cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
unfaving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unfave
Asianists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Asianist
Asian utility vehicles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Asian utility vehicle
streps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of strep
bewiles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bewile
bewiling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bewile
Kandisaur
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small town in the Tehri district of Uttarakhand, India.
korophiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of korophile
WWW page
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: WWW pages
Senses: glosses: A web page.
hexadecagons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hexadecagon
goes down with
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of go down with
going down with
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of go down with
went down with
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of go down with
gone down with
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of go down with
decoratress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: decoratresses
Etymology: From decorator + -ess.
Senses: examples: text: Here were to be seen, festoons variously diversified, according to the taste and fantasy of the decoratress; while in other quarters, arbours of curious shapes and sizes graced the hall.
ref: 1828, Marly; Or, A Planter's Life in Jamaica, Richard Griffin and Company, page 110:
text: In these days, when the independence of women is not a mere sentiment, but is becoming a hard fact, based on stern necessity, it is useful to learn what new paths of labour are being opened to them, and to observe with what success each new experiment is attended. One of the most recent is that of “house decoratresses,” and from the great scope afforded for the display of taste, and the want of it in ordinary interiors, the public may look forward to a happy era of comfortable, inexpensive, and tasteful domestic arrangements, such as the heart and hand of unaided man could not be expected to devise or execute. […] The decoratresses may likewise be consulted on matters of upholstery and general furnishing, and keep samples of materials for drapery and other coverings.
ref: 1875, The Spiritualist Newspaper, a Record of the Progress of the Science and Ethics of Spiritualism, volume 6, number 8, Women’s Occupations, column 2:
text: […], all round the table, conversation was getting into such animated swing! Claudia Crane discussing “Les Silences du Colonel Bramble” with the decoratress, Jim giving hints on her own subject to the beauty-culturist!
ref: 1920, The Green Book Magazine, volume 24, page 71:
text: Peggy Dey, the interior decoratress, probably knows more about successful modern furniture design than any other woman in the United States.
ref: 1946, Newsweek, page 73:
text: Though the decorator turned out to be a decoratress, I was nonetheless delighted.
ref: 2011, Janice Robinson-Delaney, The Deleted Destiny, Xlibris, →ISBN, page 25:
glosses: A female decorator.
Synonyms: decoratrix
rtPA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From r (“recombinant”) + tPA (“tissue plasminogen activator”).
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
pharmacology
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of recombinant tissue plasminogen activator.
walking pace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: walking paces
Senses: examples: text: An intermodal train from the Midlands creeps into the GB Railfreight terminal in Southampton's Western Docks, at rather less than walking pace.
ref: 2020 June 3, Paul Clifton, “Southampton feels the full force of freight uncertainty”, in Rail, page 28:
glosses: The speed at which a person or animal usually walks.
Related terms: footpace
snail's pace
decoratrix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin decoratrix, equivalent to decorate + -trix.
Senses: examples: text: Even the experienced housekeeper, who had been tirewoman to a duchess in her young days, and who shared the office of decoratrix with Jennings and the French maid, Mademoiselle Coralie, newly hired to supplement Jennings in her duties, and be hated accordingly by that waiting damsel—even the housekeeper declared that it would be painting the lily to alter so much as a ruffle of lace, or an inch of satin ribbon.
ref: 1864, Chamber's Journal, page 456:
text: As female house painters are now being employed at Copenhagen, it is appropriate that the “Moniteur de la Peinture” should depict the decorator—or decoratrix—of the future in the accompanying clever little sketch.
ref: 1914, The Oil & Colour Trades Journal, volume 45, page 69:
text: […], has become the victim of misguided proprietors—the good old word “landlord” it would be inappropriate to use in this connection—who have turned it over for rehabilitation to a “smart” decorator or decoratrix.
ref: 1921, Arts and Decoration, page 254:
text: Nor is this all; at right angles against the wall, the ingenious decoratrix places a silken panel from which project cylindrical pegs softly padded, scented if the owner wishes, and covered with dainty fabric.
ref: 1921, Harper's Bazaar, volume 56, page 150:
text: Certified classics are the only objects that gain admittance to these intense and high-strung rooms that are usually the creations of a carefully stylized decoratrix clad in skyscraper heels and a little black dress (with dark glasses to match on days when she is especially tired, which is to say every day).
ref: 1998, Patrick Mauriès, Your World—and Welcome to it: A Rogue's Gallery of Interior Design, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 59:
text: One of the firm’s clients was Mrs. Ronald Tree (née Nancy Langhorne, and soon to be Nancy Lancaster), a wealthy American grande dame and dilettante decoratrix, who became frustrated with the length of time Colefax & Fowler spent on her project.
ref: 2005, Keith Irvine, Chippy Irvine, Keith Irvine: A Life in Decoration, →ISBN, page 15:
text: The five-thousand-dollar stall renovations completed in just three days last summer were overseen by Horse Beautiful’s own Martá Ezdurta, the irreverent decoratrix and sly CEO of Charming Barns Forever.
ref: 2008, Maxianne Berger, Chemins de désir, voies de plaisir, volume 2, →ISBN, page 65:
glosses: A female decorator.
