cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
phosphatidylethanolamide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phosphatidylethanolamides
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An amide derived from a phosphatidylethanolamine, typically by reaction with a prostaglandin
phosphatidylethanolamides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phosphatidylethanolamide
photodioded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Equipped with a photodiode
plantodistal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From planto- + distal.
Senses: glosses: plantar and distal
postacceleration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: postaccelerations
form: post-acceleration
Etymology: From post- + acceleration.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: acceleration of an electron following deflection by a magnetic field
postasphyxial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + asphyxial.
Senses: glosses: Following asphyxia
postexapophysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: postexapophyses
Etymology: From post- + exapophysis.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: An exapophysis attached to a condyle
Related terms: preexapophysis
preexapophysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: preexapophyses
Etymology: From pre- + exapophysis.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: An exapophysis attached to a cotyle
Related terms: postexapophysis
lose no time
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: loses no time
form: losing no time
form: lost no time
form: lost no time
Senses: examples: text: Queen Mary of the Iron Road. By Fred C. Bishop. […] This is the life-story of a boy who was determined to become an engine driver, and who lost no time in realising his ambition. A bold plunge from a clerkship in a coal merchant's office carried Fred Bishop, at the age of 14, into the locomotive department of the London & North Western Railway.
ref: 1947 January and February, “Railway Literature”, in Railway Magazine, page 62:
text: London Transport lost no time in beginning work on the new Victoria tube line following the Minister of Transport's approval of the project, announced on August 20.
ref: 1962 October, “London gets its Victoria tube”, in Modern Railways, page 256:
glosses: To act quickly; do something as soon as possible.
exapophysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exapophyses
Senses: glosses: A bony joint in the cervicals of some pterosaurs
Derived terms: postexapophysis
preexapophysis
exapophyses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exapophysis
preassemblies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of preassembly
lost no time
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of lose no time
prediffusion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pre- + diffusion.
Senses: glosses: diffusion prior to some other process
prestabilization
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + stabilization.
Senses: glosses: Prior to stabilization
prestabilization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prestabilizations
Etymology: From pre- + stabilization.
Senses: glosses: stabilization prior to some other process
Orvietos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Orvieto
Plachutta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Plachuttas
Etymology: From Joseph Plachutta, who first identified this tactic.
Senses: topics: board-games
chess
games
glosses: A sacrificial move in chess which is played with the intention of fatally interfering with the opponent's combination attacking or defensive position.
God save the mark
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: -ɑː(ɹ)k
Forms: form: God bless the mark
Senses: examples: text: […] for he made me mad
 To see him shine so brisk and smell so sweet
 And talk so like a waiting-gentlewoman
 Of guns and drums and wounds,—God save the mark!—
 And telling me the sovereign'st thing on earth
ref: c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:
text: […]the gnawing pain, the sick faintness, the deadly stupor, the insatiable animal craving for mere food, all of which sensations are frightful enough to those who are, unhappily, daily inured to them, but which when they afflict one who has been tenderly reared and brought up to consider himself a 'gentleman,'—God save the mark! are perhaps still more painful to bear.
ref: 1895, Marie Corelli, The Sorrows of Satan: or The Strange Experience of One Geoffrey Tempest, Millionaire […], 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, published 1896, →OCLC, page 7:
text: The world’s population is atomized among the dying, the ill, the quarantined, the sheltered, the heroically imperilled “essential” (never forget!), and, God save the mark, the blinkered fools.
ref: 2020, Peter Schjeldahl, “The Melancholy Gestalt of Isolation”, in The New Yorker:
glosses: Ironic expression of distaste.
God bless the mark
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: Set in sporting stone, September was ‘Finals’ month but then they moved to August and now, God bless the mark, they’re talking about going back to July!
ref: 2020, John Arnold, “John Arnold: Memories of matches, a wake and planting trees - 30 years on”, in The Echo:
glosses: Alternative form of God save the mark.
dwelling house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dwelling houses
Etymology: From dwelling + house.
Senses: examples: text: The rooms on the ground floor are used for the Goods Agent and a coal order office, and the remainder of the building is a dwelling house.
ref: 1952 December, R. C. Riley, “By Rail to Kemp Town”, in Railway Magazine, page 836:
text: The 1955 Act gave powers for compulsory acquisition of "easements", or permission to tunnel beneath dwelling houses instead of, as had previously been necessary, following approximately the course of surface roads.
ref: 1962 October, “London gets its Victoria tube”, in Modern Railways, page 258:
glosses: Alternative form of dwellinghouse.
dwelling houses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dwellinghouses; plural of dwelling house.
saxomaphone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsæk.sə.məˌfoʊn/
Forms: form: saxomaphones
Etymology: From saxophone + -ma-.
