cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
phylotype
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phylotypes
Etymology: From phylo- + type.
Senses: glosses: A proposed stage in the development of an embryo at which those characteristics of a particular phylum develop.
glosses: A proposed stage in the development of an embryo at which those characteristics of a particular phylum develop.
The pharyngula stage of vertebrates.
examples: text: But DNA sequencing isolated the 167,000 different phylotypes (roughly equivalent to species) contained in the samples.
ref: 2014 October 2, Andy Newman, “Beneath Central Park, a Teeming Universe”, in New York Times City Room:
topics: biology
microbiology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
glosses: A phenetic grouping.
Derived terms: phylotypic
phylotype
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: phylotypes
form: phylotyping
form: phylotyped
form: phylotyped
Etymology: From phylo- + type.
Senses: glosses: To describe and categorise such phenetic groups.
Stephenson
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Stephensons
Etymology: From Stephen + -son.
Senses: glosses: An English and Scottish surname originating as a patronymic.
glosses: A township and city therein, in Menominee County, Michigan, United States.
glosses: A town in Marinette County, Wisconsin, United States.
qualifier: Durham University
glosses: Ellipsis of Stephenson College, Durham.
Derived terms: Stephenson County
Stephenson gauge
Stephensonian
Related terms: Stevenson
liminocentric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈlɪmɪnəʊˌsɛntɹɪk/
Forms: form: more liminocentric
form: most liminocentric
Etymology: Coined from Latin limen ‘threshold’ + -centric.
Senses: examples: text: The torus is a liminocentric composition.
glosses: Having an edge or border which is simultaneously a centre, or internal areas that are indistinguishable from boundary areas.
examples: text: According to some versions of string theory, the universe displays a fractal-like identity between its scale extremities (the astronomically large and subatomically small), indicating a liminocentric structure.
glosses: Having an identity between the very small and very large such that both are equivalent or indistinguishable.
examples: text: Her analysis proposes a liminocentric chain of cause and effect, like a recursive set of Chinese boxes where the innermost box paradoxically contains the outermost.
text: For quotations using this term, see Citations:liminocentric.
glosses: Arranged such that the centre simultaneously encompasses external elements while remaining located within them.
Chinese boxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A set of boxes, of different sizes, each fitting inside the next larger one.
glosses: Something that resembles a set of Chinese boxes, especially in complexity.
glosses: plural of Chinese box
Hypernyms: box
coeternity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From co- + eternity.
Senses: examples: 1714, Bp George Bull, Some Important Points of Primitive Chriſtianity Maintained and Defended (2nd ed.), volume III, discourse IV: “The Conſubſtantiality and Coeternity of the Son of God with God the Father, Aſſerted; or ſome few Animadverſions on a Treatiſe of Mr. Gilbert Clerke, entituled Anteniceniſmus, ſo far as the ſaid Author pretends to anſwer Dr. George Bull’s Defenſe of the Nicene Faith, &c.”, page 915
glosses: Existence from eternity equally with another eternal being; equal eternity.
mistle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪsəl/
rhymes: -ɪsəl
Forms: form: mistles
Etymology: From Middle English mistel (“mistletoe”), from Old English mistel (“mistletoe”), from Proto-West Germanic *mistil (“mistle”), from Proto-Germanic *mistilaz (“mistle”).
Senses: glosses: mistletoe
glosses: the mistle thrush
mistle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪsəl/
rhymes: -ɪsəl
Forms: form: mistles
form: mistling
form: mistled
form: mistled
Etymology: Presumably from mist + -le (frequentative suffix).
Senses: glosses: To fall like a fine rain; to drizzle.
Related terms: mist
mistle thrush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mistle thrushes
form: missel thrush
Etymology: It is supposed to be fond of the berries of the mistletoe.
Senses: examples: Brian Cox as Logan Roy (2019), 31:28 from the start, in Succession, season 2, episode 8: “I saw a mistle thrush at the bandstand.”
glosses: A large Eurasian thrush, Turdus viscivorus.
Synonyms: mistletoe thrush
stormcock
thricecock
log off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: logs off
form: logging off
form: logged off
form: logged off
Senses: glosses: Synonym of log out.
synonyms: word: log out
glosses: To depart from any conversation, online or in person; to say goodbye.
Derived terms: word: logoff
bog off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bogs off
form: bogging off
form: bogged off
form: bogged off
Etymology: Shortening and euphemistic alteration from bugger off.
Senses: glosses: To leave, to go away.
Synonyms: word: to fuck off
word: to piss off
word: to bugger off
bean bag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbiːn ˌbæɡ/
Forms: form: bean bags
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of beanbag.
pissy bed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pissy beds
Etymology: From their use as a diuretic; compare French pissenlit.
Senses: synonyms: pissabed
glosses: The dandelion.
mistigri
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mistigris
Etymology: French
Senses: glosses: A trick-taking card game that dates back to the 18th century, somewhat resembling poker.
nameless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: nameles
Etymology: From Middle English nameles, equivalent to name + -less. Cognate with Dutch naamloos (“nameless”), German namenlos (“nameless”), Danish navnløs (“nameless”), Swedish namnlös (“nameless”), Icelandic nafnlaus (“nameless, anonymous”).
Senses: examples: text: Environmental DNA analysis suggests that the number of species of bacteria that remain nameless to date may well be on the order of many thousands.
synonyms: unnamed
glosses: Not having a name.
examples: text: The culprits shall remain nameless here, as some names have been changed to protect the guilty; just don't let it happen again.
text: Victims of rug pulls are often left with little recourse against nameless thieves.
ref: 2022 March 2, David Yaffe-Bellany, “Millions for Crypto Start-Ups, No Real Names Necessary”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 03 Mar 2022:
synonyms: anonymous
deidentified
glosses: Whose name is unknown; unidentified or obscured.
examples: text: a nameless unease
text: a nameless fear
text: Minute grew into minute, and still there was no sign of life, nor did the curtain move; but I felt the gaze of the unknown being sinking through and through me, and filling me with a nameless terror, till the perspiration stood in beads upon my brow.
