cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
insurrectionalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From insurrectional + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: For a short time, insurrectionalism stood on the pedestal previously occupied in Latin America by the foquismo of Che, the people's war of Mao, and the electoral road of Allende.
ref: 1986, United States. Dept. of the Air Force, Air University review - Volume 37, Issue 5, page 83:
text: Those already wary of the party's electoral maneuvers in 1919 further resented the Socialists' calls, after the May 1920 strike failure, to abandon revolutionary insurrectionalism and place all hopes in "le bulletin rouge".
ref: 1986, Kathryn Ellen Amdur, Syndicalist Legacy:
text: In these situations and others, class-based insurrectionalism, led by vanguard political parties, has been shunned.
ref: 1987, Our Generation - Volumes 16-18, page 6:
text: The third faction — the TI — sought to steer a middle course between the GPP-TP debate using the strategic concept of insurrectionalism, which asserted that before a Marxist-Leninist state could be established the revolution had to pass through a democratic-popular stage.
ref: 1988, Richard H. Shultz, The Soviet Union and revolutionary warfare, →ISBN, page 154:
glosses: The belief that insurrection is the best way to achieve a communist or socialist revolution.
examples: text: Some saw in the Malatesta-Monatte clash nothing but the re-emergence of traditional insurrectionalism over the general strike.
ref: 2009, Maurizio Antonioli, Nestor McNab, The International Anarchist Congress: Amsterdam 1907, page 19:
text: Consciously or not, most local anarchists embraced the Bakuninist view, which had an innate affinity to the revolutionary urgency and insurrectionalism so pervasive in the movement.
ref: 2010, Juan Suriano, Paradoxes of Utopia, →ISBN:
text: Thus, the tactics of insurrectionalism had reached their limits.
ref: 2014, Bart van der Steen, The City Is Ours, →ISBN:
text: Again, I would insist that this is not to explain that insurrectionalism as a mere “expression” of theory, or as derivative from theory, but rather to suggest a convergence in conceptual structure.
ref: 2015, Federico Luisetti, John Pickles, Wilson Kaiser, The Anomie of the Earth, →ISBN:
glosses: A branch within the anarchist movement that eschews formal organizations such as political parties or labor unions and emphasizes insurrection.
blue-ringed octopus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blue-ringed octopuses
form: blue-ringed octopusses
form: blue-ringed octopi
form: blue-ringed octopii
form: blue-ringed octopodes
form: blue-ringed octopus
Etymology: From blue + ringed + octopus.
From being an octopus with very prominent bright blue rings all over its body.
Senses: examples: text: In terms of diversity, cephalopods include the egg case making argonauts, shelled nautiluses, venomous blue-ringed octopuses and enigmatic giants like the giant and colossal squid. […] The blue-ringed octopus Hapalochlaena lunulata has tetrodotoxin, the deadly toxin it also releases in a bite, in their ink but the concentrations and effect in inking are not known.
ref: 2017 August 9, Mark Carnall, “Why do cephalopods produce ink? And what's ink made of, anyway?”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Any octopus of the genus Hapalochlaena, with distinctive blue rings, that carry the highly poisonous venom tetrodotoxin (TTX).
family roof
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: family roofs
Senses: examples: text: 1868, Frances Parthenope Verney, Stone Edge, Smith, Elder & Co. (publ.), page 56.
And he took the big family roof and held it over them both.
text: Off went Dick, returning in two minutes with mamma's pretty sun-umbrella, papa's silk one with the ivory handle, and Dinah's family roof, an immense structure of whalebone and cotton, originally green, now faded and streaked with blue, black and yellow, till it looked like one vast bruise, — the stick as tough and substantial as Dinah herself, the handle an immense brass hook that Squeers himself might have envied.
ref: 1873 September, Ellis Gray, “Up, or Down?”, in Our Young Folks, volume IX, number IX, page 561:
glosses: A large, old-fashioned model of umbrella.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see family, roof.
murker
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of murk: more murk
Yangchow
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: yǎngʹchouʹ
yängʹjōʹ
Forms: form: Yang Chow
Etymology: From the Postal Romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 揚州／扬州 (Yángzhōu).
Senses: examples: text: With the opening of Yangchow the Mission had struck out in a new direction, for that city was situated on the northern section of the Grand Canal, which in those days, before the sea-route had become popular, was the highroad from the south to Peking and the northern provinces.
ref: 1915, Marshall Broomhall, The Jubilee Story of the China Inland Mission, →OCLC, page 63:
text: The resourcefulness of the Taipings was not too greatly occupied with the establishment of the Celestial Capital to prevent reaching out for the vital strategic centers of Chinkiang and Yangchow, the former a commanding site at the intersection of the Grand Canal with the Yangtse River, the latter on the canal about twenty-five or thirty miles away, both together controlling that vital artery through which flowed the supplies of tribute grain to the capital.