Senses: glosses: saxophone
non-traffic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + traffic.
Senses: examples: text: These features are, of course, being introduced gradually to existing tube lines but the work will take time to complete as it can only be undertaken in non-traffic hours.
ref: 1962 October, “London gets its Victoria tube”, in Modern Railways, page 258:
glosses: Alternative form of nontraffic.
misfactor
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪsˈfæktə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈmɪsfæktə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: misfactors
form: misfactoring
form: misfactored
form: misfactored
Etymology: From mis- + factor.
Senses: examples: text: This teacher grades only on correct answer; there are no partial points for right completion but wrong answer. This frustrates me beyond belief; isn't the point of going to school to learn and be able to SHOW you know HOW to do the math even if somewhere along the line you misfactored or transposed numbers or whatever.
ref: 2010, “Calculus”, in A to Z Teacher Stuff:
text: After a moment's thought, the robot wrote out a polynomial and deliberately misfactored it.
ref: 2019, Yoon Ha Lee, “The Robot's Math Lessons”, in Hexarchate Stories:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: To err when determining the factors of.
examples: text: “The vengefulness it must take to call me with that hand!” says Coren Mitchell. “It’s only because of the cage. You would never call me with that if it wasn’t for the cage…. Oh, I misfactored the cage!”
ref: 2014 December 15, Robert Woolley, “How To Recognize (and Beat) the Unbluffable Player”, in Poker News:
glosses: To incorrectly analyze the role or importance of (something that influences or determines a result).
examples: text: On the other hand, I tend to think of ugly-but-descriptive-in-a-long-winded-way names as a red flag meaning "Here be dragons!" In other words, if you've had to spell out a word's behaviour in its name, you've perhaps misfactored something.
ref: 2017 November 29, a...@littlepinkcloud.invalid, “how about eliminate the R words ?”, in comp.lang.forth (Usenet):
glosses: To refactor incorrectly.
misfactor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪsˈfæktə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈmɪsfæktə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: misfactors
Etymology: From mis- + factor.
Senses: examples: text: None of these words, of course, was actually printed in direct application, but at least half of the duty of a Time writer under Hadden was to find ways and means of calling nonfactors, misfactors or malefactors such names without literally doing so, and to help vent B.H.'s impatience with human folly and fraud.
ref: 1968, Robert T. Elson, TIME INC. The Intimate History of a Publishing Enterprise, page 88:
text: The employees express their perceptions and feelings in their own langage, the discussions were videotaped, and used for decreasing misfactors such as misperceptions, misevaluations, and mistrust.
ref: 2005, SM Lee, “A Exploratory Study on the Efficient Strategies for Cross-Cultural in the Hospitality Industry”, in The Journal of the Korea Contents Association:
glosses: A person or thing that causes or influences something to its detriment.
misfactors
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misfactor
misfactors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misfactor
misfactoring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misfactor
misfactored
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misfactor
saxomaphones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of saxomaphone
misfarm
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misfarms
form: misfarming
form: misfarmed
form: misfarmed
Etymology: From mis- + farm.
Senses: examples: text: The poet seems to inwardly adopt as his ancestors all the generations of farmers — good and bad, but mostly bad — who for two hundred years have farmed and misfarmed this region along the Kentucky River.
ref: 2004, Ronald Jager, The Fate of Family Farming: Variations on an American Idea, page 74:
text: The stretch of land that Father inherited from his father was misfarmed by every generation for over seventy-five years and was gray, unwilling soil.
ref: 2012, Kevin McIlvoy, The Complete History of New Mexico:
text: Schlesinger contrasts Morgan's approach unfavorably with the more incentive-based approaches of his RVA codirectors David Lilienthal and H.A. Morgan, neither of whom shared Arthur Morgan's or Roosevelt's passion for using the TVA as a means of social mastery: Where Arthur Morgan would pass a law depriving a farmer of land he has misfarmed, Lilienthal and H. A. Morgan would offer him inducements to use his land more wisely.
ref: 2019, Emile Lester, Liberalism and Leadership: The Irony of Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., page 106:
glosses: To do a poor job of farming.
misfarms
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misfarm
misfarming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misfarm
misfarmed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misfarm
misfasten
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misfastens
form: misfastening
form: misfastened
form: misfastened
Etymology: From mis- + fasten.
