cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
tortoise-shell bamboo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tortoise-shell bamboos
Etymology: From tortoiseshell + bamboo (from the appearance of the stems).
Senses: glosses: moso bamboo (Phyllostachys edulis)
tortoise-shell bamboos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tortoise-shell bamboo
Coronation Gulf
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named by Sir John Franklin in 1821, in honour of the coronation of King George IV.
Senses: glosses: A gulf that lies between Victoria Island and mainland Nunavut, Canada.
wikipedia: John Franklin
coronation of George IV
kabluna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kablunas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kabloona.
kablunas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kabluna
helatious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more helatious
form: most helatious
Senses: examples: text: Daryl Hannah says I'm a totally helatious babe, Sam! So mind your own damn business!
ref: 1995, Steve Purcell, The Collected Sam & Max: Surfin' the Highway:
glosses: Alternative spelling of hellacious.
Hsien-t'ao
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 仙桃 (Xiāntáo) Wade–Giles romanization: Hsien¹-tʻao².
Senses: examples: text: They traveled from Lao-ho-k’ou to Hankow and recorded the number of boats they saw within fifteen to thirty minutes after leaving each place except the last part of the journey from Hsien-t’ao-chen 仙桃鎮 to Hankow.
ref: [1974, Ts'ui-jung Liu, “TRADE ON THE HAN RIVER AND ITSIMPACT ON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT C. 1800-1911”, in Academia Sinica, →OCLC, archived from the original on 31 May 2021, page 20:
text: In a few days the boat reached a place named Mart Hsien-tʻao where many bandits' boats were anchored.
ref: 1979, Li Yü, Twelve Towers, 2nd edition, Chinese University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 121:
glosses: Alternative form of Xiantao.
wikipedia: Defense Mapping Agency
colour supplement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: colour supplements
Senses: glosses: A glossy colour magazine issued with a newspaper, typically covering arts, fashion, lifestyle, etc.
command module
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: command modules
Senses: glosses: A section of a manned spacecraft in which the astronauts live and operate the craft.
glosses: A section of a manned spacecraft in which the astronauts live and operate the craft.
Ellipsis of command and service module.
raw_tags: in relation to the Apollo program
corridors of power
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Popularized by C. P. Snow in Homecomings (1956) and Corridors of Power (1964).
Senses: examples: text: The official world, the corridors of power, the dilemmas of conscience and egotism—she disliked them all.
ref: 1956, C. P. Snow, chapter 22, in Homecomings (Strangers and Brothers):
text: When angry construction workers seeking unpaid wages stormed a site office in Yau Tong in July 2002, their violent clash with the police set alarm bells ringing in the corridors of power.
ref: 2011, Alvin Y. So, “The Development of Post-Modernist Social Movements”, in Jeffrey Broadbent, Vicky Brockman, editors, East Asian Social Movements: Power, Protest, and Change in a Dynamic Region (Social Sciences / Sociology), Springer, →DOI, →ISBN, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 370:
text: The “data revolution” is the idea of the moment, and it’s hard to find anyone who doesn’t think that more money, innovation and effort should be poured into counting and measuring, and that more open data can help to unlock the corridors of power.
ref: 2014 October 1, Claire Melamed, “The data revolution is coming and it will unlock the corridors of power”, in The Guardian:
text: He is a supposedly serious young man who was celebrated in the corridors of power not only as a financial savant but also—through his highly publicized philanthropy and conspicuous association with the “effective altruism” movement—as a moral genius.
ref: 2023 January 25, Thomas Chatterton Williams, “The People Who Don’t Read Books”, in The Atlantic:
glosses: The buildings and offices that powerful people, especially politicians, are visualised as inhabiting; (by extension) the highest tiers of government or other organisation, where important decisions are made.
wikipedia: C. P. Snow
Corridors of Power (novel)
Homecomings (novel)
kulhad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kulhads
Senses: glosses: A small clay teacup, typically served at railway stations
kulhads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kulhad
Upper Norwood
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburban area in the borough of Croydon, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ3270).
glosses: A hamlet in East Lavington parish, Chichester district, West Sussex, England (OS grid ref SU9317).
Lytvyn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Lytvyns
form: Litvin
form: Litvyn
form: Litwin
form: Litwyn
form: Lytvin
form: Lytwin
form: Lytwyn
Etymology: From Ukrainian литвин (lytvyn, “Litvin”).
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Ukrainian surname Литвин (Lytvyn).
unparged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + parged.
Senses: glosses: Not parged.
unfelonious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unfelonious
form: most unfelonious
Etymology: From un- + felonious.
Senses: examples: text: John is shut up in that pulpit to lecture his companions and his sister, about the wickedness of the unfelonious world.
ref: 1851, Charles Dickens, “Pet Prisoners”, in Household Words, volume 1, page 196:
glosses: Not felonious.
discoursally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From discoursal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In terms of discourse.
Zayonts
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Zaionc
form: Zaionts
form: Zaiontz
form: Zajac
form: Zając
form: Zajonc
form: Zajontz
form: Zayonc
form: Zayontz
Etymology: From Polish Zając, Zajonc, or via Russian Зайонц (Zajonc). All forms ultimately from Polish zając (“hare”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Polish.
