cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
writing-paper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: writing-papers
Senses: examples: text: The evidence disclosed that the three prisoners were in a public-house together with the prosecutor, Abraham Rhodes, and that in concert with the other two prisoners, the prisoner John Dewhirst placed a pencase on the table in the room where they were assembled, and left the room to get writing-paper.
ref: 1861, Edward William Cox, Reports of Cases in Criminal Law:
text: In the library a lamp stood on a tripod of hooves, once those of a deer, and on the writing-table, furnished with the thickest of inlaid writing-papers, was an ink-well made from another, larger hoof, perhaps that of the moose in the hall, king of all these relics.
ref: 1985, Angelica Garnett, Deceived with Kindness: A Bloomsbury Childhood, San Diego, Calif.: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, →ISBN, page 59:
text: But isn’t a letter on Downing Street-headed writing-paper a serious official document?
ref: 2011 May 13, John Walsh, “Beware letters from fictional civil servants”, in Viewspaper (The Independent), page 5:
text: She wrote in small, barely legible handwriting on blank sheets or on the most narrowly ruled writing-paper she could find, cramming as much as possible on to the page.
ref: 2012, Orlando Figes, Just Send Me Word: A True Story of Love and Survival in the Gulag, London: Allen Lane, →ISBN, page 69:
glosses: Dated form of writing paper.
writing-papers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of writing-paper
Jordan's rule
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after American scientist David Starr Jordan (1851–1931).
Senses: glosses: An ecogeographic rule describing the inverse relationship between water temperature and meristic characteristics in various species of fish, including the fact that fin ray, vertebrae, or scale numbers increase with decreasing temperature.
synonyms: Jordan's law
glosses: An ecogeographic rule stating that, given any species in any region, the nearest related species is not likely to be found in the same region nor in a remote region, but in a neighbouring district separated from the first by a barrier of some sort.
Jordan's law
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Jordan's rule (“ecogeographic rule regarding the relative locations of related species”).
synonyms: word: Jordan's rule
extra: ecogeographic rule regarding the relative locations of related species
Kennicott's willow warbler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kennicott's willow warblers
Senses: glosses: The bird Phylloscopus borealis kennicotti.
Kennicott
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Kennicott's willow warbler
triple X
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: When females receive an extra X chromosome, this can result in triple X or 47, XXX. Physical and behavioral features vary but may include increased height and risk of cognitive disabilities, particularly involving speech and language. One in 1000 girls is born with triple X.
ref: 2009, A Balasubramanian; J Koontz, C A Reynolds, “Genetics and Inheritance”, in Janette B. Benson, Marshall M. Haith, editors, Language, Memory, and Cognition in Infancy and Early Childhood, Kidlington: Academic Press, →ISBN, page 184:
glosses: Ellipsis of triple X syndrome.
PIK
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: PIKs
Senses: coordinate_terms: PIC
qualifier: formal debate
glosses: Initialism of plan inclusive kritik.
glosses: Initialism of payment in kind
PIKs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of PIK
herbs de Provence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Partial adaptation.
Senses: examples: text: […] Paula recommends it be spread on French bread rounds that have been drizzled with olive oil, sprinkled with herbs de Provence, then toasted in the oven.
ref: 1987 January 21, Arthur Schwartz, “Finger food for football fans”, in Daily News:
text: He invokes the classic dried herbs de Provence as an inherited license to strew greens willy-nilly.
ref: 1995 December 4, Gael Greene, “To Grand-mère’s House”, in New York, page 151:
text: I massage my chump chops with olive oil, coarse black pepper and herbs de Provence, adding sea salt just before they reach the grill.
ref: 1999 May 16, Nigel Slater, “For the chop”, in The Guardian:
text: The herbs de Provence, onions, fennel, and garlic fill up my kitchen with good smells.
ref: 2022, Betsy Freeman, The One and Done Cookbook […], →ISBN, page 85:
glosses: Alternative form of herbes de Provence.
Carey Fineman Ziter syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after J. C. Carey, R. M. Fineman, and F. A. Ziter, who wrote about the condition in 1982.
Senses: glosses: A rare genetic disorder.
takes the bread out of someone's mouth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of take the bread out of someone's mouth
Port Bell
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Henry Hesketh Bell.
Senses: glosses: An industrial centre and ferry port on Lake Victoria, in greater Kampala, Uganda.
wikipedia: Henry Hesketh Bell
taking the bread out of someone's mouth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of take the bread out of someone's mouth
took the bread out of someone's mouth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of take the bread out of someone's mouth
taken the bread out of someone's mouth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of take the bread out of someone's mouth
Native American myopathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: word: NAM
glosses: A neuromuscular disorder associated with the STAC3 protein.
