cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Sha-shih
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 沙市 (Shāshì) Wade–Giles romanization: Sha¹-shih⁴.
Senses: examples: text: On November 17, the Consul having kindly offered me the use of his house-boat, I went down to Sha-shih, which is eighty miles from Ichang, and being with the current, the journey was made in one day.
ref: 1892, Antwerp Edgar Pratt, “Sha-shih and Pa-chow”, in To the Snows of Tibet through China, Longmans, Green, and Co., page 54:
text: It is not till the Yangtze reaches Sha-shih that its character completely changes. The first note of change is a great embankment, thirty feet high, which protects the region from inundation. Below Sha-shih the vast river becomes mixed up with a network of lakes and rivers, connected by canals, the area of the important Tungting Lake being over 2000 square miles.
ref: 1900, Isabella L. Bird, The Yangtze Valley and Beyond, volume 1, →OCLC, →OL, pages 9–10:
text: Fortunately on this occasion the steam launch which had been sent forward to explore, at last hit upon an eight-foot passage, and by evening we reached the port of Sha-shih, where, owing to further reports of shallow water ahead, we anchored for the night.
ref: 1908, Lawrence Dundas, 2nd Marquess of Zetland, A Wandering Student in the Far East, volume 1, William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, page 60:
text: I-ch'ang (q.v.) and Shasi (Sha-shih) farther up the Yangtze in south central Hupeh are important provincial and commercial centres. South of Sha-shih is the Ch'ing-chiang (Kingkiang) flood detention basin or reservoir covering about 350 sq.mi.
ref: 1968, “HUPEH”, in Encyclopedia Britannica, volume 11, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 902, column 1:
text: By the middle of June there had been additional disturbances at Chinkiang, Tan-yang, Wu-hsi and Soochow along the Grand Canal, and at Wu-hsueh, Kiukiang and Sha-shih on the Yangtze.
ref: 1976, Charlton M. Lewis, Prologue to the Chinese Revolution: The Transformation of Ideas and Institutions in Hunan Province, 1891-1907, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 16:
glosses: Alternative form of Shashi.
wikipedia: Army Map Service
Frederick A. Praeger
Chiang-ling
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 江陵 (Jiānglíng), Wade–Giles romanization: Chiang¹-ling².
Senses: examples: text: The archaeology of the Ch'u 楚 has no traditional status or boundary unlike such rigorously defined fields as the archaeology of the Shang, the Minoans, and even the Mayas. Scholars of early China are familiar with a State of Ch'u described in the Shih-chi 史記 (ch. 40) that emerged after a legendary ancestry during the reign of Ch'eng Wang 成王 of the Chou toward the end of the second millennium B. C. somewhere in central China. It grew in size and stature during the late Western Chou period, established a capital and power centre near Chiang-ling 江陵 on the Yangtze in modern Hupei in 689, expanded its rule to a vast area from the upper Huai-ho 淮河 to south of Lake Tung-t'ing 洞庭湖, and was finally subjugated by Ch'in 秦 in 223 B. C.
ref: 1972, Chang Kwang-chih, “Major Aspects of Ch'u Archaeology”, in Early Chinese Art and its Possible Influence in the Pacific Basin, volume 1, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 5:
text: This style flourished especially in the southern Ch'u kingdom, from whose noble tombs at Ch'angsha in Hunan and Chiang-ling in Hupei come some of the finest representative pieces.
ref: 1974, William Watson, The Chinese Exhibition, Times Newspapers, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 93:
text: In 921 Ch'i-chi was invited by Kao Tsung-hui, military commissioner of the Chiang-ling area in Hupei, to head a temple called the Lung-hsing-ssu in Chiang-ling. In 928 Kao became ruler of an independent kingdom called Nan-p'ing, or Ching-nan, with his capital at Chiang-ling, and Ch'i-chi was apparently able to live the remainder of his life in Chiang-ling, associating with many of the eminent poet-officials of the time and enjoying wide recognition for his literary activities.
ref: 1999, Red Pine, Mike O'Connor, editors, The Clouds Should Know Me By Now, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 45:
glosses: Alternative form of Jiangling.
wikipedia: Defense Mapping Agency
I-ch'ang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 宜昌 (Yíchāng) Wade–Giles romanization: I²-chʻang¹.
Senses: examples: text: The Yang-tzŭ-chiang (揚子江) is about 3,300 miles long ; it is navigable for large steamers for 600 miles to Hankow (漢口) and for light-draught steamers 360 miles further to I-chʻang (宜昌).
Above I-chʻang there are rapid which are difficult to pass.
ref: 1904, C. D. Tenney, “中國 [Zhōngguó, The Chinese Empire]”, in Geography of Asia, New York: MacMillan and Co, →OCLC, page 3:
english: The Chinese Empire
roman: Zhōngguó
translation: The Chinese Empire
text: River streamers soon connected Nanking with Hankow, four hundred miles beyond, and finally, small steamboats sailed triumphantly up stream to I-ch'ang. Beyond I-ch'ang were the fierce rapids of the upper Yang-tzŭ, where foreign enterprise gave way before simple Chinese ingenuity.
ref: 1911, Ethel Daniels Hubbard, Under Marching Orders, →OCLC, page 75:
text: Just below Hsi-ling Gorge lies the small city of I-ch'ang, the first river port beyond the gorges.
ref: 1988, Lyman P. Van Slyke, Yangtze: Nature History and the River, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 20:
text: Yangtzee^([sic – meaning Yangtze]) River Gorges, People's Republic of China. These gorges are most notable between I-chʻang and Feng-chieh, with cliffs 1,000 feet (320 meters) high.
ref: 2007, Ginger Gorham, Susan Rice, Travel Perspectives, 4th edition, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 63:
glosses: Alternative form of Yichang.
wikipedia: Army Map Service
Encyclopædia Britannica
Tang-yang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 當陽 /当阳 (Dāngyáng) Wade–Giles romanization: Tang¹-yang².
