cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Roxolani
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Rhoxolani
Senses: glosses: A Sarmatian people documented between the 2nd century BC and the 4th century AD, first east of the Dnieper, and later near the borders of Roman Dacia and Moesia.
Roxie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Roxy.
versecraft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From verse + craft.
Senses: examples: text: The erotics of composition are essential to the process, some prereflective excitation and orientation, some sense that your own little verse-craft can dock safe and sound at the big quay of language.
ref: 1999, Seamus Heaney, “Introduction”, in Beowulf, London: Faber and Faber, page xxvi:
glosses: The art of writing poetry.
versewright
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɜː(ɹ)s.ɹaɪt/
Forms: form: versewrights
Etymology: From verse + wright.
Senses: glosses: A poet.
versewrights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of versewright
Neihuang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: nāʹhwängʹ
Forms: form: Nei-huang
Etymology: From Mandarin 內黃 /内黄 (Nèihuáng).
Senses: examples: text: The tenants of Qiankou village in Henan’s Neihuang county, for example, traditionally entreated their landlords in land-rent matters, but their entreatment was articulated out of the expectation that the landlord ought to live up to his obligation to make land available, share the crop on an equitable basis, and reduce the rent after a meager harvest.
ref: 1983, Ralph Thaxton, China Turned Rightside Up: Revolutionary Legitimacy in the Peasant World, Yale University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 17:
text: Shen Ch’uan-ch’i (656-715) was from Neihuang in Honan province and served at the court of Empress Wu.
ref: 2003, Red Pine, transl., Poems of the Masters, Copper Canyon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 185:
text: State-run China Central Television said Zhou was involved in a neighborhood dispute but did not provide details. It said Zhou fled his home in Neihuang county Sunday after allegedly injuring three people.
ref: 2013 August 20, “3 killed in central China bus stabbings”, in AP News, archived from the original on 08 Sep 2022:
glosses: A county of Anyang, Henan, China.
Bausley with Criggion
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A community (civil parish) in Powys, Wales.
Tangyin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /tæŋˈjɪn/
other: /tɑŋˈ(j)in/
Etymology: From Mandarin 湯陰／汤阴 (Tāngyīn).
Senses: examples: text: In Anyang we first went south to Tangyin county, which is the birth place of Yo Fei, the Sung dynasty people’s hero. In the temple dedicated to him there, effigies of the traitors who betrayed him are cast in iron and are an to kneel in front of his great image. Members of his family have looked after this temple for generations and one of its most ewe possessions is a long scroll in his handwriting.
ref: 1965 April, Rewi Alley, “From Taipeh Shan to Taihang Shan”, in Eastern Horizon, volume IV, number 4, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 27:
text: Second, the oracle bones eventually led to the archaeological site at An-yang and to its scientific excavation. When the inscribed oracle bones first came on the market, the merchants maintained that they came from both T'ang-yin 湯陰 and An-yang in Honan.
ref: [1980, Kwang-chih Chang, “Prolegomena: Five Doors to Shang”, in Shang Civilization, Yale University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 42:
text: The rotting carcasses of dead animals easily produce pathogens, but disinfection material is insufficient, the semi-official China Animal Agriculture Association said on its website, after the farms in Tangyin county were flooded.
ref: 2021 July 27, Hallie Gu Gu, Shivani Singh, “Flood-hit Chinese county needs disinfectants to tackle dead livestock”, in Clarence Fernandez, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 27 Jul 2021, China:
glosses: A county of Anyang, Henan, China.
Wenfeng
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: wǔnʹfǔngʹ
Etymology: From Mandarin 文峰 (Wénfēng).
Senses: examples: text: Encouraging the Return of Lost Property
Zhao Chenguang (official with Wenfeng District People's Procuratorate in Anyang City, Henan Province): People are educated about returning money found from a very young age, however[…]
ref: 2005, Beijing Review, volume 44, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 44:
text: This chapter mainly discusses some factors that influence the name of the restaurants. All examples are from the names of the restaurants registered in Wenfeng District, Anyang city in 1st Jan.2017-1st Jan.2018.
ref: 2020, Cui Jing, “The Sociolinguistic Analysis of the Names of the Local Restaurants--Taking Wenfeng District in Anyang Cty^([sic – meaning City]) as An Example”, in IETI Transactions on Social Sciences and Humanities, volume 9, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 09 Aug 2022, page 5:
text: The fire broke out at Kaixinda Trading Co. in the Wenfeng District, or "High-tech Zone," in Anyang City, the report said.
ref: 2022 November 21, “Factory Fire Kills 36 in China; 2 People Missing”, in Voice of America, archived from the original on 22 Nov 2022:
text: Objective: To explore the effectiveness of art therapy based on painting in ADHD intervene for classroom interfering behaviors. Methods: A total of 60 children with ADHD were randomly selected from three primary schools in Wenfeng District, Anyang City, Henan Province.
