cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
cheek to jowl
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more cheek to jowl
form: most cheek to jowl
Senses: examples: text: These beach side developments continued for miles and—as we entered the city—were replaced by large hotels, sitting cheek to jowl, just across the highway from the beach which fronted on the gulf.
ref: 2008, David Laursen, Going to (And With) the Dogs, page 161:
text: Blessed with fine, loving parents, the subject of this book lived out a childhood in which all of this reconstructed mindset rested unquestioned, cheek to jowl, alongside the radical proposition continually repeated within his pious family that, as someone said, we should love our enemies.
ref: 2013, T. J. King, Something To Stand The Rain, page 3:
text: For instance, after Steed says she and a Russian spy will be working “cheek to jowl,” Mrs. Peel, with a twinkle in her eye, responds that “his cheek will come nowhere near my jowl.”
ref: 2015, Tom Soter, Investigating Couples, page 89:
glosses: Alternative form of cheek by jowl.
cheek to jowl
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cheek to jowl
form: most cheek to jowl
Senses: examples: text: The Russians used the “cheek to jowl” tactic, closing to less than 50 meters of the Wehrmacht's front line, too close for the Germans to call in artillery or Stuka support. It forced close quarters combat that the Russians had trained to conduct and the Germans had not.
ref: 2010, Professional Journal of the United States Army, page 103:
text: They were cheek to jowl, and whatever Villarreal was telling him had Estevez worried.
ref: 2011, John Lantigua, The Lady from Buenos Aires, page 140:
text: Those two cities that are so cheek to jowl, separated only by a puddle of water and Frisco's pretensions, that they are really one city.
ref: 2014, Mike Royko, Mike Royko: The Chicago Tribune Collection 1984-1997:
glosses: Alternative form of cheek by jowl.
cheek-to-jowl
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cheek-to-jowl
form: most cheek-to-jowl
Senses: examples: text: But the crowds, presumably more dispersed throughout the sprawling conference center here, looked thinner than last year's noticeably more cheek-to-jowl throng in Washington's smaller Marriott Wardman Park Hotel (H&FCL April 05).
ref: 2004, Peter Hoffmann, Hydrogen & Fuel Cell Letter - Volumes 19-21, page 103:
text: A quick journey through Malibu, with its cheek-to-jowl oceanfront development, should be enough to convince even the harshest skeptics of the desirability of preserving as much as possible of the natural character of the remaining magnificent undeveloped coastal zone of California.
ref: 2010, T.G. Berlincourt, Seaside Dream Home Besieged - Colour, page 17:
text: The 2007 anti-smoking law came as a breath of fresh air in France, making meals in cheek-to-jowl bistros far more enjoyable for those who prefer their foie gras without their neighbor's Gaulois an accompaniment.
ref: 2011, Fodor's Dordogne & the Best of Southwest France:
glosses: Alternative form of cheek by jowl.
cheek-to-jowl
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more cheek-to-jowl
form: most cheek-to-jowl
Senses: examples: text: No matter whether a society operates at arm's length or cheek-to-jowl, the women look at each other more and stand a bit closer than do the men.
ref: 2005, Peter S. Gardner, New Directions: Reading, Writing, and Critical Thinking, page 21:
text: Previous to the above process, when the flight deck is packed cheek-to-jowl with aircraft, the deckedge and the forward elevators were used to bring aircraft from the hangar deck to the flight deck, up forward.
ref: 2011, Edward Atkins, Flight Deck, Part 1, page 236:
text: By the time Jenny McCallum played “Rock of Ages,” the pews were packed cheek-to-jowl, little children were sitting on their mothers' laps, and young men were slouching against the wall the way they always do.
ref: 2013, George Shaffner, The Widows of Eden:
glosses: Alternative form of cheek by jowl.
Inchicore
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland (Irish grid ref O 1133).
algebrician
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: algebricians
Etymology: From algebra + -ician.
Senses: examples: text: Michaell Dary, mathematician, and a gunner of the Tower (by profession, a tobacco-cutter), an admirable algebrician, was buryed in the churchyard neer Bethlem on May-day 1679.b
ref: 1898, John Aubrey, Andrew Clark, 'Brief Lives': Chiefly of Contemporaries, page 198:
text: But this idea, which is a general postulate in all demonstrations, has been taken for granted by every algebrician and geometer.
ref: 1999, Joseph-Marie Montmasson, Invention and the Unconscious, page 56:
text: He was an old man, I guess over sixty-six, and an admirable algebrician.
ref: 2015, Ruth Scurr -, John Aubrey: My Own Life, page 282:
glosses: Synonym of algebraist.
synonyms: word: algebraist
algebricians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of algebrician
baunos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bauno
cannon bit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cannon bits
Senses: glosses: A smooth round bit for a horse.
cannon bits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cannon bit
allodge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: allodges
form: allodging
form: allodged
form: allodged
Etymology: From Middle English aloge, partly from Old French alogier and partly from Italian alloggiare.