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, “The Plain of Kôr”, in She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC, page 126:
synonyms: word: indescribable
word: indefinable
word: undescribable
word: indicible
word: inexpressible
word: untold
word: ineffable
word: inenarrable
word: inutterable
word: nameless
word: termless
word: undefinable
word: unnameable
word: unspecifiable
word: unspeakable
word: unutterable
glosses: Unable to be described or expressed.
examples: text: He said that he would cherish her until the grave, and that he would love her nameless son as though he were his own flesh.
ref: 1953, James Baldwin, “Elizabeth’s Prayer”, in Go Tell It on the Mountain, New York, N.Y.: Dell Publishing Co., published October 1970, →OCLC, part 2 (The Prayers of the Saints), page 175:
synonyms: word: illegitimate
word: base
word: baseborn
word: base born
word: bastardly
word: extramarital
word: misbegotten
word: nameless
word: natural
word: spurious
word: unwanted
word: degenerate
glosses: Illegitimate.
raw_tags: of a child
Derived terms: nameless bee disease
nameless finger
namelessly
namelessness
Related terms: innominate
no-name
nameless
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: the nameless
form: nameles
Etymology: From Middle English nameles, equivalent to name + -less. Cognate with Dutch naamloos (“nameless”), German namenlos (“nameless”), Danish navnløs (“nameless”), Swedish namnlös (“nameless”), Icelandic nafnlaus (“nameless, anonymous”).
Senses: examples: text: Hérison, m. The female pudendum; ‘the nameless’.
ref: 1896, John Stephen Farmer, “Hérison”, in Vocabula Amatoria, page 156:
synonyms: word: name-it-not
word: axe wound
word: badly packed kebab
word: bearded clam
word: beaver
word: beef curtains
word: burger
word: chocha
word: clam
word: cooch
word: coochie
word: coochy
word: cookie
word: coot
word: cooter
word: crack
word: cunny
word: cunt
word: fanny
word: foo-foo
word: front bottom
word: fur burger
word: fur pie
word: gash
word: gee
word: girl penis
word: hair pie
word: ham sandwich
word: honey hole
word: it
word: kebab
word: kitty
word: ladybits
word: minge
word: minnie
word: moocha
word: mooshoo
word: mott
word: muff
word: muffin
word: na-na
word: nonny
word: nooky
word: noonie
word: old hat
word: pee flap
word: pee-pee
word: pink
word: poontang
word: prat
word: pudendum muliebre
word: punani
word: pussy
word: quaint
word: quiff
word: quim
word: roast beef
word: scut
word: slit
word: slot
word: snatch
word: treasures
word: tuppence
word: twat
word: twinkle
word: vadge
word: vagina
word: vajay
word: va-jay-jay
word: vulva
word: wee-wee
glosses: Vulva.
witting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪtɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪtɪŋ
Etymology: Partly from Old Norse vitand, partly from the present participle of wit.
Senses: examples: text: Howbeit, as great is growyng, if we suffer thys yong king in our enemies hande, which without his witting might abuse the name of his commandement, to ante of our knowing, which thing God and good provision forbid.
ref: 1600, John Stow, The Annales of England, page 728:
text: All such particular sums of money which he hath levied or lawfully might have levied to his witting or knowledge within his bailiwick, as part or parcel, […]
ref: 1758, Philip Carteret Webb ·, A State of Facts in Defence of His Majesty's Right to Certain Fee-Farm Rents in the County of Norfolk, page 91:
text: He received holy water, but no holy bread to his witting.
ref: 1849, Charles Eyre, The History of St. Cuthbert, page 204:
text: I have seen Sir Tristram fight, said Sir Palamides, but never Sir Launcelot to my witting.
ref: 1897, Sir Thomas Malory, Sir Edward Strachey, Le Morte Darthur:
glosses: Knowledge, awareness.
witting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪtɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪtɪŋ
Forms: form: more witting
form: most witting
Etymology: Participle adjective of wit.
Senses: examples: text: Sometimes the committing authority, who is usually located in the United States, is the only person who is witting of the CIA officer's true affiliation.
ref: 2011, James M. Olson, Fair Play: The Moral Dilemmas of Spying:
glosses: aware, knowledgeable
glosses: Done deliberately or intentionally
Derived terms: wittingly
witting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪtɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪtɪŋ
Etymology: Participle adjective of wit.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of wit
con artist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: con artists
form: con-artist
Etymology: A clipping of confidence artist.