Synonyms: decoratress
MuSK
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mʌsk/
rhymes: -ʌsk
homophone: musk
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of muscle-specific kinase.
wikipedia: MuSK
Derived terms: MuSK-MG
MuSK-MG
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From MuSK (“muscle-specific kinaze”) + MG (“myasthenia gravis”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Myasthenia gravis caused by producing antibodies which attack the MuSK proteins of the neuromuscular junction.
enneacontahexagon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enneacontahexagons
Senses: examples: text: Eventually, he worked his way up to a ninety-six-sided figure, an enneacontahexagon.
ref: 2010, They Called Me Mad:
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A polygon with ninety six sides and ninety six angles.
Synonyms: 96-gon
TRALI
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: TRALIs
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of transfusion-related acute lung injury.
Related terms: TACO
maiden speech
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maiden speeches
Senses: examples: text: Her maiden speech in the House of Commons on June 3 2010 outlined that her immediate priorities would be to receive assurances from the newly installed coalition government on the future of several major capital investment programmes - [...].
ref: 2020 June 3, Lilian Greenwood talks to Paul Stephen, “Rail's 'underlying challenges' remain”, in Rail, page 31:
topics: government
politics
glosses: The first speech made by a new member in the chamber of an assembly, in Britain in the House of Commons and House of Lords.
maiden speeches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maiden speech
gill arch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gill arches
Senses: glosses: branchial arch
pref
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prefs
Senses: glosses: Clipping of preference.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
related: word: pref.
glosses: Abbreviation of prefix.
absolute immunity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The District Court denied the motion to dismiss on the ground that the conduct asserted amounted to “administrative,” not “prosecutorial,” conduct; hence it fell outside the scope of the prosecutor’s absolute immunity to §1983 claims.
ref: 2009, Van de Kamp et al. v. Goldstein (555 U.S. 335)
text: The Secretary's principal defenses in this case implicate claims of absolute immunity from suit.
ref: 2013, Goldstein v. Galvin (1st Cir. 2013 No. 12-2184)
topics: law
glosses: A doctrine providing immunity from suit by private parties for certain government officials and witnesses in judicial proceedings, even if the act or testimony was illegal, false, or made in bad faith.
man on the moon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of man in the moon.
know someone from the man in the moon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: knows someone from the man in the moon
form: knowing someone from the man in the moon
form: knew someone from the man in the moon
form: known someone from the man in the moon
form: know someone from the man on the moon
Senses: glosses: Synonym of know someone from Adam.
synonyms: word: know someone from Adam
know someone from the man on the moon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: knows someone from the man on the moon
form: knowing someone from the man on the moon
form: knew someone from the man on the moon
form: known someone from the man on the moon
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of know someone from the man in the moon.
Chisago
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From a phrase in a Native American language, Ki Chi Saga, meaning "fair and lovely waters."
Senses: glosses: Chisago City, Minnesota.
glosses: Chisago County, Minnesota.
glosses: Chisago Lake.
glosses: The Chisago Lakes area in Minnesota.
Chisago City
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Chisago Lake, which itself derives from a phrase in a Native American language, Ki Chi Saga, meaning "fair and lovely waters."
Senses: glosses: A city in Chisago County, Minnesota.
wikipedia: Chisago Lake
Synonyms: Chisago
COF
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: COFs
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Initialism of circle of fifths.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Initialism of circle of fourths.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Initialism of coefficient of friction.
COF
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Cradle of Filth.
examples: text: Tuesday’s news comes just one month after Discover (DFS) and Capital One (COF) announced a merger that — if approved by financial regulators and shareholders — would create the nation’s largest credit card company.
ref: 2024 March 26, Elisabeth Buchwald, “Visa and Mastercard agree to $30 billion settlement that will lower merchant fees”, in CNN Business:
topics: business
finance
stock-ticker-symbol
glosses: Initialism of Capital One Financial.
COF
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: […]PSE (porn star experience) means you up the ante a bit in the bedroom with a bit of COF, Spanish, Tromboning, CIM, maybe even CIMWS (never my thing)—and for the really adventurous, Greek[…]
ref: 2017, Samantha X, Back on Top: Confessions of a High-Class Escort, Hachette, →ISBN:
topics: lifestyle
prostitution
sexuality
glosses: Initialism of cum on face.
COFs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of COF
pedo van
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pedo vans
Etymology: From the idea that such a van might be suited to abducting somebody.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of serial killer van.
synonyms: word: serial killer van
pedo vans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pedo van
dick moves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dick move
icosikaidigon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: icosikaidigons
Senses: examples: text: The exterior wall is a 22-sided polygon (an icosikaidigon) and contains three large double-hung windows per bay.
ref: 2005, Baltimore Civil Engineering History, page 209:
text: A 22—sided shape once came up in relation to Activity 10.17, and various internet sources suggested we could call it an icosikaidigon!
ref: 2013, Essential Primary Mathematics, page 269:
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A polygon with twenty two sides and twenty two angles.
