cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
red-capped parrot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: red-capped
form: red-capped parrots
Senses: glosses: A parrot species, Purpureicephalus spurius, native to southwest Western Australia.
red-capped parrots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of red-capped parrot
growthmania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From growth + -mania.
Senses: examples: text: Growthmania is the fatal disease of civilisation - it must be replaced by campaigns that make equity and well-being society’s goals - not consuming more junk.
ref: 2021 January 13, Phoebe Weston, “Top scientists warn of 'ghastly future of mass extinction' and climate disruption”, in The Guardian:
glosses: The economic idea, currently ubiquitous in the global economy, that perpetual economic growth should be the prime or only objective.
cold shower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cold showers
Senses: examples: text: He had wondered who ever thought up that cliché, “take a cold shower,” had been ill-informed. It worked as long as you're in the shower, but, you certainly can't be in a cold shower twenty-four hours per day, he thought.
ref: 2008, H. Clayggett Vanpelt, The Ultimate Plan, page 78:
glosses: A shower taken by a person in cold water; as taken for therapeutic reasons, or suggested as a remedy to calm sexual excitement.
examples: text: At a time when mobile phones and social media ensure we’re all familiar with what crime really looks like, our tolerance for embracing it as entertainment may be diminished. Likewise our indulgence of those who act as if they’re above the law. Donald Trump, Harvey Weinstein – both are a bit of a cold shower for those who like to celebrate devil-may-care chutzpah.
ref: 2018 June 11, Catherine Shoard, “Why Hollywood needs to ditch the heist movie”, in The Guardian:
text: Fascinating stuff, and I wanted more – lots more – but this little travelling show just touches on the terror and magic of seeing the otherworld. We jump cut from the 1920s to now and get a chaotic selection of contemporary takes on spiritualist art. Hiller aside, it’s like being hit by a cold shower of irony, wrecking the spooky mood.
ref: 2020 September 10, Jonathan Jones, “Not Without My Ghosts review – Yikes! It's time to unleash your inner Scooby Doo”, in The Guardian:
text: Ours is not a call to surrender – we aim to provide leaders with a realistic ‘cold shower’ of the state of the planet that is essential for planning to avoid a ghastly future.
ref: 2021 January 13, Phoebe Weston, “Top scientists warn of 'ghastly future of mass extinction' and climate disruption”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Something unexpected and often unpleasant which makes one take stock or reconsider something; a sudden change or turn of events.
examples: text: President Trump turned up and took a cold shower of boos which his memory has not yet alchemized into thunderous applause and two models popped up behind home plate, pulled up their shirts and bared their breasts as Houston’s Gerrit Cole peered in at his catcher for a sign.
ref: 2019 October 30, Michael Powell, “The Great World Series Interference Debate”, in The New York Times:
glosses: A chilly or unenthusiastic reaction to something or someone.
cold showers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cold shower
climate emergency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: climate emergencies
Senses: examples: text: The effects of the climate emergency are more evident than biodiversity loss, but still, society is failing to cut emissions, the paper argues. If people understood the magnitude of the crises, changes in politics and policies could match the gravity of the threat.
ref: 2021 January 13, Phoebe Weston, “Top scientists warn of 'ghastly future of mass extinction' and climate disruption”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: climate crisis
hypernyms: ecocrisis
<
crisis
emergency
<
problem
glosses: The dangerous situation in which anthropogenic climate change threatens to cause irreversible environmental damage.
examples: text: Dozens of local areas have copied Carla's motion and declared climate emergencies including Manchester, London, Edinburgh and Bath.
ref: 2019 May 3, Lindsay Brown, “Climate change: What is a climate emergency?”, in BBC News:
hypernyms: state of emergency
emergency
coordinate_terms: w:public health emergency
glosses: An official recognition that such a situation exists.
climate emergencies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of climate emergency
age of extinction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Age of Extinction
Senses: examples: ref: 2009, Nigel D. Swarts, Kingsley W. Dixon, “Terrestrial orchid conservation in the age of extinction”, in Annals of Botany, volume 104, page 543:
glosses: The current period of Earth history characterised by large-scale extinction of lifeforms as a result of human activity.
Age of Extinction
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of age of extinction.
bench tests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bench test
bench tests
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bench test
Istanbullu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Istanbullus
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Turkish İstanbullu.
Senses: examples: text: Ekrem İmamoğlu, elected in 2019 as Istanbul’s opposition party mayor despite fierce resistance from Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development party, told the Guardian that Istanbullus had been reassured that the huge Melen dam system would supply the city’s water needs without issue until 2070.
ref: 2021 January 13, Bethan McKernan, “Turkey drought: Istanbul could run out of water in 45 days”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: Istanbulite
glosses: An inhabitant of Istanbul, Turkey.
