rod or stick.
slate pencils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slate pencil
fundamental theorem of arithmetic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: mathematics
number-theory
sciences
glosses: the theorem that states that every integer greater than one is uniquely expressible as a product of prime numbers, which is called its prime factorization
Chrisso
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Christopher or Chris + -o
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the male given names Christopher or Chris.
meat-safe cot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meat-safe cots
Senses: glosses: A cot for infants with a hinged lid fitted with fine mesh to keep out insects.
Charkhlik
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: chärkhlĭkʹ
Etymology: Borrowed from Uyghur چاقىلىق (chaqiliq).
Senses: examples: text: The water used in irrigating the soil is led from the Chargalyk-daria, which flows from the neighbouring Altyn-tagh mountains, an elevated range south of Lob-nor.
ref: [1879, N. Prejevalsky, chapter II, in E. Delmar Morgan, transl., From Kulja, Across the Tian Shan to Lob-nor, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, →OCLC, page 76:
text: On January 8, 1914, I arrived at Charkhlik (map, Fig. 1) together with three of my Indian assistants.
ref: 1920 January, Aurel Stein, “Explorations in the Lop Desert”, in The Geographical Review, volume IX, number 1, page 2:
text: Lop Nor had disappeared, and Lou-Ian was buried in sand. Some sixty years later Charkhlik went to war against Ta Wu Ti of the Wei, who ruled much of China. Defeated by soldiers sent from Liang-chou, Charkhlik became a Wei prefecture. Thus Lop Nor and Lou-lan and Charkhlik disappeared from history within a few years of one another.
ref: 1979, Yasushi Inoue, translated by James T. Araki and Edward Seidensticker, Lou-lan and Other Stories, Kodansha International, page 40:
text: On March 9 they retreated south to Charkhlik, an oasis on the southern branch of the Silk Road, with their precious load of artifacts.
ref: 1996, Kenneth Wimmel, The Alluring Target, Trackless Sands Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 30:
glosses: Synonym of Ruoqiang.
synonyms: word: Ruoqiang
meat-safe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meat-safes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of meat safe.
Ch'ieh-mo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 且末, Wade–Giles romanization: Chʻieh³-mo⁴.
Senses: examples: text: The Liang-shu mistakes Mo 末 for Chʻieh-mo 且末 during the Han (漢). But, adjoining Po-ssŭ in the west and Po-tʻi 白題 (Balkh) in the east, it should be identified with Marw. The statement of the Liang-shu that Mo adjoins Ting-ling 丁零 or Kao-chʻê 高車 in the north is based on the misunderstanding that Mo was located at Chʻieh-mo of what is now Cherchen in Chinese Turkestan.
ref: 1959, Kazuo Enoki, “On the Nationality of the Ephthalites”, in Sei Wada, editor, Memoirs of the Research Department of the Toyo Bunko, number 18, Minato-ku, Tokyo: Kasai Publishing & Printing Co. (Pan Pacific Press), →OCLC, page 28:
text: These relations even became closer under the Liang of Nanking during the first half of the sixth century as a result of the expansion of the Tʻu-yü-hun toward the oases of Shanshan and Chʻieh-mo (the present-day Cherchen).
ref: 1996, Jacques Gernet, translated by J. R. Foster and Charles Hartman, A History of Chinese Civilization, 2nd edition, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 201:
text: The natives of Shan-shan were also skilled at making arms and in the states west of Ch'ieh-mo 'the arms made were like those of the Han'.
ref: 1996, János Harmatta, editor, History of Civilizations of Central Asia, volume 2, UNESCO, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 224:
glosses: Alternative form of Qiemo.
Karghalik
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: kärgälĭkʹ
Etymology: Borrowed from Uyghur قاغىلىق (qaghiliq).