Senses: examples: text: Let mee freely- enterchange a word with thee ( oh! body ) what rusticall & rude Clowne, very block head, and course conditioned fellow should hee be valiewed, to whose house might happen a Prince or Earle to come to allodge, who would not willingly and most readily giue way,...
ref: 1969, David Morrison Rogers, English recusant literature, 1558-1640 - Volume 183, page 118:
text: An encampment of 30000 footemen, and 6000 horsemen, allodged and fortified in an open Campania: hauing a riuer running on the one side.
ref: 1600, Robert Barret, THE FIFTH BOOKE OF WARRE DISCOVRSES AND MARTIAL DISCIPLINE: THE FOVRTH DIALOGVE., page 157:
text: Upon sight hereof pay unto Edward Chamberlaine, esq., the summe of ten pounds, being for an iron chest fo the use of the deputy leiutenants to allodge the publick money in according to the directions of his Majestie's letters, given under our hands the 12th of July 1665.
ref: 1977, Richard Minta Dunn, Norfolk Lieutenancy Journal, 1660-1676, page 73:
glosses: To lodge; to stay temporarily.
allodges
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of allodge
allodging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of allodge
allodged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of allodge
Earlestown
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the surname Earle + -s- + town.
Senses: glosses: A town in the Metropolitan Borough of St Helens, Merseyside, England (OS grid ref SJ5795).
Magellan goose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Magellan geese
Senses: glosses: upland goose
Magellan geese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Magellan goose
Gadarean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Gadarean
form: most Gadarean
Senses: examples: text: Happier Swine were they than we,
Drowned in the Gadarean sea
ref: 1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Oedipus Tyrannus; Or, Swellfoot The Tyrant: A Tragedy in Two Acts:
glosses: Synonym of Gadarene.
synonyms: word: Gadarene
southern crested caracara
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: southern crested caracaras
Senses: glosses: A species of bird, Caracara plancus, found in South America.
Synonyms: southern caracara
carancho
southern crested caracaras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of southern crested caracara
southern caracara
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: southern caracaras
Senses: glosses: Southern crested caracara.
southern caracaras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of southern caracara
Trumpington
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and ward in the City of Cambridge district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL4454).
riot money
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: He had learned that the great disturbance amongst a portion of the guards was attributed to the failure in issuing a certain rate of allowance which was called riot money. […] Knowing also, that if they were ordered to march for foreign service no such increased rate of allowance was either given or expected, by what rule should it be granted when employed against their fellow-citizens? […] he wished to hear from his majesty’s judge advocate how long it had been the practice of the govenment to issue the increased allowance of riot money.
ref: 1820 June 19, T. C. Hansard (publisher), “House of Commons: Military Disturbance” in The Parliamentary Debates, New Series; Commencing with the Accession of George IV, volume 1, page 1147
text: ’Tis all the same,
He’ll serve instead of riot money, when
Our murmuring troops bivouaque in Thebes’ streets;
And January winds, after a day
Of butchering, will make them relish carrion.
ref: 1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Oedipus Tyrannus; Or, Swellfoot The Tyrant: A Tragedy in Two Acts:
glosses: Additional pay given to soldiers for serving against their fellow citizens, for example in quashing civil disorder.
extra-Anatolian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From extra- + Anatolian.
Senses: glosses: Outside Anatolia.
fire-eyed diucon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fire-eyed diucons
Senses: glosses: A species of tyrant flycatcher, Xolmis pyrope, found in southwest South America, having bright red irides.
fire-eyed diucons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fire-eyed diucon
ringed kingfisher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ringed kingfishers
Senses: glosses: A species of bird, Megaceryle torquata, found in the Americas south of the Rio Grande Valley to Tierra del Fuego.
ringed kingfishers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ringed kingfisher
Rio Grande Valley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Rio Grande Valley
Senses: glosses: A region located in a floodplain draining into the Rio Grande River near its mouth in South Texas and northern Tamaulipas.
wikipedia: Rio Grande Valley
Rio Grande River
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Rio Grande River
Senses: examples: text: He was graduated with the second honors of his class in 1846; assigned to duty with a company of the Engineers, and ordered before the close of the year into active service on the line of the Rio Grande River.
ref: 1864, William Henry Hurlbert, General McClellan and the Conduct of the War, New York: Sheldon and Company, →OCLC, →OL, page 12:
text: The Zuma and Manzo Indians of the area were in the habit of going to the missions in the Spanish provinces below the Rio Grande River to solicit the padres to come to teach and baptize them in their villages.
ref: 1979, James Wakefield Burke, A Forgotten Glory: the Missions of Old Texas, Waco, TX: Texian Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 62:
text: When Mexico gained its independence from Spain, the new country also obtained control over the lands North of the Rio Grande River that had been previously held by the Spanish.
ref: 1991, Gary Reyes, Texas: the Land, the People, the Cities, Mallard Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 10:
text: Leaving Acoma, the captain and his soldiers advanced north-east, reaching the Rio Grande River on 7 September.
ref: 2017, Philip J. Potter, Explorers and Their Quest For North America, Pen & Sword, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 118:
text: In the immediate post-Cold War moment, New Mexico’s military role only expanded in importance, with formal calls for the twenty-first-century U.S. nuclear weapons complex to be consolidated along the Rio Grande River (Secretary of Energy Advisory Board Task Force 1995).
ref: 2021, Joseph Masco, The Future of Fallout, and Other Episodes in Radioactive World-Making, Duke University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 54:
glosses: Alternative form of Rio Grande.
