cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Queshan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -æn
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 確山 /确山.
Senses: examples: text: Friends told of how at one stage, when the place was literally filled to the last corner, a group had arrived marching from Chuehshan, a hill county in Honan. It had taken them a month to come.
ref: [1973, Rewi Alley, “Some Hunan Journeys”, in 中国见闻 [Travels in China, 1966-71], Peking: New World Press, →OCLC, page 17:
english: Travels in China, 1966-71
translation: Travels in China, 1966-71
text: Their retreat to Ying-shang was part of a new plan to turn westward into Honan province along the route taken in February by Ch’en Te-ts’ai, who had tried to capture Hsin-ts’ai with the help of a local Nien force and afterward gone farther west past Ch’üeh-shan to lay siege to Nan-yang beginning March 10th.
ref: [1973, Jen Yu-wen, “The Drive through Chekiang toward Shanghai (1861-1862)”, in The Taiping Revolutionary Movement, Yale University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 464–465:
text: The territorial base that each network controlled corresponded neatly with a subcounty administrative unit. In Queshan county, for instance, the Red Spears were divided into the Red, Yellow, Green, White, and Black Spears. The Red Spears, the dominant group in the southeast, had 100,000 men and 200 guns, while the Yellow Spears, who occupied the northern part of the county, numbered 40,000 with 100 guns. A mixture of various sectarians coexisted in the west of the county.
ref: 1994, Odoric Y. K. Wou, “Mobilizing the Sectarians: The Communists and the Red Spears”, in Mobilizing the Masses: Building Revolution in Henan, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 67:
text: Li Jinsheng wanted to study law. But because he is blind, virtually the only profession he could train for in China was massage. So he did that and set up a massage business in Queshan County, Henan Province.[…]
Reached by telephone, officials in Queshan County’s education department declined to comment.
ref: 2013 December 18, Didi Kirsten Tatlow, “Barred From College Entrance Exams, in a Blow for China’s Blind”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 18 Aug 2023, Sinosphere:
glosses: A county of Zhumadian, Henan, China.
Suiping
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 遂平.
Senses: examples: text: The city of Suiping is situated on the Peking-Hankow Railway and is the farthest north of our mission stations. It is the center of a district with a population of approximately 300,000 people who rank comparatively high in literacy.
Suiping was opened as a main station in 1912 when Rev. H. M. Nesse arrived to take charge of the mission work.
ref: 1934, White Unto Harvest in China: A Survey of the Lutheran United Mission, the China Mission of the N.L.C.A., 1890-1934, →OCLC, page 76:
text: Two counties—Suiping and Pingyu—in the Hsinyang district of Honan province took the lead in this movement.
ref: 1958, India Quarterly, volumes 14-15, Indian Council of World Affairs, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 27:
text: Actually they planted so much that there was a surplus. Suiping county alone sold 50,000 tons of turnips and cabbage to the state.
ref: 1978 February, Rewi Alley, “The Epic of Chumatien”, in Eastern Horizon, volume XVII, number 2, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 7, column 2:
text: A letter from Comrade (Li Hezhi), a listener in Suiping County, says: It is a Jiazi year [first year of Chinese 60-year cycle] this year. There will be natural and man-made calamities.
ref: 1984 March 22 [1984 March 17], “Henan Letters Reflect Feudal Superstitions”, in Daily Report: China, volume I, number 057, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Zhengzhou Henan Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →ISSN, →OCLC, PRC Regional Affaris: Central-South Region, page P 2:
text: The school has also banned students from hand-holding and time alone with each other, pupils from Suiping County No 1 High School in Henan province said on the news-clip platform Pear Video this week.
ref: 2019 March 14, Mandy Zuo, “Chinese school segregates boys from girls in cafeteria as part of clampdown on teenage romances”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 Mar 2019, Society:
glosses: A county of Zhumadian, Henan, China.
Xiping
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: shēʹpǐngʹ
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 西平.
Senses: examples: text: That Honan was the locus of manufacture for wares of the splashed black-glazed variety is suggested by the number of examples excavated in that province (for a reference to wares of this type excavated in Hsi-p’ing-hsien, Honan, see Sekai Tōji Zenshū, IX, 191; for a blue-glazed jar—similar in glaze and in the shape and disposition of its spots to the Palace Museum jar mentioned earlier—excavated at Pan-ch’iao, Mi-yang-hsien, Honan, see Wen Wu, 1954/9, Plate 59).
ref: [1968, “Ceramics: Han-Sung”, in Chinese Art from The Cloud Wampler and other Collections in the Everson Museum, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 58:
text: The people of the flood-stricken area of Honan Province, central China, offered to make bigger contributions to the people in quake-afflicted area in Tangshan, recalling how the party and people throughout the country had come to their aid in their time of difficulty. After learning that a number of the wounded had arrived at the Chumachen hospital, an elderly woman of the Wangkouying people's commune in Hsiping County brought a basket of eggs to give the hospital kitchen for the injured.
