cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
underharvested
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of underharvest
underharvests
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of underharvest
underharvests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of underharvest
underharvesting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of underharvest
Mombasa Island
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An island on the coast of Kenya, which includes part of the city of Mombasa, and is linked to the Kenyan mainland by a causeway.
tugman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tugmen
Etymology: From tug + -man.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of tugboatman.
synonyms: word: tugboatman
tugmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tugman
tub-thumper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tub-thumpers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tubthumper.
tub-thumpers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tub-thumper
Nanyuki
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A market town in Laikipia County, Kenya.
farmer in the dell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A singing game in which the players form a circle with one player in the middle (the farmer), who chooses a "wife" to join him from the circle; the wife then chooses a child, the child a nurse, and so on.
get ready, get set, go
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ready, set, go.
Laikipia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Laikipia County, one of the 47 counties in Kenya, located on the Equator.
honest mistake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: honest mistakes
Senses: glosses: A blunder committed innocently.
honest mistakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of honest mistake
stuck in one's ways
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Synonym of set in one's ways.
synonyms: word: set in one's ways
female ejaculate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: female ejaculates
Senses: glosses: A fluid released by a woman's Skene's gland during sexual intercourse, of still disputed composition and function.
theorem of Pythagoras
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the theorem of Pythagoras
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Pythagorean theorem.
alfalfa caterpillar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alfalfa caterpillars
Senses: glosses: The larva of the alfalfa butterfly.
alfalfa caterpillars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alfalfa caterpillar
erted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ert
ground pea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ground peas
Senses: glosses: A peanut (Arachis hypogaea).
glosses: Apios americana, a climbing vine of eastern North America.
scraught
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: Derived from screech by analogy with teach : taught.
Senses: examples: text: SALLY SALTER, she was a young teacher, who taught,
And her friend, CHARLEY CHURCH, was a preacher, who praught;
Though his enemies called him a screecher, who scraught.
ref: 1870, Amos Keeter, “The Lovers”, in Punchinello, volume 1, number 27:
glosses: simple past and past participle of screech
Synonyms: screeched
anisolactone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An organic chemical containing a furanone and a tricyclic psoralen ring, with SMILES string O=C1C=CC=2C(O1)=CC3=C(C2OCC=C(C)C4C=C(C)C(=O)O4)C=CO3.
indicolactone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A natural produce which is a psoralen ether derivative with IUPAC name 9-[(E)-3-methyl-4-(4-methyl-5-oxo-2H-furan-2-yl)but-2-enoxy]furo[3,2-g]chromen-7-one
Synonyms: clausenacoumarine
Slender West Lake
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Calque from Chinese 瘦西湖 (Shòuxīhú, literally “Skinny West Lake”), the adjective distinguishing it from West Lake in Hangzhou, Zhejiang.
Senses: examples: text: 'Slender' West Lake lies on the western outskirts of Yangzhou. In the early years of the Manchu Emperor Kangxi, the area beside the lake, known as the Alley of Chiming Jade, was famed for its high concentration of houses of pleasure, and for the beauty of its singsong-girls (whose skills extended to a great deal more than bel canto).
ref: 1993 June, Louis Cha, “The Deer and the Cauldron—Two Chapters from a Novel by Louis Cha”, in John Minford, transl., edited by Geremie Barmé, East Asian History, number 5, Australian National University, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 55:
text: Police also closed off the Slender West Lake, Yangzhou’s main tourist attraction, in the morning. It was unclear why.
ref: 2011 May 23, Royston Chan, Chris Buckley, Ben Blanchard, “North Korea's Kim tours east China, economic ties in focus”, in Jonathan Thatcher, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 17 May 2021, World News:
text: Yangzhou, where Mr. Zhou grew up, is renowned for its literary history, especially a 9th century poet, Du Mu. One poem lamenting the whereabouts of a friend is so well known that Mr. Zhou’s colleagues recited it in unison during an excursion to Slender West Lake, a World Heritage Site in the city.
ref: 2018 June 4, Steven Lee Myers, “How to Catch a Killer in China: Another Chinese Crime Novel Goes Global”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 Jun 2018, Profile:
glosses: A lake in Yangzhou, Jiangsu, China.
