nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: rank-nullity theorem Part of Speech: name 1. A theorem about linear transformations (or the matrices that represent them) stating that the rank plus the nullity equals the dimension of the entire vector space (which is the linear transformation’s domain). Example: If — for a homogeneous system of linear equations — there are V unknowns and R (linearly independent) equations then, according to the rank-nullity theorem, the solution space is N equals V − R dimensional.
Word: Zhangjiaji Part of Speech: name Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 張家集 /张家集 (Zhāngjiājí). 1. A town in Xiangzhou district, Xiangyang, Hubei, China. Example: Wang Siqing said that in 2015, the high-yielding demonstration patch of virus-free seed potatoes in Zhangjiaji Town, Xiangzhou District, yielded 4646 kilograms per mu of fresh potatoes, creating the highest yield per unit area of potatoes in Hubei Province.
Word: hot-buttons Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of hot-button Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Haoxue Part of Speech: name Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 郝穴 (Hǎoxué). 1. A town in Jiangling, Jingzhou, Hubei, China. Example: After a certain period of regrouping, our troops launched an attack at Haohsueh where we wiped out an entire Kuomintang battalion, thus winning the first major victory since the founding of the Hunghu base area. We later liberated Laohsinkou, Mienyang, Chienchiang and other cities and townships. Example: FLOATING WATERWORKS China's first shipborne waterworks has gone into operation on the Yangtze in Jiangling county, Hubei. The double-decked waterworks is capable of producing 10,000 of potable water a day for the 15,000 residents of Haoxue.
Word: wort-cunning Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From wort + cunning. Pronunciation: /ˈwɜːtˌkʌnɪŋ/, /ˈwɝtˌkʌnɪŋ/ 1. Alternative form of wortcunning. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: wort cunning Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From wort + cunning. Pronunciation: /ˈwɜːtˌkʌnɪŋ/, /ˈwɝtˌkʌnɪŋ/ 1. Alternative form of wortcunning. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: hotbutton Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of hot button. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: Listen for others' 'hotbuttons' and use them to your advantage. Example: This time he focused his message on the economic hotbuttons of the average shareholder. 2. An image or passage in an online screen or document that triggers an action. Labels: dated Example: The Wide Area Information Service (WAIS, pronounced "wayz") lets you look for specific words or phrases in a file, while the Web (WWW) gives you files with hypertext hotbuttons built in. Example: Roberts copied the files he mentioned onto Tom's CDR, attached a hotbutton to the footnote, which appeared as a thumbnail photo of Roberts next to the footnote, and the hotbutton to his commentary file.
Word: hotbutton Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of hot-button. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: In California, which has become the bellwether state on hotbutton racial issues like affirmative action and immigration, it surprises me that I wasn't aware of the Asian bloodlines among my own roommates. Example: No, you have just made the fatal mistake of letting me know that you have a hotbutton issue, that is all.
Word: hotbuttons Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of hotbutton Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Yesanguan Part of Speech: name Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 野三關 /野三关 (Yěsānguān). 1. A town in Badong, Enshi prefecture, Hubei, China. Example: Under public pressure, Hubei officials freed her on bail. Mr. Wu helped recruit a prominent Beijing law firm to represent Ms. Deng. On May 22, Beijing censors ordered Web sites to stop reporting on the case. Four days later, television and the Internet were cut off in Yesanguan, the town where the attack occurred. Example: This bridge is a 0.7 mile (1.1 km) long suspension bridge spanning the deeply carved valley of the Sidu River near Yesanguan in Badong County, in the southwest of China's Hubei Province.
Word: Simbol Part of Speech: name 1. A barangay of Kabasalan, Zamboanga Sibugay, Philippines.
Word: Qichun Part of Speech: name Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 蘄春 /蕲春 (Qíchūn). 1. A county of Huanggang, Hubei, China. Example: On Sunday, a host of new reprimands were made against officials in the virus-hit province, including the deputy governor of Qichun county who "cut corners and worked around the centralised quarantine order," according to Hubei authorities.