Senses: examples: text: That greedy con artist would swindle you at any cost.
text: He's the FBI agent antagonist in Catch Me If You Can (2002) opposite a buoyantly charming young Leonardo DiCaprio as con artist Frank Abagnale, but his character is more of a determined cat to Leo's mouse than a real foil; he's simply a prim Eisenhower-era man with a job to do.
ref: 2021 February 9, Christina Newland, “Is Tom Hanks part of a dying breed of genuine movie stars?”, in BBC:
text: Leavers will be attracted to that story because it spares them the discomfort of admitting that they voted for a con, and then made a prime minister of the con artist.
ref: 2021 February 23, Rafael Behr, “Brexit is a machine to generate perpetual grievance. It's doing its job perfectly”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: word: conman
word: con
word: bristler
word: bunco artist
word: bunco-steerer
word: chiseler
word: con artist
word: confidence artist
word: confidence trickster
word: conman
word: flimflammer
word: grifter
word: lugger
word: magsman
word: mountebank
word: saltimbanco
word: sharpster
word: sharker
word: shark-gull
word: slicker
word: smooth operator
word: spiv
word: bamboozler
word: bouncer
word: bullshitter
word: cheat
word: cheater
word: cogger
word: cony-catcher
word: crammer
word: deceiver
word: deceptor
word: fabricator
word: fabulist
word: falser
word: gabber
word: grifter
word: guiler
word: liar
word: losenger
word: mocker
word: pseudologist
word: rook
word: Scandaroon
word: shammer
word: Spanish athlete
word: swindler
word: swike
word: treacher
word: trickster
word: trucker
word: wernard
glosses: A person who uses confidence tricks to defraud or swindle people after first gaining their trust with a series of confidence games; a scam operator, confidence trickster.
Synonyms: word: charlatan
word: con artist
word: conman
word: duper
word: fraud
word: fraudster
word: grifter
word: hustler
word: scammer
word: shyster
word: snake oil salesman
word: snake
word: swindler
word: trickster
Hypernyms: word: deceiver
Derived terms: con artistry
Related terms: word: pickpocket
word: thief
dining table
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dining tables
form: dining-table
Senses: examples: Holonym: dining set
Near-synonym: dinner table
hypernyms: <
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furniture#Noun
related: word: dining chair
glosses: A table, usually in a dining room or dining hall, on which meals are served.
Related terms: dine
diner
dining facility
dinner
chomp at the bit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: chomps at the bit
form: chomping at the bit
form: chomped at the bit
form: chomped at the bit
form: champ at the bit
Etymology: Non-standard variant of champ at the bit, recasting it as chomp (“to chew noisily”) + bit (“part of a horse's harness held in its mouth”); horses tend to chew on their bits when impatient at waiting.
Senses: examples: text: Electronics makers chomping at the bit.
ref: 2004, Lisa Wang, Taipei Times read at http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/biz/archives/2004/03/16/2003102683 on 14 May 2006
text: But I wouldn't say [they're frustrated], I think our players are just chomping at the bit to go.
ref: 2005, Guy Hedderwick, speaking to Joel Zander of Australian Broadcasting Corporation, New Zealand Knights: Outsiders read at https://web.archive.org/web/20060420011428/http://www.abc.net.au/sport/content/200508/s1441286.htm on 14 May 2006
text: Curt Schilling was "chomping at the bit" following Monday’s three-inning stint in an intrasquad minor-league game.
ref: 2005, David Borges, Journal Register News Service, Schilling ‘chomping at the bit’ read at http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=14200724&BRD=1641&PAG=461&dept_id=17739&rfi=6 on 14 May 2006
glosses: To show impatience or frustration when delayed.
Related terms: bit between one's teeth
&c
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of &c. / etc..
daypack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: daypacks
form: day pack
Etymology: From day + pack.
Senses: glosses: A small backpack, suitable for a one-day hike or for carrying books around campus.
Synonyms: haversack
knapsack
rucksack
garrotte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: garrottes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of garrote.
garrotte
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: garrottes
form: garrotting
form: garrotted
form: garrotted
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of garrote.
NWFP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of North West Frontier Province, a northern province of Pakistan with the capital Peshawar.
North-West Frontier Province
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: North West Frontier Province
Senses: glosses: The former name of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, a province in north-west Pakistan renamed in 2010.
Peshawar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɛˈʃəˌwɑːr/
Forms: form: Parashawar
form: Peshour
form: Pershawer
form: Peshawur
form: Purshawar
Etymology: Borrowed from Urdu پشاور (piśāvar), a corruption of Classical Persian پَرَشَاوَر (parašāwar), ultimately from Sanskrit पुरूषपुर (purūṣapura).
Senses: glosses: A city, the provincial capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
Derived terms: Pollywood
Federally Administered Tribal Areas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: FATA
Senses: glosses: A former administrative region of Pakistan located between Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province and Afghanistan, now part of the former.
FATA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Federally Administered Tribal Areas.
Lahore
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ləˈhɔːr/
Etymology: Borrowed from Urdu لاہَور (lāhaur), further etymology is disputed. There are multiple interpretations of this name's origin:
* A legend claims it to be from Sanskrit लव (lava, “Lava”) + पुर (pura, “fortress; city”), literally “city of Lava”, from Ramayana, a Hindu epic.
* From Punjabi لوہار (lohār, “blacksmith”) / ਲੋਹਾਰ (lohār), ਲੁਹਾਰ (luhār).
* Corruption of Sanskrit रवावर (ravāvara), ultimately from इरावती (irāvatī, “the Ravi River”).
Senses: synonyms: word: Lohkot
word: Mahmoodpur
glosses: The second largest city of Pakistan and the provincial capital of Punjab; located on the Ravi river.
wikipedia: Lava (Ramayana)
Derived terms: Lahori
Lahorite
skateboard wheels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of skateboard wheel
Balochistan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Baluchistan
form: Baluchestan
form: Beluchistan
form: Beloochistan
form: Biluchistan
Etymology: Borrowed from Baluchi بلوچِستان or Hindustani بَلوچِسْتان / बलोचिस्तान (balocistān), from Classical Persian بَلوچِسْتَان (balōčistān). By surface analysis, Baloch + -istan.
Senses: glosses: A region on the Iranian plateau in south-western Asia, northwest of the Arabian Sea, dominated by desert and mountains, composed of southwestern Pakistan, southeastern Iran and a strip of southwestern Afghanistan; inhabited by the Baloch people.
glosses: A province of Pakistan. Capital: Quetta.
