cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Nan-t'ung
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 南通 (Nántōng) Wade–Giles romanization: Nan²-tʻung¹.
Senses: examples: text: Under the reorganization the branch mill was designated as Dah Sun Mill No. 2. In subsequent years Chang Chien had ambitious plans for further expansion. Eventually four Dah Sun mills were established, two in Nan-t'ung and one each in Ch'ung-ming and Hai-men, although plans for the founding of mills in Ju-kao, Tung-t'ai, Yen-ch'eng, and elsewhere in Kiangsu were never realized.
ref: 1965, Samuel C. Chu, Reformer in Mondern China Chang Chien, 1853-1926, Columbia University Press, page 31:
text: In "Notes of Ling-hsiao and I-shih," Kuo-wen chou-pao, chüan 9, No. 28, July 18, 1932, p. 1, Chang Ch'ien, native of Nan-t'ung, Kiangsu, who later founded the big cotton mills, is described as beginning to study poem and eight-legged essay writing at twelve, becoming sheng-yüan at the early age of sixteen.
ref: 1967, Chung-li Chang, “Preparation for Examination — A Major Activity of the Gentry”, in The Chinese Gentry Studies on Their Role in Nineteenth-Century Chinese Society, University of Washington Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 166:
text: Through the crowd, Max saw an object with tall spoked wheels, low wooden carriage, and the projection of a heavy iron barrel. They stopped in front of it, and he bent down to read the brass manufacturer's plate:
MAXIM-NORDENFELT M. 1897
It was a popular design originally sold to the Transvaal government and used by the Boers during the 1899-1902 South African War. In the interim it had probably changed hands a dozen times before being stolen from the old Republican Army warehouse at Nan-t'ung in 1928 by "Captain Hook."
ref: 1987, William Overgard, Shanghai Tango, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 157:
text: Engineer Sung, who had once been an instructor at the Nan-t'ung Textile Institute, was ordered to accompany Liu Shao-ch'iao to Nan-t'ung.
ref: 1999, Chiang Kuei, translated by Timothy A. Ross, A Translation of the Chinese Novel Chung-yang (Rival Suns) by Chiang Kuei (1908-1980), Edwin Mellen Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 100:
glosses: Alternative form of Nantong.
wikipedia: Defense Mapping Agency
panlogical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pan- + logical.
Senses: glosses: Relating to panlogism
kabedon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kabedon
form: kabedons
Etymology: From Japanese 壁ドン (kabedon), from 壁 (kabe, “wall”) + ドン (don, onomatopoeia for a pounding noise).
Senses: examples: text: Pulling a kabedon will freak her out, so don't get pushy...
ref: 2016, Kina Kobayashi, translated by Jenny McKeon, Nameless Asterism, volume 3:
text: Kabedon only works if you're both into each other.
ref: 2017, Kei Sasuga, translated by Adam Hirsch, Domestic Girlfriend, volume 13, unnumbered page:
text: We were presently in an empty classroom during lunch break, and she had me trapped in a truly magnificent kabedon.
ref: 2021, Teren Mikami, translated by TNFWIBYLU Translation Team, There's No Freaking Way I'll be Your Lover! Unless..., volume 5, unnumbered page:
text: Do girls really get excited over kabedons?
ref: 2021, Kana Nakatsuki, translated by Andria McKnight, Don't Tempt Me, VP!, volume 3, unnumbered page:
topics: fiction
literature
media
publishing
glosses: The act of placing one hand on a wall or other vertical surface while leaning close to another (usually shorter) person whose back is against the wall/surface.
wikipedia: Second Life
pannofix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Hungarian panofix, from Panofix, a trademark of the Pannónia fur factory, from the blend of Pannónia + fix (“steady, firm”).
Senses: glosses: A Hungarian fur made from lambskin.
Retinaculiaperti
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Class of spore chains that are open and spiral-shaped.
pair of nutcrackers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pairs of nutcrackers
Senses: glosses: A tool that uses leverage to crack the shells of nuts.
Synonyms: nutcrackers
underadvantaged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more underadvantaged
form: most underadvantaged
Etymology: From under- + advantaged.
Senses: glosses: Having inadequate or below-average advantages.
Related terms: underadvantage
underadvantage
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: underadvantages
Etymology: From under- + advantage.
Senses: glosses: Insufficiently help.
underadvantage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From under- + advantage.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of having inadequate advantages.
Related terms: disadvantage
overadvantage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From over- + advantage.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of having excessive advantage.
Related terms: overadvantaged
philosophastry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: pseudophilosophy
glosses: Bad or sham philosophy.
Related terms: philosophaster
cluster fly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cluster flies
Senses: examples: text: Cluster flies (Pollenia rudis (Fabricius) ) become a serious problem and a major pest in rural homes, churches, and other structures in the autumn when they enter buildings to hibernate, and again in the spring when they seek ways to escape to the outside.
ref: 1960 July 1, David Pimentel, Benjamin Epstein, “The Cluster Fly, Pollenia rudis (Diptera: Calliphoridae)”, in Annals of the Entomological Society of America, volume 43, number 4, →DOI:
glosses: Any of several species of Pollenia, especially Pollenia rudis, with the habit of congregating in dwellings over the winter.
cluster flies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cluster fly
koinobori
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: koinobori
Etymology: From Japanese こいのぼり.