Istanbullus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Istanbullu
mass extinction event
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mass extinction events
Senses: examples: text: Joab is a two-mooned habitable planet that is most well known for its mass extinction event. Thousands of years ago, Joab was home to a primate-like spacefaring civilization as well as abundant flora and fauna. However, this can only be deduced from time capsules put into the ground well outside habitation centers -- all cities and detectable dwellings were targeted in a massive orbital bombardment that turned them into vapor. The resulting dust shroud killed all photosynthetic life and all fauna dependent on it.
ref: 2010, BioWare, Mass Effect 2 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Joab:
text: “As a utopia, it’s a very low bar,” Robinson said. “I mean, if we avoid the mass extinction event, we avoid everything dying, great, that’s utopia, given where we are now.”
ref: 2022 May 11, Alexandra Alter, quoting Kim Stanley Robinson, “A Sci-Fi Writer Returns to Earth: ‘The Real Story Is the One Facing Us’”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
qualifier: evolutionary theory
glosses: One of five historical events in which the Earth experienced a loss of ∼75% of all species over a geological interval of less than 3 million years, the most recent being the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event 66 million years ago.
mass extinction events
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mass extinction event
extinction events
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of extinction event
environmental migrant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: environmental migrants
Senses: examples: text: While uncertain and prone to fluctuate according to unpredictable social and policy trends, climate change and other environmental pressures will trigger more mass migration over the coming decades, with an estimated 25 million to 1 billion environmental migrants expected by 2050.
ref: 2021 January 13, Corey J.A. Bradshaw et al., “Underestimating the Challenges of Avoiding a Ghastly Future”, in Frontiers in Conservation Science:
glosses: A person forced to migrate away from a traditional living area due to local environmental degradation.
Related terms: environmental refugee
environmental migrants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of environmental migrant
Gamston
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish (served by Gamston with West Drayton and Eaton Parish Council) in Bassetlaw district, Nottinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SK7176).
glosses: A suburban village and civil parish (served by Holme Pierrepont and Gamston Parish Council) in Rushcliffe borough, Nottinghamshire (OS grid ref SK6037).
GSB
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: GSBs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of green sulphur bacterium, green sulfur bacteria.
aship
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From a- + ship.
Senses: examples: text: […] it was certainly one of the most exciting and uncomfortable weeks I ever spent, either aship or ashore.
ref: 1880, Mark Twain, chapter 17, in A Tramp Abroad, Hartford, CT: American Publishing Company, page 154:
text: then the stern line was thrown aship, and the boat was off
ref: 1912, Charles E. Young, chapter 6, in Dangers of the Trail in 1865, Geneva, NY: Press of W.F. Humphrey, page 116:
synonyms: aboard
on board
antonyms: ashore
glosses: On or onto a ship.
Valley of the Queens
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Valley of the Queens
Etymology: From valley + queen. From being a valley that was the burial place for the wives of pharaohs, i.e. queens.
Senses: topics: Egyptology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A valley in Egypt, that contains many tombs of Queens of Pharaohs.
Synonyms: QV
Coordinate terms: Valley of the Kings
Derived terms: QV
QV-
neenish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Take the mention of 'neenish cakes' in an 1895 advertisement for the New South Wales Ice and Fresh Food Company in the Sydney Evening News. Or the recipe published in The Sydney Mail and the New South Wales Advertiser in 1901, ...
ref: 2020, Eamon Evans, What Ever Happened to Ned Kelly's Head?, Affirm Press, →ISBN:
glosses: Only used in neenish tart and a few related, synonymous phrases.
climate crisis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: climate crises
Senses: examples: text: If you have any doubt, just look at what’s on: The Robert Blake trial. The Laci Peterson tragedy. […] And more importantly, notice what is not on: the global climate crisis, the nation’s fiscal catastrophe, the hollowing out of America’s industrial base, and a long list of other serious public questions that need to be addressed by the American people.
ref: 2005 October 24, Al Gore, “Al Gore Addresses We Media”, in We Media:
text: The climate crisis is not, in fact, a mystery or a riddle we haven’t yet solved due to insufficiently robust data sets. We know what it would take, but it’s not a quick fix – it’s a paradigm shift.
ref: 2023 May 8, Naomi Klein, “AI machines aren’t ‘hallucinating’. But their makers are”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: “The urgency of taking action against the climate crisis has prompted us to bring the first climate lawsuit in Italy against the country’s largest energy company,” said Matteo Ceruti, a lawyer for the plaintiffs.
ref: 2023 May 9, Stella Levantesi, “Italian oil firm Eni faces lawsuit alleging early knowledge of climate crisis”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: Gloninger’s experience is all too common among meteorologists across the country who are encountering reactions from viewers as they tie the climate crisis to extreme temperatures, blizzards, tornadoes and floods in their local weather reports.
