cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Vasco da Gama
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Portuguese navigator and governor of Portuguese India Vasco da Gama.
Senses: glosses: A city in Goa, India.
wikipedia: List of governors of Portuguese India
anti-obesity
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of antiobesity.
fixed capital
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Turning to the between regressions, the elasticity on fixed capital is particularly high (0.63) in the between-time […] The between-time estimate of capital of agricultural origin is significantly positive, though more modest in value (0.25).
ref: 2012, Keith O. Fuglie, V. Eldon Ball, Sun Ling Wang, Productivity Growth in Agriculture:
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: Any kind of real, physical asset that is used in the operation of a business but which is not consumed by that use.
Related terms: fixed asset
specific activity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: specific activities
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The activity per unit mass of a radionuclide: number of decays per unit time, per mass.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see specific, activity.
request for comments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: requests for comments
Senses: synonyms: RFC
glosses: A document which describes techniques or methods to obtain specified objectives. The name implies that the document is perfectible, yet, its publication is a strong invitation to follow the guidelines until an agreed modification replaces it.
South Arm
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A township in Charlevoix County, Michigan, United States.
glosses: A residential locality on the South Arm Peninsula, City of Clarence, south-east Tasmania, Australia.
home visit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: home visits
Senses: glosses: A visit made to someone's residence, especially one by a social worker
Related terms: home delivery
outcall
grand strategy game
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grand strategy games
Senses: examples: text: […] and World Empire, a Risk-style computer grand-strategy game published in 1991.
ref: 2013, Nick Dyer-Witheford, Greig de Peuter, Games of Empire Global Capitalism and Video Games, unnumbered page:
text: As [Marc James] Carpenter (2021) prompts us to consider of one popular grand strategy game, “will a seasoned Europa Universalis player who succeeds at the enormous challenge of pushing back colonial invaders playing as the Cherokee gain an appreciation of Cherokee sovereignty, or an arrogant assumption that colonial conquest could have been avoided with superior strategy?"
ref: 2021, Kristine Levan, Steven Downing, Crime, Punishment, and Video Games, page 91:
text: Crusader Kings II is a grand strategy game set in medieval Europe, North Africa and the Middle East.
ref: 2022, Jere Kyyrö, “Particularizing the universal: Medievalist constructions of cultural and religious difference in Crusader Kings II”, in Reima Välimäki, editor, Medievalism in Finland and Russia: Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century Aspects, page 138:
synonyms: GSG
map game
glosses: A type of advanced strategy wargame in which players must devise their own grand strategy by controlling a territory's military movements and using its resources. The genre, which includes both tabletop games and video games, differs from the similar 4X genre in imposing asymmetric starting conditions (i.e., some territories begin with a stronger military or more resources).
wikipedia: TripleA
adhesionally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From adhesional + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: adhesionally active
text: The adhesionally less active contaminants are retained in the lower-lying portions of the bed […]
ref: 1977, RI Ayukaev, EV Venitsianov, AA Volkov, “Study of the filtrational separation of suspensions in porous media through sorption dynamics theory 2. Relation of the shilov equation constants to the physicochemical conditions of filtration”, in Bulletin of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Division of chemical science, volume 26, Springer, →ISSN, pages 1589–1593:
text: When composite precipitation hardened high temperature alloys are brazed, flow depends on the nature and amount of hardening phase and the amount of adhesionally active phase in the solder, and can last for several minutes even if the […]
ref: 1985, Automatic Welding:
text: The most common locations in the gastrointestinal tract where an intussusception can take place are the junctions between freely moving intestinal segments, and retroperitoneally or adhesionally fixed bowel segments.
ref: 2012 January 5, Godfrey Lule, Current Concepts in Colonic Disorders, BoD – Books on Demand, →ISBN, page 48:
glosses: In an adhesional manner.
management sim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: management sims
Senses: examples: text: These touches take WCBM into a different league to your average, run of the mill, ho-hum everyday kind of management sim.
ref: 1990 June, “World Championship Boxing Manager”, in Amstrad Action, page 54:
text: Guide your chosen team through not just one season, but a decade of play, making all the selection and transfer decisions in the manner of a simplified management sim.
ref: 1999 January, Chas Davies, “NBA Live 99”, in Arcade, page 122:
text: Introversion has officially updated Prison Architect to the hallowed version 1.0, and the result is one of the most distinctive and fascinating management sims since Theme Hospital.
ref: 2016 January, Rick Lane, “Prison Architect”, in Custom PC, page 80:
topics: video-games
synonyms: tycoon game
glosses: A simulation game focusing on the management of a business, institution, sports team, etc.
wikipedia: OpenTTD
tycoon game
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tycoon games
Senses: examples: text: Since its 1999 debut, Rollercoaster Tycoon has become one of the most successful and influential computer games of the past decade, selling millions of copies and inspiring every third-rate game designer to cash in on its success with their own tycoon game.
