cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
packed away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pack away
esophagoscopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: esophagoscopies
form: oesophagoscopy
Etymology: From esophago- + -scopy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Diagnostic inspection of the interior of the esophagus.
Derived terms: bronchoesophagoscopy
esophagoscopies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of esophagoscopy
epiplocele
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: epiploceles
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἐπίπλοον (epíploon, “omentum”) (see epiploon) + -cele.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Hernia of the omentum.
epiploceles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of epiplocele
epipastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Painting the disks of area with the epipastic fluid of the pharmacopoeia may also, occasionally, be resorted to, or the epipastic fluid may be diluted with spirits of camphor.
ref: 1878, Sir William James Erasmus Wilson, Lectures on dermatology; delivered in the Royal college of surgeons of England, Jan., 1870:
text: Courbon, experimenting physiologically upon Epicauta adspersa, denied that the hard parts exercised any epipastic action, and Leidy, speaking of Epicauta viltata, went further, and said of this species that "the vesicating principle resides in the blood an fatty matter peculiar to certain glands accessory to the generative organs andd in the eggs".
ref: 1885, American Journal of Pharmacy, volume 57, page 350:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Having the qualities of a dusting powder.
takes care of
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of take care of
taking care of
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of take care of
taken care of
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of take care of
took care of
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of take care of
epilamellar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From epi- + lamellar.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Above or upon a basement membrane.
epimerite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: epimerites
Etymology: From epi- + merite from -mere.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The attaching organ of a cephalont.
Related terms: deutomerite
protomerite
epimerites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of epimerite
epigaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The hindgut; the primitive large intestine.
Related terms: metagaster
protogaster
epiglottiditis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of epiglottitis.
synonyms: word: epiglottitis
academicks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of academick
cut autograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cut autographs
Etymology: From cut + autograph.
Senses: examples: text: A common practice today is to mat and frame a "cut autograph," a signature that has been cut out from a letter or document, with a photograph of the star.
ref: 2003, Carol Prisant, Antiques Roadshow Collectibles, New York: Workman, page 130:
synonyms: cut signature
glosses: A signature cut from a signed document.
Mauldin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Maulding
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A town in Greenville County, South Carolina.
glosses: A ghost town in Montgomery County, Arkansas.
Related terms: Maverick
bull elephant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bull elephants
Senses: glosses: A male elephant.
Synonyms: elephant bull
male elephant
Coordinate terms: cow elephant
elephant cow
elephantess
female elephant
lap joint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lap joints
Etymology: Compound of lap + joint
Senses: examples: text: There is, however, a most important and peculiar element of strength in the ordinary lap-joints for circular seams, as distinguished from straight seams, in the circumstance that the circular lap-joint cannot possibly be distorted like the straight lap-joint, under extreme tension
ref: 1858 November 27, “Recent Practice in the Locomotive Engine”, in Sholto Percy, editor, Mechanics' Magazine and Journal of Science, Arts, and Manufactures, volume 69, London: Knight and Lacey, page 512:
text: Using the lap joint in any of its applications provides strength in a cabinet where a butt joint would or could be used.
ref: 1990, Byron W. Maguire, Cabinetmaking: From Design to Finish, Carlsbad, CA: Craftsman, page 234:
topics: arts
business
carpentry
construction
crafts
hobbies
lifestyle
manufacturing
woodworking
glosses: A joint made by securing together two overlapping pieces
Related terms: butt joint
dovetail
mortise-and-tenon joint
plecks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pleck
cow elephant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cow elephants
Senses: glosses: A female elephant.
Synonyms: elephant cow
elephantess
female elephant
she-elephant
Coordinate terms: bull elephant
elephant bull
male elephant
he-elephant
sheep-bell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈʃipˌbɛl/
Forms: form: sheep-bells
Etymology: From sheep + bell.
Senses: examples: text: So she sat on, with closed eyes, and half believed herself in Wonderland, though she knew she had but to open them again, and all would change to dull reality—the grass would be only rustling in the wind, and the pool rippling to the waving of the reeds—the rattling teacups would change to tinkling sheep-bells, and the Queen's shrill cries to the voice of the shepherd boy— […]
ref: 1865, Lewis Carroll, chapter 12, in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland:
text: The narrow street of Lestampes stood full of sheep, from wall to wall—black sheep and white, bleating with one accord like the birds in spring, and each one accompanying himself upon the sheep-bell round his neck. It made a pathetic concert, all in treble.
ref: 1879, Robert Louis Stevenson, “Across the Goulet”, in Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes:
text: It got him, all of it—the ancient mountain slopes worn as if by the struggles of Jacob and the angel, the spires, the dry glistening of the atmosphere, the hermit places in green hideaways, the sheep-bells' clunk, the cistern water dropping, while beams came as straight as harp wires from the sun.
ref: 1954, Saul Bellow, “The Gonzaga Manuscripts”, in Mosby's Memoirs and Other Stories, Penguin, published 1984, page 135:
glosses: A bell attached to a collar worn by sheep.
fivever
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: 5ever
Etymology: Blend of five + forever, as a pun on four. Compare me three.