ref: 1927, William James Hail, Tsêng Kuo Fan And The Taiping Rebellion: With a Short Sketch of His Later Career, Yale History Press, →OCLC, page 188:
text: Every aspect of the salt trade required official sanction and the issue of permits. As an illustration, let us consider the marketing of a consignment of salt from the Huai-nan salines to an up-river port such as Hankow or Ta-t'ung. The yard merchant (ch'ang-shang) at the salines had to report his output of salt daily to the salt receiver (ch'ang-kuan), and could carry salt for sale to Shih-erh-wei only on the requisition of the Huai-nan general office (Huai-nan tsung-chü) at Yangchow, transmitted through the salt receiver; when he received this, the had to apply back to Yangchow for a transport permit (ch'ung-yen chih-chao) and to his local branch office (fen-ssu) for a cargo certificate (ts'ang-tan).
ref: 1970, S. A. M. Adshead, The Modernization of the Chinese Salt Administration, 1900-1920, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 19:
text: In a riot half a century earlier, Hudson Taylor had nearly lost his life at Yangchow, once the city of Marco Polo.
ref: December 2010, John Pollock, A Foreign Devil in China, World Wide Publications, →ISBN, page 33:
glosses: Alternative form of Yangzhou.
dateliner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dateliners
Etymology: From dateline + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The telegraph editor can use the undated as the top of the weather story and tack as many dateliners as he cares on the bottom, with the best coming first.
ref: 1946, Robert Miller Neal, Editing the Small City Daily, page 224:
text: A second Punta del Este dateliner, by Juan de Onis, quoted Secretary of State Dean Rusk giving the official U. S. view, which had already been reported extensively by Kenworthy and Szuie.
ref: 1958, Publication - Issues 1-134, page 93:
text: Pr. (6/13) carries TASS dateliner from Damascus citing new aggression by Israel along Syrian -Israeli front, and states that Israeli forces began move into Syrian territory as UN observers arrived in El Quneitra region.
ref: 1964, Radio Liberty Research Paper - Issues 2-33:
topics: journalism
media
glosses: An article that is published under a dateline.
unsecretively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unsecretively
form: most unsecretively
Etymology: From unsecretive + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unsecretive manner.
unsecretiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unsecretive + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being unsecretive.
unhalter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unhalters
form: unhaltering
form: unhaltered
form: unhaltered
Etymology: From un- + halter.
Senses: glosses: To remove a halter from (an animal).
unhalted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + halted.
Senses: glosses: Not halted; unstopped.
unhaltered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unhalter
unhaltered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Not wearing a halter.
unhalters
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unhalter
unhaltering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unhalter
unceased
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + ceased.
Senses: glosses: Not ceased; unstopped.
in the cold light of day
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Pronunciation: enpr: ĭn′ thə kōld′ līt′ əv dā′
ipa: /ˌɪn ðə ˈkəʊ̯ld ˌlaɪ̯t əv ˈdeɪ̯/
ipa: /ˌɪn ðə ˈkoʊ̯ld ˌlaɪ̯t əv ˈdeɪ̯/
ipa: /-ˌlʌɪ̯t-/
ipa: /ˌɪn ðə ˈkəʉ̯ld ˌlɑe̯t əv ˈdæɪ̯/
ipa: /ˌən ðə ˈkɐʉ̯ld ˌlaɪ̯t əv ˈdæɪ̯/
ipa: /ˌɪn ðə ˈkold ˌlaɪ̯t əv ˈde/
ipa: /-ˌlʌi̯t-/
ipa: /-ˌləi̯t-/
ipa: /ˌɪn d̪e ˈkoːlɖ ˌlajʈ ov ˈɖeː/
Etymology: Probably an allusion to a situation being seen more clearly in daylight, and after some time has passed. The word cold is used in the sense of “dispassionate; not prejudiced or partisan; impartial”.
Senses: examples: text: In the cold light of day, I felt I had overreacted.
text: In my over-wrought state of the night before, it had seemed reasonable enough; but here, in the cold light of day, it seemed preposterous.
ref: 1912 March, Burton E[gbert] Stevenson, “Preparations”, in The Mystery of the Boule Cabinet: A Detective Story, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, published 1918, →OCLC, page 119:
text: To the dreamer, a dream can seem at the time eerily indistinguishable from everyday consciousness yet, in retrospect, upon waking, so self-evidently different. The fragmented narrative, the improbability of much of what happens – flying, for example, or the transmogrification of one individual suddenly into another, and so on – seem ludicrous, even embarrassing, in the cold light of day.
ref: 2016, Susan Greenfield, “Dreaming”, in A Day in the Life of the Brain: The Neuroscience of Consciousness from Dawn till Dusk, London: Penguin Books, published 2017, →ISBN:
text: In the cold light of day, we're a flame in the wind / Not the fire that we've begun.
