cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Oma
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /oʊ.mɑ/
Etymology: From Tibetan འོ་མ ('o ma).
Senses: examples: text: Reach Wuma (Öma) in 3-4 hr (90 km) from Gerze.
ref: [1994, Victor Chan, Tibet Handbook, Moon Publications, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 948:
text: About 33 genus 47 species corals were discovered in the so-called "Xiala Formation(Ft)" in north of Oma Village, Gêrzê County, Tibet.
ref: 2011 March, Zhansheng Ji, J.-X. Yao, Guichun Wu, “Discovery of the Late Jurassic coral fauna in the Tukari Formation at northern Oma Village, Gêrzê County, Tibet, China and its geological significances”, in Research Gate, archived from the original on 12 Feb 2021:
text: Around Oma-chu, a small village huddled beneath a small rocky splinter, 54km from Gertse, keep your eyes open for the round, tomblike buildings that are actually tsampa (roasted-barley flour) storage bins.
ref: [2019, Tibet (Lonely Planet), →ISBN, →OCLC, page https://books.google.com/books?id=K0qVDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT308:
glosses: A township in Gêrzê County, Ngari prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region, China.
Synonyms: sense: from Mandarin Chinese
word: Wuma
word: Wu-ma
Oma
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /oʊ.mɑ/
Senses: examples: text: To invest in Wisconsin's transportation system, Governor Evers signed a $1.39 million contract with prime contractor Northwoods Paving of Ashland to improve US 51 in Iron County between County C in the town of Oma to Iron Street in Hurley. Work began on Monday, June 20.
ref: 2022 June 24, “Governor Evers approves US 51 improvement project in Iron County”, in Wisconsin Department of Transportation, archived from the original on 07 Sep 2022:
glosses: A town in Iron County, Wisconsin, United States.
glosses: A female given name
grunge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹʌnd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ʌndʒ
Etymology: Back-formation from grungy.
Senses: examples: text: The cinema floor was covered in grunge deposited by the crowds.
glosses: Dirt or filth, especially when difficult to clean.
examples: text: Chad used to work as a coal miner, but couldn't handle the constant grunge.
glosses: The state of being filthy; grubbiness.
examples: text: Alice liked to wear plaids and ripped jeans, and listen to grunge.
text: Grunge was the de facto soundtrack of the early nineties. It’s also sometimes criticized for its sonic limitations—most groups played the same way, at the same speed and with the same worldview, usually mining the same handful of influences. It was, by design, a derivative musical form. But it did introduce at least one new idea to mainstream rock: a collective sense of self-aware skepticism.
ref: 2022, Chuck Klosterman, The Nineties, New York: Penguin Press, →ISBN:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A subgenre of alternative rock, originating from Seattle, Washington in the early 1990s, which melds punk and metal.
Derived terms: grungelike
grunger
grungester
grungewear
grungey
grungy
post-grunge
postgrunge
protogrunge
scrunge
soft grunge
modus operandi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈməʊ.dʌs ˌɒp.ə.ɹæn.daɪ/
ipa: /ˈmɐʉ.dɘs ˌɔp.ɘ.ɹɛn.dɒe/
ipa: /ˈmɐʉ.dɘs ˌɔp.ɘ.ɹɛn.di/
ipa: /ˈmoʊ.dɘs ˌɑp.əɹ.ɛn.daɪ/
ipa: /ˈmoʊ.dɘs ˌɑp.əɹ.ɛn.di/
Forms: form: modi operandi
form: modus operandis
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin modus operandī, from modus (“manner, method”) and operandī (“of working”).
Senses: examples: text: Failing that, if contact was absolutely necessary, a series of thumb jabs to the nerve cluster at the base of the neck would be his chosen modus operandi—quiet as a whisper.
ref: 2001, Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl, pages 92–93:
text: Where is it? What does SCP-3125 look like? Its motivation, its origins, its modus operandi— how much of that can be known? Does it have to be known, to solve the problem? Does it matter how intelligent the intelligence is, once it's inside the box, once it's checkmated?
ref: 2019 December 9, qntm, “Wild Light”, in There Is No Antimemetics Division, →ISBN, page 191:
glosses: A person or thing's normal mode of operation.
topics: government
law-enforcement
glosses: A known criminal's established habits and mode of work when committing specific offences, especially fraud, matched with characteristics of an unsolved crime to narrow down (limit to a specific list) or profile suspects.
Synonyms: MO
Related terms: modus procedendi
tribesman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tribesmen
Etymology: From tribe + -s- + -man.
Senses: glosses: A (usually male) member of a tribe.
tavern
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtævən/
ipa: /ˈtævəɹn/
rhymes: -ævə(ɹ)n
Forms: form: taverns
Etymology: From Middle English taverne, from Old French taverne (“wine shop”), from Latin taberna (“inn”). Doublet of taberna and taverna.