ref: 2022 November 28, Yan Chen, Yong Li, “Art therapy based on painting for classroom interfering behaviors in ADHD intervention.”, in Chinese Journal of School Health, volume 43, number 9, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC:
text: For opposite judgment, see the case of an appeal of dispute over catering service contract between Zheng Kunfeng et al. and Ziwei Liufu Roast Goose Restaurant in Wenfeng District of Anyang City (Anyang Intermediate People's Court of Henan Province (2011) An Min Yi Zhong Zi No.394).
ref: 2023, Jiayong Zhang, “Legal Regulation in the Overlapping Field at the Stage of Performance of Contract”, in Shiquan Sun, transl., Modes of Regulation in the Intermediate Field Between Contract Law and Tort Law: A Chinese Law Perspective, →DOI, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 255:
glosses: A district of Anyang, Henan, China.
Beiguan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: bāʹgwänʹ
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 北關 /北关 (Běiguān).
Senses: examples: text: On November 21, 1996, the Beiguan District People's Court in Anyang sentenced Guo to five years in prison.
ref: 1997, Beijing Review, volume 40, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 27, column 3:
text: Local government shares very little information between different sectors, which makes it necessary to establish specialized information database of aged population. In the pilot project of CNCA, local committees take the opportunity of implementing established community population files for the elderly. For example in the Beiguan district city of Anyang Henan province, over 35,000 seniors basic data as been entered in the information database.
ref: 2013, Fengchun Yang, “The Aging Society and ICT Application in China”, in Aging Society and ICT: Global Silver Innovation, IOS Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 44:
text: The lawsuit was filed at the People's Court of Beiguan District, Anyang, in China’s Henan province on May 6.
ref: 2021 May 7, Gustavo Henrique Ruffo, “Auto Shanghai 2021 Chinese Protester Sues Tesla For Defamation”, in InsideEVs, archived from the original on 07 May 2021:
text: Consequently, in September 2021, a monitoring initiative was executed across five distinct areas within Anyang City, encompassing Linzhou City, Long'an District, Yindu District, Beiguan District and Anyang County.[…]
We performed two-dimensional PCA analysis on the water quality data normalized for 2020 (Fig. 2a), which revealed that Linzhou and Yindu were situated in the region where PC1 was less than 0.3, while Beiguan and Anyang were located in the region where PC1 was greater than 0.9.
ref: 2024 June 5 [2024 January 16], Shengqiang Tu, Qingqian Li, Lei Nie, Hongjie Gao, Huibin Yu, “Appling^([sic – meaning Applying]) fluorescence spectroscopy with absolute principal component coefficient to explore dynamic migration of DOM fractions from an urbanized river during torrential rainfall”, in Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy, volume 314, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 08 May 2024:
glosses: A district of Anyang, Henan, China.
Long'an
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈlɔŋˌɑn/
/-æn/
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 隆安 (Lóng'ān).
Senses: examples: text: The crash happened at 10am when the bus, apparently swerving to avoid a cyclist, plunged down a cliff in Pingshan village, Long'an county, about 70km west of Nanning. It was on its way to the De Tian Waterfall on the China-Vietnam border.
ref: 2002 February 15, “Mainland to complete crash probe in three weeks”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 18 Sep 2021:
glosses: A county of Nanning, Guangxi autonomous region, China.
Long'an
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈlɔŋˌɑn/
/-æn/
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 龍安 /龙安 (Lóng'ān).
Senses: examples: text: The parities and litter sizes of 204 litters of piglets from 2012 to 2014 in Nongjiabao Pig Farm in Long'an District of Anyang city were investigated to study the reproductive performance of LandracexYorkshire sow according to the parities and hybridization seasons.
ref: 2014, Wenshuai (李文帅) Li, 郭吉利 [Guo Jili], “胎次和配种季节对长大二元母猪繁殖性能的影响 [Influence of Different Parities and Mating Seasons on the Reproductive Performance of LandracexYorkshire Sow]”, in 养猪 [Swine Production], number 4, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 May 2022, page 44:
english: Swine Production
translation: Swine Production
text: The third clip, which runs from 1:25 to 1:38, shows an aerial view of firefighters draining floodwaters on a main road in Anyang’s Long’an district on Thursday afternoon, the fire department said.
ref: 2021 July 22, “Henan Firefighters Rescue Residents From 'Record' Flooding in Anyang, China”, in Yahoo!, archived from the original on 09 Sep 2023:
glosses: A district of Anyang, Henan, China.
Linzhou
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 林州 (Línzhōu).