Zaionts
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Zaionc
form: Zaiontz
form: Zajac
form: Zając
form: Zajonc
form: Zajontz
form: Zayonc
form: Zayonts
form: Zayontz
Etymology: From Polish Zając, Zajonc, or via Russian Зайонц (Zajonc). All forms ultimately from Polish zając (“hare”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Polish.
Zaionc
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Zaionts
form: Zaiontz
form: Zajac
form: Zając
form: Zajonc
form: Zajontz
form: Zayonc
form: Zayonts
form: Zayontz
Etymology: From Polish Zając, Zajonc, or via Russian Зайонц (Zajonc). All forms ultimately from Polish zając (“hare”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Polish.
Zayonc
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Zaionc
form: Zaionts
form: Zaiontz
form: Zajac
form: Zając
form: Zajonc
form: Zajontz
form: Zayonts
form: Zayontz
Etymology: From Polish Zając, Zajonc, or via Russian Зайонц (Zajonc). All forms ultimately from Polish zając (“hare”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Polish.
East Lavington
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Chichester district, West Sussex, England (OS grid ref SU9416).
Related terms: West Lavington
Zayontz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Zaionc
form: Zaionts
form: Zaiontz
form: Zajac
form: Zając
form: Zajonc
form: Zajontz
form: Zayonc
form: Zayonts
Etymology: From Polish Zając, Zajonc, or via Russian Зайонц (Zajonc). All forms ultimately from Polish zając (“hare”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Polish.
Zaiontz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Zaionc
form: Zaionts
form: Zajac
form: Zając
form: Zajonc
form: Zajontz
form: Zayonc
form: Zayonts
form: Zayontz
Etymology: From Polish Zając, Zajonc, or via Russian Зайонц (Zajonc). All forms ultimately from Polish zając (“hare”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Polish.
Zajontz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Zaionc
form: Zaionts
form: Zaiontz
form: Zajac
form: Zając
form: Zajonc
form: Zayonc
form: Zayonts
form: Zayontz
Etymology: From Polish Zając, Zajonc, or via Russian Зайонц (Zajonc). All forms ultimately from Polish zając (“hare”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Polish.
Litwyn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Litwyns
form: Litvin
form: Litvyn
form: Litwin
form: Lytvin
form: Lytvyn
form: Lytwin
form: Lytwyn
Etymology: From Ukrainian литвин (lytvyn, “Litvin”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Ukrainian.
Lytwin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Lytwins
form: Litvin
form: Litvyn
form: Litwin
form: Litwyn
form: Lytvin
form: Lytvyn
form: Lytwyn
Etymology: From Ukrainian литвин (lytvyn, “Litvin”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Ukrainian.
Lytvin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Lytvins
form: Litvin
form: Litvyn
form: Litwin
form: Litwyn
form: Lytvyn
form: Lytwin
form: Lytwyn
Etymology: From Ukrainian литвин (lytvyn, “Litvin”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Ukrainian.
Litvyn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Litvyns
form: Litvin
form: Litwin
form: Litwyn
form: Lytvin
form: Lytvyn
form: Lytwin
form: Lytwyn
Etymology: From Ukrainian литвин (lytvyn, “Litvin”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Ukrainian.
White Colne
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Braintree district, Essex, England (OS grid ref TL8729).
SXS
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of SxS.
SXS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SXSes
form: SXSs
form: SXS's
form: SXS
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of SxS.
UTV
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: UTVs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of utility task vehicle.
Synonyms: sense: utility task vehicle
english: side-by-side
translation: side-by-side
word: SxS
Coordinate terms: sense: utility task vehicle
word: ATV
sense: utility task vehicle
word: CUV
sense: utility task vehicle
word: SUV
sense: utility task vehicle
word: XUV
e-turbo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: e-turbos
Etymology: From e- + turbo.
Senses: topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: An electrified turbocharger; a turbo with electrically assisted ramp-up, using an accessory electric motor, to bring the turbine up to speed, reducing turbo lag. (When operating in electric mode, the turbo functions like a supercharger, driven by input power instead of exhaust gas.)
Synonyms: e-turbocharger
electric turbocharger
electric turbo
Earls Colne
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Braintree district, Essex, England (OS grid ref TL8529).
Waddinxveen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch Waddinxveen.
Senses: glosses: A town and municipality of South Holland, Netherlands.
SPI
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SPIs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of single-point interchange.
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Initialism of Serial Peripheral Interface.
saffron milk cap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saffron milk caps
Senses: examples: text: Saffron milk cap has brittle flesh which, when broken, exudes a saffron coloured milk which quickly turns to orange and emits an acid odour. The fungus is edible but not as delicious as its name might imply.
ref: 1976, The Gardener's Diary, Macmillan, →OCLC, page 271:
synonyms: word: red pine mushroom
word: pine mushroom
word: orange latex milky
hypernyms: milk-cap
glosses: Lactarius deliciosus, an edible mushroom native to Europe.
Coed-talon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Welsh coed + talwrn.