Senses: examples: text: His mother and he lived happily fivever after -- and so on, and so on, and so fifth.
ref: 2001, Richard Lederer, “Four Cheers Five Victor Borge”, in Annals of Improbable Research, volume 7, number 1, page 24:
text: This is not an introductory promotion, or a temporary discount. This is five tracks, five bucks, ... fivever.
ref: 2004 November 16, Lunatic Groove, rec.music.a-cappella (Usenet):
text: Jemma stares at me forever. Fivever.
ref: 2017, Sara Wolf, Remember Me Forever, page 147:
glosses: Longer than Forever.
naked apron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: naked aprons
Etymology: A calque of Japanese 裸エプロン (はだかエプロン, hadaka epuron), from 裸 (はだか, hadaka, “naked, nude, bare”) + エプロン (epuron, “apron”), in turn borrowed from English apron.
Senses: examples: text: > :> :> wanna come and do my place now? lol
> :> :Only if you will wear the marigolds lol
> :> I got em in especially!
> :Hope they are the nice pink ones bg
> Yup
> You got the naked apron I hope?
Nah, i swapped that for the one with the fake boobs lol
ref: 2005 August 27, Icemaiden, “Re: looks like......”, in alt.uk.penpals (Usenet), message-ID <43100fa4@212.67.96.135>:
text: > And now CMX have picked up the licence to the manga now...
[…]
Damn. There go all the "naked apron" scenes with Emma. They'll probably censor the bits with the harem girls and the elephant as well.
*sigh*
ref: 2006 February 28, Chuck Stewart, “Re: Emma - through episode 02...”, in rec.arts.anime.misc (Usenet), message-ID <pan.2006.02.28.13.00.14.122576@orcon.net.nz>:
text: Despite Choco doing the naked apron bit in the OP, they don't have her do it in the episode. In the ED, Choco is still brushing her teeth wrong.
ref: 2006 July 18, Galen Musbach, “Chocotto Sister episode 2”, in rec.arts.anime.misc (Usenet), message-ID <7a4rb29deo2otd53vlgnfm54oss4o3s0jr@4ax.com>:
text: Let us review the current state of the industry:
Manga Ratings Assigned:
[…]
Dears: 13+. Despite the naked-apron bit, and Ren making several aggressive passes at our hero is his own bed.
ref: 2007 February 24, Galen Musbach, “Re: New and Notable - Standards”, in rec.arts.anime.misc (Usenet), message-ID <n3t0u2p2oi3u1dmm575s60s589ghm2kls8@4ax.com>:
text: ...He got mad at me for going “naked apron” style...
ref: 2015, Ato Sakurai, Today's Cerberus, Volume 2, Yen Press, →ISBN, page 122:
glosses: An apron worn over a person's naked body.
Proxima
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of Proxima Centauri.
Derived terms: Proxima b
quidnunctious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more quidnunctious
form: most quidnunctious
Etymology: From quidnunc.
Senses: examples: text: 1946, Time Magazine - U.S. Edition - Volume 49 - Number 18, India: Written in Blood
In Chicago, the American Medical Association's quidnunctious Dr. Morris Fishbein doubted the efficacy of the Gandhi suicide technique.
text: The quidnunctious yankee woman is posted in gynecology. She never breeds.
ref: 1887, Edward Bond Foote, The Radical Remedy in Social Science - Borning Better Babies through Regulating Reproduction by Controlling Conception - An Earnest Essay on Pressing Problems, Murray Hill Publishing Company, page 130
text: I guess I'll sit back and let my quidnunctious ear and ubiquitous lens gather news for the coming column.
ref: 1978, American Flint Glass Workers' Union - Authors & Publishers, American Flint - Volume 68, page 31
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or being a quidnunc or the abearance of which: gossiping; cumbrously inquisiturient; irresponsibly rumourmongering.
show bench
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: show benches
Senses: examples: text: Billie's Bobtail half was crammed with the loyalty, lovableness, wisdom, courage and kindness of the breed. His something-else half was negligible, though it debarred him from the show bench.
ref: 1944, Emily Carr, “Kennel”, in The House of All Sorts:
text: 'Westerton Folly’ a resplendent pink-purple, glows in the border and does equally well on the show bench.
ref: 2015 October 9, Val Bourne, “How one man is intent on saving the lesser known varieties of dahlia”, in The Telegraph:
glosses: A bench or stand on which entries are placed at dog or other animal shows, horticultural shows, fairs, and similar events.
dudical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dudical
form: most dudical
Etymology: Blend of dude + radical
Senses: examples: text: With his mohawk and sunglasses, Josh looked really dudical.
glosses: cool, awesome
earlycomer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: earlycomers
Etymology: From early + comer.