Senses: examples: text: Linfeng Aluminium, based in Linzhou in Henan province, also produces aluminium bars and aluminium alloy bars, and has installed electric power generating capacity of 110 megawatts.
ref: 2007 November 6, “China's Zhongfu to buy mid-sized aluminium producer”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 13 May 2022, Oil Report:
text: Further evidence comes from Linzhou County, Henan Province, in north China, however, whose boundaries encompass an area of about 2,000km² of dry, hilly country with a rapidly industrialising city at its core, and a population of about a million.
ref: 2008 June, Oliver Tickell, “Nitrates and cancer”, in The Ecologist, volume 38, number 5, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 14, column 2:
text: The relationship between nitrate concentration in drinking water and esophageal cancer has been inconclusive. We investigated this association in the representative high-risk areas of Linzhou and Anyang City.
ref: 2010, T.T. Yu, A.G. Zhou, X.Q. Li, H.S. Cai, Y.D. Liu, “Nitrate in drinking water in relation to the incidence and mortality of esophageal cancer, Linzhou-Anyang area, China”, in Water-Rock Interaction XIII, CRC Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 497:
glosses: A county-level city of Anyang, Henan, China.
thoughts and prayers
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: Shortened from phrases such as the victims will be in our thoughts and prayers.
Senses: examples: text: One, “Thoughts and Prayers,” was for the drummer Jo Jones; it included a sermonette for the high-hat cymbal. Mr. Hamilton dedicated another, “Just Play the Melody,” to Mr. Roach.
ref: 2007 August 28, Ben Ratliff, “Headliner Can’t Make It? Here’s a First-Class Fill-In”, in New York Times:
text: Another meme shows an empty van. “Excellent news,” it reads. “The first truckload of your thoughts and prayers has just arrived.”
ref: 2018 February 20, AJ Willimgham, “How ‘thoughts and prayers’ went from common condolence to cynical meme”, in CNN:
glosses: Used by officials and celebrities as a condolence after a tragic event.
versicoloured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more versicoloured
form: most versicoloured
form: versicolored
Senses: synonyms: versicolorate
versicolorous
glosses: Of various colours; variegated.
versicolorate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Synonym of versicoloured (“of various colours”).
synonyms: word: versicoloured
extra: of various colours
versicolorous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Synonym of versicoloured (“of various colours”).
synonyms: word: versicoloured
extra: of various colours
versemanship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The art of writing poetry.
eugeria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From eu- + Ancient Greek γῆρας (gêras, “old age”) + -ia Aristotle used εύγηρίαν in his
"Art of Rhetoric"
Senses: glosses: A good quality of life as one grows into old age. it is the ideal condition of old people who are free of physical illness, injury, and dysfunctional psychological or social problems.
vicegerentship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vicegerentships
Etymology: From vicegerent + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The role or status of a vicegerent.
vicegerentships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vicegerentship
vibromotive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to vibratory motion.
vibrometric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to vibrometry.
Climpson
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Victorianize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Victorianizes
form: Victorianizing
form: Victorianized
form: Victorianized
Etymology: From Victorian + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To make Victorian.
Victorianized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Victorianize
Victorianizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Victorianize
Victorianizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Victorianize
victuallership
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: victuallerships
Etymology: From victualler + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The state or business of a victualler.
victuallerships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of victuallership
vigentennial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Jung strongly identified with the word-association experiments and chose to lecture on that work at the September, 1909 vigentennial celebration of the founding of Clark University at Worcester, Massachusetts […]
ref: 2005, D. Brett King, Michael Wertheimer, Max Wertheimer and Gestalt Theory, page 83:
glosses: Relating to a period of twenty years.
YHM
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Initialism of you have mail.
vijao
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Besides the chair and rider, they carry a roll of leaves of the vijao, a species of banana-tree, which they gather near Ibague, in order to form the huts that it is necessary to construct at night, or, if overtaken by heavy rains; […]
ref: 1819, Sir Richard Henry Bonnycastle, Spanish America, page 204:
glosses: A tree of the banana family.
vilifyingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more vilifyingly
form: most vilifyingly
Etymology: From vilifying + -ly.
Senses: glosses: So as to vilify.
vilifyings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vilifying
Gatehead
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small village west of Kilmarnock, East Ayrshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS3936).
Related terms: Gateshead
vinaigretted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From vinaigrette + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Dressed in a vinaigrette (acidic condiment).
vindicatively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more vindicatively
form: most vindicatively
Etymology: From vindicative + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a vindicative manner.
vindresser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vindressers
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of vinedresser.
vindressers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vindresser
Vineyarder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Vineyarders
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Martha's Vineyard.
Vineyarders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Vineyarder
vintener
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vinteners
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of vintner.
vinteners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vintener
Viqueen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Viqueens
Etymology: From queen, as though the second element of Viking were king.
