cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Shenqiu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˌʃʌnˈt͡ʃjoʊ/
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 沈邱 /沈丘.
Senses: examples: text: The proper relationship between the Revolutionary Committees and party committees was outlined by Honan radio on 13 January 1970 on the experience of the party branch committee of the Shen-ch’iu County post office. According to the report, several leaders had initially “failed to treat the relationship between the party branch and the Revolutionary Committee correctly, so that the party branch was unable to play its proper role as the core."
ref: [1971, “China”, in Yearbook on International Communist Affairs 1971, Stanford, Cali.: Hoover Institution Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 558:
text: In the Symposium on the Work of Social Relief in Nineteen Provinces, Municipalities, and Autonomous Regions held in Shenchiu County, Honan Province, in November 1983, it was said that the work of supporting the poor had been developed by over 31,000 people's communes in 1,814 counties in mainland China.
ref: [1986, Yu-ming Shaw, editor, Mainland China: Politics, Economics, and Reform, Westview Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 489:
text: Mr. Wang, whose roost was a rural county called Shenqiu in Henan Province in central China, is now under arrest, but other local tycoons are thriving outside the law.
Central Authorities Alarmed
Shenqiu County is closed to foreigners, and the authorities rejected a reporter's request to visit there. But the central authorities are clearly alarmed that local officials repeatedly defied outside investigators, and some fear that the Shenqiu affair represents decentralization gone berserk.
ref: 1993 May 16, Sheryl WuDunn, “China Is Trying to Curb 'Warlord' Businessman”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 May 2015, World:
text: In Shenqiu county, citizens fought the flood by building a dike. But the hastily constructed structure could not contain the floodwater, which overflowed the banks every year, forcing local residents to make annual repairs.
ref: 1994, “War and Rural Mobilization: The Rivereast Floodplain”, in Mobilizing the Masses: Building Revolution in Henan, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 220:
glosses: A county of Zhoukou, Henan, China.
Huaiyang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: hwīʹyängʹ
Forms: form: Huai-yang
Etymology: From romanization of the Mandarin 淮揚 /淮扬 (Huáiyáng, “Huai'an and Yangzhou”), reinforced by Wade-Giles and pinyin.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Jianghuai, the cultural region between the Yangtze and Huai rivers in China, especially its cuisine.
synonyms: word: Jianghuai
extra: the cultural region between the Yangtze and Huai rivers in China, especially its cuisine
examples: text: The great friend of the Su family, Chang Fangping, was living at Huaiyang, in Honan.
ref: 1948, Lin Yutang, “The Evil that Men Do”, in The Gay Genius: The Life and Times of Su Tungpo, William Heinemann, →OCLC, page 111:
text: Centuries later, the descendants of Shun had ruled over the State of Chen, with their capital founded at Wan Ch’iu (宛丘), nowadays the Huaiyang district in Honan province, which had formerly once been the ancient capital of Fu Hsi.
ref: 1961 October, Chi-yun (張其昀) Chang, “Emperor Shun (舜): the Introducer of China's National Title Chung Hua (中華)”, in Chinese Culture: A Quarterly Review, volume III, number 4, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 25:
text: In a convoluted tale of local tyranny, greed and murder, the 14-year reign of a grain-bureau chief in Huaiyang County, Henan, finally ended recently with the man's execution, but not before he had framed an honest rival with the help of the news media.
ref: 2000 December 3, Erik Eckholm, “Chinese Find Power Abuse Isn't Limited To the Cities”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 May 2015, World:
text: Huaiyang County is located in the eastern part of Henan Province, 32 kilometers (20 miles) northeast of Zhoukou City. It has a population of 1.34 million. Under its administration are twenty-one townships and 497 villages.
ref: 2005, Lihui Yang, Deming An, Jessica Anderson Turner, Handbook of Chinese Mythology, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 16:
glosses: A district of Zhoukou, Henan, China.
Taikang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 太康 (Tàikāng).
Senses: examples: text: To the east of Chu-hsien Chen some scores of villages in Tʻung-hsü Hsien were covered with ten feet of water from a branch which afterwards followed the channel of the Chʻing-kang River and inundated Tʻai-kang and Lu-i Hsien.
ref: [1887 November 24 [1887 November 9], A CORRESPONDENT, “THE YELLOW RIVER.”, in North-China Herald and Supreme Court & Consular Gazette, volume XXXIX, number 1060, Shanghai, sourced from Peking, →OCLC, page 563, column 1:
text: T'ien was a Shun-chih period chin-shih who received highest rating for his performance as magistrate of T'ai-k'ang county in Honan, and was subsequently appointed to a series of capital posts, including Vice Censor-in-chief, and Jr. Vice Minister of Works.
ref: [1985, Thomas Carl Bartlett, Ku Yen-wu's Response to "the Demise of Human Society", Princeton University, →OCLC, page 83:
text: The Communist army in Huaiyang, for instance, worked out a defense agreement with a village pact in neighboring Taikang county to jointly protect themselves against puppet troops and local bandits.
ref: 1994, Mobilizing the Masses: Building Revolution in Henan, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 201:
text: Anthropologists in central China are carefully preserving the mummies of a couple accidentally found in a tomb that is believed to date back some 500 years, mainland media reported.