Synonyms: 22-gon
icosidigon
icosidigon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: icosidigons
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A polygon with twenty two sides and twenty two angles.
wikipedia: icosidigon
Synonyms: 22-gon
icosikaidigon
back bench
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: back benches
Senses: examples: text: "I'm really happy with my role on the back benches and I've already had a chat with Jim [Jim McMahon, Shadow Transport Secretary], who I'm looking forward to seeing take that role forward.
ref: 2020 June 3, Lilian Greenwood talks to Paul Stephen, “Rail's 'underlying challenges' remain”, in Rail, page 35:
glosses: Alternative form of backbench (noun)
KenKen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɛn.kɛn/
rhymes: -ɛn
Forms: form: KenKens
Etymology: From Japanese 賢賢 (KenKen), reduplication of 賢 (ken).
Senses: examples: text: KenKen is the brilliant successor to Su Doku that's taken Japan by storm selling over one million copies in less than a year.
ref: 2009, Tetsuya Miyamoto, KenKen: The New Brain-training Puzzle Phenomenon:
text: Cora went through the whole explanation about solving KenKen.
ref: 2011, Parnell Hall, The KenKen Killings: A Puzzle Lady Mystery, page 85:
text: The difficulty in solving a KenKen puzzle arises from there being too many ways to fill in each cage.
ref: 2013, Al Cuoco, Joseph Rotman, Learning Modern Algebra, page 56:
text: Let's try some 4×4 KenKens using all four math operations!
ref: 2018, Robert Fuhrer, The Kenken Method - Puzzles For Beginners, page 15:
glosses: A Japanese math game that involves adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing numbers in boxes.
galley kitchen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: galley kitchens
Senses: glosses: A kitchen built around a long, narrow central passage.
galley kitchens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of galley kitchen
goes nuclear
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of go nuclear
Bosher
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Boshers
form: Boshers
Etymology: Metonymic occupational surname from Middle English bossher, bussher (“wood seller”), itself from Old French boschier, buschier (“wood seller”).
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as an occupation.
threadmill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: threadmills
form: thread mill
Etymology: * thread + mill
Senses: glosses: A factory or machine specialized in the manufacture of thread.
glosses: A machine for cutting threads as for fastening pipes, for receiving screws, tool bits, etc.
Synonyms: sense: machine for cutting threads
word: thread miller
Eurasian wryneck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Eurasian wrynecks
Senses: glosses: A small migratory bird in the woodpecker family, Jynx torquilla.
shopette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shopettes
Etymology: From shop + -ette. From being a small general store.
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Synonym of convenience store.
synonyms: word: convenience store
Coordinate terms: commissary
PX
BX
doubleplusgood
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Something can be described as “good,” but if it is better than good, it is described as “plusgood,” or, if it is even better than that, “doubleplusgood.” Likewise, the word “bad” does not exist, but rather “ungood” or “plusungood.”
ref: 2019 August 30, Rose Brennan, ““Nineteen Eighty-Four”: A Look into a “Doubleplusungood” Future”, in The Quadrangle:
text: So words like great, excellent and horrible are rendered redundant in Newspeak, replaced by “plusgood”, “doubleplusgood” and “doubleplusungood” respectively.
ref: 2020 August 8, Zui, “Controlled Languages — Newspeak”, in The Language Closet:
glosses: Alternative spelling of double-plus-good.
miscomforting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of miscomfort
miscomforted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of miscomfort
miscommand
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmɪskəˈmænd/
ipa: /ˌmɪskəˈmɑːnd/
ipa: /ˈmɪskəˌmænd/
ipa: /ˈmɪskəˌmɑːnd/
Forms: form: miscommands
form: miscommanding
form: miscommanded
form: miscommanded
Etymology: From mis- + command.
Senses: examples: text: If a Governour make a new Sacrament, I will not obey, because: his command is null, and the thing simply evil. If he miscommand a Circumstance of Time, or Place, or Gesture, I will consider the consequents.
ref: 1659, Richard Baxter, Five Disputations of Church-government and Worship, page 423:
text: If either the superiors miscommand, or the inferiors disobey, it is an affront to peace.
ref: 1808, Joseph Hall, The Works:
text: The truant skipped his drill, but had an eye no man could turn aside or miscommand for where the quarry of his spirit lay.
ref: 1904, Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art, page 609:
text: Also at this time we would question the engineers about the failsafe mode that the satellite must go into in case an operator miscommands, or a failure of a redundant system in an attitude control system
ref: 1980, Executive Summary of the Working Conference on Advanced Electrotechnology Applications to Nuclear Power Plants, page 32:
glosses: To command incompetently.
miscommand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmɪskəˈmænd/
ipa: /ˌmɪskəˈmɑːnd/
ipa: /ˈmɪskəˌmænd/
ipa: /ˈmɪskəˌmɑːnd/
Forms: form: miscommands
Etymology: From mis- + command.
