cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
in date
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: Check that your driving licence is still in date.
text: Is that tin of fruit still in date?
glosses: Not expired; still valid; still good to be used or eaten, according to a date-stamp.
Correale
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Correales
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Correale.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
tone indicator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tone indicators
Senses: examples: text: For one thing, it helps to shed light on the nature of the question mark and the exclamation point – the "tone indicators" – which I have not considered up to here.
ref: 1990, Geoffrey Nunberg, chapter 5, in The Linguistics of Punctuation, Cambridge University Press, page 65:
text: But what tone indicators lack in artfulness, they make up for in their bulletproof inability to be misinterpreted.
ref: 2020 December 9, Ezra Marcus, “Tone Is Hard to Grasp Online. Can Tone Indicators Help?”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 04 Jul 2021:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
synonyms: tone tag
mood indicator
glosses: A symbol conveying the tone or context of a message, often over the internet.
Fârdea
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Fârdea.
Senses: glosses: A village and commune of Timiș County, Romania.
Gruia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Gruia.
Senses: glosses: A village and commune of Mehedinți County, Romania.
zillas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zilla
zilladars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zilladar
super-Saharan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From super- + Saharan, by analogy with sub-Saharan.
Senses: examples: text: With the sole exception of North Africa, the fighting in the European theater did not spread beyond the geographical confines of Europe. But Britain in Palestine and Egypt, France in Syria, Lebanon and Algeria, and Italy in Tripoli all held territorial possessions in the Levant or in super-Saharan Africa, and the conflict between the Western Allies and the Axis eventually spilled over to all points from Morocco to the Nile.
ref: 2008, Norman Davies, Europe at War 1939-1945: No Simple Victory, →ISBN, page 16:
coordinate_terms: sub-Saharan
glosses: Of or pertaining to that part of Africa which lies north of the Sahara Desert.
fish scale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fish scales
Etymology: From the scales of fish, due to the silver colour and the thinness of the coin.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fishscale (“high-quality cocaine”).
glosses: An early 5 cent coin of Canada, an early Canadian nickel.
Ballycastle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Irish.
Senses: glosses: A village in County Mayo, Ireland (Irish grid ref G 1137).
glosses: A small coastal town in County Antrim, Northern Ireland (Irish grid ref D 1141).
free-er
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: In studying such a phase of humanity, we conclude with Pope, that / “Order is heaven’s first law; and this confest, / Some are, and must be, free-er than the rest, / More rich, more wise; but who infers from hence / That such are happier, shocks all common sense.”
ref: 1860, Cha[rle]s W. Thomas, “Madeira—Continued. […]”, in Adventures and Observations on the West Coast of Africa, and Its Islands. […], New York, N.Y.: Derby & Jackson, […], page 445:
text: Free is an absolute word, but perhaps we may be permitted to ascribe degrees or approximation and say that some people are free-er than others and some most fortunate ones whom we greatly envy are free-est of all. Who in your opinion is free, free-er, or free-est depends on your own interpretation and that depends on your background, beliefs, aspirations, and degree of tolerance.
ref: 1978, Unity, page 6, column 2:
text: It is an enormous step for a student fresh out of high school to come to the university because the university is so much “free-er” than high school, and it makes it even harder if the student is from a rural village.
ref: 1983, Theata, volume 11, page 149:
text: To be a monarch, as opposed to merely a rich, free, autonome required one to be free-er than those around one.
ref: 2013, Charles Stross, Neptune’s Brood: A Space Opera, New York, N.Y.: Ace Books, published 2014, →ISBN, page 242:
glosses: comparative form of free: more free
freeëst
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: […]the principle of local self-government and strong political action, engendered by the efforts of the Huguenots to protect their liberties, would most probably have made France one of the freeëst nations of the world, have saved it from all its ruinous Revolutions, and possibly have given a wholly different aspect to the face of southern Europe.
ref: 1853, Philip Edw[ard] Barnes, “Translator’s Preface”, in History of the Protestants of France, from the Commencement of the Reformation to the Present Time, London: George Routledge & Co., […], translation of [Histoire des Protestants de France: depuis l’origine de la Réformation jusqu’au temps présent] (second edition) by G[uillaume] de Félice, page vi:
text: That Ideal, as I conceive it, agrees with the Democratic in so far as it implies the greatest possible equalisation of external advantages, and hence freeëst possible scope for individual effort.
ref: 1876, John S[tuart] Stuart-Glennie, “The Battlefield of Armageddon”, in Pilgrim-Memories or Travel and Discussion in the Birth-Countries of Christianity with the Late Henry Thomas Buckle, 2nd edition, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., part IV (Palestine), section II, page 353:
text: I feared thou wouldst not long content thee away from thy native land, and it is right that thou shouldst return if inspiration comes to the freeëst under thine own skies;
ref: 1882, Mrs. Tom Kelly [i.e., May Kelly], “A Grim Maestro”, in Time and Chance: A Novel, volume III, London: Hurst and Blackett, […], book III (Love and Art), page 105:
text: It is known under the name of bimanual massage of the uterus , and is performed by the insertion of one hand into the vagina and its passage in the extended position and with the palmar surface directed forward, into the posterior fornix of the vagina, while the other hand is applied to the fundus externally and crowds the uterus down into the pelvis in order to permit the internal fingers to have the freeëst possible access to its posterior wall (Fig. 82).