The tomb was unearthed in Taikang county in Zhoukou, Henan province by a construction crew that was installing plumbing, the Dahe Daily reported.
ref: 2017 March 27, Laura Zhou, “Construction crew in China unearths tomb with 500-year-old mummies”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 Mar 2017, Around the Nation:
glosses: A county of Zhoukou, Henan, China.
Fugou
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: fo͞oʹgōʹ
Forms: form: Fu-kou
form: Fukou
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 扶溝 /扶沟.
Senses: examples: text: The philosopher-official Ch’eng Hao (1033-1084), for example, won much esteem from officialdom and the intelligentsia when, as the magistrate of Fu-kou county, he stubbornly refused to implement the pao-chia system which was one of the prized projects of Emperior^([sic – meaning Emperor]) Shen-tsung (r. 1068-1085) and his reformist Prime Minister Wang An-shih (1019-1086).
ref: [1965, Franklin W. Houn, “The Chinese Monarch and Limits on Royal Power”, in Chinese Political Traditions, Washington, D.C.: Public Affairs Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 47:
text: Shuping Wang was born Zou Shuping on Oct. 20, 1959, in Fugou County, Henan. Her mother, Huang Yunling, was a village doctor; her father, Zou Bangyan, was a math teacher who had been a soldier in the Nationalist forces that were defeated by Mao Zedong’s Communists.
ref: 2019 September 30, Chris Buckley, “Shuping Wang, Who Helped Expose China’s Rural AIDS Crisis, Dies at 59”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 30 Sep 2019, Asia Pacific:
glosses: A county of Zhoukou, Henan, China.
Xihua
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: shēʹhwäʹ
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 西華 /西华.
Senses: examples: text: The Honan authorities do not appear to have been successful in maintaining order and suppressing brigandage. Amongst the innumerable acts of lawlessness reported, one of the most daring occurred in the early part of December when a band of 500 mounted robbers attacked the district city of Hsi-hua Hsien, and after looting the town departed unmolested, taking with them some of the leading inhabitants for whose release they demanded a ransom.
ref: [1914 April [1912], “Summary by Sir S. Head of General State of Affairs in the Provinces of China for last quarter of 1912”, in Further Correspondence Respecting the Affairs of China., London, →OCLC, page 9:
text: Led contingent of New 4th Army, operating with Eastern Honan Anti-Japanese Guerrilla 3rd Detachment, Aug. 1938; Hsiao’s contingent, 3rd Detachment, and a section of 4th Division, New 4th Army, led by P’eng Hsüeh-feng joined forces in Hsihua (西華) county and re-grouped to be a guerrilla detachment of New 4th Army, Sept. 1938; detachment became known as 6th Detachment, Noy. 1939;[…]
ref: [1966 March, “HSIAO Wang-tung [蕭望東]”, in Who's Who in Communist China, Kowloon, Hong Kong: Union Research Institute, →OCLC, page 223, column 1:
english: 蕭望東
translation: 蕭望東
text: While the May 30th Movement is usually perceived by historians as essentially a Communist-instigated urban proletarian movement, in the suburban countryside in Xihua county the antiforeign struggle attracted a sizable number of peasants. Surprisingly, the Xihua boycott in Youth Village (qingnian cun) was organized in the name of a peasant organization, the Central Plain Peasant Association (Zhongyuan nongmin xiehui).
ref: 1994, Mobilizing the Masses: Building Revolution in Henan, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 47:
text: The latest Christian "house church" crackdown is occurring in Xihua county, in Henan. There, a powerful Christian movement has been sweeping across parts of the province, fueled by the collapse of faith in communism and economic woes that turn many people's attention toward spiritual issues.
ref: 2000 September 5, John Pomfret, “China Expands Crackdown on Religions Not Recognized by State”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 28 Aug 2017:
glosses: A county of Zhoukou, Henan, China.
Chuanhui
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: chwänʹhwāʹ
Etymology: From Mandarin 川匯 /川汇.
Senses: examples: text: The population structure and dynamics of vectors in Chuanhui District of Zhoukou City were preliminary mastered through monitoring, which could provide important reference for control work.
ref: 2021 September 10, Xue-Hua Yu, Chang-Geng Min, “Surveillance of vector density in Chuanhui District of Zhoukou City.”, in Chinese Journal of Hygienic Insecticides & Equipments, volume 27, number 3, →DOI, →ISSN:
text: In judicial practice, a judge named Wang Guirong at the Chuanhui District court of Zhoukou, Henan Province, China, was sentenced to one year and nine months in 2011 for being guilty of dereliction of duty,⁸ which put at risk the profession of judges.
ref: 2022, Baosheng Zhang, Ping Yang, “The Transformation of Chinese Evidence Theories and System: From Objectivity to Relevancy”, in Jordi Ferrer Beltrán, Carmen Vázquez, editors, Evidential Legal Reasoning: Crossing Civil Law and Common Law Traditions, Cambridge University Press, →OCLC, page https://books.google.com/books?id=irttEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT119:
glosses: A district of Zhoukou, Henan, China.