Senses: examples: text: This applied to the privates in the ranks, and to officers in the highest grades. The attempt to smother up and to stifle investigation ordered to be made late the miscommand of its members who have brought disgrace upon its name, gives us a painful reply.
ref: 1873 December 27, “Ther National Guard”, in The United States Army and Navy Journal, volume 11, number 26, page 316:
text: While he finished that glass, he managed to pay devoted attention to both charmers, meanwhile spieling away with a masterly miscommand of English to the large group that now surrounded him.
ref: 1961, The Reader's Digest - Volume 78, page 204:
text: Thersites , a chronic complainer, scolds Agamemnon for miscommand, and is rebuked and beaten by Odysseus.
ref: 1998, Coles Notes, The Iliad, page 28:
glosses: Incompetence at commanding.
miscommands
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of miscommand
miscommands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of miscommand
miscommanding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of miscommand
miscommanded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of miscommand
unremanded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + remanded.
Senses: glosses: Not remanded.
auriculomedicine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From auriculo- + medicine.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of auriculotherapy.
synonyms: word: auriculotherapy
abstracteth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: abstract + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of abstract
blade-woman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blade-women
Senses: examples: text: So think, blade-woman, before you speak.
ref: 1997, Nigel D. Findley, Lost Kaer, page 115:
text: Sword-work must come first. They drew smartly enough and we set to. Circling around, they tried the usual tricks. These three proved superior blade-women to the first three.
ref: 2014, Alan Burt Akers, Turmoil on Kregen, page 106:
text: Reaper stepped back against the wall just in time to avoid getting caught in the mess, and as the blade-woman jerked her weapons free, Reaper put a boot into her head from behind, snapping her neck sideways with an audible crack.
ref: 2015, David VanDyke, Ryan King, Eden's Exodus:
text: A man pushed his way out of the pack and, as he sheathed his blade, walked toward the blade-woman slowly.
ref: 2018, R.L. Pool, Catlorian III: Kings:
synonyms: swordstress
swordswoman
hypernyms: swordfighter
swordsman
swordster
glosses: A woman who is skilled in sword fighting.
blade-women
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blade-woman
Scullyslash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Scully + slash (“slash fiction”).
Senses: examples: text: Okay...for Scullyslash, you have Walking the Line and The Road Not Taken by XFStew and DeeJay, r'spectively […]
ref: 1998 March 21, Coolcat350, “Re: Question re) Best of Fan Fic”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative (Usenet):
text: But there is quite a lot of Scullyslash. Maybe not archived on Gossamer, but there are at least two Scullyslash archives that I know of and one very active mailing list.
ref: 1999 June 12, Dasha K, “Re: A DARE... Hmm...”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative (Usenet):
text: Radclyffe began writing online with Scullyslash stories that paired Dana Scully from the X-files with an original character of her own creation.
ref: 2004, Elizabeth Florence Pearce, "Reading the Lesbian Romance: Re-imagining Love, Sex, Relationships, and Community", thesis submitted to the University of Iowa, page 151
qualifier: The X-Files fandom slang
glosses: Fan fiction featuring Dana Scully in a romantic and/or sexual relationship with another woman.
Hypernyms: sense: Scully fan fiction
word: Scullyfic
sense: female/female slash
word: femslash
Coordinate terms: Mulderslash
boyslash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From boy + slash (“slash fiction”).
Senses: examples: text: I prefer the Scullyslash, boyslash leaves me kind of cold.
ref: 1998 April 21, jenroses, “Re: X-Files Fan Questionnaire”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative (Usenet):
text: I have come across only one scholarly paper about treksmut on the web, about a Borg boyslash zine (rather esoteric no?) […]
ref: 2000 January 6, ms. julie levin russo, “Re: Writers on Writing”, in alt.startrek.creative.erotica.moderated (Usenet):
text: Yes, it's dark, angsty boyslash, and yes, I'm as surprised as you are since this is hardly my usual XF vibe, but hey, man, give slash a chance .
ref: 2001 March 26, Caz, “xfc: NEW: Zaghruda (1/1) by CazQ (NC-17, V, A, M/K)”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative (Usenet):
topics: lifestyle
glosses: Slash fiction that focuses on romantic and/or sexual relationships between male characters.
subnavels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subnavel
polites
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of polite
Fu-chien
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 福建 (Fújiàn) Wade–Giles romanization: Fu²-chien⁴.
Senses: examples: text: We know that Italians were trading in the Black Sea ports, and the Arabs in the ports of southern China- in Fu-chien and Kuang-tung. Zayton (Ch'üan-chou in Fu-chien?) is mentioned by Marco Polo as 'the greatest port in the world'.
ref: 1966, Luce Boulnois, translated by Dennis Chamberlin, The Silk Road, London: George Allen & Unwin, →OCLC, →OL, page 208:
text: When this line was about to be completed, toward the end of 1956, official newspapers reported that henceforth ‘rich iron ore, timber and figs’ produced in Fu-chien could be shipped out for the benefit of other parts of the country [29].
ref: 1974, D. J. Dwyer, editor, China Now: an Introductory Survey with Readings, Longman, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 224:
text: Administrative divisions: since in the past the authorities claimed to be the government of all China, the central administrative divisions include the provinces of Fu-chien (some 20 offshore islands of Fujian Province including Quemoy and Matsu) and Taiwan (the island of Taiwan and the Pescadores Islands);
ref: 1998, “Taiwan”, in The World Factbook, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 522:
text: While Chu Hsi’s fame in the Southern Sung academy movement rests on his revival of White Deer Grotto in Chiang-hsi, he was most active in founding academies in his adoptive home, Fu-chien. His ancestral home was Wu-yuan County (Hui, Chiang-tung), but he was born, educated, and spent much of his career both in and out of office in Fu-chien.
ref: 1999, Linda A. Walton, Academies and Society in Southern Sung China, Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 37:
text: "You do not care if I am a peasant girl born beneath a harnessed ox in the fields of Fu-chien?"
