cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Fushan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: fo͞oʹshänʹ
rhymes: -æn
Etymology: From Mandarin 浮山 (Fúshān).
Senses: examples: text: Another example is Fushan County, 40 kilometers east of Linfen City, where cave dwellings predominate. The 120,000 people of the county are involved in the production of iron ore, coal, wine, and silk.
ref: 1990, Gideon S. Golany, Design and Thermal Performance: Below-ground Dwellings in China, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 80:
text: From Jiamusi I took a local train to Fushan County, and for two hours I sat among Chinese passengers, some of whom looked like peasants.
ref: 2015, Ha Jin, A Map of Betrayal, Thorndike, Maine: Center Point Large Print, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 96:
glosses: A county of Linfen, Shanxi, China.
Quwo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: chüʹwôʹ
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 曲沃 (Qūwò).
Senses: examples: text: It was a whole day's journey from I-ch'eng to Chü-wo which, in turn, is about 60 li east of Chiang Chou — one of the most important cities in southern Shansi and a center for curio-dealers. At this city, the Fêng River turns westward. While we were in Chü-wo, we decided to pay a visit to Chiang Chou to have a look at the various curio ships in that city.[...]Having gone to Chiang Chou from Chü-wo by the northern route through Hou-ma, we returned over a bypath through mountains in the south which has been gradually elevated from the Fêng River valley by loess deposit.[...]After we returned to Chü-wo, our next trip was to dash across Chung-t'iao-shan.
ref: [1927, Chi Li, “Archaeological Survey of the Fêng River Valley, Southern Shansi, China”, in Explorations and Field-work of the Smithsonian Institution in 1926 (Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections), volume 78, number 7, Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, →OCLC, pages 129–130:
text: The site producing the paleolithic stone artifacts at Xigou, Licun Village, Quwo County, Shanxi Province was discovered and trial-excavated in 1956.
ref: 1980, Atlas of Primitive Man in China, Beijing: Science Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 81:
text: In 1979, while we were conducting our archaeological work in Yucheng and Quwo, Shanxi province, I noticed another historical record in the Kuodizhi (a comprehensive account of geography written in 641), which stated that "the ancient city of Tang was 20 li west of Yuchengxian in Jiangzhou."
ref: 1999 [1994], 邹衡 [Zou Heng], “The Early Jin State Capital Discovered: a Personal Account”, in Roderick Whitfield, Wang Tao, transl., Exploring China's Past: New Discoveries and Studies in Archaeology and Art, Saffron Books, Eastern Art Publishing, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 106:
english: Zou Heng
translation: Zou Heng
text: More than 100 pastors, co-workers and representatives of believers of the Christian Church in Quwo County gathered to bid farewell to the female believer Liu Chang’e who was born on April 17, 1926 in Shizidao Village, Xiangyuan County, Shanxi Province and was called to heaven at 9:35 a.m. on June 9, 2022, at the age of 97.
ref: 2022 June 22, Zhang Xiaohua, “Believers Bid Farewell to 97-Y-O Christian Who Was Spiritual Mother of Many”, in China Christian Daily, archived from the original on 19 Jul 2022:
glosses: A county of Linfen, Shanxi, China.
justifiable homicides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of justifiable homicide
gotten away with murder
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of get away with murder
gets away with murder
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of get away with murder
getting away with murder
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of get away with murder
got away with murder
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of get away with murder
glosses: past participle of get away with murder
Xiangfen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: shyängʹfǔnʹ
Forms: form: Hsiangfen
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 襄汾 (Xiāngfén).
Senses: examples: text: Except for small-scale diggings at the old sites at Choukoutien starting in 1949,² significant field work in Palaeolithic archaeology in North China was not resumed until May 1953, when a new locality was discovered near Ting Ts’un, in Hsiang-fen Hsien, in the Fen River valley of Southern Shansi.
ref: [1960 [1958 Winter], Kwang-chih Chang, “New Light on Early Man in China”, in Hallam L. Movius, Jr., Wilhelm G. Solheim II, editors, Asian Perspectives, volume II, number 2, Hong Kong University Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 41:
text: Three human teeth also came to light in 1954 at Locality 100 of Ting-ts’un, in Hsiang-fen Hsien, southern Shansi.
ref: [1976, Kwang-chih Chang, “Palaeolithic and Mesolithic Foundations”, in The Archaeology of Ancient China, Yale University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, pages 56–57:
text: The fossils of the Dingcun hominid were found in 1954 in the sandy gravel beds at Locality 54.100 near Dingcun Village, Xiangfen County, Shanxi.
ref: 1985, Wu Rukang, Lin Shenglong, “Chinese Palaeoanthropology: Retrospect and Prospect”, in Palaeoanthropology and Palaeolithic Archaeology in the People's Republic of China, Academic Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 7:
text: The landslide that plowed into buildings Monday in a valley in Shanxi Province's Xiangfen County also injured 35 others and trapped an unknown number of people under the rubble, local officials said.[…]
"There were survivors on the first day and on the second day, but from day three, it's very likely that anyone we find in the future will be dead already," said a woman named Dong who heads the public relations department of Xiangfen County.
ref: 2008 September 10, “Rescue hopes fade after landslide in China kills dozens”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 Dec 2023, Asia Pacific:
glosses: A county of Linfen, Shanxi, China.