Jordan's Principle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: It was established in response to the death of Jordan River Anderson, a child from Norway House Cree Nation who suffered from Carey Fineman Ziter syndrome.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: The principle that the government or department that first receives a request to pay for a service must pay for the service and resolve jurisdictional issues only thereafter.
ponting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pontings
Etymology: From the name of Herbert George Ponting, photographer on Scott's 1910-13 expedition.
Senses: examples: text: The whale incident had, of course, inspired numerous quips about Jonah ... This latest mishap revived all the former quizzing about the evil-eye propensities of my camera, and I was once again the butt for no end of twittering about the peril of "ponting" for Ponko... the more I protested... the more persistently these crimes were fastened on to me. But such railleries were always good-natured, and everyone in the Hut was subjected to them whenever the slightest occasion presented.
ref: 2011 October 6, David M. Wilson, The Lost Photographs Of Captain Scott:
text: After horse exercising I went up the Ramp, and in the afternoon posed, or as we call it here, "ponted" for Ponting with several of the others as a foreground to the hut and Mount Erebus in the cinematograph.
ref: 2000 November 10, Bernadette Hince, The Antarctic Dictionary A Complete Guide to Antarctic English:
text: Taylor had invented a new verb, consisting of the first syllable of my name "to pont', meaning 'to pose, until nearly frozen, in all sorts of uncomfortable positions' for my photographs. This latest mishap revived all the former quizzing about the evil-eye propensities of my camera, and I was once again the butt for no end of twitting about 'the peril of "ponting" for Ponko' - the latter being my nickname.
ref: 1921, Herbert George, The great white South Duckworth, London:
text: When Ponko was not ponting or processing his plates or teaching his colleages how to take photographs, he had an additional duty to lecture to the party of thirty-three who were over wintering at the base camp on Cape Evans.
ref: 1974, Savours, Anne, Savours, Anne, ed. Scott's last voyage through the Antarctic camera of Herbert Ponting Sidgwick & Jackson, UK: 7.:
text: Ponting came along and after complimenting us on our villainous appearance, begged us to remain picturesque until the sun showed enough light for a photograph! Luckily we had only to wait a few hours for this specimen of 'ponting'.
ref: 1984, Gran. Tryggve in McGhie, Ellen-Johanne, Gran. Tryggve in McGhie, Ellen-Johanne, transl. fr Norwegian, and Hattersley-Smith, Geoffrey, ed. The Norwegian with Scott: Tryggve Gran's Antarctic diary 1910-1913 National Maritime Museum, UK: 172.:
text: Clissold the excellent cook, who should have gone with the motor party, tumbled off a small iceberg and concussed himself while posing or 'ponting' as it had come to be known- Griffith Taylor, with his usual wit, had defined 'to pont' as 'to spend a deuce of a time posing in an uncomfortable position'.
ref: 1997, Preston, Diana, Preston, Diana A first rate tragedy Constable, London: 160:
glosses: the act of posing until nearly frozen in all sorts of uncomfortable positions.
Related terms: pont
Picts' house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Picts' houses
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Pict's house.
Picts' houses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Pict's house
international order
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: international orders
Senses: examples: text: The Court, as an essential institution of international order and justice, achieves greater stature for having so candid and faithful a Boswell.
ref: 1969, Ernest A. Gross, The American Journal of International Law, volume 62, American Society of International Law, page 541:
text: … weapons could in fact enhance the balance of power concept, because their awesome power could virtually guarantee the devastation of any state that chose to break the international order, regardless of its military strength.
ref: 1985, Michael Allen Fox and Leo Groarke, editors, Nuclear War: Philosophical Perspectives: An Anthology, P. Lang, →ISBN, page 229:
text: Mr Johnson told the BBC the UK and US shared a belief in human rights, the rules-based international order and the transatlantic alliance.
ref: 2021 June 11, Laura Kuenssberg, “G7: UK and US have an 'indestructible relationship', PM says”, in BBC News:
glosses: world order.
international orders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of international order
hangs by the eyelids
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hang by the eyelids
hanging by the eyelids
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hang by the eyelids
hung by the eyelids
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hang by the eyelids
Purkinje layer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Purkinje layers
Etymology: Named after Czech anatomist Jan Evangelista Purkyně (1787–1869).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The narrow layer of Purkinje cells in the cerebellar cortex.