Synonyms: english: inexact
translation: inexact
word: West Lake
word: Shouxihu
Related terms: West Lake
unribbons
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unribbon
unribboning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unribbon
ground peas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ground pea
codepositing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of codeposit
codeposits
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of codeposit
rediploidizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rediploidize
rediploidizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rediploidize
dedrifted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dedrift
dedrifts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dedrift
syncytiating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of syncytiate
reentraining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reentrain
reentrains
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reentrain
hyperconserving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hyperconserve
hyperconserves
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hyperconserve
apicalizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of apicalize
apicalizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of apicalize
microtrepanned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of microtrepan
photoshocked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of photoshock
microtrepanning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of microtrepan
photoshocking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of photoshock
blastulated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of blastulate
blastulates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of blastulate
blastulating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of blastulate
transreplicated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of transreplicate
transreplicates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of transreplicate
transreplicating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of transreplicate
reexecutes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reexecute
reexecuted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reexecute
reexecuting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reexecute
misswing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misswings
form: misswinging
form: misswung
form: misswung
Senses: examples: text: The ones who survived were sent out into the cane fields, where they encountered tropical heat, disease, poisonous snakes, and sometimes the misswung machetes of other workers.
ref: 2005, Ian Lendler, Alcoholica Esoterica, page 106:
text: For a split second he though he might have completely misswung and missed the ball altogether, for there had been no resistance, barely any sensation of the club hitting anything at all.
ref: 2009, John Niven, The Amateurs, page 145:
text: It was she who stopped the lifeblood flow when Karl misswung an axe until Herta could come.
ref: 2014, Andre Norton, Tales from High Hallack:
glosses: Alternative form of mis-swing.
misswing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: misswings
Senses: examples: text: The slightest misswing can cause you to blade the ball.
ref: 1982, Peter Kostis, Larry Dennis, The Inside Path to Better Golf, page 176:
text: Then, immaculately dressed in three-piece suit, starched collar, and wingtips, Wilbur was obliged to drive a spike of Nevada silver into a railroad tie, a tricky and potentially embarrassing ceremonoial duty, especially with a phalanx of eager photographers poised to record every misswing.
ref: 2014, Joseph E. Stevens, Hoover Dam: An American Adventure:
glosses: Alternative form of mis-swing.
misswings
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misswing
misswings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misswing
misswinging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misswing
misswung
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misswing
mis-swing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mis-swings
form: mis-swinging
form: mis-swung
form: mis-swung
form: misswing
Etymology: From mis- + swing.
Senses: examples: text: And Hank taught the youngster to deliberately mis-swing at a certain pitch early in the game; later, in a decisive situation, the pitcher might give him the same pitch again, and he could slam it.
ref: 2011, Mark Kurlansky, Hank Greenberg: The Hero who Didn't Want to be One, page 117:
text: It was winter, with some snow on the ground, but we were making good progress until I mis-swung my axe, bounced it off the tree, and buried it in my leg.
ref: 2012, Rick Nelson, As I Remember It:
text: I seen one man from the 16th nigh chop his foot off when he mis-swung his axe.
ref: 2015, Johnny D. Boggs, South by Southwest: A Western Story:
glosses: To swing incorrectly.
mis-swing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mis-swings
form: misswing
Etymology: From mis- + swing.
Senses: examples: text: Eckhart also speaks of this happening to a man who has misstepped (vertreten, as I recall); God, then, corrects the mis-swing of the man and brings him back to the Tao or Logos.
ref: 2012, Philip K Dick, Jonathan Lethem, Pamela Jackson, The Exegesis of Philip K Dick:
text: So the stance was crucial, because a mis-swing or glancing blow off the wood could veer towards a leading leg.
ref: 2019, Joanna Foat, Lumberjills: Britain's Forgotten Army:
text: And to her advantage, his mis-swing upset his equilibrium, and so gains her a few seconds.
ref: 2023, Angela Slatter, The Wrong Girl & Other Warnings:
glosses: A botched swing
mis-swings
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mis-swing
mis-swings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mis-swing
mis-swinging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mis-swing
mis-swung
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mis-swing
anisocoumarin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anisocoumarins
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: One of a family of natural chemical compounds which contains an isoprenoid ether of a coumarin.
geranylcoumarin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From geranyl + coumarin.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A natural compound formally derived by connecting geraniol to coumarin.
RSW
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: RSWs
Senses: qualifier: professional title
glosses: Initialism of registered social worker.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Initialism of refrigerated sea water.
oxypeucedanine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A natural product with IUPAC name 7-methoxy-3-phenoxy-4a,5,6,7,8,8a-hexahydrochromen-4-one.
geosurveyed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of geosurvey
geosurveying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of geosurvey
coconstrains
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of coconstrain
coconstraining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of coconstrain
autoperpetuated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of autoperpetuate
autoperpetuates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of autoperpetuate
autoperpetuating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of autoperpetuate
tagetenone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Tagetes + -en- + -one.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A monoterpenoid natural product with IUPAC name 2,6-dimethylocta-2,5,7-trien-4-one.
