cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Biblewoman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Biblewomen
Etymology: From Bible + -woman.
Senses: glosses: A female missionary who preached Christianity and sometimes acted as a nurse.
inlinability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The property of being inlinable.
Biblewomen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Biblewoman
multifaithed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of multifaith.
one's cotton socks off
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Elaborated form of one's socks off.
FinTech
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: FinTechs
Senses: examples: text: In a March 2018 document, the FinTech banks were defined by the ECB as banks with “a business model in which the production and delivery of banking products and services are based on technology-enabled innovation” (ECB 2018b).
ref: 2019, Alessandra Tanda, Cristiana-Maria Schena, FinTech, BigTech and Banks: Digitalisation and Its Impact on Banking Business Models, Springer, →ISBN, page 88:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of fintech.
Fintech
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Fintechs
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of fintech.
multibutton
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + button.
Senses: examples: a multibutton mouse
glosses: Having or relating to more than one button.
Berriman
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Berrimans
Etymology: Variant of Berryman.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
me day
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: me days
form: me-day
Senses: examples: text: Today is a me day, I don't want to deal with this right now.
text: That's why a me day is so important for your wellbeing.
ref: 2016, Lynn S. Manley, Inspired to Conquer:
text: So what kind of things can you do during a me day? You can sleep in or get up at sunrise, you can do nothing but lie around and watch movies all day long or...
ref: 2018, Melissa Alvarez, The Simplicity of Cozy:
glosses: A day reserved by oneself to relax.
me days
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of me day
Hollinghurst
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Seahouses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A coastal village in North Sunderland parish, northern Northumberland, England (OS grid ref NU2132).
MCDB
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Initialism of molecular, cellular, and developmental biology.
CMDBs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of CMDB
North Sunderland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A coastal village and civil parish in northern Northumberland, England (OS grid ref NU2131).
unalives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unalive
unalives
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unalive
unaliving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unalive
unalived
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unalive
orange staff sergeant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orange staff sergeants
Senses: topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: A nymphalid butterfly of species Athyma cama, of tropical and subtropical Asia.
orange staff sergeants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of orange staff sergeant
Shanghang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: shängʹhängʹ
Etymology: From Mandarin 上杭 (Shàngháng).
Senses: examples: text: In June of that year, Lin led a Red Army detachment to the village of Tsaihsi, in the Shanghang county of Fukien Province.
ref: 1970, Martin Ebon, “Boy from Hupeh (1907-1930)”, in Lin Piao: The Life and Writings of China's New Ruler, New York: Stein and Day, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 19:
text: Riverside Pavilion, to the east of Floating Bridge Gate, Shanghang County in western Fukien Province is an unusual pavilion.
ref: 1977, Ho Wei, “My Visits to Riverside Pavilion”, in Chinese Literature [中国文学], volume 7, Peking: Foreign Languages Press, page 10:
english: 中国文学
translation: 中国文学
text: This 1941 volume contains, for example, Mao's October 1930 investigation of the Jiangxi county of Xingguo and reports on the administration of two subcounty areas in Xingguo and in Shanghang County, Fujian.
ref: 1990, “Introduction”, in Roger Thompson, transl., Report from Xunwu, Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 38:
text: Zijin had been ordered to curb gold mining production after a pollution discharge in Shanghang county, Fujian province, and it expected to lose about 1 tonne of gold production this year as a result.
ref: 2010 July 28, Donny Kwok, “Zijin says executive detained in toxic spill probe”, in Ken Wills, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 27 Aug 2022:
glosses: A county of Longyan, Fujian, China.
Muppet News Flash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Muppet News Flashes
Etymology: The name of a recurring sketch on The Muppet Show, as Muppet + news flash.