Senses: glosses: A restaurant or bar.
examples: text: I maruell I heare no nevves of Dromio, either hee ſlackes the matter, or betraies his Maiſter, I dare not motion anie thing to Stellio, till I knovv vvhat my boy hath don, Ile hunt him out, if the loiterſacke be gone ſpringing into a Tauerne, Ile fetch him reeling out.
ref: c. 1590 (date written), [John Lyly], Mother Bombie. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Thomas Creede, for Cuthbert Burby, published 1598, →OCLC, Act II, scene ii:
text: Dreaming when Dawn's Left Hand was in the Sky / I heard a Voice within the Tavern cry, / "Awake, my Little ones, and fill the Cup / Before Life's Liquor in its Cup be dry."
ref: 1859, Omar Khayyam, “(please specify the quatrain number in uppercase Roman numerals)”, in [Edward FitzGerald], transl., Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, the Astronomer-Poet of Persia. […], facsimile edition, London: Bernard Quaritch, […], →OCLC, page 1:
text: At half-past nine on this Saturday evening the parlor of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors. […] In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for the select circle—a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening for a pipe and a cheerful glass.
ref: 1892, Walter Besant, “The Select Circle”, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 46:
text: At one of the way-stations on his long journey a barmaid at a tavern speaks to Gilgamesh and tries to give him common sense on the human condition.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 201:
synonyms: word: inn
word: alehouse
word: boozer
word: boozing ken
word: bousing ken
word: drinker
word: drinkery
word: gargle-factory
word: gin joint
word: groggery
word: local
word: nineteenth hole
word: pot-house
word: pub
word: public house
word: rummery
word: saloon
word: tavern
word: watering hole
glosses: A building containing a bar licensed to sell alcoholic drinks, and offering sleeping accommodations for travelers.
Derived terms: klavern
tavern-cut
tavernesque
tavern fool
tavernful
taverning
tavernize
tavernkeep
tavernkeeper
tavernkeeping
tavernless
tavernlike
tavernly
tavernman
tavernous
tavernry
tavern sandwich
tavern stand
tavern-style
tavernward
tavernwards
tavernwave
lychee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlaɪ̯t͡ʃi/
ipa: /laɪ̯ˈt͡ʃiː/
ipa: /ˈlit͡ʃi/
ipa: /ˈlit͡ʃi/
rhymes: -iːtʃi
rhymes: -aɪtʃi
Forms: form: lychees
form: lichee
form: lichi
Etymology: From Cantonese 荔枝 (lai⁶ zi¹). Doublet of litchi.
Senses: glosses: The Chinese tropical fruit tree Litchi chinensis, of the soapberry family.
examples: text: No Chinese meal is complete without some succulent dim sims (pork minced with water chestnuts and enclosed in paste), and such sweets as honeyed lychee nuts and honeyed ginger.
ref: 1928 October 13, The Argus, Melbourne, page 2, column 7:
glosses: That tree's bright red oval fruit with a single stone surrounded by a fleshy white aril.
glosses: A soft pink-red colour, like that of a lychee rind (also called lychee red).
turmoil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɜːmɔɪl/
Forms: form: turmoils
Etymology: Unknown. First appears c. 1526. Perhaps from Old French tremouille (“the hopper of a mill”).
Senses: examples: text: Oleg Blokhin's side lost the talismanic Andriy Shevchenko to the substitutes' bench because of a knee injury but still showed enough to put England through real turmoil in spells.
ref: 2012 June 19, Phil McNulty, “England 1-0 Ukraine”, in BBC Sport:
text: The Taoists developed their philosophy during an extended era of turmoil known as the Warring States period of Chinese history.
ref: 2024 January 14, Charles Hugh Smith, Self-Reliance, Taoism and the Warring States:
glosses: A state of great disorder or uncertainty.
examples: text: And there I'll rest, as after much turmoil, / A blessed soul doth in Elysium.
ref: c. 1590–1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene vii]:
text: The turmoil went on—no rest, no peace. […] It was nearly eleven o'clock now, and he strolled out again. In the little fair created by the costers' barrows the evening only seemed beginning; and the naphtha flares made one's eyes ache, the men's voices grated harshly, and the girls' faces saddened one.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter VII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
glosses: Harassing labor; trouble; disturbance.
Synonyms: chaos
disorder
turmoil
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɜːmɔɪl/
Forms: form: turmoils
form: turmoiling
form: turmoiled
form: turmoiled
Etymology: Unknown. First appears c. 1526. Perhaps from Old French tremouille (“the hopper of a mill”).
Senses: examples: text: some notable sophister lies sweating and turmoiling under the inevitable and merciless delimmas of Socrates
ref: 1642 April, John Milton, An Apology for Smectymnuus; republished in A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton, […], Amsterdam [actually London: s.n.], 1698, →OCLC:
glosses: To be disquieted or confused; to be in commotion.
examples: text: It is her fatal misfortune […] to be thus miserably tossed and turmoiled with these storms of affliction.
ref: 1596 (date written; published 1633), Edmund Spenser, A Vewe of the Present State of Irelande […], Dublin: […] Societie of Stationers, […], →OCLC; republished as A View of the State of Ireland […] (Ancient Irish Histories), Dublin: […] Society of Stationers, […] Hibernia Press, […] [b]y John Morrison, 1809, →OCLC:
glosses: To harass with commotion; to disquiet; to worry.
Heard Island and McDonald Islands
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A volcanic group of uninhabited Antarctic islands, an external territory of Australia lying between Madagascar and Antarctica.
withstood
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: wĭthˈ-sto͝od
ipa: /wɪθˈstʊd/
ipa: /wɪðˈstʊd/
rhymes: -ʊd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of withstand
truss
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹʌs/
rhymes: -ʌs
Forms: form: trusses
form: trussing
form: trussed
form: trussed
Etymology: From Middle English trussen, from Old French trousser.