Senses: examples: text: This was perfect— it rationalized the koinobori as quite befitting a peace-loving Japan.
ref: 1975, Nihon Bunka Kenkyūjo, A Hundred things Japanese, Japan Culture Institute, page 17:
text: At this time, families with boys hang koinobori from flagpoles in their yard. Koinobori is a fish-shaped banner. Each male in the family is represented by a koinobori on the flagpole.
ref: 2008, Sharon Jeffus, Jamie Aramini, Geography Through Art: International Art Projects for Kids, Geography Matters, →ISBN, page 68:
text: Along with the raising of koinobori, children indulge in kashiwa-mochi sticky rice cakes wrapped in oak leaves.
ref: 2016, Lawrence Winkler, Samurai Road, Bellatrix, →ISBN:
glosses: a carp-shaped streamer used to celebrate Children's Day in Japan.
Picquet
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From French Picquet.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
Related terms: Piquet
Ynysybwl
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Welsh.
Senses: glosses: A village in Ynysybwl and Coed-y-cwm community, Rhondda Cynon Taf borough county borough, Wales (OS grid ref ST0594).
Llantrisant
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Welsh.
Senses: examples: text: A traveller from Pontypridd to Llantrisant, not knowing the ropes, would naturally travel to the station of that name, only to find himself at Pont-y-Clun, two miles distant, and probably would not be at all soothed to discover that, had he alighted at the previous station (known as Cross Inn), he would have been within half a mile of his objective. [the station at Pontyclun was named Llantrisant before it closed, it later reopened as Pontyclun]
ref: 1951 March, M. D. Greville, “The Nomenclature of Railway Stations”, in Railway Magazine, page 194:
glosses: A town and community in Rhondda Cynon Taf borough, Wales (OS grid ref ST0483).
glosses: A small settlement in Tref Alaw community, Anglesey, Wales (OS grid ref SH3683).
glosses: A village in Llantrisant Fawr community, Monmouthshire, Wales (OS grid ref ST3996).
Derived terms: Llantrisant Fawr
biocosmic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bio- + cosmic.
Senses: examples: text: Biocosmic energy is the very essence of life force itself, this energy has been known to exist but, until now, no one has been able to isolate it.
ref: 2012, Geoffrey Keyte, The Mystical Crystal: Expanding Your Crystal Consciousness:
glosses: Relating to life force and the cosmos.
fox maggot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fox maggots
Senses: examples: text: The biology and control of the fox maggot Wohlfahrtia opaca (Coq.)
ref: 1948, F. X. Gassner and Maurice T. Jameshttp://www.jstor.org/stable/3273240
text: The fox maggot (Wohlfahrtia spp.) is widely distributed throughout the Northern United States.
ref: 1960, J. R. Gorham et al., Minks: Diseases and Parasites, page 24:
glosses: Any member of the flesh fly genus Wohlfahrtia which cause myiasis in mammals.
chobble
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: chobbles
form: chobbling
form: chobbled
form: chobbled
Etymology: Perhaps a blend of chew + gobble but perhaps instead from chop + -le (frequentative suffix).
Senses: examples: text: An’ I gets m’ pig ’ome, an’ ’e sims to turn out copital; ’e be sich a despret good cratcher, doan’t kip suckin’ an’ quiddlin’ at ’is fittle, but a chobbles it up like.
ref: 1897, Hamilton Kingsford, Vigornian Monologues: A Series of Papers in Illustration of the Dialect of Worcestershire, Berrow's Worcester Journal Company, page 12:
text: “Can’t get used to the damn things,” he says. “Easier to chobble away like this.”
ref: 2000, Roy Holland, Just a Bit Touched: Tales of Perspective, Writers Club Press, →ISBN, page 3:
text: […] / Chaos ordains. But to what depth? Some demon / chobbles its rap-cassette, spits out / pathetic dreadlocks. […]
ref: 2013, Geoffrey Hill, edited by Kenneth Haynes, Broken Hierarchies: Poems 1952-2012, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 368:
glosses: To chew into small pieces.
chobble
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chobbles
Senses: examples: text: “If ya give me chobble, mon, I gwann hang up!” he threatens.
ref: 2013, Jack Teeter, chapter 7, in Billie the Kid:
glosses: Alternative form of trouble.
chobble
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: chobbles
form: chobbling
form: chobbled
form: chobbled
Senses: examples: text: “Lissin mon, dunt chobble mi wit some ear-sey ‘bout wha yuh tink appen ta mi pickni an mi coac.”
ref: 2010, Prince S. Garrett, Blood on Babywipes, page 248:
glosses: Alternative form of trouble.
prefamily
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prefamilies
Senses: examples: text: The shifting of the superfamily a step upward by Griffiths and the introduction of the prefamily for the category usually called superfamily, is I believe, unfortunate.
ref: 1974, George C. Steyskal, “Recent Advances in the Primary Classification of the Diptera”, in Annals of the Entomological Society of America, volume 67, number 3, →DOI, pages 513–517:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
glosses: A taxonomic rank above the level of family.
