cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Vin Santo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌvɪn ˈsɑntoʊ/
ipa: /ˌvin ˈsɑntoʊ/
Forms: form: vin santo
Etymology: From Italian vin santo (literally “holy wine”).
Senses: glosses: A wine made from grapes dried on straw mats and fermented in chestnut barrels, typical of Tuscany; often a dessert wine.
starting handle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: starting handles
Senses: topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: a crank handle fitted to or supplied with older vehicles for the purpose of starting the engine, even if fitted with a starter motor.
whalebone whale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪl
Forms: form: whalebone whales
Senses: glosses: Synonym of baleen whale.
synonyms: word: baleen whale
puntilion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Unknown.
Senses: examples: text: These Balls were small, but exceeding thick bubbles of Glass, which being crack'd off from the Puntilion whilst very hot […] do thereby […] acquire a very porous and very brittle texture […].
ref: 1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia:
topics: arts
crafts
glassblowing
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: A pontil.
Pergade
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
decenal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: decenals
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any aliphatic aldehyde that has ten carbon atoms and one double bond
abapertural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more abapertural
form: most abapertural
Senses: examples: text: Pollen grains with 30 lacunae occur in the majority of the species examined, and show three apertural, six abapertural, twelve parapertural, six interapertural and three equatorial lacunae.
ref: 2012, Issues in Life Sciences: Botany and Plant Biology Research, →ISBN:
glosses: Not apertural; Away from the aperture.
bathycolpous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bathycolpous
form: most bathycolpous
Senses: examples: text: She was lavish in build, with great thighs but a slim waist, bathycolpous as any Homeric heroine.
ref: 1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 255:
glosses: Synonym of bathykolpian.
synonyms: word: bathykolpian
mammaphilia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: lifestyle
sexuality
glosses: Attraction to a woman’s breasts.
rehairs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rehair
rehairs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rehair
rehairing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rehair
rehairing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rehairings
Senses: glosses: Synonym of rehair.
synonyms: word: rehair
rehaired
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rehair
Quebeckish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Quebecish
form: Quebequish
Etymology: From Quebec + -ish. Compare English Quebecois.
Senses: examples: text: There are times when the French-Canadians in the other provinces complain that the network image is too Quebeckish, and much more on television than on radio.
ref: 1970, Proceedings of the Special Senate Committee on Mass Media:
text: We can say that those years saw the birth of a freewheeling discussion of education, religion, and the traditional interpretation of national history. Inevitably, the critics came to attack Quebec Catholicism and those who had narrowed it and made it peculiarly “Quebeckish.”
ref: 1978, Marcel Rioux, Quebec in Question, page 68:
text: Finally, the article is given excellent play in the newspaper, ideally with a photograph of the unfortunate cabby. He should look as foreign and un-Quebecish as possible.
ref: 2002, Normand Lester, The Black Book of English Canada, page 22:
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or typical of Quebec.
bullering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of buller
bullered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of buller
boisman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boismen
Senses: examples: text: His great size and his ability as a boisman (stickfighter) made him immune from physical attack.
ref: 1975, Michael Anthony, Andrew Carr, David Frost Introduces Trinidad and Tobago, page 151:
text: Commenting on his love for Talparo, the home of the formidable Talparo Tambule in Kandal troupe (a band of boismen), he said: “I have land in Talparo. I love Talparo. When I go up there, it is like a different zone. I love the bush. When I go up there, whack. I just watch around. I just lie down on the ground. I am enjoying nature. I pick oranges and portugals.
ref: 2012 January 21, Michelle Loubon, “Rio promoting traditional calypso”, in Trinidad Guardian:
text: The fate of this year's National Stick Fighting Competition now hangs in the balance after boismen boycotted Friday's preliminary round at the St Mary's Basketball Court in Moruga as they demanded an increase in prize monies.
ref: 2018 January 30, Kevon Felmine, “Stick fighters want Gayelle prize money increase”, in Trinidad Guardian:
glosses: A stickfighter.
boismen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boisman
stickfighter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: stickfighters
form: stick-fighter
Etymology: From stickfight(ing) + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Most people had forgotten I had ever been a stickfighter.
ref: 2005, Kevin Baldeosingh, The Ten Incarnations of Adam Avatar, →ISBN, page 383:
text: Quickly grabbing one of the crutches, he whispered: 'If we are attacked, you just clear out. I can look after myself; I am a stickfighter. Don't worry!'
ref: 2010, Robert van Gulik, Necklace and Calabash: A Chinese Detective Story, →ISBN, page 42:
text: In the evening I practise my forms with Lapy, who'd be a good stickfighter if he could be bothered.
ref: 2010, A Life in Full and Other Stories, →ISBN, page 63:
glosses: One who competes in stickfighting.
stickfighters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stickfighter
stick-fighter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stick-fighters
Senses: examples: text: Until then I had had no thoughts of anything but my own pleasures, no higher ambition than to eat well and become a champion stick-fighter.
ref: 1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom:
text: Before he was ten years old Walter was already a champion stick-fighter.
ref: 2006 -, Chris Van Wyk, Walter Sisulu, →ISBN, page 9:
text: One was a stick-fighter, the other an axe-wielder.
ref: 2015, Tricia Sullivan, The Company of Glass, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of stickfighter.
stick-fighters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stick-fighter
contractocracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: contractocracies
Etymology: From contract + -ocracy.