"I do not care if you were born in the Forbidden City, of the body of an angel on a couch of ivory." He put down the glasses. "You are aboard my ship without my permission, behaving dreadfully. If you are a divinity, then I will bid you welcome and make the best of my hospitality. If you are an insolent peasant girl from Fu-chien, then I will throw you into the sea and tell you to swim for that distant shore."
ref: 2010, Jay Lake, Pinion, Tor Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 290:
text: Kinmen County used to belong to Tungan County of Fuchien Province.
ref: [2016 April 15, “History”, in 福建金門地方檢察署 [Fuchien Kinmen District Prosecutors Office], archived from the original on 29 Jun 2022:
english: Fuchien Kinmen District Prosecutors Office
translation: Fuchien Kinmen District Prosecutors Office
glosses: Alternative form of Fujian.
wikipedia: Cambridge University Press
Encyclopædia Britannica
politing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of polite
polited
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of polite
Ch'üan-chou
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: chə-wänʹjōʹ
Etymology: From Mandarin 泉州 (Quánzhōu), Wade–Giles romanization: Chʻüan²-chou¹.
Senses: examples: text: The Loyang bridge lies twenty miles outside the east gate of Chʻüan-chou, just on the borders of the district.
ref: 1965, “The Bridge of Chʻüan-chou”, in Wolfram Eberhard, editor, Folktales of China, Revised edition, University of Chicago Press, page 103:
text: We know that Italians were trading in the Black Sea ports, and the Arabs in the ports of southern China- in Fu-chien and Kuang-tung. Zayton (Ch'üan-chou in Fu-chien?) is mentioned by Marco Polo as 'the greatest port in the world'.
ref: 1966, Luce Boulnois, translated by Dennis Chamberlin, The Silk Road, London, →OCLC, page 208:
text: In spite of the Manchu-imposed ban on overseas travel and trade, the Siamese tributary trade must have been profitable enough for a good many Chinese to handle it. Consequently, the early Chinese settlers in Siam were principally merchants from Chʻüan-chou prefecture in southern Fukien and Canton in Kwangtung, who were connected with the Siamese tributary trade.
ref: 1977, Sarasin Viraphol, Tribute and Profit: Sino-Siamese trade, 1652–1853, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 40:
text: In terms of sending Chinese immigrants and a Chinese administration to Taiwan and its adjacent P’eng-hu, it had to wait for several centuries. There are documentary evidences indicating that by 1171, P’eng-hu (Pescadores) had become a Chinese military outpost, and at least by 1225 it was administratively incorporated into the Chinese Empire—placed under the jurisdiction of Tsin-kiang County of Ch’üan-chou Prefecture, Fukien Province.
ref: 1979, Yu-ming Shaw, “Modern History of Taiwan: An Interpretative Account”, in Hungdah Chiu, editor, China and the Taiwan Issue, Praeger Publishers, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 8:
glosses: Alternative form of Quanzhou.
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collar tab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkɒlə tæb/
Forms: form: collar tabs
Etymology: From collar + tab.
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: insignia worn on the collar of a uniform signifying the wearer’s rank and/or branch
Synonyms: gorget patch
collar patch
Feng-nan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 豐南 /丰南 (Fēngnán), Wade–Giles romanization: Fêng¹-nan².
Senses: examples: text: The quake on July 28 (8.2 on the Richter Scale) probably was the worst of the century in China in terms of casualties and damage. The destruction of nearly all housing in the area--particularly at Tang-shan city (population 1 million) and Feng-nan County (population 400,000)--indicates that casualties were extremely high. Estimates of fatalities range from 100,000 to 800,000.
ref: 1976 September 29, “CHINA: Earthquake Impact”, in National Intelligence Daily Cable, published 2005, →OCLC, page 4:
text: Last year severe earthquakes occurred in the Tang-shan and Feng-nan areas.
ref: 1977 April 6, MEDICAL INSTRUMENT INDUSTRY INCREASES PRODUCTION (Translations on People's Republic of China No. 390), U.S. Joint Publications Research Service, →OCLC, page 24:
text: 1882
...
China's first railroad is built between T'ang-shan and Feng-nan. Used for carrying coal, it is 11 km/7 mi long. It is extended to 128 km/80 mi to Tianjin in 1888.
ref: 1999, Neville Williams, The Changing World 1776-1900 (The Hutchinson Chronology of World History), volume 3, Helicon Publishing Limited, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 396:
glosses: Alternative form of Fengnan.
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SCS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of South China Sea.