Purkinje layers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Purkinje layer
St. Ulmo's fire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of St. Elmo's fire.
Venus's hairstone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Venus's hair stone.
fried-egg plant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fried-egg plants
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Matilija poppy (Romneya)
synonyms: word: Matilija poppy
extra: Romneya
tree poppy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tree poppies
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Matilija poppy (Romneya)
synonyms: word: Matilija poppy
extra: Romneya
glosses: Any of genus Dendromecon, including
glosses: Any of genus Dendromecon, including:
bush poppy (Dendromecon rigida)
World's Fair plant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: world's fair + plant. From being used as a decorative plant in the gardens of the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of belvedere (“Bassia scoparia”).
synonyms: word: belvedere
extra: Bassia scoparia
wikipedia: en:1893 World's Fair
week-day
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: week-days
Senses: examples: text: It was as still as a church on a week-day: the pattering rain on the forest leaves was the only sound audible in its vicinage.
ref: 1847 October 16, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], chapter XI, in Jane Eyre. An Autobiography. […], volume III, London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], →OCLC, page 267:
text: Each lad had an income, now, that was simply prodigious—a dollar for every week-day in the year and half of the Sundays.
ref: 1876, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XXXV, in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Hartford, Conn.: The American Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 269:
text: He had to set up some sort of screen for his Sunday visits to the Manor Farm. Thus he made a habit of long walks after dark on week-days and of unpunctuality at meals.
ref: 1922, May Sinclair [pseudonym; Mary Amelia St. Clair], “Maisie”, in Anne Severn and the Fieldings, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, section iii, page 213:
glosses: Archaic form of weekday.
week-days
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of week-day
Lacan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Lacans
Senses: glosses: A surname from French
Derived terms: Lacanian
Brisbois
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Brisboises
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Namasagali
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in Kamuli District, Eastern Region, Uganda.
sugarish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sugarish
form: most sugarish
Etymology: From sugar + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Resembling sugar or some aspect of it.
Synonyms: sugary
sugarlike
volunteerist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: volunteerists
Etymology: From volunteer + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A proponent of volunteerism.
volunteerists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of volunteerist
check plus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: check pluses
Senses: topics: education
glosses: A grade indicating work that is more than satisfactory.
Related terms: check minus
check minus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: check minuses
Senses: topics: education
glosses: A grade indicating work that is acceptable, but could be better.
Related terms: check plus
check pluses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of check plus
check minuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of check minus
Tororo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in Tororo District, Eastern Region, Uganda.
ODIA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Office of the Director of Intercollegiate Athletics.
triquetrum bones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of triquetrum bone
hucklebones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hucklebone
sternohyoid muscles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sternohyoid muscle
sternothyroid muscles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sternothyroid muscle
steths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of steth
stylohyoid muscles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stylohyoid muscle
stuff-ups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stuff-up
Stygians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Stygian
stylectomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stylectomy
thyroarytenoid muscles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thyroarytenoid muscle
thyrohyoid membranes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thyrohyoid membrane
thyrohyoid muscles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thyrohyoid muscle
ammono
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: A compound which is at the same time an ammono salt and an ammono ester.
ref: 1915, Journal, volume 37, American Chemical Society, page 2292:
text: In explaining this reaction it can be assumed that the hydrazoic acid is first reduced to an unstable ammono nitrous acid which decomposes further to nitrogen and ammonia.
ref: 1927, James Broadbent Harker, Hydrazoic Acid as an Ammono Nitric Acid, page 13:
text: If we regard lophine as an ammono compound then the conversion of formula III into formula II is an example of the Cannizzaro reaction in that an ammono aldehyde has been nitridized to an ammono acid […]
ref: 1927, Harold Henry Strain, Ammono Aldehydes and Ketones, page 62:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Containing NH₄
Related terms: ammonia
extraocular muscles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of extraocular muscle
extraordinary general meetings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of extraordinary general meeting
extrasolar systems
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of extrasolar system
geniculostriate pathways
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of geniculostriate pathway
geniohyoid muscles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of geniohyoid muscle
nitridize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: nitridizes
form: nitridizing
form: nitridized
form: nitridized
Etymology: From nitride + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: If we regard lophine as an ammono compound then the conversion of formula III into formula II is an example of the Cannizzaro reaction in that an ammono aldehyde has been nitridized to an ammono acid […]
ref: 1927, Harold Henry Strain, Ammono Aldehydes and Ketones, page 62:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To form a nitride from
Related terms: nitridization
genome sizes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of genome size
genomesizes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of genomesize
nitridizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of nitridize
nitridized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of nitridize
nitridizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of nitridize
pterygoid canals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pterygoid canal
pterygoid muscles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pterygoid muscle
pterygomaxillary fissures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pterygomaxillary fissure
pterygoid processes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pterygoid process
pterygoid plates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pterygoid plate
teeacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of teeack
pump pics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pump pic
pumpouts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pumpout
pupgenders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pupgender
rectus muscles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rectus muscle
redbands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of redband
red-bellied piranhas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of red-bellied piranha
red-billed woodcreepers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of red-billed woodcreeper
mystery-mongering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The act or practice of deliberately or habitually mystifying others.