Senses: examples: text: For his success in recovering the city of Tang-yang, Hupeh, he was rewarded with the minor hereditary rank of Chʻing-chʻê tu-yü of the second class.
ref: 1943, Arthur W. Hummel, Sr., “PI Yüan 畢沅”, in Eminent Chinese of the Ch'ing Period (1644-1912), volume 1, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 623:
text: In one of two poems Tu Fu addressed to him, he suggests that they may meet at Tang-yang (Hupeh) on Wang Ts'an's famous tower.
ref: 1971, Albert Richard Davis, Tu Fu, Twayne Publishers, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 95:
text: But even Meng Hao-jan, certainly a Hsiang-yang partisan, states in one poem his belief that Wang Ts'an's loft was actually to be found—as most believed—in the city of Tang-yang, ninety miles southwest.
ref: 1981, Paul W. Kroll, Meng Hao-jan, Boston: Twayne Publishers, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 25:
glosses: Alternative form of Dangyang.
wikipedia: Army Map Service
Ho-pi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 鶴壁 /鹤壁 (Hèbì), Wade–Giles romanization: Ho⁴-pi⁴.
Senses: examples: text: At Ho-pi (Hopi) in northern Honan two modern shafts were under construction in 1957-8; but the coal from Ho-pi is expected to be of rather poor quality and so will be mixed with rich coal from P'ing-ting-shan (Pingtingshan) in central Honan for coke making.
ref: 1963, “The Coal Industry in Mainland China Since 1949”, in The Geographical Journal, volume 129, number 3, →ISSN, →JSTOR, →OCLC, page 333:
text: Especially notable among the large mines are . . . ; and the four mines at Ho-pi in Honan Province, which were among the first mines to adopt hydraulic coal mining.
ref: 1963, Yuan-li Wu, Economic Development and the Use of Energy Resources in Communist China, Frederick A. Praeger, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 49–50:
text: At Ho-pi (Hopi) in northern Honan two modern shafts were under construction in 1957—58: but the coal from Ho-pi is expected to be of rather poor quality and so will be mixed with rich coal from P’ing-ting-shan (Pingtingshan) in central Honan for coke making.
ref: 1974, D. J. Dwyer, editor, China Now: an Introductory Survey with Readings, Longman, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 236:
text: In time, this evolved into the room and pillar (or pillar and stope) method that came to be used widely, especially in Chinese coal mines. We have good evidence for the use of this technique in the remains of a Sung/Yuan (c. +13th century) coal mine at Ho-pi 鶴壁 in Honan (some 25 km southwest of An-yang).
ref: 1999, Joseph Needham, Peter J. Golas, Science and Civilisation in China, volume 5, Cambridge University Press, →OCLC, page 299:
glosses: Alternative form of Hebi.
wikipedia: Defense Mapping Agency
Encyclopædia Britannica
rurn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rurns
form: rurning
form: rurned
form: rurned
form: rurnt
form: rurnt
Senses: examples: text: "Now you put in one bay leaf, jist the one, mind, or ye'll rurn the whole damn bilin' of it!" —JUNIOR SAMPLES (Cooking twenty pounds of shrimp for a snack)
ref: 2000, Mitch Jayne, Home Grown Stories and Home Fried Lies, Wildstone Media, →ISBN, page 252:
text: "Prob'ly 'bout rurned him." I don't say nothing, just stare at the ground. "Hell, would ye goddamn look at 'im? Turned 'isself inta a goddamn freak, all that goddamn metal in 'is face, all 'em tattoos 'bout eatin' 'im alahve."
ref: 2005, Nathaniel Cody Oliver, A Simple Kind of Man:
text: A board'd float if it wutn't weighted down, so sometimes they put a clean rock on a short board or plate on top a the food down inside of a churn jar to hold it down 'nunder th' salt water or vinegar so it woutn't rurn (ruin).
ref: 2005, Cleo Hicks Williams, Gratitude for Shoes: Growing Up Poor in the Smokies:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of ruin.
rurnt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rurn
rurned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rurn
bread flour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bread flours
Senses: glosses: Synonym of strong flour.
synonyms: word: strong flour
bread flours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bread flour
pyelic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to the renal pelvis
Chorlton Lane
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in Chorlton parish, Cheshire West and Chester district, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ4547).
tonic and gin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tonic and gins
form: tonics and gins
Senses: examples: text: There's an old man sitting next to me
Making love to his tonic and gin
ref: 1973, Billy Joel, “Piano Man”, Billy Joel (music), performed by Billy Joel:
glosses: gin and tonic
piezometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From piezo- + -metry.
Senses: glosses: The measuring of the compressibility of a liquid.