Grangetown
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A large village in Redcar and Cleveland borough, North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref NZ5520).
glosses: A suburb of Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England (OS grid ref NZ4054).
glosses: A suburb of Cardiff, Wales (OS grid ref ST1774).
Melvoin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Melvoins
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Melvoins
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Melvoin
anyday
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Nonstandard form of any day.
autoscroll
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: autoscrolls
form: autoscrolling
form: autoscrolled
form: autoscrolled
Etymology: From auto- + scroll.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To automatically scroll. Usually activated with the middle button of a mouse. The distance of the cursor from the original location on the screen where the middle button was activated controls speed (increasing with distance) and scrolling direction.
autoscrolls
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of autoscroll
autoscrolled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of autoscroll
Visnadi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Visnadis
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Visnadis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Visnadi
choose your own adventure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: choose your own adventures
form: choose-your-own-adventure
Etymology: From the Choose Your Own Adventure series of children's gamebooks which introduced this format.
Senses: synonyms: word: CYOA
hypernyms: gamebook
glosses: An interactive book or visual novel written from a second-person point of view, with the reader assuming the role of the protagonist and making choices that determine the main character's actions and the plot's outcome.
wikipedia: Choose Your Own Adventure
choose your own adventures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of choose your own adventure
choose-your-own-adventure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: choose-your-own-adventures
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of choose your own adventure.
choose-your-own-adventures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of choose-your-own-adventure
cytocomplex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cytocomplexes
Senses: examples: text: Based on the different combination of the arms, caused by whole-arm translocations, the Chironomus species are grouped into several cytocomplexes.
ref: 2011 May 5, Wolfgang F. Wülker et al., “Karyotypes of Chironomus Meigen (Diptera: Chironomidae) species from Africa”, in Comparative Cytogenetics, volume 5, number 1, →DOI:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A group of species with similar karyotypes.
garbageware
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From garbage + -ware.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Extremely poor software.
Synonyms: garageware
Coordinate terms: bloatware
vaporware
Greendale
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An unincorporated community in Yolo County, California.
glosses: A city in Dearborn County, Indiana.
glosses: A city in St. Louis County, Missouri.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Hocking County, Ohio.
glosses: A village in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin.
Derived terms: Greendaler
Greendaler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Greendalers
Etymology: From Greendale + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone from any place called Greendale.
Greendalers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Greendaler
Llandough
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Welsh.
Senses: glosses: A village near Cowbridge, Vale of Glamorgan borough county borough, Wales (OS grid ref SS9972).
glosses: A village near Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan borough county borough (OS grid ref ST1673).
cosignee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cosignees
Etymology: From cosign + -ee.
Senses: examples: text: She signed the lease for $150 a month under her married name of Mrs. Paul Adams and gave as her cosignees Mr. and Mrs. Jack Kerouac.
ref: 2014, Barry Miles, William S. Burroughs: A Life:
glosses: One who is cosigned.
cosignees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cosignee
cosignor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cosignors
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cosigner.
cosignors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cosignor
Cara Cara
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cara Caras
Etymology: Discovered at the Hacienda Caracara in Valencia, Venezuela, in 1976.
Senses: glosses: A kind of red-fleshed early-to-mid-season navel orange.
Cara Caras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Cara Cara
axiologic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Synonym of axiological.
synonyms: word: axiological
St Fagans
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Saint Fagan.
Senses: glosses: A village and community in Cardiff, Wales (OS grid ref ST1277).
wikipedia: Fagan (saint)
Euroguilder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Euroguilders
Etymology: From Euro- + guilder.
Senses: topics: business
finance
hypernyms: Eurocurrency
glosses: A deposit, in Dutch guilders, held in a bank outside of the Netherlands.
Euroguilders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Euroguilder
Eurokoruna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Euro- + koruna.
Senses: topics: business
finance
hypernyms: Eurocurrency
glosses: A deposit, in korunas, held in a bank outside of the countries that used that currency.
Eurolinguist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Eurolinguists
Etymology: From Euro- + linguist.
Senses: glosses: One who studies Eurolinguistics.
Eurolinguists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Eurolinguist
Scheherazadean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Scheherazadean
form: most Scheherazadean
form: Scheherazadian
Etymology: From Scheherazade + -ean.
Senses: examples: text: Instead of following the Scheherazadean strategy of delaying death, such suicidal narratives are a means of hastening the narrator's end.
ref: 1994, Robert Scott Leventhal, Reading After Foucault:
text: Ray makes her determination all the more sensuously Scheherazadean when she calls for her servant Hiria and demands that the old woman come and tell her a story.
ref: 2000, Darius Cooper, Dudley Andrew, William Rothman, The Cinema of Satyajit Ray: Between Tradition and Modernity:
glosses: Of or relating to the fictional storyteller Scheherazade.
Scheherazadian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Scheherazadian
form: most Scheherazadian
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Scheherazadean.
subexplanation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subexplanations
Etymology: From sub- + explanation.