Senses: glosses: To tie up a bird before cooking it.
glosses: To secure or bind with ropes.
glosses: To support.
examples: text: who trussing me as eagle doth his prey
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 18:
glosses: To take fast hold of; to seize and hold firmly; to pounce upon.
glosses: To strengthen or stiffen, as a beam or girder, by means of a brace or braces.
examples: text: If they must truss me, I will repent of nothing
ref: 1818 July 25, Jedediah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], Tales of My Landlord, Second Series, […] (The Heart of Mid-Lothian), volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Company, →OCLC:
synonyms: word: string up
word: tuck up
word: forhang
word: Guy Fawkes
word: hang
word: ketch
word: send to the scaffold
word: scrag
word: stretch
word: string up
word: truss
word: tuck up
glosses: To execute by hanging; to hang; usually with up.
Derived terms: truss up
trussed up
get rid of
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɛt ɹɪd ʌv/
Forms: form: gets rid of
form: getting rid of
form: got rid of
form: got rid of
form: gotten rid of
Senses: examples: text: Over the weekend he spent some time getting rid of the clothes he no longer wears.
text: I want to get rid of your influence over my life!
text: March 23, 1727, Alexander Pope, letter to Jonathan Swift
to get rid of fools and scoundrels
text: As she goes, you have a wash yourself, and although you will have to change your clothes to get rid of all the coal-dust, you are glad of soap and water and take it easy at last.
ref: 1956 February, W. A. Tuplin, “Hot Work on a "Star"”, in Railway Magazine, page 94:
text: Shepard: The Council was always holding us back. When I saw the opportunity to get rid of them, I took it.
ref: 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Citadel after Sacrifice of the Council:
text: Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham pulled no punches in March 20's Transport for the North board meeting in Leeds. He wants rid of Avanti West Coast. And he may yet get his way, although ministers in London are holding the line at the moment.
ref: 2024 April 3, Philip Haigh, “Discord over Avanti West Coast is part of a wider problem”, in RAIL, number 1006, page 52:
synonyms: word: abolish
word: discard
word: dismiss
word: drop
word: lose
word: remove
word: shed
word: shuck
word: junk
word: 86
word: bin
word: can
word: cast aside
word: cast off
word: cast away
word: chuck
word: chuck away
word: chuck out
word: discard
word: dispose of
word: ditch
word: dump
word: get rid of
word: jettison
word: pitch
word: scrap
word: shift
word: throw aside
word: throw away
word: throw out
word: toss
word: trash
glosses: To rid oneself of; to cause oneself to be free of or released from.
Related terms: be rid of
insincere
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: more insincere
form: most insincere
Etymology: From Latin insincerus.
Senses: examples: text: Janice's furious glare showed that her apology was insincere.
glosses: Not genuinely meaning what has been expressed; not sincere; artificial; factitious.
Derived terms: insincerely
insincereness
insincerity
stalwart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɔːl.wət/
ipa: /ˈstɒl-/
ipa: /ˈstɔl.wɚt/
ipa: /ˈstɑl-/
ipa: /ˈstoːl.wət/
Forms: form: stalwarts
Etymology: Borrowed from Scots stalwart under the influence of Walter Scott, displacing earlier stalworth, wherewith it forms a doublet. From Middle English stal-worth (“physically strong, hardy, robust; brave, courageous”), from Old English stǣlwierþe (“able to stand in good stead, serviceable”), probably from staþol (“establishment; foundation”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- (“to stand (up)”)) or stǣl (“place; condition, stead”) + -wierþe (“able to, capable of”) (probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wert- (“to rotate, turn”)).
Senses: glosses: One who has a strong build.
examples: text: Too much authority, blind authority, mere authority, whether that of the Prince or the priest, of the Raja or the Nabob, of the oligarch or the official, of the wealty and the prosperous is the bane of Indian life, yet these stalwarts of reform always take shelter behind big names.
ref: 1920?, [Lala] Lajpat Rai, “A Fight for Crumbs”, in The Call to Young India, Madras, Tamil Nadu, India: S. Ganesan & Co., →OCLC, pages 68–69:
text: But I am sure there must be a great many Socialists who would fairly turn in their graves if they knew how their successors in the Labour Party were "ratting" on the policy laid down by the old stalwarts.
ref: 1954 August 17, Thomas Leonard Hayman, “Financial Statement”, in New Zealand Parliamentary Debates: Fifth Session, Thirtieth Parliament: House of Representatives, volume 304 (Comprising the Period from 6 August to 1 October 1954), Wellington, N.Z.: By authority; R. E. Owen, government printer, published 1955, →OCLC, page 1200:
glosses: One who firmly supports a cause.
examples: text: Other erstwhile stalwarts are also wavering. Southampton had two of the best full-backs in the league last season but Ryan Bertrand has been below par this season and Cédric Soares made an uncharacteristic lapse that led to Stoke's winning goal in Southampton's last outing.
ref: 2017 October 14, Paul Doyle, “Mauricio Pellegrino yet to find attacking solution for stuttering Southampton: Nothing so far this season suggests the Argentinian will be more successful than Claude Puel in finding the answer to the club’s continuing lack of firepower”, in The Guardian, London, archived from the original on 10 Nov 2017:
text: In August, the Los Angeles-area stalwart the Lab also closed its dance space, a 12,000-square-foot location in West Covina.
ref: 2021 December 2, Margaret Fuhrer, “Mothers of Reinvention: The Lab Pivots as Studios Close”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: One who is dependable.
memoir
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɛmˌwɑː/
ipa: /ˈmɛmˌwɑɹ/
ipa: /ˈmemˌwɐː/
ipa: /ˈmɛmˌɔɪəɹ/
ipa: /ˈmɛmˌwɔːɹ/
Forms: form: memoirs
Etymology: From French mémoire (“memoir”), from Latin memoria (“memory”). Doublet of memoria and memory.