Senses: examples: text: There are several dissimilarities, however, between classical Underdevelopment Theory and some of the leading theoreticians of the contractocracy school in Nigeria.
ref: 1986, Peter R. Lawrence, World Recession and the Food Crisis in Africa, →ISBN, page 43:
text: The contract syndrome became so prevalent that the then Governor of Kaduna State, Balarabe Musa, felt compelled to characterise the Nigerian polity in terms of a "contractocracy" : "Instead of a democracy -in which you have in operation government for the people, you have a contractocracy in which government is for contractors, by contractors and of contractors."
ref: 1992, Thomas A. Imobighe, The politics of the Second Republic, page 150:
text: Yusuf Bangura argues that the contractocracy thesis merely falls within what he called "third option" explanation.
ref: 1997, Rufa'i Ahmed Alkali, The World Bank and Nigeria, page 10:
glosses: The routine use of contractors to perform the functions of government rather than regular government employees, often with the implication that the contractors are ineffective and simply enriching themselves due to government corruption.
contractocracies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of contractocracy
nothing-up-my-sleeve number
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nothing-up-my-sleeve numbers
Etymology: In reference to magic tricks in which the performer may have something concealed in a sleeve (or may demonstrate to the audience that they do not).
Senses: examples: text: The key schedule, however, expanding the key using an essentially one-way method, is more complex, with the binary expansions of both e and the golden ratio of "nothing up my sleeve numbers".
ref: 2014 May 24, Mr. Ajay Bhaisare, “Data Protection Outsourcing of Cloud Data to Maintain Trust between Cloud Service and Data Owner Using RC5 Algorithm”, in IJCSMC, volume 3, number 5, page 608:
text: Anyway, they make the same point: “The BADA55-VPR curves illustrate the fact that 'verifiably pseudorandom' curves with 'systematic' seeds generated from 'nothing-up-my-sleeve numbers' also do not stop the attacker from generating a curve with a one-in-a-million weakness.”
ref: 2017, Manul Laphroaig, PoC or GTFO:
topics: computing
cryptography
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A number which, by its construction, is above suspicion of having hidden properties; used in creating cryptographic functions such as hashes and ciphers.
nothing-up-my-sleeve numbers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nothing-up-my-sleeve number
Bekan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in County Mayo, Ireland.
diuers
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more diuers
form: most diuers
Senses: examples: text: This kyng Edward the .ii. father to the noble kyng Edward the .iii. had .ii. bretherñ⸝ the one called Marſhall⸝ who was ryght wyld ⁊ diuers of condicions⸝ the other called ſir Aymon erle of Cane right wyse⸝ amiable⸝ gẽtle [gentle] and wellbeloued with al people.
ref: 1523 February 7 (Gregorian calendar), Johan Froyssart [i.e., Jean Froissart], “Here Myn Auctour Maketh Mencion of the Parentꝭ [Parentis] of this Good Kyng Edward the .iii.”, in Here Begynneth the First Volum of Sir Johan Froyssart: Of the Cronycles of Englande⸝ Fraunce⸝ Spayne⸝ Portyngale⸝ Scotlande⸝ Bretayne⸝ Flañders: And Other Places Adioynynge. […], 1st volume, London: […] Richarde Pynson⸝ […], →OCLC; reprinted as The First Volum of Sir Johan Froyssart of the Chronycles of Englande⸝ Fraunce⸝ Spayne (The English Experience […]; no. 257), Amsterdam: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum; New York, N.Y.: Da Capo Press, 1970, →ISBN, folio ii, recto, column 1:
text: And they gaue them drinke in veſſels of gold, (the veſſels being diuers one from another) and royall wine in abundance, according to the ſtate of the king.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Esther 1:7, signature Yy2, recto:
text: [Y]ou that beſt ſhould teach vs, / Haue miſdemean'd your ſelfe, and not a little: / Tovvard the King firſt, then his Lavves, in filling / The vvhole Realme, by your teaching & your Chaplaines / (for ſo vve are inform'd) vvith nevv opinions, / Diuers and dangerous; vvhich are Hereſies; / And not reform'd, may proue pernicious.
ref: 1613 (date written), William Shakespeare, [John Fletcher], “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii], page 220, column 1:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of diverse.
diuers
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more diuers
form: most diuers
Senses: examples: text: [The river in the Garden of Eden] novv divided into four main Streams, / Runs divers, vvandring many a famous Realme / And Country vvhereof here needs no account, […]
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book IV”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC, signature M2, verso, lines 233–235:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of diverse.
dyvers
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dyvers
form: most dyvers
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of divers.
dyuers
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dyuers
form: most dyuers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of dyvers.
ouer
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: glosses: Early Modern spelling of over.
payd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of paid.
glosses: Eye dialect spelling of paid.
euil
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more euil
form: most euil
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of evil.
iump
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of jump.