Senses: examples: text: When confidence is not pitched aright in God, or when it is misapplied, and misfastened to the creature: when the soul sets up somewhat for a stay and prop unto it, which it should not do, this is a spiritual and subtle sin, and must be repented of, as here, 'Asshur shall not save us,' &c.
ref: 1862, Richard Sibbes, Alexander Balloch Grosart, The Complete Works of Richard Sibbes, D.D., page 286:
text: To paraphrase Goethe, he who misfastens the first button will have trouble buttoning up his shirt.
ref: 1990, F. Neubauer, Portfolio Management, page 39:
text: She supposed that she should feel lucky that the missile hadn't exploded when the arms tech had misfastened the mount on her Sikorsky MH-60 Blackhawk.
ref: 2018, M. L. Buchman, When They Just Know:
glosses: To fasten incorrectly.
misfastens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misfasten
misfastening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misfasten
misfastened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misfasten
elephantarch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: elephantarchs
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἐλεφαντάρχης (elephantárkhēs).
Senses: glosses: The commander of a military corps of elephants.
North Cheam
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburban area in the borough of Sutton, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ2365).
Almodóvarian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Almodóvarian
form: most Almodóvarian
form: Almodovarian
Etymology: From Almodóvar + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: “Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown,” in 2010, jumbled the image further. His witty songs, with their strong Latin flavor and Almodóvarian edge, evoked the narcissistic torments of a quartet of melodramatic Madrileñas.
ref: 2017 November 1, Jesse Green, “Broadway’s Comic Chameleon Writes a Heartfelt New Tune”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Pedro Almodóvar (born 1949), Spanish filmmaker, director, screenwriter, producer, and actor.
misfavor
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /mɪsˈfeɪvə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: misfavors
form: misfavoring
form: misfavored
form: misfavored
form: misfavour
Etymology: From mis- + favor.
Senses: examples: text: I do not misfavor a general freeze now.
ref: 1948, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and Currency, National Stabilization, page 573:
text: I misfavor the bearin' o' yon micos," MacPherson muttered out of a corner of his mouth as the first Creek leaders strode out over burned brown grass on the square fronting the House of Strangers.
ref: 1964, Francis van Wyck Mason, Rascals' Heaven, page 269:
text: She never would name any particular items as the one she thought might have been misfavored by the heavenly father, but she named three or four things any one of which might have been contrary to God's will, but positively refused to name one for herself.
ref: 2006, Vickie Cleverley Speek, God Has Made Us a Kingdom: James Strang and the Midwest Mormons, page 271:
glosses: To dislike or disapprove of; to view with displeasure or dislike.
glosses: To disadvantage or exhibit bias against.
misfavor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /mɪsˈfeɪvə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: misfavors
form: misfavour
Etymology: From mis- + favor.
Senses: examples: text: The spoils system may well be the primary explanation for administrative unwillingness to take any action which would curry political misfavor.
ref: 1972, Loyola of Los Angeles law review - Volume 5, page 83:
text: Indeed only a handful of citizens opposed the project; and we were the target of much public criticism and misfavor.
ref: 1991, Jonathan Kusel, Well-being in Forest-dependent Communities, page 198:
text: The fools charge her with diabolical trafficking, believing her misfortune the result of divine misfavor!
ref: 2001, Martin Harry Greenberg, 100 wicked witch stories, page 537:
glosses: Disapproval or antipathy; disfavor.
examples: text: And one of the prices of specialization is the realization by a specialist of how important he may be to some city, because some city I think does him a misfavor sometimes by making him believe that he is a man of consequence more than he maybe really, actually is.
ref: 1953, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services, Full Committee Hearings on H.R. 4495, page 559:
text: The book is a great misfavor to the mysterious, exciting , and even elegant squid.
ref: 1992, Children's Literature Review - Volume 28, page 53:
text: Following a cursory audition requiring my singing an octave while Miss Dubois was playing it on the piano—a procedure stacked in my misfavor since I had recently learned to play the piano—I was chosen for the role of Captain, a role, that unfortunately, as I was soon to learn, requires more than an octave.
ref: 2013, M. Robert Gardner, On Trying To Teach: The Mind in Correspondence, page 152:
glosses: A disservice or detriment.
examples: text: Just now we are passing through a period when many religious people are deliberately repudiating reason as a way to the goodness of God. These radical swings back and forth between misfavor and disfavor of reason are disruptive to the growth of genuine high religion.
ref: 1938, Henry Nelson Wieman, Walter Marshall Horton, The Growth of Religion - Volume 61, page 404:
glosses: Inappropriate approval.
