cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
shadbelly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shadbellies
Etymology: From shad + belly.
Senses: glosses: An old-fashioned formal dress coat sometimes worn in equestrian circles.
Related terms: shad-bellied
shadbellies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shadbelly
d'Alembert's paradox
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: D'Alembert's paradox
Etymology: Observed in 1752 by French mathematician Jean le Rond d'Alembert.
Senses: topics: fluid-dynamics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The contradiction that, for incompressible and inviscid potential flow, the drag force is zero on a body moving with constant velocity relative to the fluid.
Synonyms: hydrodynamic paradox
misfirer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: misfirers
Etymology: From misfire + -er.
Senses: examples: text: In terms of her sense of slippage, Valerie Solanas runs with the best of them. None of these terms stick, which is why she remains a chronic misfirer.
ref: 2017, Avital Ronell, Deviant Payback: The Aims of Valerie Solanas:
text: Goethe is the great foundation figure; Byron and Shelley are the high-minded but incompetent misfirers; Carlyle, through an infection of international provincialism that crippled his genius, is the great but failed physician […]
ref: 1983, William Earl Buckler, Matthew Arnold's Prose: Three Essays in Literary Enlargement:
text: Next, you're looking for a sparkplug to put in the lead-off position. This is someone who will rev up the team with a mark right away. Watch out for the sputterer, the misfirer, or anyone who fuels up with a gallon of ethyl alcohol before frame one.
ref: 1987, Dawson Taylor, Gary Patterson, Spare me!: portrait of a bowling fanatic, page 56:
glosses: One who misfires.
misfirers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misfirer
narcossism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of narco- + narcissism, coined by Avital Ronell in her book Crack Wars: Literature, Addiction, Mania (1992).
Senses: glosses: The narcissistic mindset associated with satisfying one's addictions or urges.
wikipedia: Avital Ronell
glamourwear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glamorwear
Etymology: From glamour + -wear.
Senses: glosses: glamorous, sexually titillating clothing
rock records
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rock record
Cervantean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Cervantean
form: most Cervantean
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the author Cervantes.
Cervantian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Cervantian
form: most Cervantian
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the author Cervantes.
gigantiporate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gigantiporate
form: most gigantiporate
Senses: glosses: Having relatively large pores compared to the pollen diameter.
miniporate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more miniporate
form: most miniporate
Senses: glosses: Having relatively small pores compared to the pollen diameter.
interporal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + poral.
Senses: glosses: Between pores.
poral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɔːɹəl
Senses: glosses: Relating to pores.
Derived terms: abporal
interporal
intraporal
mesoporal
uniporal
intraporal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + poral.
Senses: glosses: Within a pore.
zono-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: zone; zonal
Derived terms: zonocolpate
zonoporate
clearcuts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clearcut
GvHD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Initialism.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: graft-versus-host disease
Chromistas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Chromista
heterosupramolecular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hetero- + supramolecular.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Consisting of many molecules, not all of the same substance
stoodest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: stood + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple past indicative of stand
payedst
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: paidest
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple past indicative of pay
paidest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: payedst
Etymology: paid + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple past indicative of pay
tulpae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tulpa
wheel out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: wheels out
form: wheeling out
form: wheeled out
form: wheeled out
Senses: examples: text: They will gather their own gaylings and dykelings and Miss Things at the hem of their own caftans. They'll wheel the old queen out.
ref: 2002, Alisa Solomon, Framji Minwalla, The Queerest Art: Essays on Lesbian and Gay Theater, page 253:
text: We need her to cover those client dinners where I get wheeled out to smile and look pretty.
ref: 2015, Kiki Archer, Too Late... I Love You, page 10:
text: All the old clichés were wheeled out: “Living A Lie”, “Secret Torment”, “Bizarre Lifestyle”, and so on. Oh, how they wallowed in it.
ref: 2015, David Bret, Rock Hudson: The Gentle Giant, page 235:
glosses: To employ or bring out (something predictable or perennial).
examples: text: There were five in our party and the snow was too rough for ski-landing so the pilot wheeled out the old, fabric, two-engine biplane transport and loaded us on board.
ref: 1971, Westways, volume 63, page 50:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see wheel, out.
Related terms: trot out
continuedst
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple past indicative of continue
unliquid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unliquid
form: most unliquid
Etymology: From un- + liquid.
