nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: subepaulets Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of subepaulet Labels: form-of, plural
Word: paleomarxism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From paleo- + marxism. 1. A primitive form of Marxism Labels: uncountable
Word: Thorrington Part of Speech: name 1. A village and civil parish in Tendring district, Essex, England (OS grid ref TM0920). The former railway station used the spelling of Thorington.
Word: paligraphia Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From pali- + -graphia. 1. A writing disorder characterised by the repetition of syllables, words or phrases. Labels: uncountable
Word: Thorington Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Old English þorn (“thorn”) + -ing + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”), the same etymology of Thorrington. 1. A small village and civil parish (served by Bramfield and Thorington parish council) in East Suffolk district, Suffolk, England (OS grid ref TM4174). Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The spelling used for the former railway station at Thorrington, Essex. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. A habitational surname from Old English. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: red notice Part of Speech: noun 1. A notice from Interpol that a person is an international fugitive and should be arrested. Example: Interpol issues red notice for 'fugitive' Anne Sacoolas Example: Under a red notice, local authorities make the arrests on behalf of the country that requested it. The notices cannot force countries to arrest or extradite suspects, but can put government leaders on the spot and limit suspects' travel.
Word: red notices Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of red notice Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Bramfield Part of Speech: name 1. A village and civil parish in East Hertfordshire district, Hertfordshire, England (OS grid ref TL2915). 2. A village and civil parish (served by Bramfield and Thorington parish council) in East Suffolk district, Suffolk, England l (OS grid ref TM4074). 3. A locality in District Council of Elliston area, South Australia.
Word: previsual Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From pre- + visual, literally "before seeing". 1. prior to the development of visual indicators Labels: not-comparable Example: We are developing a method for previsual detection of damage to the structure.
Word: spleef Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /spliːf/ 1. Alternative spelling of spliff. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: The odor of spleef was much stronger here , and the granite stairway was neither overgrown nor dirty . Someone had recently swept it clean . Rafferty raised his eyebrows and indicated the stairway . Afriqua Lee shrugged , glanced around ... Example: They clapped their hands and stroked their imaginary rasta locks while smoking a spleef that was large on any standard. Smoke filled the room and when Stan and Kristin joined the party the haunting sound of the pacific northwest embraced ...
Word: spleef Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Blend of spliff + queef. Pronunciation: /spliːf/ 1. An accidental raspberry when smoking a joint. Labels: slang 2. Sexual action resulting in a sound resembling a raspberry. Labels: slang
Word: spleef Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Originally the name of a minigame in Minecraft; a blend of splat + grief. Pronunciation: /spliːf/ 1. A game in which players try to knock blocks out from beneath other players in order to be the last player standing. Labels: uncountable Example: For quotations using this term, see Citations:spleef.
Word: spleef Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Originally the name of a minigame in Minecraft; a blend of splat + grief. Pronunciation: /spliːf/ 1. To play spleef. Example: These servers host many types of gameplay, from minigames, to spleefing (my favorite), to PvP (I'm terrible at Player-vs-Player battles), to fractions, to Survival, to Creative . . . It's amazing what people have created with Minecraft, and these many, many servers are evidence of the creative potential Minecraft offers those with imaginative minds. Example: It also includes everything you need to Spleef right, like observation posts and an entrance way (most Spleef games are teleported to from servers, so they need somewhere to enter), and it would work great on just about any server.
Word: spleefs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of spleef Labels: form-of, plural
Word: spleefs Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of spleef Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: speedwalked Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of speedwalk Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: T'a-ch'eng Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Mandarin 塔城 (Tǎchéng) Wade–Giles romanization: Tʻa³-chʻeng². 1. Alternative form of Tacheng. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: The Daghor (also known as Dagur, Daur, Ta-kuan-erb, Ta-hu-erh) live in Tsi-Tsi-har Municipality and Fu-yu County in Heilungkiang, and scattered in Mo-li-ta-wa Daghor Autonomous Banner, Pu-t'e-ha Banner, O-wen-k'o Autonomous Banner in Inner Mongolia, T'a-ch'eng County in Sinkiang Uighur Autonomous Region, northern China. Example: The Cho-lo-ssu pastured their flocks in the I-li Valley; the Durbot occupied the Kurgis River drainage in the southwestern Altai; the Turgut occupied the T'a-ch'eng (Tarbagatai) region, and the Hosht occupied the Urumchi region.
Word: Great Bentley Part of Speech: name 1. A village and civil parish in Tendring district, Essex, England (OS grid ref TM1121).
Word: Weiqi Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative letter-case form of weiqi. Labels: alt-of, uncountable Example: Figure 3.1 Shi (Black) versus Li (White) on the Weiqi Board black will appear to have captured no territory at all and, indeed, at the end of this sequence has scored no sure points; white, though, has 30 unassailable points, which seems to ...
Word: Weiqi Part of Speech: name 1. Chinese given name.
Word: Baduk Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative letter-case form of baduk. Labels: alt-of, uncountable Example: It is speculated that brain regions showing differences in nodal centralities are important contributors in Baduk expertise, and may facilitate efficient exchange of information. In this context, our findings are consistent with the RPD model ... Example: (2010 MAY 31) Seoul National University Medical Research Center: White matter neuroplastic changes in long-term trained players of the game of “Baduk” (GO): a voxel-based diffusion-tensor imaging study New investigation results, 'White ...
