cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Purchaqchi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Uyghur پۇرچاقچى (purchaqchi).
Senses: examples: text: Jumaq, head of Ayaq Purchaqchi village in Purchaqchi township, told RFA’s Uyghur Service that he had accompanied Islam a day earlier in a raid during prayer time on a local mosque as around 200 officials and security personnel searched for six suspects they had linked to a shooting incident in May.
ref: 2014 July 30, Shohret Hoshur, Joshua Lipes, “Wife of Party Official Killed in Xinjiang ‘Revenge Attack’”, in Mamatjan Juma, transl., Radio Free Asia, archived from the original on 09 Aug 2014:
text: He said police asked for the identification of the seven Uyghurs who were gathered at the Sherbet restaurant at a hotel in Purchaqchi township—where several incidents have resulted in bloodshed in recent months—and then attempted to search them, but were met with resistance, sparking the clash.
ref: 2015 March 13, Shohret Hoshur, Joshua Lipes, “Chinese Authorities Shoot ‘Suspicious’ Uyghurs Dead in Xinjiang Restaurant”, in Mamatjan Juma, transl., Radio Free Asia, archived from the original on 15 Mar 2015:
glosses: A township in Karakax, Hotan prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
Synonyms: sense: from Mandarin Chinese
word: Puqiakeqi
Puqiakeqi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 普恰克其 (Pǔqiàkèqí).
Senses: examples: text: He had headed the working group in a village with over 600 households, called Bashikudukela in Puqiakeqi Township of Moyu County in Hetian Prefecture.
ref: 2019, Zunyou Zhou, “Chinese Strategy for De-radicalization”, in Terrorism and Political Violence, volume 31, number 6, →DOI, page 1201:
glosses: Synonym of Purchaqchi: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.
synonyms: word: Purchaqchi
extra: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name
red judge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: red judges
Etymology: So called because in most cases their dress code would include a red robe or sash or tippet of some kind.
Senses: examples: text: The fact is that ever since the piece appeared in The Times about Leonard being appointed to the High Court bench and becoming a Red Judge, things have been more than a little slow.
ref: 2006, John Mortimer, chapter 26, in Rumpole and the Reign of Terror:
topics: law
glosses: A high court judge.
Related terms: purple judge
red judges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of red judge
purple judge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: purple judges
Etymology: So called because in most cases their dress code would include a purple or lilac robe or sash or tippet of some kind.
Senses: examples: text: The criminal defendant sees a difference between a 'red judge' and a purple judge.
ref: 2012, David Kelly, Gary Slapper, Sourcebook on English Legal System, page 174:
topics: law
glosses: A circuit court judge.
Related terms: red judge
purple judges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of purple judge
Kawak
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Uyghur كاۋاك (kawak).
Senses: examples: text: Finally, a spreadsheet from Kawak (喀瓦克) Township in the northern part of Karakax County that lists 1,249 persons in detention and re-education shows that 93.2 percent of persons who are classified as “untrustworthy” are either in detention or re-education.
ref: 2020 February, Adrian Zenz, “The Karakax List: Dissecting the Anatomy of Beijing’s Internment Drive in Xinjiang”, in Journal of Political Risk, volume 8, number 2, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 Feb 2020:
glosses: A township in Karakax, Hotan prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
Synonyms: sense: from Mandarin Chinese
word: Kawake
Aqsaray
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Aksarāy
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Aksaray (city in Turkey)
Aqsaray
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Uyghur ئاقساراي (aqsaray).
Senses: examples: text: The first example is by a poet called Ablimit Sämät, who composed these verses about his native village Aqsaray near Khotän in south-west Xinjiang, one of the least developed parts of the Autonomous Region.
ref: 2007, Ildikó Bellér-Hann, editor, Situating the Uyghurs Between China and Central Asia, Ashgate, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 90:
text: A Uyghur auxiliary officer in Aqsaray township, in Hotan’s Karakash (Moyu) county, said the local government had been recruiting security personnel since last year, with the only requirement for applicants being that no one within three generations of their family had been involved in “political problems.”
ref: 2017 April 18, “HAN CHINESE OFFERED TRIPLE SALARY OF UYGHURS IN XINJIANG POLICE RECRUITMENT DRIVE”, in World Uyghur Congress; Radio Free Asia, archived from the original on 12 Sep 2020, Uyghur Related News:
text: When asked about whether a target percentage of re-education arrests had been ordered by authorities, an official from No. 1 Village, in Qaraqash’s Aqsaray township, confirmed the directive, but referred RFA to the local Communist Party secretary—who had recently been admitted to the hospital and was unreachable—for the exact number.
ref: 2017 October 9, Shohret Hoshur, Joshua Lipes, “Nearly Half of Uyghurs in Xinjiang’s Hotan Targeted For Re-Education Camps”, in Alim Seytoff, transl., Radio Free Asia, archived from the original on 02 Feb 2018:
text: The Communist Party secretary of the village of Aqsaray in the Qaraqash region near Hotan was ordered to target 40% of the population of the village as potential unreliable elements in need of re-education.
ref: 2021, Michael Dillon, China in the Age of Xi Jinping, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, →OCLC:
glosses: A township in Karakax, Hotan prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
Synonyms: sense: from Mandarin Chinese
word: Akesalayi
word: A-k'o-sa-la-i
Tulse Hill
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after the Tulse family.