ref: 1899, Edward Reynolds, “Pathology of Labor”, in Practical Midwifery: A Handbook of Treatment, pages 287–288:
text: […]correctly printed—the freeëst from mistakes.
ref: 1901, “Advertisement”, in W[illiam] E[rnest] Henley, editor, The Works of Shakespeare, Edinburgh: […] Grant Richards, […]:
text: Papinian, Ulpian, Scævola, here, unite / To assure the spirit severe of its prescriptive right / To freeëst choice, as fits intelligence, / Of Deity sired, and heired with conscience, reason, sense / Of citizenship on high, the heavenly state, / All conquering, freeing all; intangible, even, of fate.
ref: 1903, P[hilip] J[ames] Bailey, Festus: A Poem, London: Routledge, page 286:
glosses: superlative form of free: most free
Downhill
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A coastal village and beach (Downhill Strand) in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland.
glosses: A hamlet in St Eval parish, Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SW8669).
glosses: A northern suburb of Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England (OS grid ref NZ3559).
kujichagulia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌku.d͡ʒiˈt͡ʃɑ.ɡuˌli.ə/
Etymology: Borrowed from Swahili kujichagulia (“self-determination”).
Senses: examples: text: On Tuesday night at the Club Serene in Brooklyn, Mayor Koch proclaimed Kwanzaa Week in New York. Then he told the crowd of about 400 that he had practiced his Swahili in order to pronounce correctly such exotic-sounding words as kujichagulia (self-determination), ujamaa (cooperative economics) and imani (faith), the theme of Kwanzaa '83.
ref: 1983 December 30, Ron Alexander, “The Evening Hours”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 03 Jan 2022, page B7:
text: On the second day of Kwanzaa, we practice Kujichagulia, the principle of self-determination. This principle highlights for the NC State community what it means to define, name, create and speak for ourselves.
ref: 2020 November 5, North Carolina State University Calendar:
text: [Professor Macheo] Payne said. "It’s going to soil and spoil the kujichagulia of Juneteenth. ... It’s going to feel like it’s theirs, too."
ref: 2021 July 4, Justin Phillips, “Why I'm sitting out the Fourth of July”, in San Francisco Chronicle:
glosses: self-determination (in the context of African-American culture)
Hai-hsi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 海西 (Hǎixī) Wade–Giles romanization: Hai³-hsi¹.
Senses: examples: text: The article claimed that communes had been set up in Hai-hsi (West Chinghai), Hai-pei (North Chinghai), Huang-nan (South of Yellow River) and Hai-nan (South Chinghai) autonomous regions and in two counties each in Yushu and Kolo autonomous regions.
ref: 1960, Girilal Jain, “Tibetans Under Communism”, in Panchsheela and After: A Re-appraisal of Sino-Indian Relations in the Context of the Tibetan Insurrection, Asia Publishing House, →OCLC, page 76:
text: Now the Hai-hsi (West Tsinghai) Autonomous Region, the Hai-pei (North Tsinghai) Autonomous Region, and the Huang-nan (South of Yellow River) Autonomous Region have completely been communalized; 87% of the herdsmen in[…]
ref: 1968, Nai-min Ling, Tibet, 1950-1967, →OCLC, page 327:
text: Prior to the liberation, doctors and medicine were nonexistent in the immense grassy plains of Hai-hsi.[...]The medical personnel of the Hai-hsi disease control team of the Tsinghai Local Disease Control Institute and the autonomous chou public health epidemics control station launched the work of disease prevention and cure and survey along[...]
ref: 1974, Translations on People's Republic of China, Joint Publications Research Service, →OCLC, page 193:
glosses: Alternative form of Haixi.
Hai-men
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 海門 /海门 (Hǎimén) Wade–Giles romanization: Hai³-mên².
Senses: examples: text: Of a handful of sheng-yüan lists available, two are arranged according to local clans. The two localities in which these clans lived are T’ung-chou in southern Kiangsu and the neighboring Hai-men sub-county.
ref: 1964, Ping-ti Ho, The Ladder of Success in Imperial China, Science Editions, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 167:
text: He had heard rumors that certain Shanghai merchants were planning to establish their own mill either in Ch’ung-ming or Hai-men.
ref: 1965, Samuel C. Chu, Reformer in Modern China, Chang Chien, 1853-1926, Columbia University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 30:
text: The place where Golden Sand Beach was located, however, was changed from Shensi to Kiangsu, namely, Hai-men county (east of present-day Nan-tung), renowned for its wealth in salt and fish.
ref: 2001, Chün-fang Yü, “Feminine Forms of Kuan-yin in Late Imperial China”, in Kuan-yin: The Chinese Transformation of Avalokiteśvara, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 427:
glosses: Alternative form of Haimen.
wikipedia: Army Map Service
posterior naris
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: posterior nares
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Synonym of choana.
synonyms: word: choana
posterior nares
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of posterior naris
wizzo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wizzos
form: Wizzo
Etymology: From the colloquial pronunciation of WSO (“weapon systems officer”).