Senses: examples: text: Well, I got a Muppet News Flash for you, pal; it is possible for a three-year-old girl who loves to watch ducks and collect sea shells to feel bad, and then a bit worse, and then a whole helluva lot worse, and finally lousy in a way that requires machines and tubes and pills and catheters and before you know it you’re sitting in the front pew at good ol’ St. Fracis de Sales Church on Granville Street along with your wife and parents and inlaws and X-amount of your balding schoolboy chums listening to some second-rate organist eviscerate Bach’s “Sheep May Safely Graze”[…]
ref: 1999, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, volume 96, Fantasy House, page 151:
text: Many horror writers cry that it’s the Curse of Categorization that keeps horror trapped in the literary cellar, and readily point to the publishers on whom they are all too willing to lay blame. Here’s a Muppet News Flash: it isn’t only publishers who categorize our fiction; it’s also the readers, the editors, and even (sometimes especially) the writers.
ref: 2010 December 13, Gary A. Braunbeck, To Each Their Darkness, Smashwords, unpaged
text: My views are indeed controversial, even among my fellow pro-lifers, who take the general patronizing and pusillanimous position that young women in difficult circumstances are basically indistinguishable from thumb-sucking preschoolers who cannot be treated as whole and competent human beings morally accountable for their actions. Muppet News Flash: I’m an extremist.
ref: 2019 July 23, Kevin D. Williamson, The Smallest Minority, Independent Thinking in the Age of Mob Politics, Regnery Publishing, unpaged
glosses: Used ironically to introduce a sobering truth.
wikipedia: The Muppet Show
AETX
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of aetokthonotoxin.
aetokthonotoxin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aetokthonotoxins
Etymology: From translingual Aetokthonos + toxin.
Senses: glosses: A bromated toxin produced by cyanobacteria, Aetokthonos hydrillicola, that kills birds through AVM (“avian vacuolar myelinopathy”).
Derived terms: AETX
Muppetlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: muppetlike
form: Muppet-like
Etymology: From Muppet + -like.
Senses: examples: text: There is also a lesson in how to construct your own Bill & Ted robots out of the materials available from your local builder’s emporium—though you won't be able to do this unless you have at your command a couple of ugly, Muppetlike physics geniuses from Mars.
ref: 1992, New Statesman Society, Statesman & Nation Publishing Company Limited, page 30:
text: While Breen related with the Muppetlike creatures, getting them to talk and play with the children, leaning over them to give them hugs and big silly kisses, Tess smiled and was, for all appearances, totally trusting.
ref: 1999, Meg O’Brien, Crashing Down, Mira Books, page 139:
text: The monster also had swim fins and a seaweed skirt. Anything but convincing or even really serviceable, its Muppetlike appearance was appropriate to this film.
ref: 2017 January 12, Bill Warren, Keep Watching the Skies!, American Science Fiction Movies of the Fifties, The 21st Century Edition, McFarland & Company, unpaged
glosses: Resembling a Muppet.
scarlet percher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scarlet perchers
Senses: topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: A species of libellulid dragonfly, Diplacodes haematodes, of mainland Australia, New Guinea, Timor, Vanuatu, and New Caledonia; the males are bright red.
scarlet perchers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scarlet percher
green marsh hawk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: green marsh hawks
Senses: topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: A species of libellulid dragonfly, Orthetrum sabina, of Eurasia, Australia, and Micronesia.
green marsh hawks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of green marsh hawk
slender skimmer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slender skimmers
Senses: topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: green marsh hawk
slender skimmers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slender skimmer
pygmy percher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pygmy perchers
Senses: topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: A species of small libellulid dragonfly, Nannodiplax rubra, of Australia and New Guinea.
pygmy perchers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pygmy percher
chalky percher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chalky perchers
Senses: topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: A species of libellulid dragonfly, Diplacodes trivialis, of Asia, Australia, and New Guinea.
chalky perchers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chalky percher
painted grasshawk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: painted grasshawks
Senses: topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: A species of libellulid dragonfly, Neurothemis stigmatizans, of northern Australia.
painted grasshawks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of painted grasshawk
slimwing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slimwings
Etymology: From slim + wing.