Related terms: piezometric
piezometer
piezoelectric oscillator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: piezoelectric oscillators
Senses: glosses: An oscillator that employs a piezoelectric resonator (crystal)
pifferaro
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pifferaros
form: pifferari
Etymology: From Italian pifferaro.
Senses: glosses: A musician who plays the piffero, a kind of oboe.
Coupland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Couplands
Etymology: From Old Norse kaupa (“to buy”) + land (“land”).
Senses: glosses: A placename:
A small village in Warcop parish, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England, previously in Eden district (OS grid ref NY7118).
glosses: A placename:
A small village and castle in Ewart parish, Northumberland, England (OS grid ref NT9331).
glosses: A placename:
A small city in Williamson County, Texas, United States.
glosses: A habitational surname from Old Norse.
Warcop
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: The first element is of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse varða (“cairn”) or vǫrðr (“watch, guard”). The second element is from Old English copp (“hill”).
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Eden district, Cumbria, England (OS grid ref NY7415).
Challow
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The site of a former railway station in Vale of White Horse district, Oxfordshire, England, which served the villages of East Challow and West Challow (OS grid ref SU3590).
bossocracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bossocracies
Etymology: From boss + -ocracy.
Senses: examples: text: And, as Bell's wages are no higher than the other men's, and he certainly out-works any one of them, at any sort of job, his boss-ocracy cannot rightfully be offensive to their republicanism.
ref: 1854 August 3, “The Fireside: The Boss of a Seventy Acre Republic”, in The Country Gentleman, volume 4, number 5, Albany: Luther Tucker, page 79:
text: It may be 2003, but the bossocracy still reigns supreme. And it's no nano-problem. We are suffering from a pallid homogeneity of opinion. […] Smaller companies, led by opinionated entrepreneurs, often create some of the most thought-controlled bossocracies.
ref: 2003 March 1, Adam Hanft, “Grist: Down With Bossocracy”, in Inc.:
qualifier: autocratic
glosses: rule by bosses
fractuosity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The state of being fractured; superficial fracture
buffalo chip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buffalo chips
Senses: glosses: A dried piece of buffalo or bison dung, sometimes used as fuel.
orchard grass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of orchardgrass.
Pilatism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Pilatisms
Etymology: From Pilate + -ism.
Senses: glosses: A refusal to take responsibility for ones actions
Joebama
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: JoeBama
form: Jobama
Etymology: Blend of Joe + Obama, from the given name of Joe Biden and the surname of Barack Obama.
Senses: examples: text: From your socialist perspective that's probably true.
Keep rampant socialism in CanaDuh and don't vote for Joebama!
ref: 2008 August 24, dxAce, “Re: (OT) : Are You One of . . . Smiley's People ?”, in rec.radio.shortwave (Usenet):
text: “This is a great way to support the hypothetical of Joe Biden for President in 2020 with his running mate — either Michelle Obama or Barack Obama. Joebama for President!” advises JuntoTees, an Indiana company which has offered this motto on assorted items since 2018.
ref: 2020 March 3, Jennifer Harper, “Among the Biden prospects: 'JOEBAMA 2020'”, in The Washington Times:
topics: government
politics
glosses: The political union of Barack Obama, the 44th president of the United States, and Joe Biden, the 47th vice president of the United States, having served between 2009 and 2017.
wikipedia: Barack Obama
Joe Biden
Related terms: Bushbama
Obiden
lawyer foyer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lawyer foyers
Senses: examples: text: He could see similarly outsized rooms opening off the lawyer-foyer ...
ref: 2017, Seth Margolis, Presidents' Day, Diversion Publishing Corp., →ISBN:
text: One of those McMansions with the lawyer foyer and the cathedral- ceilinged great room could do real damage.
ref: 2001, The Atlantic Monthly:
glosses: a two-story foyer with a prominent staircase
action space
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: action spaces
Senses: examples: text: Using 6-week travel diary data from Karlsruhe and Halle, Germany, this study examines the characteristics of individuals’ action space.
ref: 2005, Yusak O. Susilo, Ryuichi Kitamura, “Analysis of Day-to-Day Variability in an Individual's Action Space: Exploration of 6-Week Mobidrive Travel Diary Data”, in Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, Vol. 1902 issue: 1, page(s): 124-133:
glosses: The area within which a person moves, acts, and makes decisions about what they do.
pylorectomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pylorectomies
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: Removal of part or all of the pylorus
pimelosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: An accumulation of fatty tissue
Synonyms: lipomatosis
steatosis. obesity
pink tet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pink tets
Etymology: tet is short for tetralogy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A noncyanotic patient with tetralogy of Fallot due to a lack of significant obstruction of the right ventricular outflow tract.
blue tet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blue tets
Etymology: tet is short for tetralogy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A cyanotic patient with tetralogy of Fallot due to significant obstruction of the right ventricular outflow tract.
plugging away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of plug away
ruint
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: "... en no sooner is he do dat dan Miss Sally she up'n change her'n, en dar day had it. Mars John say de town gwine ter be tetotally ruint, en Miss Sally 'low dat ef it kin be ruint liker would a ruint it long time ago."
ref: 1899, Richard S. Rhodes, Wit, Ed, page 313:
text: HORTON I reckon he's ruint Mary Jane! I dunno what else it could be! [Weeping] But Amos needn't throw her raisin' up to me! Whatever she's done I've got a clear conscience!