Senses: glosses: A suburban area of London in the borough of Lambeth, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ3173).
wikipedia: Henry Tulse (Lord Mayor)
Yawa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈjɑwə/
Etymology: Borrowed from Uyghur ياۋا (yawa).
Senses: examples: text: "By this statement he implied he was angry with our justice system, so we had monitored their their actions over the past 10 years, and they had to submit an application if they wanted to leave Yawa township," added Sadir.
ref: 2016 December 29, Shohret Hoshur, Qiao Long, Luisetta Mudie, “Five Dead After 'Terror Attack,' Explosion in China's Xinjiang”, in Shohret Hoshur, transl., Radio Free Asia, archived from the original on 30 Dec 2016:
glosses: A township in Karakax, Hotan prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
pupkus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpʌpkəs/
Etymology: Sniglet/neologism from the blend of puppy + mucus.
Senses: glosses: The wet residue left on a surface, usually a window, after a dog presses their nose to it.
cottage suite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cottage suites
Senses: glosses: A set of furniture consisting of a two-seater sofa and two or more armchairs.
cottage suites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cottage suite
Pwllheli
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Welsh Pwllheli.
Senses: glosses: A market town and community with a town council in Gwynedd, Wales (OS grid ref SH3735).
Somerset West and Taunton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A former local government district in Somerset, England, formed on 1 April 2019 on the merger of West Somerset and Taunton Deane districts, and abolished without replacement on 1 April 2023.
Ahlmakoh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A demonic wood spirit in the Vancouver Islands
Seaton Junction
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in Shute parish, East Devon district, Devon, England, named after a former railway junction (OS grid ref SY2496).
pulmonary trunk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pulmonary trunks
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: An artery that arises from the right ventricle of the heart and branches into the right and left pulmonary arteries.
brachiocephalic trunk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brachiocephalic trunks
Senses: glosses: Synonym of brachiocephalic artery.
synonyms: word: brachiocephalic artery
Mauchline
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in East Ayrshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS4927).
Lapworth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Warwick district, Warwickshire, England (OS grid ref SP1671).
glosses: A surname.
repotentize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: repotentizes
form: repotentizing
form: repotentized
form: repotentized
form: repotentise
Etymology: From re- + potent + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: He said that he will repotentize (sodhon) the amulet.
ref: 1994, Vandana Goswami, Potent Words, Potent Objects:
text: The second way Novalis seeks to repotentize his thought is by striving to evoke feelings conducive to liminality.
ref: 1998, Joseph Frederick Bailey, Theorizing night vision: Novalis's "Hymnen an die Nacht.", page 209:
text: The “yeh” sound repotentizes the original vibration and brings the light from atziluth to b’riah.
ref: 2004, Joseph-Mark Cohen, Kabbalistic Healing Workbook - Tree of LifeBodywork & The Sonic Merkavah:
text: However, the notion that an originally “mythological” figure has been “depotentized”, then variously “repotentized” or further “demythologized” by later, dependent authors, though the “mythological” understanding finally prevailed in later Jewish literature, does not sound entirely convincing.
ref: 2012, Rebecca S. Watson, Chaos Uncreated:
glosses: To restore to potency.
repotentizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of repotentize
repotentizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of repotentize
repotentized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of repotentize
Chalfont
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A group of villages in Buckinghamshire, England, previously in Chiltern district, known collectively as "The Chalfonts".
glosses: A borough in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, United States.
Derived terms: Chalfont Common
Chalfont St Giles
Chalfont St Peter
Little Chalfont
repotentise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: repotentises
form: repotentising
form: repotentised
form: repotentised
Etymology: From re- + potent + -ise.
Senses: examples: text: This together with the methyl isocyanale copper repotentises the β- arabinose (Cu) of the membranes of the lymph and mammary glands and eyelid and eyeball membranes;
ref: 1985 March, Helen Fullerton, “Methyl Isocyanate Poisoning: A Homeopathic Remedy”, in The Hahnemannian Gleanings, page 69:
text: This section is replete with multiple entries for recipes that suspend the ageing of the body from 100 to 10,000 years and repotentising/enlivening of the aged.
ref: 2014, Andrew Mason, Rasa Shastra: The Hidden Art of Medical Alchemy, page 76:
text: Unlike Heidegger, Kafka does not propose as a solution to Zwitschern – tweeting – a revivified, repotentised Wissenschaft (science) or a method with the power to 'speak being'.