Senses: examples: text: After a march of 24 miles in eight hours from Posgam, we reached Karghalik, a town of 1,000 families, according to Forsyth, but according to a later traveller 3,000, and at an elevation of 4,370 feet above the sea.
ref: 1893, Henry Lansdell, Chinese Central Asia, volume II, London: Sampson Low, Marston, & Company, →OCLC, page 143:
text: In the south, the border of the Taklamakān lies along the nothern ends of the oases, mostly small, which line at intervals the foot of the K'un-lun glacis from Karghalik to Niya (Sheets Nos. 6, 9, 14, 19).
ref: 1923, Aurel Stein, Memoir on Maps of Chinese Turkistan and Kansu from the Surveys Made during Sir Aurel Stein's Explorations, Dehra Dun: Trigonometrical Survey Office, page 43:
text: Posgam is a new district which has been carved out of the unwieldy Karghalik charge and placed under a Magistrate of the third class.
ref: 1926, C. P. Skrine, Chinese Central Asia, Methuen Publishing, →OCLC, page 109:
text: Posgām (in Arabic letters written Būskām) is a large town to the southeast of Yārkand, situated on the trade route coming from Karġalik (today: Yeh-ch‘eng) at a distance of 21 miles from Karġalik.
ref: [1986, Monika Gronke, “The Arabic Yārkand Documents”, in Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, volume XLIX, number 3, School of Oriental and African Studies, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 491:
glosses: Alternative form of Kargilik.
Town End
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A number of places in England, including:
A suburb of March, Fenland district, Cambridgeshire (OS grid ref TL4195).
glosses: A number of places in England, including:
A hamlet south of Troutbeck, Lakes parish, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, previously in South Lakeland district (OS grid ref NY4002).
glosses: A number of places in England, including:
A small village in Witherslack, Meathop and Ulpha parish, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, previously in South Lakeland district (OS grid ref SD4483)
Related terms: Townend
rasquache
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ɹɑ skwɔː t͡ʃe/
Forms: form: more rasquache
form: most rasquache
Etymology: From Mexican Spanish rascuache (“poor, coarse or vulgar”).
Senses: glosses: Having or relating to a do-it-yourself attitude in Chicano culture; able to make something from nothing, or make do with the resources at hand.
thyrosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thyroses
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Any disease of the thyroid gland
balistrariae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of balistraria
Barlby with Osgodby
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A civil parish with a town council in North Yorkshire, England, previously in Selby district.
cuca shop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cuca shops
Etymology: After Cuca, a Portuguese brand of beer.
Senses: glosses: An unlicensed store selling alcoholic beverages.
wikipedia: Cuca beer
makakunya
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: makakunyas
Etymology: From Ndonga omakakunya (literally “scavenger”).
Senses: glosses: An African who fought for the colonial government.
fat fingering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fat finger (alternative form of fat-fingering)
fat fingered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fat finger (alternative form of fat-fingered)
Nampol
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: NamPol
form: NAMPOL
Senses: topics: government
law-enforcement
glosses: The Namibian Police Force.
fatfinger
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fatfingers
form: fatfingering
form: fatfingered
form: fatfingered
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fat-finger.
fatfingers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fatfinger (alternative form of fat-fingers)
fatfingering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fatfinger (alternative form of fat-fingering)
fatfingered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fatfinger (alternative form of fat-fingered)
struggle kid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: struggle kids
Senses: glosses: A Namibian who grew up in exile during the Namibian War of Independence.
born-free
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: born-frees
form: born free
Senses: glosses: A Namibian born after independence was achieved in 1990.
glosses: A black South African born after the end of apartheid.
Kingston St Mary
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Distinguishing this location from other places also known as Kingston.
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Somerset West and Taunton district, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST2229).
Aliso Viejo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Orange County, California, United States.
Buena Park
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Orange County, California, United States.
Cypress
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Orange County, California, United States.
glosses: Ellipsis of Cypress County.
Derived terms: North Cypress
Dana Point
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Orange County, California, United States.
Fountain Valley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Orange County, California, United States.
Garden Grove
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Orange County, California, United States.
glosses: A small town in Decatur County, Iowa, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Hernando County, Florida, United States.
Synonyms: sense: city in California
word: Garbage Grove
Huntington Beach
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named for businessman and booster Henry E. Huntington.