Senses: examples: text: Indeed, thrombus composition in latecomers presents more lytic and organized areas than in earlycomers and the presence of an old thrombus is associated with a higher incidence of distal embolization […]
ref: 2014, Nicholas Kipshidze, Jawed Fareed, Robert T. Rosen, Urgent Interventional Therapies:
glosses: One who arrived early, or earlier than others.
earlycomers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of earlycomer
assertings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of asserting
pyritic heave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Damage to the floors or walls of houses when pyrite in the foundations oxidizes and expands.
Aisha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /aɪˈiːʃə/
Forms: form: Ayesha
form: Ieesha
form: Iesha
Etymology: From Arabic عَائِشَة (ʕāʔiša).
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Arabic, most famously borne by Muhammad's third wife. Daughter of first caliph Abu Bakr.
Iesha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: American 20th-century phonetic spelling of Aisha.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Arabic.
bench easel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bench easels
Senses: examples: text: Canvases stood on two homemade bench-easels.
ref: 1944, Emily Carr, “Studio”, in The House of All Sorts:
text: 2013, Shelli Alford, "Tornados in Liberace Workshop," Travelingartist.net, 2 April, 2013, http://www.thetravelingartist.net/2013/04/02/tornados-in-liberace-workshop/
Surprisingly this very tall man worked on a bench easel.
glosses: A bench with an upright board or easel attached at one end, allowing an artist to straddle the bench while working.
dateability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dateable + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The ability to have a date or age ascribed to it.
glosses: The quality of being desirable as a potential lover.
airhose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: airhoses
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of air hose.
top piece
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -iːs
Forms: form: top pieces
form: top-piece
form: toppiece
Senses: examples: text: Then pare the top piece to the size and form you intend it to be; but that you should always do before the heel is sewed, for now you are confined to the channel.
ref: 1834, John O'Sullivan, The Art and Mystery of the Gentle Craft, page 50:
text: On the outermost part of the heel, which is in direct contact with the ground when the shoe is worn, a top piece is applied.
ref: 2010, Paul Frowen, Maureen O'Donnell, Donald Lorimer, Gordon Burrow, Neale's Disorders of the Foot, Elsevier Health Sciences, →ISBN, page 457:
qualifier: shoemaking
glosses: The part of the heel on a shoe or boot that comes into contact with the ground.
examples: text: The Mayor took himself up in the lift, quite naked of course, except for his top-piece and neckpiece with his two shopping-bags […].
ref: 1973, Christina Stead, The Little Hotel, Text Classics, published 2016, page 79:
glosses: Something worn on the head; a hat, a wig or toupee.
glosses: The head or brain.
top pieces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of top piece
zero-width space
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zero-width spaces
Senses: coordinate_terms: em space
en space
no-break space
thick space
thin space
word space
glosses: A control character indicating where a line break may occur.
zero-width spaces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zero-width space
hetdar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hetdars
Etymology: Blend of het + radar, on the model of gaydar.
Senses: glosses: The ability to detect whether or not a person is straight by observing that person.
hetdars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hetdar
take the time
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes the time
form: taking the time
form: took the time
form: taken the time
Etymology: From take time.
Senses: examples: text: Thank you very much for taking the time to do your assignment properly.
glosses: To volunteer to spend one's time (for a purpose or beneficiary).
raw_tags: used with to
Synonyms: take time
takes the time
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of take the time
taking the time
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of take the time
took the time
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of take the time
taken the time
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of take the time
SROs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of SRO
Mav
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mavs
Etymology: Shortened from Maverick.
Senses: glosses: A Maverick (in both noun senses).
Mavs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mav
acceptours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acceptour
Adderalls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Adderall
antabuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antabuse
Antabuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Antabuse
magnehelic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: magnehelics
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Magnehelic.
Magnehelics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Magnehelic
magnehelics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of magnehelic
WRTs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of WRT
airhoses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of airhose
tater tots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tater tot
Derived terms: totchos
religious leaders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of religious leader
occurrance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of occurrence.
occurance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: occurances
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of occurrence.
snuggers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snugger
synthesizings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of synthesizing
military power
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: military powers
Senses: glosses: In jet aircraft technology, the maximum power of a jet aircraft without use of afterburners.
examples: text: "England," says General Napier, "both at home and abroad was, in 1808, scorned a military power, when she possessed (without a frontier to swallow up large armies in expensive fortress) at least two hundred thousand of the best equipped and best disciplined soldiers in the universe, together with an immense recruiting establishment through the medium of the militia."
ref: 1870, James Grant, The King's Own Borderers; a Military Romance, page 361:
hypernyms: great power
glosses: A great power with particular emphasis placed on its military aspect.