Synonyms: ocimenone
sastric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Shastra.
positionals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of positional
misswitch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misswitches
form: misswitching
form: misswitched
form: misswitched
Etymology: From mis- + switch.
Senses: examples: text: But if I am honest with you, I must say that that happy condition either in some way misswitched or was wrecked on the way up here.
ref: 1907, Union League Club of Chicago, Exercises in Commemoration of the Birthday of Washington, page 46:
text: Thus, to prevent misswitching, the headway between two cars should be about a car length.
ref: 1975, Traffic Quarterly - Volume 29, page 139:
text: PVC-based networks, such as Frame Relay and ATM, are somewhat less resistant because they generally are controlled by software-based virtual circuit switching and can readily be misswitched or duplicated.
ref: 2006, Christopher S. Lewis, Steve Pickavance, Selecting MPLS VPN Services, page 71:
text: He even invited his own mother into combat, just to kill her for misswitching the babies on purpose in the hospital, as he was taught by Kelcey Kombat.
ref: 2016, Russell Brown, Kid Fight: Anthology of Sinister Terror, page 255:
glosses: To switch incorrectly or by mistake.
misswitch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: misswitches
Etymology: From mis- + switch.
Senses: examples: text: The performance of a mini-hump design should be specified in terms of a given humping rate (without misswitches and stalling ) and a range of coupling impact speeds on the classifcation tracks for all cars between design-specified hardest and easiest rolling resistance cars ( specified in pounds / ton or equivalent percent grade ).
ref: 1981, Railroad Classification Yard Technology Manual, page 75:
text: The planning and execution of the sequences mean heavy burden on the operators, because a misswitch can cause heavy damages.
ref: 1996, Proceedings: ISAP '96: Intelligent Systems Applications to Power Systems, page 380:
text: He blames his mother, Margrat Howard, for the misswitch. He even invited his own mother into combat, just to kill her for misswitching the babies on purpose in the hospital, as he was taught by Kelcey Kombat.
ref: 2016, Russell Brown, Kid Fight: Anthology of Sinister Terror, page 255:
glosses: An instance of misswitching.
misswitches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misswitch
misswitches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misswitch
misswitching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misswitch
misswitched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misswitch
short tracks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of short track
missymbolize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: missymbolizes
form: missymbolizing
form: missymbolized
form: missymbolized
Etymology: From mis- + symbolize.
Senses: examples: text: In sum, if a tariff increase is found to be missymbolized, we may order it cancelled and require that it be republished, giving rise to a new protest perlod.
ref: 1985, ICC Register: A Daily Summary of Motor Carrier Applications, page 9:
text: there is nothing of any added importance in them, except that if you missymbolize, the problem may become unworkable.
ref: 1990, Richard W. Miller, Introduction to Logic: Study Guide, page 151:
text: The theory of moods refers the analyst to a history of affect before the term, plunging into the missymbolized primary emotions, such as those of the less neurotic subjects, below the affect related to the language.
ref: 2019, François Duparc, “Mauvaises humeurs”, in Psychologie Clinique:
glosses: To symbolize incorrectly.
missymbolizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of missymbolize
missymbolizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of missymbolize
missymbolized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of missymbolize
missynthesize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: missynthesizes
form: missynthesizing
form: missynthesized
form: missynthesized
Etymology: From mis- + synthesize.
Senses: examples: text: Now, Pound wrote no Imagistic poems as bad as my missynthesized example, but he quickly discovered that deliberately incongruous superimpositions could be used as a potent satirical tool:
ref: 1997, Daniel Albright, Quantum Poetics, page 144:
text: By protecting DNA, selenium reduces the missynthesizing of proteins.
ref: 2003, Sujoy Deyasi, Uniphase, page 88:
text: The hypothesis, as presently stated, requires the random appearance of myssynthesized proteins — that is, evidence of molecular missynthesis should not be confined to just a few enzymes, but should be ubiquitous.
ref: 2013, J.A. Zimmerman, H.V. Samis, M.B. Baird, H.R. Massie, “Properties of Catalase Molecules in Rats of Different Ages”, in V. Cristofalo, editor, Explorations in Aging, page 291:
glosses: To synthesize badly or incorrectly.
missynthesizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of missynthesize
missynthesizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of missynthesize
missynthesized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of missynthesize
mesoplastra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mesoplastron
mesoplastron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mesoplastra
Etymology: From meso- + plastron.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: either of a pair of transverse hexagonal bones in a turtle that lie between the hyoplastral and hypoplastral bones
Derived terms: mesoplastral
pleurals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pleural
shakeree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shakerees
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sekere.
candle light
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: He was to weete a man of full ripe yeares, / That in his youth had beene of mickle might, / And borne great ſway in armes amongſt his peares: / But now weake age had dimd his candle light.