Senses: examples: text: We adopted a formal policy on this," Mayor Pat Burns said. "It went before the council, and we unanimously agreed that Huntington Beach is not a sanctuary city. We took deliberate action to make our non-sanctuary stance clear."
ref: 2025 May 30, Rebecca Santana and Jonathan Lloyd, “These California cities and counties are on the DHS list of ‘sanctuary jurisdictions'”, in KNBC:
glosses: A city in Orange County, California, United States.
wikipedia: Henry E. Huntington
La Habra
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from the definite form of Spanish abra (“glade, inlet”), itself a borrowing from French havre. Doublet of haven. The initial "silent" h- is unetymological, likely interpreted from other Spanish words and toponyms common to the American Southwest (e.g., hasta, hombre, etc.). Fully cognate with French Le Havre, a city in Normandy.
Senses: glosses: A city in Orange County, California, United States.
Laguna Beach
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Orange County, California, United States.
Laguna Hills
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Orange County, California, United States.
Laguna Niguel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Orange County, California, United States.
Laguna Woods
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Orange County, California, United States.
Lake Forest
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Orange County, California, United States.
Mission Viejo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Orange County, California, United States.
Newport Beach
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Orange County, California, United States.
Burton Bradstock
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A coastal village and civil parish near Bridport, Dorset, England (OS grid ref SY4889).
Rancho Santa Margarita
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Orange County, California, United States.
San Juan Capistrano
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Orange County, California, United States.
Seal Beach
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Orange County, California, United States.
Yorba Linda
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Orange County, California, United States.
Coto de Caza
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Orange County, California, United States.
Ladera Ranch
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Orange County, California, United States.
Midway City
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Orange County, California, United States.
North Tustin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Orange County, California, United States.
Rossmoor
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Orange County, California, United States.
mega structure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mega structures
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of megastructure.
mega-structure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mega-structures
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of megastructure.
mega-structures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mega-structure
mega structures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mega structure
Shino ware
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Shino wares
Etymology: Unknown. Perhaps from Japanese 白 (“white”), or perhaps in reference to the tea master Shino Soshin (1444–1523).
Senses: glosses: A style of Japanese pottery, originating in present-day Gifu prefecture.
modern synthesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Coined by British evolutionary biologist, philosopher, author Julian Huxley in 1942, in his book Evolution: The Modern Synthesis.
Senses: examples: text: The core of the Modern Synthesis was to suggest that these observable processes, controlled by genes, explain the principles of variation and selection as laid out by Darwin: genetics underpin the mutability of species, and it is the nuts and bolts of descent with modification.
ref: 2018, Julia D. Sigwart, What Species Mean: A User's Guide to the Units of Biodiversity, CRC Press, →ISBN:
text: In other words, the Modern Synthesis simply abstracts away from the role of phenotypic variation. It explains evolutionary change solely in terms of genetic variation.
ref: 2020, Martin Hähnel, editor, Aristotelian Naturalism: A Research Companion, Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 336:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The mathematical framework unifying Darwinian evolution and Mendelian heredity into a coherent theory.
wikipedia: Evolution: The Modern Synthesis
Stockton on the Forest
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Stockton-on-the-Forest
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in the City of York district, North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE6555).
Blowers Green
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Blower's Green
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Dudley, West Midlands, England (OS grid ref SO9489).
Mekit
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Uyghur مەكىت (mekit).
Senses: examples: text: A police officer in neighboring Mekit county told RFA he was informed that police were searching the houses for a suspect from Pichan (in Chinese, Shanshan) county in Xinjiang’s Turpan prefecture when the killings occurred.
ref: 2013, Shohret Hoshur, Qiao Long, Hai Nan, Luisetta Mudie, Parameswaran Ponnudurai, “Xinjiang Violence Leaves 21 Dead”, in Dolkun Kamberi, Luisetta Mudie, Mamatjan Juma, transl., Radio Free Asia:
text: A black and white reproduction of a Uyghur farmer propaganda poster from Mekit County, Kashgar Prefecture, in 1975.
ref: 2017 April 20, Darren Byler, “Imagining Re-Engineered Muslims in Northwest China”, in Milestones: Commentary on the Islamic World, page 2:
text: Zumrat Dawut, 38, a Uighur female activist, told VOA that her neighbors, the Nurehmets from Mekit, Xinjiang, had to agree to wed their 18-year-old daughter to a Han Chinese out of fear that they could be sent to internment camps.
ref: 2020, Asim Kashgarian, “China Video Ad Calls for 100 Uighur Women to ‘Urgently’ Marry Han Men”, in Voice of America:
glosses: Alternative form of Makit.