Senses: examples: text: When I retire, I'm going to write my memoirs.
glosses: An autobiography; a book describing the personal experiences of an author.
examples: text: James wrote a memoir of his grandmother shortly after she passed away.
glosses: A biography; a book describing the experiences of a subject from personal knowledge of the subject or from sources with personal knowledge of the subject.
glosses: Any form of narrative describing the personal experiences of a writer.
Derived terms: documemoir
foodoir
memoiric
memoirish
memoirism
memoirist
memoiristic
momoir
mumoir
Related terms: memory
spermicidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: By surface analysis, sperm + -i- + -cide + -al.
Senses: synonyms: spermaticidal
spermatocidal
hypernyms: contraceptive#Adjective
coordinate_terms: ovicidal#Adjective
ovicide
glosses: Having the ability to kill sperm.
spermicidal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spermicidals
Etymology: By surface analysis, sperm + -i- + -cide + -al.
Senses: synonyms: spermaticide
hypernyms: contraceptive#Noun
birth control
coordinate_terms: ovicidal
ovicide
glosses: A spermicide.
endless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛndlɪs/
ipa: /ˈɛndləs/
Etymology: From Middle English endeles, from Old English endelēas (“endless”), from Proto-Germanic *andijalausaz (“endless”), equivalent to end + -less.
Senses: examples: text: endless time; endless praise
text: Trains from Lime Street to Edge Hill were hauled by an endless hempen rope worked by a stationary engine on the platform at the latter station.
ref: 1942 May-June, “Cable Operation at Liverpool and London”, in Railway Magazine, page 174:
glosses: Having no end.
examples: text: an endless line
glosses: Extending indefinitely.
examples: text: In 1903, [Albert Shhoenhut] announced his Humpty Dumpty circus, with over 20 figures and animals, each with six joints enabling them to be put into endless positions.
ref: 1971, Gwen White, Antique Toys And Their Background, page 64:
glosses: Too much or many to be exhausted; an extremely high number or amount of; immeasurable, innumerable.
examples: text: All loves are endless.
ref: c. 1615–1616, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, “Loves Pilgramage, a Comedy”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act II, scene iii:
glosses: Without profitable end; fruitless; unsatisfying.
Synonyms: sense: having no end
word: unending
sense: extending indefinitely
word: eternal
word: infinite
word: unlimited
word: eternal
word: endless
word: neverending
word: termless
word: ceaseless
word: unendly
Coordinate terms: word: beginningless
Derived terms: endless belt
endless chain
endless galaxy
endless loop
endlessly
endlessness
endless runner
endless saw
endless screw
endless September
American dun-bar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: American dun-bars
Senses: glosses: A moth of species Cosmia calami, endemic to parts of North America.
Synonyms: American dun-bar moth
Cosmia calamia
Cosmia canescens
Cosmia orinella
Cosmia orinula
Related terms: dun-bar
dun-bar moth
dun-bar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʌnbɑː(ɹ)/
Forms: form: dun-bars
Etymology: From dun + bar, referring to its color and two "bars" on its fore-wings.
Senses: glosses: A moth of species Cosmia trapezina, found in parts of Europe.
Synonyms: dun-bar moth
Derived terms: American dun-bar
American dun-bar moth
omerta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: omertas
Senses: examples: text: Patriarca [Raymond Patriarca Jr.] pleaded guilty in December 1991 to racketeering and conspiracy charges, but he refused to admit he was a member of the Mafia, clinging to his vow of "omerta" to the secret organization.
ref: 2005 March 4, Shelley Murphy, “US seeking to seize Patriarca assets: Ex-mobster owes incarceration costs”, in The Boston Globe, volume 267, number 63, Boston, Mass.: The Globe Newspaper Co., →ISSN, →OCLC, City & Region section, page B3, column 1:
text: There was a time that high-profile killings such as the 1968 assassinations of Robert F[rancis] Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. brought passionate cries for limitations on handguns. A bipartisan omerta now smothers the issue.
ref: 2006 October 27, Ross K. Baker, “Guns—the dead issue”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, page A29, columns 1–2:
text: But although her [Carol Thatcher's] agent has invoked that tradition of post-show omerta in her defence, the truth is that few would trust these days to what it is now possibly risky to call Chinese walls.
ref: 2009 February 7, Mark Lawson, “We're all in public now”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 Apr 2025:
text: Over the past ten years, a series of high-profile CEOs have broken unwritten omertas not to address the contentious challenges posed by climate change, human rights, and increased transparency.
ref: 2010, Aron Cramer, Zachary Karabell, “Leadership”, in Sustainable Excellence: The Future of Business in a Fast-changing World, New York, N.Y.: Rodale, →ISBN, page 58:
glosses: Alternative form of omertà.
dilly-dally
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪliˌdæli/
Forms: form: dilly-dallies
form: dilly-dallying
form: dilly-dallied
form: dilly-dallied
form: dilly dally
form: dillydally
Etymology: Reduplication of dally.