Word: Hsiang-yang Part of Speech: name Etymology: From the Wade–Giles romanization of the Mandarin 襄陽 /襄阳 (Hsiang¹-yang²). 1. Alternative form of Xiangyang. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: About the middle of September 1784 ³ T'ê-ch'êng-o received the report from Hsiang-yang of the capture of the four missionaries, which charged them with going to Shensi to help the rebellious Mohammedans. Example: In the strategic city of Hsiang-yang, on the river in north-central Hupei, Wen-ti in 586 had set up a strong regional headquarters with his third son, Chün, the Prince of Ch'in, in command.
Word: paedometer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: paedo- + -meter 1. a device used to measure the weight and height of a child. Example: All the surfaces of the paedometer, in addition to the metal, are so smooth and well polished that they invite the care that is taken of them, and by their appearance when finished fully repay the trouble taken. The paedometer represents the ... Example: Shelters are provided in the garden so that they can enjoy the open air, can play and work there, may take rest or sleep. They may have their lunch there if they do so please. Paedometer to measure height and also the weighing machine are ...
Word: Weeley Part of Speech: name 1. A village and civil parish in Tendring district, Essex, England (OS grid ref TM1422).
Word: paedometers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of paedometer Labels: form-of, plural
Word: pædometer Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of paedometer. Labels: UK, alt-of, alternative
Word: pædometers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pædometer Labels: form-of, plural
Word: pedi- Part of Speech: prefix 1. Relating to feet. Labels: morpheme
Word: Affrilachian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Blend of African + Appalachian, attributed to poet Frank X Walker. 1. Black and Appalachian; of or pertaining to black people in Appalachia and their culture.
Word: Affrilachian Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of African + Appalachian, attributed to poet Frank X Walker. 1. A black native of Appalachia.
Word: Afrilachian Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of Affrilachian. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: Affrilachians Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Affrilachian Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Chang-chou Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Mandarin 漳州 (Zhāngzhōu), Wade–Giles romanization: Chang¹-chou¹. 1. Alternative form of Zhangzhou. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: In Chang-p’u county (Chang-chou prefecture), for example, a gazetteer records 1.475 tou of seed per mou were used, while in Hai-ch’eng, its neighbor to the east, a figure of 1.2 tou of seed per mou is noted. Example: Now, with one or two bottles of liquor, I can order a Taipei person to kill another. Why should I care: Most of the Taipei people are Chang-chou people, and we southerners are mainly Ch'uan'chou^([sic – meaning Ch'uan-chou]) people."
Word: Kirby Cross Part of Speech: name 1. A village in Frinton and Walton parish, Tendring district, Essex, England (OS grid ref TM2120).
Word: Affrilachia Part of Speech: name Etymology: Blend of African + Appalachia, attributed to poet Frank X Walker. Pronunciation: /ˌæf.ɹəˈlæ.tʃə/, /ˌæf.ɹɪˈleɪ.(t)ʃə/ 1. Black Appalachia; Appalachia, viewed with an eye to its black population and their culture.
Word: Fu-shun Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Mandarin 撫順 /抚顺 (Fǔshùn), Wade–Giles romanization: Fu³-shun⁴. 1. Alternative form of Fushun. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: The army now began to advance, not yet from the Sha-ho, because there were troops occupying the hills on the north bank of the Hun River, twenty miles in the rear, that had to be brought up. These were the Frist Siberian Corps at Fu-ling and the Third Siberian Corps at Fu-shun, with a force also at Ying-p'an. Example: Most of Manchuria’s large deposits of coal and iron ore are also in or near the Liao valley, including the famous coal mines at Fu-shun, some thirty miles east of Mukden, another large coal deposit a hundred miles to the west at Fou-hsin, and a large reserve of iron ore at Anshan, fifty miles to the south. Anshan became the major iron and steel center under the Japanese, and still is so; the ore there is relatively low grade, and is hence expensive to move to the coal; coal accordingly moves to it from Fu-shun, Fou-hsin, and from high quality coking-coal deposits in the Pen-ch’i area in southeastern Manchuria.
Word: jack-boot Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of jackboot. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: Oh, damn your strops, I always strop my razor upon an old jack-boot. Example: This is the sort of re/gime promised to those who are so weak as to remain under the jack-boot, not to speak of labour camps in France and perhaps in Germany and Poland;
Word: jack-boot Part of Speech: verb 1. Alternative form of jackboot. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: The squatters' Australia was a rough society of rugged wealth-seekers jack-booting their determined way over an unprivileged great majority. Example: Never was love more brutally jack-booted by power than in Belsen, Dachau, and Buchenwald.
Word: jack-boots Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of jack-boot Labels: form-of, plural
Word: jack-boots Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of jack-boot Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: jack-booting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of jack-boot Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: jack-booted Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of jackbooted. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: She seemed to feel silent, jack-booted watchers standing outside frightened houses, figures kneeling to scrub the pavements, children coldly excluded from their familiar playgrounds, the informer's whisper in the café, fear and suspicion like rheumatism fastening upon the easy intercourse of friends—all the vicious little tricks of modern tyranny. Example: He wouldn't tell me — blew up about jack-booted gestapos trampling over the leddies' rooms, and took himself off in a black temper.