Related terms: Baloch
Balochi
adrenalitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From adrenal + -itis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Inflammation of one or both adrenal glands, leading to an insufficiency of cortisol and/or aldosterone.
Related terms: Addison's Disease
primary adrenal insufficiency
primary hypocortisolism
Zahedan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Zahidan
Senses: glosses: A city in Iran, the seat of Zahedan County's Central District and the capital of Sistan and Baluchestan Province.
glosses: A county of Iran, around the city.
Baluchistan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Balochistan.
donnybrook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈdɒnɪbɹʊk/
Forms: form: donnybrooks
Etymology: Named from Donnybrook Fair, a notoriously disorderly event, held annually from 1204 until the middle of the 19th century. The town of Donnybrook comes from the Irish Domhnach Broc (“The Church of Saint Broc”).
Senses: examples: text: But the Hindus turned out and broke their heads; when, finding lawlessness pleasant, Hindus and Muhammadans together raised an aimless sort of Donnybrook just to see how far they could go.
ref: 1888, Rudyard Kipling, “His Chance in Life”, in Plain Tales from the Hills, Folio, published 2005, page 56:
text: Sherman's signature caused another donnybrook over the election of a speaker of the House when the 36th Congress convened in December 1859.
ref: 1988, James McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom, Oxford, published 2003, page 200:
text: This was no innocuous donnybrook but a veritable carnival of thuggee.
ref: 2002, Joseph O'Connor, Star of the Sea, Vintage, published 2003, page 223:
glosses: A brawl or fracas; a scene of chaos.
Derived terms: donnybrookian
donnybrook
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈdɒnɪbɹʊk/
Etymology: Named from Donnybrook Fair, a notoriously disorderly event, held annually from 1204 until the middle of the 19th century. The town of Donnybrook comes from the Irish Domhnach Broc (“The Church of Saint Broc”).
Senses: examples: text: In one of the most thrilling, heart-threatening donnybrook baseball battles in the World Series in recent decades, the Houston Astros and Los Angeles Dodgers tried to smother each other in heroics and home runs over four incredible hours Wednesday night in Game 2.
ref: 2017, Thomas Boswell, “Hello, Dodgers. We’re the Astros, and this World Series is far from over”, in Washington Post:
glosses: Chaotic.
biokinesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌbaɪoʊkɪˈnisɪs/
ipa: /ˌbaɪəʊkɪˈniːsɪs/
rhymes: -iːsɪs
Etymology: From bio- + -kinesis.
Senses: topics: political-science
social-sciences
glosses: A political theory concerning the movement of populations as a basis for power.
topics: literature
media
parapsychology
pseudoscience
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: The ability, through the use of psychic power, to affect organic matter on a microscopic level, to manipulate the physiology (e.g. heart rate, breathing, nervous system or brainwaves) and voluntary motor functions of other people or living organisms, inducing processes such as accelerated healing, etc.
Related terms: biopathy
macrokinesis
microkinesis
psychokinesis
telekinesis
thermokinesis
Gilgit
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Gilgit is one of the two important hubs for mountaineering expeditions to the peaks in the Karakoram range. The other hub is Skardu.
glosses: The capital of Gilgit-Baltistan administrative region of Pakistan, situated near Karakoram Highway (KKH).
glosses: One of the ten districts of the Gilgit-Baltistan administrative region of Pakistan.
Northern Areas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Northern Areas
Senses: glosses: Former name of Gilgit-Baltistan.
escape clause
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: escape clauses
Senses: synonyms: safety clause
glosses: Any clause, term or condition in a contract or statute that avoids the application of a provision
Related terms: break clause
Karakoram Highway
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Karakoram mountain range.
Senses: examples: text: In mid-1978 the 800-km. Karakoram highway was opened, linking Xinjiang province in the People’s Republic of China with Havelian, north of Islamabad, after being under construction for 20 years.
ref: 1981, “Pakistan”, in The Far East and Australasia 1981-82, 13th edition, Europa Publications, →ISBN, →ISSN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 986, column 1:
text: The Karakoram Highway linking Pakistan and China remains a strategic route.
ref: 1998, “Pakistan”, in Saul B. Cohen, editor, The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 2340–2341:
text: The Karakoram Highway (KKH) connects the Silk Road oasis of Kashgar with Rawalpindi and Islamabad, Pakistan's capital, via the 4730m Khunjerab Pass, the semi-mythical Hunza Valley and the trading post of Gilgit.
ref: 1998, John S. King, Bradley Mayhew, Karakoram Highway (Lonely Planet), 3rd edition, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 9:
text: In September of 2008, a woman with piercing green eyes named Nasreen Baig embarked on an arduous journey from her home in the tiny Pakistani village of Zuudkhan south along the Indus River and down the precipitous Karakoram Highway to the bustling city of Rawalpindi.
ref: 2009, Greg Mortenson, “Introduction”, in Stones into Schools: Promoting Peace through Education in Afghanistan and Pakistan, Penguin Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 3:
text: This border outpost on the Karakoram Highway, slashed through the glacier-strewn Karakoram mountains to join China and Pakistan by road, boasts a new world record: It has the world’s highest automated bank teller machine.
ref: 2017 November 3, Rina Saeed Khan, “Pakistan’s glaciers face new threat: Highway’s black carbon”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 17 May 2022, APAC:
glosses: The highest paved international road in the world, which connects Xinjiang, China, to Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan, across the Karakoram mountain range, through the Khunjerab Pass, at an altitude of 4,693 metres (15,397 feet).