Yaodu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: youʹdo͞oʹ
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 堯都 /尧都.
Senses: examples: text: In Beilu Village of Liucun Town in Yaodu District, Linfen, abnormal illnesses continued to emerge, as a result of clusters of highly-polluting enterprises mushrooming in the vicinity.
ref: 2009, Zhang Yulin, “China's War on its Environment and Farmers' Rights: A Study of Shanxi Province”, in Confronting Discrimination and Inequality in China: Chinese and Canadian Perspectives, University of Ottawa Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 166:
text: On November 25, the Yaodu District Court convicted Yang and her husband of “illegal occupation of farmland” and “gathering a mob to create a traffic disturbance.”
ref: 2014 February 11, “Pastor Yang Rongli”, in THE WORLDWIDE PERSECUTION OF CHRISTIANS, United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs, page 55:
text: Zhe Jiang Dong Ri Ltd Co
* Says it signs agreement on international agricultural products logistics park project with local government of Yaodu District, Linfen City and a Zhejiang-based firm
ref: 2018 January 3, “Zhe Jiang Dong Ri signs agreement on international agricultural products logistics park project”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 30 Aug 2024, Markets:
text: On May 13, the day before Mother's Day, believers from urban and pastoral areas celebrated the formation of the women’s fellowship at Yaodu District Church in Linfen City.
ref: 2023 May 18, Zhang Xiaohua, “Shanxi Church Establishes Women's Fellowship”, in China Christian Daily, archived from the original on 21 May 2023:
glosses: A district of Linfen, Shanxi, China.
Hongtong
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɒŋˈtɒŋ/
ipa: /hʊŋˈtʊŋ/
enpr: ho͝ongʹto͝ongʹ
Forms: form: Hung-t'ung
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 洪洞 (Hóngtóng).
Senses: examples: text: The Wang Family Register now records the names of eighteen generations of the descendants of Wang Erlao, our founding ancestor. Wang Erlao came to this area from Hongtong County in Shanxi Province several hundred years ago.
ref: 1996, Peter J. Seybolt, “Houhua Village Under New Leadership, 1984-1990”, in Throwing the Emperor from His Horse: Portrait of a Village Leader in China, 1923-1995, Westview Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 115:
text: Hongtong County's welfare entrepreneurs
Hongtong County, located within Linfen City, is part of one of the most economically dynamic prefectures in Shanxi Province and presents some good examples of emergent welfare entrepreneurialism.
ref: 2008, David S. G. Goodman, editor, The New Rich in China: Future Rulers, Present Lives, Routledge, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 106:
text: Yao and Shun's Stories in Hongtong
County, Shanxi Province
Shanxi, one of China's northern provinces, is renowned for its long history, old temples, and rich coal resources. Hongtong is a county in the prefecture-level city of Linfen, in the southwestern part of the province. Currently, Hongtong is the most populated county in the city of Linfen, occupying an area of 1,563 square kilometers, with a population of 733,421 in 2010.² It has nine towns (zhen 镇) and seven townships (xiang 乡), including 463 villagers' committees that govern 902 natural villages (Zhang and Wang et al. 2005). Hongtong is well-known for its former status as an immigration transfer center during the Ming dynasty.
ref: 2019, Lijun Zhang, Ziying You, editors, Chinese Folklore Studies Today: Discourse and Practice, Indiana University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 126:
glosses: A county of Linfen, Shanxi, China.
wikipedia: National Imagery and Mapping Agency
Huozhou
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 霍州 (Huòzhōu).
Senses: examples: text: Braving the snow, Xi on Wednesday went to Fengnanyuan Village of Huozhou City, where he visited people affected by the flooding last year that disrupted the lives of 1.76 million residents in Shanxi.
ref: 2022 January 27, “CGTN: Celebrating Lunar New Year, China embarks on new journey”, in CGTN via PR Newswire via AP News, archived from the original on 28 Jan 2022:
text: In Huozhou city in the northern province of Shanxi, some low-lying houses faced stagnant water breaches, as floods from heavy rain trapped some residents in their buildings, the broadcaster said.
ref: 2023 August 12, Engen Tham, “Floods, mudslides kill two in northwestern China city”, in Miral Fahmy, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 14 Aug 2023, China:
glosses: A county-level city of Linfen, Shanxi, China.