Senses: examples: text: These comments on the latest generation of High-Tech-Attack aircraft, the McDonnell Douglas F-15E Strike Eagle, come front Captain Mark 'Bones' Wetzel, a senior Wizzo and a Flight Commander with the 334FW, the 'Fighting Eagles', part of the recently formed 4th Wing at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base in North Carolina.
ref: 1993, Andy Evans, Backseat Flyers: Navigation and Weaponry in the Modern Airplane, London: Arms and Armour Press, →ISBN, page 72:
text: But his vision had been good enough for the Backseater role, the Navigator, EWO, or Wizzo. As an Electronics Warfare Officer or Weapons Systems Officer he could still fly Gets or heavies), whatever his role finally ended up being upon graduation.
ref: 2013, F. P. Dorchak, Ero: A Novel, Wailing Loon, →ISBN, page 6:
text: The pilot explained the function and purpose of the screens and monitors and impressive equipment that were the responsibility of weapons systems officers, or "wizzos," as they were called.
ref: 2013, David Lyons, Blood Game: A Jock Boucher Thriller, New York, N.Y. […]: Emily Bestler Books, →ISBN, page 8:
text: "I wont put anyone else at risk," Gardiner promised. "Besides, Ray's got the stick, I'm just sitting wizzo."
ref: 2018, S. E. Soldwedel, Disintegration, Oakland, C.A.: Inkshares, Inc., →ISBN, page 327:
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A weapon systems officer.
epizooic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From international scientific vocabulary, from New Latin, from epizoon + -ic = epi- + zoo- + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of epizoic.
the Lord's anointed
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of the Lord's Anointed.
come alive
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: comes alive
form: coming alive
form: came alive
form: come alive
Senses: examples: text: Southgate's faith was rewarded when Kane got off the mark with England's crucial second in the 2-0 win over Germany. It was the catalyst for the real Kane to come alive in the tournament - and he punished Ukraine in trademark style.
ref: 2021 July 3, Phil McNulty, “Ukraine 0-4 England”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: to become responsive and animated.
Trumpologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Trumpologist
Trumpologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɒlədʒɪst
Forms: form: Trumpologists
Etymology: From Trumpology + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Trumpologists will recall that Ivana first confronted Marla about her relationship with Donald on the slopes of Aspen.
ref: 1993 December 18, “Trump prepares to play wedding card”, in The Sacramento Bee, volume 274, Sacramento, Calif., page A2:
text: The big question this week among Trumpologists – practitioners of the new science of trying to decipher Donald Trump’s sequences of half-sentences that pass for speeches – is whether he has softened his rhetoric on immigration.
ref: 2016 August 31, Andrés Oppenheimer, “Donald Trump’s latest farce: ‘Humane’ mass deportations”, in The Fresno Bee, Fresno, Calif, page 2A:
text: When he fails to tweet for even a few hours, Trumpologists search for meaning in the silence.
ref: 2019 January 17, Ted Koppel, “Don’t expect Trump to go quietly”, in The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Wash., page 3:
glosses: One who studies Donald Trump.
reporting point
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reporting points
Senses: examples: text: SafeCampus, UW’s central reporting point for concerning behaviors that could indicate the potential for violence, including suicide.
ref: 2021, Season of discovery, University of Washington Human Resources, https://hr.uw.edu/
glosses: A hotline; somewhere to report something
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A geographical reference point used to report the location of an aircraft
reporting points
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reporting point
in the region of
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: examples: 17 September 1980, Geoffrey Howe, Letter regarding Welsh Language TV
If we had to deduct the full net cost of the Welsh language service from the levy on the ITV companies, this would be an unwelcome addition to the PSBR, which I understand your officials put at somewhere in the region of £10 million a year.
glosses: approximately equivalent to; around; close to (a determinate figure or vale)
Synonyms: in the neighbourhood of
Great Migration
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Great Migration
Senses: examples: text: The pull factors in the Great Migration included encouraging reports of good living conditions and jobs with good wages in the North and West.
ref: 2015, Sabina G. Arora, The Great Migration and the Harlem Renaissance, Encyclopaedia Britannica, →ISBN, page 10:
glosses: The movement of six million African Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest and West that occurred in the 20th century.
mini-skirt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mini-skirts
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of miniskirt.
mini-skirts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mini-skirt
Godsells
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Godsell
Lopezdiaz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Lopezdiazes
Etymology: From Lopez + Diaz.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish.
imprudency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: imprudencies
Etymology: From Latin imprūdēntia.