Senses: topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: An Australasian slimwing dragonfly.
slimwings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slimwing
pale-spotted emperor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pale-spotted emperors
Senses: topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: A widespread species of large aeshnid dragonfly, Anax guttatus, of Asia, Australia, and Oceania.
pale-spotted emperors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pale-spotted emperor
blue skimmer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blue skimmers
Senses: topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: A species of libellulid dragonfly, Orthetrum caledonicum, of Australia, the Lesser Sundas, New Guinea, New Caledonia, the males of which are predominantly light blue in colour.
blue skimmers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blue skimmer
colourful bluetail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: colourful bluetails
form: colorful bluetail
Senses: topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: A species of coenagrionid damselfly, Ischnura pruinescens, of northeastern Australia and New Guinea.
colourful bluetails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of colourful bluetail
colorful bluetail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: colorful bluetails
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of colourful bluetail.
colorful bluetails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of colorful bluetail
devil's tongue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: To remove a calcium smell, improve the application property and permeability of a seasoning and improve the appetite enhancing effect due to a fast and bright coloring, by dipping noodles made from devil's-tongue ...
ref: 1985, Patents Abstracts of Japan: Unexamined Applications:
text: […] loaf made from devil's tongue root, spongy […]
ref: 2001, Japan Quarterly:
text: One Japanese stationed in East Java, for instance, an employee of Mitsubishi Shōji, received an order to deliver five tons of devil's tongue, a plant called konyak (konnyaku in Japanese) that naturally occurs in Indonesia.
ref: 2009, The Encyclopedia of Indonesia in the Pacific War: In cooperation with the Netherlands Institute for War Documentation, BRILL, →ISBN, page 278:
text: Devil's tongue jelly gives this dish a firm bite, while the bacon gives it a smoky flavour.
ref: 2012, Catherina Hosoi, Cooking Classics Japan: A step-by-step cookbook, Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd, →ISBN, page 34:
glosses: Synonym of konjac.
synonyms: word: konjac
brassilexin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brassilexins
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The phytoalexin 4H-[1,2]thiazolo[5,4-b]indole present in Brassica juncea
bulbocerebellar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bulbo- + cerebellar.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the medulla oblongata and the cerebellum
cerebellectomizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cerebellectomize
endoenzymatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From endo- + enzymatic.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Relating to, or caused by, an endoenzyme.
eurythmicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The condition of being eurythmic
flavoxobin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A serine protease in the venom of the snake Trimeresurus flavoviridis
fruitcrop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fruitcrops
Etymology: From fruit + crop.
Senses: glosses: An agricultural crop of fruit.
fruitcrops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fruitcrop
hypoacylation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hypo- + acylation.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A diminished level of acylation, typically of a protein
interdistribute
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: interdistributes
form: interdistributing
form: interdistributed
form: interdistributed
Etymology: From inter- + distribute.
Senses: glosses: To distribute among members of a group
interdistributed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of interdistribute
interdistributed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: distributed among members of a group
ostreolysin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A cytolytic protein present in the oyster mushroom Pleurotus ostreatus
bane of someone's life
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: banes of someone's life
Senses: glosses: Synonym of bane of someone's existence.
synonyms: word: bane of someone's existence
phytocultural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From phyto- + cultural.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the culture (growth) of plants
pronominality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The condition of being pronominal
sirodesmins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sirodesmin
teleworkability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tele- + workability.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being teleworkable
Aneesh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Anish
Etymology: Transliteration of Hindi अनीश (anīś, “paramount, supreme”, literally “having no lord/master”).
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Hindi, of Indian usage.
Anish
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Aneesh.
skills shortage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skills shortages
Senses: examples: text: Her decision reflects what seems to be an accelerating trend here. Professionals, often young and in middle management but increasingly also senior executives, are leaving, adding to a skills shortage that is already acute.
ref: 2008 November 1, “South African emigration leads to skills shortage”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: Think about what we would expect to find if there really were a skills shortage. Above all, we should see workers with the right skills doing well, while only those without those skills are doing badly. We don’t.
ref: 2014 March 31, Paul Krugman, “Jobs and Skills and Zombies”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: A lack of specialized workforce.