misfavors
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misfavor
misfavors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misfavor
misfavoring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misfavor
misfavored
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more misfavored
form: most misfavored
form: misfavoured
Senses: examples: text: Society is faced with the complex social problems that accompany this increasing incidence of multiple-handicapped children. Indeed, apart from the heart-wrenching aspects of dealing with children so misfavored, the social worker will find it necessary to pioneer and perhaps to develop effective methods for assisting them.
ref: 1964, Beryl Godfrey, Orientation of Social Workers to the Problems of Deaf, page 66:
text: The good home does not recognize anyone as privileged or misfavored; it knows no special favorites and no stepchildren.
ref: 1996, Anne E. Carr, Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen, Religion, Feminism, and the Family, page 256:
text: Applied to the great people's and citizens' home this would mean the breaking down of all the social and economic barriers that now divide citizens into privileged and misfavored, into rulers and dependents, into rich and poor, the glutted and the destitute, the plunderers and the plundered.
ref: 2002, Geoff Eley, Forging Democracy: The History of the Left in Europe, 1850-2000, page 318:
glosses: Unfortunate or unpopular.
misfavored
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misfavoured
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misfavor
misfavour
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misfavours
form: misfavouring
form: misfavoured
form: misfavoured
Senses: examples: text: First, because his old age, which uses to be subject to choler, inclined now to misfavour his sons, therefore there shall not be an old man left of his house for ever;
ref: 1803, Joseph Hall, Josiah Pratt, Some specialities in the life of Bishop Hall, page 264:
text: And now he misfavours me, and hath performed the desire of Thetis, who kissed his knees, and laid her hand upon his beard, and besought him to give honour to Achilles, despoiler of cities;
ref: 1891, Homer, translated by Evelyn Abbott, The Iliad of Homer, page 137:
text: Some favoured it and her, some winked at it, some misfavoured; and these were the grey beards and white mutches.
ref: 1904, Maurice Hewlett, The Queen's Quair: Or The Six Years' Tragedy, page 51:
text: The basic vehicle differences can be expected to misfavour type MB if the differences are significant.
ref: 1980, Ulf Sandberg, Efficiency of Spray Protectors: Tests 1979, page 70:
text: […] to account for the stability of a social structure which greatly misfavours certain social strata of society.
ref: 1981, Elias Hedinsson, TV, Family and Society, page 40:
glosses: Alternative form of misfavor.
misfavour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: misfavours
Senses: examples: text: But rules that for their recommendation, or exception, require a constant eye to these archetypes, can be but of limited service in this country, where there is little acquaintance we suspect with the models themselves; and, where their importation under any condition, would be received, we doubt not, with distrust and misfavour.
ref: 1853, Macphail's Edinburgh ecclesiastical journal and literary review, page 222:
text: Had she still much to lose, much reason to fear the misfavour of fortune, which grew continually plainer?
ref: 1935, Alfred Neumann, Another Caesar: A Novel, page 31:
text: Daniel in his humble symbol represented victory , but Alexander in this new romantic life of his takes his place in pageant, tapestry and verse as one of those Nine Nobles or Worthies who fell by the misfavour of Dame Fortune before their time or by the power of enemies.
ref: 1937, Folklore Society (Great Britain), Publications - Volume 99; Volume 101, page 27:
text: None the less, having the vanity of new clothes and a pretty figure, did we— especially by the mouth of Andrew Marvell— deride our victors, making sport of the Philistines with a proper national sense of enjoyment of such physical disabilities, or such natural difficulties, or such misfavour of fortune, as may beset the alien.
ref: 2019, Alice Meynell, Ceres' Runaway, and Other Essays:
text: Advocacy means influencing Policy in favour of the poor and powerless. This otherwise, means a misfavour to the power holders.
ref: 2003, Joel S. G. R. Bhose, NGOs and Rural Development: Theory and Practice, page viii:
glosses: Alternative form of misfavor.
misfavours
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misfavour
misfavours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misfavour
misfavouring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misfavour
Bandon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Irish Bandan.
Senses: glosses: A town and river in County Cork, Ireland.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Oil Township, Perry County, Indiana, United States, named after the Irish town.
glosses: A city in Coos County, Oregon, United States.
Coos Bay
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Coos County, Oregon, United States, formerly named Marshfield.
Coquille
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From French coquille.
Senses: glosses: A city, the county seat of Coos County, Oregon, United States.
Coquille
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Coquilles
form: Coquille
form: Ko-Kwel
form: Ko'Kwel
Etymology: From French coquille.