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, page 384:
text: 8. Item, That each Trincke shall every dark and foggy Night hang forth out of his said Trincke-boat one Lantern with sufficient Candle Light, for the better and safer Passage of Ships,
ref: 1735, Robert Seymour, A Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster, Borough of Southwark, and Parts Adjacent, volume II, page 288:
text: 1832-1837, John Clare, Approaching Night
O, how I long to be agen
That poor and independent man,
With labour's lot from morn to night
And books to read at candle light;
glosses: Alternative form of candlelight.
fixed price
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fixed prices
Senses: glosses: A price that is not subject to change, allowing for no bargaining, discounts, or alterations due to the price of resources.
Derived terms: FPIF
agreement as to succession
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: agreements as to succession
Senses: topics: law
glosses: An agreement about which government's succession regulation applies when a party dies.
thottish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more thottish
form: most thottish
Etymology: From thot + -ish.
Senses: synonyms: thotty
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a thot (slut, sexually promiscuous woman).
thottie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thotties
Etymology: From thot + -ie.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of thotty.
noms d'artiste
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nom d'artiste
two, six, heave
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: Various theories with scant evidence; see Wikipedia.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Used to coordinate a pulling effort.
Related terms: lights, camera, action
ready, aim, fire
ready, set, go
ready, steady, go
tub-thumps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tub-thump
tub-thumped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tub-thump
handplaned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of handplane
handplaning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of handplane
Cadmeia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Cadmea.
Cadmea
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Cadmeia
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Καδμεία (Kadmeía), named after Cadmus, the legendary founder of Thebes.
Senses: glosses: The citadel of ancient Thebes, Greece.
personal law
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: family law
private bank
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: private banks
Senses: glosses: A bank involved in private banking
private banking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Banking offered to high-income people, including personalized advice.
Related terms: private bank
private banks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of private bank
preparatory school
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: preparatory schools
Senses: glosses: A prep school.
preparatory schools
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of preparatory school
press pack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: press packs
Senses: glosses: Synonym of press kit.
synonyms: word: press kit
press packs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of press pack
pressure cabin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pressure cabins
Senses: glosses: A pressurized cabin, e.g. in an aircraft
pressure cabins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pressure cabin
preticket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pretickets
Senses: glosses: A preliminary ticket, or presale ticket
pretickets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of preticket
price ceiling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: price ceilings
Senses: coordinate_terms: price floor
glosses: A maximum price payable for something, especially one stipulated by a government of governing body.
Related terms: price control
price-cutting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: business
glosses: The act of reducing of the price of goods.
hand something out like candy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hands something out like candy
form: handing something out like candy
form: handed something out like candy
form: handed something out like candy
Senses: examples: text: The local dealers are handing out drugs to kids like candy, and the police refuse to act.
glosses: To distribute something in large quantities.
price ceilings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of price ceiling
princess tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: princess trees
Senses: synonyms: empress tree
foxglove tree
glosses: An Asian deciduous hardwood tree of species Paulownia tomentosa. It also thrives invasively in North America and Europe.
Related terms: tree of heaven
princess trees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of princess tree
priss around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: prisses around
form: prissing around
form: prissed around
form: prissed around
Senses: glosses: To act in a prissy manner.
procryptic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹəʊˈkɹɪp.tɪk/
ipa: /pɹoʊˈkɹɪp.tɪk/
rhymes: -ɪptɪk
Etymology: From pro- + cryptic.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having colouring that offers protection by concealing against the background.
production car
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: production cars
Senses: glosses: A mass-produced car
product recall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: product recalls
Senses: glosses: A request from a manufacturer for customers to return a product after the discovery of safety issues or other defects.