Shangshui
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: shängʹshwāʹ
Etymology: From Mandarin 商水.
Senses: examples: text: In Shangshui county of Honan Province during a period of three months in 1950, 90 women were driven to death by family mistreatment.
ref: 1959 [1951 October], C. K. Yang, quoting Preparatory Committee of the Democratic Women's League of the Central-South Region, “The Ascendancy of the Status of Women in the Family”, in The Chinese Family in the Communist Revolution, M.I.T. Press, published 1972, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 108:
text: Police in Shangshui county near Zhoukou are investigating whether straw burning in a field led to a car exploding, Xinhua reports.
ref: 2014 October 20, “Teen invents cheap 3D printer; ‘drunks’ in police car that sped from scene”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 Oct 2014, China Insider:
glosses: A county of Zhoukou, Henan, China.
Huoqiu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: hwôʹchyōʹ
Forms: form: Huo-ch'iu
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 霍邱 /霍丘 (Huòqiū).
Senses: examples: text: An example of success through relying on the masses was our problem of cutting a canal through Pingkang Hill in Huochiu county.
ref: [1974 December, Chih-chang Chen, “Dry Hills into Water Country”, in China Reconstructs, volume XXIII, number 12, China Welfare Institute, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 38, column 1:
text: One phase of Maoist land reconstruction policy for which nobody now has a good word to say is the reclamation of lakes. In Huoqiu county in western Anhui, Chengxi Lake was partly reclaimed, reducing its area by two-thirds and its capacity of 700 million cu m by nine-tenths. As a direct result, the lake could no longer accommodate the flood waters resulting from heavy rain, and flood danger in the whole area was sharply increased.
ref: 1985, Frank Leeming, Rural China Today, Longman, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 91:
text: Lu Qianrong was visited in his home in Linshui township, Huoqiu county by a group of officials from the local government, as well as higher-ranking officials from nearby Changzhou city, he told RFA on Monday.
ref: 2018 July 9, Gao Feng, “Officials in China's Anhui Target Xi Jinping Critic For 'Psychiatric Treatment'”, in Luisetta Mudie, transl., edited by Luisetta Mudie, Radio Free Asia, archived from the original on 09 Jul 2018:
text: Tai, Ching-nung was born in Huochiu in Anhui province.
ref: [2001, “Tai, Ching-nung [臺靜農]”, in Highlights from the Permanent Collection [北美館二〇〇一 : 典藏常設展], Taipei Fine Arts Museum, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 39:
english: 北美館二〇〇一 : 典藏常設展
translation: 北美館二〇〇一 : 典藏常設展
glosses: A county of Lu'an, Anhui, China.
Yeji
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: yěʹjēʹ
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 葉集 /叶集 (Yèjí).
Senses: examples: text: Everbright Biomass Cogeneration (Liuan) Company Limited has constructed and operated the Yeji Biomass Electricity and Heat Cogeneration Project Project in tandem with the planning and requirement of the Yeji District Government to supply heat to the green board materials industry park in the district.
ref: 2020, “SUSTAINABILITY REPORT 2019 [可持續發展報告]”, in Everbright Greentech, archived from the original on 21 May 2023, page 108, column 1:
english: 可持續發展報告
translation: 可持續發展報告
text: The 11th Party Congress of Anhui Province proposed to support , Suzhou, , Bozhou, and Lu'an to create a province Internationally adjacent to regional central cities. On November 25th, Shao Hua, director of the Yeji District Bureau of Commerce, said in an exclusive interview with a reporter from the International Business Daily that the Yeji District Bureau of Commerce will focus on the key work of the “Demonstration Zone for the Rise of the Central Part of the Anhui-Henan Border” and accelerate the construction of an Anhui-Henan border business center.
ref: 2021 December 1, “Speed up the construction of Anhui-Henan border trade center——Interview with Shao Hua, Director of the Bureau of Commerce of Yeji District, Lu“an City, Anhui Province”, in DayDayNews, archived from the original on 06 Mar 2022:
glosses: A district of Lu'an, Anhui, China.
Yu'an
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjuˌɑn/
ipa: /-æn/
enpr: yüʹänʹ
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 裕安 (Yù'ān).
Senses: examples: text: In 2008, LAGP was awarded geographical indication by the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection, and Quarantine of the People's Republic of China with the region of origin being the border areas of Jinzhai County, Yu'an District, and Huoshan County (administrative levels of district and county are equal, but with different features in city establishment in China), covering the entire city of Lu'an. However, the core region of LAGP only existed in the inner mountain not the outer. The inner mountain region covers Qishan Village, Xiang Hongdian Reservoir, Flowers Hill, and Gongdian Village in Jinzhai County; Dushan Town, Shuangfeng, Shi podian Town, and Shajia Cove in Yu'an District; and Zhufo Monastery Town in Huoshan County. The main outer mountain region includes Shi Banchong in Yu'an District's Lion Village (Fan, Xiaopei, Wang, & Han, 2017).
ref: 2019, Huan Su, Weiquan Wu, Xiaochun Wan, Jingming Ning, “Discriminating geographical origins of green tea based on amino acid, polyphenol, and caffeine content through high‐performance liquid chromatography: Taking Lu’an guapian tea as an example”, in Food Science & Nutrition, volume 7, number 6, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 Apr 2023, pages 2167–2168:
text: Eastern Anhui province reported two new confirmed local infections of the coronavors disease in the first 12 hours of Sunday, the provincial health commission said, state media Xinhua reports.