Senses: examples: an unliquid loan
topics: business
finance
glosses: Not liquid.
learnedst
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple past indicative of learn
learnedst
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: learnedest
Senses: examples: text: HAving finiſhed a work touching the Advancement of Learning, and dedicated the ſame to his ſacred Majeſty, whom I dare avouch (if the records of time erre not) to be the learnedſt King that hath reigned; I was deſirous, in a kind of congruity, to preſent it by the learnedſt Councellor in this Kingdome, to the end, that ſo good an argument, lighting upon ſo bad an Author, might receive ſome reparation, by the hands into which, and by which, it ſhould be delivered.
ref: 1605, Francis Bacon, “Sir Francis Bacon, of like argument, to the Earl of Northampton, with request to present the book to his Majesty”, in Cabala, sive Scrinia Sacra, Mysteries of State and Government: In Letters of Illustrious Persons and Great Ministers of State as Well Forreign as Domestick, in the Reigns of King Henry the Eighth, Q: Elizabeth, K: James, and K: Charles: […], London: […] G. Bedell and T. Collins, […], published 1663, page 63:
text: This was the accompte, that the culinarian Doctour made of S. GREGORY the great; one of the holiest, & learnedst doctours, that euer breathed in the CATHOLIQVE Church;* […]
ref: 1609, Humfrey Leech, A Triumph of Truth. Or Declaration of the Doctrine Concerning Euangelicall Counsayles; […], [Douai]: [ […] L. Kellam], page 13; republished in Early English Books Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: Text Creation Partnership, p. 2011:
text: It is in the Poſſeſſion of a Benedictin Convent, vvhich raiſes a conſiderable Revenue out of the Devotion that is paid to it, and has novv retain'd the learnedſt Father of their Order to vvrite in its Defence.
ref: 1705, J[oseph] Addison, “Pavia, Milan, &c.”, in Remarks on Several Parts of Italy, &c. in the Years 1701, 1702, 1703, London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, pages 37–38:
glosses: superlative form of learned: most learned
nonliquidity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + liquidity.
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: The quality of being nonliquid.
changedst
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple past indicative of change
leddest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: led + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple past indicative of lead
understoodest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: understood + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple past indicative of understand
watchedst
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple past indicative of watch
KSHV
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
oncology
sciences
virology
glosses: Initialism of Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus.
kobas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of koba
followedst
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple past indicative of follow
CD45
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CD45s
Etymology: from cluster of differentiation
Senses: glosses: enzyme involved in the regulation of signal transduction in hematopoiesis; used histologically to differentiate between lymphomas and carcinomas
Synonyms: alt: PTPRC
word: protein tyrosine phosphatase, receptor type, C
alt: LCA
word: leukocyte common antigen
Hyponyms: word: CD45RA
word: CD45RB
word: CD45RC
word: CD45RAB
word: CD45RAC
word: CD45RBC
word: CD45RO
english: ABC
translation: ABC
word: CD45R
rennetless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From rennet + -less.
Senses: examples: rennetless cheese
glosses: Without rennet.
rennety
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rennety
form: most rennety
Etymology: From rennet + -y.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of rennet.
vegetable rennets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vegetable rennet
vegetable rennet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vegetable rennets
Senses: examples: Commercial vegetable rennets usually contain rennet from the mould Rhizomucor miehei.
glosses: Any substance of plant origin that can be used as a rennet substitute.
nonrennet
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + rennet.
Senses: glosses: Not containing or relating to rennet.
prize crew
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prize crews
Senses: examples: text: "The battleplate you were promised has been swept, and is ready for your prize crew to take her wherever you're going."
ref: 2015 April 3, Howard Tayler, Schlock Mercenary, archived from the original on 30 Nov 2023:
glosses: The crewmembers of a ship chosen to take over the operations of another ship that has been captured.
prize crews
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prize crew
stoppedst
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple past indicative of stop
createdst
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple past indicative of create
spentest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: spent + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple past indicative of spend
Ulyssean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Ulyssean
form: most Ulyssean
form: Ulyssian
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the mythological Ulysses.
glosses: Of or relating to James Joyce's modernist novel Ulysses.
Ulyssian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Ulyssian
form: most Ulyssian
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Ulyssean.
tokeneth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: token + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of token
undifficult
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undifficult
form: most undifficult
Etymology: From un- + difficult.
Senses: glosses: Not difficult.
undiffident
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undiffident
form: most undiffident
Etymology: From un- + diffident.
Senses: glosses: Not diffident.
grewest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: grew + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple past indicative of grow
Partridge
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Mrs Partridge, upon this, immediately fell into a fury, and discharged the trencher on which she was eating, at the head of poor Jenny […]
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A surname.
glosses: A minor city in Reno County, Kansas, United States, named after the bird.