Febuary
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɛb.j(ʊ.)ə.ɹi/
ipa: /ˈfɛb.juˌɛ(ə)ɹi/
ipa: /ˈfɛb.juˌæɹi/
Forms: form: Febuarys
form: Febuaries
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of February.
examples: text: He began his fast after a prisoner died on hunger strike in Febuary^([sic – meaning February]).
ref: 2010 May 23, “Cuban prisoners 'win concessions' after Church talks”, in BBC, archived from the original on 14 Jul 2023:
text: The election, scheduled to take place on Febuary^([sic – meaning February]) 24-5, will now see a three-way battle for power.
ref: 2012 December 28, “Italy's PM seeks second term”, in Deutsche Welle, archived from the original on 14 Jul 2023:
text: Former judge Michael Annis retired in Febuary^([sic – meaning February]) 2020, but the Republican governor didn’t name Stone to the bench until Feb. 21 of this year.
ref: 2021 May 9, “Court rules Kemp naming judge was legal, no election needed”, in AP News, archived from the original on 10 May 2021:
text: Pakistan's foreign exchange reserves decrease by $289 million to $16,806.5 million in the week ending Febuary^([sic – meaning February]) 18, compared to $17,095.8 in the previous week, the central bank said on Thursday.
During the week ended Febuary^([sic – meaning February]) 18, State Bank of Pakistan reserves decrease by $289 million, the central bank said on Thursday night.
ref: 2022 February 24, Syed Raza Hassan, “Pakistan reserves decrease $289 mln to $16,806.5 week ending Feb 18”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 27 Feb 2022, Rates & Bonds:
glosses: Misspelling of February.
heirhood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heir-hood
Etymology: From heir + -hood.
Senses: examples: text: The sons she gives Trame's boy will do him as proud as he and his brothers have done their own father, sons who will also be my grandsons and grandheirs. Her husband will find her a greater prize than simply a means to heirhood.
ref: 1987, Sharon Green, Lady Blade, Lord Fighter:
text: Does this reflect a scribal scruple to have the element of universal heirhood incorporated, or is this a piety of Sara herself?
ref: 1996, Robert Ignatius Burns, Jews in the Notarial Culture:
text: Dara focused, heating the water until it steamed into vapor. The floor was as good as new. “We make a good team. Thou shouldst stay.” “I can't. They didn't care when Loren was Lady's champion, but now you've all got him roped into heirhood and kinghood only an elf will do. Alani is a much more suitable choice as queen of the elves than I am. [...]”
ref: 2008, Renee Wildes, Duality:
text: By the end of Kitaka's funeral everyone in the village, including Kyome who is Ddibya's younger brother, will discover that Kizito, my first son, is not eligible to be Ddibya's heir. Next week Kyome will strip my son of his heir-hood.' 'But how will everyone discover all this by the end of the funeral?
ref: 2014, Katherine Namuddu, Her Husband’s Crown:
glosses: The state or condition of being an heir; heirship
deliverings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of delivering
tomorning
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From to- + morning.
Senses: glosses: In the morning.
Samskrit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of Sanskrit.
perihermion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From peri- + hermeo- + -ion.
Senses: examples: text: The MMO will be in an elliptic orbit around Mercury with the perihermion of 600 km and the aphermion of 11624 km.
ref: 2012 October, M Kobayashi, H Shibata, K Nogami, M Fujii, T Miyachi, H Ohashi, S Sasaki, T Iwai, M Hattori, H Kimura, T Hirai, S Takechi, H Yano, S Hasegawa, R Srama & E Gru:n, “Mercury dust monitor for the BepiColombo MMO”, in International Workshop of Instrumentation for Planetary Missions:
glosses: Periapsis around Mercury.
Tumxuk
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈtʌm.ʃʊk/
Forms: form: Tumshuq
Etymology: From Uyghur تۇمشۇق (tumshuq).
Senses: examples: text: The stated mission of the Bingtuan is to increase the Han population of Xinjiang: recruiting Han migrants, supported by subsidies from Beijing, is ‘the will of the state.'⁶ For example, a Bingtuan advertisement circulated on the ubiquitous Chinese social media app Weixin/WeChat in the first half of 2020 called for able-bodied people aged 18-35 with household registration in China proper and ‘good political quality’ (zhengzhi suzhi hao) to move to a new settlement built by the Third Division 50ᵗʰ Regiment 18 km from the southern city of Tumshug (Tumxuk, Tumushuke), between Kashgar and Aksu.