Sindhee
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Dated form of Sindhi.
Sindhee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sindhees
Senses: glosses: Dated form of Sindhi.
Sindhee
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Dated form of Sindhi.
Cutchee
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Dated form of Kachchi.
Cutch
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Dated form of Kutch.
Jarejah
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Dated form of Jadeja.
Jarijah
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Dated form of Jadeja.
Kashmeer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Dated form of Kashmir.
Oude
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Dated form of Awadh.
Sinde
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Dated form of Sindhi.
Bilochi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Dated form of Balochi.
Billochi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Dated form of Balochi.
Billochee
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Dated form of Balochi.
Jut
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Dated form of Jat.
Kutch
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Cutch
form: Kachchh
Etymology: Borrowed from Gujarati કચ્છ (kacch), from Sanskrit कच्छ (kaccha, “marshland”).
Senses: glosses: A district of Gujarat, India.
Derived terms: Gulf of Kutch
Rann of Kutch
Related terms: Kachchi
Jadeja
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Jarejah
form: Jarijah
Etymology: Borrowed from Gujarati જાડેજા (jāḍejā).
Senses: glosses: A Rajput clan in Kutch, a district of Gujarat, India.
Awadh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Oude
form: Audh
form: Oudh
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi अवध (avadh).
Senses: examples: text: ‘Lucknow is not a village. It is a city with a thousand years of civilization. It was the capital of the Awadh kingdom.ʼ
ref: 2023, Santanu Bhattacharya, One Small Voice, Fig Tree, page 11:
glosses: A historical region of Uttar Pradesh, India.
Related terms: Awadhi
Nasakh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Naskh.
Diwani
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Diwany
Etymology: From Arabic دِيوَانِيّ (dīwāniyy).
Senses: glosses: A calligraphic style of the Arabic script developed in the Ottoman court.
Han unification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The assignment of single codepoints to various variant forms of Han characters in Unicode.
UCS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: Unicode
glosses: Initialism of Universal Coded Character Set, a set of characters standardized in ISO 10646.
Janazah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Arabic جَنَازَة (janāza, “funeral”).
Senses: examples: text: The janazah, or funeral-prayers, are repeated by the priest, the people around saying Amin or “Amen.”
ref: 1875, Thomas D. Forsyth, Report of a Mission to Yarkund in 1873, page 93:
text: This prayer is called Janazah prayer, It is offered in a standing position. […] The Janazah prayer is a collective obligation (Fard-Kifayah) on all the Muslims of the locality of the dead person.
ref: 1993, A.H.M. Quasem, Essential Islamic Teachings, page 51:
glosses: A Muslim funeral prayer, part of the Islamic funeral ritual.
examples: text: […] the whole are deposited in a very neat coffin — Janazah — garlanded with beautiful flowers, and covered over with a white (malmal) figured muslin.
ref: 1883, H.V.P. Bronkhurst, The Colony of British Guyana and Its Labouring Population, page 358:
text: Here we differ: The Janázah with a lid is not a Badawi article: the wildlings use the simplest stretcher; and I would translate the lines: The son of woman, whatso his career / One day is borne upon the gibbous bier.
ref: 1894, Richard Burton, Leonard Smithers, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, volume 3, page 189:
glosses: A bier or a coffin used to transport and bury the body of a dead person.
janazah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Janazah (“funeral prayer”).
Nganning
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: This River Nganning waters a valley called Kienchang, containing near its northern end a city known by the same name, but in our modern maps marked as Ningyuen-fu; this last being the name of a department of which it is the capital, and which embraces much more than the valley of Kienchang.
ref: 1875, The Book of Ser Marco Polo, London: John Murray, →OCLC, page 57:
text: M. Dessirier explored the important range lying between the valley of the Nganning on the west and that of the Puke, traversed by M. Bonin, on the east.[...]At the end of March Dr. Legendre and M. Noiret explored the porphyritic range which runs from north to south between the valleys of the Tung-ho and Yangtse separating the valley of the Nganning from the basin of Yuesi.
ref: 1912, “The Monthly Record”, in The Geographical Journal, volume XXIX, London: Royal Geographical Society, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 73:
text: M. Dessirier explored the important range lying between the valley of the Nganning on the and survey of the less known regions of the world , as a good west and that of the Puke traversed by M. Bonin on the east-
ref: 1912 February 10, The National Review, China, volume 11, →OCLC, page 114:
glosses: Dated form of Anning.
Anning
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɑːnˈnɪŋ/
enpr: änʹnǐngʹ
Forms: form: An-ning
Etymology: Borrowed from Mandarin 安寧 /安宁 (Ānníng).