Richard's pipit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Richard's pipits
Etymology: Named after the French naturalist Charles Richard (1745–1835).
Senses: glosses: Anthus richardi, a medium-sized passerine bird which breeds in open grasslands in the East Palearctic.
revengism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈvɛnd͡ʒɪzəm/
Etymology: From revenge + -ism.
Senses: glosses: A tendency to carry out, or preoccupation with, revenge.
Related terms: revanchism
Blyth's pipit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Blyth's pipits
Etymology: Named after the English zoologist Edward Blyth.
Senses: glosses: Anthus godlewskii, medium-sized passerine bird which breeds in Mongolia and neighbouring areas of China, Tibet and India.
olive-backed pipit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: olive-backed pipits
Senses: glosses: Anthus hodgsoni, passerine bird of the pipit (Anthus) genus, which breeds across southern, north central and eastern Asia, as well as in the north-eastern European Russia
Pechora pipit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Pechora pipits
Senses: glosses: Anthus gustavi, a passerine bird which breeds in the East Palearctic tundra
emotional labour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: UK standard spelling of emotional labor.
Markit
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Uyghur مەكىت (mekit).
Senses: examples: text: Markit is situated on the westernmost tip of the Taklimakan Desert, facing the Yarkant River. Although at some distance from the Silk Road, It was on a branch road leading to Kashi in ancient times. Some explorers went east from Markit to enter the Taklimakan Desert.
ref: 1989, Muqi (车慕奇) Che, “From Kashi to Hotan”, in 丝绸之路今昔 [The Silk Road, Past and Present], Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 271:
english: The Silk Road, Past and Present
translation: The Silk Road, Past and Present
text: In the desert-bounded Markit County, the Daolang dance with its strong regional characteristics is popular. This dance, performed to the accompaniment of the Daolang sanam or the Daolang mukam, depicts the hunting activities of the Markit people in ancient times.
ref: 1989, 郑平 [Zheng Ping], 洛安吉 [Luo Anji], transl., 新疆风物志 [Xinjiang : the Land and the People], Beijing: New World Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 129:
english: Xinjiang : the Land and the People
translation: Xinjiang : the Land and the People
text: Hedin chose his thirtieth birthday, 17 February 1895, to depart from Kashgar and travel to Markit with the aim of mapping the south-western sector of the Taklamakan. He had planned to cross the perilous empty quarter, a dangerous zone made up of shifting sand dunes, located between the Yarkant and Khotan rivers.
He left Markit (these days, well known for its cluster of labour camps) with a caravan leader, three other men, eight camels, guard dogs and some livestock, and provisions for one month.
ref: 1994, Christa Paula, The Road to Miran, HarperCollins, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 92:
text: A 3D rendering of a newly-built prison in Markit county, Xinjiang. It is larger and more secure than prisons in the region have typically been.
ref: 2020 September 23, Michael Walsh, “China's still building detention camps in Xinjiang — and they're getting even bigger”, in Australian Broadcasting Corporation:
glosses: Alternative form of Makit.
wikipedia: Defense Mapping Agency
I've burnt myself
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of I've burned myself.
choose sides
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: chooses sides
form: choosing sides
form: chose sides
form: chosen sides
Senses: examples: text: The neighbors chose sides on the zoning change.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see choose, sides.
examples: text: Maxine and Roseanne chose sides, with Maxine, the weaker of the two, getting first choice.
glosses: To divide a group into teams for a game or sport.