Derived terms: Partridgean
Related terms: Partridge Green
openedst
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple past indicative of open
walkedst
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple past indicative of walk
wonnest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: won + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of won
glosses: second-person singular simple past indicative of win
stiling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of stile
stiled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of stile
stiled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: We climbed over a stiled gate.
glosses: Equipped with a stile.
reprimandeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: reprimand + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reprimand
taughtest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: taught + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple past indicative of teach
Whitefield
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Whitfield
Senses: examples: text: Jones had no sooner quitted the room, than the petty-fogger, in a whispering tone, asked Mrs Whitefield, “If she knew who that fine spark was?”
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A surname.
glosses: A number of places in England:
A town in the Metropolitan Borough of Bury, Greater Manchester (OS grid ref SD8006).
glosses: A number of places in England:
A hamlet in Morden parish, Dorset, previously in Purbeck district (OS grid ref SY9094).
glosses: A number of places in England:
A suburb of Nelson, Pendle district, Lancashire (OS grid ref SD8537).
glosses: A number of places in England:
A hamlet in Wiveliscombe parish, Somerset West and Taunton district, Somerset, previously in Taunton Deane district (OS grid ref ST0729).
glosses: A neighbourhood of Bangalore, Karnataka, India.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Bureau County and Marshall County, Illinois.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A township in Marshall County, Illinois.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Lincoln County, Maine, named after George Whitefield.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A township in Kandiyohi County, Minnesota, named after Edwin Whitefield.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town and census-designated place therein, in Coos County, New Hampshire.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Haskell County, Oklahoma, also named after George Whitefield.
TLRs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of TLR
kleptons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of klepton
klepta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of klepton
detritovore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of detritivore.
mukbang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmʌkbɑŋ/
ipa: /ˈmʌkbæŋ/
note: hyperforeignism
ipa: /ˈmʊkbɑŋ/
note: hyperforeignism
ipa: /ˈmuːkbɑŋ/
Forms: form: mukbangs
form: meokbang
Etymology: Borrowed from Korean 먹방 (meokbang, literally “eating broadcast”).
Senses: examples: text: After all there's a huge market in South Korea for mukbangs. That's where someone is streaming as they eat. […] In any case there seem to be no particular types that are successful at streaming a mukbang since there are pretty young girls and heavy guys that seem to get a lot of viewers.
ref: 2016 January 6, shawn, “Re: AT&T U-Verse Shysters”, in rec.arts.tv (Usenet):
text: I also get the sense, though, that some of those who, for whatever reason, often end up eating alone are tuning in for a dose of mukbang at mealtimes to get some virtual company (see the “Social Dining” chapter).
ref: 2017, Charles Spence, Gastrophysics: The New Science of Eating, Penguin, →ISBN, page 57:
text: In each group of comments, the intersectionality of Kinoshita's identity markers is compounded as she is singled out as a mukbang eater, a female mukbang eater, a slim female mukbang eater, and finally a slim Asian female mukbang eater, […]
ref: 2018, Crystal Abidin, Internet Celebrity: Understanding Fame Online, Emerald Group Publishing, →ISBN, page 26:
text: I eat the pussy like a mukbang, let my nuts hang
ref: 2022, “Estaciones”, performed by Action Bronson ft. Hologram:
qualifier: social media
glosses: An online video broadcast in which a person eats while interacting with their audience.
Synonyms: social eating
Derived terms: mukbanger
mukbang
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmʌkbɑŋ/
ipa: /ˈmʌkbæŋ/
note: hyperforeignism
ipa: /ˈmʊkbɑŋ/
note: hyperforeignism
ipa: /ˈmuːkbɑŋ/
Forms: form: mukbangs
form: mukbanging
form: mukbanged
form: mukbanged
form: meokbang
Etymology: Borrowed from Korean 먹방 (meokbang, literally “eating broadcast”).
Senses: qualifier: social media
glosses: To eat (food) as part of a mukbang performance.
Related terms: gongbang
meokbang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: “Meokbang” can be used to describe anything from the way a movie star eats in a film to how a food program MC dines.
ref: 2013 April 26, “‘Meokbang’ dissected”, in The Korea Herald:
text: This is a mukbang – is it moekbang? moekbang
ref: 2020 April 18, Jim Gaffigan, “‘Kansas City BBQ’ - Jim Eats The World - Jim Gaffigan”, in YouTube:
glosses: Alternative form of mukbang.
look for trouble
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: looks for trouble
form: looking for trouble
form: looked for trouble
form: looked for trouble
Senses: examples: When they showed up, you could tell they were looking for trouble
glosses: to deliberately act in a way that's likely to lead to a fight.
examples: text: If you cut corners on maintenance now, you're just looking for trouble later on.
glosses: to do things that are likely to cause problems.
looks for trouble
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of look for trouble
looking for trouble
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of look for trouble
looked for trouble
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of look for trouble
Yining
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: yēʹnǐngʹ
Forms: form: I-ning
Etymology: The atonal pinyin romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 伊寧 /伊宁 (Yīníng).