Senses: glosses: A village in Flintshire, Wales (OS grid ref SJ2658).
-apine
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: /ə.piːn/
Etymology: From clozapine.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Used to form names of psychoactive tricyclic compounds.
ILR
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Initialism of indefinite leave to remain.
Dyserth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Welsh.
Senses: glosses: A village and community in Denbighshire, Wales; historically in Flintshire (OS grid ref SJ0579).
self-guided
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more self-guided
form: most self-guided
Senses: glosses: (of a tour, etc.) done without a guide
examples: text: self-guided meditation
text: self-guided improvement
glosses: led by one's own instruction, practice, etc.
Aeaean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /iːˈ(j)iː.ən/
rhymes: -iːən
Etymology: From Aeaea + -an.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to the mythical island of Aeaea.
downlistings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of downlisting
uplist
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: uplists
form: uplisting
form: uplisted
form: uplisted
Etymology: From up- + list.
Senses: glosses: To move further up a list (especially in terms of less endangered animals that become more endangered).
uplists
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of uplist
unfluidity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The quality of being unfluid.
sinkholed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sinkhole
sinkholing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sinkhole
crank one out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cranks one out
form: cranking one out
form: cranked one out
form: cranked one out
Senses: glosses: To masturbate manually by stimulating one's penis.
Related terms: crank out
Tomorrow Island
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: In reference to the International Date Line.
Senses: coordinate_terms: Yesterday Island
glosses: The island of Big Diomede.
Yesterday Island
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: In reference to the International Date Line.
Senses: coordinate_terms: Tomorrow Island
glosses: The island of Little Diomede.
Maugeri
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /maʊˈd͡ʒɛ.ɾɪ/
Forms: form: Maugeris
form: Malgeri
form: Mauceri
Etymology: From the Sicilian Maugeri, a surname derived from maugeri (“herdsman”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Sicilian.
McVey
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: McVeys
form: McVay
form: McVeigh
Etymology: Variant of McBeth, from the aspirated form Mac Bheatha.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Scottish Gaelic.
count one's chickens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: counts one's chickens
form: counting one's chickens
form: counted one's chickens
form: counted one's chickens
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of count one's chickens before they hatch.
Kaiser blade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kaiser blades
form: kaiser blade
Senses: examples: text: He let the Kaiser blade slip down into his palm. It felt good there, the well worn handle intimately comfortable in his calloused hand. His blood tricked down the haft and flowed across the slightly curved, upturned blade.
ref: 1864, Brannon Hollingsworth, Prelude to Okolona, Four Fools Press, page 18
text: On the flat the planting was done in narrow lanes cut through the dense brush, weeds, and vines with "Kaiser" blades (large ditch-bank blades or brush hooks). On the other two sites the entire planting area was cleared with Kaiser blades after the trees were removed.
ref: 1937 (reprinted 1941), Southern Forest Experiment Station (New Orleans, La.), Occasional Paper - Southern Forest Experiment Station, page 3
text: ... a shirt tail in a wind; and the guards ape-like body toppled backward and lay anesthetized and unconscious on the floor. The Choctaw raised his unchained right heel and hacked it down across the guards chest, striking like a Kaiser blade, ...
ref: 2001, Jerry Lee Bustin, To Kill a Viper, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 258:
text: What had been a trusty sluff job was now as onerous as swinging a Kaiser blade or shoveling out ditches. As soon as he'd hauled the buckets back to the cage truck it was time to go again.
ref: 2013, Ron Rash, Nothing Gold Can Stay: Stories, Harper Collins, →ISBN:
qualifier: especially Mississippi
glosses: Synonym of sling blade.
synonyms: word: sling blade
kaiser blade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kaiser blades
Senses: examples: text: I picked up a kaiser blade that was a layin' there by the screen door, some folks calls it a sling blade, I call it a kaiser blade. It's just a long handle like a^([sic]) axe handle with a long blade on it that's shaped kind of like a banana. Sharp on one edge and dull on the other.
ref: 1996, Billy Bob Thornton, Sling Blade, Miramax Books:
text: A tool known in Mississippi and vicinity as a kaiser blade gained national attention in Billy Bob Thornton's 1996 movie Sling Blade. That movie was titled after the tool's better-known name.
ref: 2000, Allan A. Metcalf, How We Talk: American Regional English Today, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 33:
text: No one is expected to speak, so the grass falls audibly with the sound of a heavy drunken whisper. The man who does not have the jimmy blade is stuck with the kaiser blade. The kaiser is heavier, the handle more like an axe's than the ...
ref: 2003, StoryQuarterly:
text: six days a week, starting on the highest ground and working their way downward foot by foot, cutting with saws and axes and kaiser blades—long-handled machetes—and then dynamiting and burning out the stumps.
ref: 2003, Johnny Cash, Cash: The Autobiography, Harper Collins, →ISBN, page 16:
text: At the county work farm, the prisoners were put in striped uniforms and made to cut roadside grass with kaiser blades. If you wanted to go to the bathroom, you told the sarge, “Taking a leak here, Shot.” One day out in the fields, the Shot ...