Senses: glosses: A secondary or subsidiary explanation.
subexplanations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subexplanation
Cestar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Cestars
Senses: glosses: A surname.
propaganda of the deed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: prŏ'-pə-gănʹ-də əv thə' dēdʹ
ipa: [ˌpɹɒ.pəˈɡæ̝ˑn.də əʋ ˌðə ˈdiːd]
Forms: form: propaganda by the deed
Etymology: Calque of French propagande par le fait rendered into idiomatic English, from propagande (“propaganda”) and fait (“deed, act, action”); a phrasal usage originating among 19th century insurrectionary anarchist communists.
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: A politically motivated act of violence, meant to broadcast an ideological message and serve as catalyst to ignite a spirit of socialist revolution among the proletariat against perceived oppressors.
topics: government
politics
glosses: The theoretical principle of using acts of violence in the struggle to achieve radical left-wing political goals.
Related terms: agent provocateur
saboteur
terrorism
Minny
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Minnie (“Minneapolis”).
semiinfinitely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: In a semiinfinite manner.
semilimited
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + limited.
Senses: glosses: Somewhat or partly limited; having a limit in one direction but not in the other.
Related terms: semiinfinite
propaganda by the deed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Calque of French propagande par le fait, from propagande (“propaganda”) and fait (“deed, act, action”); a phrasal usage originating among 19th century insurrectionary anarchist communists.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of propaganda of the deed.
Rogerstone
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A large village and community (civil parish) in Newport, Wales (OS grid ref ST2788).
kulning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A Scandinavian vocal musical form with high-pitched echoes, traditionally used to call livestock down from the mountain pastures.
jacopevers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jacopever
Jacquard loom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Jacquard looms
Etymology: Named after Joseph Marie Jacquard, the inventor.
Senses: glosses: A loom fitted with a Jacquard machine.
wikipedia: Joseph Marie Jacquard
Jacquard looms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Jacquard loom
Jacquard machine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Jacquard machines
Etymology: Named after Joseph Marie Jacquard, the inventor.
Senses: glosses: A device fitted to a loom that simplifies the process of manufacturing patterned textiles by means of punch cards that control the weaving operation.
wikipedia: Joseph Marie Jacquard
Related terms: jacquard
Jacquard loom
Jacquard machines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Jacquard machine
Rhydyfelin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Welsh.
Senses: glosses: A large village in Pontypridd community, Rhondda Cynon Taf borough county borough, Wales (OS grid ref ST0988).
glosses: A small village in Llanfarian community, Ceredigion, Wales (OS grid ref SN5979).
Jiashi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Chia-shih
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 伽師／伽师 (Jiāshī).
Senses: examples: text: On 24 February 2003 at 10.03 a.m. local time, a large earthquake (measuring 6.8 on the Richter scale) struck Jiashi county without any warning.
ref: 2007, Carole Goddard, China (Countries of the World), Evans Brothers, →ISBN, page 16:
text: The bus station in Kashgar that services Jiashi was closed August 28 with dozens of people milling around outside, many of whom confirmed that "an incident" had taken place in Jiashi. Some spoke of rumors that Jiashi would remain closed for three days while the investigation took place. Taxi drivers outside the bus station said that it was possible to enter the city only by paying a US 70-cent bribe per passenger per checkpoint to police.
ref: 2008, “Attack in Jiashi Drastically Changes Security Environment”, in 3:
glosses: Synonym of Payzawat: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.
synonyms: word: Payzawat
extra: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name
wikipedia: Defense Mapping Agency
Synonyms: Ch'ieh-shih
Ch'ieh-shih
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Chiehshih
Etymology: From Mandarin 伽師 /伽师 (Qiéshī), Wade–Giles romanization: Chʻieh²-shih¹.
Senses: examples: text: The Kashih Military Subdistrict has sent work teams in a timely way to sum up Chiehshih County experience in organizing and consolidating the militia. At present, Kashih region's 12 counties and municipalities have basically consolidated their militia organizations.
ref: [1972 December 27 [1972 December 19], “Party, PLA Strengthen Sinkiang Militia-Building Work”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 250, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Urumchi Sinkiang Regional Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China: Northwest Region, page H 2:
text: Chiehshih County, Sinkiang, recently held its second women's congress.[…]The congress elected the Chiehshih County Joint Women's Committee.
ref: [1973 May 18 [1973 May 11], “Sinkiang County Women's Congress”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 97, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Urumchi Sinkiang Regional Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China: Northwest Region, page H 3:
glosses: Synonym of Payzawat.
synonyms: word: Payzawat
wikipedia: Defense Mapping Agency
Related terms: Chia-shih
permutors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of permutor
interleavability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From interleave + -ability.
Senses: glosses: Ability to be interleaved.
interleaver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interleavers
Etymology: From interleave + -er.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A program or algorithm that interleaves.
deinterleaver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deinterleavers
Etymology: From deinterleave + -er.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A program or algorithm that deinterleaves.
deinterleavers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deinterleaver
interleavers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of interleaver
postdeparture
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + departure.
Senses: glosses: After departure.
Lo-yang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 洛陽 /洛阳 (Luòyáng) Wade–Giles romanization: Lo⁴-yang².