ref: 2023 July 9, “‘You should have seen this note’: US meteorologists harassed for reporting on climate crisis”, in The Guardian, sourced from AP, →ISSN:
text: He said that with the world facing a climate crisis, "it is up to those at the forefront of our industry - like Network Rail - to lead by example".
ref: 2023 August 9, “Network News: Network Rail under fire for spending thousands of pounds on flights”, in RAIL, number 989, page 15:
text: The climate crisis remained an important concern for voters, Sciarini said, but “it has been supplanted by immediate worries over purchasing power, inflation and of course mass immigration, all of which were highlighted in the SVP’s campaign”.
ref: 2023 October 23, Jon Henley, “Switzerland’s populists promise ‘less political correctness’ after election win”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Synonym of climate emergency.
synonyms: word: climate emergency
climate crises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of climate crisis
climate science
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: climatology
Ancient Near East
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Ancient Near East
Senses: glosses: The Near East from the 4th millennium BC until the Muslim conquests.
Derived terms: ancient Near Eastern
ANE
ancient Near Eastern
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ancient Near Eastern
form: most ancient Near Eastern
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the Ancient Near East.
ancient Roman
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ancient Roman
form: most ancient Roman
form: Ancient Roman
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Ancient Rome.
ancient Roman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ancient Romans
form: Ancient Roman
Senses: examples: text: As regards the pronunciation of the vowels in general, we must observe here, how accurate, and even particular, the ancient Romans were in pronouncing a syllable which had a vowel long by nature besides its length by position.
ref: 1845, Carl Dressner, A Treatise on the Genuine Pronunciation of the Ancient Romans, Dublin: William Curry, Jun., and Co., […], page 20:
text: When the city’s wells were no longer sufficient to meet the needs of the ancient Romans, aqueducts were built to bring water form surrounding hills.
ref: 2005, Michael Burgan, Empire of Ancient Rome (Great Empires of the Past), New York, N.Y.: Facts On File, Inc., →ISBN, page 87:
text: To the ancient Romans, these part-myth, part-legend stories proved that they were the most noble and virtuous people in the world.
ref: 2016, Pliny O’Brian, Myths of the Ancient Romans (World Mythologies), New York, N.Y.: Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC, →ISBN, pages 24–25:
glosses: A native or inhabitant of Ancient Rome.
grammatical category
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grammatical categories
Senses: examples: text: First, the AWL lacks part-of-speech information so does not allow users to see which vocabulary can be used for multiple grammatical categories nor which grammatical category is more frequent.
ref: 2018, Clarence Green, James Lambert, “Advancing disciplinary literacy through English for academic purposes: Discipline-specific wordlists, collocations and word families for eight secondary subjects”, in Journal of English for Academic Purposes, volume 35, →DOI, page 107:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Part of speech.
grammatical categories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grammatical category
magnetosignals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of magnetosignal
word-search
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: word-searches
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of word search.
word-searches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of word-search
anterofrontal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From antero- + frontal.
Senses: glosses: anterior and frontal
mucosalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The action, or the result of mucosalizing
pseudoanonymized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pseudo- + anonymized.
Senses: glosses: Modified by pseudoanonymization
pseudoanonymization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pseudonymization.
undercontrolled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From under- + controlled.
Senses: glosses: Insufficiently controlled
vadimezan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The anticancer agent 5,6-dimethylxantheonone-4-acetic acid
lancang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lancangs
Senses: synonyms: lancha
lanchang
glosses: A kind of sailing ship from Maritime Southeast Asia.
RBDs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of RBD
absenteism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: absenteisms
Etymology: From absentee + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of absenteeism.
banditism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bandit + -ism.
Senses: glosses: banditry
Holme Pierrepont
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Pierrepont was the name of a family here in the 14th century.
Senses: glosses: A locality and civil parish (served by Holme Pierrepont and Gamston Parish Council) in Rushcliffe borough, Nottinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SK6239).
UNOI
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -aɪ
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of United Nation of Islam.
Related terms: sense: United Nation of Islam
word: Islam
sense: United Nation of Islam
word: nation
sense: United Nation of Islam
word: NOI
sense: United Nation of Islam
word: Nation of Islam
sense: United Nation of Islam
word: of
sense: United Nation of Islam
word: united
sense: United Nation of Islam
word: United Nation of Islam
sense: United Nation of Islam
word: UN
sense: United Nation of Islam
word: United Nations
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
Senses: topics: Christianity
lifestyle
religion
glosses: Alternative form of Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
biflagellar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + flagellar.
Senses: glosses: Having two flagella
Ramdass
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ramdasses
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi रामदास (rāmdās).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Hindi.