Fenxi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: fǔnʹshēʹ
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 汾西.
Senses: examples: text: In Linfen Special District, farming preparations have been made centering on agricultural and water conservancy capital construction. In Fenhsi County, 607 new water sources have been discovered, together with 860 small streams and ponds.
ref: [1971 February 18 [1971 February 15], “Shansi Irrigation Construction”, in Daily Report: Communist China, volume I, number 33, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Taiyuan Shansi Provincial, translation of original in Mandarin, →OCLC, Communist China: North Region, page F 3:
text: My grandmother did not hear from her beloved daughters again for a long time. Their communications stopped when the Japanese attacked Zhaocheng in April 1938 and their formation had to retreat to Fenxi county, in the Lüliang mountains.
ref: 2000, Aiping Mu, Vermilion Gate, Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 81:
text: Fenxi County, located in the north of Pingyang prefecture in the mountainous region to the west of the Fen River, suffered even greater losses from the famine. Fenxi was a poor county, indicated not least by the poor quality of its gazetteer.
ref: 2009, Andrea Janku, “"Heaven-Sent Disasters" in Late Imperial China: The Scope of the State and Beyond”, in Christof Mauch, Christian Pfister, editors, Natural Disasters, Cultural Responses: Case Studies Toward a Global Environmental History, Lexington Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 245:
text: Police in the city of Linfen in northern Shanxi province have identified the boy’s aunt Zhang Huiying as a suspect because the boy’s blood was found on her clothes, the official Xinhua News Agency said.[…]
One of the case investigators reached by phone, a police officer in Fenxi county surnamed Liu, referred only to the Xinhua report and refused to answer further questions, saying he was not authorized to speak to the media. Calls to the city and county’s police bureaus’ propaganda departments rang unanswered.
ref: 2013 September 4, Gillian Wong, “China police say aunt likely gouged out boy’s eyes”, in AP News, archived from the original on 02 Jun 2022:
glosses: A county of Linfen, Shanxi, China.
Yonghe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: yo͝ongʹhǔʹ
Forms: form: Yungho
Etymology: From Mandarin 永和 (Yǒnghé).
Senses: glosses: a Chinese imperial era name (various era names: 136–141; 345–356; 416–417; 433–439; 935–936; 1375–1379; 1721)
examples: text: The first exhibition of 320 Vodou objects from Haiti opens in Taiwan and will run through June 16 at the Museum of World Religions in Yonghe, New Taipei City.
ref: 2015 April 12, Carlson Wong, “Haitian Vodou exhibition opens in Taiwan”, in Radio Taiwan International, archived from the original on 14 May 2023:
text: In New Taipei's Yonghe District, a woman in her 60s (case No. 23,076) developed a fever on March 27 and was diagnosed after seeking medical attention.
ref: 2022 March 29, Keoni Everington, “Multiple unrelated COVID cases across Taiwan 'warning sign': Chen”, in Taiwan News, archived from the original on 29 Mar 2022:
glosses: A district of New Taipei City, Taiwan.
examples: text: After more than a week they arrived in Yonghe county in west Shanxi, where they faced the Yellow River once again.
ref: 2000, Aiping Mu, “Along the Yellow River towards the Loess Highlands: My Mother's Story (1934–1938)”, in Vermilion Gate, Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 86:
glosses: A county of Linfen, Shanxi, China.
Daning
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɑˈnɪŋ/
enpr: däʹnǐngʹ
Forms: form: Ta-ning
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 大寧 /大宁.
Senses: examples: text: As in the whole country, cadres and poor and lower-middle peasants in our Taning County, inspired by the spirit of the National Conference on Learning From Tachai in Agriculture, were greatly stimulated and high in spirits and resolved to fight hard in the movement of learning from Tachai in agriculture and building Tachai-type counties everywhere.
In the face of the excellent situation, the anti-party clique of the "gang of four,"--Wang, Chang, Chiang and Yao--stepped up their antiparty activities and strengthend their attacks on the party.[…]
Under the influence of their incorrect line, some cadres in our Taning County had the feeling of "It is safe to grasp revolution, it is dangerous to grasp production," with the result that class enemies seized the chance to make trouble, capitalism and anarchism ran rampant, production on some communes and brigades developed slowly and little transformation occurred.
ref: [1976 November 5 [1976 November 2], “The 'Gang of Four' Sabotaged the Campaign to Learn From Tachai in Agriculture in a Vain Attempt to Restore Capitalism”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 215, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Taiyuan Shansi Provincial Service, translation of original by Taning County CCP Committee (in Mandarin), →ISSN, →OCLC, page K 4:
text: Recently published inscriptions about earthquakes in Shanxi provide the statistical information, which proves reliable when we compare the different records.[…]An inscription from Daning county describes a similar toll: 175,800 people in Pingyang circuit died.
ref: 2018, Jinping Wang, “Clergy, Irrigation Associations, and the Rural Socioeconomic Order”, in In the Wake of the Mongols, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 166:
glosses: A county of Linfen, Shanxi, China.