ref: 2004, Paul Hendrickson, Sons of Mississippi: A Story of Race and Its Legacy, Vintage:
text: "Something thin and strong." Hollis glared at him. "Hurry up," Connolly said. Hollis disappeared around the corner. In a few minutes, he returned with a kaiser blade, a curved blade about a foot long with a solid wooden handle […]
ref: 2004, Joseph H. Hilley, Sober Justice, Riveroak Pub, →ISBN:
text: ... with a kaiser blade. Fifty cents a day.
ref: 2010, William Ferris, Give My Poor Heart Ease, Enhanced Ebook: Voices of the Mississippi Blues, Univ of North Carolina Press, →ISBN, page 232:
text: Looking closer, he realized it was a kaiser blade that he assumed was left by a groundskeeper, possibly even the Slovak himself, used to thin out some of the overgrowth. The half-moon-like cutting edge was razor sharp on one side, dull on [the other].
ref: 2020, Calvin Cherry, STOKER: Evolution of a Vampire, Page Publishing Inc, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of Kaiser blade (“sling blade”).
sling blade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sling blades
Senses: synonyms: brush hook
Kaiser blade
glosses: A heavy, hooked blade affixed to a long handle (like an axe), with one or both edges sharpened.
Related terms: billhook
slingblade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slingblades
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sling blade.
kaiser blades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kaiser blade
slingblades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slingblade
Kaiser blades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Kaiser blade
sling blades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sling blade
storm oil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: While bound east, latitude 41 degrees, longitude 56 degrees 54 minutes, during a northerly gale with very high rolling seas, used storm oil through forward waste pipe with good effect.
ref: 1914, Leslie's, page 322:
text: With the appearance of more modern ships, storm oil lost much of its importance, but even today power-driven U. S. merchant ships of more than 200 gross tons are required to carry 30 gallons of it and those of 5000 tons or more ...
ref: 1956, All Hands, page 15:
text: The diameter at the mouth is 36 inches; the length is approximately 54 inches, with a 1-gallon storm oil container. This would be a very awkward item to stow on board, to say nothing about storing additional storm oil.
ref: 2000, Earl R. Hinz, Heavy Weather Tactics Using Sea Anchors & Drogues, Paradise Cay Publications, →ISBN, page 151:
glosses: Oil carried by a ship and dispersed into an area of water to calm it (as it absorbs some of the energy of waves, and covers a large area in a slick film upon which wind can get less traction to produce waves).
antiquify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: antiquifies
form: antiquifying
form: antiquified
form: antiquified
Etymology: From antique + -ify.
Senses: examples: text: Within these few years Sir Charles has antiquified the Hall, if such a word may be admitted, so that its pointed gable ends, and Elizabethan appearance, render it somewhat an object of curiosity.
ref: 1849, Adam Stark, The Visitor’s Pocket Guide to Gainsburgh and Its Neighbourhood, […], Gainsburgh: J. F. W. Bowden, page 116:
text: But the engraver, it would seem, thought it a pity that the other portion of such a fine stone should be left unemployed; so he made that into another antique fragment, with another subject; that is to say, the head, neck, and fore-quarter of a lion (118) passant, very well engraved; not a modern heraldic lion passant, but a real grumpy-looking lion, from an arena, perhaps, of the Coliseum—it would pass for the fore-part of the group of Cybele riding on a Lion, which is a common antique subject (119); this fragment he antiquified more than the other; for whereas the one with the sacrifice is smooth on the back, the other with the lion has been much scratched.
ref: 1875, Archibald Billing, The Science of Gems, Jewels, Coins, and Medals, Ancient and Modern, new edition, London: Daldy, Isbister, & Co., […]; J. Mitchell, […], “Forgeries of Antiques”, page 81:
text: I spoke with him afterwards and he admitted to me—told me the other half of the truth—that the European who sold him the antiquified coins taught him also the trick.
ref: 1921, Ameen Rihani, The Path of Vision: Pocket Essays of East and West, New York: James T. White & Co., page 195:
glosses: To give the appearance of being an antique.
Related terms: antiquification
antiquification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From antique + -ification.
Senses: examples: text: Many of these later versions are, oddly, put into duple meter; for an edition of one such, based on Granada 3, see José López Calo, La música en la catedral de Granada en el siglo XVI (Granada, 1963), vol. II, pp. 151–3, commentary pp. xxi–xxii. Burgos s.s. puts the piece in 𝄵 meter, and Plasencia 4 in Ͼ, which makes no sense and may be a selfconscious antiquification.
ref: 2004, Kenneth Kreitner, “5. Cornago and Urrede”, in The Church Music of Fifteenth-Century Spain, The Boydell Press, →ISBN, page 78:
text: Describing a process of antiquification-through-layering, Cooper lays a theoretical groundwork for localities to take on historical interest regardless of chronological age, and reciprocally, suggests one can, by focusing on local layers, elicit the sense of antiquity which seemed so elusive in the United States as a whole.