ref: 1925, Hatcher Hughes, Ruint; a Folk Comedy in Four Acts:
text: She's ruint cause all she's living for is a man who don't know nothing but to hurt her and you ain't even willing to step up and protect her.
ref: 2003, Catherine Trieschmann, The Bridegroom of Blowing Rock, Samuel French, Inc., →ISBN, page 54:
text: “He isn't the right man, anyways.” “Sammy,” said Nat, “that's unkind.” “What in the world,” demanded Sammy, “would a world-famous author be doing in a ruint and empty library in a ruint and empty college in a ruint and empty town like Winston […]”
ref: 2012, Alan Marshall, Man Hungry, Blackbird Books, →ISBN:
glosses: simple past and past participle of ruin
Garthwaite
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Garthwaites
Etymology: English habitational surname from a lost place in Northern England; the second element is probably from Old Norse þveit (“clearing, glade”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Old Norse.
RVOT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of right ventricular outflow tract.
Related terms: LVOT
LVOT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of left ventricular outflow tract.
Related terms: RVOT
Gotherington
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Tewkesbury district, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref SO9629).
bearded iris
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bearded iris
form: bearded irises
Senses: topics: agriculture
biology
botany
business
horticulture
lifestyle
natural-sciences
glosses: Any species or cultivar of the bearded rhizomatous irises of the section Iris subg. Iris sect. Iris, especially Iris × germanica.
Synonyms: word: bearded
Derived terms: German bearded iris
beardeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bearded
Deeping St Nicholas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in South Holland district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TF2115).
Related terms: Deeping St James
pyophthalmia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An infection of pus in the eye
Staniford
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Stanifords
form: Staniforth
form: Stanyforth
Etymology: "Dweller by a stony ford", probably near Sheffield, where the surname is common. From Old English stāniġ (“stony”) + ford (“ford”).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
irisology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From iris + -ology.
Senses: topics: agriculture
biology
botany
business
horticulture
lifestyle
natural-sciences
glosses: The study or cultivation of irises.
Aughton Park
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Ormskirk, West Lancashire district, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD4006).
Halton-with-Aughton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A civil parish in City of Lancaster district, Lancashire, England.
Smithy Bridge
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Littleborough, Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England (OS grid ref SD9215).
Mills Hill
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb in Oldham borough and Rochdale borough, Greater Manchester, England (OS grid ref SD8905).
Related terms: Mill Hill
dx's
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dx
dx'ing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dx
dx'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dx
dx'ed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dx
siege mentality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: siege mentalities
Etymology: From siege + mentality, from the experience of military defenses of real sieges.
Senses: glosses: A collective feeling of victimization and defensiveness, in which a group of people believe themselves to be constantly attacked, oppressed, or isolated in the face of the negative intentions of the rest of the world.
Related terms: trench mentality
paracriminal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The only exception is the paracriminal class already mentioned, the fences and other middlemen who enable thieves to be in society but not of it.
ref: 1977, Valeriĭ Chalidze, Criminal Russia: Essays on Crime in the Soviet Union, page 50:
text: Different types of paracriminal activities increase with reduced law enforcement.
ref: 2005, Gerd Junne, Willemijn Verkoren, Postconflict Development: Meeting New Challenges, page 193:
text: Many of the youth became saboteurs while others became “paracriminal juveniles” (Kater, 2004, p. 115)
ref: 2018, Robert Tynes, Tools of War, Tools of State: When Children Become Soldiers, page 48:
glosses: Associated with or profiting from crime without actually being illegal.
otocinclus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: otocincluses
Etymology: From the genus name Otocinclus. First part from Ancient Greek ὠτο- (ōto-), stem of οὖς (oûs, “ear”).
Senses: glosses: Any of the species of small South American freshwater fish of the genus Otocinclus, popular in home aquariums.
wikipedia: otocinclus
Synonyms: word: oto
Derived terms: taxonomic: Otocinclus affinis
word: golden otocinclus
Tets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Tets
Etymology: Clipping of Tetley's, the brewery which formerly produced the beer, from Tetley + -'s (possessive suffix).
Senses: examples: text: A good pint of Tetleys pulled through the auto vac system, which meant pulling three or four pints to create a single pint, was second to none. Outside Yorkshire, and going south, this system was used infrequently and, consequently, a pint of Tets served elsewhere would be very ordinary.
ref: 1990 October 6, Osman, “Re: The North - South Divide”, in free.uk.pubs (Usenet):
glosses: A bottle or serving of Tetley's beer.
wikipedia: Tetley's
Bromley-by-Bow
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb of London in borough of Tower Hamlets, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ3782).
Synonyms: Bromley
stay frosty
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: stays frosty
form: staying frosty
form: stayed frosty
form: stayed frosty
Etymology: Originally military slang, probably as a reference to keeping one's cool, but with extra emphasis because of the need to stay alert in dangerous situations.