Senses: examples: text: From Pi-chi Kuan to An-ning chou 安甯州 (now An-ning hsien) is 50 li. An-ning is a walled city lying in a valley at an altitude of 6,000 feet. In ancient days it was the T’ang-lang-ch’uan 螳螂川 (Mantis stream) of the Tien Kingdom. A small trail here branches off to the town of Wu-ting 武定, three stages to the north of K’un-ming and a distance of 210 li from An-ning. (A motorroad has now been built.)
ref: [1947, Joseph F. Rock, “Introduction”, in The Ancient Na-khi Kingdom of Southwest China, volume 1, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, →OCLC, →OL, page 15:
text: CNPC’s refinery comprises one of the auxiliary infrastructures of Sino-Burma crude oil pipelines, which just entered the Industrial Park of Anning City, Yunnan Province in 2013. The pipeline stands at the windward of the “City of Eternal Spring” and upstream side of the “City of Water Shortage,” Kunming.
ref: 2014, Yangtze River Delta Earth First!, “Environmental Group Events in Today's China”, in Alexander Reid Ross, editor, Grabbing Back: Essays Against the Global Land Grab, AK Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781849351898/page/n143/:
text: PetroChina has also been building a 260,000 barrels per day (bpd) refinery at Anning in Yunnan province to process the oil, which so far can only be stored in tanks.
ref: 2016 October 10, Chen Aizhu, Aung Hla Tun, “New China refinery faces delay as Myanmar seeks extra oil tax: sources”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 10 Oct 2018, Commodities:
glosses: A county-level city of Kunming, Yunnan, China.
examples: text: THE second day after leaving Hui-li-chou we entered the valley of the Anning Ho, a grey, fast-flowing stream whose course runs parallel with the meridian like all the others of that interesting group of rivers between Assam and eastern Szechuan, the Irrawaddy, the Sal ween, the Mekong, the Yangtse, the Yalung. The Anning, the smallest of these, lies enclosed in a wilderness of tangled ranges, and its valley forms the shortest trade route between Szechuan and the Indo-Chinese peninsula.
ref: 1913, Elizabeth Kendall, “The Chien-ch'ang”, in A Wayfarer in China: Impressions of a Trip Across West China and Mongolia, Houghton Mifflin Company, →OCLC, page 71:
glosses: A river in Sichuan, China.
Synonyms: word: Nganning
Kienchang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: We spent the night in a little Catholic village midway between Kienchang and Nan Feng. We decided that I should wait here for some days and that Father Kerr should go on to Kienchang.
ref: 1930 March, “"Perils from the Gentiles"”, in The Far East, volume XIII, number 3, Chinese Missionary Society of St. Columban, →OCLC, page 6:
text: On New Year’s Eve in Kienchang, Father Moran was preparing his church for Mass on the next day, a day for which his parishioners had long prepared.
ref: 1983, Edward Fisher, “New Ground”, in Maybe a Second Spring: The Story of the Missionary Sisters of St. Columban in China, New York: Crossroad, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 105:
text: Action continued the next day at Suichuan. Captain John Stewart led eight P-51 As to Kienchang to make the 76th's first attempt at dive-bombing with their Mustangs.
ref: 1994, Carl Molesworth, Sharks Over China: The 23rd Fighter Group in World War II, Brassey's, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 184:
glosses: Dated form of Jianchang.
Fuchow
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfuˈt͡ʃoʊ/
ipa: /fuːˈt͡ʃəʊ/
Senses: examples: text: The Min Kiang is a much smaller river than the above-named, but ranks high as a trade route, being the approach to the important city of Fuchow, and the centre of the southern tea trade of China.
ref: 1900, Alexis Krausse, China in Decay, London: Chapman & Hall, page 10:
glosses: Dated form of Fuzhou.
Kiukiang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Postal Romanization of the Nanking court dialect Mandarin 九江 (Jiǔjiāng), from before the modern palatalization of [k] to [t͡ɕ].
Senses: examples: text: On the 31st of July he arrived at Kiukiang, and in August, in company with the Rev. C. V. Hart, Superintendent of the Methodist Episcopal Mission, visited Nanchang, the capital of Kiangsi, which had been entered by Protestant missionaries but twice before, and in two days he sold 300 Portions.
ref: 1881, Sixty-Fifth Annual Report of the American Bible Society, New York, page 122:
text: As minister of foreign affairs at Nanking, Chiang Kai-shek had appointed Mr. C. C. Wu. The latter became Nanking’s chief negotiator in a conference at Kiukiang, on August 24, with the Hankow left leaders, Wang Ching-wei and Sun Fo, twelve days after Chiang’s resignation. The Kiukiang conference was followed by a series of conferences at Shanghai, during the second week in September, and finally at Nanking in the middle of the month.
ref: 1931, Harley Farnsworth MacNair, China in Revolution: An Analysis of Politics and Militarism Under the Republic, University of Chicago Press, page 127:
text: Here I am, 61 years later, at the place I was born on June 2, 1920. Amazingly, I remember a few features from when I was six. Little has changed—just different neighbors. It is beautiful here. … Am off and down the Mt. to Kiukiang tomorrow.