Senses: examples: text: I am a Viqueen bold / Far over the sea! / I let my standard fly / Boldly and free!
ref: 1852, Charles Hale, To-day: A Boston Literary Journal, volume 1, page 43:
text: Janice Liedl (see Further Reading) has documented balls organized by Lady Aberdeen (consort of the Governor General) in Ottawa (1896) and Montréal (1898), at which guests dressed as 'Vikings and Viqueens', so affirming, as Lady Aberdeen wrote in her diary, the 'Vikings first discovering Canada'
ref: 2021, Gordon Campbell, Norse America: The Story of a Founding Myth, page 143:
glosses: A female Viking.
glosses: A member of the Minnesota Vikings, a professional American football team.
the oldest trick in the book
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: A method of deception or trickery that has been overused so many times before that it should therefore be well-known or remain as common knowledge to everyone.
Viqueens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Viqueen
Lerești
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Lerești.
Senses: glosses: A village and commune of Argeș County, Romania.
Ludești
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Romanian Ludești.
Senses: glosses: A commune of Dâmbovița County, Romania.
glosses: A village in Ludești, Dâmbovița County, Romania.
virgaters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of virgater
Virginid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Virginids
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Any meteor of a group of meteor showers emanating mostly from the constellation Virgo between February and May.
Virginids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Virginid
virilify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: virilifies
form: virilifying
form: virilified
form: virilified
Etymology: From virile + -ify.
Senses: glosses: To make virile.
virilified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of virilify
virilifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of virilify
virilifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of virilify
Merișani
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Romanian Merișani.
Senses: glosses: A commune of Argeș County, Romania.
glosses: A village in Merișani, Argeș County, Romania.
glosses: A village in Băbăița, Teleorman County, Romania.
glosses: A village in Dobrotești, Teleorman County, Romania.
chenda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chendas
Senses: glosses: A type of percussion instrument used in Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka.
virtued
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From virtue + -ed.
Senses: examples: a many-virtued man
glosses: Having the specified kind or number of virtues.
Modelu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Modelu.
Senses: glosses: A village and commune of Călărași County, Romania.
Mogoșani
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Mogoșani.
Senses: glosses: A village and commune of Dâmbovița County, Romania.
glosses: A village in Scoarța, Gorj County, Romania.
Moroeni
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Romanian Moroeni.
Senses: glosses: A commune of Dâmbovița County, Romania.
glosses: A village in Moroeni, Dâmbovița County, Romania.
Mânzălești
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Romanian Mânzălești.
Senses: glosses: A commune of Buzău County, Romania,
glosses: A village in Mânzălești, Buzău County, Romania.
Mârzănești
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Mârzănești.
Senses: glosses: A village and commune of Teleorman County, Romania.
viscidize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: viscidizes
form: viscidizing
form: viscidized
form: viscidized
Etymology: From viscid + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To make or become viscid.
viscidizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of viscidize
viscidized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of viscidize
viscidizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of viscidize
Mălureni
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Romanian Mălureni.
Senses: glosses: A commune of Argeș County, Romania.
glosses: A village in Mălureni, Argeș County, Romania.
glosses: A village in Nicorești, Galați County, Romania.
Visitandine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Visitandines
Senses: synonyms: Nun of the Visitation
glosses: A member of the Order of the Visitation of Holy Mary.
Visitandines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Visitandine
Mărăcineni
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Mărăcineni.
Senses: glosses: A village and commune of Argeș County, Romania.
glosses: A village and commune of Buzău County, Romania.
Vizantea-Livezi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Romanian Vizantea-Livezi.
Senses: glosses: A commune of Vrancea County, Romania.
vivicremation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vivicremations
Senses: glosses: A burning alive.
vivicremations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vivicremation
voidless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From void + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a void.
volitiency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The property of being volitient.
volsellums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of volsellum
Volstead
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Volsteadian
Volsteadism
Volsteadian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Volsteadian
form: most Volsteadian
Etymology: From Volstead + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Andrew Volstead (1860–1947), American Republican politician involved in introducing Prohibition legislation.
vorlooper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vorloopers
Senses: glosses: A boy who assisted a wagon driver by watching the oxen and checking for obstacles.
vorloopers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vorlooper
vorondreo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vorondreos
Senses: glosses: A bird, the courol (Leptosomus discolor).
vorondreos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vorondreo
vorticiform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: In the shape of a vortex.
vulgarish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more vulgarish
form: most vulgarish
Etymology: From vulgar + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Somewhat vulgar.
Vougeot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Vougeots
Senses: glosses: Wine produced in the French village of Vougeot in Côte de Nuits of Burgundy.
Vougeot
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A commune in Côte-d'Or department, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France.
time switch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: time switches
form: time-switch
form: timeswitch
Senses: examples: text: A time switch with astronomical adjustment switches the warning signs on at sunset.
ref: 1939 November, “Pertinent Paragraphs: Traffic Lights at Crossings on Manx Electric Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 361:
topics: business
electrical
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A switch activated automatically at a preset time.