ref: 2007, James A. Millward, “Colonialism, Assimilationism and Ethnocide (2000s-2020s)”, in Eurasian Crossroads: A History of Xinjiang, London: Hurst & Company, published 2021, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 367:
text: Frontier Services Group said in January that it had reached an agreement with officials and an industrial park in Tumxuk, a city in western Xinjiang, to build a training facility there....Tumxuk lies between Kashgar and Aksu, larger settlements that have been a focus of the Chinese government’s drive to stifle antigovernment sentiment....But Tumxuk has also been drawn into the regionwide drive to transform Uighur society through indoctrination camps....Tumxuk has more than 160,000 inhabitants, nearly two-thirds of them Uighur, according to official population estimates, and government reports and records show that the city has built at least one camp, as well as other specialized schools, to “deradicalize” minority residents....In 2017, a unit of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps in Tumxuk issued a tender notice inviting bids for building work on a “legal education and training center” — a phrase sometimes used for the indoctrination camps.
ref: 2019 February 1, Alexandra Stevenson, Chris Buckley, “Blackwater Founder’s New Company Strikes a Deal in China. He Says He Had No Idea.”, in New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 01 Feb 2019:
glosses: A sub-prefectural city of the Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
examples: text: But I hadn’t come to stay: my goal was two ancient Buddhist sites built into cliffs near a town called Tumxuk....It seemed easy enough to get there; there was only one town named Tumxuk on the map, located north of Aksu.
ref: 1994, Christa Paula, The Road to Miran, HarperCollins, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 39:
glosses: A town in Onsu, Aksu prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
Synonyms: sense: sub-prefectural city, from Mandarin Chinese
word: Tumushuke
sense: town, from Mandarin Chinese
word: Tumuxiuke
sense: town, from Mandarin Chinese
word: T'u-mu-hsiu-k'o
Tumushuke
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: to͞oʹmo͞oʹsho͞oʹkǔʹ
Etymology: From Mandarin 圖木舒克 /图木舒克 (Túmùshūkè).
Senses: examples: text: The Chinese appropriation of "other" types of architecture results from all kinds of negotiation. Professor Ning Qiang recently showed me photographs of the city hotel of Tumushuke (Tumxuk), a town just east of Kashgar in China's westernmost, Islamic province, built in an eighteenth-century northern European style found anywhere....
ref: 2013, Bianca Bosker, Original Copies: Architectural Mimicry in Contemporary China, University of Hawaiʻi Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page viii:
text: In some of the videos, Han migrants say that any single person below the age of 35 who moves to the sub-prefecture-level cities of Aral (in Chinese, Ala'er) in Aksu (Akesu) prefecture or Tumshuk (Tumushuke) in Kashgar (Kashi) prefecture will be provided with a house and a job, while a family of three will receive a two-bedroom home, free utilities for a year, and 40 mu (6.5 acres) of land, tax-free.
ref: 2020 April 13, Gulchehre Hoja, Joshua Lipes, “Subsidies For Han Settlers ‘Engineering Demographics’ in Uyghur-Majority Southern Xinjiang”, in Elise Anderson, transl., Radio Free Asia, archived from the original on 14 Apr 2020:
glosses: Synonym of Tumxuk: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.
synonyms: word: Tumxuk
extra: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name
simal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: simals
Etymology: From Nepali सिमल (simal).
Senses: examples: text: In April 2017, an Asian Woollyneck nest was found at a height of 31m in the bole of a 36m tall Simal Bombax ceiba tree located by the Khakabesi River in Argha[.]
ref: 2020 June 24, BirdingASIA, page 103, column 1:
glosses: A tree, Bombax ceiba, native to much of tropical and temperate Asia and Australasia.
Wujiaqu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /wuːd͡ʒiɑːˈt͡ʃuː/
enpr: wo͞oʹjyäʹchüʹ
Forms: form: Wu-chia-chu
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 五家渠 (Wǔjiāqú).
Senses: examples: text: On the farms in Altai, Ili, Tahcheng, Burtala, Shihotzu and Wuchiachu in Northern Sinkiang, members of the farms have been studying and applying the "three constantly read articles" in a living way.
ref: [1969 March 4 [1969 February 25], “Sinkiang PLA Engages in Farming Preparations”, in Daily Report: Communist China, volume I, number 42, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Peking NCNA International Service, →OCLC, Communist China: Northwest Region, page H 2:
text: Most bingtuan prisons have a small number of former civilian bingtuan members who have been convicted of crimes. There are also contingents of regular native Xinjiang prisoners, including some who were transferred to the prisons of the First Division after 1985. Yang Zhenhua, p. 416. We believe that the Sixth Division in Wujiaqu also has Xinjiang prisoners.
ref: 1998, James D. Seymour, Richard Anderson, New Ghosts Old Ghosts Prisons and Labor Reform Camps in China, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 58:
text: This spider with markings on its back resembling a human face was found in the city of Wujiaqu in northwestern China in April 2006.
ref: 2007, Geoff Tibballs, Ripley's Believe It or Not! 2008, Random House, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 177, column 2:
text: A residential compound is seen during a smoggy day in Wujiaqu, Xinjiang Uighur autonomous region, Nov. 19, 2013.