ref: 1981 November, Harned Pettus Hoose, “‘I Can Think as the Chinese Do’”, in Foreign Policy, published 2022, archived from the original on 21 Feb 2022:
text: The city was connected with Kiukiang on the Yangtze by a 79-mile railway. While Chiang Kai-shek and Sun Ch’uan-fang negotiated through representatives, both sides sent troops into the province. The general plan of the National Revolutionary Army was to send forces, which had so far done little fighting, eastwards from Hunan to capture Nanchang, while other units from Hupei would capture the railway and take Kiukiang.
ref: 1984, C. Martin Wilbur, The Nationalist Revolution in China, 1923-1928, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 59:
text: The Bells and Taylors went by launch down the canal to Chinkiang and thence by slow, foreign-owned river steamer some 350 miles up the Yangtze to Kiukiang.
ref: December 2010, John Pollock, A Foreign Devil in China, World Wide Publications, →ISBN, page 43:
glosses: Alternative form of Jiujiang.
wikipedia: Mandarin (late imperial lingua franca)
Chik Hom
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: chǐkʹhǔmʹ
Forms: form: Chikhom
Etymology: From Cantonese 赤坎 (cek3 ham2).
Senses: examples: text: Some conception of the density of the population may be gained from the fact that from the top of “Centipede Hill,” opposite the town of Chik-hom, three hundred and fifty villages can be seen.
ref: [1886, B. C. Henry, “Among the Palms”, in Ling-Nam or Interior Views of Southern China Including Explorations in the Hitherto Untraversed Island of Hainan, London: S. W. Partridge and Co., →OCLC, page 85:
text: On the other hand, when a vigorous effort is made for self-support, we are often surprised to find how it succeeds. The church of Chik-Hom in southern China is an instance. It is centrally located in that region from which goes nearly all the emigration to the United States.
ref: [1898 September, “Conversation on Self-Support”, in The Missionary Review of the World, volume XXI/XI, number 9, →OCLC, page 689, column 2:
glosses: Dated form of Chikan.
Shekki
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Cantonese 石岐 (sek6 kei4).
Senses: examples: text: With the exception of Shiukwan on the Canton-Hankow railroad, Kwangtung’s regional centers are situated along the coast, notably in the Canton delta. There, in addition to Canton, are the cities of Fatshan, Kongmoon and Shekki.
ref: 1956, Theodore Shabad, “The Kwangtung-Kwangsi Hills”, in China's Changing Map: A Political and Economic Geography of the Chinese People's Republic, New York: Frederick A. Praeger, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 166:
text: Chan Sam had already received two receipts, one from the banking institution in Hong Kong to which he had sent his draft, and another from the broker in the market town of Shekki, which served several satellite villages including Chang Gar Bin. A courier had carried the draft from Hong Kong to Shekki.
ref: 1994, Denise Chong, “Chapter Three”, in The Concubine's Children, Penguin Books, published 1996, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 38:
text: 1938
Asia & The Pacific
Nov.2[...]Japan bombs Shekki, ahead of their advance on the West River. More Japanese troops are landed at Amoy in Fukien.
ref: 2007, Rodney P. Carlisle, editor, Day by Day: The Thirties, volume 2, Facts on File, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 894:
glosses: Dated form of Shiqi: the Cantonese-derived name.
Knudsen number
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Knudsen numbers
Etymology: Named after Danish physicist Martin Knudsen.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The ratio between mean free path and aperture size used as a parameter in describing Knudsen flow.
wikipedia: Martin Knudsen
one-day
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: one-day conference
text: one-day cricket match
text: On the morning after the one-day strike, October 4, one of the Type 4s on crew-training, No. D169, was appropriated to head the 3 a.m. mail to Hull, as no steam locomotive had been lit up and the usual Hull Type 3 was not available; [...].
ref: 1962 December, “Motive Power Miscellany: North Eastern Region”, in Modern Railways, pages 422, 425:
glosses: lasting one day
Related terms: one-dayer
one-dayer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: one-dayers
Senses: examples: text: Is the conference going to be a one-dayer, or should we book a hotel room?
glosses: Any event lasting one day.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A one-day match.
Related terms: one-day
Gadarene swine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: 2000 [1908, Weiser Books], R. Campbell Thompson, Semitic Magic: Its Origins and Development, Red Wheel/Weiser, page 208,
The most remarkable parallel to this spell is contained in the New Testament story of the Gadarene swine.
text: In fact, Hamsun now completes his allusion to the story of the Gadarene swine alluded to by Pauline in the previous novel. That the reader is expected to recall the Biblical story is quite evident from one simple fact: the number of sheep, according to August's rough reckoning, is "over two thousand"; the herd of Gadarene swine numbered "about two thousand."
ref: 2005, Sverre Lyngstad, Knut Hamsun, Novelist: A Critical Assessment, Peter Lang, page 294:
text: Here Dostoevsky uses the biblical story of the Gadarene swine—a tale of unclean devils that, having been exorcised from a sick or mad man by Christ, enter a herd of swine that then rushes headlong down a steep bank into the sea (Mark 5:2-20)—to generate a series of analogies that suggest that Russia is a sick or mad man possessed by devils and that the swine that the devils enter upon being exorcised are the revolutionaries (Devils, 647–48). In The Master of Petersburg, however, Coetzee applies the story of the Gadarene swine not only to Russia and the phenomenon of revolutionary nihilism but also to the character Dostoevsky himself.