Related terms: word: timer
english: verbal form
translation: verbal form
word: time-switch
Vougeots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Vougeot
time switches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of time switch
timeswitch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: timeswitches
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of time switch.
timeswitches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of timeswitch
HALEU
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: HALEUs
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of high-assay low-enriched uranium; enriched uranium of 5%-20% enrichment.
Hypernyms: sense: uranium
word: LEU
sense: uranium
word: EU
sense: uranium
word: U
moneyscape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moneyscapes
Etymology: From money + -scape.
Senses: examples: text: I've nothing against money, except when I don't have it. But artists make things and things enter the turbulent economic moneyscape.
ref: 2007, The Recorder: A Journal of the American Irish Historical Society, page 58:
text: It's the story of where the bleak moneyscape the twenty-somethings face came from.
ref: 2015 April 23, Rob Stock, “Young New Zealanders get a voice in Ruth, Roger and Me”, in Stuff:
text: For individuals, if you want to stay rich in the current moneyscape, it's best to take the haircut and accept your fifty million and walk.
ref: 2020, Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future, page 404:
glosses: A financial environment; the state of an economy.
examples: text: This has also been the case in other Indian cities, for example, South Delhi has been turned into a 'moneyscape' (King, 1990a).
ref: 1994, Paul McCarthy, Postmodern Desire, Learning from India, page 116:
text: The gleam of Manhattan's moneyscapes – the lavish fundraising banquets, the mansions, the clothes – have an Arabian Nights allure.
ref: 2010 September 23, Peter Rainer, “Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps: movie review”, in The Christian Science Monitor:
text: In the past I looked down on neighborhoods like Lincoln Square and East Sixth Street as too cute, fabricated urban moneyscapes for superficial suburbanites without taste, without a sense of adventure.
ref: 2014 August 22, Sam Anderson-Ramos, “On Leaving Dove Springs: A meditation on neighborhood, fear, family, and change”, in The Austin Chronicle:
glosses: A location that is frequented by the rich.
moneyscapes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of moneyscape
Shancheng
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: shänʹchǔngʹ
Etymology: From Mandarin 山城 (Shānchéng).
Senses: examples: text: The Hebi Municipal CCP Committee, Henan, recently took stern actions against Zhang Tianpu, secretary of the Shancheng district carton plant party branch in Hebi Municipality, who embezzled over 3,300 jin of grain from January 1975 to July 1976 and persecuted Lu Binmei, a staff member of the plant who discovered the embezzlement and reported it to the grain departments.
ref: 1980 April 11 [1980 April 2], “Henan Corruption Case”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 072, →ISSN, →OCLC, page P 3:
text: Also in Henan, a 13-year-old girl from Shancheng District of Hebi City was beaten to death by her own mother, probably because of her poor academic record.
ref: 2021, Dongping Yang, “Toward Educational Modernization: Strengthening Institutions and Increasing Capacity”, in Chinese Research Perspectives on Educational Development, volume 5, →ISBN, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 8:
glosses: A district of Hebi, Henan, China.
Qibin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈt͡ʃi.bɪn/
/-bin/
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 淇濱／淇滨 (Qíbīn, literally “Qi River (淇河) shore”); replacement for the name Jiao District 郊區／郊区 (Jiāoqū) from 2001.
Senses: examples: text: In the second order, the population of Qibin District and Heshan District is 85,971 and 68,402 respectively, the sum of which is 154,373.
ref: 2010, Y. Chen, “Scaling Analysis of the Cascade Structure of the Hierarchy of Cities”, in Bin Jiang, Xiaobai Yao, editors, Geospatial Analysis and Modelling of Urban Structure and Dynamics, Springer, →DOI, →ISBN, →ISSN, →OCLC, pages 109–110:
text: In its quest for new economic growth in the reform period, the local state of Hebi decided to establish a new growth center away from the hilly mining areas, where the environment and transportation were both less than desirable. The Qibin District was built as the new growth center for Hebi City. The construction of an ETDZ at Qibin as a greenfield project in an agricultural area was far easier and more desirable than building such a center in any of the mining areas, where transportation and the physical environment were, and still are, inconvenient and unattractive.
ref: 2011, Liu Yungang et al., “Local state and administrative urbanization in post-reform China: A case study of Hebi City, Henan Province”, in Cities, published 2012, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 111, column 1:
text: In the surrounding areas of Qibin District, Hebi City in the north of northern Henan, the content of element zinc in wheat grains is high.
ref: 2017, Ruixue (夏瑞雪), et al. Xia, “豫北地区小麦籽粒矿质元素含量分析 [Analysis of Mineral Element Content of Wheat in Northern Area of Henan Province]”, in 核农学报 [Journal of Nuclear Agricultural Sciences], volume 31, number 3, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 30 Jun 2022:
english: Journal of Nuclear Agricultural Sciences
translation: Journal of Nuclear Agricultural Sciences
glosses: A district of Hebi, Henan, China.
wikipedia: :zh:淇河 (衛河支流)
Xinxiang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: shǐnʹshyängʹ
Forms: form: Hsin-hsiang
form: Sinsiang
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 新鄉 /新乡 (Xīnxiāng).