ref: 2013 December 27, Alissa Ambrose, “2013: The year in photos”, in CBS News, archived from the original on 19 Jun 2021:
glosses: A county-level city in northern Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
wikipedia: Defense Mapping Agency
distilment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /dɪˈstɪl.mənt/
Forms: form: distilments
form: distillment
Etymology: * distil + -ment
Senses: glosses: The process of distillation.
examples: text: And in the porches of mine ears did pour the leperous distilment
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene v], line 64:
text: I did not call him fool, and vex my friend, / But quietly allowed experiment, / Encouraged him to dust his drink, and now / Grate lignum vitæ now bruise so-called grains / Of Paradise, and now, for perfume, pour / Distilment rare, the rose of Jericho, / Holy-thorn, passion-flower, and what know I? / Till beverage obtained the fancied smack.
ref: 1873 January 23, Robert Browning, “Part IV”, in Red Cotton Night-Cap Country: Or Turf and Towers, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC, page 245:
glosses: The extract produced by distillation.
distilments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of distilment
wheal-worm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wheal-worms
form: whealworm
Etymology: Compound of wheal + worm, after the pustule or wheal resulting from a bite.
Senses: examples: text: It may be ſome will think it impoſſible for theſe Wheal-worms to breed between the eyes; but we ſee it is ſo, and we finde it was done ſo formerly
ref: 1658, Edward Topsell, The History of Four-footed Beasts and Serpents, London: E. Cotes for G. Sawbridge, XXIV Of little Lice called Syrones, Acari, and Tineæ, or Hand-worms, or Mites in living Creatures, page 1095:
glosses: Any of various insects or arachnids the bites of which produce raised sores.
examples: text: wheal-worm, n 1. The itch-mite acarus scabiei 2. The acarine Leptus autumnalis, or some similar harvest-bug: so named from the wheals or pimples left by its bite. See cut under harvest-mite.
ref: 1895, William Dwight Whitney with Benjamin Eli Smith, The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language, volume 8, New York: The Century Co., →OCLC, page 6888:
glosses: A harvest mite, Trombicula sp.
examples: text: ACARUS AUTUMNALIS. Harvest-bug. Mower's Mite. Wheal-worm. Rouget. The acarus autumnalis is scarcely larger than the acarus scabiei
ref: 1865, Sir Erasmus Wilson, “Malis, or cutaneous vermination”, in On Diseases of the Skin, Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, →OCLC, page 277:
glosses: Acarus autumnalis, synonym of Neotrombicula autumnalis, a species of mite
Synonyms: sense: harvest mite
word: harvest mite
sense: harvest mite
word: chigger
sense: harvest mite
word: red bug
sense: Acarus autumnalis
word: harvest bug
sense: Acarus autumnalis
word: scarlet mite
whealworm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whealworms
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of wheal-worm.
metagovernance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From meta- + governance.
Senses: glosses: The methods and art to exercise some control over devolved and decentralized decision-making organizations.
elastication
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: elastications
Etymology: From elasticate + -ion.
Senses: examples: text: The shadows of the trees stretch in gradual elastications towards evening as if imploring water for their thirsts.
ref: 2006, Duncan Forbes, Vision Mixer:
glosses: A process or act of elasticating.
elastications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of elastication
whambulance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of wambulance.
wahmbulance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of wah + ambulance.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of wambulance.
unarticulable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + articulable.
Senses: glosses: inarticulable
Esperantize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Esperantizes
form: Esperantizing
form: Esperantized
form: Esperantized
form: Esperantise
Etymology: Calque of Esperanto esperantigi, equivalent to Esperanto + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To adapt (typically a proper noun) to the phonology, alphabet and grammar of Esperanto.
glosses: To translate into Esperanto.
examples: text: Yours for the Esperantizing of New England!
ref: 1911 January 24, C. H. Fessenden, Amerika Esperantisto, volume 8, number 6:
glosses: To propagandize Esperanto language and values among a certain group.
Coordinate terms: tokiponize
Derived terms: Esperantization
tomomania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek τέμνω (témnō, “I cut”) + -mania.
Senses: examples: text: And we must not leave out tomomania, that delightful complex, usually acquired by ladies who just love to be operated on by surgeons.
ref: 1929, Plain Talk, volume 5, page 472:
text: Dentists who eschew all the onerous tasks of dentistry and will do nothing except extract teeth and make dentures sometimes are guilty of tomomania.
ref: 1951, The Journal of the Michigan State Dental Association:
glosses: A morbid addiction to performing or undergoing surgery.
Ashwatthama
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Sanskrit अश्वत्थामन् (aśvatthāman).
Senses: glosses: A hero in Mahabharata; son of Drona.