Unification Church
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Ellipsis of Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity.
Senses: glosses: A Christian denomination and church first established in South Korea, and founded by Sun Myung Moon
Synonyms: Unification Movement
Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity
Hypernyms: Christianity
Abrahamic religion
Coordinate terms: Moonie
Derived terms: Unificationism
Unificationist
Pontillo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Pontillos
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Pontillo.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
Pontillos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Pontillo
Ramdasses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Ramdass
Siegenthaler
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Siegenthalers
Etymology: Borrowed from German Siegenthaler.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Solesbee
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Solesbees
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Solesbees
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Solesbee
Siegenthalers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Siegenthaler
Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
form: Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
form: Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Etymology: From fundamentalist + Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Senses: glosses: A denomination of Mormonism, widely known for practising polygamy, which split from the main church over the issue of the banning of plural marriage, seen to be placating the United States government on secular worldly issues, and compromising the true faith.
Synonyms: FLDS
FLDS Church
Hypernyms: Mormonism
LDS Movement
Christianity
Derived terms: FLDS
FLDS Church
Related terms: Christ
church
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
day
fundamentalist
Jesus
Jesus Christ
latter
latter-day
Latter-day Saint
LDS
LDS Church
LDS Movement
of
saint
Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
cabinet of curiosities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cabinets of curiosities
Etymology: Calque of German Wunderkammer (“room of wonders”); cabinet is intended in the (obsolete) sense "chamber, private room."
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Wunderkammer.
synonyms: word: Wunderkammer
Birkland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Birklands
Etymology: Variant of Birkeland.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Norwegian.
Beachem
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Beachems
form: Beacham
form: Beecham
form: Beechem
Etymology: Variant of Beauchamp.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
Beachems
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Beachem
Birklands
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Birkland
Balingits
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Balingit
Bonaventuras
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Bonaventura
Turrell
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Turrells
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A minor city in Crittenden County, Arkansas, United States.
Whitenack
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Whitenacks
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Whitenacks
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Whitenack
Turrells
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Turrell
flds.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fld.
flds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fld
fld.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flds.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of field.
glosses: Abbreviation of fluid.
Derived terms: fld. oz.
Wieberg
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Wiebergs
Etymology: Borrowed from German Wieberg.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
FLD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: FLDs
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of farmer's lung disease.
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of fatty liver disease.
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of Fazio-Londe disease.
Wiebergs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Wieberg
weired
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From weir + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: White shrimp emigrated significantly sooner from the unweired pond than from the weired pond in most experiments, but whether the weir actually delayed emigration was unclear.
ref: 1996, E. Eric Knudsen et al., “Juvenile White Shrimp Growth, Mortality, and Emigration in Weired and Unweired Louisiana Marsh Ponds”, in North American Journal of Fisheries Management, volume 16, number 3, →DOI, pages 640–652:
glosses: Having a weir.
unweired
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: White shrimp emigrated significantly sooner from the unweired pond than from the weired pond in most experiments, but whether the weir actually delayed emigration was unclear.
ref: 1996, E. Eric Knudsen et al., “Juvenile White Shrimp Growth, Mortality, and Emigration in Weired and Unweired Louisiana Marsh Ponds”, in North American Journal of Fisheries Management, volume 16, number 3, →DOI, pages 640–652:
glosses: Without a weir.
Yeadon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈjiːdən/
Forms: form: Yeadons
Etymology: From Old English ġæh (“steep”) + dūn (“hill”).
Senses: glosses: A town in the city of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE2041).
glosses: A borough in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, United States, next to Philadelphia.
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
bicyclooctanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bicyclooctane
snow bikes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snow bike
conlanged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of conlang
reverse gear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reverse gears
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: reversing gear
text: The reverse gear of a Ford Model T was engaged with a foot pedal.
text: Reverse gear, air-operated, is incorporated in the transmission.
ref: 1962 April, “Beyond the Channel: Western Germany: The Henschel 4,000 h.p. V320 diesel”, in Modern Railways, page 274:
text: It's a chance to get transport investment in this country out of reverse gear - a chance to end paper promises.
ref: 2021 October 6, Paul Stephen, “Network News: Labour: build HS2 and NPR and end "paper promises"”, in RAIL, number 941, page 25:
topics: engineering
mechanical
mechanical-engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: reverse
hypernyms: gear
glosses: A gear (setting) in a vehicle's transmission which, when selected, makes the vehicle move backward. (Denoted with symbol R on a shifter's labeling.)
examples: text: Near-synonym: reversing gear
text: This old lathe has a reverse gear, but it wouldn't be used under most conditions, and in fact its use is unsafe under most conditions because the chuck is attached with nothing but a right-hand screw thread!