Senses: glosses: The fact or quality of being imprudent; rashness.
examples: text: [T]he rival and the admirer would certainly avoid amending imprudencies, by which they were both equally likely to profit.
ref: 1790, Amelia Opie, chapter 2, in Dangers of Coquetry, volume I:
text: I now most seriously do assure my Reader that she was entirely innocent; having never been guilty of anything more than Imprudencies into which she was betrayed by the openness of her Heart, her Youth, and her Education.
ref: 1791, Jane Austen, “History of England”, in Juvenilia:
glosses: An imprudent act.
imprudencies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of imprudency
Lopezdiazes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Lopezdiaz
Michelsens
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Michelsen
St Eval
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From an unknown saint, St Uvelus or Eval.
Senses: glosses: A hamlet and civil parish in north Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SW8868).
Leaming
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Leamings
Etymology: Variant of Leeming.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Leamings
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Leaming
Makkis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Makki
overcuttings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overcutting
Karnik
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Karniks
Etymology: Various origins:
* Borrowed from Marathi कर्णिक (karṇik). This surname is mostly found in Maharashtra.
* Borrowed from Czech Kárník.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Adâncata
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Adâncata.
Senses: glosses: A village in Goiești, Dolj County, Romania.
glosses: A commune of Ialomița County, Romania.
glosses: A village in Adâncata, Ialomița County, Romania.
glosses: A commune of Suceava County, Romania.
glosses: A village in Adâncata, Suceava County, Romania.
Alimpești
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Romanian Alimpești.
Senses: glosses: A commune of Gorj County, Romania.
glosses: A village in Alimpești, Gorj County, Romania.
Argetoaia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Romanian Argetoaia.
Senses: glosses: A commune of Dolj County, Romania.
glosses: A village in Argetoaia, Dolj County, Romania.
Gurka
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Gurkas
Etymology: * As a Ukrainian surname, borrowed from Ukrainian Гурка (Hurka); also [script needed] (Huriy), a borrowing from Hebrew גור (“(lion) cub”), sometimes also found in Carpathian Rusyn.
* As a Polish surname, variant of Polish Górka.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Băbana
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Romanian Băbana.
Senses: glosses: A commune of Argeș County, Romania.
glosses: A village in Băbana, Argeș County, Romania.
Băiașu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A river in Romania.
Băicoi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Băicoi.
Senses: glosses: A town in Prahova County, Romania.
Gurkas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Gurka
Karniks
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Karnik
Hălmăgel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Romanian Hălmăgel.
Senses: glosses: A village and commune of Arad County, Romania.
Pesceana
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Romanian Pesceana.
Senses: glosses: A commune of Vâlcea County, Romania.
glosses: A village in Pesceana, Vâlcea County, Romania.
Halasz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Halaszes
Etymology: Borrowed from Hungarian Halász.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Hungarian.
superbrilliance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superbrilliances
form: super brilliance
form: super-brilliance
Etymology: From super- + brilliance.
Senses: examples: text: Distinctly a recital work, this set of impressions, only to be considered symphonic in a very general way, the second movement charms by its free harmonic feeling, the last by its superbrilliance.
ref: 1934, Musical America 1934-12-25: Volume 54 Issue 20, Musical America Publications, page 24:
glosses: The quality of being superbrilliant.
Derived terms: superbrilliancy
Holecek
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Holeceks
Etymology: Borrowed from Czech Holeček.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Czech.
Holeceks
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Holecek
Halaszes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Halasz
Haian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 海安 (Hǎi'ān) Wade-Giles romanization: Hai³-an¹.
Senses: examples: text: The district of Haian includes some 60 to 70,000 people. The-place itself is not a walled city, but nevertheless a very busy town.
ref: 1933, “Rev. A. H. Smit's Field and Work”, in China Mission Field, Christian Reformed Church, page 17:
text: Workers iron shirts in an apparel factory in Haian city, in east China’s Jiangsu province, on August 27. While China has lost market share in some sectors such as apparel exports, it has still managed to contribute far more to overall export growth than any other economy.
ref: 2020 September 17, Yukon Huang, Jeremy Smith, “Why trade will continue to power China, even as it tries to look inward”, in South China Morning Post, sourced from AP, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 Sep 2020, Opinion:
text: A worker wearing a face mask works on a production line manufacturing glassware products at a factory in Haian, Jiangsu province, China February 29, 2020.
ref: 2021 August 15, Liangping Gao Gao, Gabriel Crossley, “China July industrial output up 6.4%, retail sales miss forecasts”, in Ana Nicolaci da Costa, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 16 Aug 2021, China:
glosses: Alternative form of Hai'an.
hyperactive battlefield
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyperactive battlefields
Senses: examples: text: The result is a ‘hyperactive’ battlefield where the “differences between strategic, operational, and tactical levels, as well as between offensive and defensive operations, are being erased,” and that can quickly overwhelm the capacity and will of any combatant.