messiah complex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: messiah complexes
Senses: synonyms: Christ complex
savior complex
glosses: A state of mind in which a person holds a belief that he or she is destined to become a savior.
messiah complexes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of messiah complex
Hyacinthe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hyacinthes
Etymology: Borrowed from French Hyacinthe; this surname is predominantly found in Chad and Haiti.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
Related terms: Saint-Hyacinthe
allowment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: allowments
Etymology: From allow + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: On this point Dr. Woodward says: “For the lower grades a daily allowment of one hour for drawing, modelling, cutting, pasting, gluing, and sewing would be enough for positive manual training."
ref: 1887, The Journal of Proceedings and Addresses of the National Educational Association (U.S.):
text: The law concerning the control of the Capitol buildings, the allowment of the rooms for various purposes, and the like, is not clear.
ref: 1902, State of West Virginia, Public Documents - Volume 1:
text: While being in the advance program, the cadets receive an allowment from the government which amounts up to approximately sixty dollars a quarter. Out of this allowment the student must pay for his officers uniform which cost ninty dollars.
ref: 1954, The Iowa Engineer - Volume 55, page 27:
text: Our recommendations to the Claims Committee have varied from recommending full allowment of the claim, partial allowment of the claim to no reimbursement for the claim.
ref: 1975, Annual Report to the Citizens' Advisory Board on Corrections, page 101:
glosses: An amount of money or resources that someone is allotted; an allotment.
examples: text: And therefore they obteined the allowment of God and their own conscience , and the commendation of all godly insnne, and of the whole church.
ref: 1570, A Postil, Or Orderly Disposing of Certeine Epistles, page 334:
text: I have known a patent to be taken from a man after it was allowed, – between the allowment and the issue.
ref: 1885, Boston (Mass.). City Council, Documents of the City of Boston - Volume 3:
text: To encourage students by the allowment of pleasure and amusement," he says that he has already sent orders to New York for a spinning-machine of about one hundred spindles, an air pump, an electrical apparatus, etc.:
ref: 1886, Pioneer Collections, volume 7, page 42:
text: These conditions have prevented that careful preparation of soil so essential to the allowment of good stands and easy after cultivation.
ref: 1892, Louisiana. State. Commissioner of Agriculture, Biennial Report, page 128:
glosses: The act of allowing.
examples: text: Its algebraic part is discussed as a body of arguments which contains an allocation of support and an allowment of possibility for each hypothesis.
ref: 1995, Bernadette Bouchon-Meunier, Ronald R. Yager, Advances in Intelligent Computing - IPMU '94:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A mapping of a hypothesis to the set of arguments that support or reject that hypothesis weighted by the probability of the hypothesis given each argument.
allowments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of allowment
almond-butter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: almond-butters
Senses: examples: text: Most of the good things which Miss Eugenia and Miss Clara were taught to make in the country sound very appetizing, the "almond-butter" especially, à mon goût.
ref: 1886, Notes and Queries, page 185:
text: He was eating of almond-butter, and I long'd for't.
ref: 1930, Harold Reinoehl Walley, John Harold Wilson, Early Seventeenth-century Plays, 1600-1642, page 101:
text: Top off your meal with an almond-butter cake served with warm spiced apples and a mascarpone-caramel sauce.
ref: 2011, Fodor's New Mexico, 8th Edition, page 134:
glosses: Alternative form of almond butter.
almond-milk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Luce, thou art drunk, Luce ; far gone in almond-milk :
ref: 1872, Sir William D'Avenant, The Dramatic Works of Sir William D'Avenant:
text: He made no attempt to argue with her, but signaled to the slave, saying to her, “If you will fetch a pitcher of almond-milk, I will prepare my draught.”
ref: 2008, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Roman Dusk: A Novel of the Count Saint-Germain:
text: All the houses which were round it were of sugar, with galleries towering above galleries; and in the center stood a lofty cake covered with frosting, with fountains round it spouting almond-milk, lemonade and other delicious drinks into the air.
ref: 2012, E. T. A. Hoffmann -, The Story of the Nutcracker:
glosses: Alternative form of almond milk.
McCoy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /məˈkɔɪ/
Forms: form: Coy
form: McCay
form: McCue
form: McGue
form: McHugh
form: McKey
form: McKie
form: McKoy
form: McQuay
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: real McCoy
McCoy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /məˈkɔɪ/
Forms: form: Coy
form: McCay
form: McCue
form: McGue
form: McHugh
form: McKey
form: McKie
form: McKoy
form: McQuay
Senses: examples: text: Far as I know it's the McCoy. You want to count it?
ref: 1970, George V. Higgins, The Friends of Eddie Coyle:
glosses: Synonym of real McCoy.
synonyms: word: real McCoy
Wikepedia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of Wikipedia.
extranatural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more extranatural
form: most extranatural
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of extra-natural.
Jo-ch'iang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 婼羌 Wade–Giles romanization: Jo⁴-chʻiang¹.