SCS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of supervised consumption site.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of Specialist Cadet School.
glosses: Initialism of Saethre-Chotzen syndrome.
Ya-an
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 雅安 (Yǎ'ān), Wade–Giles romanization: Ya³-an¹.
Senses: examples: text: Ya-an is the main market for a special kind of tea which is grown in this part of the country and exported in very large quantities to Tibet via Kangting and over the caravan routes through Batang to Degre.
ref: 1956, André Migot, translated by Peter Fleming, Tibetan Marches, London: Readers Union, →OCLC, page 57:
text: One of the most dramatic stages of the journey, which began at Kunming, in Yunnan Province, and ended at Koko Nor in Chinghai Province, was that which lay between Ya-an and K'angting.
The so-called road, part of which Migot had traveled over while perched precariously on an ancient truck carrying freight and a human cargo northward from Sichang, ended abruptly at Ya-an.
ref: 1973, Garry Hogg, “Andre Migot in Bandit Country”, in They Did It the Hard Way, Pantheon Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 123:
text: The 2,270-kilometer highway from Ya-an in western Szechwan to Lhasa serves as a second link.
ref: 1973, Chiao-min Hsieh, ATLAS OF CHINA, McGraw-Hill, Inc., →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 137:
glosses: Alternative form of Ya'an.
wikipedia: Encyclopædia Britannica
counterstereotyped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of counterstereotype
counterstereotyping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of counterstereotype
Rogaine
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: When I go back to New York, some of my friends seem to be layered with drugs, from the top down, like a pousse-café: Rogaine on top, then Prozac, then Xanax, then Viagra. . . .
ref: 1998 August 17, Adam Gopnik, “Man Goes To See a Doctor”, in The New Yorker:
text: What concerns me are celebrity magazines, television with 500 channels, some guy's name on my underwear. Rogaine, Viagra, Olestra.
ref: 1999, Chuck Palahniuk (novel), Jim Uhls (screenplay), Fight Club (motion picture), spoken by Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt):
text: I'd buy you Rogaine / When you start losing all your hair / Sew on patches / To all you tear
ref: 2007, Ingrid Michaelson, “The Way I Am”:
glosses: A brand of hair product containing minoxidil for the treatment of male-pattern hair loss.
Gasly
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The Ferraris pressed the self-destruct button, Lewis Hamilton lost his spot on the podium, and there were champagne moments for Pierre Gasly and Carlos Sainz Jr.
ref: 2019 November 17, Sarah Holt, “Verstappen wins Brazilian GP as Ferraris collide AND Gasly and Sainz claim first F1 podiums”, in CNN:
glosses: A surname.
machete beta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: machete betas
Etymology: From the image of the beta-reader freely suggesting edits as if hacking away at the fic with a machete.
Senses: examples: text: Marasmus, for asking to read it and then agreeing to do machete beta... […]
ref: 2000 July 7, play...@aol.com, “xfc: Gutless by Magdeleine (16/16)”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative (Usenet):
text: Thanks to Livia Balaban for skillfully wielded machete beta (and snorking); […]
ref: 2000 September 20, Alelou123, “NEW: Desire (NC-17) 1/6 by Alelou”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative (Usenet):
text: M. Sebasky, whose machete beta brought a lot of richness to this piece; […]
ref: 2001 June 25, Deslea R. Judd, “NEW Dream A Crystal Moon *R* 1/1 Deslea R. Judd”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative (Usenet):
qualifier: The X-Files fandom slang
glosses: A harsh and exacting beta-read.
Rayshard
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A male given name.
Bloemen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bloemens
Etymology: From Dutch Bloemen.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Dutch.
tuna junkie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tuna junkies
Senses: glosses: A cat that has developed a strong preference for tuna and may refuse to eat anything else.
tuna junkies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tuna junkie
panfandom
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pan- + fandom.
Senses: examples: text: […] scholars of fanfiction might instead question how this piece responds to the panfandom trend toward feminizing one male participant in a slash relationship (alluded to in Kustritz and Jenkins).
ref: 2008, Amelia Bitely, "'An Improbable Fiction': How Fans Rewrite Shakespeare", thesis submitted to Marietta College, page 70
text: Additionally, the multiple-fandom affordances of Livejournal have made "panfandom" FRPGs quite common-in these games, characters come from across multiple media sources and converge in a single world.
ref: 2013, Casey Fiesler, “Pretending without a License: Intellectual Property and Gender Implications in Online Games”, in Buffalo Intellectual Property Law Journal, volume 9, number 1, pages 16–17:
text: Fan-run conventions such as 'Kazcon' (2007-09) and 'WinchesterCon' (founded as a Supernatural fandom event in 2007, and expanded to a panfandom event under the name 'Wincon' in 2010) […]
ref: 2014, Mary Frances Casper, “Family Don't End With Blood: Building the Supernatural Family”, in Lynn Zubernis, Katherine Larsen, editors, Fan Phenomena: Supernatural, page 92:
glosses: Occurring throughout or encompassing all of fandom.
dwarfmaid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dwarfmaids
form: dwarf-maid
Etymology: From dwarf + maid.