Senses: examples: text: It is something to have been an old soldier, but more still to have been a doctor. There is no time to dilly-dally in our work.
ref: 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:
text: “I wouldn't dilly-dally long if I were you,” said Harkless, and his advice seemed good to the shell-men.
ref: 1899, Booth Tarkington, The Gentleman from Indiana, New York, N.Y.: Doubleday & McClure Co., published 1900, →OCLC:
text: It likewise manifests the frankness of men who do not dilly-dally with terms, but who say what they mean, and who mean to settle down to a long, hard fight.
ref: 1905 April, Jack London, “(please specify the page)”, in War of the Classes, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
text: No one can accuse the filmmakers of dillydallying; no sooner have the opening credits ended than we’re watching, via a mirrored ceiling, a couple writhing naked in coital ecstasy.
ref: 2022 March 20, Jason Bailey, “‘Basic Instinct’ at 30: A Time Capsule That Can Still Offend”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
synonyms: word: arse about
word: arse around
word: bludge
word: bum around
word: cabbage
word: clown around
word: dally
word: dawdle
word: dick about
word: dick around
word: diddle
word: dilly-dally
word: dretch
word: drumble
word: faff
word: faff about
word: faff around
word: fanny about
word: fanny around
word: fart about
word: fart around
word: fiddle about
word: fiddle around
word: fool about
word: fool around
word: footle
word: forslow
word: goof around
word: goof off
word: hang about
word: hang around
word: hang out
word: horse around
word: idle
word: jerk off
word: lallygag
word: lamp
word: laze
word: laze about
word: laze around
word: linger
word: loaf
word: loaf about
word: loaf around
word: loiter
word: lollop
word: lollygag
word: mess around
word: mill about
word: mill around
word: muck about
word: muck around
word: piddle
word: pingle
word: stand by
word: tarry
word: tool around
word: waste time
word: while
word: adjourn
word: avert
word: defer
word: delay
word: dilly-dally
word: draw out
word: extend
word: forslow
word: forestall
word: forestay
word: kick into the long grass
word: kick the can down the road
word: postpone
word: procrastinate
word: prolong
word: prorogue
word: prorogate
word: protract
word: put off
word: put on hold
word: put on ice
word: retard
word: stay
word: suspend
word: tarry
glosses: To dawdle; to waste time; to procrastinate.
songo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A kind of contemporary Cuban music originating in Havana.
Related terms: songo-salsa
gallbladder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gallbladders
Etymology: From gall + bladder.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of gall bladder.
Derived terms: gallbladder cancer
nasogallbladder
graph paper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: graph papers
Senses: glosses: Paper ruled into small squares, usually of equal size, for use in drawing graphs or other charts.
Synonyms: graphing paper
grid paper
quad paper
quadrille
quadrille paper
Hyponyms: arithlog paper
log-log paper
logarithmic paper
millimeter paper
probability paper
yellow bile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: choler
coordinate_terms: black bile
phlegm
blood
glosses: One of the four humours of ancient and mediaeval physiology, that was believed to be secreted by the liver and to cause irascibility, anger, and bad temper when present in excess.
black bile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Calque of Latin ātra bīlis, itself a calque of Ancient Greek μελαγχολία (melankholía).
Senses: examples: text: But these various pursuits did not banish all her cares, or carry off all her constitutional black bile.
ref: 1788, Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary: A Fiction:
text: The problem with treating cancer surgically, Galen suggested, was that black bile was everywhere, as inevitable and pervasive as any fluid.
ref: 2011, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of all Maladies, Fourth Estate, page 49:
synonyms: melancholy
coordinate_terms: yellow bile
phlegm
blood
glosses: One of the four humours of ancient and mediaeval physiology, that was believed to be secreted by the kidneys and spleen and to cause melancholy and sadness when present in excess.
muchly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From much + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Finally he partially unbuttoned his muchly-braided coat and drew forth a package done up neatly in white tissue paper.
ref: 1912 September, Roubaix l’Abrie-Richey, “The Webfoot”, in Overland Monthly, volume LX, number 3, San Francisco, Calif., page 241, columns 1–2:
text: Respectable girl meet after mass. Tanks awfully muchly.
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 11: Sirens]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], page 253:
text: Their pleasantly risque jokes were muchly enjoyed by their set of friends.
ref: 1958, Lee Forney Crawford, William Webb Crawford, Dean of Birmingham Bankers, and Family Sketches, Genealogies, Birmingham, Ala.: Roberts & Son, →OCLC, page 104:
text: I've been thinking muchly about this in the past few weeks while sitting on the benches watching various fashion weeks.
ref: 2025 October 11, Jo Ellison, “The forever 35 face of fashion”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 23:
glosses: Very much, very.
Derived terms: ta muchly
acetone peroxide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
synonyms: APEX
glosses: A cyclic organic peroxide; a mixture of mostly the trimer, (((CH₃)₂CO₂)₃), (TCAP or TATP), containing a nine-membered ring and the dimer, (((CH₃)₂CO₂)₂) containing a six-membered ring; it is a high explosive manufactured from acetone and hydrogen peroxide with the aid of sulphuric acid, and has been used by amateur bomb makers.
Related terms: triacetone triperoxide
TCAP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: TCAPs
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of tricyclic acetone peroxide.
topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
telephony
glosses: Transaction Capabilities Application Part (SS7)
Synonyms: sense: organic compound
word: acetone peroxide
sense: organic compound
word: triacetone triperoxide
sense: organic compound
word: TATP
divisibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈvɪzɪbɪlɪti/
Forms: form: divisibilities
Senses: glosses: The state of being divisible. The state capable of being divided.
topics: arithmetic
glosses: The property of being divisible by a particular integer.