Senses: glosses: A member of a Native American people who historically lived in the Coquille River watershed and nearby coast south of Coos Bay.
misfavoured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more misfavoured
form: most misfavoured
Senses: examples: text: A more misruly, more misfavoured rabble Swarmed from the filth of the back wynds and closes I ne'er set eyes upon.
ref: 1868, Robert Buchanan, “James the First of Scotland, A Tragedy”, in Tragic Dramas From History, page 126:
text: We could now usually make love to our parents, our siblings and our children without giving rise to misfavoured offspring, because we could do so without giving rise to offspring at all.
ref: 1963, The Twentieth Century, page 150:
glosses: Alternative form of misfavored.
misfavoured
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misfavour
Myrtle Point
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Coos County, Oregon, United States.
North Bend
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Coos County, Oregon, United States.
glosses: A city in King County, Washington, United States.
glosses: A community in the Fraser Canyon region, British Columbia, Canada.
Related terms: East Bend
South Bend
West Bend
Barview
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Coos County, Oregon, United States.
Bunker Hill
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌn.kɜɹ hɪl/
Etymology: The hill in Boston was named after 17th-century landowner George Bunker, originally as Bunker's Hill, and amended later.
Senses: glosses: The Battle of Bunker Hill (1775), in the American Revolution.
glosses: A number of places in the United States; many are named after the battle:
A hill in Charlestown, Boston, Massachusetts, where the battle was fought.
glosses: A number of places in the United States; many are named after the battle:
A neighbourhood of Los Angeles, California.
glosses: A number of places in the United States; many are named after the battle:
A city and township in Macoupin County, Illinois.
glosses: A number of places in the United States; many are named after the battle:
A town in Pipe Creek Township, Miami County, Indiana.
glosses: A number of places in the United States; many are named after the battle:
An unincorporated community in Connersville Township, Fayette County, Indiana.
glosses: A number of places in the United States; many are named after the battle:
An unincorporated community in Monroe Township, Morgan County, Indiana.
glosses: A number of places in the United States; many are named after the battle:
A minor city in Russell County, Kansas.
glosses: A number of places in the United States; many are named after the battle:
A township in Ingham County, Michigan.
glosses: A number of places in the United States; many are named after the battle:
An unincorporated community in Howard County, Missouri.
glosses: A number of places in the United States; many are named after the battle:
A ghost town in Lewis County, Missouri.
glosses: A number of places in the United States; many are named after the battle:
An unincorporated community in Stoddard County, Missouri.
glosses: A number of places in the United States; many are named after the battle:
A mountain in Lander County, Nevada.
glosses: A number of places in the United States; many are named after the battle:
A census-designated place in Coos County, Oregon.
glosses: A number of places in the United States; many are named after the battle:
An unincorporated community in Giles County, Tennessee.
glosses: A number of places in the United States; many are named after the battle:
An unincorporated community in Cowlitz County, Washington.
glosses: A number of places in the United States; many are named after the battle:
An unincorporated community in Berkeley County, West Virginia.
glosses: A number of places in the United States; many are named after the battle:
An unincorporated community in the town of Westford, Richland County, Wisconsin.
Changtang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: chängʹtängʹ
Forms: form: Chang Tang
form: Chang Thang
form: Changthang
form: Qangtang
Etymology: From Tibetan བྱང་ཐང (byang thang).
Senses: examples: text: In elevation the lowest limit of Changtang may be reckoned about 13,800 feet, and the highest of Rong 14,300, the mean line of demarcation being 14,000 feet.
ref: 1853 November 22, H. Strachey, Physical Geography of Western Tibet, Royal Geographical Society, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 22:
text: Written by two American professors of anthropology on the basis of their scientific study and investigation in Qangtang area, Tibet, for 10 months from 1986 to 1988: description of the way of life of the Tibetan herdsmen and their economy and life before and after the peaceful liberation, especially their economic and religious life since the implementation of reform and opening in 1979, proving that Chinese government’s special policies and flexible measures are favourable for Tibet’s economic development.
ref: [1994, Catalogue of Chinese Publications in Tibetan Studies (1949-1991), 1st edition, Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 252, column 2:
text: Our path across the trackless Changtang was littered with the impressive skulls and horns of wild yaks slaughtered by the modern-day poachers of Tibet. Yielding close to a tonne of meat, it pays to shoot a wild yak — provided that you own a truck to take your kill to the closest village or town hundreds of miles away. Unfortunately, the number of truck-owning Tibetan and Chinese poachers in certain parts of the Changtang is increasing rapidly.