topics: engineering
mechanical
mechanical-engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A gear fitted to a machine which allows it to run in the direction opposite to normal operation.
reverse gears
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reverse gear
make no secret of
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes no secret of
form: making no secret of
form: made no secret of
form: made no secret of
Senses: glosses: To be open about; to make one's feelings clear.
like a ripe plum
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: I could pull it off, like a bird, single handed; but with you, in a manner of speaking, always round the corner, and ready to help me with your sage counsel, failure is impossible. She is like a ripe plum hanging on the tree, Billy .
ref: 1877, James Greenwood, Dick Temple, page 195:
text: If they can bring Round Pond to her knees, the rest of the world will fall like a ripe plum.
ref: 1976 ·, James A. McCracken, Innocents at Sea, page 193:
text: She was like a ripe plum falling into my hand!
ref: 1997, Linda Chaikin, The Pirate and His Lady:
text: "Then you must seek her out! She isn't going to just fall into your lap like a ripe plum, my boy,” the duke insisted.
ref: 2010, Adrienne Basso, How to Seduce a Sinner, page 43:
text: You said yourself he'd only to wait and the mine would have dropped into his lap like a ripe plum.
ref: 2013, John Fletcher, A Far Country:
qualifier: simile
glosses: With no effort on one's part.
Related terms: low-hanging fruit
easy pickings
crooked as a dog's hind leg
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: synonyms: crooked as a barrel of fish hooks
qualifier: simile
glosses: very unscrupulous and deceptive
Related terms: bent as a nine-bob note
phony as a three-dollar bill
apolog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apologs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of apologue.
rail brake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rail brakes
Senses: examples: text: The locomotive is fitted with disc air brakes, and in addition magnetic rail brakes are fitted to each bogie for emergency.
ref: 1962 April, “Beyond the Channel: Western Germany: The Henschel 4,000 h.p. V320 diesel”, in Modern Railways, page 274:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A type of brake, often magnetic or electromagnetic, which is pressed against the rail in railway track.
Synonyms: track brake
rail brakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rail brake
cold boots
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cold boot
cold boots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cold boot
cold booting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cold boot
cold booted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cold boot
Liistro
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Liistros
form: Liistroes
form: Listro
Etymology: Borrowed from the Italian surname Italian Liistro, Italianization of the Sicilian surname Lijistru, from lijistru (“privet”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Sicilian.
megahash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megahashes
Etymology: From mega- + hash.
Senses: topics: business
computing
cryptocurrencies
cryptocurrency
engineering
finance
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A million hashes.
Related terms: hashrate
hashrate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hashrates
Etymology: From hash + rate.
Senses: examples: text: Specialized hardware like a GPU is designed to do large numbers of small tasks very quickly, and so excel at hashing: typically a single GPU can produce a hashrate at least ten times faster than that of a single CPU.
ref: 2017, Adam Rothstein, The End of Money, John Murray Press, →ISBN:
topics: business
computing
cryptocurrencies
cryptocurrency
engineering
finance
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The number of proof of work hashes that a mining computer can make in a given period of time, usually a second.
examples: text: BitCoin hashrate
text: In August last year, the most recent data available, Kazakhstan accounted for 18% of the global “hashrate” – crypto lingo for the amount of computing power being used by computers hooked up to the bitcoin network.
ref: 2022 January 6, “Kazakhstan internet shutdown deals blow to global bitcoin mining operation”, in The Guardian:
glosses: The network hashrate; the estimated number of hashes generated by the entire mining network.
Related terms: megahash
terahash
petahash
exahash
hashrates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hashrate
terahash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: terahashes
Etymology: From tera- + hash.
Senses: topics: business
computing
cryptocurrencies
cryptocurrency
engineering
finance
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A trillion (10¹²) hashes.
Related terms: hashrate
terahashes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of terahash
megahashes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of megahash
Wealdish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: wealdish
Senses: examples: text: A considerable part of this county is called The Weald; that is , a woodland ground , the inhabitants whereof are called the Wealdish men
ref: a. 1662 (date written), Thomas Fuller, The History of the Worthies of England, London: […] J[ohn] G[rismond,] W[illiam] L[eybourne] and W[illiam] G[odbid], published 1662, →OCLC:
glosses: Wealden.
Sino-Burmese
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Sino- + Burmese.
Senses: examples: text: In Hsi-shuang-pan-na T‘ai Autonomous Region of Yunnan Province, near the Burmese border, there are countless small monasteries generally composed of a Buddha hall, monks’ quarters, and one or two pagodas all enclosed by a wall and decorated in the regional Sino-Burmese style.
ref: 1993, “TEMPLE: Buddhist Temple Compounds”, in The Encyclopedia of Religion, volume 13, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 377:
glosses: Of or pertaining both to China and to Myanmar; being both Chinese and Burmese.