Senses: examples: text: These particulars concerning the Jo-ch'iang are mostly stated in the main account:...The fact of bordering on Cer-cen and its southern neighbour may imply that the later Vāshshahri, between Charkhlik and Cer-cen, was originally a Jo-ch'iang station. The extension of the Jo-ch'iang along the whole hinterland south of the mountains is displayed in old Chinese maps also and in that accompanying Professor Herrmann's Die Seidenstrassen.
ref: 1944 July, F. W. Thomas, “The Early Population of Lou-lan-Shan-shan”, in Journal of the Greater India Society, volume XI, number 2, →OCLC, page 55:
text: Sinkiang is linked with Tibet by the Sinkiang-Tibet Highway, which begins at Jo-chʻiang (Charkhlik) in southern Sinkiang.
ref: 1973, Chiao-min Hsieh, ATLAS OF CHINA, McGraw-Hill, Inc., →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 194:
text: The southern route, seemingly preferred by the Chinese, skirted the northern foothills of the Kunlun Mountains on the southern edge of the Tarim Basin. It, too, began at Tun-huang, with stops at Miran 米蘭 (in present-day Jo-chʻiang 若羌 county), Ni-ya 尼雅 (in present-day Min-feng 民豐 county), Khotan, Yarkand, and continued to Kashgar.
ref: 1998, Angela Sheng, “Innovations in Textile Techniques on China's Northwest Frontier, 500—700 AD”, in Asia Major, volume 11, number 2, Academia Sinica, →ISSN, →JSTOR, →OCLC, page 121:
glosses: Alternative form of Ruoqiang.
wikipedia: U.S. Army Topographic Command
underprivilegedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From underprivileged + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being underprivileged.
overprivilegedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From overprivileged + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being overprivileged.
crunkcore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From crunk + -core.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A fusion genre combining cultural and musical elements of crunk, post-hardcore, pop, electronic music, and dance music. It often features screamed vocals, hip-hop beats, and sexually provocative lyrics.
prima materia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin prīma māteria (“first matter”).
Senses: examples: text: The alchemist's initial encounter with the prima materia is characterized by feelings of frustration, bewilderment, disassociation and disintegration.
ref: 1976, Johannes Fabricius, Alchemy: The Medieval Alchemists and Their Royal Art:
topics: alchemy
pseudoscience
glosses: The primitive formless base of all matter, which is the starting material required for the magnum opus and the creation of the philosopher's stone.
citrinitas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: alchemy
pseudoscience
synonyms: xanthosis
coordinate_terms: albedo
nigredo
rubedo
glosses: A "yellowing" process, one of the four major stages of the alchemical magnum opus.
Related terms: flavedo
Min-feng
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Wade–Giles romanization of the Mandarin 民豐 /民丰 (Min²-feng¹).
Senses: examples: text: Satellite photography suggests that the Chinese have plans to launch ICBMs from the Wu-chai launch complex to the Indian Ocean. Since late 1970, they have been building six permanent tracking sites near the Wu-chai rangehead, where they developed the CSS-2 IRBM. Recent photography shows that at least two of these sites are located well south of the CSS-2 flight path from Wu-chai to the regular impact area at Min-feng, some 1,400 nm to the west. In addition, work on a large silo has been under way at Wu-chai since the summer of 1968.
ref: 1972 March 21, “CHINA”, in President's Daily Brief, CIA, page 3:
text: In the far west (Persia and the other countries of the Near East), the Chinese were held to be most remarkable for their figured silks. Fortunately the warm sand of such stations on the Silk Route as Turfan and Min-feng have preserved fragments of the weaves from which we can appreciate the artistry of colour and design as well as the barely credible skill of the weaving technique.
ref: 1974, William Watson, “T’ang Dynasty”, in Ancient China: The Discoveries of Post-Liberation Chinese Archaeology, New York Graphic Society, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 81, column 1:
text: (b) Medium-speed type--Sand dunes whose average annual rate of forward movement is between 5 and 10 meters. Major regions include:[...]the region southwest of the Min-feng oasis, and Wa-shih-hsia, all in the Takla Makan Desert;[...]
ref: 1975, Translations on People's Republic of China, United States Joint Publications Research Service, →OCLC, page 105:
text: This year Min-feng County built a hydropower station by utilizing the water of "Water Way 818." Some brigades of Shang-you Commune, Mo-yu County built more than 10 small power plants by converting electric motors into generators. Lo-p'u County expanded its original hydropower capacity by adding on more generating sets; its generating capacity has greatly increased.
ref: 1978, Translations on People's Republic of China, numbers 418-426, United States Joint Publications Research Service, →OCLC, page 41:
text: The southern route, seemingly preferred by the Chinese, skirted the northern foothills of the Kunlun Mountains on the southern edge of the Tarim Basin. It, too, began at Tun-huang, with stops at Miran 米蘭 (in present-day Jo-chʻiang 若羌 county), Ni-ya 尼雅 (in present-day Min-feng 民豐 county), Khotan, Yarkand, and continued to Kashgar.
ref: 1998, Angela Sheng, “Innovations in Textile Techniques on China's Northwest Frontier, 500—700 AD”, in Asia Major, volume 11, number 2, Academia Sinica, page 121:
glosses: Alternative form of Minfeng (Niya)
wikipedia: U.S. Army Topographic Command
Chilean firetree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Chilean firetrees
Senses: glosses: A species of plant, Embothrium coccineum, found in South America.