ref: [1977 January 21 [1977 January 19], “NCNA Feature on Tangshan Earthquake Victims”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 14, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Peking NCNA, →OCLC, PRC National Affairs, page E 14:
text: In "Shindai ni okeru gigaku," pp. 299-304, Ogawa Yoshiko presents detailed information on the backgrounds of forty-one school managers in Hsi-p’ing county, Honan; almost every one was an official, a chien-sheng, or a shengyüan.
ref: [1979, Evelyn Rawski, “Notes”, in Education and Popular Literacy in Ch'ing China, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 212:
text: Liu Ruyi, a new recruit, comes from Xiping county in Henan province.
ref: 1981 August, Shouyi Zhao, Zhang Kezong, “A Day with Squad Six”, in China Reconstructs, volume XXX, number 8, →OCLC, page 58:
text: While some local governments ignore the illiteracy problem, others are actively campaigning to teach people to read and write. In the villages of Xiping County in Henan Province in central China, students stop visitors and ask them to read a few characters on a blackboard. Any visitor who cannot read the characters is not allowed to enter the village. This means that illiterates are effectively grounded, and in frustration many have joined the special reading classes offered in each village. Now in Xiping County, according to local officials, only 1.7 percent of those between the ages of 20 and 40 are illiterate.
ref: 1994 September 4, Sheryl WuDunn, “China's Rush to Riches”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 May 2015, Section 6, page 38:
glosses: A county of Zhumadian, Henan, China.
Shangcai
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: shängʹtsī
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 上蔡 (Shàngcài).
Senses: examples: text: I’m an inn boy. I run a little wine shop⁶ here at Three Mile Stop beyond the Northern Pass in Shang-ts’ai County,* where everybody traveling north and south, wheelbarrow pushers, pole bearers, merchants, and what have you, come to have a drink and stay the night.
ref: [1978, George A. Hayden, “P'en-erh kuei (The Ghost of the Pot)”, in Crime and Punishment in Medieval Chinese Drama: Three Judge Pao Plays, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 85:
text: Working without permission, Dr. Gui Xien, a researcher from neighboring Hubei Province, drew 155 blood samples from farmers in Shangcai County in Henan, where blood selling is common; 96 of them were H.I.V. positive, including blood sellers, their spouses and children, according to another doctor familiar with the study.
ref: 2000 October 28, Elisabeth Rosenthal, “In Rural China, a Steep Price Of Poverty: Dying of AIDS”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 10 Jun 2010, World:
text: A trip with Zhao through a section of Shangcai County in southern Henan province, a region of small wheat and onion farms 600 miles south of Beijing, is a journey of sadness.
ref: 2001 January 11, John Pomfret, “The High Cost of Selling Blood”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 31 Jan 2024:
glosses: A county of Zhumadian, Henan, China.
Runan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 汝南 (Rǔnán).
Senses: examples: text: Peasants of Junan County, Honan, planted more than 120,000 mou of sesame seed in 1970. Average yield per mou was 19.7 percent higher than that in 1969 and a new record for the county. Delivery of edible oil crops to the state by Junan County in 1970 increased by 14 percent as compared with 1969. The Tangchuang production team of the Lichuang production brigade of Junan County's Sanchiao commune set a record by turning out 222 catties of sesame seed per mou from a total of 60 mou planted is 1970.
ref: [1971 March 23 [1971 March 15], “Honan Sesame Harvest”, in Daily Report: Communist China, volume I, number 56, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Peking NCNA Domestic, translation of original in Chinese, →OCLC, Communist China: Central-South Region, page D 2:
text: Tian Weiqin had been stationing his army in Runan county since 1921. Conflicts between troops and the local community did not occur until the defeat of the Zhili Army in 1924.
ref: 1994, Odoric Y. K. Wou, “Mobilizing the Sectarians: The Communists and the Red Spears”, in Mobilizing the Masses: Building Revolution in Henan, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 55:
text: The policeman in Runan county, in the poor central province of Henan, has been charged with “endangering public security by dangerous means” after crashing his police van into two street lamp poles, crushing five people to death, the official Xinhua news agency said.
ref: 2011 October 30, Ben Blanchard, “"Drunk" policeman's crash sparks protest in China”, in Ron Popeski, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 16 Aug 2023, World News:
glosses: A county of Zhumadian, Henan, China.
Zhengyang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: jǔngʹyängʹ
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 正陽 /正阳 (Zhèngyáng).