ref: 2016, Shai Biderman, Ido Lewit, Mediamorphosis: Kafka and the Moving Image, page 40:
glosses: Alternative form of repotentize.
repotentises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of repotentise
repotentising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of repotentise
repotentised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of repotentise
depotentize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: depotentizes
form: depotentizing
form: depotentized
form: depotentized
form: depotentise
Etymology: From de- + potent + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: It may act somewhat more decidedly upon this than upon the arterial, or rather it may tend to depotentize the arterial system in strict proportion as it may tend to cause a preponderance of the venous.
ref: 1868, Gottlieb Heinrich Georg Jahr, Frederick Greenwood Snelling, Hull's Jahr: A New Manual of Homoeopathic Practice:
text: People in a state of heat are not only dangerous to other people since they are contagious, they can also pass darkness or dirt on to cattle, and they can depotentize medicine and food.
ref: 2000, Edward C. Green, Indigenous Theories of Contagious Disease, page 79:
text: This emphasis on the funerary interpretation has served only to depotentize Egyptian religion and to distort our understanding of ancient Egyptian religious sensibility.
ref: 2004, Jeremy Naydler, Shamanic Wisdom in the Pyramid Texts:
text: However, the notion that an originally “mythological” figure has been “depotentized”, then variously “repotentized” or further “demythologized” by later, dependent authors, though the “mythological” understanding finally prevailed in later Jewish literature, does not sound entirely convincing.
ref: 2012, Rebecca S. Watson, Chaos Uncreated:
glosses: To make less potent.
depotentizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of depotentize
depotentizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of depotentize
depotentized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of depotentize
depotentise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: depotentises
form: depotentising
form: depotentised
form: depotentised
Senses: examples: text: It depotentises β-arabinose, whose element is copper, and which comprises the lymph gland and mammary gland membranes and the membranes of the eyelid and eyeballs.
ref: 1985 March, Helen Fullerton, “Methyl Isocyanate Poisoning: A Homeopathic Remedy”, in The Hahnemannian Gleanings, page 68:
text: However, no merely formal safeguards can be effective against the power lust of persons who conspire to depotentise the very provisions intended to restrain just such persons as themselves.
ref: 1998, Madhava Ashish -, Relating to Reality:
text: The way the world often depotentises this urge is by providing plenty of meaning of the wrong kind to occupy the space meant for the search for causal meaning.
ref: 2009, Tony Kearney, Boo!, page 22:
glosses: Alternative form of depotentize.
depotentises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of depotentise
depotentising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of depotentise
depotentised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of depotentise
flagary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flagaries
Senses: examples: text: So none of your bantering and flagaries; for have him you must, and have him you shall.
ref: 1828 January, The Ettrick Shepherd, “Trials of temper”, in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, volume 23, page 46:
text: Deed, Laird, ye had better put this flagary out o' your head, and settle yoursell quietly.
ref: 1828, M. Corbett, Tales and Legends - Volume 3, page 371:
text: She'll give 'ee some fine old flagary in just a minute.
ref: 1992, Malcolm Ross, A woman possessed, page 295:
glosses: Silliness; playful or trivial activity.
flagaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flagary
Bescot
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An urban area of the Metropolitan Borough of Walsall, West Midlands, England (OS grid ref SP0096).
Urchi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Uyghur ئۇرچى (urchi).
Senses: examples: text: The head of Urchi township in Hotan’s Qaraqash (Moyu) county said she had heard “about a month ago” that a burial management center had been constructed and would be “opening soon.”
ref: 2018 April 19, Shohret Hoshur, Joshua Lipes, “Xinjiang Authorities Use ‘Burial Management Centers’ to Subvert Uyghur Funeral Traditions”, in Alim Seytoff, transl., Radio Free Asia, archived from the original on 19 Apr 2018:
text: Abduheber Ahmet, the imam of the Dongbagh Mosque in Urchi township, in Hotan’s Qaraqash (Moyu) county, was initially detained in May 2017 and handed a five and a half-year jail term a month later, the ruling Chinese Communist Party secretary of Urchi township told RFA’s Uyghur Service.
ref: 2018 May 10, Shohret Hoshur, Joshua Lipes, “Xinjiang Authorities Jail Uyghur Imam Who Took Son to Unsanctioned Religious School”, in Radio Free Asia, archived from the original on 10 May 2018:
glosses: A township in Karakax, Hotan prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
flagellative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more flagellative
form: most flagellative
Etymology: From flagellate + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: He then minutely recounted the particulars of her enchantment, together with what he had seen in the cave of Montesinos, and the means prescribed by Merlin for her restoration, namely, Sancho's flagellative penance.