Senses: examples: text: Meanwhile, in the northwest corner of Sinkiang, the green star-and-crescent flag of the "East Turkestan Republic" flies over the districts of Ili, Tacheng and Altai. The "Republic's" capital is Ining in Ili district just east of the Sino-Soviet border.
ref: [1948 August 26 [1948 August 18], Henry R. Liebermanby, “RUSSIA HOLDS ZONE ON CHINA'S BORDER; Turki Republic, Detached From Sinkiang, Is Closed Sphere of Soviet Influence”, in The New York Times, sourced from URUMCHI (Tihua), Sinkiang, China, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 Jun 2025, page 13:
text: The Uighurs yearn for reestablishment of the once independent Central Asian republic that was called Eastern Turkestan and had its capital in Yining 50 years ago.
ref: 1997 February 23, Steven Mufson, “ETHNIC TURMOIL ROILS WESTERN CHINA”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 28 Aug 2017:
text: Relations between the Uighurs and the Chinese have always been bad, but in the last few years they’ve gotten even worse, especially since early 1997, when fighting flared in Yining, the capital of the short-lived East Turkestan Republic. Details are sketchy because the central government cordoned off Xinjiang from the rest of the world, but it appears that unrest — and subsequent executions — left several hundred dead, perhaps more.
ref: 2001, Gordon G. Chang, “Lake of Gasoline: The Discontent of the People Is Explosive”, in The Coming Collapse of China (Business/Current Affairs), New York: Random House, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 29:
text: This summer, Yining, a city in the Xinjiang region of far-western China, celebrated a boom of Chinese tourists seeking a sunny respite from Covid worries in their hometowns. Now Yining is under its own grueling, weekslong pandemic lockdown, with residents calling for help over limited food, difficulty getting medicines and drastic shortages of sanitary pads for women.
ref: 2022 September 11, Chris Buckley, “Just Bread and Noodles: China’s Covid Lockdown Distress Hits Xinjiang”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 Sep 2022, ASIA PACIFIC:
glosses: A county-level city of Ili prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
glosses: A county of Ili prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
Synonyms: word: Kuldja
word: Ghulja
word: Gulja
word: Qulja
word: Gongyue
word: Almarikh
Tacheng
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: T'a-ch'eng
Etymology: From Mandarin 塔城 (Tǎchéng).
Senses: examples: text: More than 13,000 geese were destroyed in Tacheng, in the Xinjiang autonomous region, after about 500 died of H5N1 avian flu, China's Agriculture Ministry reported.
ref: 2005 June 11, Donald G. McNeil Jr., “New Asian Flu Outbreaks in China Raise Fears of a Mutant Virus”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 May 2015:
text: Late on the night of August 26, 1855, an inferno raged through the Russian trade concession in the Qing frontier town of Tacheng.[…]
In 1766, less than ten years after the conquest of Xinjiang, Qing forces founded a small outpost on the farthest western edge of their rapidly expanding new empire. They named it Suijingcheng, or "Pacification Town," a name that reflected an ongoing reality in this volatile region, as attempts to pacify this newly conquered area would occupy officials and administrators for much of the next two centuries. But the nature of this process of pacification in this isolated settlement, which in later years would come to be known as Tacheng, evolved over time
ref: 2010, Judd Kinzley, “Turning Prospectors into Settlers: Gold, Immigrant Miners and the Settlement of the Frontier in Late Qing Xinjiang”, in Sherman Cochran, Paul G. Pickowicz, editors, China on the Margins, Cornell University East Asia Program, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 17:
text: According to the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity out of fear of reprisal, the day before her disappearance, Munira went to the Ghulja city Public Security Bureau, where she requested permission to videochat with her husband, who is serving his sentence in Shiho (Wusu) city, in Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture’s Tarbaghatay (Tacheng) prefecture. The police reportedly denied her request.
ref: 2021 April 7, Shohret Hoshur, Joshua Lipes, “Wife of Jailed Uyghur Taxi Driver Jailed For Weeping in Front of a Foreigner”, in Uyghur Service, transl., Radio Free Asia, archived from the original on 07 Apr 2021:
glosses: A prefecture of the Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
examples: text: The Daur minority is another Mongolian-speaking group, most of whom live near the town of Tacheng (Qochek), near the Kazakstan border.
ref: 1998, Linda Benson, Ingvar Svanberg, China's Last Nomads, M. E. Sharpe, →ISBN, page 25:
text: Snowstorms in the Tacheng city in the northwestern region of Xinjiang have brought lows of minus 25 degrees Celsius.
ref: 2011 January 5, “Factbox: China winter weather latest developments”, in Sui-Lee Wee, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 13 Oct 2024, ワールド:
synonyms: Chuguchak
glosses: A county-level city of Tacheng prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
Artux
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Artush
Etymology: From Kyrgyz ارتىش.