ref: 2018 August 16, Marshmello, Steve Mac, Dan Smith, “Happier”, performed by Marshmello and Bastille:
antonyms: in the heat of the moment
glosses: Viewed calmly and dispassionately after allowing emotions to cool or after having sobered up.
examples: text: And above the crowd of living figures rise colossal forms of armed warriors, and peaceful poets, and sceptred monarchs; these glowing crimson; those standing calm and pale in the cold light of day.
ref: 1853, Anna Mary Howitt, “The Casting of the Sieges-Thor, Bavaria”, in An Art-student in Munich. […], volume II, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC, page 178:
text: However subtle the social pecking order may have been, the outsider entering the famous town with high expectations saw it in the cold light of day shrink into a philistine backwoods dump.
ref: 1989, Rüdiger Safranski, “Weimar”, in Ewald Osers, transl., Schopenhauer and the Wild Years of Philosophy, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, published 1991, →ISBN, book 1, page 72:
text: Heather drove her mother to the Bloodshot Eyeball so they could survey the damage in the cold light of day.
ref: 2025 August 26, Jennifer Bernard, chapter 33, in Light of Day, Jennifer Bernard:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see in, the, cold, light, of, day; during the day; in daylight.
Related terms: morning after
at the end of the day
Salazarist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Salazarist
form: most Salazarist
Senses: examples: text: Nor were previous forced labor practices to be altered. On the contrary, as we shall see, they were merely rationalized and reinforced by the Salazarist system.
ref: 1985, John S. Saul, chapter I, in John S. Saul, editor, A Difficult Road: The Transition to Socialism in Mozambique, New York: Monthly Review Press, →ISBN, section 1, page 39:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Of or relating to António de Oliveira Salazar or Salazarism.
Salazarist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Salazarists
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: A supporter of António de Oliveira Salazar or Salazarism.
toum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toums
Etymology: From Levantine (and Egyptian) Arabic ْتُوم (tūm, “garlic”).
Senses: examples: text: […] the magical garlic foam served with these lamb chops. Sure, toum is wilful and unpredictable as well but, as with a favourite naughty child, you persist […]
ref: 2015, Matt Preston, The Simple Secrets to Cooking Everything Better, Plum, →ISBN:
glosses: A garlic condiment common in the Levant, similar to aioli, made with garlic, salt, olive or vegetable oil, lemon juice, and sometimes mint.
move with the times
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: moves with the times
form: moving with the times
form: moved with the times
form: moved with the times
Senses: synonyms: keep up with the times
get with the times
get with it
get with the program
antonyms: live in the past
glosses: To adapt to changes, especially cultural changes.
Related terms: air du temps
zeitgeist
Suqian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sutsien
form: Su-ch'ien
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 宿遷 /宿迁 (Sùqiān).
Senses: examples: text: Leading members of party organizations at all levels in Suchien County, Kiangsu, have taken the lead in studying and applying the new party Constitution.
ref: [1970 July 9 [1970 June 17], “Kiangsu Party Activity”, in Daily Report: Communist China, volume I, number 132, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Nanking Kiangsu Provincial, translation of original in Mandarin, →OCLC, East Region, page C 11:
text: Coaches begin identifying prospects during regular visits to local elementary schools. Consider that in just one city — Suqian, in Jiangsu Province — every government district was asked to assess children from the ages of 8 to 13 and select candidates for sports schools.
ref: 2008 August 3, Jim Yardley, “The State Requests That Citizen Liu Win Gold”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 Jan 2018, Play Magazine:
text: According to a copy of the Feb. 9 appeal ruling seen by Reuters, Suyu District Intermediate Court in the city of Suqian said the description resulted from "perceptual differences" and was not a factual error, upholding a judgment made in September last year.
ref: 2021 February 26, Pak Yiu, Gabriel Crossley, “Chinese court backs publisher of textbook calling homosexuality 'psychological disorder'”, in Karishma Singh, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 15 Apr 2021, China:
glosses: A prefecture-level city of Jiangsu, in eastern China.
wikipedia: Defense Mapping Agency
Sutsien
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Postal Romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 宿遷／宿迁 (Sùqiān).
Senses: examples: text: In the Sutsien country field three Christian leaders and three children have been killed by shells and bombs.
ref: 1949, Frank A. Brown, The Last Hundred Days, Shanghai: Board of Missions, Presbyterian Church in the United States, →OCLC, page 11:
text: On the boat he noticed that Wang sniffed at things to eat and drink, but never swallowed them, and that if he sniffed at anything hot, it at once became icy- cold. When they got to Sutsien, the ghost said, ‘They are giving a play in that village over there. Let’s go and look on’. When they had watched several episodes, the ghost suddenly disappeared.
ref: 1970, Arthur Waley, Yuan Mei: Eighteenth Century Chinese Poet, Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 128:
text: At Sutsien six bandits had been executed a few days before.
ref: 1971, John Pollock, A Foreign Devil in China, World Wide Publications, published 2010, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 46:
glosses: Alternative form of Suqian.
georadar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From geo- + radar.