Senses: examples: text: These passages refer, of course, to the rebellion of An Lu-shan. General Ku Shu defended the Han-ku Pass, which is an older name for Tun Kuan. By the twin imperial cities the poet very probably means Hsing-yang and Chang-an, unless he means the latter and city of Lo-yang.
ref: 1922, Shigeyoshi Obata, transl., Li Po, the Chinese Poet, page 180:
text: On the whole we can state that if there is any local information about the finds of gold and silver vessels from T'ang, then Ch'ang-an — present Hsi-an — or Lo-yang with their neighbourhood is referred to.
ref: 1957, Bo Gyllensvärd, T'ANG GOLD AND SILVER (Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities Bulletin), volume 29, Göteborg: Elanders Boktryckeri, pages 26-27:
text: The Tu’pa (Toba) removed their capital southward to Lo-yang at the end of the 5th century, and Sui rulers resided there at intervals during the 6th century. Lo-yang was a Buddhist centre during the 6th and 7th centuries. After the 10th century the city declined to a position as a local administrative and trade centre. Thus Lo-yang occupies an important historical niche in Chinese culture and, because of its many ruins, tombs and walls, was for centuries one of the historic tourist centres of China. It was called Honanfu until 1913.
ref: 1964, James Earle Spencer, “LO-YANG”, in Encyclopedia Britannica, volume 14, →OCLC, page 447B, column 1:
text: Eventually, the ramshackle Chou government fell apart. In 771BC the barbarian Jung tribes sacked the Chou capital at Hao, and forced the court to flee eastwards down the Yellow River to Lo-yang. Most of the king's vassals failed to support him in this crisis. This is the context for the famous story about the foolish emperor who called out his nobles with their troops for a joke, to amuse his concubine, so that when a real invasion occurred they no longer took any notice. Whatever the truth of this, the Chou ruler could no longer rely on his over-mighty subjects.
ref: 1998, Chris Peers, Warlords of China: 700BC to AD1662, Arms and Armour Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 19:
text: At an early age he was taken by his second brother, Changtsi, to the eastern capital, Lo-yang.
ref: 2018, Bijay Kumar Swain, The Kalinga Heritage, Authorspress, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 127:
glosses: Alternative form of Luoyang.
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FUTON
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of full text on the Net: the presence of the complete text of an academic paper on the Internet, seen as a potential biasing factor in which papers get cited most often.
Kweichow
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: kwāʹchouʹ
gwāʹjōʹ
Senses: examples: text: "Famine conditions continue to be reported in Honan, Anhui, Shensi, Kansu, Szechuan, and Kweichow. Quite evidently the country faces one of the most severe famines of many years, and thousands have already died. A recent survey by the Szechuan Famine Relief Commission discovered that 30,000,000 people are now in the famine belt of that province, where bark and 'Goddess-of-Mercy' earth are being consumed by tens of thousands. There are said to be over 400,000 famine refugees in Shensi, over a million in Kansu, some 7,000,000 in Honan, and 3,000,000 in Kweichow. The famine in Kweichow is admitted by the official Central News to be the most serious in 100 years, affecting sixty districts of the province."
ref: 1937, Edgar Snow, Red Star Over China, Victor Gollancz Ltd, page 91:
text: The first i-hsüeh (charity schools) were started in 1702, when the Board of Rites received imperial approval to establish them outside the Ch'ung-wen gate of the imperial city. Three years later similar institutions were authorized for Kweichow province for the benefit of the "sons and younger brothers" of the chieftains of tribal groups.
ref: 1960, Kung-chuan Hsiao, Rural China Imperial Control in the Nineteenth Century, University of Washington Press, page 238:
text: The Peking radio said today that Mao Tse-tung's forces had gained control of a fifth major city, Kweiyang, the capital of Kweichow Province.
ref: 1967 February 1, “Fifth Chinese City Claimed by Maoists; Maoists Claim the Control of Fifth Chinese City”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 Mar 2023, page 1:
text: "Radio Kweichow" reported April 1 that high officials and cadres of Kweichow province had met to discuss "the crimes of the gang of four and their black agents in the Kweichow province for the damage they had done to the railways and social order."
ref: 1977 April 10, “Railway system seriously undermined”, in Free China Weekly, volume XVIII, number 14, Taipei, page 3:
text: Prof. Liu's family was from Kuei-yang in Kweichow, China, and he grew up in Shanghai.
ref: 1993 October 20, “James T.C. Liu”, in Town Topics, volume 48, number 33, Princeton, N.J., page 41:
text: I ordered a bottle of Kweichow Moutai from 1927, a liquor made from sorghum that people say is the most expensive Chinese beverage ever made.
ref: 2014, Lawrence Osborne, The Ballad of a Small Player, London: Vintage Books, →ISBN, page 41:
glosses: Alternative form of Guizhou.
speedboosters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of speedbooster
turboing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of turbo
turboed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of turbo
slicery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From slice + -ery.
Senses: glosses: The act or practice of slicing.
knifery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From knife + -ery.
Senses: glosses: The act or practice of using knives.
slow-paced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more slow-paced
form: most slow-paced
form: slowpaced
Etymology: From slow + paced.