Dodworth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈdɔdəθ/
Senses: glosses: A large village in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE3105).
Related terms: Dodsworth
electric shaver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: electric shavers
Senses: synonyms: electric razor
dry shaver
dry razor
glosses: Any of various electric tools for shaving.
electric razor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: electric razors
Senses: glosses: Synonym of electric shaver.
synonyms: word: electric shaver
candlelit dinner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: candlelit dinners
Senses: synonyms: candlelight dinner
glosses: A romantic dinner that includes candles, and may also include good china, and similar fancy aspects to the setting.
candlelight dinner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: candlelight dinners
Senses: glosses: Synonym of candlelit dinner.
synonyms: word: candlelit dinner
dinner camp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dinner camps
Senses: examples: text: Looking at that brownie cake reminded me of a most unusual happening when we had come back to the mill for dinner camp in the middle of the day.
ref: 2010, Brian Taylor, A Swag of Memories: Australian bush stories:
text: I remember one day on dinner camp, we was all relaxing as the horses fed around us, when all of a sudden the station horses took off.
ref: 2011, Herb Wharton, Cattle Camp: Murrie Drovers and Their Stories, page 6:
text: Dinner camp was generally a casual affair.
ref: 2012, Bobbie Buchanan, In the Tracks of Old Bluey: The Life Story of Nat Buchanan, page 58:
text: Eventually they arrive, and set up dinner camp under a tree in the dry creekbed, close to a soakage where, with only a little effort, fresh water can be obtained from under the sand.
ref: 2013, Elspeth Young, Third World in the First: Development and Indigenous Peoples:
glosses: A midday break for a meal and rest taken by drovers and their livestock.
examples: text: Even if they had a camp where they meet, and their trapline is divided like this, but if they have a dinner camp here, that's supposed to be in their boundary.
ref: 2001, Michael D. Blackstock, Faces in the Forest: First Nations Art Created on Living Trees, page 117:
text: In the new space the narrator draws four new elements representing the shade camp or 'dinner camp' where some of the women and children are waiting.
ref: 2014, Jennifer Green, Drawn from the Ground, page 186:
text: He found her name on this last leg between dinner camp and the station yards.
ref: 2018, Steve Hawke, Valley:
text: Not more than two miles below our dinner camp we reached a locality where the stream doubled back on itself forming a vast and beautiful amphitheatre.
ref: 2020, F. S. Dellenbaugh, A Canyon Voyage, page 79:
glosses: The location of the temporary camp created for dinner camp.
community policeman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: community policemen
Senses: synonyms: community police officer
glosses: A policeman who maintains a regular presence in a particular community, forging relationships with people who live in the community and using those to prevent crime and de-escalate conflict.
Related terms: community policing
community police officer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: community police officers
Senses: glosses: Synonym of community policeman.
synonyms: word: community policeman
desilo
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: desilos
form: desiloing
form: desiloed
form: desiloed
Etymology: From de- + silo.
Senses: glosses: To free (data, etc.) from a silo, or isolated storage.
bite point
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bite points
Senses: topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
synonyms: biting point
glosses: The position on releasing a clutch pedal that the gear engages.
bite points
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bite point
Konbaung
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Burmese ကုန်းဘောင် (kun:bhaung).
Senses: glosses: Konbaung dynasty (1752-1885), the last imperial dynasty of Myanmar.
hill start
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hill starts
Senses: topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: The act of starting a motor vehicle moving forwards from a complete stop when going uphill, typically requiring the use of the handbrake.
hill starts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hill start
flightseer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flightseers
Senses: examples: text: Those are some highlights for Alaska flightseers, but Denali trips remain at the top of many must-see lists.
ref: 2020 May 29, Mike Campbell, “No view is more epic than the one you’ll find on an Alaska flightseeing tour”, in Anchorage Daily News:
glosses: A person who sightsees from an aircraft.
Related terms: flightseeing
flightseers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flightseer
King's highway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: King's highways
form: King's Highway
Senses: synonyms: Queen's highway
glosses: A publicly maintained road or right-of-way.
slick as a whistle
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: qualifier: simile
glosses: Smooth and skillful; performed with ease and grace.
Related terms: slick as snot
clean as a whistle
Oh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /oʊ/
Etymology: From Korean 오(吳) (O).
Senses: examples: text: “Your son’s name. What is it?”
“Oh. Benjamin Oh.”
“Benjamin O … what?”
“No, Oh, Officer. That’s it. The last name is Oh.”
ref: 2021, Ruth Ozeki, The Book of Form and Emptiness, Canongate Books (2022), page 294:
glosses: A surname from Korean derived from a common Korean surname.