Senses: glosses: Ground-penetrating radar.
subproperty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subproperties
Etymology: From sub- + property.
Senses: examples: text: The Origin property represents a coordinate and has X and Y subproperties.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: A property of another property.
subproperties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subproperty
unreconcile
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unreconciles
form: unreconciling
form: unreconciled
form: unreconciled
Etymology: From un- + reconcile.
Senses: examples: text: Now, in the first place, the Poet did not mean we should reconcile our hearts to Bertram, but that he should not unreconcile them to Helena; nay, that her love should appear the nobler for the unworthiness of its object.
ref: 1872, Henry Norman Hudson, Shakespeare: His Life, Art, and Characters:
glosses: To sever; to make no longer reconciled to each other.
examples: text: To unreconcile the item, click on the tick. It will disappear and the item will be unreconciled. Remember that all reconciled amounts must be ticked off on the bank statement as reconciled.
ref: 2000, Applied Accounting for the Microcomputer User, page 76:
text: To unreconcile the transaction, start at the main dashboard, click on the bank account and tab across to the list of account transactions. Find the transaction and drill down into it […]
ref: 2015, Heather Smith, Xero For Dummies, page 224:
topics: accounting
business
finance
glosses: To undo the reconciliation of.
unreconciles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unreconcile
unreconciliation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + reconciliation.
Senses: glosses: The state of not being reconciled; lack of reconciliation.
Elvis operator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Elvis operators
Etymology: The notation ?: humorously reinterpreted as an emoticon representing the eyes and hairstyle of Elvis Presley.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: A binary operator that returns its first operand if that operand evaluates to true, and otherwise evaluates and returns its second operand.
wikipedia: Elvis Presley
Related terms: walrus operator
Elvis operators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Elvis operator
payrun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: payruns
form: pay run
Etymology: From pay + run.
Senses: topics: accounting
business
finance
glosses: The periodic calculation of a payroll.
payruns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of payrun
pay run
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pay runs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of payrun.
pay runs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pay run
Qingjiangpu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Tsingkiangpu
form: Ch'ing-chiang-p'u
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 清江浦 (Qīngjiāngpǔ).
Senses: examples: text: 15. Chingchiangpu-Kwachou (on the Yangtse opposite the Chinkiang Railway). It was proposed to build the line from T’ungchou at the mouth of the Yangtse through Chingchiangpu and on to Haichow. The loan agreement to build the section from Tunchow to Chingchiangpu was recently abandoned, however, owing to the proposed line conflicting with a section of the Haichow-Lanchow Railway.
ref: [1914, Rowland R. Gibson, Forces Mining and Undermining China, 2nd edition, London: Andrew Melrose, →OCLC, →OL, pages 186–187:
text: Further south in Qingjiangpu, the missionaries reported: "During the ten years that foreigners have been in the city there has never been so much robbery as now—the whole vicinity is terrorized."
ref: 1987, Joseph W. Esherick, The Origins of the Boxer Uprising, University of California Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 174:
text: In northern Jiangsu Province, similar merchant titleholders in the prefectural city of Huai’an and a town on the Grand Canal, Qingjiangpu, founded general and branch bureaus of commerce, respectively, after 1900. The leading merchant director in the Zhenjiang bureau would become a major founder of an affiliated chamber of commerce there, and the two bureaus in Huai’an and Qingjiangpu directly turned themselves into affiliated chambers later on.
ref: 2011, Zhongping Chen, “Elite and Official Interactive Movements”, in Modern China's Network Revolution: Chambers of Commerce and Sociopolitical Change in the Early Twentieth Century, Stanford, Cali.: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 55:
glosses: A district of Huai'an, in central Jiangsu, in eastern China.
hodologically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From hodological + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In terms of hodology.
substancelessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From substanceless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Lack of substance; insubstantiality.
bicamerality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bicameral + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being bicameral or having bicameral structure or function.
Related terms: bicameralism
bicameral mind
ordinal numeral
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɔː(ɹ).dɪ.nəl ˈnjuːməɹəl/
ipa: /ˈɔːɹd.nəl ˈnumɜɹəl/
Forms: form: ordinal numerals
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A word used to represent an ordinal number.
Related terms: cardinal numeral
ordinal
ordinal number
pyrolizable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pyrolize + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to undergo pyrolysis.
pyroninophilic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pyroninophilic
form: most pyroninophilic
Etymology: From pyronine + -o- + -philic.