ref: 2002 November, Jeff Green, “RollerCoaster Tycoon 2”, in Computer Gaming World, page 55:
text: At its core, Casino Inc. is an average little tycoon game where you buy gear, place it around an empty interior, hire staff, and watch the money roll in.
ref: 2003 July, John Fletcher, “Casino Inc.”, in Computer Gaming World, page 89:
text: Recettear is a tycoon game about managing an adventurer's shop.
ref: 2011 March, Randy Smith, “Hi, Im Randy”, in Edge Gaming, page 152:
topics: video-games
glosses: Synonym of management sim (“a simulation game focusing on the management of a business, institution, sports team, etc”).
synonyms: word: management sim
extra: a simulation game focusing on the management of a business, institution, sports team, etc
examples: text: The popular tycoon games that were part of this event included Theme Park Tycoon, which offered a chance to win an exclusive accessory for your avatar; Retail Tycoon, which offered a special virtual item for your avatar; and Miner’s Haven, which also offered a new virtual item for your avatar.
ref: 2017, Christina Majaski, The Ultimate Unofficial Guide to Robloxing: Everything You Need to Know to Build Awesome Games!, New York, N.Y.: Sky Pony Press, →ISBN, page 67:
text: Have you ever wanted to run your own business? You might enjoy tycoon games. In one game, you might get to build your own theme park. You can pick out different rides and other attractions for visitors to enjoy. In another game, you might get to run your own restaurant or ice cream shop. Try to make as much money as possible with your new business!
ref: 2021, Josh Gregory, Games and Genres in Roblox, Cherry Lake Press, →ISBN, page 19:
text: In modern renditions of tycoon games, developers will often take advantage of non-player characters (NPCs), more complex ways of unlocking new items, infinite expansion capabilities, and sometimes stunning visuals.
ref: 2022, Zander Brumbaugh, Coding Roblox Games Made Easy, 2nd edition, Packt, →ISBN, page 217:
topics: video-games
glosses: Synonym of tycoon (“a type of game within the massively multiplayer online game platform Roblox, involving the use of a base to generate bricks and cash (similar to an idle game or clicker game)”).
synonyms: word: tycoon
extra: (“a type of game within the massively multiplayer online game platform Roblox, involving the use of a base to generate bricks and cash (similar to an idle game or clicker game)”)
homo ludens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Homo ludens
form: Homo Ludens
Etymology: Coined by Dutch cultural historian Johan Huizinga in Homo Ludens (1938), which introduces the concept, from Latin homō lūdēns (“playful man”).
Senses: examples: text: To a homo ludens, playing is an aim in itself and justifies any effort. A real homo ludens does not fuse “ordinary life” with playing. He transforms “ordinary life” into something qualitatively different.
ref: 1989, Yishai Tobin, editor, From Sign to Text: A semiotic view of communication, John Benjamins Publishing, →ISBN, page 196:
text: The sandpit, mud, lollipop sticks, goo, plasticine, oozing clay and, later, petri dishes and test tubes: playing with such stuff, Hall argues, has clearly influenced the materialisations of contemporary art, so much of it three-dimensional, inherently transient and labile, and playful. Homo ludens has supplanted homo faber.
ref: 2000 April 13, Marina Warner, “A New Twist in the Long Tradition of the Grotesque”, in London Review of Books, volume 22, number 08, →ISSN:
text: It takes a homo ludens to eat the only fruit forbidden by God, unthinkingly and playfully. The afterlife is never seriously conceived of as a workshop, a library or a laboratory.
ref: 2001 [1999], Luciano Floridi, Philosophy and Computing: An Introduction, Routledge, →ISBN, page 221:
text: “Homo ludens has always had a talent for inventing jobs of the non-existential kind. The vast majority of the population is already doing luxury jobs like yours and mine,” he says, nodding towards my notepad.
ref: 2017 April 18, Philip Oltermann, quoting Jürgen Schmidhuber, “Jürgen Schmidhuber on the robot future: ‘They will pay as much attention to us as we do to ants'”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: The human being viewed as primarily concerned with play, seeing it as an aim in itself.
wikipedia: Homo Ludens
Coordinate terms: homo faber
Homo ludens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of homo ludens.
trougher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: troughers
Etymology: From trough + -er, due to comparisons between greedy people and pigs with their snouts in the trough.
Senses: examples: text: As Abel Magwitch would have said, he was "a heavy grubber"; or as a Yorkshireman, with a similar disregard for elegance, would express it, "a good trougher."
ref: 1939, Harold Armitage, Early Man in Hallamshire, page 78:
text: A legendary trougher - he could eat for England.
ref: 1999 August 24, Dickie Bird, White Cap and Bails:
text: Forget the fact I was playing for England at cricket: I was also an Olympic-standard trougher, and so I would order big steaks, burgers, whatever I fancied, and Blacky thought nothing of ordering the same thing, or something similar.
ref: 2012, James Anderson, Jimmy: My Story:
text: Her appetite has definitely gone down, she's the classic bored trougher, but here there's so much to do she can sometimes forget to eat.