Arandic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Aranda + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: The total number of Arandic speakers is around 2000, and the Western Aranda dialect accounts for at least half of these.
ref: 1982, Colin Yallop, Australian Aboriginal Languages, page 50:
glosses: Of or relating to the various languages and dialects of the Aranda (Arrernte) family or group.
red swampdragon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: red swampdragons
Senses: topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: A libellulid dragonfly, Agrionoptera insignis allogenes, a subspecies of the grenadier, of Australia, New Guinea, and the Solomon Islands.
red swampdragons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of red swampdragon
swampdragon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swampdragons
Etymology: From swamp + dragon.
Senses: glosses: Either of two species of Australian dragonfly of the genus Agrionoptera.
Derived terms: red swampdragon
striped swampdragon
swampdragons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of swampdragon
striped swampdragon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: striped swampdragons
Senses: topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: A libellulid dragonfly, Agrionoptera longitudinalis biserialis, of Australia and New Guinea.
striped swampdragons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of striped swampdragon
Hekou
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: hǔʹkōʹ
Forms: form: Ho-k'ou
form: Hokow
Etymology: From Mandarin 河口 (Hékǒu).
Senses: examples: text: Hokou County in Yunnan Province and Lao Kay in Vietnam are separated by a river. The two banks of the river are full of wandering Overseas Chinese refugees.
ref: [1978 May 24 [1978 May 21], “57,000 Persecuted Overseas Chinese Residing in Vietnam Have Returned to China”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 101, sourced from Hong Kong TA KUNG PAO, translation of original in Chinese, →ISSN, →OCLC, page N 5:
text: On Monday night, the New China News Agency said militiamen in Yunnan's Hekou County had ambushed Vietnamese infiltrators before dawn on Sunday, killing four of them and capturing a machine gun and four submachine guns.
ref: 1983 April 20, Christopher S. Wren, “PEKING WARNS HANOI ON BORDER CLASHES”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 May 2015, World:
text: On arrival at the hamlet of Ying-kuan-chai, over-looked by a ruined Tibetan fort, which we reached by a wooden bridge spanning the stream and by following the latter’s right bank to the end of the valley, I held a meeting of all the drivers, and informed them that the Commissary at Ta-chien-lu had distinctly stated to me that the animals supplied to me at Ta-chien-lu would take me right through to Ho-k’ou, a five days’ march, and that I would have no trouble with change of transport as far as that place.
ref: [2001, Alexander Hosie, “Ta-chien-lu to the Tibetan frontier and back”, in Mr Hosie's Journey to Tibet, 1904: A Report by Mr A. Hosie, His Majesty's Consul at Chengtu, on a Journey from Chengtu to the Eastern Frontier of Tibet, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 82:
glosses: A Yao autonomous county in Honghe prefecture, Yunnan, China, near Lào Cai, Vietnam.
fastigiobulbar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: fastigial and bulbar
Derived terms: fastigiobulbar tract
Hokow
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: By a convention, signed June 20, 1895, Hokow, opposite to the Tongkingese town of Laokai, directly on the frontier, was substituted for Manhao. Szemao, in the southwestern corner of Yünnan, was opened for the trade between Yünnan and French Laos, and the common frontier was rectified in such a way as to cede to France a portion of the territory of Kianghung.
ref: 1931, Hosea Ballou Morse, Harley Farnsworth MacNair, Far Eastern International Relations, Houghton Mifflin Company, →OCLC, page 356:
text: After some uprisings directed by Sun Yat-sen were crushed by the Ch'ing government, Sun was forced to leave Japan and Hong Kong. He came to Hanoi with Huang Hsing, Hu Han-min, and others, where he established a temporary headquarters. From Hanoi and Lang-Son, Sun directed the Chen-nan-kuan uprising. The unsuccessful revolt of Hokow was also engineered in Vietnam.
ref: 1969, King C. Chen, Vietnam and China, 1938-1954, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 16:
text: At Hokow we stopped to rest with the intention of leaving the injured man in lodgings with enough money to speed his recovery and see him home. The town was tiny but to sleep behind solid walls and dine on roasted meat was a luxury after the open hills.
ref: 2009, Sara Sheridan, The Secret Mandarin, Avon, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 131:
glosses: Alternative form of Hekou.
khamsa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: khamsas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hamsa.