Senses: glosses: Readily stained by pyronine.
pyroses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pyrosis
pyropus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pyropuses
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of pyrope (“type of garnet”).
pyropuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pyropus
pyramidons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pyramidon
pycnoses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pycnosis
purdas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of purda
pumicer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pumicers
Etymology: From pumice + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who pumices.
pumicers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pumicer
pulsers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pulser
pulpmill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pulpmills
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pulp mill.
pulpmills
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pulpmill
pulpital
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pulpital
form: most pulpital
Etymology: From pulpit + -al.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or befitting, a pulpit.
pudden
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: puddens
Senses: glosses: pudding
puddens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pudden
ptyalins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ptyalin
transdeletion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transdeletions
Etymology: From trans- + deletion.
Senses: glosses: The process of forming an anagram of a word with one letter deleted (e.g. indicator from dictionary), a form of recreational wordplay.
transdeletions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of transdeletion
prurituses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pruritus
insurrectionalist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more insurrectionalist
form: most insurrectionalist
Etymology: From insurrectional + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: It is in this sense that one can say that this poem contributes to form and educate the insurrectionalist spirit as well as stimulate revolt against the oppressor.
ref: 1964, Wacław Lednicki, Zygmunt Krasiński, Romantic Universalist, page 131:
text: The insurrectionalist anarchists Chrissus and Odotheus argue that: 'In fact, it is this being [the multitude] that has power even when everything would seem to bear witness to the contrary.
ref: 2012, Benjamin Noys, Persistence of the Negative, →ISBN, page 115:
text: What would you say is the biggest strengths and weaknesses of insurrectionalist theories?
ref: 2016, Sasha k, Leila, Wolfi Landstreicher, Killing King Abacus Anthology, →ISBN, page 282:
glosses: Pertaining to insurrectionalism.
insurrectionalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: insurrectionalists
Etymology: From insurrectional + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: ModestIy-armed insurrectionalists battled in the streets against Somoza's 7,500-member National Guard — 4,200 of which have been trained by the U.S. in Nicaragua or at military bases in the Panama Canal Zone and the United States — and...
ref: 1978, Canadian Dimension - Volume 13, page 25:
text: Differing on the means, but with agreement established on the ends of opposition activity, both the subversion of public order as advocated by the insurrectionalists and the institutional conflict favored by the Frei camp continued to bring pressure on the armed forces to take sides.
ref: 1989, Ricardo Israel Zipper, Politics and Ideology in Allende's Chile, page 256:
text: Power-sharing between the Sandinista left and other groups was an important factor in creating a nationwide insurrectionalist alliance in early 1978.
ref: 1984, UFSI Reports:
glosses: Alternative form of Insurrectionalist.
examples: text: ...on October 5, 1795, the 13th Vendémiaire, an IV, the insurrectionalists were up and assembling bright and early ; but they found the rue Saint-Honoré guarded from the Place de la Révolution to the Palais-Royal, ...
ref: 1929, Henry Dwight Sedgwick, France, page 309:
text: The Sawanans brought the insurrectionalists to trial.
ref: 1970, Alexander Philip Lessin, Phyllis June Lessin, Village of the conquerors: Sawana: a Tongan village in Fiji:
text: Few nations in the world endure such insecure frontiers, guarded as they mostly are by a ramshackle gangs of insurrectionalists feeding on narcotics and contraband, united only in their smouldering resentment of the government in Rangoon.
ref: 1987, The Contemporary Review - Volume 251, page 233:
glosses: Alternative form of insurrectionist.
examples: text: For this reason the proletarians of our country have been so long divided in revolutionary syndicalists or insurrectionalists and reformists or evolutionarists.
ref: 1910, International Federation of Trade Unions, International Report of the Trade Union Movement:
text: Furthermore, it is rather artificial to try to make a clear distinction between 'putschists' and 'insurrectionalists' (the two tendencies were often merged together in individual leaders); the real line of demarcation should perhaps be drawn between those who saw the countryside as the proper theatre of the armed struggle, and those who attributed that role to the cities.
ref: 1978, Régis Debray, A critique of arms - Volume 2, page 43:
text: It was introduced by the prosecutor, however, in evidence against the defendants at the Haymaket trial — in part because the police must have known that Most and Parsons had collaborated on the anarchists' "Pittsburgh Manifesto" at the convention of anti-authoritarian radicals that took place in that city following the Chicago meeting of anarchists, social revolutionaries, and other "free speech insurrectionalists."
ref: 2006, Law and Literature - Volume 18, page 298:
glosses: A proponent of insurrectionalism
insurrectionalists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of insurrectionalist
prounion
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more prounion
form: most prounion
Etymology: From pro- + union.