Senses: examples: text: "What? She be the Goldenaxe? No—that would rive the rock indeed. No dwarfmaid wields coldmetal–"
ref: 1988, Elizabeth Moon, Divided Allegiance, unnumbered page:
text: Throngs of people moved across the stone ground, though the dwarfmaid could still see the paving stones in many places.
ref: 2002, Douglas Niles, World Fall, page 43:
text: Many people do not know about mermen, and I did not know about dwarfmaids.
ref: 2018, Joseph R. Lallo, The Adventures of Rustle and Eddy, unnumbered page:
topics: fantasy
synonyms: dwarfess
dwarfette
dwarrowdam
glosses: A female of the dwarf race.
maltitols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maltitol
elfmaid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: elfmaids
form: elf-maid
Etymology: From elf + maid.
Senses: examples: text: On the other hand, the kobolds, brownies, and other household sprites who are not merely benign, but helpful, if well treated; the elf-maids who marry mortals, the swan-maidens, and the like, bear the stamp of Teutonic fancy.
ref: 1883 June 16, The Academy, London, page 416, column 1:
text: If Atle had believed in trolds and elf-maids, he should surely have supposed that Lars must have seen something of the kind on his night walk in the forest.
ref: 1894, Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen, Gunnar: A Tale of Norse Life, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, page 171:
text: She became known as 'the Fair' because of her beauty; many said that she looked more like an elf-maid than a hobbit.
ref: 1955, J. R. R. Tolkien, The Return of the King, unnumbered page:
text: “Soth fell in love with a beautiful elfmaid, a disciple of the Kingpriest of Istar. […]
ref: 1985, Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman, Dragons of Spring Dawning, unnumbered page:
text: There were two others riding with Ruth Marlowe and the nameless paladin: an elfmaid and her human servant.
ref: 1997, Rosemary Edghill, The Empty Crown, page 663:
topics: arts
fantasy
folklore
history
human-sciences
literature
media
publishing
sciences
glosses: A female elf.
servingmaid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: servingmaids
Etymology: From serving + maid.
Senses: examples: text: It is not for the royal son of King Goldemar to make sport of peasant servingmaids;
ref: 1901, Alberta Bancroft, Royal Rogues, page 61:
text: It was what Lenin, a realistic thinker, had meant when he said that every servingmaid should be capable of running the state.
ref: 1936, Upton Sinclair, Co-op: A Novel of Living Together, page 374:
text: Therefore because of her nobility she pays no attention to outer appearance, and the servingmaid, in the lowest place, is more gorgeous than she.
ref: 1950, The I Ching; Or, Book of Changes, volume 2, page 319:
text: The Castle Housekeeper stood there casually watching three servingmaids polish the same banister over and over again, and she looked up as I stepped under the doorbeam and pretended to be surprised.
ref: 1981, Suzette Haden Elgin, The Ozark Trilogy; republished United States: University of Arkansas Press, 2000 March, →ISBN, page 164:
text: […] meanwhile one of his agents rented a stable, filled it with Arabian horses and offloaded from the Sava, and sold them all, very dear, to dukes, mercenaries and ruiners of servingmaids.
ref: 2014, William T. Vollmann, Last Stories and Other Stories, Penguin Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 82:
text: If you’re born a servingmaid, daughter to a servingmaid, who was daughter to a servingmaid in her turn, you know not to expect too much of life.
ref: 2015 May 22, Emma Donoghue, Emma Donoghue: Selected Plays, Oberon Books, →ISBN:
glosses: A female servant.
Synonyms: maidservant
servingwoman
womanservant
Coordinate terms: manservant
servingman
periuranion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: periurania
form: periuranions
Etymology: From peri- + Uranus.
Senses: glosses: Periapsis around Uranus.
Related terms: periapsis
servingmaids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of servingmaid
periurania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of periuranion
periuranions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of periuranion
periposeidion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: periposeidia
Etymology: From peri- + Poseidon.
Senses: glosses: Periapsis around Neptune.
Related terms: periapsis
bridesmaidens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bridesmaiden
net ball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: net balls
Senses: examples: text: The next events were ones in which selected members of squads participated while the other members watched and cheered. These were net ball, hockey, tennis, and swimming, and followed in the order given.
ref: 1928 February, “News Notes. A Successful College Play Day.”, in James Huff McCurdy, editor, American Physical Education Review, volume XXXIII, number 2 (number 234 overall), Springfield, Mass.: American Physical Education Association, →OCLC, page 124, column 2:
text: Over the years he had stitched Dr. Bailey's black bag, Paul's pram hood, the net balls at the village school, and saddles and bridles for Joan and Ruth when they were small, and kept in trim the footwear that passed and repassed his window as the various owners went about their business on Thrush Green.
ref: 1959, “Miss Read” [pseudonym; Dora Jessie Saint], “Sam Curdle is Tempted”, in Thrush Green, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Company […], published 1960, →OCLC, part 2 (Afternoon), page 122:
text: It may be that this situation arose because of differential investment or more competent coaching in girls' as opposed to boys' sports in that school, but it is even more likely that it arose because of the composition, coaching, commitment, and so on of all other net ball teams in their league on the one hand, and all other soccer teams in their league on the other.