prick out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pricks out
form: pricking out
form: pricked out
form: pricked out
Senses: examples: text: Before the time for sowing arrives consideration should be given to the question of what labour is available for pricking out the seedlings, and what accommodation can be provided for the protection of the plants in their later stages
ref: 1911, Thomas Smith, Profitable Culture of Vegetables:
topics: agriculture
business
horticulture
lifestyle
glosses: To separate (seedlings) growing together, for example into a different pot
Foma
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A Niger-Congo language spoken in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
product recalls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of product recall
let someone loose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lets someone loose
form: letting someone loose
form: let someone loose
form: let someone loose
Senses: examples: text: I fancy you would like to attend to Molly yourself, your Ladyship. If I let you both loose for that purpose, will you promise to allow yourselves to be fastened again in such a way as I may indicate?
ref: 1908, anonymous, The Way of a Man with a Maid, Volume 2 Chapter 9
glosses: To allow someone free discretion on a task.
reverse ways
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: "Now, Lady Betty, place yourself on your daughter reverse ways, your head between her thighs, her head between your legs. Lie on her, and when we have arranged you properly, we'll tie you down!"
ref: 1908, anonymous, The Way of a Man with a Maid, Volume 2 Chapter 9
glosses: Alternative form of reverseways.
Jinghai
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -aɪ
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 靜海 /静海 (Jìnghǎi).
Senses: glosses: A district of Tianjin, China.
Xiqing
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: shēʹchǐngʹ
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 西青 (Xīqīng).
Senses: examples: text: The plant will be run as a subsidiary of SMIC in cooperation with the government of Tianjin's Xiqing district, and will have an initial registered capital of $5 billion, the filing said.
ref: 2022 August 27, Josh Horwitz, “Chinese chip foundry SMIC to invest $7.5 bln in new fab in Tianjin”, in David Goodman, William Mallard, editors, Reuters, archived from the original on 27 Aug 2022, Technology:
text: The project, with a total investment of US$7.5 billion, began construction last Saturday, according to a report by Tianjin Daily, the city’s official newspaper. Tianjin has been under partial lockdown to combat Covid since late August.
SMIC said on August 27 it had entered into a cooperation framework agreement with two local government authorities in the Xiqing district to build the new fab.
ref: 2022 September 28, Ann Cao, “China’s biggest chip maker SMIC pushes ahead with construction of new Tianjin plant despite Covid-19 lockdowns”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 28 Sep 2022, Big Tech:
glosses: A district of Tianjin, China.
Jinnan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 津南 (Jīnnán).
Senses: examples: text: In Tianjin, schools are the hotbed of infections and all schools in Jinnan district in Tianjin have been suspended.
ref: 2022 January 11, Josephine Ma, “Omicron: Tianjin casts wide net to track new transmission routes in outbreak”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 Jan 2022, News:
text: Large fissures appeared on roads near a residential complex in Tianjin's Jinnan district and geological experts said they were likely caused by underground cavities below a depth of 1,300 m (4,270 feet), the Tianjin government said on Thursday on social media.
ref: 2023 June 9, Bernard Orr, “Thousands evacuated in China's Tianjin after cracks appear near high-rises”, in Raju Gopalakrishnan, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 09 Jun 2023, China:
glosses: A district of Tianjin, China.
Hedong
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: hŭʹdo͝ongʹ
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 河東 /河东 (Hédōng).
Senses: examples: text: Hedong district is still a work in progress but has large expansion plans in the future. It is a quiet area of the city and has many walking areas for browsing that include the 600 year old scholar tree and large copper bells.
ref: 2010 May, Jeanie Carroll, “History and Modern Perspective”, in 厉静, editor, Tianjin Basics [精彩天津], Beijing: China Intercontinental Press [五洲传播出版社], →ISBN, →OCLC, page 5:
english: 五洲传播出版社
translation: 五洲传播出版社
text: The two blasts, which went off some time after 8pm, happened in the city’s Hedong district, home to over 900,000 people, including many ethnic minorities, according to Tianjin’s yearbook.
ref: 2023 June 14, Sylvie Zhuang, “3 dead after firework blasts hit apartment blocks in Chinese city of Tianjin; suspect detained”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 Jun 2023, Politics:
glosses: A district of Tianjin, China.
Heping
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: hŭʹpǐngʹ
Etymology: From Mandarin 和平 (Hépíng).