Senses: topics: government
politics
antonyms: antiunion
glosses: In favour of trade unions.
proportionals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of proportional
pronephroses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pronephros
pronatores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pronator
priapuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of priapus
poyse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: poyses
form: poysing
form: poysed
form: poysed
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of poise.
poyses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of poyse
poysed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of poyse
poysing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of poyse
poynts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of poynt
poynts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of poynt
poynted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of poynt
poynting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of poynt
overteems
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overteem
overteeming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overteem
overteemed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overteem
overgilt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overgild
Insurrectionalist
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Insurrectionalists
Etymology: From insurrectional + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: The Insurrectionalists faction, led by brothers Daniel and Humberto Ortega and Mexican-born Victor Tirado, gradually assumed international prominence as the group most capable of waging direct war against Somoza.
ref: 1988, Joshua Muravchik, News Coverage of the Sandinista Revolution, →ISBN, page 31:
text: While the Insurrectionalists did seek aid from various sectors, their reputation as moderates was an illusion.
ref: 1988, Thomas P. Anderson, Politics in Central America, →ISBN:
text: The GPP and the Insurrectionalists were particularly influenced by Sandino's nationalist and moral (not scientific) movement.
ref: 1993, Greg Dawes, Aesthetics and Revolution: Nicaraguan Poetry, 1979-1990, →ISBN, page 191:
text: The situation changed in 1976 when a third distinct faction within the FSLN emerged, the Terceristas or Insurrectionalists.
ref: 1996, Stephanie Linkogle, Gender, Practice, and Faith in Nicaragua:
glosses: A member of the insurrectional faction of the FSLN that defeated Anastasio Somoza García on 1979.
Synonyms: Tercerista
Insurrectionalists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Insurrectionalist
Tercerista
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Terceristas
Senses: examples: text: The situation changed in 1976 when a third distinct faction within the FSLN emerged, the Terceristas or Insurrectionalists.
ref: 1996, Stephanie Linkogle, Gender, Practice, and Faith in Nicaragua:
glosses: A member of the insurrectional faction of the FSLN that defeated Anastasio Somoza García on 1979.
Terceristas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Tercerista
neoschizomer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neoschizomers
Etymology: From neo- + schizomer.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: One of a pair of restriction enzymes that recognizes the same nucleotide sequence but cleave it differently.
Related terms: isoschizomer
isocaudomer
neoschizomers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neoschizomer
bookbin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bookbins
Senses: examples: text: Instead of destroying or selling the residue as second-hand stuff, the bookbin should exchange it with other bookbins in the country.
ref: 1965, Library Herald - Volumes 7-9, page 33:
text: Oversized and thin picture books, which would be lost in conventional shelving, should be placed in bookbins.
ref: 1980, Nolan Lushington, Willis N. Mills, Libraries designed for users: a planning handbook, page 118:
text: Now is the time to clean out those extra books and bring them to the bookbins located around the Department.
ref: 1981, State, page 18:
text: Another man might have put little volumes in his left and right coat pockets and salted them in bookbins throughout Manhattan, or stashed them behind other books in bookstores, so that they might have a chance of surviving, much as Herman's mad cousin Harry Crosby did in Paris in the 1920s with books from Cousin Walter Van Rensselaer Berry's library.
ref: 2005, Hershel Parker, Herman Melville: A Biography, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of book bin.
bookbins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bookbin
book bin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: book bins
form: bookbin
Senses: examples: text: Children eventually bring their book bins to the meeting area for minilessons, and during minilessons they sit beside their reading partners in assigned rug spots.
ref: 2001, Lucy McCormick Calkins, The Art of Teaching Reading, →ISBN, page 280:
glosses: A bin for collecting or storing books.
book bins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of book bin
shotgun double
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shotgun doubles
Senses: examples: text: I saw a dead guy on the front porch of a shotgun double on a working-class street, and the only sound was wind chimes.
ref: 2005, Chris Rose, 1 Dead in Attic, Simon & Schuster, published 2015, page 11:
glosses: Two shotgun houses which share a central wall.
Seif
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Seifs
Etymology: Two possible origins:
* Borrowed from German Seif, a metonymic occupational surname for a soap-maker, from Seife (“soap”).
* A variant spelling of Saif, an Arabic surname which can be found in both Muslim and Christian communities.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
shell road
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shell roads
Senses: examples: text: You know, the kind of New Orleans rain that […] tamps down the dust of the old shell roads and washes down the oyster stink in the French Quarter gutters and slicks up all the playground equipment and makes New Orleans smell—is it possible?—so fresh.
ref: 2005, Chris Rose, 1 Dead in Attic, Simon & Schuster, published 2015, page 22:
glosses: A road with a bed or other layer made from shells.
shell roads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shell road
neutral ground
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnuːtɹəl ɡraʊnd/
ipa: [ˈnuːtɹɫ̩ ɡɹaʊ̯nd]
Forms: form: neutral grounds
Senses: examples: text: I just hope it's not the two guys who've been assigned to cut the grass on the neutral grounds for the past ten years; man, things would really be different around here without them.
ref: 2005, Chris Rose, 1 Dead in Attic, Simon & Schuster, published 2015, page 32:
glosses: The median strip or central reservation between lanes of traffic in a divided highway.
examples: text: He arranged a Crush with the tribes. A meeting on neutral ground. He wanted to talk.
ref: 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Normandy SR-1:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see neutral, ground.
ponors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ponor
hyperadult
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hyperadult
form: most hyperadult
Etymology: From hyper- + adult.