Related terms: mystery-monger
stereo microscopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stereo microscope
sticky ends
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sticky end
still frames
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of still frame
stilt sandpipers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stilt sandpiper
stop-go signs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stop-go sign
stock options
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stock option
stock prices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stock price
stock theaters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stock theater
stock-keeping units
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stock-keeping unit
stock-takes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stock-take
storm troops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of storm troop
stormtroops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stormtroop
storywriters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of storywriter
straight apostrophes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of straight apostrophe
straight jackets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of straight jacket
straight sinuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of straight sinus
streaked wren-babblers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of streaked wren-babbler
stream gauges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stream gauge
street crimes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of street crime
streetgoers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of streetgoer
stream pools
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stream pool
achromate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: achromates
Senses: examples: text: Each achromate consists of a quartz and a fluorite lens mounted in a common frame.
ref: 1967, Paul Bener, A New Spectrophotometer for Measuring Ultraviolet Sky Brightness and Direct Solar Radiation, page 14:
glosses: Alternative form of achromat (“type of lens”).
examples: text: An achromate, as affected individuals are known, must rely on the rods, the photoreceptors responsible for vision at night and in low-light situations, for vision at all times.
ref: 2010, James Wynbrandt, Mark D. Ludman, The Encyclopedia of Genetic Disorders and Birth Defects, page 7:
text: Funny you should mention colours... I'm an achromate from birth.
ref: 2016, Sylvain Seccia, Désiré:
glosses: Alternative form of achromat (“color-blind person”).
achromates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of achromate
studygrammers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of studygrammer
studygrams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of studygram
student councils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of student council
Berezniki
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Perm Krai, Russia.
butterbar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: butterbars
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of butter bar.
butterbars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of butterbar
Admission Day
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: Statehood Day
glosses: A public holiday in Hawaii, celebrated since 1969 on the third Friday in August to commemorate the anniversary of the state's 1959 admission to the Union.
glosses: Former name of Nevada Day.
Statehood Day
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: hyponyms: Admission Day
glosses: Any of various public holidays that commemorate the date when a territory became a state.
Advanced level
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Advanced levels
Senses: glosses: Synonym of A level (“type of examination”).
synonyms: word: A level
extra: type of examination
Nevada Day
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: word: Admission Day
english: former name
translation: former name
glosses: A public holiday in Nevada celebrated on the last Friday in October, commemorating the state's October 31, 1864 admission to the Union.
skeuomorphically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From skeuomorphic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a skeuomorphic manner.
Afro-America
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Afro- + America.
Senses: examples: text: The crisis in Afro-America is threefold. First, the black community is undergoing profound economic crisis which most visibly takes the form of unprecedented levels of unemployment, […]
ref: 1988, Cornel West, Prophetic Fragments, page 35:
glosses: That part of the United States consisting of people of African heritage.
Related terms: Afro-American
Zarvanism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Zurvanism.
Zarvanite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Zarvanites
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Zurvanite.
Zarvanites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Zarvanite
Ziegler catalyst
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ziegler catalysts
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Ziegler-Natta catalyst.
synonyms: word: Ziegler-Natta catalyst
Ziegler catalysts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Ziegler catalyst
Caesar's agaric
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Caesar's agarics
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Caesar's mushroom.
synonyms: word: Caesar's mushroom
coreys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of corey
eightfold path
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the eightfold path
Senses: glosses: Synonym of noble eightfold path.
synonyms: word: noble eightfold path
Skinner's maxim
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: After British intellectual historian Quentin Skinner, who formulated the principle in 1969.