Related terms: choose up
choose up sides
choose up teams
Marxism-Leninism-Maoism
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: communism
government
human-sciences
ideology
philosophy
politics
sciences
glosses: A communist ideological stream which seeks to synthesize Marxism-Leninism and Maoism and which proponents believe is the highest stage of Marxism. It was systematized by the Communist Party of Peru (Shining Path) and developed by the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement and its adherent parties.
Related terms: Marxism
Leninism
Marxism-Leninism
Maoism
kin selection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Coined by John Maynard Smith in 1964 in a Nature paper titled "Group Selection and Kin Selection".
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: An evolutionary strategy that favors an individual organism's close kin over itself.
wikipedia: Nature (journal)
checkstones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A children's game similar to knucklebones but using pebbles.
Related terms: chuckstone
🧢
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kæp/
ipa: [kʰæp]
rhymes: -æp
homophone: cap
Senses: examples: text: Nah, that's 🧢.
text: What I tweet is who I am now and that’s no 🧢
ref: 2017 December 28, @_swavay, Twitter, archived from the original on 04 Jun 2023:
text: My bitch love me unconditional. No 🧢
ref: 2018 July 26, @1future, Twitter, archived from the original on 17 Aug 2022:
text: JuJu quickly replied ... "Big 🧢, also I told you in the game to stop all that talkin because we were gonna come back and win that game. Now help me decide which finger I need to get sized for this ring 🤣🤣"
ref: 2023 February 14, “JuJu Smith-Schuster Trolls James Bradberry W/ 'I'll Hold You' Valentine's Day Card”, in TMZ Sports, archived from the original on 04 Jun 2023:
glosses: Alternative form of cap (“a lie or exaggeration”).
🧢
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kæp/
ipa: [kʰæp]
rhymes: -æp
homophone: cap
Forms: form: 🧢s
form: 🧢ing
form: 🧢ed
form: 🧢ed
Senses: examples: text: Not even 🧢 ing I cracked a pint seal (red) smelled it and I got chills all over my body I wanted to cry
ref: 2019 July 30, @_FatNick, Twitter, archived from the original on 04 Jun 2023:
glosses: Alternative form of cap (“to lie or exaggerate”).
Derived terms: no 🧢
swing dancing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A style of highly acrobatic dance performed to swing music.
franklinic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪnɪk
Etymology: From Franklin + -ic, as a parallel to voltaic in honor of Benjamin Franklin's research on electricity. Coined by William Whewell in 1840.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Relating to the electricity from a machine, rather than from a redox reaction.
wikipedia: Benjamin Franklin
live-in son-in-law
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: qualifier: This entry is a translation hub.
glosses: man who marries and lives with his wife's family
Related terms: to live with one's wife's family
Miss Rona
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Miss 'Rona
Etymology: From Miss + rona. From Miss (“a form of address for a young woman”). From corona, from coronavirus. From COVID-19 coronavirus disease being caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, a coronavirus.
Senses: examples: ref: 2020 March 3, Holly G, “Take bezos miss Rona!”, in Twitter, retrieved 05 Mar 2022:
text: 2020 March 19, @nessarayn01, “I’m up in the midlands where miss Rona can’t touch me […]”, in Twitter; quoted in Antonio Lillo, “COVID-19, the Beer Flu; or, The Disease of Many Names”, Lebende Sprachen, volume 65, issue 2, 2020, DOI:10.1515/les-2020-0021, →ISSN, page 418.
text: 2020 October 17, “Need to Renew (Foreign) Passport at a Consulate in NYC – Questions About Miss Rona?”, in Reddit; quoted in Daisy Massey, Chenxi Huang, Yuan Lu, Alina Cohen, Yahel Oren, Tali Moed, Pini Matzner, et al., “Engagement with COVID-19 Public Health Measures in the United States: A Cross-sectional Social Media Analysis from June to November 2020”, in Journal of Internet Medical Research, volume 23, issue 6, article e26655, June 2021, DOI:10.2196/26655, →ISSN, appendix 1.
text: In the United States, the development of a “new reality” since Miss Rona’s coming of age and its social, cultural, economic, and political legacies of trauma were accelerated (and problematized) during former president Donald Trump’s regime (2016–2020; Howard and Utton 2020).
ref: 2021 October, Bharat Mehra, “Libraries Reclaiming ‘Social Justice Warriors’ During ‘Miss Rona’s’ Global Pandemic Crises”, in The Library Quarterly, volume 91, number 4, →DOI, →ISSN, page 386:
glosses: A personification of COVID-19, sometimes as a villain.
orthian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more orthian
form: most orthian
form: Orthyan
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὄρθιος (órthios, “high-pitched, upright”), from ὀρθός (orthós, “straight”).