Xinjiang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɪnˈt͡ʃ(j)ɑŋ/
ipa: /ˈʃin-/
ipa: /ˈsin-/
ipa: /-ˈt͡ʃ(j)æŋ/
note: hyperforeign
ipa: /ˈʃɪnˈd͡ʒ(j)ɑŋ/
note: hyperforeign
ipa: /ˈʃin-/
note: hyperforeign
ipa: /-ˈd͡ʒ(j)æŋ/
note: hyperforeign
enpr: shĭnʹj(y)ängʹ
note: hyperforeign
enpr: shĭnʹj(ē-)ängʹ
note: hyperforeign
enpr: shĭnʹj(y)ăngʹ
note: hyperforeign
enpr: shĭnʹj(ē-)ăngʹ
enpr: sĭnʹkyăngʹ
enpr: shǐnʹjyängʹ
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 新絳／新绛 (Xīnjiàng).
Senses: examples: text: Drumming in Shanxi Province can be dated back centuries earlier to Xinjiang County, the ancient name of Jiangzhou, in present-day Shanxi Province.
ref: 2010 September 3, He Jianwei, “Beats of the land: Artist's persistence saves ethnic heritage”, in Beijing Today, number 482, →ISSN, →OCLC, pages 12–13, columns 3-1:
text: In September 2009, Xinjiang County in Yuncheng Municipality, Shanxi Province started to put village administrative information online for farmers to access.
ref: 2015, Guoguang Wu, Helen Lansdowne, China's Transition from Communism - New Perspectives, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC:
glosses: A county of Yuncheng, Shanxi, China.
Karakoram
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkɑː.ɹəˈkɔː.ɹəm/
ipa: /ˌkæɹ.əˈkɔː.ɹəm/
ipa: /ˌkɑɹ.əˈkɔɹ.əm/
ipa: /ˌkæɹ.əˈkɔɹ.əm/
Forms: form: Karakorum
Etymology: Ultimately from a Turkic language, literally meaning "black gravel". See Ottoman Turkish قره (qara, “black”) and possibly قوروم (kurum, “soot”) (kurum) and compare Urdu قراقرم (qarāquram) / قرہ قرم (qara quram).
Senses: examples: text: The Labiate genus Perovskia, to which the plant here figured belongs, is a somewhat anomalous one, comprising four species, two of which are natives of Turkestan with a third confined to Beluchistan, and a fourth, the one now depicted, which extends from the mountains of Afghanistan through the Western Himalaya to Western Tibet. In the Karakoram Range it is met with at elevations up to 10,000 feet above sea level.
ref: 1912, Curtis's Botanical Magazine, volume 8, page 8441:
text: To reach the Karakoram the expedition had to cross the vast mountainous region which lies between Kashmir and Chinese Turkestan, taking a different route each way.
ref: 1912, Filippo De Filippi, “Introduction”, in Karakoram and Western Himalaya, 1909, New York: E. P. Dutton and Company, →OCLC, →OL, page xvii:
text: The two sides also appeared to have dismantled recent construction along the river valley high in the Karakoram mountains, satellite images showed.
ref: 2020 July 7, AIJAZ HUSSAIN, EMILY SCHMALL, SAM MCNEIL, “Indian, Chinese soldiers move away from site of deadly clash”, in AP News, archived from the original on 18 May 2022:
glosses: A mountain range located in Gilgit, Ladakh and Baltistan, containing more than sixty peaks above 7,000 m (22,960 ft), including K2, the second highest peak in the world.
Derived terms: K2
Karakoram Highway
Trans-Karakoram Tract
Khunjerab Pass
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Khunjerab Pass
form: the Khunjerab Pass
Etymology: Partial calque of Wakhi درہ خنجراب (literally “waterfall house valley”), from دره (“valley; crack; fissure”) + خون (“house”) + جراب (“creek coming from a spring or a waterfall”), or, 'Valley of Blood'.
Senses: examples: text: In 1971, a motor road was inaugurated between Sinkiang and Pakistan across Khunjerab Pass of the Karakorum Mountains.
ref: 1972, Theodore Shabad, “Sinkiang”, in China's Changing Map National and Regional Development, 1949-71, Praeger Publishers, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 313:
text: The rolling uplands at 5000 m near Khunjerab Pass on the Hunza-Sinkiang border are a favored habitat of Marco Polo sheep.
ref: 1977, George B[eals] Schaller, Mountain Monarchs: Wild Sheep and Goats of the Himalaya (Wildlife Behavior and Ecology), Chicago, Ill.; London: The University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, plate 15:
text: In addition, several thousand P.L.A. troops are said to be stationed in the Khunjerab Pass on the Xinjiang border to protect Karakoram Highway construction crews, with ready access to Gilgit-Baltistan.
ref: 2010 September 8, Selig S. Harrison, “China's Presence in Pakistan”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 Sep 2015, Opinion:
text: The Karakoram Highway, which links China and Pakistan over the 15,400-foot Khunjerab Pass, winds through some spectacular gorges along the route of the old Silk Road. The international "Friendship Highway," which isn't even paved on the Pakistani side, is so unstable and prone to flash floods that almost 900 workers died during its construction, mostly crushed by landslides.
ref: 2013 October 15, “World's most dangerous roads”, in USA Today, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 10 Nov 2013:
text: On the Chinese side we drove up the 4,700-meter-high Khunjerab Pass from Kashgar - which was like driving through the Black Forest to Lake Titisee. At the border station the road ended abruptly, cut off like a piece of cake, before continuing a good meter lower down. The comfortable, tarred road suddenly became a dangerous, rough, rubble-strewn one.
ref: 2015 April 24, Frank Sieren, “Sieren's China: Beijing's 'Marshall Plan' for Pakistan”, in Deutsche Welle, archived from the original on 29 Aug 2015, China:
text: The Khunjerab Pass, a major land trade route between Pakistan and China, will be converted to an all-weather border, Pakistani caretaker prime minister Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar said at an event at the Belt and Road Forum in Beijing on Friday.
ref: 2023 October 20, Ariba Shahid, “Khunjerab Pass linking Pakistan, China to stay open all year round”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 21 Feb 2025:
glosses: A mountain pass connecting Xinjiang in China with Gilgit-Baltistan in Pakistan; it is the highest point on Karakoram Highway, at an altitude of 4,693 metres (15,397 feet), making it the highest paved international border crossing in the world.
volante
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: volantes
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish volante (literally “flying”).