Synonyms: Drauni
fire-power
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Dated spelling of firepower.
world's tiniest violin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: world's tiniest violins
Senses: glosses: Synonym of world's smallest violin.
synonyms: word: world's smallest violin
stampomania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From stamp + -o- + -mania.
Senses: examples: text: A few years ago grey-haired people as well as little children were seized with the stampomania, and then our most secret drawers, our most private papers, our most loving letters of bygone years were ransacked by our best friends […]
ref: 1865, North Peat:
text: Briefly, this story tells of the adventures of a commercial traveler afflicted with "stampomania." This amiable and garrulous gentleman falls in with a druggist somewhere in the states and at each recurring trip manages to entangle himself and the weak knight of the pestle in the enchanting and entrancing mysteries of philately […]
ref: 1899, Western Druggist, volume 21, page 81:
glosses: A passion for collecting postage stamps.
scribbleomania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of scribblemania.
synonyms: word: scribblemania
scribblemania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From scribble + -mania.
Senses: examples: text: Gradually his scribblemania developed in real earnest. It could be said that the pen became his second hobby horse. In those days it was not unusual to write family magazines.
ref: 1999, Lewis Carroll Studies, number 1, page 60:
glosses: A compulsion for writing.
rinkomania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From rink + -o- + -mania.
Senses: glosses: A passion for roller skating on indoor rinks.
islomania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From isle + -o- + -mania.
Senses: glosses: A fascination with islands.
politicomania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -eɪniə
Etymology: From politico- + -mania.
Senses: glosses: A fascination with politics.
phytomania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From phyto- + -mania.
Senses: glosses: A fascination with plants.
photomania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From photo- + -mania.
Senses: glosses: A fascination with photography.
phagomania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From phago- + -mania.
Senses: glosses: A compulsion to eat.
pathomania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From patho- + -mania.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: moral insanity; psychopathy
Graecomania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Graeco- + -mania.
Senses: glosses: A passion for Greece and its people and culture.
onychotillomania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὄνυξ (ónux, “nail”) (compare onycho-) + τίλλω (tíllō, “to pluck”) + -mania.
Senses: glosses: A compulsion for picking and tearing at one's fingernails or toenails.
Related terms: dermatillomania
trichotillomania
ferret-legging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The activity of keeping a live ferret in one's trousers for as long as possible.
oligomania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From oligo- + -mania.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A form of insanity which, although potentially affecting all the mental faculties and operations, apparently involves only a part as the emotions, the intellect, or the will.
Italomania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Italo- + -mania.
Senses: glosses: A passion for Italy and its people and culture.
idolomania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From idol + -o- + -mania.
Senses: topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: A devotion to idols.
Synonyms: idolatry
visnes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of visne
hysteromania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hystero- + -mania.
Senses: glosses: nymphomania
examples: text: But in certain respects it was something more, and in others something less than hysteromania; or either hysteria or mania; or any combination thereof.
ref: 1866, The Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal, page 445:
glosses: A condition involving both hysteria and mania.
Related terms: hysteromaniac
hysteromaniacal
hysteromaniac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪniæk
Forms: form: hysteromaniacs
Etymology: From hystero- + -maniac.
Senses: glosses: nymphomaniac
hysteromaniacs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hysteromaniac
hysteromaniacal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hysteromaniacal
form: most hysteromaniacal
Senses: glosses: nymphomaniac
hypermania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hyper- + mania.
Senses: glosses: An extreme form of mania.
Coordinate terms: hypomania
coord
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coords
form: co-ord
Senses: examples: text: When it comes to summer holiday fashion inspo, one need look no further than Dua Lipa's Instagram. From effortlessly cool coords to countless stylish bikinis, the 'Levitating' artist always delivers top-notch outfits.
ref: 2023 May 12, Natasha Harding, “Dua Lipa wears a baby blue sequin bikini on Instagram”, in Women's Health:
glosses: Abbreviation of coordinate.
coords
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coord
hylomania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hylo- + -mania.
Senses: glosses: An obsession with matter or philosophical materialism.
RAM-like
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more RAM-like
form: most RAM-like
Etymology: From RAM + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling RAM (random access memory).
gynaecomania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gynecomania.
eulogomania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From eulogy + -o- + -mania.
Senses: glosses: A passion for eulogy.
empleomania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌɛmpliːoʊˈmeɪniə/
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish empleomanía.
Senses: examples: text: "Do ut des" is the motto of Spanish public life; empleomania is rife to a degree unknown elsewhere; and empleomania is the chief instrument of political corruption.
ref: 1898, The Forum, volume 27, page 159:
glosses: The desire to obtain a government job.
raw_tags: in Spanish-speaking countries
polymania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From poly- + -mania.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: total insanity, as contrasted with monomania
ecdemomania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A compulsion to go outside or to travel.
supercommuter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supercommuters
Etymology: From super- + commuter.