Senses: examples: text: When we respect Skinner’s maxim we shall give an account of the dead thinker ‘in his own terms’, ignoring the fact that we should think ill of anyone who still used those terms today. When we ignore Skinner’s maxim, we give an account ‘in our own terms’, ignoring the fact that the dead thinker, in his linguistic habits as he lived, would have repudiated these terms as foregn to his interests and intentions.
ref: 1984, Richard Rorty, “The historiography of philosophy: four genres”, in Richard Rorty, J. B. Schneewind, Quentin Skinner, editors, Philosophy in History: Essays on the Historiography of Philosophy, →ISBN, page 54:
text: Historical reconstruction obeys Skinner’s Maxim: no agent can eventually be said to have said or meant something which he could never be brought to accept as a correct description of what he said or meant.
ref: 1988, Stephen Makin, “How can we find out what Ancient Philosophers said?”, in Phronesis, volume 33, number 2, →JSTOR, page 122:
text: Historical reconstructions will follow ‘Skinner’s maxim’, and will constrain themselves to offering only descriptions that the writer in question could in principle endorse.
ref: 2020, Patrick Fessenbecker, Reading Ideas in Victorian Literature: Literary Content as Artistic Experience, →ISBN, page 122:
topics: history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: The principle that any historical account of what someone meant by a certain action or statement must in some measure conform to that person’s own understanding of what they were saying or doing.
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Elmenteitan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A prehistoric lithic industry and pottery tradition with a distinct pattern of land use, hunting and pastoralism that appeared and developed on the western plains of Kenya during the Pastoral Neolithic c.3300-1200 BP.
Zyryanka
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An urban-type settlement in Sakha, Russia.
Foamite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of foamite.
foamlessly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From foamless + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Without foam.
over-compensate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: over-compensates
form: over-compensating
form: over-compensated
form: over-compensated
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of overcompensate.
gluelessly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From glueless + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Without glue.
over-compensated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of over-compensate
over-compensates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of over-compensate
over-compensating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of over-compensate
re-word
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: re-words
form: re-wording
form: re-worded
form: re-worded
Senses: examples: text: A thunderous roar swept around Emirates Stadium before it echoed to the new Rice anthem - a predictably re-worded rendition of Vanilla Ice's hit 'Ice Ice Baby'.
ref: 2023 September 3, Phil McNulty, “Declan Rice: The game-changing midfielder Arsenal need for title challenge”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: Alternative form of reword.
quaakes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of quaake
quaakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quaake
mistress of the robes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mistresses of the robes
Senses: glosses: The senior lady in the royal household of the United Kingdom, appointed to attend on the queen (also, in the 18th century, on the Princess of Wales), and responsible for her clothing and jewellery and for arranging the rota of attendance of the ladies-in-waiting.
mistresses of the robes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mistress of the robes
air shots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of air shot
market forces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of market force
daimonion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: daimonia
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of daimonian.
mucidness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mucid + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: From whence it appears, that ſometimes compreſs’d Air is more diſpos’d to alter Colours, than uncompreſs’d; and it may not be amiſs to obſerve, that the Roſes after this manner ſhut up, did not acquire the leaſt Mucidneſs, but only a yellow Colour: But when the Experiment was try’d with Tulips and Lark-Spurs, the Succeſs was different.
ref: 1700, Richard Boulton, book III, chapter III, in The Works of the Honourable Robert Boyle, Eſq.: Epitomiz’d, volume II, London: Printed for J. Phillips […], and J. Taylor […], page 84:
text: The average reader judges a paper by the amount of news it contains; its reliability as a chronicler of events; its enterprise in the direction of printing facts; its independence, coupled with the ability of its manager to extract solid news from slops, straight intelligence from fribbling mucidness.
ref: 1884 August 14, “Newspapers and Goobers”, in Ellsworth Reporter, volume 13, number 39, Ellsworth, Kansas: Gebhardt & Huycke, page 2:
text: The windows that were inteneded to allow light and sun into the place have never been cleaned, and the rays that furtively find their way through serve only as a contrast, and helps to show the mucidness, rankness, and feculence of the surroundings and the defilement of the inhabitants […]
ref: 1888 May 15, “Chinese Gardeners”, in The Australian Star, number 142, Sydney, page 2:
text: Let us suppose that in a given space there exists a spore of mucidness. This spore is arrested on the surface of a liquid placed to receive it, and containing azote (nitrogen), carbon, oxygen, mineral substances, and other necessary elements for its germination, in certain proportions; the germination begins.