ref: 1774, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, The history of the renowned Don Quixote de la Mancha:
text: As we had no luggage to pack up, nor friends to take leave of, we began our journey that very evening; and after a tedious tramp, during which the captain practised a variety of knavish manoeuvres, by way of keeping his hand in (although I did all in my power to prevent him(, arrived in safety at the famous city of Edinburgh; where the first thing that saluted our sight, on entering the market-place, was a concourse of people running after a couple of men, who pased by us a swift as the wind; which made us conclude they were running for some great wager; byt my readers may easily judge our surprise, when we discovered two ropes (which at first trailing along the ground, prevented our seeing them sooner) pulled tight; by which means the two runners were stopped, and an ill-looking fellow, who held the ends of the two lines, coming up, gave each of them a couple of severe lashes with a wire whip; he then let them run on again to the full length of their tether, when he repeated the same flagellative discipline as before, and so on, vice versa, till they had run the gauntlet of the whole market-place.
ref: 1801, The Life and Singular Adventures of the Three Jacks of Rosemary Lane, page 23:
text: "I wanted the regular announcement of the blocks as they come along to have the whiplike quality of time," says the poetic dramatist, who as an author having his most complex play tried out for only three weeks prior to its Broadway opening is supremely conscious of the flagellative relentlessness of clock and calendar.
ref: 1986, Tennessee Williams, Albert J. Devlin, Conversations with Tennessee Williams, page 31:
glosses: Pertaining to flagellation; flagellatory.
Tyne Dock
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A commercial area and former dock (now infilled) in the Metropolitan Borough of South Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, England (OS grid ref NZ3565).
Tutbury
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: The second element is from Old English byriġ, dative case of burh (“fort”). The first element comes either from the personal name Tutta, or else from the personal name *Stūt, genitive singular *Stūtes, in which case the initial s- was lost, as similarly happened in the case of Nottingham. However, forms with initial s- are not attested until after the Old English period.
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in East Staffordshire district, Staffordshire, England (OS grid ref SK2128).
flagellists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flagellist
contact shoe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: contact shoes
Senses: topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A current collector on an electric train which is in contact with the live rail.
examples: text: The leading locomotive of the double-headed 3.5 p.m. Manchester Piccadilly-Plymouth shed the contact shoe of its pantograph, which bounced back along the roof and hit the pantograph of the second locomotive, which thereupon lost its contact shoe also.
ref: 1963 January, “Motive power miscellany”, in Modern Railways, page 64:
glosses: A part of a pantograph on a train or tram which, when raised, maintains contact with an overhead electric wire.
Synonyms: collector shoe
contact shoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of contact shoe
flagonless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more flagonless
form: most flagonless
Etymology: From flagon + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Wifeless, friendless, flagonless, alone, Not quite bookless, though, unless I choose ; Left with naught to do, except to groan, Not a soul to woo, except the Muse.
ref: 1888, Richard Dowling, Ignorant Essays, page 149:
text: The cellar flagonless. The cupboard was only crusts.
ref: 1977, Poetry Wales: - Volume 13, Issue 3, page 38:
text: She was looking longingly out of the window where Pedro the Penniless had joined Ignatius and his guitar at the flagonless table.
ref: 1980, Caryl Brahms, Stroganov in Company: Collected Stories, page 271:
glosses: Without a flagon or, by extension, anything alcoholic to drink.
flakelet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flakelets
Etymology: From flake + -let.
Senses: examples: text: The first flake or flakelet that reached me was a mere white speck that came idly circling and eddying to the ground.
ref: 1895, John Burroughs, Writings: Signs and seasons, page 91:
text: As regards the relative speed of the meteor as seen by observers on the Earth, since this, as was just now remarked, is precisely that with which the tempest of celestial missiles originally propelled the meteor, as a dust-flake in its wake, from some revolving masses of the ring, if we suppose this speed relative to the earth-ring (whether directed from the "quite" or from the "goal" of the Earh's way, or from anywhere between them), to have been just suitable (because that is a condition supposed to subsist among the generality of now occurring meteors), to launch the flakelet into space on some very long elliptic, nearly parabolic orbit, it is evident that on reappearing, after describing an orbit-circuit of such length compass, as a meteor directed from just the readiant-point which the celestial volley's dust-scud first gave it, whether the radiant-pint be near or far from the apex of the Earh's way, the accompanying apparent meteor-speed must necessarility be the theoretical parabolic-pathed meteor-speed for a radiant-point of the observed apex-elongation.
ref: 1899, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, page 182:
text: The hardened layer by induction hardening shows nubby and surface flaking, the length of the flakelet is 5-10 mm, the depth is 0.35–0.55 mm, two sides of the hollow slopes from the bottom to the surface.
ref: 1990, Acta Metallurgica Sinica:
glosses: A small flake.
flakelets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flakelet
territelarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Arthrolycosa antiqua is probably a Territelarian.
ref: 1890, Henry Christopher McCook, American Spiders and Their Spinning Work: Motherhood and babyhood: life and death:
text: One of the most curious examples of relation of structure to enemies, or perhaps of the reaction of hostile environment and agents upon structure, is found in a territelarian spider (Cyclocosmia truncata).
ref: 1891, “Defenses of Burrowing Spiders”, in The Popular Science Monthly, volume 38:
text: Our British Territelarian, then, excavates a dwelling and covers the walls with silken tapestry, which is continued through the doorway into the open air in the form of a long, narrow bag.
ref: 1907, Henri Coupin, The Romance of Animal Arts and Crafts:
glosses: A spider that spins a web on the ground.