Senses: examples: text: From Urumqi to Kashgar buses take an average of three or four days to cover 940 miles passing through Turpan, Korla, Kuche, Aksu and Artux.
ref: 1985, Brian Schwartz, China Off the Beaten Track, New York: St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 5:
text: We drove west on the smooth highway for about two hundred kilometres and arrived in Artux (Artush) County. This area has more abundant water resources than Aksu Prefecture. We crossed bridges several times on the way and also saw small rippling lakes that the local people call haizi. We had already entered the most fertile area in southern Xinjiang. Not far from Artux is Kashi, the largest city in southern Xinjiang, but to retrace the route where the Silk Road left China, we did not go to Kashi first. Instead we went west from Artux for some hundred kilometres and arrived in Wuqia County near China's westernmost tip.
ref: 1989, Che Muqi (车慕奇), 丝绸之路今昔 [The Silk Road, Past and Present], Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 242–243:
english: The Silk Road, Past and Present
translation: The Silk Road, Past and Present
text: Eric Shipton, Britain's final representative in Kashgar and an accomplished mountaineer, failed several times from the southern route via Muk and Mingyol, finally gaining access from the north via Artux and Karakum.
ref: 2012, Simon Foster, Candice Lee, Jen Lin-Liu, Beth Reiber, Tini Tran, Lee Wing-sze, Christopher D. Winnan, Frommer's China, 5th edition, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 325:
glosses: A county-level city of Kizilsu, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
wikipedia: Defense Mapping Agency
Synonyms: sense: from Mandarin Chinese
word: Atushi
word: A-t'u-shih
Wusu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: wo͞oʹso͞oʹ
Forms: form: Wu-su
Etymology: From Mandarin 烏蘇 /乌苏 (Wūsū).
Senses: examples: text: Pending the completion of the Sinkiang railroad, the region is served by a number of major land routes that have been transportation links since ancient times. They are the North Road (north of the Tien Shan) passing from Kansu through Urumchi and Wusu, where it bifurcates into two routes going to the Soviet Union.
ref: 1956, Theodore Shabad, China's Changing Map: A Political and Economic Geography of The Chinese People's Republic, Frederick A. Praeger, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 257:
text: Revolutionary committees at all levels in Wusu County have promoted the ideological revolutionization of the leading bodies by grasping the creative study and application of Mao Tsetung thought by leading members and arming their minds with Chairman Mao's theory of continuing the revolution under the dictatorship of the proletariat.
ref: 1970 March 25 [1970 March 15], “Wusu Leadership Revolutionization”, in Daily Report: Communist China, volume I, number 58, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Urumchi Sinkiang Regional, translation of original in Mandarin, →OCLC, Communist China: Northwest Region, page H 4:
text: And on Sunday, a Public Security Bureau chief in northwest China was relieved of duty for “allegedly keeping a pair of twin sisters as mistresses,” according to Xinhua, the official Chinese news agency.
Qi Fang, the police chief in Wusu, has been accused of renting “a high-end apartment unit for the sisters in downtown Wusu” and charging the rent as an official expense.
ref: 2012 December 10, Mark McDonald, “A World of Corruption”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 01 Jul 2023, View from Asia:
text: The site of the Grand Mosque in Wusu, Xinjiang, in 2017 and 2019.
ref: 2019 November 3, Fred Hiatt, “In China, every day is Kristallnacht”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 Nov 2019, Opinions:
glosses: A city in the Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
Synonyms: Usu
Catholick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Catholick
form: most Catholick
Senses: examples: text: Whosoever will be saved : before all things it is necessary that he hold the Catholick Faith.
ref: 1662, Book of Common Prayer (1892) from the Original Manuscript attached to the Act of Uniformity of 1662., Eyre & Spottiswoode, Translation of the Athanasian Creed:
text: I have ſeen this preſent vvork, and finde nothing athvvart the Catholick faith and good manners: […]
ref: 1644, John Milton, Areopagitica; a Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc’d Printing, to the Parlament of England, London: [s.n.], →OCLC, page 8:
text: [T]he Catholick King complained very much thereof, upbraiding the moſt Chriſtian King how ill this did correſpond to the ſo many aſſiſtances which were given by Spain to France ſince that from thence ſo great a fomentation was now preparing to his Rebels in Flanders.