ref: 2006, Michael Marais, “4: Death and the Space of the Response to the Other in J. M. Coetzee's Master of Petersburg”, in Jane Poyner, editor, J. M. Coetzee and the Idea of the Public Intellectual, Ohio University Press, page 87:
topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A herd of swine that become possessed by demons after the latter are exorcised from men, in a parable told in each of the Synoptic Gospels, although not the Gospel of John.
polymericity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From polymeric + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: As noted above, coals are complex macromolecular solids of polymericity.
ref: 2004, Toshiaki Kabe, Atsushi Ishihara, Eika Weihua Qian, Coal and Coal-Related Compounds: Structures, Reactivity and Catalytic Reactions:
glosses: The quality or condition of being a polymer.
F/L
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
war
glosses: Abbreviation of flight lieutenant.
Coordinate terms: english: pilot officer
translation: pilot officer
word: P/O
english: flying officer
translation: flying officer
word: F/O
rationably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more rationably
form: most rationably
Etymology: From rationable + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: By this Hypothesis there is no one experiment of colour that I have yet met with, but may be, I conceive, very rationably solv'd, and perhaps, had I time to examine several particulars requisite to the demonstration of it, I might prove it more than probable […].
ref: 1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia, section X:
glosses: Rationally, reasonably.
alcalizate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more alcalizate
form: most alcalizate
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of alkalizate.
opacousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From opacous + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: [T]hat 'tis the flaws that produce this opacousness, may be argued from this, that particles of the same Ammel much thicker if unflaw'd will appear somewhat transparent even to the eye […].
ref: 1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia, section X:
glosses: Opacity.
Purbeck stone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: I could perceive several small winding holes, much like Worm-holes, as I have noted in some kind of Purbeck-stone, by looking on the surface of a piece newly flaw'd off […].
ref: 1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia, section XV:
glosses: A type of hard limestone from the Isle of Purbeck, used for building and paving.
City of Angels
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the City of Angels
Etymology: Calque of Spanish Pueblo de Los Ángeles (literally “City of the Angels”).
Senses: synonyms: Angel City
glosses: Nickname for Los Angeles: a major city in California, United States.
patter song
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: patter songs
Senses: qualifier: singing
glosses: A type of humorous song sung at a rapid tempo, typical of comic opera, operettas, and musicals.
patter songs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of patter song
unnatural selection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Play on natural selection.
Senses: examples: text: Is the startling variety of dogs, brassicas and the like, which our unnatural selection has generated, a sort of compensation, I wonder?
ref: 2000, John Postgate, Microbes and Man, →ISBN, page 335:
text: Rachel demonstrates that America's racism and its tolerance of lynching (not public health measures, as white supremacist and elitist eugenicists from Spencer to Wiggam had argued) have resulted in unnatural selection for both blacks and whites.
ref: 2005, Daylanne K. English, Unnatural Selections: Eugenics in American Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance, →ISBN:
text: Unnatural selection generally acts at cross purposes to the long-term goal of sustainable harvest of wild populations and can reduce the frequency of phenotypes valued by humans. Harvest can affect sexual selection because it tends to remove individuals with particular characteristics, such as large size or elaborate weapons from those of the breeding pool.
ref: 2009, Francisco J. Ayala, John C. Avise, In the Light of Evolution: Volume III: Two Centuries of Darwin, →ISBN:
text: There has often been talk of eugenics, of breeding humans in such a way as to improve their gene pool—a kind of unnatural selection or self-domestication.
ref: 2012, John Tyler Bonner, The Ideas of Biology, →ISBN:
qualifier: evolutionary theory
glosses: The selection of certain genes caused by the actions of humans, especially the intentional intervention in the breeding of plants or animals in order to preserve selected genetic traits; eugenics, selective breeding or culling.
Synonyms: artificial selection
dikgosana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: He employed and sheltered behind Amandebele bodyguards and consumed the cattle of dikgosana and batlhanka headmen as state property vested in the royal person, rather than as mafisa ("feudal") cattle held in trust by the royals and headmen.
ref: 1990, Jack Parson, Succession to High Office in Botswana: Three Case Studies, →ISBN, page 8:
text: In 1906, in the wake of a triangular power struggle among the Kgosi, dikgosana, and commoners, the British helped the dikgosana gain ascendancy in the morafe by deposing Sekgoma and installing Mathiba Moremi.
ref: 2008, Fred Morton, Jeff Ramsay, Part Themba Mgadla, Historical Dictionary of Botswana, →ISBN, page 326:
text: This means that if the rulers lacked the measures to ensure the dikgosana's support, immigration might well have aggravated rivalry for the bogosi.
ref: 2013, Ørnulf Gulbrandsen, The State And The Social, →ISBN:
glosses: plural of kgosana
roker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rokers
Senses: glosses: The thornback ray.
rokers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of roker
hedge warbler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hedge warblers
Senses: glosses: Synonym of dunnock.
synonyms: word: dunnock
hedge warblers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hedge warbler
copcam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: copcams
Etymology: From cop + cam.