Synonyms: Chilean firebush
Chilean firetrees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Chilean firetree
Chilean firebush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Chilean firebushes
Senses: glosses: Chilean firetree
Chilean firebushes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Chilean firebush
Kokyar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kök-yar
form: Kök Yar
Etymology: From Uyghur كۆكيار (kökyar).
Senses: examples: text: On Feb. 16, authorities in nearby Keriye (Yutian) county announced a move to add 254 additional auxiliary members to its police force, with 204 jobs reserved for ethnic Uyghurs and 50 spaces held for Han Chinese, local media reports said. Speaking to RFA, a police officer in Keriye’s Kokyar township confirmed the recruitment drive was under way. “More than 200 [auxiliary] policemen will be recruited soon to patrol the roads, streets, and neighborhoods day and night,” RFA’s source said. “They will also be stationed at various checkpoints to check people coming into the township and other townships in the county.”
ref: 2017, Richard Finney, reporter Eset Sulaiman, “Xinjiang Police Launch Recruitment Drive Following Uyghur Knife Attack”, in Mamatjan Juma, transl., Radio Free Asia:
glosses: A township in Yutian, Hotan prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
examples: text: Next day we marched to Kokyar, twelve miles. Route west, across a sandy ridge two miles off, and then up the gully of the Kokyar river, which flows in a narrow winding valley from south to north, between high ridges of sand and gravel, to the town itself which is the capital of this district.
ref: 1875, H. W. Bellew, Kashmir and Kashghar: A Narrative of the Journey of the Embassy to Kashghar in 1873-74, London: Trübner & Co., →OCLC, page 391:
text: As it was already later in the year, we had chosen the winter route (zamistani) over Kokyar.
ref: 1926, Albert von Le Coq, translated by Anna Barwell, Buried Treasures of Chinese Turkestan, George Allen & Unwin, →OCLC, page 153:
text: Brodie lent only half an ear. He was eying the wall map, comparing it with what he had seen from the chopper. He picked out the three nearest towns—Yarkand, Karghalik, and Kokyar—running north to south. Everything inside a huge semicircle bounded on the west by the Yarkand River and the southeast by the Kunlun Mountains was shaded. That must be the barbed-wire zone guarded by the army. Kokyar lay inside with more than a hundred other villages and hamlets. In this sector a narrow swath marked in red ran northeast, broadening into a shape like the flyswatter Yao was turning in his fingers. Brodie had heard traffice last night, and the map showed a road from Yarkand through Karghalik and Kokyar to the frontier, obviously a military road taking heavy traffic. Yao had laid down his flyswatter and swiveled around to point to a dot slightly west of Kokyar. "We are here, if you are interested, Mr. Brodie," he murmured.
ref: 1978, Hugh McLeave, A Borderline Case, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 148:
glosses: A township in Kargilik, Kashgar prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
Synonyms: Kekeya
Keriye
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Authorities at the Yutian (Keriye) County Agricultural Bureau, Hoten district, called for each work unit to strengthen "management" of bureau staff and retired workers and to guarantee they "don't believe in religion, attend religious activities, or fast," according to an August 3 report on the Agricultural Bureau's Web site.
ref: 2011, “Xinjiang Authorities Implement Ramadan Curbs Amid Renewed Pledges for Tight Controls Over Religion”, in Congressional-Executive Commission on China:
text: On Feb. 16, authorities in nearby Keriye (Yutian) county announced a move to add 254 additional auxiliary members to its police force, with 204 jobs reserved for ethnic Uyghurs and 50 spaces held for Han Chinese, local media reports said. Speaking to RFA, a police officer in Keriye’s Kokyar township confirmed the recruitment drive was under way. “More than 200 [auxiliary] policemen will be recruited soon to patrol the roads, streets, and neighborhoods day and night,” RFA’s source said. “They will also be stationed at various checkpoints to check people coming into the township and other townships in the county.”
ref: 2017, Richard Finney, reporter Eset Sulaiman, “Xinjiang Police Launch Recruitment Drive Following Uyghur Knife Attack”, in Mamatjan Juma, transl., Radio Free Asia:
glosses: Alternative form of Keriya.
Turkology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɝkˈɑləd͡ʒi/
ipa: /tɜːkˈɒləd͡ʒi/
Forms: form: Turcology
Etymology: From Turk + -ology.
Senses: glosses: The study of the languages, history or culture of Turkic peoples.
Related terms: Turkological
Turkologist
laphet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: […] filled with laphet. Fermented tea leaves kneaded with peanut oil, laphet is, hands-down, Myanmar's weirdest and most wonderful contribution to world cuisine.
ref: 2002 August, Gourmet, volume 62, numbers 7-12, page 71:
glosses: Alternative form of lahpet.
Yü-t'ien
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Wade–Giles romanization of the Mandarin 于闐 (Yü²-tʻien²).