ref: 1678, [Guido] Bentivoglio; Henry, Earl of Monmouth [i.e., Henry Carey, 2nd Earl of Monmouth], The History of the Warrs of Flanders: Written in Italian by that Learned and Famous Cardinal Bentivoglio; Englished by the Right Honorable Henry Earl of Monmouth. The Whole Work now Illustrated with a Map of the Seventeen Provinces, and above Twenty Figures of the Chief Personages Mentioned in this History, London: Printed for D. Newman, T. Cockerill, S. Heyrick, C. Smith, and J. Edwin, →OCLC, book X, page 153:
text: For Books and fine Pictures are the Forlorn-hope, as it were, of the Catholick Cloyſters and Convents; and as there are few of the Monks that underſtand either, upon any great Emergency they ſooner chuſe to convert theſe Moveables into Money, than to melt down their ſuperfluous Hoards of Plate; Treaſures which are oftentimes by far the leſs valuable.
ref: 1726, J[ohn Durant] Breval, “Franche Comte”, in Remarks on Several Parts of Europe: Relating Chiefly to the History, Antiquities and Geography, of Those Countries though which the Author has Travel’d; […], volume I, London: […] Bernard Lintot […], →OCLC, page 200:
glosses: Obsolete form of Catholic.
Catholick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Catholicks
Senses: examples: text: “Yes, but so far,” answered the other, “from speaking in behalf of his religion, he assured me the Catholicks did not expect to be any gainers by the change; for that Prince Charles was as good a Protestant as any in England; and that nothing but regard to right made him and the rest of the popish party to be Jacobites.”
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete form of Catholic.
Catholicks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Catholick
kiddom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kid-dom
Etymology: From kid + -dom.
Senses: glosses: The world of kids; kids collectively
third space
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: third spaces
form: Third Space
Etymology: The first sense was coined by Indian critical theorist Homi K. Bhabha in the context of his hybridity theory.
Senses: examples: text: Third space cannot be produced by the simple transmutation of an excess corporate profit into a charitable "gift": tainted money remains suspect unless it is transformed by a self-consious philanthropic effort.
ref: 2000, Jon Van Til, Growing Civil Society: From Nonprofit Sector to Third Space, →ISBN:
text: While some have begun to define the concept of third space, the ever-changing nature of third space theory is a constant roadblock for scholars in this area.
ref: 2008, Living in Multiple Worlds, →ISBN, page 30:
text: It is the lived condition of crossing borders and existing in the realm of both/and together that allows for the conscious movement into the creative terrain of third space.
ref: 2012, Adela C. Licona, Zines in Third Space: Radical Cooperation and Borderlands Rhetoric, →ISBN, page 11:
text: However, this presupposes that hybrid third spaces are not conceptualized purely as spaces of mixing two or more influences on a level playing field; there are differences in conceptual power in intercultural contacts.
ref: 2014, Arnd Witte, Blending Spaces, →ISBN:
glosses: A state or situation in which cultural distinctions do not apply, allowing one to transcend cultural assumptions.
examples: text: For youth of Korea – where most still live at home before getting married – these third spaces operate as spaces to connect with other like-minded people.
ref: 2008, Larissa Hjorth, Mobile Media in the Asia-Pacific, page 258:
text: WeightWatchers meetings were a third space, those increasingly rare places that are not work and are not home.
ref: 2025 May 15, Jennifer Weiner, “WeightWatchers Got One Thing Very Right”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 15 May 2025:
synonyms: third place
glosses: A place that is neither home nor work.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see third, space.
kid-dom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kiddom.
third spaces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of third space
Third Space
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Third Spaces
Senses: examples: text: There is much in existing language teaching which will support this aim, but it needs to be reconceptualised within a firmly intercultural framework, which can develop a pedagogy of the Third Space.
ref: 2001, Michael Kelly, Imelda Elliott, Lars Fant, Third Level, Third Space: intercultural communication and language, →ISBN, page 129:
text: It is in this latter section that we will explore the close relationship between hybridity and the concept of the Third Space, which emerges as a major conceptual tool in understanding how hybridity works.
ref: 2013, Revd Dr Christopher R Baker, The Hybrid Church in the City: Third Space Thinking, →ISBN:
text: This space within the Trinity corresponds to another space—the Third Space conjectured by postcolonial theory. The Third Space is a location in which community and identity are negotiated and where postcolonial subjects can enter into discourse not bound to the typical boundaries of colonizing discourse.
ref: 2014, Sarah Travis, Decolonizing Preaching, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of third space.
third strings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of third string
Ward's pill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ward's pills
Etymology: After Joshua Ward (1685-1761), its inventor.