Farne Islands
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An archipelago off the coast of Northumberland, England, included in North Sunderland parish (OS grid ref NU23).
Ching-chiang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 靖江 (Jìngjiāng), Wade–Giles romanization: Ching⁴-chiang¹.
Senses: examples: text: Ju-kao, Hsing-hua and Huai-an in northern Kiangsu, Chia-ting and Ching-chiang in southern Kiangsu, and above all, Wu-hu in Anhwei, became important processing centers.
ref: 1978, The Cambridge History of China, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 506:
text: Another example was that of the magistrate of Ching-chiang hsien in Kiangsu, named Huang Shih-pen, a native of Ch'ien-t'ang in Hangchow prefecture, who also purchased mulberry saplings from Hu-chou and tried to teach the local people sericultural techniques from Chekiang.
ref: 1981, Lillian M. Li, “Bureaucratic Myths and Sericulture”, in China's Silk Trade: Traditional Industry in the Modern World 1842-1937, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 135:
text: The editor of the local history of Ching-chiang county, Kiangsu, related one anecdote which he professed was from his own observation.
ref: 1988, Ju-K'ang T'ien, “Widespread Nature of the Cult of Female Marital Fidelity in the Ch'ing Period”, in Male Anxiety and Female Chastity: A Comparative Study of Chinese Ethical Values in Ming-Ch'ing Times, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 136:
glosses: Alternative form of Jingjiang.
Potanin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Potanins
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian Потанин (Potanin).
Senses: examples: Grigory Potanin, b. 1835
glosses: A transliteration of the Russian surname Пота́нин (Potánin)
Berrimans
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Berriman
Hinderer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hinderers
Etymology: Borrowed from German Hinderer.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Husser
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hussers
Etymology: Borrowed from German Hüsser.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana, United States.
Ching-hung
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 景洪 (Jǐnghóng), Wade–Giles romanization: Ching³-hung².
Senses: examples: text: The Nationalities Solidarity also reported on July 6, 1958: “One of the two very first cooperatives in Hsishuangpanna, the Su-sheng Agricultural Cooperative of Ching-hung County, which was first formed in May 1956, had to face mass withdrawal from the cooperative in April and May 1957. Twelve of the 30 member households firmly wanted to withdraw."
ref: 1966, Peter Kunstadter, editor, Southeast Asian Tribes, Minorities, and Nations, volume I, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, published 1967, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 189:
text: An accomplishment of great significance for the future of the Hsi-shuang Pan-na was the opening in December 1954 of a new highway linking the chou capital of Ching-hung (Ch'e-li) with Kunming, a distance of 741 kilometers.
ref: 1973, George V. H. Moseley, III, The Consolidation of the South China Frontier, Berkley, CA: University of California Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 118:
text: Three varieties of wild rice, O. rufipogon, O. officinalis and O. meyeriana, have been found in China, in a zone stretching from Hainan to Taiwan and from Northern Kwangsi to Ching-hung¹ on the Upper Mekong in Yunnan.
ref: 1984, Science and Civilization in China, volume 6, Cambridge University Press, published 2004, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 483:
glosses: Alternative form of Jinghong.
wikipedia: Encyclopædia Britannica
Hussers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Husser
Hinderers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Hinderer
graphic flutterer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: graphic flutterers
Senses: topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: A libellulid dragonfly, Rhyothemis graphiptera, of Australia, the Moluccas, New Guinea, and New Caledonia.
graphic flutterers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of graphic flutterer
Jao
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Jaos
Etymology: Borrowed from Cebuano Jao.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Cebuano.
Laumann
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Laumanns
form: Lauman
form: Laumenn
form: Laumen
Etymology: Borrowed from German Laumann.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Laumanns
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Laumann
Jaos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Jao
Holwell
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Holwells
Etymology: From Old English holh (“hollow”) + wielle (“well, spring”).