Senses: glosses: A cumbrous two-wheeled pleasure carriage used in Cuba. The body is in front of the axle; the driver rides on the horse.
Related terms: robe volante
palm tree justice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: According to the Chambers Dictionary (Edinburgh: Chambers Harrap, 1998) the phrase is “from the old Arabic or Jewish idea of a wise man dispensing justice under a palm tree.” Thus: “And she dwelt under the palm tree of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in mount Ephraim: and the children of Israel came up to her for judgment.” (Judges 4:5)
Senses: examples: text: […] vary agreed or established rights to property in an endeavor to achieve a kind of palm tree justice […]
ref: 1965, National Provincial Bank v. Hastings Car Mart, [1965] 8. W.L.R. 1 at p. 11, per Lord Hodson
topics: law
glosses: A pragmatic approach to justice that is entirely discretionary and transcends legal rights or precedent, enabling the court to make such order as it thinks fair and just in the circumstances of the case.
onions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʌn.jənz/
Senses: glosses: plural of onion
Onions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Onion
Onions
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Welsh Einion, from Latin Annianus
Senses: glosses: A surname from Welsh [in turn originating as a patronymic].
bargaining power
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bargaining powers
Senses: glosses: The amount of leverage or influence that a party has in the course of a negotiation.
savaloy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: savaloys
Senses: examples: text: Savaloys, or Cervelas. [...] Fill the gut, and bake the savaloys for half an hour in a moderate oven.
ref: [1810], [Esther Copley], “Stuffings, Seasonings, Forcemeat, &c.”, in The Cook’s Complete Guide, on the Principles of Frugality, Comfort, and Elegance […], London: George Virtue, […], →OCLC, page 394:
text: "She always has a savaloy for supper, and I'm going to fetch it, and the beer." [...] [H]e walked arm-in-arm with the golden-tressed creature who now carried the savaloy for her mother in a piece of old newspaper!
ref: 1855 May, “The Lamplighter: A Model Story for Young Authors”, in Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, volume X, number LX, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC, chapter II, page 818:
text: If you pushed a little further up through the crowd you would see, on the other side, and old bloke with gingery hair who wore a long, thin, ochre-coloured coat, sitting there all day on a high wooden stool shouting: ‘Savaloys! Savaloys! Savaloys!’
ref: 2004, Bryan Magee, chapter 5, in Clouds of Glory: A Hoxton Childhood, London: Pimlico, →ISBN, page 59:
glosses: Alternative spelling of saveloy.
sav
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: savs
Etymology: Clipping of saveloy.
Senses: examples: text: 1982, Ronald Hugh Morrieson, NZ, Predicament, The Dunmore Press, page 68,
“Well, I don′t know what you′ll think. I′m only saying this to show what you′ve all done for me, but last Christmas dinner I had cold savs.”
There was silence and then Mervyn added with a break in his voice, “Saveloys. […] ”
text: ‘Your turn today, Lil,’ he said. ‘Fish and chips for me. No, wait, I′ll have savs, faggots and pease pudding.’
ref: 2007, Gilda O'Neill, Rough Justice, UK: William Heinemann, page 397:
text: The menu of the average fish and chip shop will also offer[…]battered savs/Pluto pups (these are basically saveloy sausages with a fried batter on a stick, dipped in tomato ketchup) as well as a choice of homemade marinated pickles.
ref: 2008, Deborah Penrith, Live & Work in Australia, UK: Crimson Publishing, page 176:
glosses: A saveloy.
Derived terms: battered sav
cocktail sav
fair suck of the sav
sav
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sav
form: most sav
Etymology: Clipping of savage.
Senses: glosses: Clipping of savage (“unpleasant or unfair”).
sav
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: savs
Etymology: Clipping of savage.
Senses: examples: text: Fuck that / I'd rather be the young sav on the track / Sellin' dope and pimpin' hoes / 'Cause I'm the mack
ref: 2001 November 20, “Cuz I'm The Mack”performed by The Jacka:
text: Couple of savs around us smoking on gas in Ghana / I get the bag the commas shawty attached she want it
ref: 2020 June 25, “Different”performed by Friyie:
text: finished my first day of high school I'm a sav
ref: 2022 August 29, @floiwnl, Twitter, archived from the original on 20 Jan 2024:
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: A ruthless or badass person; a savage.
Related terms: sense: etymologically unrelated
word: cab sav
fair suck of the sav
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: sav is an abbreviation of saveloy, a seasoned and smoked pork sausage.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of fair suck of the sauce bottle.
synonyms: word: fair suck of the sauce bottle
fair suck of the sauce bottle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌfɛə ˈsʌk əv ðə ˈsɔːs ˈbɒt(ə)l/
ipa: /fɛː-/
ipa: /ˌfɛɚ ˈsʌk əv ðə ˈsɔs ˈbɑtəl/
ipa: [-ˈbɑɾl]
Etymology: An elaboration of fair go (used in protest to implore or demand that someone act with more fairness or reason). Sauce bottle appears to refer to a bottle of cheap beer or another alcoholic beverage; see sauce (“(slang) alcohol, booze”).