Senses: examples: text: To fully implement the various militant tasks set forth by the 10th CCP National Congress, the Chumatien Military Subdistrict and offices directly under Chumatien Region recently sent over 180 cadres to stay and work for a lengthy period of time at selected backward basic-level units. Led by responsible comrades of Chumatien Region, these cadres have gone to such places as (Hsingtsai), (Nanching) and (Luho) communes in Chengyang County and (Machiang) commune in Janan County.
ref: [1973 October 26 [1973 October 22], “Honan Region Sends Cadres to Guide Work in Backward Areas”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 207, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Chengchow Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China: Central-South Region, page D 1:
text: In Zhengyang county in May 1923, for instance, local gentry in the southern district built a county militia in response to rampant banditry.
ref: 1994, Mobilizing the Masses: Building Revolution in Henan, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 60:
glosses: A county of Zhumadian, Henan, China.
Pingyu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /pɪŋ.ju/
Forms: form: P'ing-yü
Etymology: From Mandarin 平輿 /平舆.
Senses: examples: text: Two counties—Suiping and Pingyu—in the Hsinyang district of Honan province took the lead in this movement.
ref: 1958, India Quarterly, volumes 14-15, Indian Council of World Affairs, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 27:
text: Sometimes peasants complained. But is is the thorny logic of renzhi that operates in the countryside. Take the case of Cai Yutang, an elderly peasant in Pingyu County in Henan Province. Local officials wanted to collect money from the peasants to pay for an electricity station, but Cai refused to pay.
ref: 1994, Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn, China Wakes: The Struggle for the Soul of a Rising Power, Nicholas Brealey Publishing, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 174:
text: Retribution was savage after Lu Xianwen denounced this as ‘sabotage of production’ and demanded the punishment of offenders. Cadres in Xiangyang Dian commune in Pingyu county ordered the culprits to be dressed in mourning.
ref: 1996, Jasper Becker, Hungry Ghosts: Mao's Secret Famine, The Free Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 117:
text: State television, citing officials, confirmed that outbreaks in Enzhou in Hubei Province and Pingyu in Henan Province were indeed the lethal strain, and added a fresh H5N1 outbreak in Nanchang in Jiangxi Province.
ref: 2004 February 8, “China Confirms 3 Outbreaks of Bird Flu”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 Aug 2023, Asia Pacific:
glosses: A county of Zhumadian, Henan, China.
Xincai
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃɪnˈtsaɪ/
enpr: shǐnʹtsīʹ
Forms: form: Hsin-ts'ai
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 新蔡 (Xīncài).
Senses: examples: text: His first time "outside” was in February 1966. Hsintsai County had asked the Chiliying commune for twenty cotton-growing technicians, and his team picked him as one.
ref: [1974, Li (朱力) Chu, 田洁云 [Tien Chieh-yun], 在七里营人民公社里 [Inside A People's Commune: Report from Chiliying], Foreign Languages Press, →OCLC, page 121:
english: Inside A People's Commune: Report from Chiliying
translation: Inside A People's Commune: Report from Chiliying
text: In Hsintsai county, there was Wang Hsin-an, a soldier on reserve. A break in a sluice-gate threatened the land of his brigade and immediate action was necessary so that they could be evacuated over to higher land south.
ref: [1978 February, Rewi Alley, “The Epic of Chumatien”, in Eastern Horizon, volume XVII, number 2, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 6, column 2:
text: One example of this type of dissension within Nien ranks was reported in Hsin-ts’ai County in 1845. A Nien chief in the county had led sixteen followers to stage a robbery in which they had made off with a sizable haul of animals, clothing, and bedding.[…]
Hsin-ts’ai County (Honan), 113
ref: [1980, Elizabeth J. Perry, Rebels and Revolutionaries in North China, 1845-1945, Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 113, 319:
text: During the Cultural Revolution I was exiled to Xincai County in Henan Province. There, 36 percent of the people starved to death in the early 1960s.
ref: 1990, Chen Yizi (陳一諮), quotee, Children of the Dragon: The Story of Tiananmen Square, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 48:
text: According to unpublished statistics from the United Nations Development Program, the number of families living below the official poverty line in Xincai, the county that includes Donghu, skyrocketed last year, to 270,000 from 40,000. Breadwinners fell ill, and families spent whatever they could scrape together for food and care.
ref: 2002 August 25, Elisabeth Rosenthal, “AIDS Scourge in Rural China Leaves Villages of Orphans”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 Nov 2010, World:
glosses: A county of Zhumadian, Henan, China.
distributionalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A general theory of language and a discovery procedure for establishing elements and structures of language based on observed usage.
Pingqiao
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˌpɪŋˈt͡ʃjaʊ/
Forms: form: P'ing-ch'iao
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 平橋 /平桥 (Píngqiáo).