Senses: antonyms: fast-paced
glosses: Moving or changing slowly.
slowpaced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more slowpaced
form: most slowpaced
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of slow-paced.
Hurtville
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hurt + -ville.
Senses: examples: text: I warned ya, Dirty Dan! Now, you’ve just crossed the border into Hurtville!
ref: 2001, SpongeBob SquarePants, Survival of the Idiots:
glosses: A situation or place of intense pain and suffering.
respek
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of respect.
knows of
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of know of
knowing of
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of know of
knew of
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of know of
known of
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of know of
Ha-êrh-pin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ha-erh-pin
raw_tags: from Wade–Giles
Etymology: From Mandarin 哈爾濱 /哈尔滨 (Hā'ěrbīn) Wade–Giles romanization: Ha¹-êrh³-pin¹.
Senses: examples: text: I come now to the northern section between K'uan Ch'êng-tzŭ and Stretensk. 20 li south of the Sungari, and in a direct line between Hulan and A-Shih-ho, a Russian town called Ha-êrh-pin or Ha-mo has sprung up round what was originally a solitary Chinese house.
ref: 1900 March [1899 May 8], Alex Hosie, “Consul Hosie to Mr. Bax-Ironside”, in Further Correspondence Respecting the Affairs of China, number 195, London: Harrison and Sons, →OCLC, page 154:
text: The eastern section from Vladivostock- which crosses the Manchurian frontier at San-Ch'a-kou and will pass a few miles to the north of Ninguta, go westward to Yi-mien-p'o, and northwest to A-shih-ho, leaving that town on its left- will join the southern section on the south bank of the Sungari. The junction is really effected at a place called Ha-êrh-pin (Harbin), some 6 miles to the south of the river.
ref: 1900, Consular Reports: Commerce, Manufactures, Etc., volume 62, Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 410:
text: There was one solitary house - a Chinese distillery - on the spot at the time; but at the present moment Ha-êrh-pin, Ha-mo, or Harbin as is it now generally called, is a largest town of several thousand inhabitants, consisting for the most part of Russians connected with, and for the protection of, the Trans-Manchurian Railway.
ref: 1910, Alexander Hosie, Manchuria: Its People, Resources and Recent History, volume 14, J. B. Millet Company, →OCLC, page 52:
text: Kharbin[…]
It is quite a modern Russian town having been founded in 1899 as a centre for the administration of the East China Railyway and the civil and military control of Manchuria. The Celestials call it Ha-êrh-pin. The city was officially opened to international trade on the 14th January 1907, in accordance with the terms of the Chino-Japanese treaty of the 22nd December 1905.
ref: 1912, Northern China, The Valley of the Blue River, Korea, Hachette & Company, →OCLC, page 255:
glosses: Alternative form of Ha'erbin (Harbin)
Tsitsihar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: tsēʹtsēʹhärʹ
Senses: examples: text: From Ha-êrh-pin north-east to Hulan, Tsitsihar, and Stretensk two serious difficulties have to be overcome. The first is the bridging of the Sungari, which, owing to its extended breadth in summer, will require a bridge some 2,800 feet in length. The second is the passage of the Hsing-an range, which will necessitate in many places cuttings 80 feet deep and of considerable length, but no tunnelling.
ref: 1900 March [1899 May 8], Alex Hosie, “Consul Hosie to Mr. Bax-Ironside”, in Further Correspondence Respecting the Affairs of China, number 195, London: Harrison and Sons, →OCLC, page 154:
text: Ninety-five per cent of the cultivated area of the country lies east of a line drawn from Tsitsihar (Ch'i-ch'i-ha-erh) in northern Manchuria to K'un-ming in Yün-nan Province. This is eastern China, and within it is the Chinese ecumene.
ref: 1969, Norton Ginsburg, edited by Joseph Kitagawa, Understanding Modern China, Quadrangle Books, page 59:
text: "Taching" was mentioned openly for the first time by the People's Daily of April 20, 1964. Even though the regime has avoided disclosing the location of the oil field, it is believed to be between Harbin and Tsitsihar in the southwest of Heilungkiang province in the far northeast.
ref: 1973 April 29, “Red petroleum output is inadequate”, in Free China Weekly, volume XIV, number 16, Taipei, page 2:
text: The Chinese workers in Tsitsihar, 170 miles northwest of Harbin, struck against the railroad on April 30, and another strike of Chinese workers occurred in Suifenho, at the southeastern end of the railroad, on May 2.
ref: 1983, Chong-Sik Lee, “Manchuria in the 1920s”, in Revolutionary Struggle in Manchuria: Chinese Communism and Soviet Interest, 1922–1945, University of California Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 31:
text: Yet again the phrase does not do justice to the nail-biting 750-mile journey through what is left of the ramparts put up by Genghis Khan, mountain ranges, arid plains, alien landscapes and alien people, stopping at little wooden stations identical to those the length and breadth of Russia but with tongue-twisting Chinese names like Manchouli, Pokotu and Tsitsihar.
ref: 2004, Geoffrey Elliott, “On the Road Again”, in From Siberia with Love: A Story of Exile, Revolution and Cigarettes, Methuen Publishing, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 203:
text: "In daring strikes, Soviet bombers also brought the fighting home to Tsitsihar and Harbin," the man continued. "The Japanese lackeys of the so-called state of Manchukuo had the gall to protest, but General Secretary Stalin and Foreign Commissar Litvinov rejected their foolish babbling out of hand."
ref: 2011, Harry Turtledove, The Big Switch, 1st edition, New York: Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 88:
glosses: Alternative form of Qiqihar.