Senses: examples: text: When the coronavirus struck, local officials sprang into action. The district of Heping in particular seized on the city’s huge supply of blue-colored construction walls as a way to stop the virus’s spread. It helps that Tianjin neighbors Hebei Province, an industrial area where steel mills are plentiful and supplies can be easily found.
ref: 2020 March 4, Cao Li, “A ‘Blue Great Wall’ Divides a City as It Battles the Coronavirus”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 Mar 2020:
glosses: A district of Tianjin, China.
examples: text: With the help of the PLA, the (Joshui) commune revolutionary committee in Hoping County has relied on and mobilized the militiamen and the masses to smash the plot of a handful of class enemies, to "overthrow the revolutionary committee by using the feudalist clan concept," and to deal severe blows at the evil wind of rightist reversal of verdicts.
ref: [1968 June 18 [1968 June 17], “PLA Helps Smash Class Enemies in Kwangtung”, in Daily Report: Communist China, volume I, number 119, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Canton Kwangtung Provincial Service, translation of original in Cantonese, →OCLC, Communist China: Central-South Region, page D 8:
text: On 23 November the Hoping County CCP Committee held a broadcast rally attended by 15,000 people to publicly reverse verdicts on the so-called "renegade clique" and to rehabilitate the titles of cadres, staff and workers who were persecuted and their dependents who were implicated.
ref: [1978 December 20 [1978 December 9], “Kwangtung County Exoneration Rally”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 245, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Canton Kwangtung Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China: Central-South Region, page H 5:
glosses: A county of Heyuan, Guangdong, China.
Nankai
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -aɪ
Etymology: From Mandarin 南開 /南开 (Nánkāi).
Senses: examples: text: In the Nankai District of Tianjin, 20 percent of 2,555 individual businesspeople were illiterate, mainly housewives, 40 percent were primary school graduates, 15 percent junior middle school graduates, and 35 percent senior middle school graduates. That district reported five or six college graduates, mainly artists who drew blueprints.
ref: 1986, Marcia Yudkin [尤德金], “Who Are China's Individual Businesspeople?”, in Making Good: Private Business in Socialist China [社会主义中国的个体经济], 1st edition, Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 63:
english: 社会主义中国的个体经济
translation: 社会主义中国的个体经济
text: The report alleged that the Hong Kong-registered association lacked the right credentials to qualify as a nonprofit group. The sleuthing reporter tracked down the website of the China Urine Therapy Association and found grounds for suspicion there as well.
“After visiting the physical address for the website, it was found to be in an old residential neighborhood of Nankai District in Tianjin,” a port city near Beijing, the report said. “There was an old man inside, and he had nothing to do with urine therapy.”
ref: 2014 June 27, Chris Buckley, “People’s Daily Takes Firm Stance Against Urine Consumption”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 Dec 2022, Sinosphere:
glosses: A district of Tianjin, China.
Hongqiao
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ho͝ongʹchyouʹ
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 紅橋 /红桥 (Hóngqiáo).
Senses: examples: text: Not long ago an exhibition of class education was inaugurated at the “Three Stones” Historical Museum in Hungchiao District, Tientsin.
ref: [1969, “Chronicle”, in Chinese Literature, number 1, Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 98:
text: Against that backdrop, Mr. Liu, a former lawyer with a long interest in psychology, decided that the people of Tianjin needed some help apologizing, "as a way of relieving pressure, reducing barriers and the many negative feelings between people today."
In fact, the apology company is an arm of a psychological stress reduction center that he also runs in some low concrete buildings that belong to the Hongqiao district government, his partner in what he hopes will be a profitable venture.
"Our society is changing very fast and competition is very harsh, so everyone now feels pressure in his heart," Mr. Liu said, sitting under a trellis bearing plastic fruit that covers the ceiling of the center's group counseling room.
ref: 2001 January 3, Elisabeth Rosenthal, “Tianjin Journal; For a Fee, This Chinese Firm Will Beg Pardon for Anyone”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 Mar 2021:
glosses: A district of Tianjin, China.
Yorùbá
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: From the late seventeenth to the early eighteenth century, merchants raided Yorùbá towns, captured men and women from large Yorùbá-speaking regions, and sold them, mainly to Portuguese traders.
ref: 2004, Kamari Maxine Clarke, Mapping Yorùbá Networks: Power and Agency in the Making of Transnational Communities, Durham, N.C.; London: Duke University Press, →ISBN, page 88:
text: Unlike in the past, the Yorùbá are showing they are ready to accept those who profess Awoist ideals and ideas – and are therefore proper Yorùbá – joining different political parties, an almost heretical practice until the last few years.
ref: 2014, Wale Adebanwi, Yorùbá Elites and Ethnic Politics in Nigeria: Ọbáfẹ́mi Awólọ́wọ̀ and Corporate Agency, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 251:
text: The piano was supported by indigenous musical instruments like the ekwe (slab and stick of the Igbo people) and the gangan (of the Yorùbá people—the talking drum) (Modfestivals Marktoberdorf, 2016b and 2016c).
ref: 2022, Rhoda Abiolu, “Intercultural Relations in Church Music of Nigeria and South Africa”, in David G. Hebert, Jonathan McCollum, editors, Ethnomusicology and Cultural Diplomacy (The Lexington Series in Historical Ethnomusicology: Deep Soundings), Lanham, M.D.: Lexington Books, →ISBN, part 4 (African Insights), page 266:
glosses: Alternative spelling of Yoruba.