Word: jack-booted Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of jack-boot Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: jack boot Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of jackboot. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: This I think necessary to remedy by the scale herewith sent, by which your readers will perceive, that though it is a little larger than a jack boot, as that was necessary for the circumambient steam, yet that it is by no means so large as not to be easily portable, more especially as the pneumatic parts take off, and can be easily placed along with the biler into the inside of the cylinder, and the whole enclosed in a neat mahogany box. Example: Meanwhile the jack boot, as it is called, had become indispensable in the costume of cavalry soldiers and horsemen generally; and it was regularly adopted in England by William III and his followers. Strongly made, the jack boot extended in length above the knee, was wide at the top, had a very high heel, and around the ankle had a flat leather band, by which a powerful spur was attached.
Word: jack boot Part of Speech: verb 1. Alternative form of jackboot. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: I won't say she imagined SS men jack booting through her life, but I believe that for some time she and a large number of my friends had secretly felt that I was capable of a radical personality change, that my purchase on reality was just thin enough to let me jump the groove. Example: The spirit will never bear any jack booting.
Word: jack boots Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of jack boot Labels: form-of, plural
Word: jack boots Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of jack boot Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: jack booting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of jack boot Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: jack booted Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of jackbooted. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: The MUD PEOPLE ARE JACK BOOTED TYRANTS Example: Two days later the mother of one of the little lads, accompanied by a NOCLU lawyer, filed charges against the cruel jack booted police thug.
Word: jack booted Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of jack boot Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: Yün-yang Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Mandarin 鄖陽 /郧阳 (Yúnyáng), Wade–Giles romanization: Yün²-yang². 1. Alternative spelling of Yunyang (in Hubei). Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: From one of the turquois dealers in Si-ngan fu the information was given me that the turquoises traded there come from the prefecture of Yün-yang in Hu-pei Province, while another more especially point to the district of Chu-shan, situated in the same prefecture, as the place of production. The Imperial Geography (Ta Ts'ing i t'ung chi, Ch. 272),³ in the chapter dealing with Yün-yang fu, contains no allusion to this fact, and mentions in an enumeration of the mountains of the Chu-shan district only one producing stones, the Fan shi shan, deriving its name from the fan shi or alum formerly produced there.
Word: Yün-yang Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Mandarin 雲陽 /云阳 (Yúnyáng), Wade–Giles romanization: Yün²-yang². 1. Alternative spelling of Yunyang (in Chongqing). Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: Yun-yang hsien, or Clouded Sun City, is situated on the left bank of a picturesque gorge formed by pyramidal mountains, horizontally stratified, and 1000 to 1500 feet in height.
Word: Ma-ch'eng Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Mandarin 麻城 (Máchéng), Wade–Giles romanization: Ma²-chʻêng². 1. Alternative form of Macheng. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: The magistrate of Ma-ch'eng in Hupeh engaged Chang to compile a local history for his district. Example: Keng came from Ma-ch'eng, Hukuang, won his chin-shih in 1556, and went on to a full official life, rising to be minister of Revenue.
Word: jack-boy Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of jack boy. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: Come you a wooing, And I alive and lusty? you shall find An alteration, jack-boys; I have a spirit yet (An I could match my hair to't, there's the fault), And can do offices of youth yet lightly; Example: The news soon spread from boy to boy and from ward to ward ; and there was an extraordinary call upon the services of the jack-boys, whose utmost exertions were scarcely equal to the demand.
Word: jack-boys Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of jack-boy Labels: form-of, plural
Word: jack boy Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of jackboy. Labels: alt-of, alternative, slang Example: Trey led into the story of two misguided young men's futile attempts at being jack boys. Example: KB, Guillotine, Nephew, and BJ was headed to a party in Pleasant Grove to confront a local jack boy named Snooky. He was putting out the word that his jack crew was hot and KB and his peeps were on the top of his hit list. 2. A low-ranking employee who is responsible for dispensing drinks to the other workers. Labels: slang Example: As the last order are destined to be jack boys, and to other inferior offices, so the first are monitors of the ward, whose province it is to walk up and down the table in the hall, at meals, during the time service is performing, and to take care that the others do not play nor talk, but attend to their duty and singing, both before they sit down to eat, and when they rise up from table; Example: Perhaps the most worrying trade was that of jack boy. This genius presided over the fulness and emptiness of a certain huge vessel which supplied our mugs' with water at dinner time, and was compelled to sit at the very end of the table in order that the 'jack' might be safely accommodated. 3. A boy or young man who is hired to run errands and perform unskilled labor. Labels: obsolete, slang Example: The only fault I find at Moberly is that they are mighty shy of “jack boys;" that is the fault all along the Wabash, only more so at Moberly, but I have assurance from the Officials that this will be taken care of in the near future. Example: The jack boys and canvas pickers are to be under the jurisdiction of the union, with this express provision. That these two sections are not to be under the agreed scale for trimmers, but are to be subject to a special scale of wages, which scale is to be subject to the decision of the board of arbitration.
Word: jack boys Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of jack boy Labels: form-of, plural
Word: jackboy Part of Speech: noun 1. A street thug who is part of a gang of thieves. Example: We ducked and dodged law, and jackboys, only to hand our hard earned cash over to another hustler; a hustler greater than us. Example: Ordell asked one of his jackboys to get him a car with keys in it and leave it in the Ocean Mall parking lot over by the beach. The jackboy asked him what kind of car he wanted. Ordell said, 'One has a big trunk with a shotgun in it.' He liked jackboys because they were crazy. They made their living ripping off street dealers for their blow and change and busting into crack houses with assault weapons.