Derived terms: divisibility sequence
nondivisibility
Related terms: divide
divisible
divisible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: [dɪˈvɪzɪbəɫ]
Etymology: PIE word
 *dwóh₁
From Middle English divisible, from Old French, from Late Latin divisibilis, from the verb Latin divido.
Senses: examples: Near-synonyms: separable, separatable
synonyms: dividable
splittable
partible
antonyms: indivisible
nondivisible
undividable
coordinate_terms: combinable
mergeable
unifiable
glosses: Capable of being divided or split.
examples: text: Just as 12 is divisible by 3, so is 48 divisible by 12.
topics: arithmetic
synonyms: dividable
splittable
partible
evenly divisible
antonyms: indivisible
nondivisible
undividable
indivisible
nondivisible
coordinate_terms: combinable
mergeable
unifiable
glosses: Capable of being divided or split.
Of an integer, that, when divided by another integer, results in another integer still, thus leaving no remainder.
Synonyms: word: divisible
word: discerpible
word: partible
word: scissile
word: separable
word: splittable
Derived terms: divisibleness
divisibly
evenly divisible
nondivisible
polydivisible
subdivisible
undivisible
Related terms: word: divisibility
word: separation
word: separate
word: divide
divisible
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: [dɪˈvɪzɪbəɫ]
Forms: form: divisibles
Etymology: PIE word
 *dwóh₁
From Middle English divisible, from Old French, from Late Latin divisibilis, from the verb Latin divido.
Senses: examples: text: The compoſition of Bodies, whether it be of Diviſibles or Indiviſibles, is a queſtion which must be rank'd with the Indiſſolvibles: For though it hath been attempted by the moſt illuſtrious Wits of all Philoſophick Ages; yet they have done little elſe, but ſhewn their own diviſions to be almoſt as infinite, as ſome ſuppoſe thoſe of their Subject.
ref: 1661, Joseph Glanvill, chapter V, in The Vanity of Dogmatizing: Or Confidence in Opinions. […], London: […] E. C[otes] for Henry Eversden […], →OCLC, page 53:
glosses: Any substance that can be divided.
duodecimal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: d(y)o͞o'-ō-dĕsʹ-ĭm-əl
ipa: /ˌd(j)uː.əʊˈdɛs.ɪm.əl/
rhymes: -ɛsɪməl
Etymology: From duo- + decimal.
Senses: examples: text: 6B4 is the duodecimal notation for the decimal number 1000.
topics: arithmetic
glosses: Of a number, expressed in base twelve.
Synonyms: base twelve
dozenal
Derived terms: duodecimally
Related terms: duodecic
duodecimal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: d(y)o͞o'-ō-dĕsʹ-ĭm-əl
ipa: /ˌd(j)uː.əʊˈdɛs.ɪm.əl/
rhymes: -ɛsɪməl
Forms: form: duodecimals
Etymology: From duo- + decimal.
Senses: topics: arithmetic
glosses: A number system that uses twelve as its base.
octal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒk.təl/
Forms: form: octals
form: oct
Etymology: From oct- + -al.
Senses: topics: arithmetic
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The number system that uses the eight digits 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.
topics: arithmetic
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A digit or value in the octal number system.
Synonyms: sense: system
word: base 8
sense: system
english: not used in computing
translation: not used in computing
word: octonary
octal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒk.təl/
Etymology: From oct- + -al.
Senses: topics: arithmetic
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Concerning numbers expressed in octal or mathematical calculations performed using octal.
Synonyms: base-8
Derived terms: octal data rate
Related terms: base
binary
decimal
hexadecimal
number system
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: number systems
Senses: topics: arithmetic
synonyms: numeral system
system of numeration
glosses: A set of numerals for representing numbers.
Related terms: base
binary
centivigesimal
decimal
denary
duodecimal
hexadecimal
hexavigesimal
novenary
octal
octonary
quaternary
quattuorsexagesimal
quinary
quinquevigesimal
senary
septemvigesimal
septenary
sexagesimal
ternary
trinary
tridecimal
vigesimal
typhoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtaɪ.fɔɪd/
Etymology: From typhus + -oid.
Senses: glosses: Characterised by or relating to typhus.
typhoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtaɪ.fɔɪd/
Forms: form: typhoids
Etymology: From typhus + -oid.
Senses: examples: text: Typhoid may not worry people as it once did, but it still affects more than 20 million people a year around the world.
ref: 2019, Bill Bryson, The Body: A Guide for Occupants, Black Swan (2020), page 378:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Ellipsis of typhoid fever.
Derived terms: typhoidal
paratyphoid
paratyphoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more paratyphoid
form: most paratyphoid
Etymology: From para- + typhoid.
Senses: glosses: Resembling typhoid.
paratyphoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paratyphoids
Etymology: From para- + typhoid.
Senses: glosses: paratyphoid fever
Derived terms: paratyphoidal
paratyphoid fever
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paratyphoid fevers
Etymology: From para- + typhoid fever.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Any of a variety of acute infectious intestinal diseases resembling typhoid fever but less severe, caused by eating food contaminated with certain bacteria of the genus Salmonella.