Senses: examples: text: [W]hen he used to hear his empress singing the loud Orthyan song among the servants below, he would often in whispers communicate to the lieutenant, hints of what he would do if so be he was not deprived of the use of his precious limbs.
ref: 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:
glosses: Denoting a type of singing at a very high pitch.
tassle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: muda_; 'um CE a tassle: ~gew, mugew V (of grain) to undulate; ~thag N the tassle of a plant; ~tht V (of a plant) to produce a tassle.
ref: 1998, Dean Saxton, Lucille Saxton, Susie Enos, Dictionary: Tohono O'odham/Pima to English, English to Tohono O'odham/Pima, University of Arizona Press, →ISBN, page 43:
glosses: Misspelling of tassel.
tassles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tassle
Wuzhou
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: wo͞oʹjōʹ
Forms: form: Wuchow
form: Wu-chou
form: Wuchou
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 梧州 (Wúzhōu).
Senses: examples: text: The aircraft, with 123 passengers and nine crew on board, lost contact over the city of Wuzhou, China's Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) and the airline said.[...]Online weather data showed partly cloudy conditions with good visibility in Wuzhou at the time of the crash.
ref: 2022 March 21, “Chinese Boeing jet crashes in mountains with 132 on board, no sign of survivors”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 21 Mar 2022:
glosses: A prefecture-level city of the Guangxi autonomous region, China.
regurgitatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more regurgitatory
form: most regurgitatory
Etymology: From regurgitate + -ory.
Senses: examples: text: Some insect- and flesh-eaters are regurgitatory also perhaps[.]
ref: 1934, Henry G. Lamond, An Aviary on the Plains, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 59:
glosses: Of, relating to, or involving regurgitation.
Merket
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: měrkětʹ
Etymology: Borrowed from Uyghur مەكىت (mekit).
Senses: examples: text: In 1954 a cotton-cleaning plant was built by the soldiers in the town of Merket; "thanks to this plant most of the peasants are now freed from the necessity of cleaning cotton by hand".
ref: 1962, Central Asian Review, page 149:
text: At around the same time, my maternal grandfather was tying up his bundles in Merket, to the east of Kashgar.
ref: 2009, Rebiya Kadeer, Alexandra Cavelius, Dalai Lama XIV, Dragon Fighter: One Woman's Epic Struggle for Peace with China, Kales Press, page 7:
glosses: Alternative form of Makit.
wikipedia: Army Map Service
International Map of the World
Maigaiti
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Mai-kai-t'i
form: Maikaiti
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation of 麥蓋提／麦盖提 (Màigàití).
Senses: examples: text: In 1978 Maigaiti county in the far northwestern province of Xinjiang reported an infant morality rate of under 20.
ref: 1992, Dudley L. Poston, Jr., David Yaukey, editors, The Population of Modern China, Plenum Press, →ISBN, page 194:
text: The suspect, identified as Qeyser Qurban, 23, was also shot dead in the raid last month in Qumqusar township, in Kashgar prefecture’s Makit (in Chinese, Maigaiti) county, a police officer in Qumqusar told RFA’s Uyghur Service, speaking on condition of anonymity.
ref: 2012, Shohret Hoshur, Joshua Lipes, “Five Uyghurs Killed in Connection with Raid on Xinjiang Suspect”, in Shohret Hoshur, transl., Radio Free Asia:
glosses: Synonym of Makit: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.
synonyms: word: Makit
extra: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name
Cardington
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Bedford borough, Bedfordshire, England (OS grid ref TL0847).
glosses: A village and civil parish in central Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SO5095).
glosses: A village in Morrow County, Ohio, United States.
non-deontological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more non-deontological
form: most non-deontological
Senses: topics: ethics
human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Not relating to deontology, against deontological principles.
bowstring knot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bowstring knots
Senses: glosses: A type of open loop knot often used to form a lariat, or for a bowstring end, as the name suggests.