Senses: examples: text: Despite these restrictions on the very largest cities, however, it was our impression on the trip that many intermediate cities were being allowed to grow. For example, in Hsinhsiang City in north Honan Province where we spent several days, there had been a tremendous growth in new factories in the last twenty years and a correspondingly great growth in population.
ref: [1977, “The Imapct of Small-scale Industry on Chinese Society”, in Rural Small-scale Industry in the People's Republic of China, University of California Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, pages 219-220:
text: The letters of reply from the party committees of Henan Province and Xinxiang Region show that they have taken a clear stand and assumed a serious posture with regard to this case.
ref: 1980, Hugh Thomas, transl., Comrade Editor: Letters to the People's Daily, Hongkong: Joint Publishing Co., →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 195:
text: In Xinxiang, a city north of Zhengzhou, the provincial capital at the center of the disaster, about 100 people were stranded on the second floor of an elementary school.
ref: 2021 July 22, Keith Bradsher, Steven Lee Myers, “‘The Water Came So Fast’: Floods Leave Scores Stranded in China”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 Jul 2021:
glosses: A prefecture-level city of Henan, China.
glosses: A county of Xinxiang, Henan, China.
Huixian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 輝縣 /辉县 (Huīxiàn).
Senses: examples: text: From the city of Xinxiang, get a bus to Huixian, then switch to a Nanping-bound bus.
ref: 2016, Joshua Foer, Dylan Thuras, Ella Morton, “East Asia”, in Atlas Obscura, New York: Workman Publishing, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 150, column 2:
text: “The most, most crucial thing is that we don’t have food at the moment. We haven’t eaten since the morning,” said Li Xiqin, chief of the Gongji Hospital of Huixian city, where flooding has left her stranded on the hospital premises with 380 nursing home residents, 150 patients and 150 staff members.[...]On Wednesday, Xinxiang, a city of 5 million that includes Huixian, reported a two-hour rainfall rivaling the deluge in Zhengzhou, local news outlets reported.
ref: 2021 July 22, Pei Lin Wu, Rebecca Tan, “Death toll in China floods climbs to at least 33 as rains spread and more cities call for help”, in Washington Post, archived from the original on 22 Jul 2021:
text: Born in 2005 in Huixian City of central Henan province, Liu, whose nickname is B-Girl 671, is one of the country’s young, hungry talents, and sits in the higher echelon of the female breakdancing world.
ref: 2024 August 8, Meredith Chen, “Liu Qingyi: China’s breaking prodigy aiming to make more history at Paris Olympics”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 09 Aug 2024, Paris Olympics 2024:
glosses: A county-level city of Xinxiang, Henan, China.
Weihui
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: wāʹhwāʹ
Etymology: From Mandarin 衛輝 /卫辉 (Wèihuī).
Senses: examples: text: In two days we came to Weihui, and the land part of the journey was now over.
ref: 1901, Clive Bigham, A Year in China, 1899-1900, London: Macmillan and Co, Ltd., →OCLC, →OL, page 35:
text: On February 28 Marshal Chang Hsiao-liang went to Weihui to direct his men in crossing the Yellow River.
ref: 1930, Jermyn Chi-hung Lynn, “The Mukden Party”, in Political Parties in China, published 1975, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 205:
text: This strange procession marched through the streets of Weihui, a town in Henan, central China, on November 4. A donkey meat-seller engaged four men to walk down the main street, past the social security office, dressed as "devils" - the Japanese soldiers that occupied China in the Second World War.
ref: 2008 November 12, “Scandal in China: soldiers work for butchery”, in France 24, archived from the original on 19 Sep 2021:
text: “Please pay attention to Xinxiang, Weihui and Anyang,” one user pleaded on the microblogging site Weibo. “Villages are being drowned; mudslides are starting and there are already too many people in need of help at collapsed roads.”
“In the small city of Weihui, it’s been raining for three days already,” said another user. “Some villages have been relying entirely on local residents without any outside support!”
ref: 2021 July 22, Pei Lin Wu, Rebecca Tan, “Death toll in China floods climbs to 33 as rains spread and more cities call for help”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 Jul 2021, Asia:
glosses: A county-level city of Xinxiang, Henan, China.
Fengquan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: fǔngʹchüǎnʹ
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 鳳泉 /凤泉.