ref: 2018 June 1, Stephen Marr, “Stability in Multi-Domain Battle”, in U.S. Army Peacekeeping and Stability Operations Institue: Defense Technical Information Center, page 6:
text: […] are shaping the future operational environment: increased competition across all five warfighting domains, an increasingly lethal and hyperactive battlefield, an operational environment that is volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous, and challenges to deterrence […]
ref: 2019, Justin R. Wegner, “49th Staff Judge Advocate Course Wrap-Up”, in Army Lawyer, number 4:
text: “The reason we say we need a joint concept more than ever is because the tempo of warfare, and the complexity of all the domains. Because all of these domains are controlled at different echelons or by different services, military forces must integrate all domains quickly to take advantage of opportunities on a very lethal, hyperactive battlefield."...Lt. Gen. Eric Wesley, deputy commanding general of U.S. Army Futures Command and director of the Futures and Concepts Center
ref: 2019 November 19, “The new era of high-power electromagnetic weapons”, in Military & Aerospace Electronics (article), retrieved 06 Jul 2021:
text: The Pentagon is kicking off a new series of joint war games and exercises this fall designed to figure out how to confront peer adversaries like China and Russia, as military leaders rush to come up with new ideas for how to fight through what one Army general describes as a “hyperactive” battlefield.
ref: 2019 September 4, “Major War Game to Jolt 4 Services, Force Decisions”, in Breaking Defense (article), retrieved 06 Jul 2021:
text: Future wars will likely be decided in the realm of “high-speed information-networking,” software upgrades that include artificial intelligence, long-range sensing, stealth, precision weapons and, perhaps most of all, sensor-to-shooter decision cycles. Army Futures Command Commander Gen. John Murray has often said that the future of warfare is expected to be what he called a “hyperactive battlefield.”
ref: 2021 July 4, “The National Interest: Future Wars Will Be Fought on the ‘Hyperactive Battlefield’”, in The National Interest (blog), retrieved 06 Jul 2021:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Warfare involving advanced technologies that expand military engagement beyond the physical battlefield, such as high-speed information technology, artificial intelligence, long-range sensors, stealth, precision-guided munitions and sensor-to-shooter systems.
Related terms: battleground
battlespace
superbrilliantly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more superbrilliantly
form: most superbrilliantly
Etymology: From superbrilliant + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a superbrilliant manner.
Hollings
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hollingses
Etymology: From Middle English holins, plural of holin (“holly”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Middle English.
Fenlon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Fenlons
form: Fenelon
Etymology: Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Fionnaláin (“descendant of Fionnalán”), a hypocoristic form of fionn (“fair, white”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish.
Fenlons
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Fenlon
Hollingses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Hollings
Hu-chou
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 湖州 (Húzhōu) Wade–Giles romanization: Hu²-chou¹.
Senses: examples: text: The female moth immediately begins laying her eggs, which are deposited either on sheets of paper or on cloth, according to local practice (in Chia-hsing and Hu-chou [both in the Lake T’ai region in Chekiang province] thick mulberry bark paper is used; this can be reused in the next year).[…]
Only the silk-moth [eggs] of Chia-hsing and Hu-chou prefectures are put through the bathing process. In Hu-chou the method consists of using either rain and snow water or lime [water], while in Chia-hsing brine is used.
ref: 1966 [1637], Sung Ying-Hsing, “Clothing materials”, in E-tu Zen Sun, Shiou-Chuan Sun, transl., Chinese Technology in the Seventeenth Century: T'ien-kung K'ai-wu, Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, published 1997, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 36:
text: Fish were produced in Hu-chou for sale at the Southern Sung capital.
ref: 1970 [1968], Shiba Yoshinobu, translated by Mark Elvin, Commerce and Society in Sung China, published 1992, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 102:
text: Another example was that of the magistrate of Ching-chiang hsien in Kiangsu, named Huang Shih-pen, a native of Ch'ien-t'ang in Hangchow prefecture, who also purchased mulberry saplings from Hu-chou and tried to teach the local people sericultural techniques from Chekiang.
ref: 1981, Lillian M. Li, “Bureaucratic Myths and Sericulture”, in China's Silk Trade: Traditional Industry in the Modern World 1842-1937, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 135:
text: Story: When Liu Yen-hui's father is prefect of Hu-chou 湖州 a turtle is found in a silver mine-pit and Presented to him with congratulations. But the father takes back the turtle and releases it. Years later, when Liu Yen-hui himself is on the way to his own post in Fang-chou 房州, the grateful turtle appears to assist his family trapped in a flood.
ref: 1995, Glen Dudbridge, Religious Experience and Lay Society in T'ang China: a reading of Tai Fu's Kuang-i chi, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 235:
glosses: Alternative form of Huzhou.
wikipedia: Encyclopædia Britannica
Fazal
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Fazals
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic فَضْل (faḍl, “grace, blessing”). This surname is mostly found in Afghanistan.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Arabic.
Ergle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ergles
Etymology: Variant of German Ergele.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Ergles
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Ergle
Fazals
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Fazal
McCole
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: McColes
Etymology: Variant of McCool.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish.