Senses: examples: text: The dragons' heads no longer exist, but the positions of the tongues are indicated by commas. Initially the design occupied a panel on a bronze surface, as on a gui discovered at Lintong 臨潼, Shaanxi (fig. 10a), or was repeated on a horizontal band, as on a pen excavated at Pingqiao 平橋, Xinyang Shi 新陽市^([sic – meaning 信陽市]), Henan (fig. 10b).
ref: 1991, Alain Thote, “The Double Coffin of Leigudun Tomb No. 1: Iconographic Sources and Related Problems”, in Thomas Lawton, editor, 東周楚文化討論會 [New Perspectives on Chu Culture During the Eastern Zhou Period], Princeton University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, pages 30–31:
english: New Perspectives on Chu Culture During the Eastern Zhou Period
translation: New Perspectives on Chu Culture During the Eastern Zhou Period
text: Haotang village, under the jurisdiction of Pingqiao District, Xinyang City, Henan Province, China, has an area of approximately 20 square kilometres and a population of about 2300.
ref: 2019, Yanheng Lu, Junxi Qian, “Towards a material approach in rural geography: Architectural experiments in China’s rural renaissance and reconstruction movements”, in Geoforum, volume 116, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC:
text: Located in the suburbs of southeastern Pingqiao District, Xinyang City, Henan Province, Haotang Village has an area of 20.7 km2 and jurisdiction over 18 village groups and 2,385 people.
ref: 2021, Xiaoming Wang, Hong Hua, Green Village and Town Construction in China, Beijing: Science Press, →DOI, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 106:
glosses: A district of Xinyang, Henan, China.
wikipedia: Encyclopedia Britannica
Shihe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 溮河 /浉河.
Senses: examples: text: Public education centres will be set up in Xinyang city's Shihe district and in Maidian city's Shangcai county under an agreement reached by Unicef and officials from the Health Ministry and their colleagues in the provincial Government.
ref: 2001 November 2, “UN enlisted to tackle HIV-baby crisis”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 Jan 2024:
text: On June 9, diplomats and reporters from many countries embarked on a journey of "Discovering the Most Beautiful Tea Village on the Silk Road". They came to Shihe District, Xinyang City, Henan Province to explore the secrets of Chinese tea, according to Shihe District Bureau of Culture, Radio & Television and Tourism.[...]
Only lush mountains and clear rivers can produce good tea. Shihe is located on the division line of north and south, with forest coverage rate of 70%. It is in the hinterland of China, with villages dotted among the mountains and waters, displaying leisure and tranquility. With a contiguous tea plantation of 100,000 acres, it is the origin and main producing area of Xinyang Maojian, China's "Top Ten Famous Teas". Haojiachong village in Shihe is a representative of the beautiful countryside. Villagers grow tea for generations.
ref: 2021 June 11, “Shihe: Dialogue with the World in "Tea Language"”, in PR Newswire, archived from the original on 11 Jun 2021:
glosses: A district of Xinyang, Henan, China.
Pember
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Pembers
Etymology: Perhaps a habitational surname from a place called Pamber, in Hampshire. The placename is from Old English penn (“fold, enclosure”) + beorg (“mountain, hill”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Old English.
wikipedia: Pamber
Related terms: Pamber
Pemberton
Luoshan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -æn
Forms: form: Lo-shan
form: Loshan
Etymology: From Mandarin 羅山 /罗山 (Luóshān).
Senses: examples: text: Our army first beat back the pursuing regiments near Loshan County, crossed the Peking-Hankow railway from Hsinyang and entered Tungpo's mountainous area.
ref: [1978 September 29 [1978 August 1], Cheng Tzu-hua [4453 1311 5478] [程子華], “Take Up Arms in a Struggle for the Party”, in Translations from Red Flag, number 8, United States Joint Publications Research Service, sourced from Red Flag, No 8, pp 51-60, translation of original in Chinese, page 83:
english: 程子華
translation: 程子華
text: Most of the time, the rural gentry was pulled apart by parochial interests and divided along geographic lines into blocs of regional power. Gentry militia in Luoshan county, for instance, reportedly refused to help the Guangshan gentry when it was under attack by the Communists.
ref: 1994, Odoric Y. K. Wou, “Mobilizing the Sectarians: The Communists and the Red Spears”, in Mobilizing the Masses: Building Revolution in Henan, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 112:
text: Jin said Jiang’s sister visited him earlier this month and reported that he was in poor health. His skin tone was darker, he appeared gaunt, and his lips were cracked, Jiang’s sister told Jin. He requested that his sister pick him on his release date and bring him to their ancestral home in Henan’s Luoshan county.
ref: 2019 February 28, Yanan Wang, “Chinese rights lawyer disappears on prison release date”, in AP News, archived from the original on 16 Sep 2022:
glosses: A county of Xinyang, Henan, China.
Guangshan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: gwängʹshänʹ
rhymes: -æn
Forms: form: Kuangshan
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 光山.