Senses: examples: text: This article takes one of the abandoned land of malm mining, which is located in the suburbs of Fengquan District in Xinxiang City of Henan Province, as its research zone to explore the new mode of the environmental governance of abandoned land.
ref: 2014, Yichuan Zhang, Jiangping Wang, Lifang Qian, “Ecological Governance Research on Suburban Abandoned Land of Malm Mining Based on the Concept of Cost-effectiveness”, in Electronic Journal of Geotechnical Engineering, volume 19, number 22, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 28 Apr 2018, page 10071:
text: Business owner Han Yuan and her employees loaded boxes of disinfectant onto a truck for delivery to the city’s Fengquan district, one of the worst-hit areas. “This is the city that raised me, and every one of us is devoting all we have to protect this city,” she said.
Three military helicopters were used to bring drinking water, medicine, food and other relief items to about 20,000 people in inaccessible areas, including Xinxiang’s Hongzhou and Yuhe townships, the official Xinhua News Agency said.
ref: 2021 July 25, Drake Kang, “China sends supplies to flooded area, rebuilds barriers”, in AP News, archived from the original on 25 Jul 2021:
text: Fengquan district is relatively small. We visited all 5 towns and townships, while in other districts, we visited 8–9 towns and townships, respectively.
ref: 2021 November 13, Wei Xu, Fen Xu, Yunzhe Liu, Dan Zhang, “Assessment of rural ecological environment development in China’s moderately developed areas: a case study of Xinxiang, Henan province”, in Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC:
glosses: A district of Xinxiang, Henan, China.
Muye
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Mu-yeh
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 牧野 (Mùyě).
Senses: examples: text: * Says signs smart city strategic cooperation framework agreement with people’s government of Muye District, Xinxiang
* Says to build city cloud data center and public service platform in Muye
ref: 2015 December 24, “BRIEF-Enjoyor Co signs smart city cooperation framework agreement”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 09 Sep 2022, Technology, Media and Telecommunications:
glosses: A district of Xinxiang, Henan, China.
Hongqi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ho͝ongʹchēʹ
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 紅旗 /红旗 (Hóngqí, literally “red flag”).
Senses: glosses: A district of Xinxiang, Henan, China.
Huojia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: hwǔʹjyäʹ
Forms: form: Huo-chia
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 獲嘉 /获嘉.
Senses: examples: text: At the time of the poet’s birth, his father Li Ssu was serving as magistrate of Huo-chia district (in modern Honan).
ref: [1969, James J. Y. Liu, “Biographical Sketch”, in The Poetry of Li Shang-yin, Chicago & London: University of Chicago Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 14:
text: […]of the Kangtsun Commune in Huochia County in the central province of Honan have launched an upsurge in spring cultivation work and preparations for spring farming.
ref: [1969, Hsinhua Selected News Items, numbers 1-26, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 9, column 1:
text: Still others sternly criticize the inspection team of the Hsinhsiang Prefectural CCP Committee and the Huochia County CCP Committee for its attempt to cover up Comrade Liu Wen-hao. Comrade Ma Ming-hsi, secretary of the Huochia County CCP Committee and former leader of the Hsinhsiang Prefectural CCP Committee's work team stationed in Huochia County, also sent us a letter saying that he was willing to accept the criticism of newspapers and masses.
ref: [1978 July 17 [1978 July 10], “Make Revolution and Don't Practice 'Officials Covering Up For Officials'”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 137, →ISSN, →OCLC, page E 3:
text: In February, we received a letter signed the poor and lower middle peasants of Xiaoxiguan Brigade located in Huojia County, Henan, exposing Liu Wenhao, a national government cadre in their brigade and the vice-director of the county external trade bureau, for his squandering and wastefulness in holding a wedding feast for his son. We sent the letter to the Chinese Communist Party Committee of Xinxiang Region, asking them to help us investigate. The Xinxiang Regional Committee, together with the Huojia County Committee, organized an investigation team to do some on-the-spot research.
ref: 1980, “The Masses Dare to Speak”, in Hugh Thomas, transl., Comrade Editor: Letters to the People's Daily, Hongkong: Joint Publishing Co., →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, pages 191–192:
glosses: A county of Xinxiang, Henan, China.
Beilby
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Beilbys
Etymology: Variant of Bielby.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Yuanyang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: yüǎnʹyängʹ
Etymology: From Mandarin 元陽 /元阳 (Yuányáng).