Related terms: honda knot
bowstring knots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bowstring knot
honda knot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: honda knots
Senses: glosses: A type of open loop knot often used to form a lariat.
Related terms: bowstring knot
honda knots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of honda knot
midshipman's hitch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: midshipman's hitches
Etymology: From midshipman + -'s + hitch.
Senses: glosses: A secure semi-permanent adjustable loop hitch knot. Formed from a rolling hitch type 2 (ref Ashley 1735).
midshipman's hitches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of midshipman's hitch
Watkiss
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Fiddian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Radway
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A village and civil parish in Stratford-on-Avon district, Warwickshire, England (OS grid ref SP3748).
glosses: A hamlet in Thorhild County, Alberta, Canada.
Derived terms: Radway Green
Simmonds
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An English patronymic surname from the given name Simon.
Related terms: Simmons
Symonds
killock hitch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: killock hitches
form: killick hitch
Senses: glosses: A timber hitch knot with added half hitch used to attach a line or rope to a killock anchor, usually a simple stone.
killock hitches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of killock hitch
topato
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: topatoes
Senses: glosses: Synonym of pomato (“potato–tomato hybrid”).
synonyms: word: pomato
extra: potato–tomato hybrid
Tretheway
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
killick hitch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: killick hitches
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of killock hitch.
killick hitches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of killick hitch
Willox
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Wootton Wawen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Stratford-on-Avon district, Warwickshire, England (OS grid ref SP1563).
tormentilla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tormentillas
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of tormentil (“type of herb”).
Sterndale
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
anti-Slavic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anti-Slavic
form: most anti-Slavic
Etymology: From anti- + Slavic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to or exhibiting anti-Slavism.
antislavic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antislavic
form: most antislavic
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of anti-Slavic.
miso-Christians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of miso-Christian
JHTI
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Japanese Historical Text Initiative.
monzo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monzos
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: In microtonal music, a vector that represents the prime factorization of a particular just intonation interval.
Malvern Link
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: "Link" is from Old English hlinc.
Senses: glosses: A suburban area in Malvern, Malvern Hills district, Worcestershire, England (OS grid ref SO7847).
ballybetagh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ballybetaghs
form: ballibetoe
form: ballybeto
form: ballybetoe
Etymology: From Irish baile biataigh (“victualler's townland”), from baile (“home”) + betagh (“victualer”).
Senses: examples: text: In many instances the ancient names of the ballybetaghs are lost, and the names of their subdivisions only are retained as townland names; but in some instances the name of the ballybetagh remains, although it is not applied to as large [an area].
ref: 1844, Duald Mac Firbis, Geineaich ua Ch-Fiachrach, page 204:
text: To the former was assigned five ballybetaghs in demesne, and to the freeholders under him eleven ballybetaghs and a half; to the latter two ballybetaghs and a half, and to freeholders under him two other ballybetaghs and a half.
ref: 1879, Evelyn Philip Shirley, The History of the County of Monaghan, page 240:
text: Besides these food rents (from the Mensal lands), Maguire had about 240 beeves yearly paid unto him out of the seven baronies, and about his castle at Enniskillen he had about a half ballybetagh, which he manured (tilled) […]
ref: 1908, Arthur O'Clery, The History of Ireland to the Coming of Henry II., page 233:
text: In late medieval Gaelic Monaghan, the ballybetaghs with their intricate tate subsections, were combined into parishes, indicating a link between secular and ecclesiastical territorial order that was universal throughout Christian Europe.
ref: 2007, Patrick J. Duffy, Exploring the History and Heritage of Irish Landscapes, Four Courts PressLtd:
glosses: A division of land in Ireland equal to 480 Irish acres (approximately 315 hectares or 778 statute acres) of arable land.