ref: 2002, Michel Peissel, Tibet: The Secret Continent, Thomas Dunne Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 33:
text: We had climbed, almost imperceptibly, on to the Changtang, the name for the northern part of the Tibetan plateau, one of the most remote and least known regions of the world, as well as being one of the highest. Remote and unknown to outsiders, that is: the Changtang is also home to about half a million nomadic herders, or drokba.
ref: 2005, Nick Middleton, Extremes Along the Silk Road: Adventures off the World's Oldest Superhighway, John Murray, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 131:
text: Observing Lake Yaniugol, rising high in the steppe, he writes: “It settled like a sacred host of jade upon the sand. It appeared to us at twilight, in the hollow of a ledge, flanked to the north by the sharp incisors of the Kunlun peaks soaring to 6,000 meters, and to the south by the Changtang. Behind this shimmering disk, the secret plateau.”
ref: 2021 December 3, Liesl Schillinger, quoting Sylvain Tesson, “Books That Satisfy Your Yearning for Far-Off Places”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 03 Dec 2021, Travel:
glosses: A part of the high altitude Tibetan Plateau in western and northern Tibet extending into southeastern Ladakh, India.
Related terms: Changthangi
other end of the ball
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: the opposite end or side of a ball.
examples: text: They play well on offense, but on the other end of the ball they need work.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: used after discussing either offense or defense to imply the other.
all hat and no cowboy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: all hat and no cattle
Etymology: In reference to cattle ranchers and the hats they stereotypically wear.
Senses: examples: text: Don't waste your time with him - he's all hat and no cowboy.
glosses: Full of big talk but lacking action, power, or substance; pretentious.
Kaapse Klopse
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Directly borrowed from Afrikaans Kaapse Klopse.
Senses: glosses: A minstrel festival held in the Western Cape on the 2nd of January every year, in which Cape Coloured minstrels dress in bright colours, accompanied by instruments.
Synonyms: word: Cape Coons
protacadherin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of protocadherin.
protophorin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: protophorins
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of protoporphyrin.
protophorins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of protophorin
sea-reach
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sea-reaches
Senses: examples: text: The sea-reach of the Thames stretched before us like the beginning of an interminable waterway.
ref: 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 193:
glosses: The final reach of a river that connects with the ocean; the part of a river from which the sea is visible.
sea-reaches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sea-reach
proventriculitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From proventriculus + -itis.
Senses: glosses: inflammation of the proventriculus
pseudocystojejunostomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudocystojejunostomies
Senses: glosses: jejunostomy of a pseudocyst
guanolide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: guanolides
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of sesquiterpenoid lactones
Derived terms: pseudoguanolide
pseudosegmented
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pseudo- + segmented.
Senses: glosses: Having pseudosegmentation
pyodermatitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pyoderma + -itis.
Senses: glosses: inflammation of the pyoderma
refametinib
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The kinase inhibitor N-[3,4-difluoro-2-(2-fluoro-4-iodoanilino)-6-methoxyphenyl]-1-[(2S)-2,3-dihydroxypropyl]cyclopropane-1-sulfonamide
rheumatalgia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: chronic rheumatic pain
ronchopathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ronchopathies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of rhonchopathy.
Weihaiwei
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: wāʹhīʹwāʹ
Etymology: From Mandarin 威海衛／威海卫 (Wēihǎiwèi).
Senses: examples: text: Our concession at Weihaiwei covers 285 square miles, containing a population of 150,000 people. 85,000 acres are planted with the scrub oak upon which the wild silkworm finds nourishment. The manufacture of silk is one of the staple industries of Shantung, and Chefoo benefits by it to the extent of a trade valued at £500,000 per annum. At Chefoo the Chinese Customs imposes both export and import duties on every commodity that leaves and enters the port. At Weihaiwei there are no fiscal restrictions of any kind.
ref: 1905, David Fraser, A Modern Campaign: Or, War and Wireless Telegraphy in the Far East, London: Methuen & Co., page 22:
text: Kwaw, when he crossed the Yellow Sea, was of the full age of thirty-two years.³ The twenty previous equinoxes had passed over his head as he wandered, sole human tenant, among the colossal yet ignoble ruins of Wei-hai-wei.⁴
ref: [c. 20th c., Aleister Crowley, “T'ien Tao, or, The Synagogue of Satan”, in The Drug and Other Stories (Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural), Wordsworth Editions, published 2015, →ISBN, page 59:
text: Weihaiwei was handed back to China on October 1, 1930, after two-and-thirty years of British rule. No adverse consequences ensued for British naval or civilian interests from the rendition of the territory. Each summer the British Fleet migrates, as in the days before rendition, from the steamy heat of Hongkong waters to the cooler Weihaiwei anchorages; British bluejackets still throng the canteens, clubs and recreation grounds on Liukungtao; and British residents, fleeing from the summer heat of Shanghai, North China and the Yangtze Valley, still fill the same hotels and bungalows.