Senses: examples: text: As matters now stand, "programs" too often result in the formation of individuals whose intelligence may be hyperadult, but whose affective and moral sensibility is childish.
ref: 1966, George F. McLean, Christian Philosophy in the College and Seminary, page 76:
text: It was slow enough now that I could take a good look at her — I couldn't decide her age, but there seemed to be a youthfulness to her that belied her hyperadult authority.
ref: 1992, Martin Schecter, Two Halves of New Haven, page 157:
text: Her students - children living in a hyperadult world where playground disputes were settled with 9 mms - eventually drove her out of teaching.
ref: 2009, Christopher Moore, The Lust Lizard Of Melancholy Cove, →ISBN:
text: I mean, most people get off on stuff that goes back to puberty or even earlier, and 'I'm so aroused' sounds so hyperadult.
ref: 2018, Lionel Shriver, The Standing Chandelier:
glosses: Having excessively or inappropriately adult characteristics.
examples: text: When sexual maturity is delayed development of the organism may continue over a longer time span. this extension of the growth phase facilitates the formation of a “hyperadult” morphology and a large size, a situation referred to as hypermorphosis.
ref: 1993, Charles Devillers, Jean Chaline, Evolution: An Evolving Theory, page 124:
text: Vrba continues by stating that this '. . . can result in a major reorganization - or "shuffling" of body proportions such that some characters become larger and others smaller, some hyperadult and others more juvenilized' (1996, p. 1 ).
ref: 1999, Barry Bogin, R. A. Foley, C. G. Nicholas Mascie-Taylor, Patterns of Human Growth, →ISBN, page 164:
text: This suggests a heterochronic event, such as a hypermorphosis (i.e., hyperadult size and shape, McNamara, 1986).
ref: 2003, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology - Volume 23, Issues 3-4, page 552:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Exhibiting hypermorphosis; Having features that exaggerate adult morphology.
caffetiere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: caffetieres
Senses: examples: text: 'Luigi, un caffé latte per la signorina, per favore,' she called to Luigi, who immediately spooned ground coffee into the caffetiere and placed it on the stove.
ref: 2014, Santa Montefiore, Sea of Lost Love, →ISBN, page 331:
text: In the small aquatinted kitchen her caffetiere melded together tap water and coarsely ground Peruvian Blend coffee.
ref: 2015, Josh Emmons, The Loss of Leon Meed, →ISBN:
text: This interchange required some serious caffeine, so Weston passed on the caffetiere and went straight for the espresso machine.
ref: 2018, Lionel Shriver, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
glosses: Alternative form of cafetière.
caffetieres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of caffetiere
marriage-industrial complex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marriage-industrial complexes
Etymology: By analogy with military-industrial complex.
Senses: examples: text: Even when you want to do it for yourself, outside of the marriage industrial complex, it's practically impossible.
ref: 2011, Samhita Mukhopadhyay, Outdated: Why Dating Is Ruining Your Love Life, →ISBN:
text: Also on the table was a developing critique of "matrimania" – the excessive hyping of marriage and coupling – and the concomitant multibillion-dollar marriage industrial complex.
ref: 2018 March 2, Kate Bolick, “All About Women riding the four waves of feminism at the Opera House”, in The Sydney Morning Herald:
text: They were eschewing the catered cakes, goodie bags, and hired DJs of the marriage-industrial complex for a simple ceremony followed by a potluck picnic.
ref: 2018, Lionel Shriver, The Standing Chandelier:
glosses: The totality of businesses such as wedding planners, bridal registries, specialized caterers, bridal wear stores, etc. that exist for assisting with holding a wedding.
examples: text: The growth of the marriage-industrial complex has not done much to slow the national divorce epidemic.
ref: 2004, Briton Hadden, Henry Robinson Luce, Time - Volume 163, page xl:
text: There are strict rules in the marriage industrial complex. Almost all these sites demand the adulterer confess every act of sex, every telephone conversation, and every detail of every assignation.
ref: 2007 March, Jardine Libaire, “French Men Don't Get Caught”, in Best Life, volume 4, number 2, page 112:
text: Druckerman relays the story of Julia, whose urban, liberal background does not meet the profile of most marriage-industrial complex supporters, but who has nonethelss mannaged to absorb the values and even the narrative of the marriage-industrial complex:
ref: 2009, B. Mousli, E. Roustang-Stoller, Women, Feminism, and Femininity in the 21st Century, →ISBN:
glosses: The set of American institutions such as therapists, self-help books, support groups, etc designed to respond to adultery.
petty-bourgeois
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: At the very moment when their petty-bourgeois counterparts were coming to power elsewhere in Africa, these Mozambicans found the Portuguese turning their backs on neocolonialism and digging in their heels militarily against any such denouement to their rule.
ref: 1985, John S. Saul, chapter I, in John S. Saul, editor, A Difficult Road: The Transition to Socialism in Mozambique, New York: Monthly Review Press, →ISBN, section 1, page 46:
glosses: Alternative spelling of petty bourgeois.
unprohibitive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unprohibitive
form: most unprohibitive
Etymology: From un- + prohibitive.