ref: 2017, Laura Kemp, Whatever Happened to Vicky Hope's Back Up Man?:
glosses: A greedy person.
examples: text: And according to an insistent story, Vince MacLean, a formal provincial Liberal leader and prodigious trougher running in Sydney - Victoria, was slapped in thr face by a woman at the door.
ref: 1997, The Canadian Forum, volume 76, page 10:
text: Many of the critical quotations about Rolnik's role in the UN come from Conservative MPs: "The aid budget is a way in which poor people from Britain pay for the lifestyle of rich people in developing countries. We are having to pay taxes to put this international trougher up in a four-star hotel.
ref: 2017, Dr. Stephen Harkins, Dr. Jairo Lugo-Ocando, Poor News: Media Discourses of Poverty in Times of Austerity, page 119:
text: Humza is the trougher's trougher.
ref: 2022 February 25, Craig Murray, craigmurray.org.uk:
glosses: (chiefly British) A careerist politician, especially one representing the Scottish National Party.
glosses: Alternative spelling of troffer.
Eastgate
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A neighbourhood of Indianapolis, Indiana.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Churchill County, Nevada.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A neighbourhood on the East Side of Columbus, Ohio.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Liberty County, Texas.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A neighbourhood of Roanoke, Virginia.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A neighbourhood of Bellevue, King County, Washington.
glosses: A place in Canada:
A locality in Sturgeon County, Alberta.
glosses: A place in Canada:
A small cabin community in the Cascade Range, southern British Columbia.
glosses: A place in England:
A suburb of Peterborough, Cambridgeshire (OS grid ref TL2099).
glosses: A place in England:
A small village in Stanhope parish, County Durham (OS grid ref NY9538).
glosses: A place in England:
A small village in Cawston parish, Broadland district, Norfolk (OS grid ref TG1423).
tactical role-playing game
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tactical role-playing games
Senses: topics: video-games
synonyms: SRPG
tactical RPG
tactics RPG
TRPG
glosses: A genre of role-playing game that features a combat system (either turn-based or real-time) similar to that of a tactical wargame.
wikipedia: The Battle for Wesnoth
tactics RPG
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tactics RPGs
Senses: examples: text: For example, Tales Of Eternia is action-based and has a single-plane 2D battle system, while PoPoLoCrois is more of a tactics RPG, requiring you to move your team around a grid during battle.
ref: 2004, Anthony Enticknap, “PoPoLoCrois”, in GoPlay, number 3, page 74:
text: Perhaps Nippon Ichi's most enjoyable tactics RPG to date. Great fun.
ref: 2005, Nick Powell, “Makai Kingdom: Chronicle of the Sacred Tome”, in Play, number 135, UK, page 74:
text: Alas, the story is secondary to the system, and in a tactics RPG, the system is everything.
ref: 2008 June, Heather Campbell, “Final Fantasy Tactics A2: Grimoire of the Rift”, in Play Magazine, page 68:
topics: video-games
glosses: Synonym of tactical role-playing game.
synonyms: word: tactical role-playing game
tactical RPG
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tactical RPGs
Senses: examples: text: As far as tactical RPGs go, Vandal Hearts is one of the best.
ref: 2000 January, “Vandal Hearts II”, in Electronic Gaming Monthly, page 234:
text: The PSP is a treasure-trove of tactical RPGs, with stuff like Disgaea, Tactics Ogre and Growlanser, but for many FFT is the pinnacle of the genre.
ref: 2013 May, Sam Smith, “Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the Lions”, in Play, page 95:
text: Still, Valkyria Chronicles remains one of the best tactical RPGs of the 2000s, with a fresh take on the genre, an involving story and gorgeous visuals.
ref: 2022, Felipe Pepe, editor, The CRPG Book: A Guide to Computer Role-Playing Games, Expanded Edition, page 405:
topics: video-games
glosses: Synonym of tactical role-playing game.
synonyms: word: tactical role-playing game
Clifton Forge
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in Alleghany County, Virginia, United States.
cattles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cattle (“(obsolete) chattel”)
cattles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cattle
nakige
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nakiges
form: nakige
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 泣きゲー (nakige, “crying game”), a combination of なき (naki, “crying”) and ゲー (gē), a shortening of ゲーム (gēmu, “game”), itself from English game. Compare tearjerker.
Senses: examples: text: Nakige are known for their sense of melancholy. Take 2001's Kimi ga Nozomu Eien (The Eternity You Desire), for example, which was released by eroge label âge, a division of ACID. Soon after high school student Takayuki Narumi falls for his classmate Haruka Suzumiya, she goes into a coma after a car accident. Depressed and shocked, Takayuki develops post-traumatic stress disorder and becomes involved with Haruka's best friend, Mitsuki. "To put it simply, a nakige brings players to tears as they read the in-game text," says [ACID CEO Hirohiko] Yoshida.
ref: 2010, Brian Ashcroft, Shoko Ueda, Japanese Schoolgirl Confidential: How Teenage Girls Made a Nation Cool, page 154:
text: The medium is dominated by nakige, the crying genre, much like how superheroes dominate comics and sitcoms television.
ref: 2011 November 10, Alex Mui, “Visual Novels: Unrecognized Narrative Art”, in The Johns Hopkins News-Letter, Johns Hopkins University, page B5:
text: Utsuge, on the other hand, stands for pretty much the opposite of nakige, aiming to be as depressing an experience as possible.
ref: 2019, Robert Ciesla, Game Development with Ren'Py: Introduction to Visual Novel Games Using Ren'Py, TyranoBuilder, and Twine, page 90:
glosses: A Japanese visual novel of a genre characterized by melodramatic plots intended to move the player to tears.