Both patients emerged in the Yu'an district of Lu'an city.
ref: 2021 May 17, “Two more Anhui locals infected with coronavirus in flare-up”, in huaxia, editor, The Standard, archived from the original on 17 May 2021:
text: Health authorities in Anhui said earlier that the province's recent local transmission cases were related to a training session at a photo studio in the city's Yu'an district.
ref: 2021 May 25, “China's Lu'an reports two new confirmed COVID-19 cases”, in huaxia, editor, Xinhua News Agency, archived from the original on 24 May 2021:
glosses: A district of Lu'an, Anhui, China.
Jin'an
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /d͡ʒɪn.ɑn/
/d͡ʒɪn.æn/
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 金安 (Jīn'ān).
Senses: examples: text: An official with the education bureau in Lu'an’s Jin’an District in Anhui, where the school is located, told Shanghai Daily on Tuesday that the program had not been registered at the bureau and had falsely claimed to be run by the Maotanchang Middle School, which is famous for gaokao preparation.[…]However, an official surnamed He from the Jin’an District Education Bureau told Shanghai Daily by phone that they had noticed the program and launched an investigation.
ref: 2019 July 23, Meiping Yang, “Students warned over cramming risks”, in SHINE, archived from the original on 21 May 2022:
glosses: A district of Lu'an, Anhui, China.
Jin'an
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /d͡ʒɪn.ɑn/
/d͡ʒɪn.æn/
Senses: examples: text: It was in the court of Jin’an district, in which the West-Nine-Block was located.
ref: 2007, Xiaolong Qiu, Red Mandarin Dress, W. F. Howes, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 419:
glosses: Alternative form of Jing'an.
Shucheng
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 舒城 (Shūchéng).
Senses: examples: text: In November they annihilated 6,000 crack troops of the Hunan army at Sanhe Town, Shucheng, Anhui Province, and forced the Qing troops, who were besieging Anqing, to flee.
ref: 1982, Bai Shouyi (白寿彝), editor, 中国通史纲要 [An Outline History of China] (China Knowledge Series), Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, page 450:
english: An Outline History of China
translation: An Outline History of China
text: Gao Dao-pang, my father, was born on 9 February 1906 into the rich, landowning Gao family of Shucheng County in Anhui Province.
ref: 2000, Anhua Gao, “My Parents”, in To the Edge of the Sky: A Story of Love, Betrayal, Suffering, and the Strength of Human Courage, 1st edition, The Overlook Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1:
text: The company said a portion of the proceeds will be used to open new stores, renovate existing ones, construct a logistics facility in Manila and a commissary in Shucheng County in Anhui Province in China.
ref: 2011 April 12, “Philippines' Jollibee signs $90 miln of loan deals”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 24 Aug 2022, Financials:
glosses: A county of Lu'an, Anhui, China.
Huoshan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: hwôʹshänʹ
rhymes: -æn
Forms: form: Huo-shan
Etymology: From Mandarin 霍山 (Huòshān).
Senses: examples: text: Hundreds and thousands of people joyfully beat gongs and drums to deliver their applications and resolutions to local Party committees and governments. The people of Manshui District, Huoshan County, walked 40 miles to deliver their resolutions to the local Party committees.
ref: 1959 June 15, Richard L. Walker, “Letters from the Communes”, in The New Leader, volume XLII, number 24, →ISSN, →OCLC, Section Two, page 6:
text: To meet the rising needs for this medicinal raw material, in 1958 workers at the Huoshan county medical supply and marketing department in Anhwei province set up a farm to domesticate the animal.
ref: 1975 March, An Hung, “Domesticating Musk Deer”, in China Reconstructs, volume XXIV, number 3, →OCLC, page 47:
text: Experiments on wide-ridge rice-fish farming in Huo Shan County in 1987 indicated that the number of panicles per bunch, grains per panicle, and weight per thousand grains were higher in outside crop rows than in the rows at in the centre (Table 2).
ref: [1995 June, Yan Dejuan et al., “Ridge-Cultured Rice Integrated with Fish Farming in Trenches, Anhui Province”, in Kenneth T. MacKay, editor, Rice-Fish Culture in China, Ottawa: International Development Research Centre, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 99:
text: The Piyuan Canal Rehabilitation Project presented in Chapter 9 is one component of the China—Netherlands Poverty Alleviation Project (CNPAP), being implemented in Huoshan County, Anhui Province.
ref: 2004, Janelle Plummer, “Introduction”, in Community Participation in China: Issues and Processes for Capacity Building, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 17:
text: A man has been arrested in Huoshan county near Luan for drink-driving after he rang up the police by mistake and then challenged an officer to a fight,[…]
ref: 2014 October 9, Wu Nan, “Drink-driving bungle; Fake goods up in flames; Ex-official denies gambling”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 Oct 2014, China Insider:
glosses: A county of Lu'an, Anhui, China.