Senses: examples: text: The same report also said that between six and seven thousand Moslems in Yuanyang County, Yunnan Province, staged an armed uprising last July.
ref: 1975 December 28, “Calling for independence”, in Free China Weekly, volume XVI, number 51, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3, column 3:
text: Yuanyang terraced fields lie within the Yuanyang county of Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture in Yunnan Province, on the south part of Ailao Mountain, They are majestic and extend through the whole of Honghe, Yuanyang, Lüchun and Jinping counties on the south bank of the Honghe River. Only within Yuanyang county does it cover an area of about 17,000 mu (a Chinese unit, one mu equals about 667 sq. m), which makes Yuanyang the core area of the Honghe Hani terraced fields.
ref: 2010, Dong Huai, “Yuanyang Terraced Fields”, in Discovering China: 50 Amazing Places in China, Better Link Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 140:
text: In fact, some of the seventy-three counties in Yunnan classified as poor contained attractive areas, yet few of these received either provincial or central government support for tourism development. For instance, the spectacular terraced rice fields of Yuanyang county in Honghe prefecture, designed 1,000 years ago during the Tang dynasty, are of a style rarely found in China.
ref: 2011, John A. Donaldson, Small Works: Poverty and Economic Development in Southwestern China, Ithaca; London: Cornell University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 111:
text: My room has an unobstructed vista of the terraces cascading down the valley like a muddy waterfall. The night is serenaded by a frog chorus and at dawn I’m up with the rooster crow, ready to test my walking boots.
Tourism in Yuanyang county has been designed for the tour-bus class, who follow a loop road around the valley, stopping off at various platforms to photograph the rice terraces but missing the points of interest in between.
ref: 2020 July 4, Thomas Bird, “Hiking the Yuanyang rice terraces - get off the beaten track for the real deal”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 Jul 2020, Travel:
glosses: A county of Honghe, Yunnan, China.
Yuanyang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: yüǎnʹyängʹ
Etymology: From Mandarin 原陽 /原阳 (Yuányáng).
Senses: glosses: A county of Xinxiang, Henan, China.
Yanjin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: yěnʹjǐnʹ
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 延津 (Yánjīn).
Senses: examples: text: Three counties in Honan along the old course of the Yellow River in an area with poor soil covering either sandy and saline-alkali land or fields liable to drought or waterlogging, waged stubborn struggles against the natural disasters of flood, salinity and alkalinity, drought, and sandstorms. In 1968 the Yenchin County Revolutionary Committee led the people in digging irrigation canals, draining waterlogged areas, leaching alkaline and saline soil, and planting trees.
ref: [1975, “Three Former Grain-Deficient Provinces Show Surpluses”, in New China's First Quarter-Century [新中国的二十五年], 1st edition, Peking: Foreign Languages Press, sourced from Hsinhua News Agency and Chinese newspapers, →OCLC, page 188:
english: 新中国的二十五年
translation: 新中国的二十五年
text: The revolutionary committee of Yenchin county, Honan province, mobilized the masses to first, examine what living ideas the cadres transferred to lower levels have; secondly[…]
ref: [1978, Warren Kuo, editor, A Comprehensive Glossary of Chinese Communist Terminology, →OCLC, page 220, column 1:
text: Most counties in Henan have dozens of meetings, whether officially registered or not. A Christian in Yanjin County wrote that there were more than 100 ‘large and small meeting-points’ with ‘2,000 registered Christians and many unregistered’.
ref: 1991, Tony Lambert, “'Christianity Fever': The Growth of the Church”, in The Resurrection of the Chinese Church, Hodder & Stoughton, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 152:
glosses: A county of Xinxiang, Henan, China.
Yanjin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: yěnʹjǐnʹ
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 鹽津 /盐津.
Senses: glosses: A county of Zhaotong, Yunnan, China.
West Monkseaton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb in the Metropolitan Borough of North Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, England (OS grid ref NZ3371).
mismaneuver
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mismaneuvers
form: mismaneuvering
form: mismaneuvered
form: mismaneuvered
form: mismaneuvre
form: mismanoeuver
form: mismanoeuvre
Etymology: From mis- + maneuver.
Senses: examples: text: Maude Purvis was the granddaughter of an American Southern gentleman, Robert Louis Earle Purvis, who somehow mismaneuvered himself into association with the Yankees during the Civil War and quickly thereafter remaneuvered himself to distant Batavia where he found a happy and prosperous haven .
ref: 1956, American Universities Field Staff, Fieldstaff Reports: Southeast Asia series - Volumes 4-6, page 6:
text: Mr. Frank prematurely ended his sad and spotty career in a Rocky Mountain ravine, smashed inside the stolen car he'd drunkenly mismaneuvered around a cliff curve.
ref: 1971, Neal Cassady, The First Third, page 117:
text: Victory eludes me, I must have misjudged or mismaneuvered.
ref: 1987, Jennifer Curtiss Gage, Dominique Rolin, The Deathday Cake, page 122:
text: During the race on the Hudson, Vanderbilt in his excitement seized the wheel from the pilot and mismaneuvered his vessel, while Law, out of fuel, hurled furniture and costly fittings into the furnaces and so sailed on to win.
ref: 2014, Clifford Browder, The Money Game in Old New York: Daniel Drew and His Times, page 48:
glosses: To maneuver in a way that has an unfortunate result.