Related terms: crying game
rôle-playing game
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rôle-playing games
Senses: examples: text: TSR Games manufactures rule books, character records, polyhedral dice, and other accessories for playing the fantasy rôle-playing game, Dungeons and Dragons®.
ref: 1980, TUGboat, page 105:
text: Today, with the sword and sorcery surge that we are experiencing, (what with books, magazines and fantasy rôle-playing games), we seem to be set for a Conan-inundation, if we aren’t already in the midsts of one.
ref: 1981 September, Amra, volume 2, number 70, Wildside Press, published 2020, →ISBN:
text: Other than that, I liked the idea one of your readers had for passing out a free copy of the magazine with rôle-playing games.
ref: 1985, Amazing Stories, page 24:
text: They swapped comics and badges, played a rôle-playing game based on D-Day, and followed me around a lot.
ref: 1988, Punch, page 46, column 3:
text: Scenario for Pendragon rôle-playing game.
ref: 1991, Arthurian Literature X, D. S. Brewer, →ISBN, page 141:
text: Enterpreneurs,^([sic]) realising that they could profit from the sale of comics alone (or in the company of sports cards and rôle-playing games), had begun to establish comics speciality shops.
ref: 1997, Anarchist Studies, page 134:
text: The first text-based multi-user chat system appeared in 1978, and it was soon to be followed by others, some of which developed into multi-user rôle-playing games and world-building environments, popular mainly with a youthful public.
ref: 2002, Erik Persson, Shadows of Cavernous Shades: Charting the Chiaroscuro of Realistic Computing, Lund University, →ISBN, page 277:
text: This definition is not general and examples of games which require a different, appreciably more complex modelling, may be encountered. For example, it is suitable for games of chess or chance but not for rôle-playing games.
ref: 2002, Guy Brousseau, translated by Nicolas Balacheff, Martin Cooper, Rosamund Sutherland, and Virginia Warfield, Theory of Didactical Situations in Mathematics, Kluwer Academic Publishers, →ISBN, page 50:
text: In the last quarter of the twentieth century, a good many horror stories were inspired by Chambers’ work, thanks largely to the creators of the rôle-playing game “Call of Cthulhu”.
ref: 2011, Roger Johnson, In the Night - In the Dark: Tales of Ghosts and Less Welcome Visitors, MX Publishing, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of roleplaying game.
cubic zirconia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cubic zirconias
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: CZ
glosses: crystalline form of zirconium dioxide used as gemstones in jewelry.
utsuge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: utsuges
form: utsuge
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 鬱ゲー (utsuge, “depressing game”), a combination of 鬱 (utsu, “melancholy, gloom”) and ゲー (gē), a shortening of ゲーム (gēmu, “game”), itself from English game.
Senses: examples: text: Utsuge, on the other hand, stands for pretty much the opposite of nakige, aiming to be as depressing an experience as possible.
ref: 2019, Robert Ciesla, Game Development with Ren'Py: Introduction to Visual Novel Games Using Ren'Py, TyranoBuilder, and Twine, page 90:
text: The related genre “utsuge” (“depressing game”), unlike “nakige”, does not typically achieve a happy ending.
ref: 2019, Ema Bícová, "Visual Novel and Its Translation", thesis submitted to Palacký University Olomouc, pages 12-13
text: Nitroplus, the company behind Saya no uta, specializes in utsuge containing body horror, gore, rape, and depression—in short, as scholar Clarisse Thorn puts it, games that are “not ‘fun’ in the way most people think about ‘fun,’ that’s for sure.”
ref: 2020, Ana Matilde Sousa, "She's Not Your Waifu; She's an Eldritch Abomination: Saya no uta and Queer Antisociality in Japanese Visual Novels", Mechademia, Volume 13, Number 1, Fall 2020
glosses: A Japanese visual novel genre characterized by tragic plots and pervasively bleak tones.
sewery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sewery
form: most sewery
Etymology: From sewer + -y.