Jinzhai
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒɪnˈd͡ʒaɪ/
ipa: /d͡ʒin-/
ipa: /-t͡ʃaɪ/
rhymes: -aɪ
Forms: form: Chinchai
form: Chin-chai
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 金寨 (Jīnzhài).
Senses: examples: text: He was born in 1913 in Jinzhai county, Anhui province and joined the communist party in 1929 at the age of only 16.
ref: 1989, “Hong Xuezhi”, in China in Crisis: The Role of the Military, Jane's Information Group, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 73:
text: “We’ve had so many years of development since liberation, but the ordinary people in this old revolutionary area still don’t have enough clothes to wear or food to fill their stomachs,” he said, according to an account of his visit to Jinzhai County in Anhui. “How can we show our faces to these simple country folk? This is shameful.”
ref: 2015 July 16, Chris Buckley, “Wan Li, Who Helped China’s Farmers Emerge From Mao Era, Dies at 98”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 28 May 2023, Asia Pacific:
glosses: A county of Lu'an, Anhui, China.
mattress fluffer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mattress fluffers
Senses: glosses: A person employed to fluff up mattresses that have become compacted over time by sleeping bodies.
glosses: A device used to fluff up mattresses.
mattress fluffers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mattress fluffer
fluffs up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fluff up
fluffing up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fluff up
fluffed up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fluff up
flufflike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more flufflike
form: most flufflike
Senses: glosses: Resembling fluff.
leaf-turner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leaf-turners
Senses: glosses: A device for turning the pages of sheet music while a musician is sight reading.
leaf-turners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leaf-turner
Liu'an
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈl(i)u.ɑn/
ipa: /ˈl(i)oʊ-/
ipa: /-æn/
enpr: lyōʹänʹ
Forms: form: Liu-an
Etymology: From Mandarin 六安 (Liù'ān).
Senses: examples: text: In April 1984, the paper sent an editor to Fuyang and Liu’an prefectures in Anhui Province for interviews with local government officials to see what had happened to the 49 letters the paper had sent to the localities earlier.
ref: 1989, Won Ho Chang, Mass Media in China: The History and the Future, Ames: Iowa State University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 107:
text: Famous green tea includes Longjing tea from the region of West Lake in Hangzhou, Biluochun tea from Jiangsu, Maofeng tea from the Huangshan Mountains of Anhui Province, and Liu'an Guapian tea from Liu'an County of Anhui Province.
ref: 2004, Ren Qiliang, editor, Common Knowledge about Chinese Culture, Hong Kong: Hong Kong China Tourism Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 70:
text: Chinese warlord. Born in Liu’an (Liu-an), Anhui (Anhwei) province, on 6 March 1865, Duan Qirui (also known as Tuan Ch’i-jui) joined Yüan Shih-k’ai in 1896, organizing what later became the Beiyang (Peiyang) Army, upon which Duan built his personal influence and power.
ref: 2006, Debbie Law, “Duan Qirui (1865–1936)”, in Spencer C. Tucker, editor, World War I: A Student Encyclopedia, volume 1, Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 597:
text: Shihu grows on the rocky land close to water in mountain valleys in Liu’an. Collect the stem in the seventh or eighth month of the year and dry in the shade.
ref: 2012, Li Shizhen, translated by Luo Xiwen, edited by Li Jingwei, Condensed Compendium of Materia Medica, volume 4, Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 2187:
text: Other parts of Aunhui have also been forced to take extreme measures, with the Liu'an city government reporting that Huai River waters had been directed into seven flood retention areas on Tuesday.
ref: 2020 July 21, “Breached levees trap thousands as flooding in China worsens”, in AP News, archived from the original on 11 Jun 2021:
glosses: Synonym of Lu'an.
synonyms: word: Lu'an
throddle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of throttle.
throddle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of throttle.
throddling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of throttling.
throddling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of throttling.
throddled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of throttled.
scab union
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scab unions
Senses: synonyms: yellow union
glosses: A trade union that serves the employer more than the workers.
scab unions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scab union
Bâlteni
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Bâlteni.
Senses: glosses: A village and commune of Gorj County, Romania.
Bârgăuani
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Romanian Bârgăuani.
Senses: glosses: A commune of Neamț County, Romania.
glosses: A village in Bârgăuani, Neamț County, Romania.
Chiojdeanca
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Chiojdeanca.
Senses: glosses: A village and commune of Prahova County, Romania.
Ciceu-Mihăiești
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Ciceu-Mihăiești.
Senses: glosses: A commune and village in Bistrița-Năsăud County, Romania.