Senses: examples: text: 1986, 'Corporal Hicks', Aliens (movie): We're all in strung out shape, but stay frosty, and alert
text: Nothing bad will happen to you so long as you stay frosty.
ref: 2003, Adam Peck, Manja Sachet, Turkey Guide, page 259:
text: He and a small group of other loyalists stayed frosty and refused to let the unit die.
ref: 2007, Sean Michael Flynn, The Fighting 69th: From Ground Zero to Baghdad:
text: In other words, be aware—stay frosty.
ref: 2009, Gregory H. Wahl, Charles A. Bobbitt, It Didn't Play in Peoria:
text: We may have to move at a moments notice so stay frosty.
ref: 2011, J. R. Brice, The Wrath of Mamba, page 267:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: To be alert and ready for action, without letting one's fear or other emotions get in the way.
examples: text: Chill out, stay frosty, be cool.
ref: 1991, Leigh Daniels, The Basque Swallow, page 197:
text: Then Ray started toward Shane, swinging the metal stick in a lose^([sic – meaning loose]) arc in front of him. "Yeah? Who's gonna stop me, dickwad?" "Come on, let's stay frosty here, Ray. Let's . . . let's — "
ref: 2002, Stephen J. Cannell, The Tin Collectors, page 9:
text: King's knees buckled and he sat down on the side of the bed, hard. So much for staying frosty.
ref: 2016, Barbara Paul, Good King Sauerkraut:
glosses: To keep one's cool.
examples: text: Nonetheless, the fact of sanctions ensured that Tokyo-Pyongyang relations would stay frosty.
ref: 1988, Country Report: China, North Korea, page 36:
text: Soft drinks, tea, and lemonade round out the beverage menu, but those wanting beer can bring their own for a $3 convenience fee, which includes a bucket of ice to make sure your six-pack stays frosty.
ref: 2015, Stephanie Stewart-Howard, Barbecue Lover's Memphis and Tennessee Styles:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see stay, frosty.
stays frosty
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of stay frosty
staying frosty
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of stay frosty
stayed frosty
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of stay frosty
OBOR
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of One Belt One Road, a 21st-century international development program of the Chinese government, now known as the Belt and Road Initiative. Chinese: 一带一路.
Synonyms: BRI
BRI
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Belt and Road Initiative, an international development project of the Chinese government. Chinese: 一带一路.
raw_tags: with the
Synonyms: OBOR
overrange
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overranges
Etymology: From over- + range.
Senses: examples: text: The bellows-type meter can withstand overranges up to the safe working pressure of the housing in either direction without damage or the slightest shift in zero or calibration .
ref: 1962, Proceedings of the 1962 Annual Appalachian Gas Measurement Short Course, page 129:
text: Where there is an overload or overrange condition, all display elements of the Fig. 1-12B meter (except the kQ and MQ indicators) flash repeatedly.
ref: 1994, John D. Lenk, McGraw-Hill electronic testing handbook, page 20:
text: This instrument is extremely sensitive to overrange, and care should be taken to avoid this problem.
ref: 1997, Norman A. Anderson, Instrumentation for Process Measurement and Control, page 46:
glosses: Input to an instrument beyond the range of values it is designed to handle.
examples: text: Though digital panel meters commonly offer 100 percent overrange, multi-range, multi-function meters almost never provide more than 40 percent overrange and, on the 1000-V range, most allow no overrange at all.
ref: 1970, EEE: The Magazine of Circuit Design Engineering:
text: It has an overrange to 100,000 counts and uses a current-balancing technique.
ref: 2013, Anne Fischer Lent, Practical Applications Circuits Handbook, page 97:
text: Some, but not all, digital implementations permit the upper output limit to exceed the upper range value (provides an overrange) and the lower output limit to be less than the lower range value (provides an underrange).
ref: 2014, Cecil L. Smith, Control of Batch Processes, page 76:
glosses: The amount by which an instrument can handle input outside the designated or expected range.
overrange
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overranges
form: overranging
form: overranged
form: overranged
Etymology: From over- + range.
Senses: examples: text: The unit is available with full scale, TTL compatible, frequency pulse output ranges of 2, 20, 200 and 1000 kHz and can overrange to 150%.
ref: 1971, International Journal of Radiation Engineering - Volume 1, Issue 1:
text: As the test light voltage touches terminal "C7", the module should switch, causing the ohmmeter to "overrange" if the meter is in the 1000-2000 ohms position.
ref: 1992, Chilton's General Motors, page 7:
text: Most meters have the ability to overrange and add a partial or “half” digit.
ref: 1999, Clyde F. Coombs, Electronic Instrument Handbook, page 13-29:
glosses: To respond to input beyond the designated or expected range; to provide an overrrange.
examples: text: Where wide fluctuation of flow is encountered, it is better to keep the reading on the chart than to overrange the pen and estimate the flow.
ref: 1954, Oil and Gas Journal - Volumes 52-53, page 194:
text: In the measurement of water pressure, sudden surges can overrange instrumentation and easily damage it.
ref: 1966, Water & Wastes Engineering, page 75:
text: Care must be taken so as not to overrange the instruments
ref: 1989, Aeronautical Note - Issues 57-64, page 2:
text: The turbulence created under these conditions was found to be severe enough to overrange several pressure transducers.
ref: 1989, Timothy L. Fagerburg, Richard E. Price, Stacy E. Howington, Water Quality Outlet Works Prototype Tests, page 40:
glosses: To produce input beyond the range that an instrument is designed to measure or handle.
examples: text: Occasionally pressure springs are accidentally overranged. Some overranging can be corrected by recalibration, but many times the overranging will be to such an extent that it is impossible to do so.