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scribing block
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scribing blocks
form: scriber block
Senses: examples: text: A scribing block is seldom dispensed with in the amateur's workshop, excepting in cases where its very existence is unknown.
ref: 1883 July, “Surface Gauges or Scribing Blocks”, in Amateur Mechanics, page 213:
text: By testing various parts of a line with the scribing block let the boys see that the line drawn is parallel to the surface plate.
ref: 1903, J. S. Miller, Teacher's Handbook of Manual Training: Metal Work, page 29:
text: The operation is to move the scribing block from end to end of the work and on both sides of it, packing it up until the upper surface is level, taking care, if the work does not lie level and steady upon the table, to insert wedges in the necessary places so that the work will lie firmly and not move during the operation of marking.
ref: 2013, Joshua Rose, The Complete Practical Machinist, page 322:
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engineering
hobbies
lifestyle
metallurgy
metalworking
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A device for scribing (marking) lines at a specific height from the base of an object, prior to machining.
scriber block
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scriber blocks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of scribing block.
Yan'an
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: yěnʹänʹ
Forms: form: Yanan
raw_tags: from Hanyu Pinyin
form: Yenan
form: Yen-an
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 延安 (Yán'ān).
Senses: examples: text: Upon receiving intelligence reports about the massing of enemy paratroopers, General Peng Dehuai posted a defence regiment at Yan'an airfield, and requested that Mao leave Yan'an as soon as possible.
ref: 1992, Yanchi (权延赤) Quan, “Mao Enjoys a Challenge”, in Wang Wenjiong, transl., edited by Gale Hadfield, 走下神坛的毛泽东 [Mao Zedong: Man, Not God], Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, published 1996, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 13:
english: Mao Zedong: Man, Not God
translation: Mao Zedong: Man, Not God
text: On my last trip before completing this book, I visited Zizhou county, about 200 miles north of Yan’an, where peasants had tried to engage a lawyer to defend themselves in the courts against the oppressive and brutal control of local Party officials. Not much had changed here in the seventy years since Mao’s Long March and his ‘liberation’ of the peasants from their ‘cruel landlords’. Now, the peasants were afraid not of landlords but of the Party officials who prey on them just as the landlords once did.
ref: 2000, Jasper Becker, The Chinese, London: John Murray, published 2003, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 365:
text: I had planned to go to Zizhou, the county where Mr. Ma had organized the peasants. It was halfway between Yulin and Yan'an, which is where Mr. Ma lived.
ref: 2004, Ian Johnson, Wild Grass: Three Stories of Change in Modern China, New York: Pantheon Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 31:
text: A prominent example of such action took place in the villages in Zizhou County, a drought-prone area several hundred miles north of Yan’an, Shaanxi Province, Mao’s revolutionary base area.
ref: 2012, Merle Goldman, From Comrade to Citizen: the Struggle for Political Rights in China, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 212:
text: Both the Lvliang area investigated in this study and the Yan'an area are located in the Loess Hill Ravine Region, and the average thickness value of the individual landslides in Lvliang section is close to that in Yan'an.
ref: 2020, Xiangzhou Xu, Tongxin Zhu, Hongwu Zhang, Lu Gao, Experimental Erosion: Theory and Practice of Soil Conservation Experiments, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 79:
glosses: A prefecture-level city of Shaanxi, China.
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Synonyms: word: Fushih
Yenan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: yěnʹänʹ
Senses: examples: text: THE Communists were all very proud of their new "capital" at Yenan, and veterans from Pao An were always asking me what I thought of the improvements since my last visit. The question at first seemed pure irony. Nearly every building inside the walls was in ruin, and Yenan was in fact the only example I have seen of complete demolition of a sizable town by air bombardment alone.
ref: 1941, Edgar Snow, The Battle for Asia, New York: Random House, page 266:
text: After making the Long March with the First Front Army, Lo was a political instructor by 1937 at the Anti-Japanese Military and Political Academy (K'ang-ta) where Lin Piao was the president. Concurrently, Lo was director of the Political Department for the Garrison Corps at the Communist capital in Yenan.
ref: 1971, Donald W. Klein, Anne B. Clark, Biographic Dictionary of Chinese Communism 1921-1965, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, page 646:
text: Back in 1939 when Chiang Ching went to Yenan and turned Mao into an infatuated man, his comrades were all very unhappy. As a movie star, she had been known not so much by her screen roles as by her private life with a number of men. Besides, Mao already had a former Ho Tzu-cheng as his wife.
ref: 1975 January 12, L. Chen, “Very ominous year ahead for Mao”, in Free China Weekly, volume XVI, number 2, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3:
text: Had it not been for the Japanese militarists' attack on Manchuria in September, 1931, and the subsequent invasion of North China, which led to the outbreak of major hostilities in July, 1937, the Chinese government forces would have cleaned up in no time at all the Communist remnants in and around Yenan in Shensi Province.