Senses: examples: text: I will only add here one word of advice to my readers: never tolerate a sewery smell in any part of your house: you know not to what it may lead.
ref: 1872 November 1, Philalethes, “Sanitary Matters. Sewer Gases Neutralized and Utilized.”, in Dr. Ruddock, editor, The Homœopathic World: A Monthly Magazine of Medical News, Literature, Cases from Practice, Social and Sanatory Science, and Correspondence, volume VII, London: Jarrold and Sons, […]. The Homœopathic Publishing Company, […], page 253, columns 1–2:
text: Also how he saw a “brooke,” which was doubtless in his time a pretty little river, but which is now a sewery looking stream that tries to atone for its shallowness and narrowness by its thickness.
ref: 1900, Thomas Anderton, A Tale of One City: The New Birmingham, page 5:
text: The litter-strewn mud when the tide was out somehow offended them much less than the sewery water when it was up.
ref: 1929, Richard Hughes, A High Wind in Jamaica, London: Chatto & Windus, page 258:
text: Once King James risked the crown on a voyage beneath the sewery river.
ref: 1956, James Dugan, Man under the Sea, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, page 80:
text: He woke outside on the grass, on his stomach, his nostrils filled with an acid, sewery smell, and something was on top of him, crushing him, being lifted off for a second, then crushing him again.
ref: 1970, Partisan Review, page 365:
text: “These aren’t sewer-pipes, anyway,” Stan said from behind them. “You can tell by that smell. It’s bad, but it’s not a sewery smell.”
ref: 1986, Stephen King, It, Pocket Books, published 2016, →ISBN, page 1328:
text: Grandma’s was crowded and smelled of potpourri sachets and Christmassy dusting powder and the faint sewery smell from the bathroom it led to.
ref: 1990, Susan Sullivan Saiter, Cheerleaders Can’t Afford to Be Nice, Donald I. Fine, Inc., →ISBN, page 122:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a sewer.
Blaikley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
brother in Christ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brothers in Christ
form: brethren in Christ
Senses: glosses: A male fellow Christian; a man who shares the speaker's belief in Christianity.
Derived terms: my brother in Christ
Related terms: Brethren
brotherhood
friar
Pennard
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and community in the City and County of Swansea, Wales (OS grid ref SS5688).
Related terms: East Pennard
West Pennard
againsts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Only used in fors and againsts
Strășeni
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Romanian Strășeni.
Senses: glosses: A city, district, and municipality of Moldova.
Fretherne with Saul
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A civil parish in Stroud district, Gloucestershire, England, that includes the named places.
Mangalia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Romanian Mangalia.
Senses: glosses: A city in Constanța County, Romania.
Fretherne
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small village in Fretherne with Saul parish, Stroud district, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref SO7309).
Hamlyn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Hamlyn's monkey
Turda
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Romanian Turda.
Senses: glosses: A city in Cluj County, Romania.
hairfuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hairful
sleevesful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sleeveful
trolleysful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trolleyful
Stanbridge
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Old English stān (“stone”) + brycg (“bridge”).
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Central Bedfordshire district, Bedfordshire, England (OS grid ref SP9624).
glosses: A hamlet in Hinton parish, Dorset, England, previously in East Dorset district (OS grid ref SU0004).
glosses: A town in Leeton Shire, southern New South Wales, Australia.
jetsful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jetful
Leeton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the surname Lee + -ton.
Senses: glosses: A town in the Riverina region, New South Wales, named after Charles Alfred Lee.
glosses: A local government area in New South Wales, Australia; in full, Leeton Shire.
glosses: A minor city in Johnson County, Missouri, United States, named after townsite owner J. J. Lee.
glovesful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gloveful
tredecuples
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tredecuple
East Palestine
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Norfolk Southern says its focus is on making “progress every day cleaning up the site, assisting residents whose lives were impacted by the derailment, and investing in the future of East Palestine and the surrounding areas,” according to a statement sent to CNN from the company’s spokesperson, Connor Spielmaker, on Friday.
ref: 2023 March 31, Alisha Ebrahimji and Andi Babineau, “US Justice Department sues Norfolk Southern following train derailment in East Palestine”, in CNN:
glosses: A village in Columbiana County, Ohio, United States.
examples: text: Between the two parallel ranges of mountains now described, or between East and West Palestine, flows the River Jordan, whose channel forms one of the most remarkable features, not only of this country, but of the whole face of the globe.
ref: 1875, Herbert W. Morris, Present Conflict of Science With the Christian Religion, Philadelphia, P.A.: P. W. Ziegler & Co.; Cincinnati, O.H., Chicago, I.L., St. Louis, M.O.: J. C. McCurdy & Co., page 602:
glosses: Synonym of Eastern Palestine
synonyms: word: Eastern Palestine
raw_tags: since 1920
methoxypolyethylene glycol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: methoxypolyethylene glycols
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A derivative of polyethylene glycol with methoxy side groups.
stadiumsful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stadiumful
monomethoxypolyethylene glycol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monomethoxypolyethylene glycols
Etymology: From mono- + methoxy- + polyethylene glycol.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A derivative of polyethylene glycol with one methoxy side group per monomer.
pentille
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pentilles
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A tessellation of the plane consisting of irregular pentagons.
scrotum frog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scrotum frogs
Etymology: From its loose, wrinkly skin.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Titicaca water frog.