Senses: examples: text: In a small village in Guangshan county in Henan, Mrs Liu Xiaohua, now aged 65, still vividly remembers the events of thirty-six years ago. One afternoon in 1994, perched on a small footstool, dressed in faded blue cotton trousers and smock, and occasionally smoking a cigarette, she recalled what had happened. On the muddy path leading from her village, dozens of corpses lay unburied. In the barren fields there were others; and amongst the dead, the survivors crawled slowly on their hands and knees searching for wild grass seeds to eat. In the ponds and ditches people squatted in the mud hunting for frogs and trying to gather weeds.
ref: 1996, Jasper Becker, Hungry Ghosts: Mao's Secret Famine, The Free Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1:
text: The attack, in the village of Chengping in Henan Province, happened shortly before 8 a.m., said a police officer from Guangshan County, where the village is located.
ref: 2012 December 14, “Man Stabs 22 Children in China”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 Deember 2012, Asia Pacific:
glosses: A county of Xinyang, Henan, China.
Shangcheng
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: shängʹchǔngʹ
Etymology: From Mandarin 商城 (Shāngchéng).
Senses: examples: text: For one learns that the first conference ever held on local methods of steel smelting has just taken place in Shangcheng county in Honan and has approved two native methods out of the dozens shat have been used.
ref: 1958 November 24, Anna Louise Strong, “China's newest crusade: Home-made steel”, in National Guardian, volume 11, number 6, New York, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 7, column 3:
text: The court in Shangcheng county, a remote rural region of Henan province, ruled that Liu Mingju was not fit to raise the children, who are left solely in his care because his wife, Li Shaoju, is mentally disabled.
ref: 2018 October 9, Alice Yan, “China’s worst father? This ex-PLA soldier beat his six children and rented them out to criminal gangs”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 09 Oct 2018, China:
glosses: A county of Xinyang, Henan, China.
Huangchuan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: hwängʹchwänʹ
Forms: form: Huang-ch'uan
Etymology: From Mandarin 潢川 (Huángchuān).
Senses: examples: text: On February 23, General Chang Fang, Pacification Commissioner, for the special district of South Honan proceeded to Huangchuan to direct his troops in the suppression of the bandits.
ref: 1932 March 15 [1932 February 27], “Honan People in Dire Distress”, in North-China Herald, volume CLXXXII, number 3371, Shanghai, →OCLC, page 401, column 2:
text: Rev. Bly, of the United Lutheran Mission at Huangchuan, Honan, states that probably all of the important leaders in the Honan-Anhui-Hupeh Soviet organization are graduates of universities and colleges, at least one being a returned student from France; some of these were associated with the Hankow Government in 1926-7, and had to flee for their lives at the time of the turn-over.
ref: 1968, O. Edmund Clubb, “The Chinese Soviets”, in Communism in China, as Reported from Hankow in 1932, Columbia University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 85:
text: A survey of Huangchuan County, Henan Province, revealed that, in the period 1979-86, 39.6% of all marriages were through the matchmaker, 37.6% through third-party introductions, 6.9% through relatives’ introductions, and only 15.8% through direct acquaintance, ‘the model of modern marital behaviour’ (1994, 174-5).
ref: 1997, Harriet Evans, Women and Sexuality in China: Female Sexuality and Gender Since 1949, Continuum, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 227:
text: A principal from a Huangchuan county primary school in Xinyang, China’s southeastern Henan province, was sacked last week after two teachers from its nursery section took turns flogging a four-year-old boy.
ref: 2013 January 4, Ernest Kao, “Teachers flog four-year-old at Xinyang kindergarten”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 Jan 2013, Opinion:
glosses: A county of Xinyang, Henan, China.
Huaibin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: hwīʹbǐnʹ
Forms: form: Huai-pin
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 淮濱 /淮滨.
Senses: examples: text: (2) Huaipin hsien is restored; its present administrative area is the administrative area of the former Huaipin hsien incorporated into Hsi hsien and the two administrative areas of Ch'issu and Changchuang ch'u of the former Huaipin hsien incorporated into Kushih hsien.
ref: [1963, Survey of China Mainland Press, numbers 2889-2909, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2:
text: In Huaibin County a rich peasant who had earned 9000 yuan in 1981-82 paid for a new primary school and supported two teachers.
ref: 1985, John Cleverley, 中國培訓人才之道 [The Schooling of China: Tradition and modernity in Chinese education], George Allen & Unwin, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 261:
english: The Schooling of China: Tradition and modernity in Chinese education
translation: The Schooling of China: Tradition and modernity in Chinese education
text: Xinyang special region received 1,200-1,400 mm of rain between June and August 1956: 280,000 homes were destroyed and 3.2 million peasants (out of a total of almost 6 million) were left homeless. In the most affected county in the special region and the province, Huaibin, 60 percent of the total surface area was covered by floods and 230,000 out of 440,000 inhabitants left homeless; grain production fell by 66 percent in 1956 and the authorities had to send large amounts of relief.
ref: 1995 [1982], Jean-Luc Domenach, “The First Leftist Excesses and Their Consequences (Summer 1955-Winter 1956)”, in A M Berrett, transl., The Origins of the Great Leap Forward: The Case of One Chinese Province [Aux origines du Grand Bond en avant], Westview Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 44:
english: Aux origines du Grand Bond en avant
translation: Aux origines du Grand Bond en avant
text: Luo Ping, an English teacher at the No2 Senior Middle School in Huaibin county, Henan , said: 'We have radio signal blockers installed around all the test centres in the county, although test cheats are not so popular here.'
ref: 2009 June 8, “Mainland wages hi-tech war in bid to foil examination cheats”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 08 Oct 2023:
glosses: A county of Xinyang, Henan, China.