Xiangning
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: shyängʹnǐngʹ
rhymes: -ɪŋ
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 鄉寧 /乡宁.
Senses: examples: text: 3. The masses are fully determined and full of vigor. For instance, 87 percent of Hsiangning County's labor force is engaged in farmland capital construction.
ref: [1974 December 13 [1974 November 23], “Shansi Province Presses Farmland Capital Construction”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 241, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Taiyuan Shansi Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →ISSN, →OCLC, page K 3:
text: This newly discovered oil producing tree is distributed in natural secondary forests in Hsiang-ning County of the southern end of Lu-liang-shan Mountains and I-ch'eng County of the northern part of Chung-t'iao-shan Mountains in Shansi Province.
ref: [1978 July 21, People's Republic of China Scientific Abstracts, number 194, United States Joint Publications Research Service, →OCLC, page 32:
text: The founder of the sunrame^([sic – meaning surname]) E was the Marquise of E (E hou 鄂侯) originally from the State of Chin 晉. E was later adopted as a common surname by his descendants and the family settled in Hsiang-ning hsien 鄉寧縣, Shan-hsi 山西 province.
ref: [2000, Sheau-yueh J. Chao (趙賀筱岳), “Genealogy of Chinese Surnames”, in 尋根溯源中國人的姓氏 [In Search of Your Asian Roots: Genealogical Research on Chinese Surnames], Clearfield Company, Inc., →ISBN, →OCLC, page 55:
english: In Search of Your Asian Roots: Genealogical Research on Chinese Surnames
translation: In Search of Your Asian Roots: Genealogical Research on Chinese Surnames
text: The landslide hit Xiangning county in Shanxi province early Friday evening, provincial authorities said. Two residential buildings, home to a total of 14 households, and a public bathhouse collapsed under the weight of the falling earth.
ref: 2019 March 16, “North China landslide knocks over homes, killing 7”, in AP News, archived from the original on 26 Jun 2023:
glosses: A county of Linfen, Shanxi, China.
medical conditions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of medical condition
medical condition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: medical conditions
Senses: examples: text: The value of having in-house medical expertise is that staff with poor attendance records who have difficulty accessing NHS services can receive support from their employer, to help reduce absenteeism brought about by medical conditions.
ref: 2023 December 13, 'Industry Insider', “Delivering a robust timetable”, in RAIL, number 998, page 68:
glosses: An illness, disease, trauma, disability, malfunction or some other medically measurable disorder of any kind.
unremastered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + remastered.
Senses: glosses: Not remastered.
unriffled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + riffled.
Senses: glosses: Not riffled.
Jory
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A male given name.
not worth salt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: synonyms: word: for the birds
word: good-for-naught
word: good-for-nothing
word: not worth a damn
word: not worth a dime
word: not worth a plug nickel
word: not worth a brass farthing
word: not worth a cent
word: not worth a cress
word: not worth a curse
word: not worth a Continental
word: not worth a farthing
word: not worth a nickel
word: not worth a penny
word: not worth salt
word: not worth a whistle
word: of no value
word: otiose
word: valueless
word: null
word: worthless
word: worth nothing
word: wutless
glosses: Worthless.
Related terms: worth one's salt
petrodiesels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of petrodiesel
dunelet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dunelets
Etymology: From dune + -let.
Senses: glosses: A little dune.
dunelets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dunelet
Macks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mack
fanlighted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From fanlight + -ed.
Senses: synonyms: fanlit
glosses: Having a fanlight.
unknurled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + knurled.
Senses: glosses: Not knurled.
unjunked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + junked.
Senses: glosses: Not junked.
unjunked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From unjunk + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unjunk
purpley
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more purpley
form: most purpley
Senses: examples: 1970-1975, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
Bridget had her baby yesterday. We saw him when he was bout 20 mins old—what a wrinkly purpley blobby guy—big huge eyes looking, a little dark bloody hair & a real mean expression like "I'm gonna get you guys fer dis!"
glosses: Alternative form of purply.
dipsticked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dipstick
dipsticking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dipstick
unrestive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unrestive
form: most unrestive
Etymology: From un- + restive.
Senses: glosses: Not restive.
untrashed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + trashed.
Senses: glosses: Not trashed.
disintegratingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From disintegrating + -ly.