synonyms: word: Titicaca water frog
prosumption
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ʌmpʃən
Etymology: Blend of production + consumption
Senses: examples: text: The chapter covers the review of approaches that have been developed by prosumption specialists to improve the integration between the production for use and production for sale.
ref: 2013, Małgorzata Pańkowska, Frameworks of IT Prosumption for Business Development, page XX:
text: In fact they suggest that the rise of prosumption signals a new stage of capitalism in which it no longer makes sense to speak of workers as exploited.
ref: 2017, Debra Benita Shaw, Posthuman Urbanism: Mapping Bodies in Contemporary City Space:
text: Although they did not have the concept until recently, sociologists, social theorists, and other students of society and the media have always focused, albeit unknowingly, on prosumption.
ref: 2019, Frederick F. Wherry, Ian Woodward, The Oxford Handbook of Consumption, page 77:
topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: The contribution to product development by end users.
Related terms: metaconsumer
nukige
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nukiges
form: nukige
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 抜(ぬ)きゲー (nukigē), a combination of 抜(ぬ)く (nuku, “to jerk off”, literally “to extract”) and ゲー (gē), a shortening of ゲーム (gēmu, “game”), itself from English game.
Senses: examples: text: Eroge is a hugely popular genre of visual novel both from established producers and fan circles, and can be further divided into smaller categories such as nukige (抜きゲ) or ‘jack-off game’, referring to a game that is intended to provide easy access to sex scenes or other erotic material to facilitate masturbation.
ref: 2016, Matthew R. Bird, "Eustia of the Tarnished Wings: The Visual Novel in Translation", thesis submitted to the University of Massachusetts Amherst, page 17
text: As well as the effect of loosening content restrictions, the key point here is that Japanese videogame regulation is fractured by platform multiplicity. Small publishers producing games such as dating sims, visual novels, and ‘nukige’ (masturbation games) cohere to self-regulate, and more serious sexual content is confined to the PC market, dominated by adult consumers.
ref: 2019, Catherine Driscoll & Liam Grealy, "In the name of the nation: Media classification, globalisation, and exceptionalism", International Journal of Cultural Studies, Volume 22, Issue 3, May 2009 (link)
text: Unlike nukige, visual novels that focus primarily on sexual interactions between characters, the focus of eroge is on the story, including more romantic or emotional relationships.
ref: 2022, William Schrage, "Hiding Hobbies and Saving Social Lives: About the Representation of Otaku Struggles in Ore no imōto ga konnani kawaii wake ga nai", Mechademia, Volume 14, Number 2, Spring 2022
topics: video-games
glosses: A Japanese visual novel genre featuring sexually explicit content for the sole purpose of masturbation or sexual gratification.
Related terms: eroge
supermagnet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supermagnets
Etymology: From super- + magnet.
Senses: examples: text: To design a large supermagnet then, the resistivity of copper at the operating temperature, magnetic field and stress level is needed, together with the heat-transfer rate between copper and liquid helium in the particular coil geometry used. These parameters plus knowledge of the short sample characteristics of the superconductor enable one to design a stable magnet that need never quench.
ref: 1950, Progress in Nuclear Physics, Pergamon Press, page 250:
text: Beneath the electronic revolution that began with the transistor lie the abstruse theories of a science called solid-state physics. Now physicists are working on new sources of light, supermagnets, metals that conduct electricity perfectly.
ref: 1961, Henry Robinson Luce, Fortune, Time, page 150:
text: The Argonne supermagnet, doughnut-shaped and two feet in diameter, produced a magnetic field of 44,000 gauss— about 88,000 times stronger than the earth's magnetic field.
ref: 1967, Compton, The 1967 Compton Yearbook, F. E. Compton Company, page 390:
text: Whereas a conventional electromagnet might need a small power plant to operate it, the “'supermagnet” can be operated on an ordinary truck battery. This greatly reduces power costs. Incidentally, superconductivity is not new, even though experimentation with it began in earnest only in the 1960s. Since 1911 it has been known that cooling metals to absolute zero will cause resistance to disappear if electricity is passed through the metal at that temperature.
ref: 1970, Magnets and Magnetism, page 57:
glosses: A very powerful magnet.
supermagnets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of supermagnet
recopiable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Able to be recopied.
microchippery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From microchip + -ery.
Senses: examples: text: Internally, the new autofocus SLRs are loaded with solid-state microchippery and flexible circuit boards […]
ref: 1988, Popular Photography (volume 95, numbers 1-3)
text: It was a miracle of modern microchippery. It had a digital readout across the top, in red, that told him the number from which the incoming call was being made, provided the dialer punched the right code.
ref: 2012, Larry Beinhart, You Get What You Pay For:
glosses: The use of microchips; microchips generally.
shopfronted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From shopfront + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: a shopfronted street
glosses: Having a shopfront or shopfronts.
Sitka deer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sitka deer
Senses: glosses: Odocoileus hemionus sitkensis, a kind of mule deer.