ref: 2007, Jeffrey Walker, Reading Cooper, Teaching Cooper, AMS Press, →ISBN, page 336:
text: Regis discusses what she terms the “antiquification” of black cultural practices in photographic representations of the second line. She suggests that while such images may on the one hand challenge stereotypical images of black people as criminal, corrupt, or otherwise pathological, consigning these groups to the past not only makes invisible the dynamism of continually evolving second line practices, but may “provide [to those outside that community] illusionary access to a world they would never otherwise be able to enter. … It creates a virtual communion across boundaries of race, class, and culture.”
ref: 2013, Lewis Watts, Eric Porter, “Section 2: Reflections on Jazz Fest 2006”, in New Orleans Suite: Music and Culture in Transition, University of California Press, →ISBN, page 29:
text: The “antiquification” and “southernization” of Poland at work in Jutrzenka resonated with other contemporaneous attempts to move Poland away from the Slavonic sphere, to de- and reterritorialize it, as it were.
ref: 2018, Beáta Hock, Anu Allas, editors, Globalizing East European Art Histories: Past and Present, Routledge, →ISBN, “Deterritorialization and Reterritorialization: Diaphanous Borders, Retro-modernism, and a Sort of Amorphousness:
glosses: The process of antiquifying.
Related terms: antiquify
antiquize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: antiquizes
form: antiquizing
form: antiquized
form: antiquized
form: antiquise
form: antiquitise
form: antiquitize
Etymology: From antique + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: But in his comedy (particularly that inimitable creation of Falstaffe), there is a constant flow of variety and invention;—and,—what is singular,—the language is more easy, and less tinged with the marks of antiquity, than that of his tragic dialogue. This is an exception from the common rule; for the indirect evanescent allusions, and idiomatic phraseology of comic writing are usually found to antiquize, (if I may be allowed a new coinage), before the more general ideas, and forms of expression, which occur in solemn composition.
ref: 1835, “XCIII. Conversation on Dramatic Poetry”, in The Cabinet; a Series of Essays, Moral and Literary, volume II, Edinburgh: Printed for Bell & Bradfute; […], page 351:
text: […]I found myself frowning at the painting. Two figures were seated on the lawn, quite like statues. Modern dress, so there was no intent to antiquize.
ref: 1986, Jonathan Gash, The Tartan Ringers, C&R Crime, published 2014, →ISBN:
text: In Mantova’s Chiesa Sant’Andrea the distinction between the decorative and the figurative is more obvious. There is no overlap, no intermingling between the large paintings, the cupola figurative extravaganza and the ornamental decorations neatly surrounding or supporting them. Whilst the grottesca candelaber pilaster “antiquize”, the figurative scenes narrate Christian stories.
ref: 2008, Metamorphosed Margins: The Case for a Visual Rhetoric of the Renaissance Grottesche Under the Influence of Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Georg Olms Verlag, translation of original by Viktor Kommerell, →ISBN, page 32:
glosses: To give the appearance of being an antique.
Related terms: antiquization
antiquitize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: antiquitizes
form: antiquitizing
form: antiquitized
form: antiquitized
form: antiquitise
Etymology: From antiquity + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: I have an hypothesis of my own concerning those poems which I think I could make out to be at least highly probable: viz. that they were originally all written in modern English and antiquitized after. Had I his modernisms now published, I would take one of them and antiquitize it in two manners, à la Chaucer, and à la Chatterton, and I am persuaded that these two specimens would prove the matter clearer than all the critical arguments that either have or will be produced; and yet I think that T. Warton has done enough in that way to convince even the president of the Antiq. society (if such president were ever capable of conviction) that he was of all forgerers the most palpable; all this however no more detracts from his poetical abilities than Rousseau’s insanity does from his oratorical.
ref: 1778 August 14, William Mason, “To the Hon. Horace Walpole”, in John Mitford, editor, The Correspondence of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford, and the Rev. William Mason, volume II, London: Richard Bentley, published 1851, page 10:
text: These projects were built mainly under principles of neo-classicism, but, like the use of the Gothic, they symbolized an attempt by the Ascendancy, to antiquitize the homescape, to make it more venerable than it was, to root it in a history it did not have.
ref: 2005, Jarlath Killeen, Gothic Ireland: Horror and the Irish Anglican Imagination in the Long Eighteenth Century, Four Courts Press, →ISBN, page 193:
text: In late midrashic texts from the medieval period the authors of these texts revert to the Biblical term ye’or in order to antiquitize their texts.
ref: 2009, Rivka Ulmer, “Chapter Two: The Nile”, in Egyptian Cultural Icons in Midrash, Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, “2. Terms for the Nile”, page 46:
text: Since the last elections of 2008 and 2009, VMRO has gained the absolute power in the country and the city of Skopje. Its political agenda is dominated by a nationalist discourse, which is excluding and marginalizing the minorities in the country (25% Albanians, 4% Turks, 3% Roma, 2% Serbians, 1% Bosnians, 1% Aromunians) and includes the attempt to “antiquitize” the Macedonian nation, the glorification of Macedonia and the Macedonians, the glorification of VMRO and the neglecting of the Ottoman and Yugoslavian heritage.