Senses: glosses: So as to disintegrate.
oncomer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oncomers
Senses: examples: text: To analyze these maneuvers, we used as measures of criticality the speed of the oncomer at meeting, the lateral placement of the oncomer, and usage of the shoulder.
ref: 1974, William D. Glauz, D. R. Kobett, B. M. Hutchinson, Economic Evaluation of Mobile and Modular Housing Shipments by Highway, volume 1:
glosses: An oncoming vehicle.
oncomers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oncomer
OBX
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Outer Banks.
hardpanned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hardpan + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Covered in hardpan.
CUHK
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Chinese University of Hong Kong.
ETOs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ETO
metal mouth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metal mouths
Senses: examples: text: In fact, wearing braces is such a common experience today that the social stigma once attached to it ("Hey, metal mouth!") hardly exists anymore.
ref: 1997, Jean Lee, Coping With Braces and Other Orthodontic Work, page 1:
glosses: A person who wears orthodontic braces.
metal mouths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metal mouth
glacier birds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glacier bird
horsepoop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From horse + poop.
Senses: glosses: The manure of a horse.
glosses: Horseshit; nonsense.
blemming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of blem
blemmed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of blem
Dimmock
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Dimmocks
Etymology: Variant of Dimmick.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Fayette County, West Virginia, United States.
Demmick
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Demick
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Demicks
Etymology: Probably an Americanized spelling of German Demmich or Demmig.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
cyberdollar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyberdollars
Etymology: From cyber- + dollar.
Senses: examples: text: Over five thousand volunteers received a digital account with an initial capital of one hundred cyberdollars, or virtual money. With this capital, they could purchase goods and services, via the network […]
ref: 1996, Olivier Hance, Business & Law on the Internet, page 170:
text: To perform an amortized analysis, we use an accounting technique where we view the computer as a coin-operated appliance that requires the payment of one cyberdollar for a constant amount of computing time.
ref: 2014, Michael T. Goodrich, Roberto Tamassia, Michael H. Goldwasser, Data Structures and Algorithms in Java, page 266:
glosses: cybercurrency worth one dollar
cyberdollars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyberdollar
call house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: call houses
Senses: glosses: A brothel.
Related terms: call girl
call houses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of call house
flat ride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flat rides
Senses: synonyms: flat
glosses: An amusement ride that spins around, usually on a circular platform.
flat rides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flat ride
duckshit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From duck + shit.
Senses: examples: text: Then, a party of six English scrubbers, baseball-capped and duckshit-shirted, ventured in.
ref: 2006, John Coulton, Take 40 Fresh Crayfish, page 55:
text: The ground was pretty slimy and there was the powerful smell of duckshit all around me. But that didn't particularly bother me and I decided to lie there for a while.
ref: 2007, Peter Wild, Perverted by Language: Fiction Inspired by the Fall, page 35:
glosses: The excrement of a duck.
cold-conk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cold-conks
form: cold-conking
form: cold-conked
form: cold-conked
Senses: glosses: To knock out (a person); to render unconscious by a blow.
cold-conked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cold-conk
cold-conks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cold-conk
cold-conking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cold-conk
underlight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: underlights
Etymology: From under- + light.
Senses: examples: text: But there are some minor underlights beneath the high arm and on the left of the face; these are reflected lights that bounce off nearby parts of the figure itself.
ref: 1981, Burne Hogarth, Dynamic Light and Shade, page 43:
glosses: Illumination from underneath.
glosses: A highlight in an underlayer of a person's hair.
underlights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of underlight
boomerang kick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boomerang kicks
Senses: topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
rugby
sports
qualifier: Australian rules football
glosses: A kick that sends the ball in a curved trajectory.
chest mark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chest marks
Senses: qualifier: Australian rules football
glosses: A mark (catch) in which the player receives the ball into both arms at chest height.
submandibular ganglion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: submandibular ganglia
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
neuroanatomy
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
synonyms: submaxillary ganglion
glosses: An autonomic ganglion that is situated on the hyoglossus muscle above the deep part of the submandibular gland, receives preganglionic fibers from the facial nerve by way of the chorda tympani, and sends postganglionic fibers to the submandibular and sublingual glands.
submandibular ganglia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of submandibular ganglion
easybeat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: easybeats
Etymology: From easy + beat.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A team that is easy to beat; a team ranked towards the bottom of the competition ladder.
sublingual gland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sublingual glands
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: sublingual salivary gland
coordinate_terms: parotid gland
submandibular gland
glosses: A small salivary gland on each side of the mouth lying beneath the mucous membrane in a fossa in the mandible near the symphysis.
ruckwork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: qualifier: Australian rules football
glosses: The onfield play of a ruck.
mullygrubs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mulligrubs.
alphapolyomavirus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alphapolyomaviruses
Senses: glosses: Any polyomavirus of the genus Alphapolyomavirus
biochamber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biochambers
Etymology: From bio- + chamber.