King Charles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: […] bearing Madame de Belladonna lolling on the cushions, dark, sulky, and blooming, a King Charles in her lap, a white parasol swaying over her head […]
ref: 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:
glosses: Ellipsis of King Charles spaniel.
cheeky Vimto
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cheeky Vimtos
Etymology: From the resemblance to the fruit-flavoured soft drink Vimto.
Senses: glosses: An alcoholic cocktail made with ruby port and Blue WKD vodka.
wikipedia: Vimto
cheeky Vimtos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cheeky Vimto
halfp'orth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: halfp'orths
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ha'p'orth.
halfp'orths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of halfp'orth
hobosexuality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The quality of being hobosexual.
calciphylactic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to calciphylaxis.
stargazey pie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stargazey pies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of stargazy pie.
stargazey pies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stargazey pie
banoffi pies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of banoffi pie
stealership
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stealerships
Etymology: Blend of steal + dealership.
Senses: examples: text: I am really surprised that the stealership didn't try to make arrangements with you to let them do the 500 mile checkup. There are a lot of other things that should be done at this time.
ref: 1998 August 23, Hawgeye, “Intro and question”, in rec.motorcycles.harley (Usenet):
text: Of course the Mercedes stealerships are so bad now that I won't buy another one of those.
ref: 2004 December 9, MCBRUE, “Dishonest Lexus Service?”, in alt.autos.lexus (Usenet):
text: Thus weathered traditionalists often deride the newcomers as poseurs, and many longtimers feel that the "MoFoCo" and its "stealerships" are unfairly squeezing out many tighter-budgeted loyalists like themselves in favor of yuppie poseurs.
ref: 2005, Roby Page, Bike Week at Daytona Beach: Bad Boys and Fancy Toys, Jackson, M.S.: University Press of Mississippi, →ISBN, page 124:
text: And many took the time to forward it to their friends, e-mail other Web sites or call local news stations -- all in the interest of one main the "stealership" that tried to back their way out of the deal.
ref: 2008, Jackie Huang, “The kindness of strangers on the information superhighway”, in The Johns Hopkins News-Letter, volume 112, number 21, Baltimore, M.A.: Johns Hopkins University, page A11:
text: I'm trying to gain more experience working on my own car so I don't have to pay stealership prices for repair work (I've already made that mistake a couple of times :( )
ref: 2009 March 30, Arif Khokar, “Re: Precognition?”, in rec.autos.driving (Usenet):
text: Not all dealerships engage in this pricing strategy, but many do it aggressively, often with snake oil-style salesmanship, deceptive marketing tactics, hidden fees, and overpriced add-ons, like floor mats, alarm systems, or anti-rust undercoating. Some consumers call the outfits that employ these tactics "stealerships."
ref: [2022 August 30, Greg Rosalsky, “Inside the rise of 'stealerships' and the shady economics of car buying”, in NPR, archived from the original on 10 Jan 2023:
glosses: A car or motorcycle dealership, seen as charging exorbitant prices and trying to rip off customers.
stealerships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stealership
midpiss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mid- + piss.
Senses: examples: text: An hour passes before I'm finally discovered; word spreads quickly that I was attacked in midpiss by a bear in heat or something.
ref: 2006, David Yoo, Girls for Breakfast, page 1:
text: A Russian submachine gunner tore the Bavarian's fat sausage fed belly open in midpiss. He splattered upon his boots as he fell into the dirt.
ref: 2017, Steve Vernon, Do-Overs and Detours, page 125:
glosses: A point in time during urination.
Sharvan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Shirvan (“former Caucasus region”).
Sherwan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Shirvan (“former Caucasus region”).
Shervan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Shirvan (“former Caucasus region”).
Shirwan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Shirvan (“former Caucasus region”).
Sharwan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Shirvan (“former Caucasus region”).
mfger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mfgers
Etymology: Apparently from mfg (“manufacturing”).
Senses: examples: text: In addition, GP has the resources to order all the production of some smaller mfger. tie up the product from the other vendors, and sell that product at a loss to persuade the mfger. to again join the fold.
ref: 1999 October 18, Cain Fly, “Carl Goldberg Out of Business?”, in rec.models.rc.air (Usenet):
text: The mfgers were bread mfgers, and meat mfgers. No farmers...
ref: 2002 November 15, Lance Mannion, “Kudos to Jan Drew”, in sci.med.dentistry (Usenet):
text: The mfgers had the problem that their old cameras were too good, and the new ones could hardly lure folks to abandon their old film cameras for new ones. Now the mfgers have found the cure, with digital and rapid obsolescence of entire systems, meaning continuous major sales of cameras, software, accessories, supplies, and all the rest.
ref: 2003 December 11, Bob Monaghan, “Digital depression?”, in rec.photo.equipment.35mm (Usenet):
text: I'm going to call the mfger of the boards this morning, and ask if modeling the use of the boards is safe.
ref: 2011 December 15, W. eWatson, “Moving a dome and EM relays”, in sci.electronics.basics (Usenet):
synonyms: mfr
glosses: Abbreviation of manufacturer.
Related terms: mfg
mfgers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mfger
sharemate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sharemates
Etymology: From share + mate.