ref: 2009, Julia Lechler, “Reading Skopje 2009: A City between Amnesia and Phantasia”, in Stephanie Herold, Benjamin Langer, Julia Lechler, editors, Reading the City: Urban Space and Memory in Skopje, →ISBN, pages 43–44:
glosses: Alternative form of antiquize.
antiquitise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: antiquitises
form: antiquitising
form: antiquitised
form: antiquitised
Senses: examples: text: The spirit of the Kampen historians is far less sublime and instead of antiquitising philosophical and historical remarks we rather encounter practical and instrumental guidance for the city’s administration.
ref: 2001, Rudolf Suntrup, Jan R. Veenstra, editors, Tradition and Innovation in an Era of Change, Peter Lang, →ISBN, page 141:
text: For an individual whose stylistic bias did not preclude—in any way at all—the enjoyment of baroque church art, for one to whom the soft voice of a soul could sound even through a work such as this baldachin, to that individual even the “antiquitised” hymnody of the golden age of the baroque would still have something to say.
ref: 2011, “16. Reform and Standardization”, in Fritz West, transl., On the Historical Development of the Liturgy, Liturgical Press, translation of original by Anton Baumstark, →ISBN, page 237:
text: Usually, however, they have been content to give several examples and to state whether Greek or Roman art is a source of “antiquitising” iconography (or style).
ref: 2012, Ladislav Stančo, “2. An iconographic analysis of the Hellenistic subjects in the art of Gandhara, Bactria and the adjoining areas of the Kushan Empire”, in Greek Gods in the East: Hellenistic Iconographic Schemes in Central Asia, →ISBN, “1. General remarks”, page 19:
glosses: Alternative spelling of antiquitize.
antiquization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antiquizations
form: antiquisation
form: antiquitisation
form: antiquitization
Etymology: From antique + -ization.
Senses: examples: text: It is a frequent device in German prose to indicate a stylization or antiquization on the part of a speaker.
ref: 1967, Edwin Arnley Hopkins, The Accusative Object as a Verbal Complement in German, pages 74–75:
text: Streets would not only be finely paved and perfectly clean, but beautifully adorned with two identical rows of arcades or houses of the same height in an antiquization of a medieval fabric.
ref: 2001, Barbara Czarniawska-Joerges, Rolf Solli, editors, Organizing Metropolitan Space and Discourse, →ISBN, page 40:
text: Especially in the description of the Orinoco river journey through the Venezuelan rain forest Humboldt makes use of diverse classical images. The antiquization as cognitive and aesthetic strategy is thus intensified in certain places of the travel narrative, in a specific spatial-mythological and cultural-philosophical context.[…]The Relation historique du Voyage aux Régions équinoxiales du Nouveau Continent speaks of the metamorphoses of a European discourse in the struggle to grasp the geographically and culturally foreign. It may be read as a narrative about the failure of the antiquization of America and about the deconstruction of classicism.
ref: 2012, Oliver Lubrich, “Like Bronze Statues of Antiquity 2000”, in Rex Clark, Oliver Lubrich, editors, Cosmos and Colonialism: Alexander von Humboldt in Cultural Criticism, Berghahn Books, →ISBN, pages 285, 291:
text: Classical art and, correspondingly, the “antiquizations” of medieval art and classicist styles of the New Time were treated with piety.
ref: 2017, Armen Kazaryan, “Part X. Armenia and Georgia”, “44. The “Classical” Trend of the Armenian Architectural School of Ani: The Greco-Roman Model and the Conversion of Medieval Art”, in Zara Martirosova Torlone, Dana LaCourse Munteanu, Dorota Dutsch, editors, A Handbook to Classical Reception in Eastern and Central Europe, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 530:
glosses: The act or result of antiquizing
Related terms: antiquize
antiquisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The antiquisation will possess the inestimable virtue of making the play clear to the Athenians.
ref: 1926 January, The Drama Magazine, page 131, column 2:
text: With its aggressive policy of cultural and historical ‘antiquisation’ of Macedonia, by renaming Skopje’s Airport ‘Alexander the Great’ and building an over 36-metre high monument of Alexander the Great in the centre of Skopje, by initiating proceedings against Greece in November 2008 in the International Court of Justice in The Hague, and through various other initiatives that may be deemed unnecessary nationalistic provocations, it seems that the government actually used the dispute mainly for domestic purposes: to boost its ratings among the ‘patriotic’ voters and to use it as an excuse for every and any political failure.
ref: 2011, The Western Balkans and the EU: ‘The Hour of Europe’, →ISBN, page 105:
text: To be sure, even before Bucharest, the Gruevski government moved to rename the Skopje airport ‘Alexander the Great’. But the failure at Bucharest represented a decisive move towards what in Macedonia is known as the policy of antiquisation. / Antiquisation is an ambitious state-sponsored programme dedicated to cementing the proposition that there is a direct link between ancient Macedonia and contemporary ethnic Macedonians (Vangeli 2011).
ref: 2013, Robert Hislope, “18. Macedonia”, in Sten Berglund, Joakim Ekman, Kevin Deegan-Krause, Terje Knutsen, editors, The Handbook of Political Change in Eastern Europe, 3rd edition, Edward Elgar Publishing, →ISBN, page 622:
glosses: Alternative spelling of antiquization.
antiquitisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Antiquitisation means the consignment of the forces of hinderances and obstructions, in the due fulfilment of the individual in freedom, to the oblivion of history. Freedom, peace and unity belong to antiquity but they have to be modernised.
ref: 1970, Ram Chandra Jain, Ethnology of Ancient Bhārata, page xxxii:
text: Further and closer analysis of Buchanan’s psalm paraphrases would probably show more clearly the Christianised theme of exile, with its modes of self-consolation, appeal, and invective, which does not seem obscured, but if anything rather intensified by the ‘antiquitisation’ of their imagery and code.
ref: 2009, Elwira Buszewicz, “6. Homo Exsul as the Lyric Persona in Buchanan’s Psalms”, in Philip Ford, Roger P. H. Green, editors, George Buchanan: Poet and Dramatist, The Classical Press of Wales, →ISBN, page 107:
text: Plate 3 The ‘antiquitisation’ of Skopje, the Republic of North Macedonia 2017.
ref: 2020, Tricia Austin, Narrative Environments and Experience Design: Space as a Medium of Communication, Routledge, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative spelling of antiquitization.
Nissitissit
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /nɪsɪtɪsɪt/
Senses: glosses: A river located in southern New Hampshire and northern Massachusetts in the United States.
flying picket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flying pickets
Senses: glosses: A person or group of people who can be rapidly deployed to different locations in order to picket workplaces (take part in blockades or other protests) during an industrial dispute (dispute between workers and employers).
Badley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -ædli
Forms: form: Badleys
form: Baddeley
Etymology: From the Old English personal name Badda + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”).
Senses: glosses: A civil parish without a parish council in Mid Suffolk district, Suffolk, England (OS grid ref TM0655).
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
waste sortings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of waste sorting
levulinic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪnɪk
Etymology: From levulin + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to levulinic acid or its derivatives.
Derived terms: aminolevulinic
levulinate
kangaroo grasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kangaroo grass
fied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fy
antiquizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antiquization
antiquifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of antiquify
antiquifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of antiquify
antiquified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of antiquify
antiquizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of antiquize
antiquizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of antiquize
antiquized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of antiquize
antiquising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of antiquise
antiquised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of antiquise
antiquitises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of antiquitise
antiquitising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of antiquitise
antiquitised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of antiquitise
antiquitizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of antiquitize
antiquitizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of antiquitize
antiquitized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of antiquitize
in spite of oneself
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Despite one's flaws or foibles.
examples: text: I laughed in spite of myself as the crying child told me how he had accidentally sat on a cactus.
synonyms: despite oneself
glosses: Against one's initial plan or desire.
swacking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of swack
swacking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more swacking
form: most swacking
Senses: examples: text: He deserves a swacking bonus for persuading me to make my letter into pipe-lights.
ref: 1866, Arthur Locker, Sweet seventeen - Volume 3, page 249:
text: When Arthur first did rule the land, He made a large pudding a ding ding, Great swacking plums he did put in, etc., etc.
ref: 1923, Norman George Brett-James, The History of Mill Hill School, 1807-1923, page 125:
text: […] the human face, close up and cropped by the frame, a pearly or tanned mask of flat paint with schemantic shading, great swacking eyelashes and lipstick-colored lips.
ref: 1986, Time - Volume 127, page 10:
glosses: Huge; whopping.
examples: text: There was a swacking sound of clubbed wood upon flesh;
ref: 1950, John Jennings, The Pepper Tree, page 188:
text: If you are careless in your approach you will hear a great swacking sound echo through the trees and see a mighty spray of water — then all will be quiet.
ref: 1967, Roger A. Caras, North American Mammals, page 265:
text: "What went on? How come those two got killed?" demanded the burlier of the pair, tapping a nightstick across his palm with loud swacking sounds.
ref: 2001, Jake Logan, Railroad to Hell, page 4:
glosses: Characteristic of a swack.
fact checkers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fact checker
skiffles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of skiffle
robin snow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: robin snows
form: robin's snow
Senses: examples: text: Though it was the last of March, there was a "robin snow" falling outside, and Mr. Winslow was believed by his family to have a weak throat, though he never manifested any signs of such weakness.
ref: 1893, Maria Louise Pool, Dally, page 25:
text: [page 290:] Observed the track of a squirrel in the snow under one of the apple trees on the southeast side of the Hill, andl, looking up, saw a red squirrel with a nut or piece of frozen apple […] Snowed again last night, as it has done once or twice before within ten days without my recording it, — robin snows, which last but a day or two.