Senses: examples: text: [Barry] Humphries, as Hoot, the Jesus-freak, goes down under a knuckle sandwich, his mouth and detached teeth so reddened you can see he's had more than a fair suck of the sauce bottle.
ref: 1972, The Bulletin, Sydney, N.S.W.: Australian Consolidated Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 45, column 2:
text: Tex Morton's Goondiwindi Grey [...] A record that is as Australian as a "fair suck of the sauce bottle."
ref: 1978 January 26, “From the rack: Spinning a horoscope for a Zodiac lady [music review]”, in The Age (The Age Green Guide), Melbourne, Vic.: Fairfax Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 8, column 7:
text: [S]ensing that the end of 'Britain' may be inevitable, a forgotten sentiment is occurring to the one people in this island who, says Alan Ford, never get a fair suck of the sauce bottle.
ref: 2003, Boris Johnson, The Essential Boris Johnson: Lend Me Your Ears, London: HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 189:
text: Ensuring a fair suck of the sauce bottle: institutional considerations [section heading] Adherence to federalism principles or "getting prices right" or even "getting the rules of the game right" as discussed earlier is a necessary but not a sufficient condition for the success of decentralized decision making.
ref: 2004 April, Anwar Shah, “Realigning the Authorizing Environment to a Focus on Societal Goals”, in Fiscal Decentralization in Developing and Transition Economies: Progress, Problems, and the Promise (World Bank Policy Research Working Paper; 3282), Washington, D.C.: World Bank, →OCLC, page 31:
text: It is outrageous and indefensible that Sally Roycroft is deprived of a freedom that we legally confer on every French person. It is time she was given a fair suck of the sauce bottle, as the Australians say.
ref: 2013 August 26, Oliver Milman, quoting Boris Johnson, “Boris Johnson calls for free labour exchange between UK and Australia”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 Aug 2019:
synonyms: fair crack of the whip
fair go
fair shake
fair shake of the sauce bottle
fair suck of the sav
glosses: A fair chance, a reasonable opportunity; a fair go.
fair suck of the sauce bottle
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌfɛə ˈsʌk əv ðə ˈsɔːs ˈbɒt(ə)l/
ipa: /fɛː-/
ipa: /ˌfɛɚ ˈsʌk əv ðə ˈsɔs ˈbɑtəl/
ipa: [-ˈbɑɾl]
Etymology: An elaboration of fair go (used in protest to implore or demand that someone act with more fairness or reason). Sauce bottle appears to refer to a bottle of cheap beer or another alcoholic beverage; see sauce (“(slang) alcohol, booze”).
Senses: examples: text: Mary Beecher, 19, and her sister coeds love to date Americans and Englishmen but have a hard time communicating. "They just don't understand our talk," she reported and promptly wrote them a "Brief Australian Dictionary." [...] "Fair suck of the sauce bottle" means "Let's be civilized about this;" [...]
ref: [1973 March 22, “Aussie talk is baffling”, in The Sun, volume 272, number 107, Baltimore, Md.: The A[runah] S[hepherdson] Abell Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, page B6, column 1:
text: I tried to calm him down. "Fair suck of the sauce bottle," I said. "Take it easy, mate. I was just admiring your cobber. Don't often see a man like him around."
ref: 1983, Alistair Skelton, Bill’s Break, Prahan, Vic.: Champion Books, →ISBN, page 198:
text: ‘Garn with ya. Fair suck of the sauce bottle’, countered Sid. ‘Look all ya gotta do is knock a little bit of the tube out and it won′t wink anymore. Get a yonnie and give it a little tap.’
ref: 1986, [Bruce Pascoe], editor, Australian Short Stories, number 15, Fairfield, Vic.: Pascoe Pub., →OCLC, page 10:
text: Some idiots even blamed him [Sidney Kidman] for the drought—and the depression—because he owned so much country. Fair suck of the sauce bottle, I tell you.
ref: 1992, Jill Bowen, Kidman: The Forgotten King (Imprint Lives), Pymble, N.S.W.: Angus & Robertson, →ISBN:
text: Come on Aussie, fair suck of the sauce bottle, here's the opportunity to recognise Aboriginal cultural and economic excellence and put our money where our mouth is. Instead of mouthing platitudes about Aboriginal employment, we will buy food directly from the descendants of the people who developed an incredible array of health giving crops and managed them in perpetuity … until 1788; until the British insisted on the sheep and the spud.
ref: 2018 May 29, Bruce Pascoe, “Comment: Let’s Talk about Real Australian Food”, in Special Broadcasting Service, archived from the original on 21 Sep 2019:
synonyms: fair crack of the whip
fair go
fair shake of the sauce bottle
fair suck of the sav
glosses: Used to protest against unreasonableness, such as somebody taking more than their fair share.
heaps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hiːps/
rhymes: -iːps
Senses: glosses: plural of heap
examples: text: And heaps of objections, all of them involving countless difficulties, are going to face anyone who says either that being is some two things or that it is only one.
ref: 2005, Plato, translated by Lesley Brown, Sophist, page 245e:
glosses: A large amount.
examples: text: "We were a bit nervous about it, seeing heaps of surfers out there on the breaks," he said. "There were some nice breaks, but it looked pretty sketchy with the sharks, so yeah, we just tried to stay away from that beach."
ref: 2025 January 4, “Surfing community again in mourning after latest shark attack on SA coast”, in ABC News (Australia):
glosses: Indicating a large amount or number.
heaps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /hiːps/
rhymes: -iːps
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of heap
heaps
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /hiːps/
rhymes: -iːps
Senses: examples: text: I love him heaps.
glosses: Very much, a lot
mockery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɒkəɹi/
ipa: /ˈmɑkəɹi/
Forms: form: mockeries
Etymology: From Middle English mokkery, from Anglo-Norman mokerie, mokery and Middle French mocquerie, moquerie, from moquer, moker (“to mock”) + -erie (“-ery”), perhaps from Byzantine Greek μωκός (mōkós, “mocker”), perhaps from Arabic مَكْر (makr, “scheme, plot”). Equivalent to mock + -ery.