Coordinate terms: orbitelarian
retitelarian
tubitelarian
fleshes out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of flesh out
fleshing out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of flesh out
fleshed out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of flesh out
fleshify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fleshifies
form: fleshifying
form: fleshified
form: fleshified
Etymology: From flesh + -ify.
Senses: examples: text: Now Shakspeare must have known that the spirit of Artemus, when fleshified as Ward, would produce a good fellow, or he would not have done it.
ref: 1870, Edward Peron Hingston, The Genial Showman, page 93:
text: He is loved not so much because he is pre-eminently a poet, though that he is so is the main fact about him, but because in his best-known poems there is displayed the humour and good sense of his countrymen, touched with ecstasy ; poetical rapture fleshified, or rather good solid bone and muscle rising to a spiritual exhilaration.
ref: 1912, Adolphus Alfred Jack, Poetry and Prose: Being Essays on Modern English Poetry, page 73:
text: In this novel, Figgis takes the material of his poetry and "fleshifies" it; his ideas take shape as characters, allowing his mystical vision to realise itself symbolically.
ref: 1993, The Journal of Irish Literature - Volume 22, page 11:
text: In recognition of the charge of chilly, mechanized disembodiment often leveled at network theory and posthumanist philosophy, I propose to fleshify world literature's map, taking flesh as a tactile figure for both the materiality of inscription and the affective sensorium that pulses through the written.
ref: 2013, Joachim Küpper, Approaches to World Literature, page 107:
text: The poem subjects the “wind” to a deeply embodied personification; it must fleshify.
ref: 2019, Ruth Jennison, Julian Murphet, Communism and Poetry: Writing Against Capital, page 216:
glosses: To make or become flesh; to incarnate.
examples: text: A vascular stem will be seen, and at the top of it a whorl of fleshified leaves all enclosed within the tubercle.
ref: 1882, The Garden - Volume 22, page 437:
text: The galls called Devonshire galls, which grow in great numbers sometimes on the buds of oaks and some other trees, are simply fleshified buds; the leaves, instead of spreading out into a thin palm, become inspissated with the juices of the tree, and are thus agglomerated into a globular woody mass like a tuber.
ref: 1893, Transactions and Proceedings of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh, Volume 19, page 65:
text: But if the full-blown body had lost the amenities of its earlier proportions, an observer might still discern in the less fleshified face more than a trace or vague suggestion of the impudent prettiness that had allured Joseph Tibbenham in the days when he was quite unknown and a relatively poor man.
ref: 1919, Justin Huntly McCarthy, Nurse Benson, page 92:
glosses: To fatten; to swell; to grow fleshy.
fleshifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fleshify
fleshifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fleshify
fleshified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fleshify
flickerless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From flicker + -less.
Senses: examples: text: While flicker was formerly regarded as a problem area, particularly during the early attempts at emissive infrared projection, most of the current generation projectors are either flickerless or can be operated in a mode which is close to flickerless.
ref: 1994, Wendell R. Watkins, Dieter Clement, Characterization and Propagation of Sources and Backgrounds, page 12:
text: These compact units produce heat-free, flickerless, silent light and some units can be dimmed from 100 percent to full off with no color shift (unlike many other types of light).
ref: 2012, Steven Ascher, Edward Pincus, The Filmmaker's Handbook:
text: The overhead fluorescents burned flickerless, intense.
ref: 2013, David Poyer, China Sea: A Thriller:
glosses: That does not flicker.
forecome
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: forecomes
form: forecoming
form: forecame
form: forecome
Etymology: From Middle English forcomen, from Old English forecuman, from Proto-Germanic *furaikwemaną (“to come before”), equivalent to fore- + come.
Senses: examples: text: It is in vain that ye rise before the dawn to go forth to your labours and to your business, unless I, the Sun of Righteousness, forecome your efforts with My light.
ref: 1869, Paradise of the Christian soul, page 9:
text: ...accordingly, there will be only two hundred remaining, which I desire him may be forwarded to you with the utmost dispatch, and I hope they will be with you time enough, to forecome any inconveniences the shameful desertion of those, that are gone off, might have put you to.
ref: 1869, Nova Scotia Archives, page 481:
text: However, to simplify matters and forecome continual amendments, many agreements now specify that the bargaining unit will encompass all employee classes where the union has significant representivity.
ref: 1996, Sonia Bendix, Industrial relations in the new South Africa, page 291:
text: But to forecome this shortcoming the measurement and mapping techniques presented could be combined with other indicators.
ref: 1998, Clara Eugenia Garcia, Luis Sanz Menéndez, Management and Technology - Volume 5, page 97:
glosses: To come before and influence, especially to precede and prevent.