ref: 1956, Engineering Experiment Station Bulletin - Issues 44-45, page 244:
text: In regard to the deployment of troops in the field; years ago the settlers practically ruined this whole valley by overgrazing. Now you can overrange, I guess, too, with the troops.
ref: 1990, Fort Huachuca, Fort Devens, Fort Monmouth Base Realignment: Final Environmental Impact Statement:
text: Pain with active movement will prevent the patient from overranging the neck.
ref: 2012, James G. Adams, Emergency Medicine, page 659:
glosses: To range too far or too much.
examples: text: Wherefore as cloud of Ben-more or hawk overranging the mountains, Wherefore in Badenoch drear, in lofty Lochaber, Lochiel , and Knoydart, Moydart, Morrer, Ardgower, and Ardnamurchan, Wandereth he, who should either with Adam be studying logic, Or by the lochside of Rannoch on Katie his rhetoric using;
ref: 1849, Arthur Hugh Clough, The Bothie of Toper-na-fuosich: A Long-vacation Pastoral, page 90:
text: If, on the other hand, the eye palpably overranges the breech, or fails to reach it when the head is naturally couched to the aim, the stock is, in the first place, manifestly too short, in the second, as much too long.
ref: 2019, Frank Forester, The Complete Manual for Young Sportsmen:
glosses: To range over.
overrange
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overrange
form: most overrange
Etymology: From over- + range.
Senses: examples: text: Accidental overvoltage or overrange protection is provided by fast recovery diodes and zener clamps. This facilitates measuring repetitive pulse waveforms where a portion of the signal is overrange.
ref: 1972, United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Technology Utilization Division, NASA Tech Brief - Issues 10600-10756, page 10737:
text: When the input is overrange, the display flashes on and off.
ref: 1978, Motorola CMOS integrated circuits, page 7-250:
text: The amount of activity refluxing into the renal pelvis is small compared to that in the bladder and is thus easily overlooked unless each curve is normalized to its own maximum and the bladder is overrange.
ref: 2012, Malcolm V. Merrick, Essentials of Nuclear Medicine:
text: Because the ADC can count to 1023, and we want to be able to detect the overrange condition, we arbitrarily set a count of 1000 to equate to 1 mA, giving us the range of 1001 through 1023 to indicate the overrange values.
ref: 2014, Jack Purdum, Dennis Kidder, Arduino Projects for Amateur Radio, page 104:
text: If a small - amplitude event triggers the system but the signal, when it arrives at a remote station , is attenuated to such a low level that it will not exceed the threshold level on that channel, the counter will go overrange.
ref: 1977, Henry Reginald Hardy, Frederick W. Leighton, Proceedings: First Conference on Acoustic Emission/Microseismic Activity in Geologic Structures and Materials, page 90:
text: In addition, some smart transmitters have lengthy recovery times from power outages during which the transmitters go overrange and underrange, setting off alarms and causing problems for other instruments in the loop.
ref: 1991, InTech - Volume 38, page 41:
glosses: Beyond the expected or allowed range.
overranges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overrange
overranges
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overrange
overranged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overrange
zombie theory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zombie theories
Senses: examples: text: The best example of a zombie theory is the one-time giant of American sociological theory, structural functionalism.
ref: 2016, George Ritzer, The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Sociology, page 105:
text: Sometimes, even when the very author of the theory argues that it has reached its threshold, the zombie theory keeps stumbling around as more than a historical reference point.
ref: 2017, John P. Dugan, Leadership Theory: Cultivating Critical Perspectives, page 140:
topics: sciences
glosses: A scientific theory that has been disproved, or for which attempts to prove it have failed, but which continues to be presented as a viable theory.
Related terms: philosophical zombie
zombie theories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zombie theory
misbreed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪsˈbɹiːd/
ipa: /ˈmɪsbɹiːd/
Forms: form: misbreeds
form: misbreeding
form: misbred
form: misbred
Etymology: From mis- + breed.
Senses: examples: text: Discord will occur even in Socrates ' city because the rulers, no matter how wise, will misbreed the guardians, producing inferior guardians, who bring discord with them.
ref: 1994, Brian G. Domino, Social and Political Philosophy, page 29:
text: Humans breed in ways quite similar to those of animals; and if humans misbreed, the results are misbreeds.
ref: 2005, Mark Bennett Feldman, Narrating, Displaying and Spectating the Animal, page 287:
text: So what keeps wolves and coyotes from interbreeding in nature? Obviously, those who don't misbreed will leave more viable offspring.
ref: 2014, David V. McCorkle, Why the Universe Bothers to Exist, page 21:
glosses: To breed with the wrong mate, resulting in inferior offspring.
misbreed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪsˈbɹiːd/
ipa: /ˈmɪsbɹiːd/
Forms: form: misbreeds
Etymology: From mis- + breed.
Senses: examples: text: Humans breed in ways quite similar to those of animals; and if humans misbreed, the results are misbreeds.
ref: 2005, Mark Bennett Feldman, Narrating, Displaying and Spectating the Animal, page 287:
text: Some breeders will go as far as to say that if a Jack Russell is not used for field work than it's not a Jack Russell, but a misbreed that looks like a Jack Russell.
ref: 2008, Don Rainwater, Kellie Rainwater, The Jack Russell Terrier Canine Companion Or Demon Dog, page 43:
text: Beside her, a misbreed named Alaa'kh hunched forward, lifted a too-flexible arm, and tilted a bowl so that the runny gruel could pour down into a gaping mouth that had no chewing apparatus; the gruel simply trickled into his digestive system.
ref: 2015, Kevin J. Anderson, Blood of the Cosmos:
glosses: The inferior offspring that results from misbreeding.
misbreeds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misbreed
misbreeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misbreed
misbreeding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misbreed
misbred
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misbreed
cowboyitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cowboy + -itis.