ref: 2012, Roger Gomm, “Qualitative Causal Analysis and the Fallacies of Composition and Division: The Example of Ethnic Inequalities in Educational Achievement”, in Barry Cooper, Judith Glaesser, Roger Gomm, Martyn Hammersley, Challenging the Qualitative–Quantitative Divide: Explorations in Case-focused Causal Analysis, London; New York, N.Y.: Continuum International Publishing Group, →ISBN, part I (Problems with Quantitative and Qualitative Research), page 119:
text: In the MYSA program, organizers made an arrangement with local authorities to provide the young people with access to soccer balls, net balls, and playing fields.
ref: 2013, Roy McMurtry, “Sport as a Development Tool in the Commonwealth”, in Memoirs and Reflections, Toronto, Ont.; Buffalo, N.Y.: University of Toronto Press for the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History, →ISBN, part 4 (At the Court of St James and Home Again), page 438:
glosses: Dated form of netball.
net-ball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: net-balls
Senses: examples: text: Some excellent photographs are taken of [...] members of the athletic club, "net-ball," "foot-ball," etc., [...]
ref: 1913 January 15, “Personal and Official”, in C. W. Hastings, editor, The Gas Engineer’s Magazine and Gas Industries, volume XXIX, number 441, London: J. G. Hammond & Co., →OCLC, page 13, column 2:
text: In addition to the above prominent clubs, there are a number of cricket, tennis, net-ball, and football clubs in the Colony.
ref: 1946–1947, “[Windward Islands.] St. Lucia.”, in The West Indies Year Book: […], London: Thomas Skinner & Co., →OCLC, page 389, column 2:
glosses: Dated form of netball.
MERV
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: MERVs
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of minimum efficiency reporting value.
Coordinate terms: HEPA
N95
P95
PM2.5
R95
Tufnell Park
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after the Tufnell family.
Senses: glosses: A suburban area of London in borough of Islington, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ2985).
radiobiophysics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From radio- + biophysics.
Senses: glosses: The biophysics of radiation
Barrichello
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Barrichellos
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Tarapacá
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: head_nr: 2
glosses: A region of Chile.
head_nr: 2
glosses: A former province in Chile.
head_nr: 2
glosses: A former department of Chile.
radiotelephotography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From radio- + telephotography.
Senses: glosses: telephotography (transmission of images) via radio
kindergärten
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From German Kindergärten, plural of Kindergarten.
Senses: examples: text: He then lectured on the subject in several towns. In Dresden and Hamburg, where he already found kindergärten conducted by some of his former pupils, he opened classes for ladies, which were well attended. Many of these ladies availed themselves of the opportunity of practically applying the system in the kindergärten placed for this purpose at Fröbel’s disposal.
ref: 1864, The Museum, page 181:
text: It acts upon the conviction that the training of children too young for the schools forms an important part of the general education of the people, and recommends, in accordance with the best views of medical and educational authors, the kindergärten as an institution carrying out its own aims.
ref: 1880, Reports of the United States Commissioners to the Paris Universal Exposition, volume 2, page 297:
text: The total number of pupils six years old was 6,711, and the total enrollment in the kindergärten was 5,543, the average number belonging to the kindergärten being 3,147.
ref: 1886, Report of the Commissioner of Education Made to the Secretary of the Interior for the Year ... with Accompanying Papers, page CXLVII:
text: The school connected with the normal was made a model for other kindergärten, a school fee of 1 yen (99.7 cents) a month was charged, and the following schedule of study was adopted.
ref: 1894, United States Congressional serial set, number 2938, page 290:
glosses: plural of kindergarten
face covering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: face coverings
Senses: examples: text: And why has no one in the [rail] industry advocated for a universal requirement for face covering (even if it's just a scarf or old tea towel), [...].
ref: 2020 June 3, Christian Wolmar, “Unworkable policies cripple our beleaguered railway”, in Rail, page 51:
glosses: Anything used by a person to cover their face, the nose and mouth in particular, such as a face mask or scarf.
Related terms: head covering
face coverings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of face covering
MSSC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: MSSC
Senses: examples: text: Groups of species usually share some diagnostic MSSC, hypopygial form, body habitus, colouration and/or habitat preferences.
ref: 1994 December 23, Daniel J. Bickel, “The Australian Sciapodinae”, in Records of the Australian Museum, Supplement, →DOI, page 16:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Initialism of male secondary sexual character.
Malaise trapping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Particularly in poorly known groups like Australian acalyptrate flies in which most species are undescribed, Malaise trapping will help us determine what taxa are here now and to gather vouchers for future comparisons.
ref: 2020, Keith M Bayless, David K Yeates, “Australia Malaise trapping disaster update”, in Fly Times, volume 64:
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: Collecting insects with a Malaise trap.
micropolygon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: micropolygons
Etymology: From micro- + polygon.
Senses: topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A very small polygon.
micropolygons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of micropolygon
dunders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dunder
radiotelephonically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From radiotelephonic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: By means of radiotelephony.