Senses: examples: text: This is indeed a most excellent medicine, and, like Ward’s pill, flies at once to the particular part of the body on which you desire to operate, whether it be the tongue, the hand, or any other member, where it scarce ever fails of immediately producing the desired effect.
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A pill made with poisonous ingredients to induce a violent reaction, claimed to cure any illness.
wikipedia: Joshua Ward
Ward's pills
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Ward's pill
upma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Tamil உப்புமா (uppumā).
Senses: glosses: An Indian porridge of dry roasted semolina or coarse rice flour, often with vegetables and seasonings.
Woulfe's bottle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Woulfe's bottles
Etymology: After its inventor, Peter Woulfe, an Irish born chemist.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An apparatus consisting of a bottle with a number of separate openings that can each be closed with a cork or left open.
Related terms: Woulfe's apparatus
turbo-folk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From turbo- + folk.
Senses: glosses: A music genre combining Serbian folk music with more modern pop music elements.
time to market
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: times to market
form: time-to-market
Senses: topics: business
marketing
glosses: The length of time between the conception of a product and its availability for sale.
Synonyms: TTM
times to market
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of time to market
TTM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: TTMs
Senses: topics: business
glosses: Initialism of time to market.
TTMs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of TTM
edge city
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: edge cities
Etymology: Popularized by the 1991 book Edge City: Life on the New Frontier, by Joel Garreau.
Senses: qualifier: urban studies
glosses: A concentration of business, shopping, and entertainment locations outside a traditional downtown (or central business district), in what was previously a residential or rural area.
edge cities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of edge city
technoburb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: technoburbs
Senses: glosses: An exurb that has developed the amenities and industries normally associated with a city.
technoburbs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of technoburb
technoburban
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Being or relating to a technoburb.
timbred
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From timbre + -ed.
Senses: examples: a deep-timbred voice
glosses: Having a specified timbre.
Alexandria Eschate
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Alexandria Eskhata
Etymology: From Latin Alexandria Eschate, from Ancient Greek Ἀλεξάνδρεια Ἐσχάτη (Alexándreia Eskhátē, “farthest Alexandria”) in reference to its position relative to the other settlements established during the conquests of Alexander the Great.
Senses: glosses: Former name of Khujand: a city in Sughd, Tajikistan.
wikipedia: Alexander the Great
flu shots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flu shot
flake off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: flakes off
form: flaking off
form: flaked off
form: flaked off
Senses: examples: text: The apartment felt damp, and the paint on the walls was beginning to flake off.
glosses: To (cause to) come off in flakes.
radical feminisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of radical feminism
field ration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: field rations
Etymology: Because it is designed for use in the field.
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A prepackaged meal, easily prepared and eaten, carried by military troops on the battlefield.
field rations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of field ration
promulsis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: promulsides
Senses: glosses: The first course of a dinner in Ancient Rome, intended to stimulate the appetite.
Synonyms: gustatio
Dolbyizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Dolbyize
girl in every port
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: a girl in every port
Etymology: Referring to the various ports where a sailor's voyages would take him.
Senses: examples: text: Jack was a truck driver. He loved over-the-road trips. Think he had a girl in every port, so to speak.
ref: 2002, S. D. Tooley, Restless Spirit, page 211:
glosses: A mistress or girlfriend at each place one visits.
golden cypress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: golden cypresses
Senses: glosses: Chamaecyparis obtusa 'Crippsii', a dense evergreen tree with yellow-tipped branchlets.
golden cypresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of golden cypress
green cheese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: green cheeses
Etymology: From green as in green (“unripe, unprocessed”) and green (“fresh, new, recent, young”). Compare greenhorn and vinho verde.
Senses: examples: text: GREEN CHEESE SANDWICH: Spread on thin slices of lightly buttered white bread, green cheese grated fine. Put slices together and garnish with a sour pickle.
ref: 1909, Eva Greene Fuller, The Up-To-Date Sandwich Book: 400 Ways to Make a Sandwich, page 115:
hypernyms: cheese
<
dairy product
<
food
coordinate_terms: farmer cheese
cottage cheese
;
cream cheese
glosses: Fresh cheese that has not yet been dried and aged.
green cheeses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of green cheese
hyperdeficient
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪʃənt
Forms: form: more hyperdeficient
form: most hyperdeficient
Etymology: From hyper- + deficient.
Senses: glosses: Extremely deficient.
topics: mathematics
number-theory
sciences
glosses: Having the property that, for some positive integer k, δk(n) > 0, where δk(n) = n(k+1) +(k-1) –kσ(n) and σ(n) is the sum of the positive divisors of n.
hyperdeficiency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hyper- + deficiency.