Gushi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: go͞oʹshûʹ
Forms: form: Kushih
form: Ku-shih
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 固始 (Gùshǐ).
Senses: examples: text: The provenance of ant nose money is widely spread. The best known finds are those made at the Ch’i-ssŭ-li village in Ku-shih County in southeastern Honan.⁸¹
ref: [1951, Wang Yü-ch’üan, “Money Before Coinage — Cowries and their Imitations”, in Early Chinese Coinage, New York: Sanford J. Durst Numismatic Publications, published 1980, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 79:
text: In certain places, the Nien succeeded in entirely supplanting the regularly constituted government authority. The result could actually be a considerable improvement for some of the local residents. In Honan’s Ku-shih County, for example, poor people seeking a settlement of their problems flocked to the local Nien chieftain for help.
ref: [1980, Elizabeth J. Perry, “Predators Turn Rebels: The Case of the Nien”, in Rebels and Revolutionaries in North China, 1845-1945, Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 116:
text: In Gushi County in the southern province of Henan, for example, returning workers have been ordered by the government into quarantine centers at empty schoolhouses and on the grounds of bankrupt factories.[…]
Gushi authorities also defended a program to charge migrants for checkups despite a central government regulation promising free health care for SARS patients.
"We only take suspected patients to our ward for isolation and observation," said a health official in Gushi who identified himself only as Zhang.
ref: 2003 May 8, John Pomfret, “WHO to Probe Spread Of SARS in Rural China”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 Oct 2023:
text: Here in Henan’s rural Gushi County, only 73,000 of 1.4 million farmers fall below the official poverty level of $94 a year, which is supposed to be enough to cover basic needs, including maintaining a daily diet of 2,000 calories.
ref: 2008 January 13, Howard W. French, “Lives of Poverty, Untouched by China’s Boom”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 May 2012, Asia Pacific:
glosses: A county of Xinyang, Henan, China.
electoralist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: electoralists
Etymology: From electoral + -ist.
Senses: glosses: An advocate of electoralism.
Westham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Westhams
Senses: glosses: A placename
A village and civil parish in Wealden district, East Sussex, England (OS grid ref TQ6304).
glosses: A placename
An unincorporated community in Henrico, Virginia, United States.
glosses: A placename
Ellipsis of Westham Island.
glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Westham Island
Related terms: Eastham
Northam
Southam
West Ham
levinsonite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Levinson + -ite, after Alfred Abraham Levinson.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A colorless mineral found in Tennessee, USA.
alsakharovite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Only used in alsakharovite-Zn.
lives and lets live
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of live and let live
living and letting live
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of live and let live
lived and let live
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of live and let live
adelize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: adelizes
form: adelizing
form: adelized
form: adelized
Senses: examples: text: It is possible to adelize the construction given there.
ref: 1996, JP Serre, Two letters on quaternions and modular forms:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: To make adelic.
adelizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of adelize
adelized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of adelize
adelizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of adelize
xanthonychid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: xanthonychids
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any snail in the family Xanthonychidae.
QPOC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: QPOC
form: QPOCs
Senses: examples: text: Those identifying as QPOC frequently face racist attitudes in the White gay community. While QPOC are subtly excluded from mainstream gay imagery, more overt forms of racism persist as well.
ref: 2009, Sheila Addison, Deborah Coolhart, “Integrating Socially Segregated Identities: Queer Couples and the Question of Race”, in Mudita Rastogi, Volker Thomas, editors, Multicultural Couple Therapy, Thousand Oaks, Calif.: SAGE Publications, Inc., →ISBN:
glosses: Abbreviation of queer person of color.
ganneted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of gannet
ganneting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gannet
ganneting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The act of taking an excursion or walk, specifically to observe gannets and possibly other seabirds.
glosses: The act of gobbling down or eating something voraciously.
img
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: imgs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of IMG.
IHC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: IHCs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of immunohistochemistry.
examples: text: I have an 1872 Indian Head Cent that appears to have either doubling in the lettering of AMERICA and several letters of UNITED STATES, or maybe it's been repunched. The coin grades a VG+, and although I have other IHC in my collection, most are G to Fair, so they don't have enough detail showing in the lettering.
ref: 2007 November 4, S. Miller, “IHC Doubling Question”, in rec.collecting.coins (Usenet), retrieved 03 Jan 2023:
glosses: Initialism of Indian Head cent.
give a tin shit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gives a tin shit
form: giving a tin shit
form: gave a tin shit
form: given a tin shit
Senses: examples: text: Mother of God, those two didn't give a tin shit about anything.
ref: 2016, Paul Ferrante, The Rovers, page 41:
glosses: Synonym of give a shit.
synonyms: word: give a shit
Marilys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name.