Senses: examples: text: “Cowboyitis” strikes down men and women of all ages, educational backgrounds, and professions. The stockbroker, insurance agent, and college professor are as likely to be victims as the truckdriver, construction worker, or cab driver. This social disease is epidemic both east and west of the Rocky Mountains and the telltale symptoms are are well known. The stricken soul comes home from a hard day at work and slips into his faded Levis (preferably a size or two too small) and shiny Tony Lama boots. With an oversized Stetson daringly tilted back on his head he settles into an overstuffed easy chair, lights up a Marlboro, flips open a tall can of Coors, and watches the Denver Broncos brutalize some hapless opponent on the television.
ref: 1980, Paul A. Hutton, The Cowboy Hero review, Utah Historical Quarterly, Volume 48, Number 3, Summer 1980, pages 321-322
text: He owns a horse, a Morgan filly named Funquest Siri, and soon he'll own a ranch near Kansas City (he won't say where). Moreover, Brett has the chafed fanny and blistered memories of riding a real roundup back to his claim.
It's not unreasonable to credit some of Brett's cowboyitis for his more relaxed personality since the baseball strike ended.
ref: 1999, Mark Zeligman, George Brett: A Royal Hero, page 59:
text: Seth laughed. "We must be nuts—we spend all day looking at the south end of a northbound cow!"
Ben give a half-smile. "Well, my dad's never cared much about money."
"Course not. He's here for the same reason as me and all the rest. We've all been bit by the same bug—we've got cowboy-i-tis."
ref: 2007, Jan Young, The Orange Slipknot, page 27:
glosses: A desire to lead the life of a cowboy, e.g. to own or work on a ranch or wear stereotypical trappings such as a cowboy hat, cowboy boots, etc.
pyrausta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pyraustas
Senses: glosses: Any moth of the genus Pyrausta
Derived terms: white-fringed pyrausta moth
pyrheliograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pyrheliographs
Senses: glosses: A pyrheliometer that makes a recording
pyromagnetism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pyro- + magnetism.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The variation of magnetic field with temperature; the condition of becoming magnetic when heated.
Related terms: pyromagnetic
vibe check
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvaɪbˌt͡ʃɛk/
Forms: form: vibe checks
Senses: examples: text: The Honey BBQ wings tasted a little off. I can't quite put my finger on it, but I know they didn't pass the vibe check.
ref: 2019, "Booyahs", The Sailors' Log (Mona Shores High School, Norton Shores, Michigan), 19 December 2019, page 4
text: Usually we'll listen to a track. It just depends. Sometimes they have a funny premise or a certain vibe and we'll make something oriented towards that premise or vibe. If it passes the vibe check, we kick things off.
ref: 2020, Emma Sophia Valles, "Going Big With Tiny Meat Gang", Poptized Magazine, Winter 2020, page 48
text: Melbourne does make having a good time easier, but the reason it passes the vibe check is because of the people that I've shared these perfect nights with, little slices of time that felt so perfect I felt nostalgic about them as I lived them.
ref: 2020, Liam Armstrong-Carrigan, "Where is Australia's best nightlife", Honi Soit (University of Sydney), Semester 1, Week 5 (2020), page 16
glosses: An impromptu attempt to ascertain mood, opinions, or attributes.
vibe check
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvaɪbˌt͡ʃɛk/
Forms: form: vibe checks
form: vibe checking
form: vibe checked
form: vibe checked
Senses: examples: text: He was still recovering from the Blue Whale Comedy festival, during which he spent two days running between venues, setting up chairs, grabbing cash boxes for volunteers, performing sound checks, and vibe-checking national comedians he had booked.
ref: 2016, Mitch Gilliam, “A shining, bald duck”, in The Tulsa Voice, 5 October - 18 October 2016, page 30:
text: “We've got to vibe-check leaders on the planet,” said one student in the group.
ref: 2019, Noel Miller, quoted in Kayvan Aflaki, "Climate crisis moves students to strike for change", The Medium (University of Toronto - Mississauga), 30 September 2019, page 1
text: thought about vibe checking god by just straight up dying.
ref: 2019, anonymous, quoted in "Free For All", The University Daily Kansan (University of Kansas), 24 October 2019, page 9
glosses: To perform a vibe check on (somebody).