Senses: glosses: Extreme deficiency.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The quality of being hyperdeficient
pan-Scandinavian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pan- + Scandinavian.
Senses: glosses: Found throughout, or relating to the whole of, Scandinavia.
ViSOR
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Initialism of Violent and Sexual Offenders Register.
Phœbe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of Phoebe.
Philosothon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Philosothons
Etymology: Blend of philosophy + thon
Senses: glosses: An annual competition where students explore philosophical and ethical issues.
Philosothons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Philosothon
thresholder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thresholders
Etymology: From threshold + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The site of their transformation is the forest in which they dwell as thresholders in transition from one state of existence to another.
ref: 1995, Thomas Parkhill, The forest setting in Hindu epics: princes, sages, demons, page 187:
text: The term adopted by Apter (2001) for those aged 18–24 years is 'thresholders'. This is a highly descriptive and relevant way in which to interpret this life-stage.
ref: 2007, Anne Grinyer, Young People Living With Cancer: Implications for Policy and Practice:
glosses: A person who occupies the threshold between places or statuses.
thresholders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thresholder
unpluggings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unplugging
parasynonymous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpæ.rə.sɪˈnɒ.nɪ.məs/
ipa: /ˌpæ.rə.sɪˈnɑ.nɪ.məs/
ipa: /ˌpɛ.rə.sɪˈnɑ.nɪ.məs/
Etymology: From para- + synonymous or parasynonym + -ous.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Having common meaning. More specifically, terms (words or phrases) T and T′ are parasynonyms if:
S₁ is a sense of T and S₂ is a sense of T′.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Having common meaning. More specifically, terms (words or phrases) T and T′ are parasynonyms if:
S₁ is similar to S₂, but not identical.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Relating to parasynonymy.
homodifunctionalized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From homo- + difunctionalized.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Modified by the addition of two of the same functional groups.
homodisubstituted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From homo- + disubstituted.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Having two of the same substituents
nonexothermic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + exothermic.
Senses: glosses: Not exothermic.
nonendothermic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + endothermic.
Senses: glosses: Not endothermic.
nonmonomolecular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + monomolecular.
Senses: glosses: Not monomolecular.
Ajman
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Arabic عَجْمان (ʕajmān), related to عَجَم (ʕajam, “foreigner”), because the area was at one time inhabited by Persians.
Senses: glosses: An emirate of the United Arab Emirates.
glosses: The capital city of Ajman emirate, United Arab Emirates.
Coordinate terms: Abu Dhabi
Dubai
Fujairah
Ras al-Khaimah
Sharjah
Umm al-Quwain
United Arab Emirates
homopeptide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homopeptides
Etymology: From homo- + peptide.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A peptide containing multiple occurrences of a single amino acid moiety
Derived terms: homopeptidic
homopeptides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of homopeptide
Fujairah
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An emirate of the United Arab Emirates.
glosses: The capital city of Fujairah emirate, United Arab Emirates.
Coordinate terms: Abu Dhabi
Ajman
Dubai
Ras al-Khaimah
Sharjah
Umm al-Quwain
United Arab Emirates
hydrogelation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydrogelations
Etymology: From hydro- + gelation or hydrogel + -ation.
Senses: glosses: The formation of a hydrogel
Related terms: hydrogelating
hydrogelator
Ras al-Khaimah
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Arabic رَأْس ٱلْخَيْمَة (raʔs l-ḵayma, “headland of the tent”).
Senses: glosses: An emirate of the United Arab Emirates.
glosses: The capital city of Ras al-Khaimah emirate, United Arab Emirates.
Coordinate terms: Abu Dhabi
Ajman
Dubai
Fujairah
Sharjah
Umm al-Quwain
United Arab Emirates
hydrophenoxylation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydrophenoxylations
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any reaction that adds a phenol across a double bond or triple bond, a hydrogen atom to one side and a phenoxide group to the other
hydrophenoxylations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hydrophenoxylation
hydroxychalcone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydroxychalcones
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any hydroxy derivative of a chalcone
hydroxychalcones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hydroxychalcone
imidazolides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of imidazolide
intralipid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: intralipids
Etymology: From intra- + lipid.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An intravenous injection of a fat emulsion
intralipids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of intralipid
iodoacetophenone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: iodoacetophenones
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any iodo derivative of acetophenone
iodosobenzoate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: iodosobenzoates
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any iodoso derivative of a benzoate ion or group
iodosyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: iodosyls
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The univalent -I=O radical
Synonyms: iodoso
iodosobenzoates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of iodosobenzoate
isooxazoline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isooxazolines
Etymology: From iso- + oxazoline.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of isoxazoline.
synonyms: word: isoxazoline