Old Sparky
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: […]and I think that, for most of those men, the truth of what was happening to them finally hit all the way home when their ankles were being clamped to the stout oak of “Old Sparky’s” legs.
ref: 1996, Stephen King, The Green Mile, page 3:
glosses: Nickname for an electric chair used for executions.
boatbound
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From boat + bound.
Senses: examples: text: But she also describes being boatbound the whole time as constraining: […]
ref: 2018, Susan Honeyman, Perils of Protection: Shipwrecks, Orphans, and Children's Rights:
glosses: Restricted to a boat, unable to leave it.
pimento cheese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pimento cheeses
Senses: synonyms: Carolina caviar
glosses: A spread or relish made with cheese, mayonnaise, and pimentos.
pimento cheeses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pimento cheese
pimento loaf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pimento loaves
Senses: glosses: Luncheon meat containing finely chopped beef and pork with chopped pickles and pimentos, formed into a loaf shape.
pimento loaves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pimento loaf
Gromov-Witten invariant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Gromov-Witten invariants
Etymology: Named after Mikhail Gromov and Edward Witten.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A rational number that, in certain situations, counts pseudoholomorphic curves meeting prescribed conditions in a given symplectic manifold. They have applications in string theory.
Gromov-Witten invariants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Gromov-Witten invariant
take a flying fuck at a rolling doughnut
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes a flying fuck at a rolling doughnut
form: taking a flying fuck at a rolling doughnut
form: took a flying fuck at a rolling doughnut
form: taken a flying fuck at a rolling doughnut
Senses: examples: text: You, Sparky, can take a flying fuck at a rolling doughnut.
ref: 2009, Mary Karr, Lit, HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 64:
glosses: Alternative spelling of take a flying fuck at a rolling donut.
take a flying fuck at a rolling donut
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes a flying fuck at a rolling donut
form: taking a flying fuck at a rolling donut
form: took a flying fuck at a rolling donut
form: taken a flying fuck at a rolling donut
form: take a flying fuck at a rolling doughnut
Senses: glosses: To go away; to scram; to fuck off.
bracelets of fortune
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: qualifier: palmistry
glosses: Lines going around the wrist, associated with Neptune.
Mother Thumb and her four daughters
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: The daughters represent the four fingers of the hand.
Senses: synonyms: Rosie Palmer and her five sisters
glosses: A man's hand, used for masturbation.
Rosie Palmer and her five sisters
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: A reference to the palm of the hand, and the thumb and four fingers.
Senses: synonyms: Mother Thumb and her four daughters
glosses: A man's hand, used for masturbation.
antipuncture
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + puncture.
Senses: examples: an antipuncture agent for tyres
glosses: Preventing puncture.
fourth cover
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fourth covers
Etymology: It sequentially follows the first three "covers": the front cover, inside front cover, and inside back cover.
Senses: examples: text: Advertisements on the fourth cover attract approximately 64% more readers.
ref: 1966, Daniel Starch, Measuring Advertising Readership and Results, page 52:
topics: advertising
business
marketing
coordinate_terms: third cover
glosses: The back cover of a publication.
fourth covers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fourth cover
third cover
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: third covers
Etymology: It sequentially follows the first two "covers" (the front cover and inside front cover) and precedes the back cover or fourth cover.
Senses: topics: advertising
business
marketing
coordinate_terms: fourth cover
glosses: The inside back cover of a publication.
third covers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of third cover
full-line forcing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: business
glosses: An anticompetitive practice in which the supplier of goods or services requires the purchaser to take on additional types of goods or services from the same supplier, and possibly to agree not to purchase from competitors.
lowside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lowsides
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of low side.
Related terms: Lowside Quarter
lowsides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lowside
Polloks
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Pollok
Massinghams
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Massingham
Pembers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Pember
Monpa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Monpas
form: Monpa
Senses: glosses: A member of an ethnic group inhabiting primarily Arunachal Pradesh in northeastern India, with a smaller number living in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China.
Monpa
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Monpa
form: most Monpa
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the Monpa people.
Metal Mike
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Metal Mikes
Senses: glosses: An autopilot system used on yachts.
Metal Mikes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Metal Mike
Glenarm
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Irish gleann arma.
Senses: glosses: A coastal village in County Antrim, Northern Ireland.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Sangamon County, Illinois, United States.
glosses: A community in the City of Kawartha Lakes, Ontario, Canada.