ref: 1983, James C. H. Shen, “The Japan Breakaway”, in Robert Myers, editor, The U.S. & Free China: How the U.S. Sold Out Its Ally, Washington, D.C.: Acropolis Books Ltd., →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 123:
text: Davies recommended dispatching military and political personnel to act as a liasion with the Communists in Yenan.
ref: 1997, Carolle J. Carter, Mission to Yenan: American Liaison with the Chinese Communists, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 10:
text: In 1941 Ho Chi Minh travelled from the Soviet Union to Vietnam, stopping over at the CCP camp in Yenan before creating his own base along the Sino-Vietnamese border.
ref: 2015, Richard Overy, editor, The Oxford Illustrated History of World War II, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 55:
text: The most important fact never to forget is the Party’s murderous history. The Communists retreated to Yenan in the 1930s and let the Chinese nationalists under Chiang Kai-shek do most of the fighting against Japan in World War II. Mao then won the civil war in 1949 and proceeded like all Communists to purge opponents and take total control.
ref: 2021 June 30, “100 Years of Chinese Communism”, in Wall Street Journal, archived from the original on 30 Jun 2021, Opinion:
glosses: Alternative form of Yan'an.
paraboloidic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of paraboloidal.
Kuei-yang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: gwāʹyängʹ
Etymology: From Mandarin 貴陽 /贵阳 (Guìyáng) cf. Wade–Giles romanization: Kuei⁴-yang².
Senses: examples: text: The sun was shining on the fair plain, which stretched out before them--away to the distant mountains; and the city of Kuei-yang itself was right before them, with its temples, its towers and its luxuriant trees.
ref: 1903, F. Howard Taylor, These Forty Years, Pepper Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 221:
text: Settlements at a few favored basins, and strategic outposts were established very early, such as those at Kuei-yang and K'un-ming, but the vast extent of the territory remained under the local autonomous rule of tribal chieftains with nominal subservience to the Chinese Emperor.
ref: 1954, Herold J. Wiens, Han Chinese Expansion in South China, Shoe String Press, published 1967, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 8:
text: For our purpose new economic centers are defined as those vigorously developed in Communist China prior to the economic crisis in 1960-62, but not necessarily completely new industrial centers. They consist of 26 cities included in categories A-II and B-II in Table 4-8 and B2, B3, B4, B5, and B8 in Table 4-3 (excluding Soochow and Kuei-yang, which are predominantly nonindustrial).
ref: 1967, Yuan-li Wu, The Spatial Economy of Communist China, Frederick A. Praeger Publishers, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 145:
text: Prof. Liu's family was from Kuei-yang in Kweichow, China, and he grew up in Shanghai.
ref: 1993 October 20, “James T.C. Liu”, in Town Topics, volume 48, number 33, Princeton, N.J., page 41:
glosses: Alternative form of Guiyang.
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paracystitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From para- + cyst + -itis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: inflammation of the connective tissue surrounding the bladder
sand palm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sand palms
Senses: examples: text: Breakfast was the white heart of a sand palm – succulent and bitter-sweet – and for ‘jam’ we ate bush apples and red ants with green bottoms that were so full of vitamin C they tasted like stings.
ref: 2002, Victoria Finlay, Colour, Sceptre, page 51:
glosses: A small palm, Livistona humilis, of the northern Northern Territory, that typically grows in sandy ground.
bush apple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bush apples
Senses: examples: text: Breakfast was the white heart of a sand palm – succulent and bitter-sweet – and for ‘jam’ we ate bush apples and red ants with green bottoms that were so full of vitamin C they tasted like stings.
ref: 2002, Victoria Finlay, Colour, Sceptre, page 51:
glosses: Any of various trees resembling the apple or bearing similar fruit, especially the black apple (Planchonella australis).
bush apples
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bush apple
on main
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Etymology: Ellipsis of horny on main, from the practice of posting salacious or controversial material on a primary social media account, rather than on an anonymous alternate account.
Senses: examples: text: online is my entire social life now so when people are horny on main it feels like seeing somebody walk down the street with their dick out
ref: 2019, @VR0NLINE, quoted in Emma Maguire, "Thirsty Tweets Of The Week", Salient (Victoria University of Wellington), Volume 82, Issue 5 (2019), page 13
text: I don't pride myself on being anonymous and untraceable by the government, safe behind my anime avatar in online arguments and protected from being outed as "horny on main" on social media, […] r
ref: 2020, Larson Hicks, "Suit Up", Etchings Literary Journal and Fine Arts Magazine (University of Indianapolis), Volume 32, Issue 2 (2020), page 4
text: Without dinners or parties to attend, social media is one of the few outlets we have left for titillation, is one of the few outlets we have left for titillation, with everyone suddenly becoming “horny on main” (internet-speak for displaying how horny you are in public, rather than on a secret private account.)
ref: 2020 May 30, Flora Gill, “Britain is hornier than ever (and we're not ashamed to say it)”, in The Times:
glosses: Expressed openly when one might normally desire privacy or anonymity.
Related terms: say the quiet part loud