Senses: glosses: A biologically secure chamber, typically attached to a microscope, in which dangerous organisms are contained
boot-studder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boot-studders
Senses: qualifier: Australian rules football
glosses: A person employed to repair boots for a football team.
desaminotyrosine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A form of tyrosine from which the amino group has been removed, typically produced by anaerobic bacterial metabolism
fenbantel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of febantel.
intramouse
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + mouse.
Senses: glosses: Within an (experimental) mouse
Related terms: intermouse
intermouse
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + mouse.
Senses: glosses: Between (experimental) mice
Related terms: intramouse
isocage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isocages
Senses: glosses: An environmentally-isolated cage used to contain experimental animals
isocages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of isocage
paratransgenically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From para- + transgenically.
Senses: glosses: In a paratransgenic manner
solketal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An acetal derivative of glycerol (2,2-dimethyl-1,3-dioxolan-4-yl)methanol used in the synthesis of glycerides
superior tarsal muscle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superior tarsal muscles
form: superior tarsal
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: Müller's muscle
glosses: A smooth muscle helping to raise the upper eyelid.
Mănăștiur
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Mănăștiur.
Senses: glosses: A village and commune of Timiș County, Romania.
Secaș
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Secaș.
Senses: glosses: A village and commune of Timiș County, Romania.
glosses: A village in Brazii, Arad County, Romania.
Uivar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Uivar.
Senses: glosses: A village and commune of Timiș County, Romania.
Șagu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Șagu.
Senses: glosses: A village and commune of Arad County, Romania.
wellerism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wellerisms
Senses: examples: text: […]without adding the names of those who were widely known to be responsible for the coinage of such wellerisms.
ref: 1994, Journal of Liberal Studies, Volume 4, Issues 1-2, University of Nigeria, page 93:
text: Dickens used wellerisms already in his letters prior to writing Pickwick Papers.
ref: 1997, George B. Bryan, Wolfgang Mieder, The Proverbial Charles Dickens, Peter Lang, page 27:
text: 2002, Fionnuala Carson Williams, Wellerisms in Ireland, University of Vermont, page 38,
In many cases where a wellerism and a folktale are connected the quote in the wellerism is a set sentence like 'Up and at it!' which is well-known apart from the wellerism.
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Wellerism.
wellerisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wellerism
Banloc
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Banloc.
Senses: glosses: A commune and village in Timiș County, Romania.
Tătărăști
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Romanian Tătărăști.
Senses: glosses: A commune of Bacău County, Romania.
glosses: A village in Tătărăști, Bacău County, Romania.
glosses: A village in Burjuc, Hunedoara County, Romania.
Senedd
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈsɛnɛð/
Forms: form: the Senedd
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Welsh Senedd, from Welsh senedd, from Latin senātus. Doublet of senate.
Senses: glosses: The Welsh parliament.
living hinge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: living hinges
Senses: glosses: A thin flexible hinge made from the same material as the two rigid pieces it connects.
living hinges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of living hinge
turn the trick
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: turns the trick
form: turning the trick
form: turned the trick
form: turned the trick
Senses: examples: text: As it looked to him, another six months at sea should turn the trick financially. At least it would give him a good interest in the plantation.
ref: 1959, Garland Roark, Tales of the Caribbean, page 140:
glosses: Synonym of do the trick (“to work, to be sufficient or adequate”).
synonyms: word: do the trick
extra: to work, to be sufficient or adequate
Related terms: turn tricks
do a land-office business
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: does a land-office business
form: doing a land-office business
form: did a land-office business
form: done a land-office business
Senses: glosses: To be very successful; to do a roaring trade.
almami
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: almamis
form: almamy
form: almani
form: almany
Senses: glosses: A West African Muslim ruler, especially in the conquest states of the 19th century.
Derived terms: almamate
almamate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: almamates
Senses: glosses: The territory ruled by an almami.
almamis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of almami
almamates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of almamate
almamy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: almamies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of almami.
almamies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of almamy
Armeniș
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Romanian Armeniș.
Senses: glosses: A village and commune of Caraș-Severin County, Romania.
boot-studders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boot-studder
chest marks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chest mark
boomerang kicks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boomerang kick
electrotransport
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: electrotransports
Etymology: From electro- + transport.
Senses: glosses: The transport of material in an electric field
electrotransport
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: electrotransports
form: electrotransporting
form: electrotransported
form: electrotransported
Etymology: From electro- + transport.
Senses: glosses: To transport material in an electric field
mitostasis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: mitochondrial homeostasis
triclustering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: triclusterings
Etymology: From tri- + clustering.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The simultaneous clustering of three independent rows or columns of a three-dimensional matrix
Plimmerton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Plimmer + -ton, named after John Plimmer.