Senses: glosses: Not prohibitive.
blue-ringed octopuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blue-ringed octopus
blue-ringed octopi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blue-ringed octopus
wireless fidelity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Back-formation from Wi-Fi. The term "Wi-Fi" was coined as a pun on "hi-fi" which is an abbreviation for "high fidelity."
Senses: glosses: Wi-Fi.
fashion parade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fashion parades
Senses: examples: text: Now to secure the real benefits that come from walking there should be no laziness about it. Do not walk as though you were on a fashion parade.
ref: 1915, Bernarr Macfadden, chapter 9, in Vitality Supreme, New York: Physical Culture Publishing, page 105:
text: “Miss Green, I wonder, if you’ve time on your hands now, could you be coaxed into being in a fashion parade of which I’m chairman, at the Sherry Netherland next week? Jean de Perrault’s spring line.”
ref: 1981, Sumner Locke Elliott, Signs of Life, New Haven: Ticknor & Fields, page 96:
text: 2007, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Wizard of the Crow, New York: Pantheon, Section 2, Chapter 2, p. 138,
One [line] was made up of people in custom suits, standing stiffly and solemnly as if at a fashion parade; it reached all the way to the door.
synonyms: fashion show
glosses: An event at which a series of models display clothing in front of an audience.
fashion parades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fashion parade
prime triplet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prime triplets
head_nr: 1
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
head_nr: 2
glosses: An ordered set of three prime numbers in which the smallest and largest of the three differ by six.
identification parade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: identification parades
Senses: examples: text: He had once in his early days dropped in with his Superintendent at an identification parade. It was not his case, and they were both there on other business, but they lingered in the background and watched while a man and a woman, separately, walked down the line of twelve nondescript men, looking for the one they hoped to recognise.
ref: 1951, Josephine Tey, chapter 2, in The Daughter of Time, London: Peter Davies, page 24:
text: One of the ticket clerks at the Brahmpur Railway Station was going to be asked to try to pick Maan out at an identification parade in the jail. Under these circumstances, he could not let Maan’s head be shaved.
ref: 1993, Vikram Seth, A Suitable Boy, Boston: Little, Brown, Chapter 17.26, pp. 1330-1331:
topics: government
law-enforcement
synonyms: identity parade
lineup
police lineup
glosses: A process by which a witness confirms the identity of a criminal suspect, by viewing the suspect together with other people who were not involved in the crime.
counterspelled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of counterspell
counterspelling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of counterspell
Guling
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: go͞oʹlǐngʹ
Forms: form: Kuling
form: Ku-ling
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 牯嶺 /牯岭 (Gǔlǐng).
Senses: examples: text: In November 1981, he was touring Jiangsi province to explore investment possibilities and stopped for the night in Guling on Mount Lu. On the evening of Nov. 7, Hoose wrote a sentimental letter to his wife, Georgia. “Here I am, 61 years later, at the place I was born on June 2, 1920. Amazingly, I remember a few features from when I was six. Little has changed—just different neighbors. It is beautiful here. … Am off and down the Mt. to Kiukiang tomorrow.
ref: 2022 February 21, Mike Chinoy, quoting Harned Pettus Hoose, “‘I Can Think as the Chinese Do’”, in Foreign Policy, archived from the original on 21 Feb 2022:
glosses: A town in Lushan, Jiujiang, Jiangxi, in eastern China.
Kuling
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: The postal romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 牯嶺／牯岭 (Gǔlǐng).
Senses: examples: text: Kuling perched dramatically above a gorge of the Yangtze which could be seen far below, the view being rather like that from Lookout Mountain near Chattanooga or Murren in Switzerland, magnified several times.
ref: 1971, John Pollock, A Foreign Devil in China, Minneapolis: World Wide Publications, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 45:
text: My father put down his razor and straightened his face. "I've been meaning to tell you," he said. "We can't go to Peitaiho this summer, Jean. We'll be going to Kuling."
I couldn't believe it. There he was with soap over one half of his face, saying Kuling, not Peitaiho, just as if he were saying cornflakes, not Grape-Nuts.
ref: 1982, Jean Fritz, Homesick, New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 58:
text: In early December I came down the Yangtze from boarding school in Kuling, above the river port of Kiukiang. Kuling had already fallen to the National Army. The British ship on which I sailed was sandbagged on the upper decks to protect us from any potshots that might be fired at us from the bank.
ref: 1994, John Espey, Minor Heresies, Major Departures, University of California Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 131:
glosses: Alternative form of Guling.
wikipedia: postal romanization