Plemmons
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Plemmonses
form: Plemons
Etymology: Altered form of Flemings.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Dingus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Dinguses
Etymology: Probably an Americanized spelling of German Dinges.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Magilligan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A peninsula in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland, at the entrance to Lough Foyle.
Dinguses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Dingus
Plemmonses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Plemmons
McColes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of McCole
Rostrevor
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village on Carlingford Lough, County Down, Northern Ireland (Irish grid ref J 1718).
glosses: A suburb of Adelaide in the City of Campbelltown and Adelaide Hills council area, South Australia.
quick release skewer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quick release skewers
Senses: glosses: A mechanism for attaching a wheel to a bicycle.
Greenore
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small town and port on Carlingford Lough, County Louth, Ireland (Irish grid ref J2210).
komboni
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kombonis
Etymology: Borrowed from Chichewa komboni, from English compound. Compare similar loanwords in other Bantu languages, e.g. Shona komboni.
Senses: glosses: A kind of shantytown in Zambia.
hangaround
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hangarounds
form: hang-around
Senses: glosses: A prospective or fringe member of the motorcycle gang Hells Angels
Related terms: patch in
hang-around
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hang-arounds
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hangaround.
maechi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈmeɪˌt͡ʃi/
Forms: form: maechis
form: mae chee
Etymology: From Thai แม่ชี.
Senses: glosses: A devout Buddhist laywoman in Thailand.
Portsalon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: PLACES OF SPECIAL INTEREST:-
[...]
DONEGAL, PORTSALON, etc.—The land of Tyrconnell, rich in romance and legend.
ref: 1940 May, Railway Magazine, page ix, advertisement:
glosses: A coastal townland in County Donegal, Ireland.
Adunații-Copăceni
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Adunații-Copăceni.
Senses: glosses: A village and commune of Giurgiu County, Romania.
Apostolache
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Apostolache.
Senses: glosses: A village and commune of Prahova County, Romania.
Bahna
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Romanian Bahna.
Senses: glosses: A village in Pârgărești, Bacău County, Romania.
glosses: A village in Ilovița, Mehedinți County, Romania.
glosses: A commune of Neamț County, Romania.
glosses: A village in Bahna, Neamț County, Romania.
Bengești-Ciocadia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Bengești-Ciocadia.
Senses: glosses: A commune of Gorj County, Romania.
confluence of sinuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: confluences of sinuses
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: torcular Herophili
glosses: The junction of several of the sinuses of the dura mater in the internal occipital region.
Ceru-Băcăinți
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Romanian Ceru-Băcăinți.
Senses: glosses: A commune of Alba County, Romania.
glosses: A village in Ceru-Băcăinți, Alba County, Romania.
Ciclova Română
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Ciclova Română.
Senses: glosses: A commune and village in Caraș-Severin County, Romania.
Rosapenna
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: PLACES OF SPECIAL INTEREST:-
[...]
ROSAPENNA (for Sheephaven)—On Sheephaven Bay, Donegal Highlands. Wild natural scenery. Tours.
ref: 1940 May, Railway Magazine, page ix, advertisement:
glosses: A townland in County Donegal, Ireland.
Glodeanu Sărat
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Glodeanu Sărat.
Senses: glosses: A commune and village in Buzău County, Romania.
Glodeanu-Siliștea
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Romanian Glodeanu-Siliștea.
Senses: glosses: A commune of Buzău County, Romania.
glosses: A village in Glodeanu-Siliștea, Buzău County, Romania.
Gornet-Cricov
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Romanian Gornet-Cricov.
Senses: glosses: A commune of Prahova County, Romania.
glosses: A village in Gornet-Cricov, Prahova County, Romania.
Gura Caliței
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Romanian Gura Caliței.
Senses: glosses: A commune of Vrancea County, Romania.
glosses: A village in Gura Caliței, Vrancea County, Romania.
Recea-Cristur
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Romanian Recea-Cristur.
Senses: glosses: A commune and village in Romania.
Bays
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bayses
Etymology: From Bay + -s.
* (surname "Bays"): Patronymic from Bay.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Bays
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Bay + -s.
* (surname "Bays"): Patronymic from Bay.
Senses: glosses: plural of Bay
Timoleague
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A coastal village in County Cork, Ireland.
Skibbereen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Irish Sciobairín.
Senses: glosses: A town in County Cork, Ireland.
U2F
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: qualifier: computer security
glosses: Initialism of Universal 2nd Factor, a standard to strengthen and simplify two-factor authentication (2FA).
Related terms: 2FA
Ballydehob
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in west County Cork, Ireland.
stretchologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stretchologists
Senses: glosses: A physiotherapist who specialises in stretching exercises
tweakment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tweakments
Etymology: Blend of tweak + treatment.