Related terms: enteric fever
necrotic enteritis
dengue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛŋ.ɡi/
ipa: /ˈdɛŋ.ɡeɪ/
ipa: /ˈdɛŋ.ɡi/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈɖɛŋ.ɡu/
note: Indic
ipa: /-ɡi/
note: Tanglish, also
ipa: /ˈɖɛŋɡ.ɯ/
ipa: /ˈd̪ɛŋ.ɡɛ/
rhymes: -ɛŋɡi
rhymes: (General American) -ɛŋɡeɪ
Forms: form: dengues
Etymology: From West Indian Spanish dengue in 1828, from the Kiswahili term dinga (in full kidingapopo or kidinga pepo, "a kind of sudden cramp-like seizure caused by an evil spirit", dinga itself meaning sudden cramp-like seizure). The borrowed term changed to dengue in Spanish due to this word existing in Spanish with the meaning "fastidiousness" and the folk etymology referring to the dislike of movement by affected patients of chikungunya which was also reffered to as dengue until the first half of the 20th century.
Senses: glosses: An acute febrile disease of the (sub)tropics caused by the Dengue virus, a flavivirus, transmitted by Aedes mosquitoes, and characterized by high fever, rash, headache, and severe muscle and joint pain.
Synonyms: breakbone fever
dandy fever
dengue fever
Derived terms: antidengue
dengoid
dengue hemorrhagic fever
dengue shock syndrome
getaway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: getaways
form: get-away
Etymology: Deverbal from get away.
Senses: glosses: A means of escape.
examples: text: This dramatic arrival of the figure in landscape had revitalized its whole problem for him, and that on the practice of a métier going a little stale by repetition. No get away from it, Edmund, he had to have the model. And what a model - tinted up by nature herself as the perfect complement of her own harmonics!
ref: 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 58:
glosses: The effecting of an escape.
glosses: A vacation or holiday, or the destination for one.
Synonyms: sense: vacation, holiday
word: leave
word: time off
word: vacation
Derived terms: getaway car
getaway driver
getaway man
getaway
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: get-away
Etymology: Deverbal from get away.
Senses: examples: text: They'd been discussing their getaway plans for weeks.
glosses: Pertaining to an escape, as in a vehicle or plans.
naturopathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: naturopathies
Etymology: From nature + -o- + -pathy.
Senses: topics: alternative-medicine
medicine
sciences
glosses: A system of therapy that avoids synthetic drugs and surgery, while emphasizing the use of natural remedies (plants and the elements) and physical means (massage, acupuncture) to treat illness.
Derived terms: naturopath
naturopathic
naturopathically
naturopathist
Related terms: homeopathy
reflexology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reflexologies
Etymology: From reflex + -ology, derived from Russian.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The study and interpretation of behavior in terms of simple and complex reflexes.
examples: text: Reflexology is based on the idea that different points on the feet correlate to different points in the body and by gentle massage of the feet one can heal the body, unblock energy and ease stress.
ref: 2021, Dr Philippa Kaye, Doctors Get Cancer Too, Vie Books, page 156:
topics: alternative-medicine
medicine
sciences
glosses: A form of complementary medicine involving the stimulation of points on the feet, hands, or ears, in the belief that it will have a beneficial effect on some other parts of the body or to improve general health.
Synonyms: zone therapy
Ebola
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈbəʊlə/
ipa: /iˈboʊlə/
ipa: /ɪˈboʊlə/
rhymes: -əʊlə
Senses: glosses: A river in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Ebola
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈbəʊlə/
ipa: /iˈboʊlə/
ipa: /ɪˈboʊlə/
rhymes: -əʊlə
Forms: form: ebola
Etymology: Named after the river, which flowed near the first outbreak of Ebola that was first identified as Ebola. Reports conflict about who initially coined the name: either Karl Johnson of the American Centers for Disease Control or Belgian researchers.
Senses: examples: text: Bats host many high-profile viruses that can infect humans, including severe acute respiratory syndrome and Ebola. A recent study explored the ecological variables that may contribute to bats’ propensity to harbor such zoonotic diseases by comparing them with another order of common reservoir hosts: rodents.
ref: 2013 May-June, Katie L. Burke, “In the News”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, page 193:
glosses: The Ebola virus.
glosses: Ebola fever.
Hypernyms: sense: virus
word: filovirus
Hyponyms: sense: virus
word: Zaire ebolavirus
sense: virus
word: Ebola Reston
Derived terms: Ebolavirus
ebolavirus
Ebola hemorrhagic fever
Ebola virus disease
Ebola fever
Ebola virus
EHF
EVD
Related terms: Marburg
Marburg virus
Ebola virus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: After Ebola river (area of discovery of type species) + virus. Reports conflict about who initially coined the name: either Karl Johnson of the American Centers for Disease Control or Belgian researchers.
Senses: glosses: Any extremely contagious filovirus infection of African origin that causes Ebola fever, spread through contact with bodily fluids or secretions of infected persons and by airborne particles, caused by the viruses in genus Ebolavirus.
wikipedia: Ebola river
Richard Preston
The Hot Zone
Ebola fever
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after the Ebola River.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: An extremely contagious and often fatal illness caused by the Ebola virus, characterised by fever and internal bleeding, contracted through infected body fluids.
little green men
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of little green man
epididymis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɛpiˈdɪdɪmɪs/
Forms: form: epididymides
form: epididymises
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἐπιδιδυμίς (epididumís), from ἐπί (epí, “upon, over”) + δίδυμος (dídumos, “twin; testicle”).
Senses: examples: text: Most men, I daresay, have never heard of their epididymis.
ref: 2019, Bill Bryson, The Body: A Guide for Occupants, Black Swan (2020), page 332:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A narrow, tightly-coiled tube connecting the efferent ducts from the rear of each testicle to its vas deferens, where sperm are stored during maturation.