Oh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /oʊ/
Etymology: From possibly Hokkien 胡 (Ô͘).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Chinese.
engine braking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: The act of slowing down a motor vehicle using the retarding forces of the engine rather than the normal braking mechanism.
Coordinate terms: jake brake
Fengtian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Fengtien
Etymology: From Mandarin 奉天 (Fèngtiān).
Senses: glosses: Former name of Liaoning.
glosses: Former name of Shenyang.
proper right
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: proper (in the sense of "its own") + right; from Latin proprius.
Senses: examples: text: Sennit for Hats […] always join on the upper side, because the under side is the proper right side of the sennit.
ref: 1834, S. B. Luce, Aaron Ward, “Knotting, Splicing, Etc.”, in Text-book of Seamanship, revised and enlarged edition, New York: Van Nostrand Company, published 1891, archived from the original on 19 Jan 2021, page 59:
text: There is a slight twist of the torso to the proper right, and the head is turned a little further.
ref: 1981, Martin Robertson, “The great change : late archaic and early classical”, in A Shorter History of Greek Art, Cambridge University Press, published 1982, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 53:
text: The key in the lock served to open the proper left-hand door, while the proper right door was secured by a hook and eye of forged iron […]
ref: 2006 April, Jean M Burks, “Quebec country furniture at the Shelburne Museum”, in Magazine Antiques, volume 169, number 4, page 124:
glosses: The direction which is to the right from an object's perspective, the direction 90 degrees clockwise from the front.
Synonyms: starboard
proper left
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: proper (in the sense of "its own") + left; from Latin proprius.
Senses: examples: text: The key in the lock served to open the proper left-hand door, while the proper right door was secured by a hook and eye of forged iron […]
ref: 2006 April, Jean M Burks, “Quebec country furniture at the Shelburne Museum”, in Magazine Antiques, volume 169, number 4, page 124:
text: Detail of damage to plaster on proper left side of top chain
ref: 2009, Stephanie E. Hornbeck, “A Conservation Conundrum”, in African Arts, volume 42, number 3, page 52:
text: The nose and proper left ear were also inset, stone restorations, with dark resin visible surrounding the joints.
ref: 2012 May 2, “Search object details”, in British Museum, archived from the original on 16 Jan 2013:
glosses: The direction which is to the left from an object's perspective, the direction 90 degrees counter-clockwise from the front.
Synonyms: port
larboard
backboard
yͤ
Language: English
Part of speech: article
Etymology: Substituted the Middle English þͤ (“the”) due to the lack of a sort for it and visual similarity in blackletter type. See Thorn (letter) on Wikipedia for more information.
Senses: examples: text: And from thence he went agaynſt yͤ inhabiters of Debir (but Debir was called Kiriath Sepher afoꝛetyme.)
ref: 1535 October 14 (Gregorian calendar), Myles Coverdale, transl., Biblia: The Byble, […] (Coverdale Bible), [Cologne or Marburg]: [Eucharius Cervicornus and Johannes Soter?], →OCLC, Judges j:[3], folio xiij, recto, column 2:
text: And you ſhall finde, that the ſcriptures will instruct the man of God vnto all good works, & make him wiſe vnto ſaluation, if theſe wil not ſerue your turn, ſeeke where you wil, & find yͤ deuil & eternal damnatiõ.
ref: 1580, T. Stapleton and Martiall (Two Popish Heretikes) Confuted, and of Their Particular Heresies Detected, London: Henrie Middleton, page 167:
text: OLd Iohn of Gaunt, time-honoured Lancaſter,
 Haſt thou according to thy oath and band
 Brought hither Henry Herford thy bold ſon:
 Heere to make good yͤ boiſtrous late appeale,
 Which then our leyſure would not let vs heare,
 Againſt the Duke of Norfolke, Thomas Mowbray?
ref: 1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], page 23, column 1:
text: Now vnto yͤ king eternal, immortall, inuiſible, the onely wiſe God, be honour and glory for euer ⁊ euer. Amen.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Timothy 1:17, column 2:
glosses: Alternative form of ye (“the”).
wikipedia: Thorn (letter)#Middle and Early Modern English
Related terms: yͭ
yͧ
HNY
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Initialism of happy New Year.
hyperracialized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: […] affirmative action has been oversimplified, politicized, hyperracialized, and "blackened" by whitestream American political and popular culture.
ref: 2008, Curtis Stokes, Race and Human Rights, MSU Press, →ISBN:
text: [Someone] writing in a hyperracialized genre who longed for acceptance by the white literary establishment—was hardly an authentic source for the real history of the antebellum South. He wasn't a real black person, wasn't a real Southerner […]
ref: 2013, Paul Outka, Race and Nature from Transcendentalism to the Harlem Renaissance, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN:
text: Why may this hyperracialized identity have congealed in the late colonial period?