Cochirleanca
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Cochirleanca.
Senses: glosses: A village and commune of Buzău County, Romania.
Câmpineanca
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Câmpineanca.
Senses: glosses: A village and commune of Vrancea County, Romania.
Horodniceni
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Horodniceni.
Senses: glosses: A village and commune of Suceava County, Romania.
Hârseni
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Romanian Hârseni.
Senses: glosses: A commune of Brașov County, Romania.
glosses: A village in Hârseni, Brașov County, Romania.
pattern variable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pattern variables
Etymology: Coined by Talcott Parsons (1902–1979), American sociologist.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: Any of a set of contrasting pairs of characteristics said to be associated with various kinds of social interaction: affectivity – affective neutrality; self-orientation – collectivity-orientation; universalism – particularism; ascription – achievement; and specificity – diffusity.
wikipedia: Talcott Parsons
pattern variables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pattern variable
diffusity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diffusities
Senses: glosses: The property or degree of being diffuse.
Related terms: diffuseness
diffusion
diffusities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diffusity
neurodiversities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neurodiversity
Crăcăoani
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Romanian Crăcăoani.
Senses: glosses: A village and commune of Neamț County, Romania.
airphoto
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: airphotos
Etymology: From air + photo.
Senses: glosses: A photograph taken from the air, for example to study terrain.
airphotos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of airphoto
pattern bargaining
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: qualifier: industrial relations
glosses: The situation where a trade union gains a new and superior entitlement from one employer and then uses that agreement as a precedent to demand the same or better from other employers.
Zatocoding
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Brand name of the Zator Company (founded in 1947).
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A hash code technique used in some punch card systems.
Mooers's law
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Introduced by American computer scientist Calvin Mooers in 1959.
Senses: glosses: The observation that an information retrieval system will tend not to be used whenever it is more painful and troublesome for a customer to have information than not to have it.
supraorbital nerve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supraorbital nerves
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
neuroanatomy
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
coordinate_terms: supratrochlear nerve
glosses: A branch of the frontal nerve supplying the forehead, scalp, cranial periosteum, and adjacent parts.
peekaboo card
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peekaboo cards
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A kind of punch card that could be used to find records matching several categories by aligning cards for the records and retaining those where a hole could be seen all the way through the stack of cards.
peekaboo cards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of peekaboo card
power of the pencil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: In the casino business, they call it the power of the pencil. As casino host I had the ability to sign away a guest's restaurant tabs, wipe out all room or suite charges, give away almost any casino and hotel bills.
ref: 2008, Barry Sinkow, The Count $ in Monte Carlo: An Insider's Look at Casino Life, page 182:
text: Mafia pit bosses had the 'power of the pencil' to hand out free rooms, food and beverages at their discretion, […]
ref: 2012, Time Out Las Vegas, page 24:
topics: gambling
games
glosses: The authority to charge a punter's gambling or other bills to the casino.
supratrochlear nerve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supratrochlear nerves
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
neuroanatomy
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
coordinate_terms: supraorbital nerve
glosses: A branch of the frontal nerve supplying the skin of the forehead and the upper eyelid.
film stocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of film stock
Kuznets curves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Kuznets curve
limbo set
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: limbo sets
Senses: examples: text: Get the best actors you can find, make sure they know their lines, and rehearse them over and over again. Choose inexpensive “real” locations over limbo sets with limited props and borrowed furniture.
ref: 2012, Nick Iuppa, Terry Borst, Story and Simulations for Serious Games: Tales from the Trenches, page 180:
text: The room existed only as a still photograph, and the Actor playing old Adolf was in fact walking around on a limbo set. But it was all done in real time, and when Adolf rested his hands on the table, I would have sworn that it was all real.
ref: 2013, Robert Koster, The Budget Book for Film and Television, page 196:
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: A nondescript set that does not represent any particular place.
limbo sets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of limbo set
Little Joe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Little Joe and big Dick from Boston have been hitting fine. I got enough for baby's new shoes and a Caddy too.
ref: 2003, Scott Cool, Dick Schmelzkopf, Gambler's Book of Poetry, page 12:
topics: dice
gambling
games
synonyms: Little Joe from Kokomo
glosses: The point of four in the game of craps.
Little Joe from Kokomo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: dice
gambling
games
glosses: Synonym of Little Joe (“the point of four in the game of craps”).
synonyms: word: Little Joe
extra: the point of four in the game of craps
acetylglutamate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acetylglutamates
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt or ester of N-acetylglutamic acid
acetylglutamic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The N-acetyl derivative of glutamic acid
Related terms: N-acetylglutamate
Mintiu Gherlii
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Romanian Mintiu Gherlii.
Senses: glosses: A commune of Cluj County, Romania.
glosses: A village in Mintiu Gherlii, Cluj County, Romania.
cytadherence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cytoadherence.
Pogăceaua
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Romanian Pogăceaua.
Senses: glosses: A commune of Mureș County, Romania.
glosses: A village in Pogăceaua, Mureș County, Romania.