Word: jackboys Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of jackboy Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Ch'u Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Mandarin 楚 (Chǔ), Wade–Giles romanization: Chʻu³. 1. Alternative form of Chu. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: There lived a young political genius, not more than thirty years of age, by the name of Ch’ui P’ing (he is better known to the Chinese as Ch’ui Yuan). Young Ch’ui hailed from a rich and influential family of nobles and before long he won the confidence of the then Ch’u emperor, Hwai Wang, and was appointed to a high administrative position. He made recommendations in lengthy memorials and advocated giving the citizens of Ch’u a new deal and a square one at that. The emperor had taken him in as his right hand man allowing him a free hand in the politico-military situation with a high-sounding title which would translates no less than Supreme Crown Adviser and Expert Consultant, and entrusted to him the important duties, on account of his diplomatic acumen, of an ambassador-at-large on a politically inspired tour of the various minor states, notably the Kingdom of Ch’i (the present Shantung province) in an attempt to negotiate some alliance of joint action in defending themselves against the expansionists schemes of the Kingdom of Ch’in, whose domain then was roughly the present Shensi province. He almost succeeded in his mission. Example: The archaeology of the Ch'u 楚 has no traditional status or boundary unlike such rigorously defined fields as the archaeology of the Shang, the Minoans, and even the Mayas. Scholars of early China are familiar with a State of Ch'u described in the Shih-chi 史記 (ch. 40) that emerged after a legendary ancestry during the reign of Ch'eng Wang 成王 of the Chou toward the end of the second millennium B. C. somewhere in central China. It grew in size and stature during the late Western Chou period, established a capital and power centre near Chiang-ling 江陵 on the Yangtze in modern Hupei in 689, expanded its rule to a vast area from the upper Huai-ho 淮河 to south of Lake Tung-t'ing 洞庭湖, and was finally subjugated by Ch'in 秦 in 223 B. C.
Word: T'ai-shan Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Mandarin 臺山 /台山 (Táishān), Wade–Giles romanization: Tʻai²-shan¹. 1. Alternative form of Taishan (a county-level city in Jiangmen, Guangdong, China; former county of Guangdong, China). Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: When in the summer of 1944 the Japanese advanced to take the districts of T'ai-shan and San-shui, the county of K'ai-p'ing was menaced. The Chinese army had retreated, but the two tsu of Szu-t'u and Kuan organized themselves to fight for their homes. Example: In addition to the language difference between the two major ethnic groups, there are differences among the Cantonese themselves. For example, people in four counties to the southwest of Canton—in T'ai-shan, K'ai-p'ing, Hsin-hui, and En-p'ing counties—speak a version of Cantonese which is almost unintelligible to residents of Canton.
Word: T'ai-shan Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Mandarin 泰山 (Tàishān), Wade–Giles romanization: Tʻai⁴-shan¹. 1. Alternative form of Tai Shan. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: Confucius did not listen to this warning, but taking his disciple Yen Hui to drive the carriage and putting Tzu-kung on his right, he set off to visit the brigand Chih. The brigand and his men happened at the time to be resting on the southern slopes of the T'ai-shan, and were enjoying a supper of minced human liver. Example: It seems that Chao left Chihli sometime between 1762 and 1764. At any rate, in 1764 he passed by T'ai-shan, Shantung, and was suffering from an illness. He certainly did not live long after 1764 and possibly he died in that year.
Word: K'ai-p'ing Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Mandarin 開平 /开平 (Kāipíng), Wade–Giles romanization: Kʻai¹-pʻing². 1. Alternative form of Kaiping. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: When in the summer of 1944 the Japanese advanced to take the districts of T'ai-shan and San-shui, the county of K'ai-p'ing was menaced. The Chinese army had retreated, but the two tsu of Szu-t'u and Kuan organized themselves to fight for their homes. Example: In addition to the language difference between the two major ethnic groups, there are differences among the Cantonese themselves. For example, people in four counties to the southwest of Canton—in T'ai-shan, K'ai-p'ing, Hsin-hui, and En-p'ing counties—speak a version of Cantonese which is almost unintelligible to residents of Canton.
Word: Pen-ch'i Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Mandarin 本溪 (Běnqī), Wade–Giles romanization: Pên³-chʻi¹. 1. Synonym of Benxi. Example: Output at the Pen-ch'i mine, which produced somewhat under 1 million tons annually during 1942-1944, was around 500,000 tons in 1949. Example: An-shan leads all other cities in China in steel production; Pen-ch'i is another important steel producer.
Word: JUPAS Part of Speech: name 1. Acronym of Joint University Programmes Admissions System. Labels: Hong-Kong, abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
Word: Ho-fei Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Mandarin 合肥 (Héféi), Wade–Giles romanization: Ho²-fei². 1. Alternative form of Hefei. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: In 1926 he left the school and returned to Shanghai. The Northern Expedition (of the Nationalist Revolution) had already begun. Nieh was sent back to Anhui, to the town of Ho-fei. Example: Han's camp was in the neighborhood of the modern Ho-fei in central Anhwei province, and his troops had a relatively easy march south and east to the north bank of the Yangtze opposite a point near the modern city of Wuhu.