Senses: examples: text: The Later Han Annals do not mention Chʻü-lê; but in the Wei lio it appears along with Jung-lu, Han-mi, and Pʻi-kʻang as a petty kingdom dependent on Yü-tʻien or Khotan.
ref: 1921, Aurel Stein, Serindia, volume 3, page 1323:
text: Again, Yü-tʻien or Ho-tʻien (Khotan), as it is now called, has been from time immemorial devoted to Mahometanism, as is amply borne out by Illustrated Notices of Western Countries, printed by Imperial authority.
ref: 1923, The Travels of Fa-hsien, Cambridge University Press, →OCLC, →OL, pages 90–91:
text: During this period the Hsiung-nu were weak and failed to assert their power in the region. The more powerful states, Shan-shan (75) in the Lop region, So-ch’e (76) (Yarqand) and Yü-t’ien (77) (Khotan) had begun to absorb their lesser neighbors.
ref: 1964, William Samolin, East Turkistan to the Twelfth Century, The Hague: Mouton & Co, →OCLC, →OL, pages 27, 86:
text: Yü-t’ien is a state located in an area known as Ho-t’ien since the eighteenth century (not to be confused with the Yü-t’ien District set up in late nineteenth century some 150 kilometers to the east). Ho-t’ien is situated in southwestern Sinkiang just below the northern foothills of the Karakorem Range and near the upper reaches of a water course, the Ho-t’ien or South Ts’ung-ling River. To the west is the Kashgar or North Ts’ung-ling River. The two join the Yerkand River and form the Tarim River system in south-central Sinkiang. These rivers have their headwaters in the Ts’ung-ling range, which is the general term for the eastern part of the Pamir Heights. The White-Jade River and the Green-Jade River, as mentioned in the present book, are probably the Ho-t’ien and the Kashgar.
ref: 1966 [1637], Sung Ying-Hsing, translated by E-tu Zen Sun and Shiou-Chuan Sun, Chinese Technology in the Seventeenth Century: T'ien-kung K'ai-wu, Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, published 1997, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 309, 356:
text: Yü-t’ien 于闐, GSR 97a and 375r: giwo/jiu-d'ien/d'ien, later called Ho-t’ien 和闐, GSR 8e and 375r: g'wa/yua-d'ien/d'ien, since long identified with Khotan. It is to be noted that late in the 19th century a subprefecture with the identical name Yü-t’ien was established in Keriya; this figures i.a. on map A12, square D4 of the Atlas (1962).
ref: 1979, A. F. P. Hulsewé, “Translation of Han shu ch. 96A”, in China in Central Asia: The Early Stage: 125 B.C.-A.D. 23, Leiden: E.J. Brill, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 96:
glosses: Alternative form of Yutian.
wikipedia: U.S. Army Topographic Command
pachychoroid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pachychoroids
Etymology: From pachy- + choroid.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: An especially thick choroid
palaeobeach
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: palaeobeaches
Etymology: From palaeo- + beach.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of paleobeach.
palaeobeaches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of palaeobeach
Yu-tien
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Wade–Giles romanization of the Mandarin 于田 (Yü²-t'ien²).
Senses: examples: text: After one day of observation we met Comrade Ts'uan Hsiao-hua, Secretary of the Party Committee of the Yu-tien Vanguard People's Commune, who is leading the reclamation movement in this region. He told us, "In February of this year, Wu Chi-min, the first secretary of Yu-tien Hsien, led a dozen or so cadres from the people's commune, riding donkeys, carrying water and rations, and prospecting along the Keria River for waste lands. Each day they slept on the sand dunes or on the grasses. They drank water and ate rations. In the journey of several hundred li, the discovered many places with surface water, reeds, and swamps, so they confidently said, 'Where there is water and land, we can grow crops.'
ref: 1961 March 6, Hsiao Ying, Sung Cheng-hou, and others, “A Trip into the Takla Makan Desert”, in SELECTIONS FROM JEN-MIN JIH-PAO, PEIPING, ON GEOLOGY, EXPLORATION, WEATHER FORECASTING, AND CARTOGRAPHY, United States Joint Publications Research Office, →OCLC, page 9:
glosses: Alternative form of Yutian.
Yü-tien
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Wade-Giles romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 于田 (Yü²-t'ien²).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Yutian.
wikipedia: U.S. Army Topographic Command
palaeoprecipitation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: palaeoprecipitations
Etymology: From palaeo- + precipitation.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of paleoprecipitation.
palaeotsunami
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: palaeotsunamis
Etymology: From palaeo- + tsunami.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of paleotsunami.
paleoevolutionary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From paleo- + evolutionary.
Senses: glosses: Relating to paleoevolution
paleoevolution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From paleo- + evolution.
Senses: glosses: Ancient evolution
Related terms: paleoevolutionary
houso
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: housos
Etymology: From hous(ing) + -o.
Senses: glosses: A resident of public housing.
paleoseasonality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From paleo- + seasonality.
Senses: glosses: Ancient seasonality
paraconal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From para- + conal.
Senses: glosses: Relating to a paracone
paraformalin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From para- + formalin.
Senses: glosses: A solution of paraformaldehyde in water
Noyes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɔɪz/
homophone: noise
Forms: form: Noyce
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic derived from Noah.
glosses: An unincorporated community in St. Vincent Township, Kittson County, Minnesota, United States, on the border with Canada.
glosses: A township in Clinton County, Pennsylvania, United States.
parthenoform
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parthenoforms
Senses: glosses: The parthenogenic form of an organism
parthenoforms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parthenoform
fat ball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fat balls
Senses: glosses: Synonym of suet cake (“dietry supplement for birds”).
synonyms: word: suet cake
extra: dietry supplement for birds
fat balls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fat ball
necrobestiality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From necro- + bestiality.