ref: 2014, Mitra Sharafi, Law and Identity in Colonial South Asia: Parsi Legal Culture, 1772–1947, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 311:
text: New to this context were the rationalities that shaped Atlantic slavery as a coherent enterprise – it became a hyperracialized form of commerce.
ref: 2015, Sylvester A. Johnson, African American Religions, 1500–2000, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 89:
text: The show paints a complex and contradictory portrait of Black female sexuality that is simultaneously unwieldy and easily consumed, hyperracialized and deracialized, unique and universal, aggressive and diffident.
ref: 2015, Trimiko Melancon, Joanne M. Braxton, Black Female Sexualities, Rutgers University Press, →ISBN:
glosses: Highly or excessively racialized.
hyperracial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hyper- + racial.
Senses: examples: text: The German churches were not strong in any democratic doctrine or spirit to meet this assault of hyperracial nationalism. The Observer was in Germany two years after the war. He found the church leaders monarchical, opposed to the republic […]
ref: 1939, Christian Advocate:
text: Hyperracial fantasies likewise exist throughout the historical avant-garde, and gender politics take a particularly extreme form, leading to hypermasculinism.
ref: 2009, Carrie Noland, Barrett Watten, Diasporic Avant-Gardes: Experimental Poetics and Cultural Displacement, Palgrave MacMillan:
text: A hyperracial reality becomes blaringly evident when exploring U.S. popular culture, and more specifically, rap music.
ref: 2016, James Braxton Peterson, Hip Hop Headphones: A Scholar’s Critical Playlist, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, →ISBN, page 120:
text: Jefferson's hyperracial culture was not just upheld by students making sly comments in the shadows. Teachers also played a significant role in maintaining racial hierarchies through jokes and biases of their own.
ref: 2017, Shayla Reese Griffin, Those Kids, Our Schools: Race and Reform in an American High School, Harvard Education Press, →ISBN:
glosses: Highly or excessively racial.
unracialize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unracializes
form: unracializing
form: unracialized
form: unracialized
form: unracialise
Etymology: From un- + racialize.
Senses: glosses: To remove or undo the racialization of.
unracializes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unracialize
unracializing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unracialize
Landsmål
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Landsmaal
Etymology: From Norwegian landsmål (Bokmål entry; Nynorsk entry); called so by Ivar Aasen.
Senses: examples: text: Political parties had to tailor their programmes according to the taste of the electorate on the basis of the Riksmål/Landsmål controversy.
ref: 2000, Gyula Décsy, The Linguistic Identity of Europe: The 62 Languages of Europe Classified in Functional Zones, Eurolingua, →ISBN, page 84:
text: In 1885, Landsmål won official recognition from the government; in 1929 it was renamed Nynorsk ("new Norwegian").
ref: 2000, Frankie B. Shackelford, transl., Ave Eva: A Norwegian Tragedy, Xenos Books, translation of Ave Eva: Herregårdsroman by Edvard Hoem, page viii:
text: Diphthongs were allowed as options in many words, often rendering them identical to the Landsmål forms but deviating from upper-middle-class speech: ben > bein ‘bone, leg’ (Landsmål: bein), løv > lauv ‘leaf’ (Landsmål: lauv). In Riksmål with optional forms, many other frequently-used words were also altered from forms which reflected upper-middle-class speech to those which were identical with Landsmål:[…]
ref: 2014, Ernst Håkon Jahr, “Two Norwegian written standards: is linguistic reconciliation possible? Early twentieth century up to the 1917 language reforms”, in Language Planning as a Sociolinguistic Experiment: The Case of Modern Norwegian, Edinburgh University Press, →ISBN, section “The language reform of 1917”, subsection “Concrete changes to Riksmål”, page 93:
glosses: A written standard for Norwegian created by Ivar Aasen in the mid-1800s; predecessor to Nynorsk.
wikipedia: Ivar Aasen
Related terms: sense: other Norwegian varieties
word: Bokmål
sense: other Norwegian varieties
word: Høgnorsk
sense: other Norwegian varieties
word: Nynorsk
sense: other Norwegian varieties
word: Riksmål
noraebang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈnoʊɹeɪˌbɑŋ/
Forms: form: noraebangs
Etymology: Etymology tree
Middle Korean 놀〯— (nwǒl—)
Middle Korean -개 (-kay)
Middle Korean 놀애〮 (nwòláy)
Korean 노래 (norae)
Chinese 房bor.
Korean 방 (bang)
Korean 노래방 (noraebang)bor.
English noraebang
Borrowed from Korean 노래방(房) (noraebang), from 노래 (norae, “song”) + 방(房) (bang, “room”), literally "a song room".
Senses: glosses: karaoke, especially in the Korean context