Senses: glosses: A number of places in England:
A hamlet near Horns Cross, Parkham parish, Torridge district, Devon (OS grid ref SS3723).
glosses: A number of places in England:
A village and civil parish in west Dorset (OS grid ref ST7010).
glosses: A number of places in England:
A village and civil parish in North Hertfordshire district, Hertfordshire (OS grid ref TL1633).
glosses: A number of places in England:
A small village in Ab Kettleby parish, Melton district, Leicestershire (OS grid ref SK7323).
glosses: A number of places in England:
A hamlet and civil parish (without a council) in West Oxfordshire district, Oxfordshire (OS grid ref SP2309).
glosses: A number of places in England:
A hamlet in Nunney parish, Somerset, previously in Mendip district (OS grid ref ST7245).
glosses: A locality and rural community in northern Tasmania, Australia.
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
Republic of Suriname
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Official name of Suriname: a country in South America.
Linsky
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Linskys
Etymology: Variant of Lynskey or Linski.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Linskys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Linsky
Opalka
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Opalkas
Etymology: Borrowed from Czech Opálka or Polish Opałka.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Nakama
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Nakamas
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 仲間 (Nakama).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Japanese.
Nakamas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Nakama
Opalkas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Opalka
biscuit bomber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biscuit bombers
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A military supply plane that drops food supplies from the air.
biscuit bombers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biscuit bomber
Moga
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Mogas
Etymology: Borrowed from Romanian Moga.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Romanian.
Papageorge
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Papageorges
Etymology: Partial translation of Greek Παπαγεωργίου (Papageorgíou).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Greek.
Papageorges
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Papageorge
Mogas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Moga
archæisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of archæism
pseudoarchaisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudoarchaism
McFerran
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: McFerrans
Etymology: Variant of McFerrin.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish.
McFerrans
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of McFerran
Pierpoints
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Pierpoint
Chin-ch'eng
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 晉城 /晋城 (Jìnchéng), Wade–Giles romanization: Chin⁴-chʻêng².
Senses: examples: text: Microlithic finds in a ceramic context have been discovered as far south as Chin-ch’eng Hsien and Kao-tu Hsien in southeastern Shansi.
ref: 1968, Kwang-chih Chang, The Archaeology of Ancient China, Yale University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 163:
text: Although the scale of such projects is rather small, they are numerous. In Chin-ch’eng county (Shansi province), 1,779 of the 1,915 industrial units - that is more than 92% - are administered at the brigade level.
ref: 1973, Authority, Participation and Cultural Change in China: Essays by a European Study Group, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 180:
text: Chin-ch'eng was liberated in 1945.
ref: 1976, Sidney L. Greenblatt, editor, The People of Taihang, White Plains, NY: International Arts and Sciences Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 196:
glosses: Alternative form of Jincheng.
Holwells
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Holwell
Silversmith
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Silversmiths
Etymology: From silversmith.
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as an occupation.
Silversmiths
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Silversmith
Boises
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Bois
Moore's Law
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: CPU speeds continue to increase with no end in sight. For instance, Sun's UltraSPARC processor roadmap, shown in Figure 16-2, show CPU speed increasing from 143 MHz in 1995 to 1.5 Ghz in 2002, roughly doubling every year as predicted by Moore's Law.
ref: 1999, Marc Hamilton, Software Development: Building Reliable Systems, Prentice Hall Professional, →ISBN, page 236:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Moore's law.
twitch gameplay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: video-games
glosses: A type of video game gameplay that requires fast reactions.
Related terms: twitch game
SVPs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of SVP
thelmophagous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of telmophagous.
linear relative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: linear relatives
Senses: glosses: An ancestor or descendant.
Ab Kettleby
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Melton district, Leicestershire, England (OS grid ref SK7223).
Nunney
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Somerset, England, previously in Mendip district (OS grid ref ST7345).
Dodsworth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Dodsworths
Etymology: Habitational surname from the village of Dodworth, in South Yorkshire, which is named from the Old English personal name Dodd + worþ (“enclosure”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Old English.