Senses: glosses: Someone who has a very long commute, often to a different metropolitan area than the one they reside in.
choreomania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From choreo- + -mania.
Senses: examples: text: In full view of the public, this is the apogee of the choreomania that tormented Strasbourg for a midsummer month in 1518. Also known as the “dancing plague”, it was the most fatal and best documented of the more than ten such contagions which had broken out along the Rhine and Moselle rivers since 1374.
ref: 2018 July 10, Ned Pennant-Rea, “The Dancing Plague of 1518”, in Public Domain Review:
glosses: Synonym of tarantism (“dance mania; dance epidemic”).
synonyms: word: tarantism
extra: dance mania; dance epidemic
wikipedia: Pieter Bruegel the Elder
supercommuters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of supercommuter
sourcers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sourcer
preretired
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + retired.
Senses: glosses: Not yet having retired from employment.
preretiree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: preretirees
Etymology: From pre- + retiree.
Senses: glosses: A person who has not yet retired from employment.
preretirees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of preretiree
cledonism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κληδών (klēdṓn, “an omen”) + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: And indeed cledonism, or the putting of a prophetic sense on words spoken with another reference (John xi. 50 sq.) can never have been the business of a class of men (Jud. ix. 37, Jer. xxvii. 9, Micah v. 12), or been so marked a type of divination that Isaiah could speak of it as characteristically Philistine, and that Isa. lvii. 3 could found on it a name of opprobrium.
ref: 1885, The Journal of Philology, volume XIV, page 117:
text: We shall find Cledonism stereotyped and converted into palpable lots in the most perfected of the lottery methods, that which uses written speech, phrases designated by chance and applied to a given interrogation.
ref: 1924 March 24, The Fortnightly Review, page 444:
glosses: Divination through the interpretation of words (written or spoken) encountered by chance.
Synonyms: cledonomancy
cacodemonia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of cacodemonomania.
synonyms: word: cacodemonomania
pseudomanic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pseudo- + manic.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Resembling mania.
pseudomania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pseudo- + -mania.
Senses: glosses: compulsive lying
glosses: A condition that resembles, but is not in fact, mania.
pintmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pintman
de-Islamises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of de-Islamise
de-Islamising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of de-Islamise
de-Islamised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of de-Islamise
de-Islamize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: de-Islamizes
form: de-Islamizing
form: de-Islamized
form: de-Islamized
form: de-Islamise
Etymology: From de- + Islamize.
Senses: glosses: To deprive of its Islamic character, or remove the Islamic aspect of.
glosses: To become un-Islamic.
Synonyms: de-Muslimize
de-Islamizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of de-Islamise
de-Islamized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of de-Islamize
de-Islamizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of de-Islamize
de-Islamization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: de-Islamisation
Etymology: From de- + Islamization.
Senses: glosses: The act or process of de-Islamizing.
Synonyms: de-Islamification
de-Islamisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of de-Islamization.
de-Islamification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From de- + Islamification.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of de-Islamization.
synonyms: word: de-Islamization
de-energize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: de-energizes
form: de-energizing
form: de-energized
form: de-energized
form: de-energise
form: deenergize
form: deenergise
Etymology: From de- + energize.
Senses: glosses: To remove the energy from (a circuit or a system).
Synonyms: word: depower
english: which is an uncommon synonym
translation: which is an uncommon synonym
word: disenergize
word: power down
Coordinate terms: reenergize
de-energizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of de-energize
de-energizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of de-energize
de-energized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of de-energize
deenergise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: deenergises
form: deenergising
form: deenergised
form: deenergised
Etymology: From de- + energise.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of de-energize.
deenergises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of deenergise
deenergising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of deenergise
deenergised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of deenergise
Mous
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Mou
Esperantise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Esperantises
form: Esperantising
form: Esperantised
form: Esperantised
Etymology: From Esperanto + -ise.
Senses: glosses: British standard spelling of Esperantize.
committeeing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From committee + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: I argue that no amount of curriculum tinkering and academic committeeing will cause us to rise from these doldrums and to the environmental occasion.
ref: 1992, John C. Gordon, Agriculture and the Undergraduate:
text: There is no gene for committeeing. Committee procedure is a meme which gets handed down the generations.
ref: 2005, Richard Robinson, Why the toast always lands butter side down: the scientific reasons everything goes wrong:
glosses: Discussing in a committee.
déjà vues
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of déjà vu
SIC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SICs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of second-in-command.
topics: education
qualifier: chiefly South Carolina
glosses: Initialism of School Improvement Council.
U.S.S.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An abbreviation that is put before ships, United States Ship
Mimiko
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Japanese.
booster clubs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of booster club
Miu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Japanese.
Yuiko
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese ゆいこ (Yuiko).
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Japanese.
Moeko
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Japanese.