Senses: glosses: The action of mocking; ridicule, derision.
glosses: Something so lacking in necessary qualities as to inspire ridicule; a laughing-stock.
glosses: Something insultingly imitative; an offensively futile action, gesture etc.
examples: text: The defendant wasn't allowed to speak at his own trial - it was a mockery of justice.
glosses: Mimicry, imitation, now usually in a derogatory sense; a travesty, a ridiculous simulacrum.
Derived terms: make a mockery of
make mockery of
self-mockery
devices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dəˈvaɪsɪz/
rhymes: -aɪsɪz
Senses: glosses: plural of device
Derived terms: left to one's own devices
merriment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɛɹimɪnt/
ipa: /ˈmɛɹimənt/
Forms: form: merriments
Etymology: From merry + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: Hugh laughed again, and with such thorough abandonment to his mad humour, that his limbs seemed dislocated, and his whole frame in danger of tumbling to pieces; but Mr Tappertit, so far from receiving this extreme merriment with any irritation, was pleased to regard it with the utmost favour, and even to join in it, so far as one of his gravity and station could, with any regard to that decency and decorum which men in high places are expected to maintain.
ref: 1841, Charles Dickens, Barnaby Rudge:
text: It is recorded that this remarkable prophecy, now largely fulfilled, was received with much merriment—an undeserved fate.
ref: 1955 November, G. Machell, “Railway Development at Aylesbury - 1”, in Railway Magazine, pages 741-742:
synonyms: word: merriness
word: mirth
word: ardor
word: alacrity
word: celerity
word: energy
word: enthusiasm
word: exuberance
word: exuberantness
word: fanaticism
word: fervor
word: gusto
word: purpose
word: verve
word: vigor
word: vim
word: zeal
word: zealousness
word: blitheness
word: blithesomeness
word: cheerfulness
word: cheeriness
word: contentness
word: contentedness
word: delight
word: delightedness
word: elatedness
word: elation
word: exuberance
word: exuberantness
word: felicity
word: gaiety
word: gayness
word: gayfulness
word: gladness
word: gladsomeness
word: glee
word: gleefulness
word: gleesomeness
word: happiness
word: high spirits
word: hilarity
word: jolliness
word: jollity
word: joviality
word: jovialness
word: joy
word: joyfulness
word: joyousness
word: liss
word: merriment
word: merriness
word: mirth
word: mirthfulness
word: pleasedness
glosses: A state of enjoyable exuberance.
examples: text: Alas poore Yorick […] VVhere be your Jibes now? Your Gambals? Your Songs? Your flaſhes of Merriment that were wont to ſet the Table on a Rore?
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i], page 278, column 1:
text: For to what purpose were it to clog our stomachs with dainties, junkets, and the like stuff, unless our eyes and ears, nay whole mind, were likewise entertained with jests, merriments, and laughter?
ref: 1668, John Wilson, The Praise of Folly, translation of original by Desiderius Erasmus, published 1509:
glosses: Playful fun.
QAU
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: QAUs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of quality assurance unit.
inconvenient
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more inconvenient
form: most inconvenient
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French inconvenient, from Latin inconvenientem.
Senses: antonyms: convenient
glosses: not convenient
Derived terms: inconvenientness
inconvenient
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inconvenients
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French inconvenient, from Latin inconvenientem.
Senses: examples: text: To provide against this inconvenient, when the Stoikes were demanded whence the election of two indifferent things commeth into our soule[…]they answer, that this motion of the soule is extraorainarie and irregular comming into us by a strange, accidentall and casuall impulsion.
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 14, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
glosses: An inconsistency, an incongruity.
glosses: An inconvenient circumstance or situation; an inconvenience.
Related terms: word: inconvenience
word: inconveniently
evolved
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more evolved
form: most evolved
Senses: glosses: Having arisen through a process of evolution or iterative development.
glosses: Biologically gifted.
Derived terms: evolved antenna
evolvedness
hyperevolved
nonevolved
unevolved
evolved
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of evolve
flattered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more flattered
form: most flattered
Senses: glosses: In a positive mood because of a comment or action which causes one to feel proud of oneself.
Derived terms: unflattered
flattered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of flatter
poppet valve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poppet valves
Senses: examples: text: This communication between the tank and pump is controlled by a float valve in the tanks and a cock in the pipe, while a poppet valve prevents the undrawn liquor going into the waste tank.
ref: 1900, Patents for Inventions: Abridgments of Specifications, page 75:
text: Chesapeake & Ohio's enormous L-2 4-6-4's with Franklin rotary-cam poppet valves boasted an engine weight of 221½ tons and were coal-minded Chessie's last bid to beat the passenger diesel with a reciprocating engine.
ref: 1959, David P. Morgan, editor, Steam's Finest Hour, Kalmbach Publishing Co., page 62:
topics: engineering
mechanical-engineering
mechanics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
hypernyms: valve
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part#Noun
component#Noun
glosses: A valve (as in an internal combustion engine) which consists of a sliding shaft with a disk on the end (the disk being shaped to alternately plug and unplug a matching port). Such a valve is opened by either a cam or a solenoid and is closed by either a spring or a solenoid.