Related terms: vibe shift
semi-looper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semi-loopers
Senses: glosses: Any moth, having a caterpillar which arches part of its body into a loop in order to bring the back part of the body forward as it walks, of the family Erebidae, including those of species:
Achaea janata (castor semi-looper)
glosses: Any moth, having a caterpillar which arches part of its body into a loop in order to bring the back part of the body forward as it walks, of the family Erebidae, including those of species:
Anomis flava (cotton semi-looper)
glosses: Any moth, having a caterpillar which arches part of its body into a loop in order to bring the back part of the body forward as it walks, of the family Erebidae, including those of species:
Anomis sabulifera (jute semi-looper)
glosses: Any moth, having a caterpillar which arches part of its body into a loop in order to bring the back part of the body forward as it walks, of the family Erebidae, including those of species:
Argyrogramma signata (green semi-looper)
glosses: Any moth, having a caterpillar which arches part of its body into a loop in order to bring the back part of the body forward as it walks, of the family Erebidae, including those of species:
Chrysodeixis acuta (tomato semi-looper)
glosses: Any moth, having a caterpillar which arches part of its body into a loop in order to bring the back part of the body forward as it walks, of the family Erebidae, including those of species:
Chrysodeixis chalcites (groundnut semi-looper)
glosses: Any moth, having a caterpillar which arches part of its body into a loop in order to bring the back part of the body forward as it walks, of the family Erebidae, including those of species:
Oxyodes scrobiculata (longan semi-looper)
glosses: Any moth, having a caterpillar which arches part of its body into a loop in order to bring the back part of the body forward as it walks, of the family Erebidae, including those of species:
Trigonodes hyppasia (triangles)
semi-loopers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of semi-looper
Fuffy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of Faith + Buffy
Senses: examples: text: note(s): For FC, Piper, Elaine, B_A and everyone who asked for more Fuffy. :)
ref: 2002 November 27, cheebs!, “FIC: Returning - F/B, PG, 1/1”, in alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer.creative (Usenet):
text: I personally wish Joss will give us a Fuffy ending to the series...Buffy realizing it's Faith she needs to be with.
ref: 2003 January 5, Alberich, “Re: Faith may rat out Buffy”, in alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer (Usenet):
text: You guys need to read more (fem)slash. In most of the Wuffy and Fuffy fics I've read recently, Spike is either absent, or plain old pre-chip Evil!Spike.
ref: 2005 July 16, Aaron Davies, “Re: SEASON 4 FIC CHALLENGE: Looking for a good character development fic!”, in alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer.creative (Usenet):
topics: lifestyle
glosses: The ship of characters Faith and Buffy Summers from the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
examples: text: With regard to favorite scenes, I have to say I liked the scene where Riley and Fuffy (is that what you guys call Faith-in-Buffy's-body?) slept together.
ref: 2000 April 1, mc...@hotmail.com, “Re: sorry, rose, one last Riley thread”, in alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer (Usenet):
text: Tara displayed some remarkable perceptiveness in "Who are You" realizing that Fuffy wasn't Buffy.
ref: 2000 May 24, Molly Moloney, “Re: Restless Comments”, in alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer (Usenet):
text: The only chemistry I ever noticed between Spike and Buffy was when she was Fuffy.
ref: 2003 April 16, DarkMagic, “Re: First thought on "Dirty Girls"”, in alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer (Usenet):
glosses: Faith while inhabiting Buffy Summers' body during their bodyswap.
clinketh
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: clink + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of clink
pukiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of puky: most puky
glosses: superlative form of pukey: most pukey
pukier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of puky: more puky
glosses: comparative form of pukey: more pukey
semidelirious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more semidelirious
form: most semidelirious
Etymology: From semi- + delirious.
Senses: glosses: Somewhat or partly delirious.
Ziam
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of Zayn + Liam.
Senses: examples: text: Team Ziam and Team Larry all the way!
ref: 2013 August, Marynyriene Silvestre, “Why I Love One Direction”, in Stache, page 25:
text: it feels like the one direction fandom is split in smaller fandoms like the larry fandom, the elounor fandom, the ziam fandom, etcetera
ref: 2014, "paxxxxxxxxxx", quoted in Helena Löfgren, "'One Direction is not a phase like any other fandom I've been in, they're like my life' –en analys av fandom som källa till helighet", thesis submitted to Uppsala University, page 25
text: The One Direction fandom split into supporters of two primary relationships (and a whole lot of sub-relationships), "Larry Stylinson" and "Ziam" (Zayn and Liam).
ref: 2017, Millicent Lovelock, "You & I: One Direction, Fans and the Co-Construction of Identity", thesis submitted to the University of Otago, page 62
topics: lifestyle
glosses: The real-person fiction ship of Zayn Malik and Liam Payne of the band One Direction.
Chair
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Please address all questions through the Chair.
glosses: Chairperson.
Chair
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of Chuck + Blair.
Senses: examples: text: His skill renders Becker's portrayal of Prince Grimaldi, a lover and future husband, futile in the wake of Chair (Chuck and Blair).
ref: 2011, Brionna Jimerson, "'Gossip Girl' conceives unrealistic plotlines, child", The Tufts Daily (Tufts University), 6 October 2011, page 11
text: We can already tell which idyllic couples obsessive fans will fantasize about like Chair (Chuck and Blaire of "Gossip Girl") and Jim and Pam of "The Office."
ref: 2012 October 18, Haley Boston, “TV Review: 'Nashville'”, in The Daily Northwestern, Northwestern University, page 4:
text: Although Josh Schwartz suggests that “Chair” or “Dair” fans are embroiled in a “battle” on Twitter, the users of the Gossip Girl FanForum do not appear to engage with each other directly.
ref: 2014, Lori Bindig, Gossip Girl: A Critical Understanding, page 143:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: The ship of characters Chuck Bass and Blair Waldorf of the Gossip Girl series.