ref: 1889, Joseph Depierre, Elementary treatise on the finishing of white, dyed, and printed cotton goods, page 408
text: The colonies are not long in developing, in differently colored points, upon the nutritive paper; while they are very confluent when the water in impure, they are infrequent when the water is poor in bacteria and in mucidness. After eight to fifteen days, when assured that the number of spots does not sensibly increase, the paper is withdrawn from the incubating vessel and placed in a heated air stove at about 45 °C .;[…]
ref: 1891, Wood's Medical and Surgical Monographs: Consisting of Original Treatises and Reproductions, in English, of Books and Monographs Selected from the Latest Literature of Foreign Countries, with All Illustrations, Etc. V. 1-12, page 457:
text: The fact is that we have, all of us, been dilatory to a degree where burlesque is concerned. We should have taken shots at its mucidness, its obnoxious strip acts, its coarse and unfunny humors—harpooned performers whose didoes nauseated us.
ref: 1937 May 4, Mabelle Jennings, “An Editorial”, in Washington Herald, volume 15, number 162, Washington, D.C., page 9:
synonyms: mucidity
glosses: The state or condition of being mucid.
maharanah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maharanahs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of maharaja.
maharanahs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maharanah
hypercorporatized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hypercorporatized
form: most hypercorporatized
Senses: examples: text: Idiocracy tells the comic tale of an average Joe […] who finds himself […] in the environmentally ravaged, hypercorporatized, dumbed-down dystopian future of 2505.
ref: 2018, Nicole Seymour, Bad Environmentalism, page 40:
glosses: hypercorporate
ecomedia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From eco- + media.
Senses: examples: text: As ecomedia scholar John Parham has shown, environmentalists become subject to ridicule because of their perceived "lack of real world values".
ref: 2018, Nicole Seymour, Bad Environmentalism, page 49:
glosses: Media, especially mass media, with ecological themes.
ecofilm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ecofilms
Senses: examples: text: Didacticism and preachiness may not necessarily hurt an ecofilm's success, as we see with Avatar and The Day after Tomorrow, but they nonetheless contribute to negative public perceptions of environmentalism.
ref: 2018, Nicole Seymour, Bad Environmentalism, page 55:
glosses: A film with ecological focus or themes.
glosses: Such films collectively; ecocinema.
time span
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: time spans
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of timespan.
time spans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of time span
Tongren
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: to͝ongʹrǔnʹ
Etymology: From Mandarin 同仁 (Tóngrén).
Senses: examples: text: The protests this week have mostly unfolded in Tibetan towns in Qinghai Province, a vast, sparsely populated region that is historically important as a center of Tibetan culture.
They began at a high school on Tuesday in the town of Tongren, known as Rebkong in Tibetan, and then widened.[…]
The principal of a primary school in Huangzhong County, northwest of Tongren, confirmed by telephone that peaceful protests had taken place.
ref: 2010 October 22, Edward Wong, “Tibetans in China Protest Proposed Curbs on Their Language”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 Jul 2011, Asia Pacific:
glosses: A county-level city of Huangnan, Qinghai, China.
Tongren
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: to͝ongʹrǔnʹ
Etymology: From Mandarin 銅仁 /铜仁 (Tóngrén).
Senses: examples: text: Part of the bridge collapsed across a highway linking Fenghuang County to an airport in the Tongren region of neighboring Guizhou Province, according to a notice posted on the local government Web site on Tuesday.
ref: 2007 August 14, “Bridge collapse in China kills at least 22”, in The New York Times, sourced from Beijing, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 02 Jun 2024, Asia Pacific:
glosses: A prefecture-level city of Guizhou, China.
Yanhe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: yěnʹhŭʹ
Etymology: From Mandarin 沿河 (Yánhé).
Senses: examples: text: […]verified that the video was filmed on Friday in Yanhe Tujia autonomous county in Guizhou province, southwest China.
The girl’s father, who was not named, said he let his one-year-old child sit on his lap to “drive the car together” and later allowed the girl to control the steering wheel on her own.
ref: 2017 August 28, Laurie Chen, “Outcry after Chinese parents allow toddler to ‘drive’ car on country road”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 28 Aug 2017, China:
glosses: A Tujia autonomous county in Tongren, Guizhou, China.
Dejiang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: dǔʹjyängʹ
Etymology: From Mandarin 德江.
Senses: examples: text: Techiang County CCP Committee's four Standing Committee members led 48 cadres and farming technicians to set up high-yielding farm land in six communes.
ref: [1978 November 15 [1978 October 9], “Kweichow Prefecture Agriculture”, in People's Republic of China, Agriculture, number 12, U. S. Joint Publications Research Service, sourced from Kweiyang Kweichow Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →OCLC, Kweichow, page 64:
text: Three Chinese police officers and more than ten civilians were injured in a clash after police tried to stop a traditional street dragon dance, state media said on Monday.