Senses: examples: text: But even if you weren't boycotting the film on the basis of its disgraceful necrobestiality theme, boycotting it on the basis of its vampires is reason enough.
ref: 2012, Charlie Brooker, I Can Make You Hate:
text: American participants intuitively judged a wide variety of enormously immoral acts (e.g., serial murder, consensual incest, necrobestiality, cannibalism) as representative of atheists, […]
ref: 2021, Elaine Howard Ecklund, David R. Johnson, Varieties of Atheism in Science, page 137:
glosses: Sexual activity involving a dead animal.
Related terms: necrozoophilia
suet cake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: suet cakes
Senses: synonyms: fat ball
glosses: A nutritional supplement for wild birds, commonly made of sunflower seeds and wheat or oat flakes mixed with suet, pork fat, or coconut oil.
suet cakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of suet cake
pseudonegative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pseudo- + negative.
Senses: examples: text: The pseudonegative reaction must be carefully differentiated from the positive reaction. It is anaphylactic in nature and due to autolyzed diphtheria bacillus protein.
ref: 1924, George Rudolph Herrmann, Methods in Medicine:
text: The first paper, "The hypnotic induction of hallucinatory color vision followed by pseudonegative afterimages," introduces an ingenious experimental paradigm whereby Erickson is able to explore the genuineness of hallucinatory color vision.
ref: 1980, Milton H. Erickson, Ernest Lawrence Rossi, The Collected Papers of Milton H. Erickson on Hypnosis, page 1:
text: Primary and pseudonegative symptoms. It seems likely that the core deficits in the negative syndrome are poverty of affect and poverty of ideation.
ref: 2001, Ann Mortimer, Sean A. Spence, Managing Negative Symptoms of Schizophrenia, page 41:
glosses: Resembling a negative state or condition.
pseudomyxomatous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pseudomyxomatous
form: most pseudomyxomatous
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to pseudomyxoma.
Yutien
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Wade-Giles romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 于田 (Yü²-t'ien²).
Senses: examples: text: The Weitulake “pyramids” — sand hills in Yutien County now surrounded by transformed oases.
ref: 1974, Chia Yu-chiang, “A Survey of the Takla Makan Desert”, in China Pictorial, number 1, page 36:
text: 253. Blue woolen fabric with pattern dyed by the wax-resist techique (batik) 5th century A.D. (Northern dynasties) Length 11 cm. Unearthed in 1959 from Wuyulaike, Yutien county in Sinkiang
ref: 1975, The Chinese Exhibition A pictorial record of the Exhibition of Archaeological Finds of The People's Republic of China, Burd & Fletcher:
text: We found another Uighur wedding was taking place the morning we were to leave for Yutien....Yutien was a sandy forty miles away and somehow our Toyotas were now acclimated to the desert and had no trouble getting there in what seemed no time at all, or it could have been that the drivers were now more experienced....Finally, I found out that it was a message from Justin, our young California friend, who said he would arrive in Yutien at noon on September 5 with some important “big” news.
ref: 2008, Harry Rutstein, The Marco Polo Odyssey, Bennett & Hastings Publishing, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 203:
glosses: Alternative form of Yutian.
scraffiti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scraffito
crazy as a cootie bug
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: qualifier: simile
glosses: Completely crazy; insane.
crazy as a cootie
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: qualifier: simile
glosses: Completely crazy; insane.
FISA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Notably, however, the FISA wiretapping of Mr. Page that Trump allies are upset about was the 1978 kind that involves warrants, the authority for which is not expiring.
ref: 2023 February 27, Charlie Savage, “Security Agencies and Congress Brace for Fight Over Expiring Surveillance Law”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Acronym of Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
beardog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beardogs
Etymology: From bear + dog.
Senses: examples: text: Fossils of the Order Carnivora found in the dens include members of three families: Amphicyonidae (beardogs), Mustelidae (wolverine and marten-like species), and Canidae (small fox-like species).
ref: 2019, Robert M. Hunt, Jr.; Robert Skolnick; Joshua Kaufman, The Carnivores of Agate Fossil Beds National Monument, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 81:
glosses: Any of the extinct family †Amphicyonidae of large-bodied terrestrial carnivorans.
Related terms: Karelian Bear Dog
beardogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beardog
VVS
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: “Knowing that it’s Cristiano Ronaldo, I’m assuming it’s probably near colorless (F color), likely a VVS quality,” Mr. Khalife said, noting that the diamond appeared to be nearly flawless.
ref: 2025 August 12, Sadiba Hasan, quoting George Khalife, “Cristiano Ronaldo and Georgina Rodríguez Are Engaged. All Eyes Are on the Ring.”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
glosses: Abbreviation of very very slightly (included): a degree of the inclusions in a diamond.
Qira
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Chira
Etymology: Borrowed from Uyghur چىرا (chira).