Word: non-ju Part of Speech: noun 1. Clipping of non-JUPAS. Labels: Hong-Kong, abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, no-plural, slang
Word: non-JUPAS Part of Speech: noun 1. A university admission system for non-local qualifications. Labels: Hong-Kong, no-plural 2. Someone admitted to university outside the JUPAS system. Labels: Hong-Kong, no-plural
Word: non-JU Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative letter-case form of non-ju. Labels: Hong-Kong, alt-of, no-plural, slang
Word: Kuang-tung Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Mandarin 廣東 /广东 (Guǎngdōng) Wade–Giles romanization: Kuang³-tung¹. 1. Alternative form of Guangdong: A populous province of China, located on the southern coast Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: 42. The boat population of Canton, also called Tan-Ka otherwise Tan families,² is also known as Kün-lun slaves, and they are said to be connected with some native tribes in the north of the Kuang-tung province, consequently in proximity to the above Kün-lun mountains of Kuangsi. Example: We know that Italians were trading in the Black Sea ports, and the Arabs in the ports of southern China- in Fu-chien and Kuang-tung. Zayton (Ch'üan-chou in Fu-chien?) is mentioned by Marco Polo as 'the greatest port in the world'.
Word: Tromp Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch Tromp. 1. A surname from Dutch.
Word: O-1 Part of Speech: noun 1. A visa granted to temporary alien workers with exceptional abilities. Labels: US Example: The O-1 visa is for individuals who have extraordinary ability in the sciences, arts, education, business, or athletics, or who can demonstrate extraordinary achievements in the motion picture or media industry and have been recognized for those achievements. […] US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) stipulates that to qualify for an O-1 visa, the beneficiary must demonstrate extraordinary ability recognized nationally or internationally.
Word: Sheherazade Part of Speech: name 1. Alternative form of Scheherazade. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: Pamirid Part of Speech: adj 1. Of or from Pamir Labels: not-comparable
Word: Ommen Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch Ommen. 1. A city and municipality of Overijssel, Netherlands.
Word: Chien-shih Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Mandarin 建始 (Jiànshǐ), Wade–Giles romanization: Chien⁴-shih³. 1. Alternative form of Jianshi. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: Tea certificates were issued by the magistrates of the following localities: Ch'ien-shan and sixteen other hsien in Anhui; Shan-hua and sixteen other hsien in Hunan. In Hupeh, certificates were issued by the magistrate of Chien-shih to tea merchants. In Hsien-ning and six other chou and hsien, tea planters also received certificates to sell tea (Hu-pu tse-li, 32:4-5). Example: The head of an agricultural producers’ cooperative in Chien-shih county of Hupei Province lectured his peasant wife: “To gain emancipation, women must do production work just like men.”
Word: Chu-shan Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Mandarin 竹山 (Zhúshān), Wade–Giles romanization: Chu²-shan¹. 1. Alternative form of Zhushan. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: I followed up the Ton-ho valley as far as Chu-shan, where I met Captain Mahon, and thence travelled along the overland trade route to Hing-an-Fu, on the Han river. Example: From one of the turquois dealers in Si-ngan fu the information was given me that the turquoises traded there come from the prefecture of Yün-yang in Hu-pei Province, while another more especially point to the district of Chu-shan, situated in the same prefecture, as the place of production. The Imperial Geography (Ta Ts'ing i t'ung chi, Ch. 272),³ in the chapter dealing with Yün-yang fu, contains no allusion to this fact, and mentions in an enumeration of the mountains of the Chu-shan district only one producing stones, the Fan shi shan, deriving its name from the fan shi or alum formerly produced there.
Word: Chu-hsi Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Mandarin 竹溪 /竹谿 (Zhúxī) Wade–Giles romanization: Chu²-hsi¹. 1. Alternative form of Zhuxi. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: The 1829 edition of the history of Chu-hsi county, in the extreme northwest of Hupei, said that the overwhelming majority of the local population were immigrants, mostly from Shensi and Kiangsi and also from Honan, Chihli, and Shantung. Example: As for the rice trade in Hupeh, it is noteworthy that in the early nineteenth century, rice from Chu-shan and Chu-hsi-two districts in hilly north-western Hupeh-was even demanded by Hsün-yang and Pai-ho in southern Shensi (28).
Word: Ku-ch'eng Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Mandarin 穀城 /谷城 (Gǔchéng), Wade–Giles romanization: Ku³-chʻêng². 1. Alternative form of Gucheng. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: In 1897 Ku-ch'eng Hsien, a city lying some fourteen miles below Lao-ho-k'eo, was opened as an out-station, and an evangelist sent down for permanent work. Example: Thus we hear of searches for Father Ts’ai in Pa-tung* County in southwest Hupeh,²⁷ and in Ku-ch’êng* and Hsiang-yang Counties in northern Hupeh.
Word: snow-shed Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of snow shed. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: Tsao-yang Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Mandarin 棗陽 /枣阳 (Zǎoyáng), Wade–Giles romanization: Tsao³-yang². 1. Alternative form of Zaoyang. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: Of this story I will show you first one personage only, Chiang Te, known as Hsing-ko, of Tsao-yang in the prefecture of Hsiang-yang, in the province of Hu-kuang. Example: Those on the northerly route reached Ning-shan on February 16th, were joined there by a surviving group of Shih Ta-k’ai’s expeditionary soldiers under Cheng Chung-ho, and on March 26th converged at Nei-hsiang as planned with Ma Jung-ho’s army from the southerly route. Ch’en Ta-hsi’s Nien army, which had returned to Honan in the spring of 1863, also came to Nei-hsiang soon thereafter, at which point the entire force proceeded to Tsao-yang in Hupeh.