Senses: glosses: A northern suburb of Porirua, Wellington region, New Zealand.
wikipedia: John Plimmer
Plimmer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Plimmers
Etymology: Variant of Plummer.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Plimmerton
Espelette pepper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Espelette peppers
Senses: glosses: A variety of Capsicum annuum pepper cultivated in the French commune of Espelette.
Espelette peppers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Espelette pepper
son of a sea-cook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sons of sea-cooks
form: sons of a sea-cook
Senses: synonyms: son of a bitch
glosses: An objectionable, despicable person.
sons of a sea-cook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of son of a sea-cook
sons of sea-cooks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of son of a sea-cook
Pukerua Bay
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Maori puke rua (“two hills”).
Senses: glosses: A coastal community and bay north of Porirua, Wellington region, New Zealand.
smock-face
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smock-faces
Senses: synonyms: muffin-face
glosses: A feminine countenance or complexion; a smooth, girlish face.
Related terms: smock-faced
smock-faces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of smock-face
odontoid process
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: odontoid processes
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Synonym of dens.
synonyms: word: dens
parish prig
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parish prigs
Senses: qualifier: thieves' cant
glosses: A parson.
parish prigs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parish prig
hum-box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hum-boxes
Senses: glosses: The pulpit of a church.
hum-boxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hum-box
Yuncheng
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: yünʹchǔngʹ
Forms: form: Yün-ch'eng
Etymology: From Mandarin 運城 /运城 (Yùnchéng).
Senses: examples: text: Wenxi County and the nearby city of Yuncheng have dispatched experts to figure out how to run Haixin, which was closely held by Mr. Li, his family and his business partners.
ref: 2003 February 1, Joseph Kahn, “In China, Quick Rise And Death Of a Tycoon”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 May 2015, World:
text: At Haiquan School, in Yuncheng, a city in northern Shanxi Province, thousands of boarding students from first to 12th grade were ordered to stay on campus for at least four weeks.
ref: 2022 November 16, Muyi Xiao, Isabelle Qian, Ang Li, Amy Chang Chien, Vivian Wang, “What Videos Show About the Extremes of China’s ‘Zero-Covid’ Policy”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 Nov 2022, Asia Pacific:
glosses: A prefecture-level city of Shanxi, China.
Jishan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: jēʹshänʹ
enpr: -shăn
ipa: /d͡ʒiˈʃɑn/
ipa: /-ʃæn/
rhymes: -æn
rhymes: -ɑːn
Forms: form: Chi-shan
form: Chishan
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 稷山 (Jìshān).
Senses: examples: text: Comrade Zuo Ming was born in 1921 in Jishan County, Shanxi Province. He took part in the revolution in 1930 and joined the CPC in 1938.
ref: 1983 June 16 [1983 May 26], Xu Shijie, quotee, “Guangdong's Ren Zhongyi Attends Memorial Meeting”, in Daily Report: China, volume I, number 117, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Guangzhou GUANGZHOU RIBAO, p 1, translation of original in Chinese, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China: Central-South Region, page P 1:
text: In their first paper (T. Hong et al., 1992), Paeonia ostii was described as a new tree peony that is widely cultivated in China for medicine; P. jishanensis was described as a new species from Jishan County, Shanxi Province, and was stated to differ from P. suffruticosa var. spontanea Rehder in having white flowers and non-petaloid stamens; P. yananensis was based on a specimen from a forest near the Peony Garden in Yan’an, Shaanxi Province; and P. suffruticosa subsp. rockii S. G. Haw & Lauener was raised to specific rank, but this new combination was invalid.
ref: 2010, De-Yuan Hong, “History of Taxonomic Studies of Paeonia”, in Peonies of the World: Taxonomy and Phytogeography, Kew Publishing, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 19:
text: The Jishan Article Case In April 2007, Nan Huirong, Xue Zhijing and Yang Qinyu, three technology officials in Jishan County, Shanxi Province, wrote an article that expressed discontent with the situation in Jishan, criticized County Party Secretary Li Runshan in a number of ways, and adduced evidence to back their complaints.
ref: 2012 [2008 February 19], Liu Xiaobo, “Imprisoning People for Words and the Power of Public Opinion”, in Louisa Chiang, transl., No Enemies, No Hatred: Selected Essays and Poems, Belknap Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 212:
text: In addition, nine tombs of the Duan family cemetery with extravagant interior wall reliefs, known as the Macun Tombs, were found in the village of Macun in Jishan County, forty-five miles west of Houma.
ref: 2016, Jeehee Hong, “Theater of the Dead”, in Theater of the Dead: A Social Turn in Chinese Funerary Art, 1000-1400, Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 75:
text: Medical workers in protective suits collect swabs from residents at a nucleic acid testing site during a third round of mass testing following cases of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Yuncheng's Jishan county, Shanxi province, China December 29, 2021.
ref: 2022 January 1, Min Zhang, Tony Munroe, “China reports 191 new COVID-19 cases for Jan 1 vs 231 day earlier”, in Neil Fullick, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 03 Jan 2022, China:
glosses: A county of Yuncheng, Shanxi, China.