Derived terms: forecomer
forecomes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of forecome
forecame
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of forecome
race-monger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: race-mongers
form: racemonger
form: race monger
Etymology: From race + monger.
Senses: glosses: One who causes or fuels racial or ethnic tensions
glosses: One who often uses racial arguments or references in contexts where these are (perceived to be) less or not at all relevant
supercommon
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more supercommon
form: most supercommon
Etymology: From super- + common.
Senses: examples: text: Jennifer is a supercommon name.
glosses: Extremely common.
Pishan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: pēʹshänʹ
rhymes: -æn
Forms: form: P'i-shan
Etymology: From the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 皮山 (Píshān).
Senses: examples: text: In Pishan county, located between the Taklamakan desert to the north and the gobi to the south, in eight years the people have built 229 kilometers of irrigation canals in order to utilize the melting snow of the Kunlun Mountains for irrigation.
ref: 1972 December 13, “Basins of China”, in East/West [東西報], volume 6, number 49, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 10, column 3:
english: 東西報
translation: 東西報
text: The kidnappers took two people hostage late on Wednesday in Pishan County in the far southern part of Xinjiang, close to the borders of India and Pakistan, said the region’s official news website (www.tianshannet.com).
ref: 2011 December 28, Chris Buckley, Ben Blanchard, “Suspected kidnappers killed in China's restive west”, in Paul Tait, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 01 Dec 2017, WORLD NEWS:
text: Radio Free Asia reported that Friday’s attack took place in Guma County, known as Pishan in Chinese. A man who answered the telephone at the Pishan County Public Security Bureau said he had no information about the attack, and a man at the Pishan County People’s Hospital said, “We’re not allowed to answer your question, sorry.”
ref: 2015 February 17, Michael Forsythe, “Suicide Bomber Kills Up to 8 in Xinjiang, Radio Free Asia Reports”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 Feb 2015, Asia Pacific:
glosses: A county of Hotan prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
Synonyms: sense: from Uyghur
word: Guma
Pishan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: pēʹshänʹ
rhymes: -æn
Senses: examples: text: The mines at Hsiahiskow, Pishan county, have a combined production of 300 tons a day.
ref: 1939 November 2, “Development Of Szechuan Coal Mining Described”, in Hongkong Daily Press, number 25327, page 9, column 4:
text: These considerations led recently to a decision to remove the Institute to Pishan county in Szechwan, where, as the Institute of Rural Research and Training, it plans to collaborate closely with the Mass Education Movement, and resume cooperation on a university basis with its member institutions.
ref: 1940, “Report of Work in China”, in The Rockefeller Foundation Annual Report 1939, New York, page 363:
text: A Szechwan provincial conference on rural economic diversification, held in Pishan County recently, studied the series of instructions of Chairman Mao and the party center on diversification and criticized the interference and sabotage caused to diversification by the line of Liu Shao-chi and Lin Piao.
ref: 1974 October 17 [1974 October 16], “Szechwan Holds Conference on Rural Diversification”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 202, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Chengtu Szechwan Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China: Southwest Region, page J 1:
text: When by 1958 it was announced that Pishan County in Szechwan had 113 local mimeographed papers, this trend was praised in Peking: "If the articles are about local persons and local happenings, the masses like to read them."
ref: 1979, Lynn T. White III, “Local Newspapers and Community Change, 1949-1969”, in Godwin C. Chu, Francis L. K. Hsu, editors, Moving a Mountain: Cultural Change in China, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 102:
glosses: Alternative form of Bishan.
horrorize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: horrorizes
form: horrorizing
form: horrorized
form: horrorized
Etymology: From horror + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: Ely's method was to enlarge himself by praising up his cousin and to pleasure himself by horrorizing the men with true faithful portrayals of pirates caught and hanged, […]
ref: 1945, Robert Hardy Andrews, Burning Gold, page 108:
text: Their ruthless divinities portrayed them as an uncivilized people with extremely low morality by letting these small gods terrorize and horrorize the common people with uncommon sense and vicious brutality.
ref: 1997, Raji Dabit, War & Peace: Between Israel & Its Neighbors, page 2:
synonyms: horrify
glosses: To fill with horror.
horrorizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of horrorize
topasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of topass
sympathetic trunk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sympathetic trunks
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A string of ganglia running down each side of the spinal cord throughout most of its length, containing cell bodies of neurons that belong to the sympathetic nervous system and that project axons to muscles and glands.
Synonyms: sympathetic chain
sympathetic trunks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sympathetic trunk
Annesley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Ashfield district, Nottinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SK5153).
Koxtag
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Qoshtagh
Etymology: Borrowed from Uyghur قوشتاغ (qoshtagh).