Senses: examples: text: With current beauty standards shaped by Ozempic, online image filters and artificial intelligence, and where “tweakments” including Botox and filler are increasingly the norm, those who can afford it are now going ever greater lengths to harness a perfected aesthetic (in their eyes).
ref: 2025 August 16, Emma Jacobs, “Would you pay $200,000 to look half your age?”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 5:
glosses: A minor cosmetic treatment.
tweakments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tweakment
verbascums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of verbascum
Tullow
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A market town in County Carlow, Ireland.
torcular Herophili
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌtɔɹ.kjəl.ɚ hɪˈɹɑf.əˌlaɪ/
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Latin torcular Hērophilī (“Herophilos' winepress”), named after Greek physician Herophilos, while torcular was the Latin calque of Ancient Greek ληνός (lēnós, “anything shaped like a tub or trough; wine vat”), originally described by Herophilos.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Synonym of confluence of sinuses.
synonyms: word: confluence of sinuses
wikipedia: Herophilos
Finaghy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb and electoral ward in south-west Belfast, County Antrim, Northern Ireland.
Ying-k'ou
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: yǐngʹkouʹ
yǐngʹ-kōʹ
Etymology: From Mandarin 營口 /营口 (Yíngkǒu), Wade–Giles romanization: Ying²-kʻou³.
Senses: examples: text: Chang Kia-ngau learns that Soviet troops have confiscated all documents belonging to the Kuomintang (KMT) party branch headquarters in Ch’ang-ch’un and have terminated that unit's activities. Soviet officials then complain to the ROC delegation that anti-Soviet activities flourish throughout Manchuria’s large cities. Meanwhile, with U.S. assistance, Nationalist troops plan to land at Ying-k'ou.
ref: 1989, Dolores Zen, transl., Last Chance in Manchuria, Hoover Institution Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 71:
text: For the Japanese, continued Russian control of Ying-k’ou was not simply a legal matter. Since Ying-k’ou was the major port of entry for Japanese goods into Manchuria, the Russian occupation threatened to undermine Japanese commercial interests.
ref: 1996, S. C. M. Paine, “Over-Extension: The Boxer Uprising and the Russian Invasion”, in Imperial Rivals: China, Russia, and Their Disputed Frontier, M. E. Sharpe, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 212:
text: The Russians had promised to withdraw in three stages. One stage had been completed, and the railway between Shan-hai-kwan and Ying-k’ou (Newchang) had been returned, but all this meant was that the Russians had moved their troops from Liao-hsi, a region where they had few interests, to their major base at Liaotung.
ref: 2002, Donald Keene, Emperor of Japan: Meiji and His World, 1852-1912, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 588:
glosses: Alternative form of Yingkou.
wikipedia: Encyclopædia Britannica
Yinchwan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: yǐnʹchwänʹ
Etymology: From the Postal Romanization of Mandarin 銀川 /银川 (Yínchuān).
Senses: examples: text: Think of the nights he must have prayed at his kitchen shrine for the success of his marvelous vision and invention—and now here he is tooling along through the streets of maybe Yinchwan with bikes everywhere, elegant, metal goddamned bikes with rubber tires and complex sprockets and chains, and all the people laughing at what a funny thing he’s riding on. People laughing to beat the hinges off of hell because he’s riding something those Yinchwanians wouldn’t even go so far as to call a bicycle . . .
ref: 1971, James Whitehead, Joiner (Fiction), New York: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 252:
text: In the neighbouring Yinchwan region of Ningsia Autonomous Region, which is known as the ‘silvery land’ on account of the alkali salts which form a glittering layer, 15 afforestation centres have been opened and considerable progress made, particularly in the towns, where streets are now tree-lined with aspen, weeping willow and Chinese wax trees, and in the irrigated areas, where spruce, golden larch, fast-growing oleaster, elms and poplars are grown.
ref: 1980, T.R. Tregear, China: A Geographical Survey, Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 128:
text: It happened in the capital city of Yinchwan [yinʹshwaänʹ] about two hundred years ago.
ref: 1991, Howard Lauther, Lauther's Complete Punctuation Thesaurus Of The English Language, Boston: Branden Publishing Company, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 7:
text: From Jiayuguan the Wall followed the previous fortification southeast towards Lanchow, then northeast to Yinchwan, and zig-zagged southeast to meet the line of the oldest Qin frontier boundary near Tingpien.
ref: 2006, Martin Brice, A Chronicle History of Forts and Fortresses, Singapore: Barnes & Noble, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 19:
glosses: Alternative form of Yinchuan.
wikipedia: Frederick A. Praeger
overmasterful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈəʊvəˈmæstɚfəl/
Forms: form: more overmasterful
form: most overmasterful
form: over-masterful
Etymology: From over- + masterful.