Senses: examples: text: I'll wear a bodycam – a copcam, which I'll have to get from the SPD.
ref: 2017, Bharti Kirchner, Season of Sacrifice: First in a new Seattle-based mystery series:
glosses: A body camera worn by a police officer.
copcams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of copcam
ephebophiliac
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ephebo + -philiac.
Senses: glosses: Relating to ephebophilia.
ephebophiliac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ephebophiliacs
Etymology: From ephebo + -philiac.
Senses: glosses: An ephebophile.
philiac
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more philiac
form: most philiac
Senses: examples: text: Erotic love is selfish love, philiac love is a mutual giving that ceases when mutuality ceases.
ref: 1971, James L. Malfetti, Elizabeth M. Eidlitz, Perspectives on Sexuality: A Literary Collection, →ISBN, page 328:
text: Our theme is the philiac or friendly function of Mind at Large.
ref: 1985, Michael Grosso, The final choice: playing the survival game, page 197:
text: ...the more philiac world-views of Gower and Hoccleve tend rather to reject dialogue and favour compilatio as a literary model.
ref: 2007, Alice Spencer, Dialogues of Love and Government:
text: Now, philiac sexuality is by no means restricted to homosexuality, nor, obviously, are all homosexual relationships philiac in nature.
ref: 2013, Gilles Herrada, The Missing Myth: A New Vision of Same-Sex Love, →ISBN:
glosses: Involving or pertaining to friendship or platonic love.
philiac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: philiacs
Senses: examples: text: Browne gives us a long list of eminent men who were ailurophobiacs and philiacs.
ref: 1914, Karl M. Dallenbach, Madison Bentley, Edwin Garrigues Boring, The American Journal of Psychology, page 360:
text: The "philiacs" and '"phobiacs" are, of course, comparable to Robertson's perpetuators of HE and SHE scenarios, and also correspond to Piatt's separation of continued-growth advocates from the supporters of conserver and transformational societies
ref: 1981, JGE - Volume 33, page 82:
text: And some Europeans have historically been "pro-American," philiacs eager to extol their dream country and to go and live there.
ref: 1991, Marcus Cunliffe, In search of America: transatlantic essays, 1951-1990, page 399:
glosses: A person who has a philia.
teenophile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: teenophiles
Etymology: From teen + -o- + -phile, perhaps modelled on pedophile.
Senses: glosses: A person who is primarily sexually attracted to teenagers; an ephebophile.
gerophile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gerophiles
Etymology: From gero- + -phile.
Senses: glosses: A gerontophile.
Related terms: gerophilia
fakeful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fakeful
form: most fakeful
Etymology: From fake + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: This last sparsely descriptive, but largely imaginative; not fact, but fiction, pure and fakeful, and of such a specious species as to effectually discourage and scare away intending raw recruits and cause the while full many a gullible and guileless reader to wonder overmuch just why in this good day of grace the poor seafaring main-behind-the-guns should have to live (and get fat) on meat so smeared and smirched with printer's ink.
ref: 1906, Army-Navy-Air Force Register and Defense Times, volume 40, page 6:
text: This is the most important part of Discipleship because the “proof is in the pudding!” And our “Fruit” will carry us out as being “faithful” or “fakeful!”
ref: 2013, John Pierce, "Mental Jesus":
glosses: Full of fakeness; disingenuous
whizbangery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whizzbangery
Etymology: From whizbang + -ery.
Senses: examples: text: Perhaps the public was simply less infatuated with the whole notion of space travel, skeptical about its cost, bored with its logistical whizbangery — certainly the television networks gave spaceflight far less euphoric coverage than in NASA's heyday.
ref: 1985, William A. Henry, Visions of America: how we saw the 1984 election:
text: 1996: A Murder of Crows by Steve Shepard
While Roseland's public relations department boasted of the hospital's magnificently equipped trauma center and its plethora of the newest and most expensive medical whizbangery, the fact was that Rose- land's staff was not yet up to the quality of the fancy new gizmos it had to play with.
text: ... and there are the hedonists who find their lives' meaning in varied and endless sexual encounters or in gourmet foods and wines and in maximizing the sensual pleasure of life and the materialists, who live to own great homes and cars and multi-screen TVs, and the technologists, who devote their lives to computers and whizbangery, and the sports lovers, who spend much time memorizing baseball and football stats and watching sports on TV ...
ref: 2010, Abalo Kossi, In Lumine Tuo: Why Believe in God?:
text: Again I employ the psychic whizbangery and hop into the head of the nearest oncoming car— hello, Mrs. Schulte!—and make her slow her car and slew it at an angle, blocking most of the lanes.
ref: 2014, John Hornor Jacobs, The Shibboleth:
text: Safeguarding the right to vote isn’t 21st-century policy whizbangery, but it’s vital to the survival of democracy
ref: 2018, Washington Post:
glosses: A device or effect that is startling or amazing.