Beilbys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Beilby
gas lights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gas light
Luohe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Lo-ho
Etymology: From Mandarin 漯河 (Luòhé).
Senses: examples: text: The industry, communications, finance, and trade fronts in Loho municipality have scored great success in unfolding revolutionary mass criticism.
ref: [1971 February 26 [1971 February 24], “Honan Municipality Heightens Revolutionary Mass Criticism”, in Daily Report: Communist China, volume I, number 39, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Chengchow Honan Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →OCLC, Communist China: Central-South Region, page D 4:
text: The protesters are angry that teachers employed by Luohe municipal government make nearly twice as much money as those in the rural counties and districts of Yancheng, Yuanhui, Shaoling, Linying, and Wuyang.
ref: 2014 April 21, Jiang Pei, Lin Jing, Luisetta Mudie, “Henan Teachers Vow to Keep Marching Over Pay Demands”, in Luisetta Mudie, transl., Radio Free Asia, archived from the original on 02 Jul 2014:
text: Henan province reported one confirmed case in Luohe city on Saturday. Local authorities said the infected person had been in contact with two doctors based in Jia county who later tested positive for the virus even though they had showed no symptoms.
ref: 2020 April 1, Colin Qian, Ryan Woo, “Chinese county says in lockdown after coronavirus cases”, in Catherine Evans, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 01 Apr 2020, World News:
glosses: A prefecture-level city of Henan, China.
Shaoling
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃaʊlɪŋ/
enpr: shouʹlǐngʹ
Etymology: From Mandarin 召陵.
Senses: examples: text: The protesters are angry that teachers employed by Luohe municipal government make nearly twice as much money as those in the rural counties and districts of Yancheng, Yuanhui, Shaoling, Linying, and Wuyang.
ref: 2014 April 21, Jiang Pei, Lin Jing, Luisetta Mudie, “Henan Teachers Vow to Keep Marching Over Pay Demands”, in Luisetta Mudie, transl., Radio Free Asia, archived from the original on 02 Jul 2014:
text: In Shaoling District, there was no soil sample of 3 years of continuous cropping, but there was no significant difference in the acid phosphatase activity in soil samples between 5 years and 2 years of continuous cropping.
ref: 2017, Chen Jifeng et al., “Changes in Soil Enzyme Activity and Nutrient Content in Different Years of Continuous Cropping Tobacco Fields”, in Asian Agricultural Research, volume 9, number 5, →ISSN, →OCLC:
glosses: A district of Luohe, Henan, China.
Yuanhui
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: yüǎnʹhwāʹ
Etymology: From Mandarin 源匯 /源汇 (Yuánhuì).
Senses: examples: text: Yuanhui district, the only district under the jurisdiction of Luohe City, realized 713 milion yuan of gross national product (GNP) in 1997, up 15.6% over 1996, ranking first in the city; its revenue increased[…]
ref: 1999, 郭晓勇, 朱玉生, “河南卷”, in 中囯新兴城市, volume 2, 新华出版社, →OCLC, page 500, column 2:
text: The case of X is typical. X is a farmer in Dongwang Village, Daliu Township, Yuanhui District, Luohe City, Henan Province. From 1997 to 2003, he constantly tried to petition and to sue the Township government (shangfang) for its mistreatment of a disabled woman, Z, living in the same village.[...]In April 2010, the Yuanhui District party committee and government decided to dismiss three officials from their position because they misused their power to fabricate the certificate to prove X was suffering from a mental disorder.
ref: 2014 June, Liu Ran, “Ethical Enquiry into the Conditions under which Involuntary Commitment Can be Ethically Justified”, in Asian Bioethics Review, volume 6, number 2, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC:
text: Since it was unable to determine the jurisdictional arbitration institution, Luohe Municipal Yuanhui District People's Court had jurisdiction over this case.
ref: 2018, Lin Yifei, Judicial Review of Arbitration: Law and Practice in China, Wolters Kluwer, →ISBN, →OCLC:
glosses: A district of Luohe, Henan, China.
Wuyang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: wo͞oʹyängʹ
Etymology: From Mandarin 舞陽 /舞阳 (Wǔyáng).
Senses: examples: text: 18,000 workers of Wuyang County in Honan who are now concentrating on building water detention work, in coordinated efforts with hundreds of thousands of workers in the river's upper reaches, have as a result registered an average of 3.8 cubic meters of earthwork per man each day. This is twice last year's rate.
ref: 1951 May, Survey of China Mainland Press, numbers 101-126, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 38:
text: "The party branch of the No 1 (Kung) district middle school in Wuyang County has continued to take the class struggle as the key link, given free rein to the masses, vehemently criticized the curious theories in education circles, and hit back at the rightist wind to reverse verdicts. In order to make a success of this great debate on the education revolution, the party branch of the No 1 (Kung) District middle school in Wuyang County has seriously studied Chairman Mao's series of important instructions and his teaching 'Stability and unity do not mean writing off class struggle; class struggle is the key link and everything else hinges on it,' and further understood that the current curious theories in education circles are the concentrated reflection of the struggles between the two classes, roads and lines.