Related terms: Dodworth
bends the knee
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bend the knee
bending the knee
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bend the knee
bent the knee
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bend the knee
burns away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of burn away
burning away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of burn away
burned away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of burn away
burnt away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of burn away
sagopalms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sagopalm
Saharouis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Saharoui
Sahrouis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Sahroui
sail-yards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sail-yard
Saint Vincentians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Saint Vincentian
salorthids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of salorthid
salpingograms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of salpingogram
saltsprays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of saltspray
samarates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of samarate
rubbed up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rub up
rubs up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rub up
rubbing up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rub up
Sanskritologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Sanskritologist
santilmos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of santilmo
Brockweir
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Hewelsfield and Brockweir parish, Forest of Dean district, Gloucestershire, England, across the River Wye from Wales (OS grid ref SO5301).
Hewelsfield and Brockweir
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A civil parish in Forest of Dean district, Gloucestershire, England, which includes the named places.
Hewelsfield
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Hewelsfield and Brockweir parish, Forest of Dean district, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref SO5602).
Barraco
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Barracos
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Barraco.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
Beccari
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Beccaris
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Beccari.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
Derived terms: Beccarian
Bellissimo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bellissimos
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Bellissimo.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
Wanfow
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: wänʹfouʹ
Etymology: From Cantonese 雲浮 /云浮 (wan⁴ fau⁴).
Senses: examples: text: The towns fell to Chinese troops who cut to the rear of the Japanese drive at a point near the Kwangtung-Kwangsi border. They were Loting, south of Wuchow, treaty port from which the Japs are heading westward towards Kweilin, and Wanfow, an adjoining community.
ref: 1944 October 11, “Sino Counterblows Send Nips Reeling”, in The Stars and Stripes Mediterranean, Italy, →OCLC, page 1:
text: Only two years ago, he was still a student in the "First Middle School of Takhing", but was forced to leave school and return to Wanfow because his father, a landlord, was expropriated from all his land by the Communists during the "agrarian reform" and later died.
ref: 1954, Review of Hong Kong Chinese Press, →OCLC, page 9:
text: When interrogating their prospects, some cadres spoke so curtly and carelessly that their questions provoked only laughter. For example, the following conversation occurred between a Party cadre and a member-prospect in Wanfow County:
ref: 1955, Union Research Service, volume 1, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2:
text: Meanwhile the church of Wanfow was also returned to the Catholic Church and entrusted to Father Ma.
ref: 1988, Jean-Paul Wiest, Maryknoll in China: A History, 1918-1955, M. E. Sharpe, Inc., →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 218:
glosses: Synonym of Yunfu: the Cantonese-derived name
synonyms: word: Yunfu
extra: the Cantonese-derived name
South Witham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in South Kesteven district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref SK9219).
waterthyme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: waterthymes
Etymology: From water + thyme.
Senses: glosses: An aquatic plant, Hydrilla verticillata or Hydrilla generally
Proto-Munda
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From proto- + Munda.
Senses: hypernyms: Proto-Austroasiatic
glosses: The reconstructed proto-language that is the ancestor of the Munda languages.
wikipedia: Proto-Munda
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Proto-Munda terms
hypoglossal nerves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hypoglossal nerve
Sarawakians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Sarawakian
sarcophilines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sarcophiline
sarcophytols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sarcophytol
sarcophytoxides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sarcophytoxide
sarcoplasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sarcoplast
sarcosyls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sarcosyl
sarvabhaumas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sarvabhauma
satais
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of satai
Satmarers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Satmarer
satsumaimos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of satsumaimo
saturnians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of saturnian
saufgardes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of saufgarde
savoiardis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of savoiardi
saw-horses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of saw-horse
saxboards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of saxboard
scabweeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scabweed
scalarisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scalarisation
scaleys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scaley
scalpellids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scalpellid
scanheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scanhead
scarabids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scarabid
chapwoman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chapwomen
Etymology: From Middle English chapwoman, by analogy with chapman.
Senses: glosses: A woman who buys and sells; a female trader.
war of independence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wars of independence
Senses: synonyms: independence war
freedom fight
war of liberation
glosses: A civil war by which a rebellious party achieves its independence from a state or ruler.