Derived terms: Yorùbáland
Yorùbá
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: From the late seventeenth to the early eighteenth century, merchants raided Yorùbá towns, captured men and women from large Yorùbá-speaking regions, and sold them, mainly to Portuguese traders. Yorùbá-speaking men and women, more than any other West African ethnic and linguistic group, were enslaved and exported to North America, Cuba, and Brazil in large numbers.
ref: 2004, Kamari Maxine Clarke, Mapping Yorùbá Networks: Power and Agency in the Making of Transnational Communities, Durham, N.C.; London: Duke University Press, →ISBN, page 88:
text: An analysis of the Lucumí subclassifications associated with Yorùbá-speaking kingdoms and places indicates that over 75 percent had Yorùbá names, compared to less than 25 percent from other non-Yorùbá-speaking ethnonyms. This analysis confirms how the largest concentrations of Yorùbá speakers left Ouidah and Lagos, while non-Yorùbá-speaking groups generally departed to the east and west of those two ports.
ref: 2018, Henry B. Lovejoy, Prieto: Yorùbá Kingship in Colonial Cuba during the Age of Revolutions, Chapel Hill, N.C.: The University of North Carolina Press, →ISBN, page 103:
text: The use of the gangan, or “talking drum,” was particularly unique because it enunciated Igbo words. What makes this special is that the drum is poised to pronounce Yorùbá words with its various distinctive tones and inflections. […] The inculcation of the drum to pronounce Igbo words draws attention to an intercultural and linguistic dimension to the talking drum’s beats where there is the superimposition of indigenous Yorùbá rhythms on the Igbo language.
ref: 2022, Rhoda Abiolu, “Intercultural Relations in Church Music of Nigeria and South Africa”, in David G. Hebert, Jonathan McCollum, editors, Ethnomusicology and Cultural Diplomacy (The Lexington Series in Historical Ethnomusicology: Deep Soundings), Lanham, M.D.: Lexington Books, →ISBN, part 4 (African Insights), page 266:
glosses: Alternative spelling of Yoruba.
Beichen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: bāʹchǔnʹ
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 北辰 (Běichén).
Senses: examples: text: The new report said 413 million yuan spent on train windshields was wasted when design specifications were changed in March 2011, three months before the line opened.[…]
It found that Beichen district government in Tianjin had 340 million yuan in its own accounts instead of being paid promptly in compensation for land procured for the railway.
ref: 2012 March 19, Zhou Xin, Nick Edwards, “China audit details fraud, waste at Beijing-Shanghai railway”, in Michael Perry, editor, Reuters, sourced from BEIJING (Reuters), archived from the original on 04 Jul 2024, World:
text: Monday’s fire occurred in the Beichen district, an area far closer to the urban core of Tianjin.
ref: 2015 October 12, Michael Forsythe, “China: Fire Strikes Tianjin, 2 Months After Fatal Blast”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 Oct 2015, Asia Pacific:
glosses: A district of Tianjin, China.
Dongli
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: do͝ongʹlēʹ
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 東麗 /东丽 (Dōnglì).
Senses: examples: text: Enterprises continue to put more money into control of water pollution (42 per cent of total pollution control funds invested) than into control of other types of pollution and the Dongli district in Tianjin is home to China’s largest sewage works.
ref: 1998, Richard Louis Edmonds, “Geography and Natural Resources”, in Brian Hook, editor, Beijing and Tianjin: Towards a Millennial Megalopolis, volume 4, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 78–79:
text: Workers at the factory in the Dongli District of Tianjin, a near Beijing, stopped work on Tuesday afternoon, demanding wage rises and improved benefits, said the Xinhua report.
ref: 2010 June 30, Chris Buckley, “China strike hits Japanese electronics plant - report”, in Alex Richardson, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 03 Nov 2023, MONEY NEWS:
glosses: A district of Tianjin, China.
Ninghe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 寧河 /宁河 (Nínghé).