Senses: examples: text: The simple truth is that in the dreadful muddle of the French military interests, the German strategy was daringly overmasterful.
ref: 1883, The Fortnightly Review 1883-11-01: Volume 34, Issue 203, Contemporary Review Company, page 663:
text: It was evident that his astonishment was great. He was a portly man, and tall, about forty years old, and, after his fashion, handsome. He had well-formed features and a mobile smile; but his face was masterful — overmasterful, some thought; and his eyes were hard, when a sly look did not soften, without much improving, their expression.
ref: 1905, Stanley John Weyman, Starvecrow Farm, Longmans, Green, and Company, page 61:
text: This is a reason why he may seem sometimes intolerant or overmasterful.
ref: 1910, Brander Matthews, The Development of the Drama, Charles Scribner's Sons, page 31:
text: The cold, frosty fact, seemingly not imderstood by most men, is that erratic, excitable or overmasterful women are suffering from some defect of organism, and that the women to whom the woman's programme doesn't appeal, simply have not the blood and nerve to enjoy it.
ref: 1913, Mary Eleanor Gawthorpe, Votes for Men, Duffield, pages 14–15:
text: And when the bricks cease to satisfy his creative instincts — wood, hammer and nails; clay, pencil, brush and paper, are given, is good; we try to satisfy him; and both desire and capacity grow through use. But the lad is overmasterful.
ref: 1920, Edith E. Read Mumford, The Dawn of Character, page 98:
glosses: Overly masterful; having excessive mastery.
Cahersiveen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in County Kerry, Ireland (Irish grid ref V 4779).
Bayses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Bays
Looneys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Looney
Chang-hwa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: chängʹhwäʹ
Senses: examples: text: Consternation and despair seized the district, and great numbers of sectaries and their families flocked together for the defence of their hearths and homes. Ch'ai Ta-ki abandoned Chang-hwa, and retired into T'ai-wan 臺灣, the chief city of the island.
ref: 1904, J. J. M. DeGroot, Sectarianism and Religious Persecution in China, volume II, Amsterdam: Johannes Müller, page 343:
glosses: Alternative form of Changhua.
Surdila-Greci
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Surdila-Greci.
Senses: glosses: A village and commune of Brăila County, Romania.
Stillorgan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Dublin, Ireland.
Tăuții-Măgherăuș
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Romanian Tăuții-Măgherăuș.
Senses: glosses: A village and commune of Maramureș County, Romania.
superbrilliances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superbrilliance
Ardnacrusha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Irish ard na croise.
Senses: glosses: A village and hydroelectric power station in County Clare, Ireland.
Dunmanway
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Irish Dún Mánmhaí, Dúnmaonmhuí.
Senses: glosses: A market town in County Cork, Ireland.
Changkiakow
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: jängʹjyäʹkōʹ
note: hyperforeign
enpr: chängʹjē-äʹkouʹ
Senses: examples: text: In December 1948, the 4th Route Army launched a final offensive on a 400-kilometre front extending from Tangku to Changkiakow.
ref: 1977 [1975], O. Borisov, translated by David Fidlon, The Soviet Union and the Manchurian Revolutionary Base (1945-1949), Moscow, USSR: Progress Publishers, →OCLC, →OL, page 176:
glosses: Alternative form of Zhangjiakou.
biddance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biddances
Etymology: From bid + -ance.
Senses: examples: text: July 25 1801, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, letter to Robert Southey
But verily, dear Southey! it will not suit you to be under any man's control, or biddances.
glosses: Synonym of bidding.
synonyms: word: bidding
glosses: Synonym of invitation.
synonyms: word: invitation
biddances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biddance
Chankiang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: jänʹjyängʹ
note: hyperforeign
enpr: chänʹjē-ängʹ
Senses: examples: text: The coastline of the Leichow Peninsula is not as winding as the other two peninsulas and there are not as many good harbors. But Leichow Bay (Kwangchow Bay) on the eastern coast provides favorable conditions for harbors. After liberation the port of Chankiang was built to accommodate 10,000-ton ships.
ref: 1974 April, Lan-Sheng Chang, Chao Chi, “Three Big Peninsulas”, in China Reconstructs, volume XXIII, number 4, Peking: China Welfare Institute, →OCLC, page 48:
glosses: Alternative form of Zhanjiang.
Changteh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: chängʹdǔʹ
Etymology: From the Postal Romanization of Mandarin 常德 (Chángdé).
Senses: examples: text: Changteh, in northern Hunan Province, was captured from the Japanese on Dec. 9, in the winter campaign of 1943, after some of the bloodiest fighting of the entire Sino-Japanese war.
ref: 1960, “Stepping-stones to Japan”, in The Picture History of World War II 1939-1945, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC, page 214:
text: He had returned to China in 1943, this time as an army intelligence officer, in which capacity Chennault had quickly dispatched him to help call in air strikes on enemy positions. However, Japanese forces were closing in on the area in which he was based, in a town called Changteh, and Frillmann was forced to flee on foot.
ref: 2018, Sam Kleiner, “Epilogue”, in The Flying Tigers: The Untold Story of the American Pilots who Waged a Secret War against Japan, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 232:
glosses: Alternative form of Changde.
Cape Clear Island
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Irish Cléire.
Senses: glosses: An island off the south coast of County Cork, the southernmost inhabited island in Ireland.
vierlings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vierling
Birda
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Birda.
Senses: glosses: A village and commune of Timiș County, Romania.
Bocsig
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Bocsig.
Senses: glosses: A commune and village in Arad County, Romania.