Twitters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Twitter
Twitters
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Twitter
Twittering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Twitter
Twittered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Twitter
Mii
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -iː
Forms: form: Miis
Etymology: Blend of Wii + me. First introduced on the Wii, which was released in November 2006.
Senses: topics: video-games
glosses: A customizable avatar used on several Nintendo video game consoles and mobile applications.
wikipedia: Wii
Miis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mii
hepatocellular carcinomata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hepatocellular carcinoma
VCAT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal
Benzion
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Hebrew בֶּנְצִיּוֹן (Bentsiyón), a compound of בֶּן (ben) + צִיּוֹן (Tsiyón), literally “son of Zion”.
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Hebrew.
bierotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bierotic
form: most bierotic
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to bisexual love or desire.
Related terms: biromantic
rumshop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rumshops
Etymology: From rum + shop.
Senses: examples: text: Last year a rumshop was opened in New York city under peculiar circumstances.
ref: 1905 January 15, The New York Templar, volume 25, number 2, page 4:
glosses: A store where rum is sold.
rumshops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rumshop
makanga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: makangas
Senses: examples: text: In the Nairobi City Council today, we have many councillors who were makangas. I hope that in future the Opposition will see it fit to elect people of high calibre as councillors rather than bring in the kind of makanga councillors we have today, who have contributed to the decay in the City of Nairobi.
ref: 1994 July 5, Prof. Saitoti, “Report, Parliamentary Debates”, in Kenya National Assembly Official Record, volume 5, number 13, page 376:
text: Sometimes there are several matatus en route to the same destination, so makangas will “fight”over you. One may even grab your luggage and force you to follow him to his matatu.
ref: 2009, Joseph R. Oppong, Esther D. Oppong, Kenya, →ISBN, page 79:
text: One owner who operated on a route known for its 'dot.com' youth stated 'Those who call passengers cannot get anybody if they are dirty and badly dressed, makangas (touts) must be clean and well dressed; wear bling blings and sagging jeans.'
ref: 2015, Roger Behrens, Dorothy McCormick, David Mfinanga, Paratransit in African Cities: Operations, Regulation and Reform, →ISBN:
glosses: A tout; one who is hired to convince passengers to take a specific taxi or matatu.
illicits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of illicit
jumpshot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jumpshots
Etymology: From jump + shot.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of jump shot.
jumpshots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jumpshot
Greekland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Middle English Greclond, Griclond, Griccland, from Old English Grēcland (“Greece”), equivalent to Greek + -land. Compare West Frisian Grikelân (“Greece”), Dutch Griekenland (“Greece”), German Griechenland (“Greece”), Danish Grækenland (“Greece”), Norwegian Bokmål Grekenland (“Greece”) (archaic, replaced by “Hellas”), Norwegian Nynorsk Grekland (“Greece”) (archaic, replaced by “Hellas”), Swedish Grekland (“Greece”), Icelandic Grikkland (“Greece”).
Senses: examples: text: Once on a time fared he in a ship to Greekland, for that there was a king's daughter on whom he had set his mind, […]
ref: 1842, The Prose Or Younger Edda:
text: Scores of the old rune-stones speak of the Warings and Captains and Shipmen (and perhaps, now and then, Merchants or Pilgrims going to or from the Holy Land) who served "in Greece", "in Greekland", who "gained wealth in Greece", who "died in Greekland", who were mere "Greek farers", visited "Greek Havens" &c. in the 10th, 11th, 12th centuries.
ref: 1884, George Stephens, The Old-northern Runic Monuments of Scandinavia and England:
text: They speak about men who perished on Viking expeditions to faraway countries — westward to England, most especially eastward to Gardarike (the present Russia), to Greekland (the lands comprising the Byzantine Empire), to Sarkland (the Mohammedan countries about the Black Sea), to Jorsalaland (Jerusalem), to Langbardaland (the present Italy).
ref: 1933, Henry Goddard Leach, The American-Scandinavian Review, volume 21, page 216:
text: Nowhere do we find that 'Epirus' means Greekland. If 'Epirus' could thus most conveniently be stretched to mean Greekland, then the world would forever be faced with a chaotic situation.
ref: 1968, Nelo Drizari, Scanderbeg:
text: She was a prize. She was Jaederborn, but her mother had been captured in Greekland.
ref: 2000, Lars Walker, The Year of the Warrior:
text: Atheling to the heaven-king.
Shepherd of Greekland
Harrower of Annwn.
ref: 2002, John Matthews, At the Table of the Grail:
text: The huge river Danube runs between Saxland and Greekland.
ref: 2005, Atanas Orachev, Bulgaria in the European Cartographic Concepts Until XIX Century:
text: Not all of the treasures of Birka and Gotland are below the ground. Rune stones dot the landscape, carved with memorials of journeys to far places –Semgall and Courland (Latvia), Wendland (Poland), Virland (Estonia), Gardariki (Russia), Greekland (more particularly, the Byzantine Empire centred on Constantinople), and Serkland, the land of the Saracens.
ref: 2013, Jonathan Clements, A Brief History of the Vikings:
glosses: The land of the Greeks; Greece: A country in Southeast Europe