Dodsworths
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Dodsworth
s'chachs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of s'chach
schades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of schade
schaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of schak
schemoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of schemoid
schizontocides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of schizontocide
schizophorans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of schizophoran
schpeals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of schpeal
schpiels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of schpiel
schpeels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of schpeel
roundie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: roundies
Etymology: From round + -ie.
Senses: topics: broadcasting
media
television
glosses: A television set with a round cathode ray tube.
roundies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of roundie
revani
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Albanian revani, Greek ρεβανί (revaní), and Turkish revani.
Senses: examples: text: Dessert of revani (cake soaked in honey with semolina and yoghurt) was lovely.
ref: 2004, “Zara”, in Phil Harriss, editor, Time Out Cheap Eats in London (Time Out Guides), 2nd edition, London: Penguin Books, “North” section, “Hampstead & Belsize Park” subsection, page 298, column 2:
text: Revani, a rich almond cake with cinnamon-brandy syrup, is probably the most popular of all syrup cakes. After visiting a pastry shop in northern Greece, Kochilas recalls just how popular revani is: “The shop sells nothing but trays and trays of revani . . . for the lines of people who are always waiting, inside and out.”
ref: 2006, Barbara Sheen, “Drenched in Syrup”, in Foods of Greece (A Taste of Culture), Farmington Hills, Mich.: KidHaven Press, Thomson Gale, →ISBN, chapter 3 (Snacks and Sweets), page 38:
text: Revani is a dessert made from semolina and syrup, which is mostly consumed in Middle Eastern countries and in Turkey. However celiac patients cannot consume revani because semolina contains gluten.
ref: 2018 September, Rusen Metin Yildirim, Tuncay Gumus, Muhammet Arici, “Optimization of a gluten free formulation of the Turkish dessert revani using different types of flours, protein sources and transglutaminase”, in LWT – Food Science and Technology, volume 95, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 72:
text: Mazhar looks up at me before slicing into his revani. A tiny mountain of pistachios crumbles into the lemon syrup, and cake crumbs dribble onto the front of his maroon sweatshirt. […] I copy him. The syrup is both tart and sweet, the pistachios crunchy and earthy on my tongue. […] I stuff another forkful of revani into my mouth.
ref: 2022 July, Melissa See, “Daisy”, in You, Me, and Our Heartstrings, New York, N.Y.: Scholastic Press, →ISBN:
glosses: Synonym of basbousa.
synonyms: word: basbousa
Schweinhundts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Schweinhundt
schweinshaxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of schweinshaxe
scienticians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scientician
scioltos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sciolto
Scunthonians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Scunthonian
scumbutts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scumbutt
scumbreaths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scumbreath
seacorns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seacorn
seabreezes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seabreeze
seafares
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of seafare
seafares
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seafare
seasiders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seasider
seaspiders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seaspider
sea-spiders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sea-spider
scurricks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scurrick
scitaments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scitament
screwboards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of screwboard
scotchers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scotcher
scleroskeletons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scleroskeleton
sclerines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sclerine
scituations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scituation
Pebley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Pebleys
Etymology: Probably a habitational surname.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
secocarotenoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of secocarotenoid
secernenteans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of secernentean
Pebleys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Pebley
Perrellis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Perrelli
Posas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Posases
Etymology: Borrowed from Catalan Posas, from the noun pausa (“rest, repose, pause”). This surname is mostly found in Honduras.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Catalan.
Posases
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Posas
Perfectos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Perfecto
Poniatowskis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Poniatowski
Pizzolato
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Pizzolatos
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Pizzolato.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
Schettinos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Schettino
Pizzolatos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Pizzolato
Schweer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Schweers
Etymology: Borrowed from German Schweer.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Gorleston
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of Gorleston-on-Sea: a coastal town in Great Yarmouth borough, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TG5203).
Schweers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Schweer
Riegert
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Riegerts
Etymology: Borrowed from German Riegert.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Stongs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Stong
Riegerts
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Riegert
Bowdish
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bowdishes
Etymology: Probably an altered form of Bowditch.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Bamaca
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bamacas
Etymology: Borrowed from Mam Bámaca. This surname is mostly found in Guatemala.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Mam.