ref: 1938, Sir Eric Teichman, Affairs Of China: A Survey of the Recent History and Present Circumstances of the Republic of China, Methuen Publishers London, pages 197–198:
text: It is generally assumed that at the end of March 1898 the British Government moved reluctantly to the idea of occupying Weihaiwei, as a necessary measure to offset the actions of Russia and Germany.
ref: 1970, L. K. Young, British Policy in China, 1895-1902, Oxford University Press, page 52:
glosses: A military strongpoint and city on the coast of the Yellow Sea in Shandong, China, now Weihai; a leased territory of the United Kingdom from 1898 until 1930.
Synonyms: word: Weihai
indians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of indian
slipperette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slipperettes
Etymology: Trademark, from slipper + -ette.
Senses: glosses: A soft slipper or similar foot covering, especially a disposable slipper of a kind distributed to train or aeroplane passengers.
slipperettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slipperette
Miao-li
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Wade–Giles romanization of Mandarin 苗栗 (Miáolì), Wade-Giles romanization: Miao²-li⁴.
Senses: examples: text: Other jobs which the governor entrusted to Ch'ao-tung dealt with the economic exploitation of the newly won mountain areas. In the Miao-li region, Ch'ao-tung headed an office for developing the petroleum resources discovered there.³⁸ Without much success during his tenure, the venture was later turned over to private entrepreneurs.
ref: 1979, Johanna Menzel Meskill, A Chinese Pioneer Family, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 191:
text: Chuang Ying-chang and Ch’en Lien-tung have studied the history and development of the various clans in the Miao-li area of northern Taiwan during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
ref: 1999, Murray A. Rubinstein, editor, Taiwan: A New History, M.E. Sharpe, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, pages 144–145:
text: Over the years Jehovah's Witnesses in Taiwan have worked hard to plant and harvest seeds of Scriptural truth in some areas that did not seem to be productive. One example is Miao-li County....Two adjoining cities in Miao-li County were among the territories selected for the campaign.
ref: 2000 July 15, “Declaring the Good News in the Rice Fields of Taiwan”, in The Watchtower, volume 121, number 14, page 8:
glosses: Alternative form of Miaoli.
Puxi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: P'u-hsi
Etymology: The atonal Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 浦西 (Pǔxī, literally “West Bank”), derived from its position west of the Huangpu River.
Senses: examples: text: Shanghai's Puxi district, on the west bank of the Huangpu River, could become the focus for the city's financial community, like Central.
There are 10 areas within Puxi, the most famous of which is Huangpu. It accommodates the Bund, the traditional commercial hub of Shanghai.
ref: 1994 December 6, Richard Warren, “Territory 'model' for Shanghai”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 Jun 2021:
text: Where just 20 years ago there were rice paddies, now stands the new and ultramodern Pudong financial district and its imposing office towers. On Puxi, across the river, is the Bund, a collection of stately Art Deco buildings from the 1920s and '30s that call to mind old parts of New York or London. Before the 1949 Communist revolution, the buildings housed the headquarters of international banks and trading companies.
ref: 2004 June 2, Alexandra A. Seno, “DOING BUSINESS : Shanghai seizes the gilded, glitzy day”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 10 Feb 2024, Style:
text: An executive at a foreign bank in Shanghai, who declined to be identified, said his bank is on a hybrid working model, with some staff working and sleeping at a backup office in Puxi, in the western side of the city, while some others staying in a trading room in Pudong.
ref: 2022 March 29, “REFILE-In China's Wall Street, bankers and traders sleep in offices to beat Shanghai COVID lockdown”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 30 Apr 2022, 公司新闻(英文):
glosses: The central area of Shanghai, China, particularly Huangpu District.
Related terms: Pudong
salannin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An insecticidal limonoid
semicompulsory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + compulsory.
Senses: glosses: compulsory under certain circumstances
sivatheriine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sivatheriines
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sivatherine.
spinitrix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spinitriches
Senses: glosses: A larger form of microtrix
spinitriches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spinitrix
Bushey Heath
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburban area in Hertsmere borough, Hertfordshire, England, on the border with Greater London (OS grid ref TQ1594).
Poppaea
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Latin Poppaea.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Latin.
glosses: Poppaea Sabina
sporangin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An enzyme associated with the development and release of sporangia
subdurals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subdural
subecotype
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subecotypes
Etymology: From sub- + ecotype.