Word: I-tu Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Mandarin 宜都 (Yídū) Wade–Giles romanization: I²-tu¹. 1. Alternative form of Yidu, Hubei. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: We passed the walled district city of I-tu, situated upon a small affluent called the Ching Chiang, or Clear River, which takes its rise in the province of Hu-Nan to the south. Example: Owing to the many changes in the small staff, it was not till 1898 that settled out-stations were occupied. In 1917, there are fifteen of these, the chief being I-tu 宜都, about 30 miles from Ichang.
Word: I-tu Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Mandarin 益都 Wade–Giles romanization: I⁴-tu¹. 1. Alternative form of Yidu, Shandong. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: FÊNG Pʻu 馮溥 (T. 孔博, 易齋), 1609-1692, Jan.-Feb., official, was a native of I-tu, Shantung.
Word: Chih-chiang Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Mandarin 枝江 (Zhījiāng), Wade–Giles romanization: Chih¹-chiang¹. 1. Alternative form of Zhijiang. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: Of the Wei family, he was born in 582 in Chih-chiang in Ching-chou.⁴² Wandering from temple to temple, he gave his efforts to helping the starving. Example: As for dikes in Chih-chiang 枝江, although they were built on the sand banks of the Yangtze, there is no record for their length.
Word: Enkhuizen Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch Enkhuizen. 1. A city and municipality of North Holland, Netherlands.
Word: Shakur Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic شَكُور (šakūr, “thankful, grateful”). This surname is predominantly found in India. 1. A surname from Arabic. 2. A male given name from Arabic.
Word: Raalte Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch Raalte. 1. A village and municipality of Overijssel, Netherlands.
Word: Hsia-p'u Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Mandarin 霞浦 (Xiápǔ) Wade–Giles romanization: Hsia²-pʻu³. 1. Alternative form of Xiapu. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: Mu-lien was a pious Buddhist who attempted to save his mother from the punishments in hell, as we heard above (p. 25), and who, according to some traditions, eventually became Ti-tsang.⁷⁵ He, too, had several temples. In our survey, the oldest one was in Hsia-pʻu (Fukien), renamed with his name in 954, rebuilt in 972, and for the last time, in 1915. There was still another temple for him in Hsia-pʻu, but undated. Example: All his temples seem to be along rivers, while temples along the southeastern coast seem to be late (one in Hsia-p’u, Fukien, was built in 1866 (Hsia-p’u hsien-chih).
Word: Pao-shan Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Mandarin 保山 (Bǎoshān) Wade–Giles romanization: Pao³-shan¹. 1. Alternative form of Baoshan. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: The Yün-nan T'ung-chih, ch. 189, fols. 2a-5a, states that the P'u 獛 savages had a tail several inches long, and that they lived in nests in the mountains and forests. Their land adjoined the Ai-lao 哀牢, or the present Pao-shan 保山 of Yün-nan. Example: Just as the Miao and the Yao had been pressed into Indo-China, the Yi were pushed out of the more eastern provinces of China by the slow advance of the Chinese. In Yunnan the Yi have moved generally toward the south. Up to the time of Mongol conquest in western Yunnan, the Yi had concentrated their population in Tali and Yungchang (now Pao-shan), (4) but today there are very few Yi living in these two districts. The most concentrated Yi population is to be fond in southernmost parts of Yunnan, the region inhabited by the Pai Yi.
Word: Pao-shan Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Mandarin 寶山 /宝山 (Bǎoshān) Wade-Giles romanization: Pao³-shan¹. 1. Alternative form of Baoshan. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: The most cogent remarks are those which deal with the fact of the Tramway projectors having misrepresented the scheme when negociating for the purchase of the land,- with the non-inclusion of Pao-shan in the limits of the Treaty port of Shanghai,- and the illegality of making a railway in any country without the permission of the legislature. Example: Among the eight localities, Fo-shan district contains the urban center of Fo-shan, and Ch'uan-sha and Pao-shan both border upon Shanghai and are therefore subjected to urban influence, but the other localities are predominately rural in character.
Word: swede midge Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Named after the swede, which is a host plant for the insect. 1. Contarinia nasturtii, a gall midge pest of Brassicaceae. Example: The galls were first discovered in 2012 and attributed to infestation by the swede midge, Contarinia nasturtii (Kieffer)...
Word: swede midges Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of swede midge Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Staphorst Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch Staphorst. 1. A village and municipality of Overijssel, Netherlands.
Word: retroreflectivity Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From retroreflective + -ity. 1. The quality of being retroreflective.
Word: sorghum midge Part of Speech: noun 1. Contarinia sorghicola, a gall midge pest of sorghum. Example: the sorghum midge and the clover midge make it nearly impossible to grow the seed of these plants in certain sections
Word: sorghum midges Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of sorghum midge Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Yen-ch'eng Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Mandarin 鹽城 /盐城 (Yánchéng) Wade–Giles romanization: Yen²-chʻêng². 1. Alternative form of Yancheng. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: Under the reorganization the branch mill was designated as Dah Sun Mill No. 2. In subsequent years Chang Chien had ambitious plans for further expansion. Eventually four Dah Sun mills were established, two in Nan-t'ung and one each in Ch'ung-ming and Hai-men, although plans for the founding of mills in Ju-kao, Tung-t'ai, Yen-ch'eng, and elsewhere in Kiangsu were never realized. Example: Sources differ slightly on the location of the fifth branch. One report places this branch in Fou-ning, Kiangsu, headed by Ch'en I and Feng Ting. It was founded in September 1940 and originally situated in Yen-ch'eng.