Hypernyms: Wolffian duct - embryological precursor
internal genitalia
Derived terms: epididymal
epididymectomy
epididymitis
epididymosome
epididymotomy
parepididymis
luces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of luce
glosses: plural of lux
frankfurt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frankfurts
Etymology: From German Frankfurt. Compare frankfurter.
Senses: examples: text: Sample of frankfurts procured from Stanley Kwiatkowski, Grand Rapids, Mich. Contains excessive amount of cereal.
ref: 1919, Michigan Office of Dairy and Food Commissioner, Annual report of the Dairy and Food Commissioner of the State of Michigan, volume 25, page 81:
text: Frankfurts of the highest quality are prepared generally from a mixture of approximately half beef and half pork.
ref: 1942, Robert Byron Hinman, Robert Bernard Harris, The Story of Meat, page 137:
text: As a kid in the 50s, (before we became infested with the current mish-mash of liquorice allsorts) pork fritz, devon, sliced ham, frankfurts, pork sausages...were all about as common a staple as you care to name. Even the Italians and Greeks of the time ate (and continue to eat) the stuff!!
ref: 2003 June 10, smithxpj, “Ham banned in Broadmeadows”, in aus.consumers (Usenet):
glosses: A frankfurter; a hot dog sausage.
Synonyms: frank
frankfurter
Derived terms: cocktail frankfurt
Related terms: sav
savaloy
flying bishop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flying bishops
Etymology: Compare flying doctor.
Senses: glosses: An itinerant bishop of the Church of England appointed to administer within another's diocese to those who refuse to accept the ordination of women.
Synonyms: english: provincial episcopal visitor
translation: provincial episcopal visitor
word: PEV
from hell
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Forms: form: from Hell
Senses: examples: text: The Hensleys are neighbours from hell.
glosses: Exceptionally bad or unpleasant.
Derived terms: chicken from hell
fuck-me
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: fuck-me pumps
text: Locator for the virgin King, but I love you in your fuck-me pumps
ref: 1974, David Bowie, “We Are the Dead”, in Diamond Dogs:
text: She has a high old time as a supervixen sashaying around in fuck-me shoes that double as fuck-you shoes.
ref: 1990, Vanity Fair, volume 53, page 173:
text: You should have known from the jump / That you always get dumped / So dust off your fuck-me pumps
ref: 2004, Amy Winehouse, Salaam Remi, “Fuck Me Pumps”, in Frank, performed by Amy Winehouse:
text: Yeah, it's just some women just have "fuck me" eyes.
ref: 2015, Seth MacFarlane, Alec Sulkin, Wellesley Wild, Ted 2, spoken by Ted (Seth MacFarlane):
text: She wished she had some fuck-me stiletto thigh-high boots on to give her more of a Domme appearance, but she had seen plenty of femdoms at the club wearing comfortable walking shoes.
ref: 2018, Kallypso Masters, Box Set: Rescue Me Saga Books 4-6 and Bonus Western Dreams:
glosses: Alluring and seductive; sexually exciting.
Related terms: fuck me
fundholder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fundholders
Etymology: From fund + holder.
Senses: glosses: A general practitioner who manages his or her own budget, purchasing healthcare from one or more hospital trusts.
glosses: One who has money in the public funds.
general practitioner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: general practitioners
form: GP
Senses: glosses: A physician who provides primary care; treating acute and chronic illnesses and providing preventive care and health education; a family doctor.
Related terms: general practice
GP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: GPs
form: GP
Senses: topics: video-games
qualifier: roleplaying games; board games; roleplaying games; board games
glosses: Initialism of gold piece.
topics: government
healthcare
glosses: Initialism of general practitioner; also G.P.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
qualifier: artificial intelligence
glosses: Initialism of genetic programming.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Initialism of games played.
qualifier: grand strategy video games
glosses: Initialism of great power.
glosses: Initialism of general principle.
glosses: Initialism of general public.
glosses: Initialism of guinea pig.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of green pea galaxy.
examples: text: I don't think your response really answers the GP's question.
glosses: Initialism of grandparent poster; the person two levels up in a nested conversation thread.
GP
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Initialism of general-purpose.
Derived terms: GPMG
jeep
GP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: Initialism of Green Party.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
qualifier: motor
glosses: Initialism of Grand Prix.
primary care
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: In early 2002, Kaohsiung City Medical Association (the respondent), in an official letter drafted by Disciplinary Committee Director Chen Si-Chuan and sent to members in the name of association Chairman Hsiao Chi-wen, notified members that beginning in February 2002 on a trial basis, primary care clinics in the association's northern and southern jurisdiction would begin a rotating holiday system on Sundays, with those clinics in the southern jurisdiction (the city's Hsinhsing, Lingya, Hsiaokang, Chienchin and Chienchen districts) closing on those Sundays falling on even-numbered dates and those clinics in the northern jurisdiction (the city's Sanmin, Tsoying, Nantze, Chichin, Kushan and Yencheng districts) closing on those Sunday falling on odd-numbered dates.
ref: 2008 December 18, “Ex-officio investigation by the Fair Trade Commission into Kaohsiung City Medical Association's restriction that members of primary care clinic must not see patients every other Sunday, in violation of the Fair Trade Law”, in Fair Trade Commission, archived from the original on 24 Sep 2022:
topics: government
healthcare
glosses: The medical attention that a patient receives upon first contact with a healthcare system; either a general practitioner or the A&E or ER department of a hospital.
Synonyms: primary healthcare
Related terms: secondary care
quaternary care
tertiary care