ref: 1976 February 10 [1976 February 9], “Honan Schools Launch Great Education Debate”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 28, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Chengchow Honan Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China: Central-South Region, page H 1:
text: Many books relate how, in 1852, the five major TCC Classics turn up in a salt store in Wu Yang County, Henan, where Yang’s student, Wu Cheng-qing, happens to be the local magistrate.
ref: [2009, Dan Docherty, Tai Chi Chuan: Decoding the Classics for the Modern Martial Artist, Crowood Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 40:
text: Rescuers search for survivors in Beiwudu Town, Wuyang County in central China's Henan Province on Friday.[…]The local government in Wuyang county, where the accident occurred, had called off the search by Saturday, the official Xinhua news agency said.
ref: 2015 October 31, “Henan horror: 17 builders killed as residential property collapses in central China, 9 people in serious condition”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 31 Oct 2015, China:
glosses: A county of Luohe, Henan, China.
Linying
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Lin-ying
Etymology: From Mandarin 臨潁 /临颍.
Senses: examples: text: The PEOPLE'S DAILY today gives front-page prominence to a news report on a county leading cadre exemplary in working with the peasants in collective productive labour. Tiao Wen, first secretary of the party committee of Linying County, Honan Province, took part in physical labour in local communes for 260 days in two years. Joining the commune members in moving stone for farmland improvement projects, he trekked a total of 4,000 kilometres in the mountains.
It has become a regular system for cadres at various levels in Linying County to take part in collective physical labour.
ref: [1977 October 17 [1977 October 16], “People's Daily Lauds Cadre for Working with Peasants”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 200, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Peking NCNA, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China: National Affairs, page E 14:
text: The child plummeted halfway down the 20-metre water well while flying a kite on farmland in Linying County.
ref: 2017 February 8, “Girl rescued after eight hours stuck in well”, in Sky News, archived from the original on 08 Feb 2017:
glosses: A county of Luohe, Henan, China.
mirmimic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mirmimics
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any material that mimics the action of microRNA
mirmimics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mirmimic
Jian'an
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒ(i)ænˌɑn/
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 建安 (Jiàn'ān).
Senses: examples: text: Commencing in July 2012, the present study was conducted near Zhangpan Town, Jian'an District, Xuchang City, Henan Province (33°59'N, 113°58'E) in the 2017–2018 growing season.
ref: 2020, Lifang Wang, Jutao Sun, Juan Kang, Zhiyong Zhang, Zhouping Shangguan, Chenyang Wang, “Influence of nitrogen addition on the changes in nitrogen and carbon fractions in soil profiles of wheat fields”, in Land Degradation & Development, published 2021, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2541:
text: In 2018 and 2019 Zhang visited the Henan Province village of Huozhuang in Jian’an District, Xuchang City.
ref: 2023 May 8, Faith Sutter, “Changing face of Shehuo festival”, in Harvard Gazette, archived from the original on 08 May 2023, Arts:
glosses: A district of Xuchang, Henan, China.
resocializer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: resocializers
Senses: glosses: One who resocializes.
resocializers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of resocializer
Weidu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: wāʹdo͞oʹ
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 魏都.
Senses: examples: text: The sentence was upheld on Aug. 2 by the Weidu People's District Court in Xuchang. Monday's hearing was the second hearing at a higher level of the same appeal case.
ref: 2010 September 20, Qiao Long, Luisetta Mudie, “Christians Appeal Labor-Camp Term”, in Luisetta Mudie, transl., Radio Free Asia, archived from the original on 09 Dec 2010, China:
text: Wu Guoyan from Qilidian Village, Weidu District, and Xuchang City, Hunan^([sic – meaning Henan]) Province is known as the "Western Overlord". He had frequent interactions with gang leaders after released from the labor camp.
ref: 2017, Ding Guomin, “Necessity and Urgency of Solving "Three Agriculture-related Problems"”, in Gao Jianxun, Liu Yun, transl., Solving the Problem of "Agriculture, Farmer, and Rural Area" by Rule of Law, Hamilton Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 107:
text: Footage of the fire in Xuchang’s Weidu district shows pedestrians staring up at the woman standing in the window of her burning home as plumes of smoke spew into the air.
ref: 2018 August 3, Tom Herbert, “Mother died moments after throwing children to safety during house fire”, in Metro, archived from the original on 03 Aug 2018:
text: It can be seen from the calculation results that in the research area of Xuchang City, more than 1/3 of the residents cannot use the function of urban park green space by walking within 30 minutes. It can be seen that the walking accessibility of park green space in Weidu District of Xuchang City is generally poor.
ref: 2020, Cui Yage et al., “Analysis of Walking Accessibility of Park Green Space in Weidu District of Xuchang City Based on GIS”, in E3S Web of Conferences, volume 165, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 May 2020, page 3, columns 1, 2:
glosses: A district of Xuchang, Henan, China.
Bielby
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bielbys
form: Beilby
Etymology: From the Old Norse personal name Beli + býr (“farmstead; settlement”).
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE788435).
glosses: A habitational surname from Old Norse.