Word: Nan-t'ung Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Mandarin 南通 (Nántōng) Wade–Giles romanization: Nan²-tʻung¹. 1. Alternative form of Nantong. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: Under the reorganization the branch mill was designated as Dah Sun Mill No. 2. In subsequent years Chang Chien had ambitious plans for further expansion. Eventually four Dah Sun mills were established, two in Nan-t'ung and one each in Ch'ung-ming and Hai-men, although plans for the founding of mills in Ju-kao, Tung-t'ai, Yen-ch'eng, and elsewhere in Kiangsu were never realized. Example: In "Notes of Ling-hsiao and I-shih," Kuo-wen chou-pao, chüan 9, No. 28, July 18, 1932, p. 1, Chang Ch'ien, native of Nan-t'ung, Kiangsu, who later founded the big cotton mills, is described as beginning to study poem and eight-legged essay writing at twelve, becoming sheng-yüan at the early age of sixteen.
Word: P'u-t'ien Part of Speech: name Etymology: From the Wade–Giles romanization of the Mandarin 莆田 (Pútián), Wade-Giles romanization: Pʻu²-tʻien². 1. Alternative form of Putian. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: Every child of Pʻu-tʻien knows that the fertile plain, girdled by mountains and facing the Yellow Sea, was once a great salt marsh, for Pʻu-tʻien means "Salt Grass Fields." It was Lady Fourth Daughter, a Chinese girl of the Sung Dynasty, a thousand years ago, who dreamed of building a dam to hold back the salt tides, and to send the fresh life-giving waters of the River of Playful Fairies into a system of canals threading the plain. Thus would the salt marshes be redeemed into rice fields for the feeding of countless villages. The fair, high-walled county seat came to be named Hing-hwa, "Transformed to Flourishing," because of her gift of Fertile Fields. Being a child of Pʻu-tʻien myself I, too, have always known the lovely legends about Lady Fourth Daughter of the family of Ching. Example: According to the Pa-min T’ung-chih, Cheng Lu’s study was located at Hsing-haufu (P’u-t’ien hsien, Fukien) as earily^([sic – meaning early]) as the Liang and Ch'en periods, and the T’ang Shih-tao Chih ("A T’ang Topography of the Ten Districts") tells us that many "robe and cap" gentry families gathered at Ch’üan-choufu (Chin-chiang hsien, Fukien) when the Chin capital was removed to the south.
Word: panlogical Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From pan- + logical. 1. Relating to panlogism Labels: not-comparable
Word: kabedon Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Japanese 壁ドン (kabedon), from 壁 (kabe, “wall”) + ドン (don, onomatopoeia for a pounding noise). 1. The act of placing one hand on a wall or other vertical surface while leaning close to another (usually shorter) person whose back is against the wall/surface. Labels: Japanese Example: Pulling a kabedon will freak her out, so don't get pushy... Example: Kabedon only works if you're both into each other.
Word: pannofix Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Hungarian panofix, from Panofix, a trademark of the Pannónia fur factory, from the blend of Pannónia + fix (“steady, firm”). 1. A Hungarian fur made from lambskin. Labels: uncountable
Word: Retinaculiaperti Part of Speech: name 1. Class of spore chains that are open and spiral-shaped.
Word: pair of nutcrackers Part of Speech: noun 1. A tool that uses leverage to crack the shells of nuts.
Word: underadvantaged Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From under- + advantaged. 1. Having inadequate or below-average advantages.
Word: underadvantage Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From under- + advantage. 1. Insufficiently help. Labels: transitive
Word: underadvantage Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From under- + advantage. 1. The state or condition of having inadequate advantages. Labels: uncountable
Word: overadvantage Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From over- + advantage. 1. The state or condition of having excessive advantage. Labels: uncountable
Word: philosophastry Part of Speech: noun 1. Bad or sham philosophy. Labels: uncountable
Word: cluster fly Part of Speech: noun 1. Any of several species of Pollenia, especially Pollenia rudis, with the habit of congregating in dwellings over the winter. Example: Cluster flies (Pollenia rudis (Fabricius) ) become a serious problem and a major pest in rural homes, churches, and other structures in the autumn when they enter buildings to hibernate, and again in the spring when they seek ways to escape to the outside.
Word: cluster flies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cluster fly Labels: form-of, plural
Word: koinobori Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 鯉幟 (koinobori). 1. A carp-shaped streamer used to celebrate Children's Day in Japan. Example: This was perfect— it rationalized the koinobori as quite befitting a peace-loving Japan. Example: At this time, families with boys hang koinobori from flagpoles in their yard. Koinobori is a fish-shaped banner. Each male in the family is represented by a koinobori on the flagpole.
Word: Picquet Part of Speech: name Etymology: From French Picquet. 1. A surname from French.
Word: Ynysybwl Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Welsh. 1. A village in Ynysybwl and Coed-y-cwm community, Rhondda Cynon Taf borough, Wales (OS grid ref ST0594).