The local government in Dejiang county in southwestern Guizhou province banned the dragon dance in the downtown area over safety concerns, Xinhua news agency said.
ref: 2009 February 9, Nick Macfie, “Fists fly as Chinese police chase the dragon”, in Sanjeev Miglani, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 17 May 2021, LIFESTYLE:
glosses: A county of Tongren, Guizhou, China.
Shiqian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 石阡.
Senses: examples: text: The fish was found in sediment about 439 million years old at a remote site in Shiqian county in Guizhou province in southern China.
ref: 2022 September 28, Ling Xin, “‘Exquisite’ Chinese fish fossils fill gaps in understanding the evolution of jaws in vertebrates”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 28 Sep 2022, Science:
glosses: A county of Tongren, Guizhou, China.
Yinjiang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: yǐnʹjyängʹ
Etymology: From Mandarin 印江.
Senses: examples: text: "When I was deported from China I was sent from Shanghai, and I spent the night in the waiting-room there with my guard, and there I got talking to two peasants from group nine of the Red Star co-operative in the Yinchiang area to the north of the province of Kweichow. My guard was asleep, and as they knew that I was in custody they trusted me, and they told me in an undertone that all their group had deserted the co-operative to go into the mountains to pick roots and mushrooms in order to have something to eat. They said that in their area there was a famine every spring."
ref: [1960, Suzanne Labin, quoting Violette, “The Mother of a Family”, in Edward Fitzgerald, transl., The Anthill: The Human Condition In Communist China, New York: Frederick A. Praeger, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 196–197:
text: Last year he earned 20,000 yuan (US$3,170) from selling the livestock, much more than most of his fellow villagers in Yinjiang Miao and Tu Ethnic Autonomous County in Guizhou province, according to the report.
ref: 2018 April 24, Alice Yan, “Disabled farmer herds cattle on hands and one leg, yet out-earns fellow villagers”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 Apr 2018, Society:
glosses: A Tujia and Miao autonomous county in Tongren, Guizhou, China.
Songtao
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 松桃 (Sōngtáo).
Senses: examples: text: The detectives discovered from him that Yang Sister Six had come to Mayang from Songtao County in Guizhou Province.
ref: 2016, He Jiahong, “The Setting of Inappropriately Tight Deadlines for Solving Criminal Cases”, in Back from the Dead: Wrongful Convictions and Criminal Justice in China (Law / China), Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 20:
glosses: A Miao autonomous county in Tongren, Guizhou, China.
Jiangkou
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 江口 (Jiāngkǒu).
Senses: examples: text: Wearing yellow pyjamas and lying flat on his back with arms crossed, the small boy fits perfectly on top of the dangerously high window canopy outside his family’s flat in Jiangkou county, Guizhou province.
ref: 2018 May 4, Louise Moon, “Firefighters rescue boy sleeping on 5th floor window ledge”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 May 2018, China/People & Culture:
glosses: A county of Tongren, Guizhou, China.
Bijiang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: bēʹjyängʹ
Etymology: From Mandarin 碧江.
Senses: examples: text: Spring is in full bloom everywhere. And farmers in Guizhou Province are not only turning rapeseed into edible oil, but also into paint. In Bijiang District, Tongren City, and Pingba District, Anshun City, farmers have painted the most enthusiastic look of spring with blossoming rapeseed flowers.
ref: 2023 March 10, Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of Guizhou Province, “Encounter a stunning spring in the sea of rapeseed flowers in southwest China's Guizhou Province”, in PR Newswire, archived from the original on 22 Nov 2023:
glosses: A district of Tongren, Guizhou, China.
Wanshan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: wänʹshänʹ
Etymology: From Mandarin 萬山 /万山 (Wànshān).
Senses: examples: text: "The biggest problem has been keeping the children warm at night," said a farmer, Ye Xiaoling, in the Wanshan area of the Guizhou prefecture of Tongren, which has also been without power since January. "Our problem is that our homes and everything else are not used to such cold."
ref: 2008 February 6, “Millions of Chinese still without power”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 Jan 2023, Asia Pacific:
glosses: A district of Tongren, Guizhou, China.
examples: text: In view of the number of endemic species known from Hong Kong islands, including some found at low elevation such as Philautus romeri, Megophrys brachykolos, and Dibamus bogadeki, the Wanshan Islands will repay a thorough investigation.
ref: 1997, James Lazell, Michael Lau, Wenhua Lu, “A Brief Herpetological Excursion to Wai Ling Ding, Wanshan Islands, South China Sea”, in Asiatic Herpetological Research, volume 7, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 84, column 1:
text: The Wanshan Archipelago comprises roughly 104 islands within the administration of Zhuhai; and while quiet today, they have had a turbulent history, mostly intertwined with Hong Kong.
ref: 2018 August 21, “The Chinese island that is so close to Hong Kong, yet very different: Wailingding – how to get there and what to see”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 Aug 2018, Travel & Leisure:
glosses: An archipelago of Xiangzhou district, Zhuhai, Guangdong, China.