Hejin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: hǔʹjǐnʹ
Forms: form: Ho-chin
form: Hotsin
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 河津 (Héjīn).
Senses: examples: text: After 20 days of hard work, a 110-kw high-tension power line running from the (Hsiajihkou) transformer station in Hancheng County, Shensi, to the (Nanfeneping) transformer station in Hochin County, Shansi, has been successfully completed and will go into operation on the eve of the spring festival.
ref: [1978 February 8 [1978 January 30], “Shansi Power Line”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 27, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Taiyuan Shansi Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →OCLC, page K 7:
text: A thermal power plant will be set up in Hsiangning to produce power from local coal which, together with power from the projected Lungmen power plant, will serve to pro- duce aluminum from the big bauxite mine at Hochin to its south.
ref: [1978 December, Rewi Alley, “Shansi 1978”, in Eastern Horizon, volume XVII, number 12, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 18, column 1:
text: The school is owned by the South Pacific Corporation, and that is owned by a Hainan millionaire. He also owns a steel plant in HeJin town near Yuncheng, and many plantations on Hainan Island.
ref: [1997, Justin Hill, A Bend in the Yellow River, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 251:
text: The mine, sitting astride Xiangning county and Hejin city, covers about 180 sq km, Xinhua said, adding that the mining zone holds more than 2.3 billion tons of coal reserves, including nearly 1.04 billion tons of proven reserves.
ref: 2010 March 28, Benjamin Kang Lim, “Flood in new China coal mine traps 123 miners”, in Tim Pearce, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 30 Jan 2016, World News:
glosses: A county-level city of Yuncheng, Shanxi, China.
Otaki
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Maori.
Senses: glosses: A town in Kapiti Coast district, Wellington region, New Zealand.
Cosmești
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Romanian Cosmești.
Senses: glosses: A commune of Galați County, Romania.
glosses: A village in Cosmești, Galați County, Romania.
glosses: A commune of Teleorman County, Romania.
glosses: A village in Cosmești, Teleorman County, Romania.
Cupșeni
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Cupșeni.
Senses: glosses: A village and commune of Maramureș County, Romania.
dacha-saltee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Compare Italian dieci soldi.
Senses: examples: text: […] and what with my crippledom and thy piety, a-wheeling of thy poor old dad, we'll bleed the bumpkins of a dacha-saltee.
ref: 1861, Charles Reade, The Cloister and the Hearth; or, Maid, Wife, and Widow. A Matter-of-Fact Romance., New York, N.Y.: Rudd & Carleton; London: Trübner & Co.:
qualifier: thieves' cant
glosses: Tenpence.
Fărcașa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Fărcașa.
Senses: glosses: A village and commune of Maramureș County, Romania.
Lunca Cernii de Jos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Lunca Cernii de Jos.
Senses: glosses: A village and commune of Hunedoara County, Romania.
Lăpuș
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Lăpuș.
Senses: glosses: A village and commune of Maramureș County, Romania.
Related terms: Târgu Lăpuș
Wanrong
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: wänʹro͝ongʹ
Forms: form: Wanjung
Etymology: From Mandarin 萬榮 /万荣 (Wànróng).
Senses: examples: text: According to the statistics of Wanjung County, of the 34,000 people who had received instruction in reading by October 1958, one-third had again become illiterate, and the other two-thirds were unable even to read newspapers.
ref: [1966, George P. Jan, “Mass Education in the Chinese Communes”, in George P. Jan, editor, Government of Communist China, San Francisco, Cali.: Chandler Publishing Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 511:
text: Also in November, in Wanrong County, Shanxi Province, in central China, two policemen were killed when enraged construction workers attacked a police station after a traffic dispute.
ref: 2004 December 31, Joseph Kahn, “China's 'Haves' Stir the 'Have Nots' to Violence”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 May 2018, Asia Pacific:
glosses: A county of Yuncheng, Shanxi, China.
examples: text: In Hualien County’s Wanrong Township, a group of six people camping were unable to cross the surging Hongye Stream in their SUVs, and requested assistance from the fire department.
Hualien County Fire Department deployed an excavator to cross the stream to rescue the four men and two women.
ref: 2021 October 18, Phillip Charlier, “Disaster-level wind and rain takes Taiwan by surprise as tropical storm passes by without making landfall”, in Taiwan English News, archived from the original on 19 Oct 2021:
glosses: A mountain indigenous township in Hualien County, Taiwan.
Ohaba
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Ohaba.
Senses: glosses: A commune of Alba County, Romania.
glosses: Various villages in Romania.