[page 462:] He says that the most snow we have had this winter (it has not been more than one inch deep) has been only a “robin snow,” as it is called, i.e. a snow which does not drive off the robins.
ref: 1906, Henry David Thoreau, Journal:
text: [page 68:] Instead, they lay there dead, covering all things a half-inch deep with soft bodies of purest white, and we looked forth in the morning and said that there had been a robin-snow. It is a pity that those gentle, innocent gray-blue spring mists should […]
[page 69:] A few more robin-snows and they will all be out. Very likely somewhere a dandelion, some sturdy, rough-and-ready youngster, quivered into yellow florescence at the caress. Robin-snows and the cajoling sun of the last week of March often ...
ref: 1910, Winthrop Packard, Woodland Paths:
text: After a half-hour or so they fall again like a "robin snow" in spring and resume their feeding, white dots on the olive-brown of the long miles of saw grass that stretch away to the everglades horizon.
ref: 1941, Nature Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly with Popular Articles about Nature, page 219:
text: After a robin snow in May, George Shefton went to Denver and so Milton and Stevie set out on the road again, three shoes and a worn pipe-end on the dashboard while Dump and Dolly switched their lazy tails over the lines […]
ref: 1947, Mari Sandoz, The Tom-walker: A New Novel:
text: We had another February snow — a robin snow which came in the night and was gone before noon.
ref: 1949, Joseph Nelson, Backwoods Teacher:
text: In an earlier day, a snow that fell in April was called a “robin snow.” It was said to draw the last frost from the ground and bring the earthworms to the surface. This white incursion is gratefully brief.
ref: 1977, Lew Dietz, Night Train at Wiscasset Station:
glosses: A light, brief snow.
robin snows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of robin snow
collab.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: collabs.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of collaboration.
citrous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From citrus + -ous.
Senses: synonyms: citric
citrus
glosses: Pertaining to (plants and fruits of) the genus Citrus; pertaining to citrus plants and their fruits.
creeklet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkriklət/
Forms: form: creeklets
Etymology: From creek + -let.
Senses: examples: text: Still another forty or fifty yards away the creeklet gained speed purling over a bed of rocks.
ref: 2020 February 25, Stephen Gresham, Brother Harmony and Sister Chaos, Crossroad Press:
hypernyms: creek
glosses: A small creek.
creeklets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of creeklet
anticonstitutionality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: * anti- + constitutionality
Senses: topics: law
coordinate_terms: unconstitutionality
glosses: The status of being against the constitution
black Christmas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: black Christmases
Senses: examples: text: D. A black Christmas makes a fat churchyard. D. This is, in effect, the same as A green winter makes, &c., as a 'black Christmas is of course a Christmas without snow.
ref: 1882, William Carew Hazlitt, English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases: Collected from the Most Authentic Sources, Alphabetically Arranged, and Annotated, page 3:
text: We didn't have any snow up here, that stayed until this year (1918) thus giving us a black Christmas, as they say, but the spirit was anything but black. Colored and white packages prevailed.
ref: 1917, The Journal of Electrical Workers and Operators, page 287:
text: We supposed that we were going to have a black Christmas, but we had snow and cold weather. The week before a storm had swept across the country to the northeastward, which just missed Albany and Boston, but […]
ref: 1928, John Van Schaick, Nature Cruisings to the Old Home Town and the Little Hill Farm:
text: “It was a black Christmas last year. It takes a white Christmas for a good crop year .” (Jesse Stuart, Beyond Dark Hills, 1938) (Snow adds nitrogen to the soil and is widely called “poor man's manure” because it fertilizes the soil, producing better crops.)
ref: 2000, Robert Hendrickson, The Facts on File Dictionary of American Regionalisms, Infobase Publishing, →ISBN, page 345:
text: ... the danger to her of travelling at that particular time of the year, the weather and the holiday crowds combined, Dorothy had written. Mrs. Fairlands turned sadly from the fireplace and walked slowly to the window. A black Christmas this year, the wireless report had [forecast].
ref: 2017, Martin Edwards, Crimson Snow: Winter Mysteries, Sourcebooks, Inc., →ISBN:
synonyms: green Christmas
antonyms: white Christmas
glosses: A Christmas Day or Christmas Eve on which there is no snowfall or no ground covering of snow.
con rod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: con rods
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of conrod, abbreviation of connecting rod.
con trick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: con tricks
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of confidence trick.
confectionist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: confectionists
Senses: glosses: A confectioner.
Maryfield
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Dundee, City of Dundee council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NO4132).
glosses: A hamlet in Antony parish, near Torpoint, eastern Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SX4256).
glosses: A village and rural municipality, Rural Municipality of Maryfield No. 91, in Saskatchewan, Canada.
somatoplasms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of somatoplasm
douchehole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: doucheholes
Etymology: Blend of douchebag + asshole; possibly originated as a euphemism.
Senses: glosses: An obnoxious person; a jerk.
doucheholes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of douchehole
Bowburn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A large village in Cassop-cum-Quarrington parish, County Durham, England (OS grid ref NZ3038).
Ramachandran diagram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ramachandran diagrams
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Ramachandran plot.
synonyms: word: Ramachandran plot
Ramachandran diagrams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Ramachandran diagram
Ramachandran plot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ramachandran plots
Etymology: Named after G. N. Ramachandran, one of the people who developed it in 1963.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: Ramachandran diagram
glosses: A diagram that visualizes the energetically allowed regions for backbone dihedral angles ψ against φ of amino acid residues in protein structure.