Senses: examples: text: Non-official narratives of the incident offered a more nuanced picture of who integrated what the Chinese state media labelled a 'violent terrorist group', and how events unfolded in the township of Koxtag, in Guma County (Hotan Prefecture)
ref: 2020 February, Pablo A. Rodríguez-Merino, “The Not-So-Terrorist Conflict: Analytical Deception and Political Delusion in China’s Framing of Uyghur-related Violent Events”, in Numéro, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 18 Mar 2021:
glosses: A town in Pishan, Hotan prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China, formerly a township.
wikipedia: Defense Mapping Agency
Synonyms: sense: from Mandarin Chinese
word: Kuoshitage
word: Kuoshi Tage
word: K'o-shih-t'a-ko
Sanju
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Uyghur سانجۇ (sanju).
Senses: examples: text: As we were to cross this range by the pass leading into Sanju, we continued down the valley to Mazar Badshah Abubekr, 19 miles below Shadula, where the road to the Sanju Pass leaves the Karakash Valley, and ascends up a very confined ravine leading to the pass.
ref: 1870, G. W. Hayward, “Journey from Leh to Yarkand and Kashgar, and Exploration of the Sources of the Yarkand River”, in Journal of the Royal Geographic Society, volume 40, London: John Murray, →OCLC, page 67:
text: The Hakim of Guma visited the Mission as it passed through a portion of his district between Sanju and Kargalik. In a present of game sent by him we saw for the first time the "Shaw" pheasant, which to the ordinary eye looks exactly like our own home bird. We heard of ibex on the heights above Sanju, but were unable to go out after them.
ref: 1876, Thomas Edward Gordon, The Roof of the World, Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas, →OCLC, page 36:
text: But a police officer in Guma’s Chawda township acknowledged that authorities in Ayup’s nearby home township of Sanju had briefly detained him there at the end of last year.
ref: 2018 May 18, Shohret Hoshur, Joshua Lipes, “Popular Uyghur Singer’s Whereabouts Unknown, Believed Detained in Xinjiang Re-Education Camp”, in Mamatjan Juma, transl., Radio Free Asia, archived from the original on 22 May 2018:
glosses: A town in Pishan, Hotan prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China, formerly a township.
examples: text: As we were to cross this range by the pass leading into Sanju, we continued down the valley to Mazar Badshah Abubekr, 19 miles below Shadula, where the road to the Sanju Pass leaves the Karakash Valley, and ascends up a very confined ravine leading to the pass.
ref: 1870, G. W. Hayward, “Journey from Leh to Yarkand and Kashgar, and Exploration of the Sources of the Yarkand River”, in Journal of the Royal Geographic Society, volume 40, London: John Murray, →OCLC, page 67:
text: The next day we started up toward the pass. The Sanju is a well-known bad pass. There was much bad ice, but for us get good luck over it, by kindly of snow.
ref: 1923, Ghulam Rassul Galwan, Aksakal of Leh, Servant of Sahibs, Cambridge, England: W. Heffer & Sons Ltd., →OCLC, page 265:
glosses: A mountain pass in Pishan, Hotan prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
Synonyms: sense: from Mandarin Chinese
word: Sangzhu
word: Sang-chu
running shed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: running sheds
Senses: examples: text: The running sheds consist of four round-houses, and still bear traces of the notorious "Baedeker" raid on the City of York itself.
ref: 1949 November and December, O. S. Nock, “Twenty-Four Hours at York—2”, in Railway Magazine, page 358:
text: A correspondent points out that the new diesel depot at March is being fashioned by conversion of the former steam and repair depot; two roads in the running shed have now been adapted for such steam locomotive repair work as remains.
ref: 1963 January, “Motive power miscellany”, in Modern Railways, page 65:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A building used for the maintenance and preparation for service of locomotives.
running sheds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of running shed
white as the driven snow
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: And no sooner had she taken the shirt and dipped it in the water, than it was as white as the driven snow, if not whiter.
ref: 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 241:
glosses: Alternative form of white as driven snow.
topkek
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: top kek
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of top kek.
Brinklow
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Brinklows
form: Brinkler
Etymology: From Old English brince (“brink of a hill, steep slope”) + hlǣw (“mountain, hill, mound”).
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Rugby district, Warwickshire, England (OS grid ref SP4379).
glosses: A small area of Kents Hill, Monkston and Brinklow parish, Milton Keynes borough, Buckinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SP9037).
glosses: An unincorporated community in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States.
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
Saltos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Saltoses
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Saltos. This surname is mostly found in Ecuador.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish.
Saltos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Salto
Pongal
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Transliteration of Tamil பொங்கல் (poṅkal).
Senses: glosses: A Hindu harvest festival of South India, particularly in the Tamil community, observed at the start of the month Tai (typically around January 14).
pretribulationist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pretribulationists
Etymology: From pre- + tribulation + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A believer in pretribulationism.
pretribulationists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pretribulationist
midtribulationist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: midtribulationists
Etymology: From mid- + tribulation + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A believer in midtribulationism.
midtribulationists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of midtribulationist
posttribulationist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: posttribulationists
form: post-tribulationist
Etymology: From post- + tribulation + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A believer in posttribulationism.
posttribulationist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: post-tribulationist
Etymology: From post- + tribulation + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Having to do with posttribulationism.