Senses: glosses: A flatmate or housemate.
sharemates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sharemate
yellowheart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From yellow + heart.
Senses: glosses: The tree Zanthoxylum flavum.
parochials
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parochial
pauperage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The state of being a pauper; extreme poverty.
paunchful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paunchfuls
Etymology: From paunch + -ful.
Senses: glosses: Enough to fill one's paunch; a bellyful.
paunchfuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paunchful
Parentalia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An Ancient Roman nine-day festival in honour of family ancestors, beginning on 13 February.
paretically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: In terms of, or by means of, paresis.
parlatory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parlatories
Senses: glosses: A parlor in a convent, for the reception of visitors.
parlatories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parlatory
peridinoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peridinoids
Senses: topics: biology
microbiology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any member of the order Peridiniales of dinoflagellates.
Atuna
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Tunna (“an ancient Anatolian city”).
parliamentarize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: parliamentarizes
form: parliamentarizing
form: parliamentarized
form: parliamentarized
Senses: glosses: To make parliamentary.
parliamentarized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of parliamentarize
parliamentarizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of parliamentarize
parliamentarizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of parliamentarize
parliamentarization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The process of parliamentarizing.
unfalsifiables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unfalsifiable
parlourish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more parlourish
form: most parlourish
Senses: glosses: British standard spelling of parlorish.
parlorish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more parlorish
form: most parlorish
Etymology: From parlor + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a parlor.
paroecism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The quality of being paroecious.
paronomastically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more paronomastically
form: most paronomastically
Senses: glosses: In a paronomastic or punning fashion.
parthenocarpical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of parthenocarpic.
parthenology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The study of Asexual Reproduction.
particled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From particle + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: coarse-particled soils
glosses: Formed of the specified kind of particle.
glosses: Made up of physical matter.
partridging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The hunting of partridges.
parviscient
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more parviscient
form: most parviscient
Senses: antonyms: omniscient
glosses: Of limited knowledge; ignorant.
Sizhou
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Hanyu Pinyin Sìzhōu, from the Mandarin pronunciation of both Chinese 泗州 (Sìzhōu, “zhou on the Si River”) and 肆州 (Sìzhōu), used as both the name of the prefectures, subprefectures, &c. and their seats of government.
Senses: glosses: A subprefecture of Jiangnan, in Qing-era China.
glosses: A prefecture of Shanxi, in imperial China.
glosses: A town in Sizhou subprefecture, Jiangnan, in Qing-era China.
examples: text: The Eastern Wei wanted to annex the Western Wei by launching wars for many times, and at the same time dispatched civilians to build the Great Wall for the base of attack and defense. In 543, Gao Huan supervised the construction from Sizhou (today’s Xinzhou of Shānxi Province ) to Malingshu in the west (today’s Jingle of Shānxi Province) and to Tudeng in the east (today’s Dai County in Shānxi Province).
ref: 2008 September, Yaohui [董耀会] Dong, “To review the historical evolution of the Great Wall [步入长城的历史脉络]”, in 王静 [Wang Jing], transl., Throughout the Great Wall [话说长城], 江苏科学技术出版社 [Jiangsu Science and Technology Publishing House], →ISBN, →OCLC, page 58:
english: Jiangsu Science and Technology Publishing House
translation: Jiangsu Science and Technology Publishing House
glosses: A town in Sizhou prefecture, Shanxi, in imperial China.
Synonyms: sense: territories
word: Si Prefecture
sense: territories
word: Si Subprefecture
Paschaltide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Paschal + -tide.
Senses: glosses: Eastertime
Pasitelean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Pasitelean
form: most Pasitelean
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Pasiteles (Greek: Πασιτέλης), a Neo-Attic sculptor in Ancient Rome.
bessbug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bessbugs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Bess bug.
bessbugs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bessbug
parvipotent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more parvipotent
form: most parvipotent
Senses: antonyms: omnipotent
glosses: Of limited power.
passoverish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more passoverish
form: most passoverish
Etymology: From Passover + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: There was Lord Moleyn, who had stayed on to the disorganised, passoverish meal that took the place of dinner on this festal day; […]
ref: 1921, Aldous Huxley, Crome Yellow:
text: One October evening after an exceptionally passoverish dinner at Marmion House, Mr. Parham found himself with Sir Titus, Hereward Jackson, and Sir Bussy […]
ref: 1930, H. G. Wells, The Autocracy of Mr. Parham:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of the Jewish Passover.
subordinationalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From subordinational + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of subordinationism.
subordinationalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subordinationalists
Etymology: From subordinational + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of subordinationist.
subordinationalists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subordinationalist
subordinational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From subordination + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to subordination.
Pasagian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Pasagians
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: A member of a religious sect that appeared in Lombardy in the late 12th or early 13th century, and considered Christ the highest created being and a demiurge by whom all other creatures were brought into being.
Pasagians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Pasagian
Passagian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Passagians
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Pasagian.
Passagians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Passagian
Pasagini
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The Pasagians.