Denholms
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Denholm
monkey pole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monkey poles
Senses: glosses: A pole mounted on or near a bed to assist an elderly or disabled person in sitting up.
monkey poles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monkey pole
USB blocker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: USB blockers
Senses: glosses: Synonym of USB data blocker.
synonyms: word: USB data blocker
USB blockers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of USB blocker
biomimetism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: biomimetics
glosses: biomimicry
discoligamentous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or affecting the intervertebral discs and ligaments
negative cost
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: negative costs
Etymology: In reference to a film negative.
Senses: topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: The net expense to produce and shoot a film, excluding such expenditures as distribution and promotion.
negative costs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of negative cost
Lhoba
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Lhobas
form: Lhoba
Senses: glosses: A member of Sino-Tibetan-speaking tribespeople living in southeastern Tibet Autonomous Region of China.
Lhoba
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Lhoba
form: most Lhoba
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the Lhoba people.
lactochrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A form of riboflavin present in milk
Febreze
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Febrezes
form: Febrezing
form: Febrezed
form: Febrezed
Senses: examples: text: After their work spaces have been properly Febrezed, you'll soon be enjoying the fine stewardship of Kenny Herzog […]
ref: 2006, CMJ New Music Monthly:
text: […] after all, the company was building an entirely new category, something it would need to do many times in the future, from disposable diapers to Febrezing the sofa.
ref: 2014, Greg Thain, John Bradley, FMCG: The Power of Fast-Moving Consumer Goods, page 326:
glosses: To spray with Febreze, a household odour eliminator.
khair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: khairs
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi खैर (khair).
Senses: glosses: The tree Senegalia catechu from which cutch is obtained
black beauty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: black beauties
Senses: examples: text: ‘Got any more black beauties?’ asked Nigel, who never could separate his biphetamines from his common or garden amphetamines.
ref: 2020, Ben Aaronovitch, “A Dedicated Follower of Fashion”, in Tales from the Folly: A Rivers of London Short Story Collection, JABberwocky Literary Agency, Inc., pages 136-137:
glosses: Synonym of black bomber (“kind of amphetamine capsule”).
synonyms: word: black bomber
extra: kind of amphetamine capsule
black beauties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of black beauty
Black International
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Black International
Senses: glosses: The International Working People's Association.
neat as a button
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: qualifier: simile
glosses: Very neat.
cute as a bug in a rug
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: qualifier: simile
glosses: Very cute.
Related terms: snug as a bug in a rug
canvasy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more canvasy
form: most canvasy
Senses: examples: text: That canvasy slithering resumed. And suddenly Randy saw it on the water again, a great dark mole, now perhaps fifteen feet across.
ref: 1982, Stephen King, The Raft:
glosses: Alternative form of canvassy.
unfestooned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + festooned.
Senses: glosses: Not festooned.
unsupercilious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unsupercilious
form: most unsupercilious
Etymology: From un- + supercilious.
Senses: glosses: Not supercilious.
glazable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of glazeable.
glazeable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: glazable
Etymology: From glaze + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be glazed.
rubberizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rubberizers
Etymology: From rubberize + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who or that which rubberizes.
rubberizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rubberizer
VDT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: VDTs
Senses: examples: text: He got up, went around to the back of the VDT, and looked through the slots.
ref: 1983, Stephen King, Word Processor of the Gods:
text: Our fascination with the rational and calculated world of computer-generated interactions may be forcing us to adapt in ways detrimental to our health and personalities: eye strain and headaches from working too many hours in front of a VDT terminal;[…]
ref: 1984, Craig Brod, Technostress: the human cost of the computer revolution, Addison-Wesley, →ISBN, page 1:
glosses: Initialism of video display terminal.
VDTs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of VDT
Yussuf
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Yussufs
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic يُوسُف (yūsuf). This surname is mostly found in Somalia.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Arabic.
rug monkey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rug monkeys
Senses: synonyms: rugrat
glosses: A toddler, a young child.
rug monkeys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rug monkey
Yussufs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Yussuf
strike someone's fancy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: strikes someone's fancy
form: striking someone's fancy
form: struck someone's fancy
form: struck someone's fancy
Senses: examples: text: Some of the china ornaments in the gift shop struck my fancy.
synonyms: take someone's fancy
catch someone's fancy
glosses: To attract or appeal to someone.
Related terms: tickle someone's fancy
advance people
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of advance person
Upper Halliford
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village near Shepperton, Spelthorne borough, Surrey, England, originally in Middlesex (OS grid ref TQ0968).
Related terms: Lower Halliford
Belos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Belo
Axts
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Axt
boat truck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boat trucks
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
theater
glosses: A low wheeled platform used to move scenery.
boat trucks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boat truck
Beechler
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Beechlers
Etymology: Americanized form of German Büchler.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Blincoe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Blincoes
Etymology: Habitational surname from the village of Blencow, in Cumbria.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Blincoes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Blincoe
Beechlers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Beechler
St. Andre
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: St. Andres
Etymology: Borrowed from French St. André.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
bondwashing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: The fraudulent purchase and sale of bonds in a way that avoids interest payments and creates a tax advantage.