Coordinate terms: midtribulationist
pretribulationist
pretribulationism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pre- + tribulation + -ism.
Senses: topics: Christianity
coordinate_terms: midtribulationism
posttribulationism
glosses: One who believes that all righteous Christians will be transported bodily to Heaven before the Tribulation begins.
Related terms: pretribulationist
posttribulationists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of posttribulationist
midtribulationism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mid-tribulationism
Etymology: From mid- + tribulation + -ism.
Senses: topics: Christianity
coordinate_terms: pretribulationism
posttribulationism
glosses: The belief or doctrine that all Christians on earth during the Tribulation will be Raptured, or transported bodily to Heaven, partway through this period, before the worst of its plagues and judgments.
Related terms: midtribulation
midtribulational
midtribulationist
posttribulationism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: post-tribulationism
Etymology: From post- + tribulation + -ism.
Senses: topics: Christianity
coordinate_terms: midtribulationism
pretribulationism
glosses: The belief or doctrine that Christians will not be Raptured, or transported bodily to Heaven, before the Tribulation, but rather received or gathered in the air by Christ to establish the Kingdom of God on earth after the Tribulation.
Related terms: posttribulation
posttribulational
posttribulationist
Long Buckby
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in West Northamptonshire, Northamptonshire, England, previously in Daventry district (OS grid ref SP6267).
Fenny Stratford
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in Bletchley and Fenny Stratford parish, Milton Keynes borough, Buckinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SP8834).
MRC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: MRCs
Senses: examples: text: The Bottom-Up Review is based on the premise that two near simultaneous Major Regional Conflicts (MRCs) can be successfully executed by our significantly downsized force structure.
ref: 1996, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on National Security, Department of Defense Appropriations for 1996: Quality of life, senior enlisted advisors, U.S. Government Printing Office, page 417
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of major regional conflict.
MRC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Buckley, sources say, called the Media Research Center and expressed his disapproval. Sources tell CNN that the MRC acquiesced and will no longer give the award to him.
ref: 2017 July 21, Jake Tapper, “Sean Hannity will no longer receive Buckley Award after controversy”, in CNN Business:
glosses: Initialism of Media Research Center.
synonyms: BSMM
glosses: Initialism of Malaysian Red Crescent.
Cheddington
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Old English Cetendone.
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England, previously in Aylesbury Vale district (OS grid ref SP9217).
Voldemort type
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Voldemort types
Etymology: Named after the villain Lord Voldemort in the Harry Potter novels, who is typically called "He Who Must Not Be Named" or "You-Know-Who" by other characters.
Senses: examples: text: RandomNumberGenerator becomes a type that is inside generator's scope. It is simply not visible outside of generator. It cannot be named — hence it's a Voldemort Type.
ref: 2012 May 7, Walter Bright, “Voldemort Types In D”, in Dr Dobb's:
text: A recent issue I discovered (and no doubt has been encountered before) is that using Voldemort types in D can result in insane symbol bloat.
ref: 2016 May 23, Steve Schveighoffer, “Have your Voldemort types, and keep your disk space too!”, in Steve Schveighoffer's Blog:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: A data type that is unspeakable.
wikipedia: Harry Potter
Lord Voldemort
bonce about
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: […] the clay marbles, which the schoolboy capitalist will not greatly value, for they are seldom perfectly round, are easily chipped, and, in fact, are only fit for playing “egg in the bush," or “odd and even," or to pay fines with, in playing bonce about.
ref: 1853, William Martin, The Book of Sports, for Boys and Girls, Part I: “Games with Marbles”, page 13
glosses: A boys' game played with large marbles called bonces.
hymnboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hymnboards
form: hymn board
Etymology: From hymn + board.
Senses: examples: text: We have to take a stand at times on matters of greater importance than hymnboards, of course.
ref: 2009, Margaret J. Marcuson, Leaders Who Last: Sustaining Yourself and Your Ministry, page 122:
glosses: A signboard in a church indicating which hymns are to be sung.
hymnboards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hymnboard
arthriticky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more arthriticky
form: most arthriticky
Senses: glosses: Afflicted with arthritis.
GBF
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: GBFs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of gay best friend.
GBFs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of GBF
drunkly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more drunkly
form: most drunkly
Etymology: From drunk + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a drunk manner; drunkenly.
indulgee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: indulgees
Etymology: From indulge + -ee.
Senses: examples: text: Indulgence may also act in relation to authority, so that the indulger gives an indulgee the right to authority.
ref: 1994, Nancy R. Rosenberger, Japanese Sense of Self, page 69:
glosses: A person who is indulged.
indulgees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of indulgee