Senses: glosses: A subphenotype of an ecotype
Related terms: subecotypic
subecotypic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + ecotypic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to subecotypes
submonosomal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + monosomal.
Senses: glosses: Relating to a fraction of a monosome
subnitrification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sub- + nitrification.
Senses: glosses: A lower than usual level of nitrification
subnitrophilous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + nitrophilous.
Senses: glosses: Less than usually nitrophilous
subtrochanter
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + trochanter.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of subtrochanteric.
subundulatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + undulatory.
Senses: glosses: Less than normally undulatory
supraoccipitial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of supraoccipital.
syndiagenetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From syn- + diagenetic.
Senses: examples: text: The succession of parallel surfaces with magnesite — mica — hematite was, therefore, transofrmed by two superimposed and symmetrologically at least partly distinguishable axial deformations: the systems of syndiagenetic, locally "external sedimentary" folds, probably in a void, and those of tectonically caused folds.
ref: 1977, D. D. Klemm, H.J. Schneider, editors, Time- And Strata-Bound Ore Deposits, Berlin; Heidelberg; New York, N.Y.: Springer-Verlag, →ISBN, page 268:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Happening at the same time as diagenesis ("the changes sediment goes through during and after lithification").
thermodilutional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From thermo- + dilutional.
Senses: glosses: Relating to thermodilution
thycoplankton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of tychoplankton.
thycoplanktonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of tychoplanktonic.
toxonosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toxonoses
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of toxinosis.
toxonoses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of toxonosis
triaenophorid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: triaenophorids
Senses: glosses: Any tapeworm of the family Triaenophoridae
tricresyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tri- + cresyl.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Three cresyl groups in a compound
Derived terms: tricresyl phosphate
trigeminothalamic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From trigemino- + thalamic.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: trigeminal and thalamic
Derived terms: trigeminothalamic tract
trinitrophenylation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trinitrophenylations
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Reaction with a trinitrophenyl group
tsunamigenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The formation and development of a tsunami
Related terms: tsunamigenic
videothoracoscopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: videothoracoscopies
Etymology: From video- + thoracoscopy.
Senses: glosses: thoracoscopy with a video camera
Related terms: videothoracoscopic
videothoracoscopies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of videothoracoscopy
lamed auctoris
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From lamed (“Hebrew letter L”) + Latin auctōris (“of the author”).
Senses: glosses: The use of the letter lamedh, particularly in psalms, to indicate authorship.
'Change
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Aphetic form of exchange.
Senses: examples: text: [M]y father […] was well enough contented to see that she did not behave ill to his children, that she brought him no more, and that she always had a plain dinner ready for him when he came from 'Change […].
ref: 1791, Charlotte Smith, Celestina, Broadview, published 2004, page 257:
text: Marley was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, tlie clerk, the undertaker, and tlie chief mourner. Scrooge signed it: and Scrooge's name was good upon 'Change, for anything he chose to put his hand to.
ref: 1843 December 19, Charles Dickens, “Stave I. Marley’s Ghost.”, in A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, page 1:
text: They sailed from Deptford, from Greenwich, from Erith, the adventurers and the settlers; kings’ ships and the ships of men on ’Change; captains, admirals, the dark “interlopers” of the Eastern trade, and the commissioned “generals” of East India fleets.
ref: 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 194:
glosses: The stock exchange.
Derived terms: on 'Change
direction indicator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: direction indicators
Senses: topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
synonyms: word: blinker
word: directional
word: directional signal
word: indicator
word: trafficator
word: turn indicator
word: turn signal
glosses: A turn signal or indicator.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An instrument that shows both the current heading and the desired heading needed to follow a predetermined course.
Related terms: direction sign
direction indicators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of direction indicator
Goepfert
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Goepferts
Etymology: Borrowed from German Göpfert.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Goepferts
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Goepfert
Hayashidas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Hayashida
Kacer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kacers
Etymology: From Czech Kačer, from kačer (“drake”), or from Slovak Káčer, from káčer (“drake”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Czech.
Hartlaub
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hartlaubs
Etymology: Borrowed from German Hartlaub.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Hazelrigg
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hazelriggs
Etymology: Habitational surname from places so called in Cumbria, Lancashire and Northumberland, from Old Norse hasl (“hazel”) + hryggr (“ridge”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Old Norse.
drained out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of drain out
Hazelriggs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Hazelrigg
Hartlaubs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Hartlaub
Janeys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Janey
Janelles
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Janelle
Holsopple
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Holsopples
Etymology: Variant of Holsapple.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Brees
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Bree
Holsopples
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Holsopple