Word: Llantrisant Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Welsh. 1. A town and community in Rhondda Cynon Taf borough, Wales (OS grid ref ST0483). Example: A traveller from Pontypridd to Llantrisant, not knowing the ropes, would naturally travel to the station of that name, only to find himself at Pont-y-Clun, two miles distant, and probably would not be at all soothed to discover that, had he alighted at the previous station (known as Cross Inn), he would have been within half a mile of his objective. [the station at Pontyclun was named Llantrisant before it closed, it later reopened as Pontyclun] 2. A small settlement in Tref Alaw community, Anglesey, Wales (OS grid ref SH3683). 3. A village in Llantrisant Fawr community, Monmouthshire, Wales (OS grid ref ST3996).
Word: biocosmic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From bio- + cosmic. 1. Relating to life force and the cosmos. Labels: not-comparable Example: Biocosmic energy is the very essence of life force itself, this energy has been known to exist but, until now, no one has been able to isolate it.
Word: fox maggot Part of Speech: noun 1. Any member of the flesh fly genus Wohlfahrtia which cause myiasis in mammals. Example: The biology and control of the fox maggot Wohlfahrtia opaca (Coq.) Example: The fox maggot (Wohlfahrtia spp.) is widely distributed throughout the Northern United States.
Word: chobble Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Perhaps a blend of chew + gobble but perhaps instead from chop + -le (frequentative suffix). 1. To chew into small pieces. Labels: Midlands, Yorkshire Example: An’ I gets m’ pig ’ome, an’ ’e sims to turn out copital; ’e be sich a despret good cratcher, doan’t kip suckin’ an’ quiddlin’ at ’is fittle, but a chobbles it up like. Example: “Can’t get used to the damn things,” he says. “Easier to chobble away like this.”
Word: chobble Part of Speech: noun 1. Pronunciation spelling of trouble. Labels: alt-of, countable, nonstandard, pronunciation-spelling, uncountable Example: “If ya give me chobble, mon, I gwann hang up!” he threatens.
Word: chobble Part of Speech: verb 1. Pronunciation spelling of trouble. Labels: alt-of, nonstandard, pronunciation-spelling Example: “Lissin mon, dunt chobble mi wit some ear-sey ‘bout wha yuh tink appen ta mi pickni an mi coac.”
Word: prefamily Part of Speech: noun 1. A taxonomic rank above the level of family. Labels: rare Example: The shifting of the superfamily a step upward by Griffiths and the introduction of the prefamily for the category usually called superfamily, is I believe, unfortunate.
Word: Grangetown Part of Speech: name 1. A large village in Redcar and Cleveland borough, North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref NZ5520). 2. A suburb of Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England (OS grid ref NZ4054). 3. A suburb and community in the City of Cardiff, Wales (OS grid ref ST1774).
Word: Melvoin Part of Speech: name 1. A surname.
Word: Melvoins Part of Speech: name 1. plural of Melvoin Labels: form-of, plural
Word: anyday Part of Speech: adv 1. Nonstandard form of any day. Labels: alt-of, nonstandard, not-comparable
Word: autoscroll Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From auto- + scroll. 1. To scroll automatically.
Word: autoscroll Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From auto- + scroll. 1. Automatic scrolling. Labels: uncountable
Word: autoscrolls Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of autoscroll Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: autoscrolled Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of autoscroll Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: Visnadi Part of Speech: name 1. A surname.
Word: Visnadis Part of Speech: name 1. plural of Visnadi Labels: form-of, plural
Word: choose your own adventure Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the Choose Your Own Adventure series of children's gamebooks which introduced this format. 1. An interactive book or visual novel written from a second-person point of view, with the reader assuming the role of the protagonist and making choices that determine the main character's actions and the plot's outcome.
Word: choose your own adventures Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of choose your own adventure Labels: form-of, plural
Word: choose-your-own-adventure Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of choose your own adventure. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: choose-your-own-adventures Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of choose-your-own-adventure Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cytocomplex Part of Speech: noun 1. A group of species with similar karyotypes. Example: Based on the different combination of the arms, caused by whole-arm translocations, the Chironomus species are grouped into several cytocomplexes.
Word: garbageware Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From garbage + -ware. 1. Extremely poor software. Labels: derogatory, slang, uncountable
Word: Greendale Part of Speech: name 1. An unincorporated community in Yolo County, California. 2. A city in Dearborn County, Indiana. 3. A city in St. Louis County, Missouri. 4. An unincorporated community in Hocking County, Ohio. 5. A village in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin. 6. A locality in the Bega Valley council area, south-eastern New South Wales, Australia. 7. A suburb of Sydney in the Liverpool council area, New South Wales, Australia. 8. A town in the Shire of Moorabool, central western Victoria, Australia.
Word: Greendaler Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Greendale + -er. 1. Someone from any place called Greendale.
Word: Greendalers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Greendaler Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Llandough Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Welsh. 1. A village near Cowbridge, Vale of Glamorgan borough county borough, Wales (OS grid ref SS9972). 2. A village near Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan borough county borough (OS grid ref ST1673).
Word: cosignee Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From cosign + -ee. 1. One who is cosigned. Example: She signed the lease for $150 a month under her married name of Mrs. Paul Adams and gave as her cosignees Mr. and Mrs. Jack Kerouac.
Word: cosignees Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cosignee Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cosignor Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of cosigner. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: cosignors Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cosignor Labels: form-of, plural