Yuping
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: yüʹpǐngʹ
Etymology: From Mandarin 玉屏.
Senses: examples: text: A man burns wood to boil water at his home in Guizhou’s Yuping county in July.
ref: 2018 February 1, Jane Cai, “Will poor Chinese province’s big data dreams pay off?”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 Dec 2019, China:
glosses: A Dong autonomous county in Tongren, Guizhou, China.
Surovikin Line
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Surovikin Line
form: Surovikin line
form: Surovikin’s Line
Etymology: Named after Russian Army General Sergey Surovikin, the commander (October 2022–January 2023) and then deputy commander (January–August 2023) of all Russian forces in the Ukraine. Compare Maginot Line.
Senses: examples: text: Based on a recently uploaded video by russians, it's evident that Ukrainian forces successfully penetrated the Surovikin Line and disembarked infantry beyond it. Satellite imagery substantiates these developments, hinting at Ukrainian vehicles crossing Surovikin's Line.
ref: 2023 September 21st, Tatarigami_UA, “Post № 1704726674435150186”, in 𝕏:
ref: 2023 September 22nd, Denys Davydov, Update from Ukraine | Ukraine broke through the Surovikin line near Verbove | Ruzzian attack Failed, via YouTube, video title
glosses: An array of Russian military defensive fortifications (comprising minefields, dugouts, bunkers, trenches, dragon’s teeth, etc.) extending roughly eastward from Vasylivka on the Dnieper in Zaporizhzhia Oblast to Volnovakha in Donetsk Oblast, during the Russian invasion of Ukraine (ongoing since February 2022).
Surovikin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /sʊɹəˈviːkɪn/
Etymology: From Russian Сурови́кин (Surovíkin).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Russian
glosses: A surname from Russian
Sergey Vladimirovich Surovikin (born 1966), Russian army general
Derived terms: Surovikin Line
economy class
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: In practice the introduction of economy class has presented difficulties, more especially for operators with small fleets.
ref: 1958 March 28, F. G. Swanborough, “Economy Over the Atlantic”, in The Aeroplane, volume 94, London: Temple Press Limited, page 413:
synonyms: word: coach
glosses: The lowest tier of seating for travellers aboard aeroplanes and certain other kinds of public transportation.
economy classes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: SAS's First Business Class costs less than the traditional first class and more than most economy classes, but it gives the passengers more value.
ref: 1985, Jagdish N. Sheth, chapter 2, in Winning Back Your Market: Inside Stories of Companies That Did It., Decatur, GA: Marketing Classics Press, Inc., published 2011, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 39:
glosses: plural of economy class
handshook
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of handshake
shrinkflates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of shrinkflate
shrinkflating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of shrinkflate
shrinkflated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of shrinkflate
misstaple
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misstaples
form: misstapling
form: misstapled
form: misstapled
Etymology: From mis- + staple.
Senses: examples: text: Additional reason for discarding the testimony to the effect that there were as many as 1,350 booklets improperly stapled, is the fact that, after first evading an answer to a question concerning an alleged statement two days after the discharge that only two hundred booklets had been misstapled, Sweren finally took the position that he did not " think that ( he ) did (state a figure as to the number of improperly stapled booklets) because (he didn't) think that (he) knew then how many there were involved."
ref: 1965, United States. National Labor Relations Board, Decisions and Orders of the National Labor Relations Board, page 223:
text: And he has a penchant for young nurses and expensive cognac and he misstapled some poor woman's stomach.
ref: 1987, The South Carolina Review - Volumes 20-21, page 53:
text: Similarly, Rebeca's text was not only misstapled but misread as lacking coherence.
ref: 2014, Catherine Compton-Lilly, Erica Halverson, Time and Space in Literacy Research, page 90:
text: The draft of his speech had been misstapled.
ref: 2022, Junnosuke Masumi, Contemporary Politics in Japan, page 111:
glosses: To staple improperly.
misstaples
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misstaple