Senses: examples: text: * The Baodi Natural Gas Utilization Project will supply gas to industrial and business users and 450,000 homes in the districts of Baodi, Ninghe and Jizhou in the northern municipality of Tianjin.
ref: 2019 September 27, Shivani Singh, Beijing Newsroom, “China's Kunlun Energy starts gas pipeline project in Tianjin - CNPC”, in Aditya Soni, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 04 Feb 2024:
glosses: A district of Tianjin, China.
Baodi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 寶坻 /宝坻 (Bǎodǐ).
Senses: examples: text: Tianjin's Baodi district government, together with Hong Kong-listed property developer Hopson Development began construction of the project in 2002.
ref: 2013 September 10, Mandy Zuo, “3,000 villas, but no one’s home: Inside the Jing Jin ghost city”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 10 Sep 2013, China:
text: Of 102 confirmed cases in the city, at least 33 patients worked or shopped at a department store in the Baodi district, or had close contact with employees or customers, according to the Tianjin health authorities.[…]
In addition, emergency measures were imposed over sections of Baodi — home to nearly one million people — with all but two entrances and exits for certain residential areas sealed off and security personnel on round-the-clock patrols.
ref: 2020 February 11, “The Illness Now Has a Name, COVID-19”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 Feb 2020:
glosses: A district of Tianjin, China.
Jizhou
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Chi-chou
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 薊州 /蓟州 (Jìzhōu).
Senses: examples: text: Subsequently, however, the Russians did proceed beyond Shanhaikwan and captured the towns of Chichou and Hsin Min. I also heard, after my arrival at Lü Shun (Port Arthur) that the Russians had dispatched forces in various directions eastwards, and had sent communications to the local officials bidding them not to be alarmed, as all they had to do was to hand over their munitions of war to the Russians, whereupon the latter would exterminate the Hu* rebels on their behalf.
ref: [1901, Great Britain Foreign Office Correspondence on China, 1872-1904, volume 4, →OCLC, page 73:
text: They implanted the Jizhou District (薊城, 薊縣) in the NW corner of Tianjin municipality as the place feoffed to the descendants of first legitimate ruler, the Yellow Emperor, Yao in another scripture. The Jizhou District (薊縣) was the metropolis of Baekik descendants and built the nation of YaeMaek (濊貊國) where King Dongmyeong had settled.
ref: 2020, Lee Mosol, Ancient History of Korea, 2nd edition, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page https://books.google.com/books?id=GmUKEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT91:
text: * The Baodi Natural Gas Utilization Project will supply gas to industrial and business users and 450,000 homes in the districts of Baodi, Ninghe and Jizhou in the northern municipality of Tianjin.
ref: 2019 September 27, Shivani Singh, Beijing Newsroom, “China's Kunlun Energy starts gas pipeline project in Tianjin - CNPC”, in Aditya Soni, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 04 Feb 2024:
glosses: A district of Tianjin, China.
Jizhou
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Chi-chou
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 濟州 /济州 (Jìzhōu).
Senses: examples: text: The Yellow Sea, east of the Bohai Strait, extends from the mouth of the Yalü River in the north to a line running from the north bank of Changjiang estuary to Korea’s Jizhou Island in the south. The flat seabed provides ideal conditions for trawling.
ref: 1990 August, Paul K.I. Chao, “Husbandry, Forestry and Fishery”, in The Changing Geography of China: A Synoptic View, Hong Kong: The Commercial Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 203:
text: M: Have you ever visited Korea?
W: Several times. It's a beautiful country.
M: What part of the visits excited you most?
W: The biggest island of Korea, Jizhou Island.
ref: 2015, “Sightseeing”, in A Real-life English Course [生活情境英语] (Roads to Successful Careers [走向职场英语系列教程]), Beijing Institute of Technology Press [北京理工大学出版社], →ISBN, →OCLC, page 132:
english: 北京理工大学出版社
translation: 北京理工大学出版社
text: The Yellow Sea is bordered on Liaodong Peninsula in the north and adjacent to the west bank of the Korean Peninsula. The line from Zhendao Island in the south end of the Korean Peninsula to the southwestern corner of Jizhou Island is its eastern boundary. In the northwest, it is connected to the Bohai Sea via Bohai Strait.
ref: 2020 [2015], Zhigang Fang [方志刚], Jingyi Cao, Yong Guan, “Service Environment of Aluminum Alloy Vessel”, in Corrosion Control Technologies for Aluminum Alloy Vessel [铝合金舰艇腐蚀控制技术], →DOI, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 53:
english: 铝合金舰艇腐蚀控制技术
translation: 铝合金舰艇腐蚀控制技术
glosses: Synonym of Jeju: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.
synonyms: word: Jeju
extra: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name