Senses: examples: text: Passing through Qira County on our way, we were asked to stay by Wang Yijun, Director of the Office of the County Party Committee. He said he was an amateur archaeologist and an old acquaintance of Li Yuchun’s. In 1978 the two men had gone together to the desert in northern Qira County to survey a buried ancient city.
ref: 1989, 车慕奇 [Che Muqi], “Visit to an Ancient City Buried in the Desert”, in 丝绸之路今昔 [The Silk Road, Past and Present], Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, Newly Discovered Relics in the Desert, page 293:
english: The Silk Road, Past and Present
translation: The Silk Road, Past and Present
text: Tamarix forests not only effectively control local sand movement, wind erosion and disasters caused by wind-blown sand, but can also stop sand grains brought by the wind. For example, on the 3333.3 hectacres of planted Tamarix forest at the outer Qira Oasis with 60-70% coverage, the annual sand-blocking amount can reach 700,000 m³. When the wind passes through a Tamarix forest, besides blocking sand, the twigs and leaves of the trees also obstruct the passage of the dust in the air, improving the health situation of humans and livestock. For example, when the wind velocity is 15 m/s, the dust content at 2m height is 1/18 of the content measured at the same height in the outer oasis (observed at Qira County in 1987).
ref: 2001, Wenjiang Liu, Mingting Liu, “Reversing Desertification with Tamarix in China”, in Dov Pasternak, Arnold Schlissel, editors, Combating Desertification with Plants, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 310:
glosses: A county of Hotan prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
glosses: A town in Qira, Hotan prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
glosses: A township in Qira, Hotan prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
Synonyms: sense: from Mandarin Chinese
word: Cele
word: Tselo
word: Ts'e-lo
word: Ts'e-le
spoon worms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spoon worm
penis fish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: penis fishes
form: penis fish
Etymology: From penis + fish.
* (catfish): From its apocryphal ability to enter the penis.
* (worm): From its appearance resembling a human penis.
Senses: glosses: A candiru, a parasitic catfish of the genus Vandellia, alleged to be able to enter the human urethra.
glosses: Any of certain species of Urechis worm, including:
Urechis caupo, a North American spoon worm.
glosses: Any of certain species of Urechis worm, including:
Urechis unicinctus, an East Asian spoon worm.
Synonyms: sense: worm
word: innkeeper worm
sense: Urechis caupo
word: fat innkeeper worm
sense: Urechis unicinctus
word: fat innkeeper worm
Hypernyms: sense: worm
english: spoon worm
translation: spoon worm
word: Urechis
penis fishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of penis fish
fool killer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fool killers
Senses: topics: business
forestry
glosses: Synonym of widow-maker (“dangerous broken tree limb”).
synonyms: word: widow-maker
extra: dangerous broken tree limb
fool killers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fool killer
Chira
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Uyghur چىرا (chira).
Senses: examples: text: The best point for beginning my investigations seemed to be a group of ruins, Uzun-Tetti and other, which lie in the zone of vegetation a few miles north and east of Chira, and another group, Dandan-Uilik and Rawak, which lie far out in the sandy Takla-Makan desert, fifty or sixty miles north of Chira.
ref: 1907, Ellsworth Huntington, The Pulse of Asia: A Journey in Central Asia Illustrating the Geographic Basis of History, Houghton Mifflin Company, →OCLC, →OL, page 169:
text: In one village in Chira county, Hoten, no cases of "illegal religious activity" occurred for a one-year period, after authorities implemented the pledge system, according to a March 18, 2008, report on Fazhi Xinjiang.
ref: 2010, “Authorities in Xinjiang Use Pledge System To Exert Control Over Village Life”, in Congressional-Executive Commission on China:
text: Salamet Memetimin, the communist party secretary for Chaka township’s Bekchan village, in Hotan (in Chinese, Hetian) prefecture’s Chira (Cele) county, was among 97 officials recently charged with disciplinary violations, according to an April 10 report by the state-run Hotan Daily newspaper.
ref: 2017, Qiao Long, “'No Sign' of Kazakh Imam Scheduled For Release From Prison in July”, in Luisetta Mudie, transl., edited by Luisetta Mudie, Radio Free Asia:
glosses: Alternative form of Qira.
wikipedia: U.S. Army Topographic Command
Hartlebury
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Wychavon district, Worcestershire, England (OS grid ref SO8470).
Wellens' syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: First described by Hein J. J. Wellens and colleagues in 1982.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: Wellens' sign
glosses: An electrocardiographic manifestation of critical proximal left anterior descending (LAD) coronary artery stenosis in patients with unstable angina.
Wellens' sign
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Wellens' syndrome.
synonyms: word: Wellens' syndrome
Ironbridge
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From iron + bridge, after the The Iron Bridge.
Senses: glosses: A village in The Gorge parish, Telford and Wrekin district, Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SJ6703).
wikipedia: The Iron Bridge
scoopneck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scoopnecks
Etymology: From scoop + neck.
Senses: glosses: A rounded neckline giving the appearance of a portion scooped out of the garment.
scoopnecks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scoopneck
Qaka
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Chaqa
Etymology: Borrowed from Uyghur چاقا (chaqa).
Senses: glosses: A township in Qira, Hotan prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
wikipedia: Defense Mapping Agency
Synonyms: sense: from Mandarin Chinese
word: Qiaha
word: Ch'ia-ha
word: Ch'i-ko-erh
Westerleigh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Old English westerra (“western”) + lēah (“wood, clearing”).
Senses: glosses: A village in Westerleigh and Coalpit Heath parish, South Gloucestershire district, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref ST6979).
glosses: A neighbourhood on Staten Island, New York City, New York, United States.