Word: row-reduced Part of Speech: adj 1. Said of a matrix which has undergone row reduction; i.e., of a matrix which has a 1 as the leading entry of each one of its non-zero rows and which has zeroes as all the other entries of any column containing such a leading entry (of any non-zero row). Labels: not-comparable
Word: sick-wagon Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From sick + wagon. Sense of "ambulance" likely a calque of German Krankenwagen. 1. a covered wagon used to convey or transport those who are sick in a wagon train Labels: historical Example: The sick-wagon appeared only a silver dot in the crimsoning distance. Except for her son, the black woman was along in the wagon. 2. a vehicle used to convey or transport those who are sick or injured Labels: dated Example: This corps is divided into companies, one for each division of .the army corps ; and, duly supplied with sick-waggons, store-carts, and litters, is placed entirely at the disposal of the medical officers. Example: A few more improvements are very essential, such as a new flooring for the Male Wards and Dispensary; another ambulance in place of the sick wagon, as a call for ambulance is often received while it is responding to a previous one, the only resort then being to forward the sick wagon, a vehicle not as suitable as an ambulance, two ambulances thus being more preferable ; also, the repairing of the one on hand, it being in a very poor condition. 3. a (modern) ambulance Labels: nonstandard, rare Example: A hundred and twenty-eight ambulances were provided for the Fourth corps, and yet the fear of the disgrace of having been carted in the sick wagon, and the general good assurance of the men that they are going on no fools errand, kept the men square up to the regiment. Example: They operated a carrying service from “sick wagon” to “hospital” for those patients with infected feet who could not stand and for those who were too weak to walk.
Word: sick-wagons Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of sick-wagon Labels: form-of, plural
Word: insurrectionalism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From insurrectional + -ism. 1. The belief that insurrection is the best way to achieve a communist or socialist revolution. Labels: uncountable Example: For a short time, insurrectionalism stood on the pedestal previously occupied in Latin America by the foquismo of Che, the people's war of Mao, and the electoral road of Allende. Example: Those already wary of the party's electoral maneuvers in 1919 further resented the Socialists' calls, after the May 1920 strike failure, to abandon revolutionary insurrectionalism and place all hopes in "le bulletin rouge". 2. A branch within the anarchist movement that eschews formal organizations such as political parties or labor unions and emphasizes insurrection. Labels: uncountable Example: Some saw in the Malatesta-Monatte clash nothing but the re-emergence of traditional insurrectionalism over the general strike. Example: Consciously or not, most local anarchists embraced the Bakuninist view, which had an innate affinity to the revolutionary urgency and insurrectionalism so pervasive in the movement.
Word: blue-ringed octopus Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From blue + ringed + octopus. From being an octopus with very prominent bright blue rings all over its body. 1. Any octopus of the genus Hapalochlaena, with distinctive blue rings, that carry the highly poisonous venom tetrodotoxin (TTX). Example: In terms of diversity, cephalopods include the egg case making argonauts, shelled nautiluses, venomous blue-ringed octopuses and enigmatic giants like the giant and colossal squid. […] The blue-ringed octopus Hapalochlaena lunulata has tetrodotoxin, the deadly toxin it also releases in a bite, in their ink but the concentrations and effect in inking are not known.
Word: family roof Part of Speech: noun 1. A large, old-fashioned model of umbrella. Labels: dated, historical Example: 1868, Frances Parthenope Verney, Stone Edge, Smith, Elder & Co. (publ.), page 56. And he took the big family roof and held it over them both. Example: Off went Dick, returning in two minutes with mamma's pretty sun-umbrella, papa's silk one with the ivory handle, and Dinah's family roof, an immense structure of whalebone and cotton, originally green, now faded and streaked with blue, black and yellow, till it looked like one vast bruise, — the stick as tough and substantial as Dinah herself, the handle an immense brass hook that Squeers himself might have envied. 2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see family, roof.
Word: murker Part of Speech: adj 1. comparative form of murk: more murk Labels: comparative, form-of
Word: Yangchow Part of Speech: name Etymology: From the Postal Romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 揚州／扬州 (Yángzhōu). 1. Alternative form of Yangzhou. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: With the opening of Yangchow the Mission had struck out in a new direction, for that city was situated on the northern section of the Grand Canal, which in those days, before the sea-route had become popular, was the highroad from the south to Peking and the northern provinces. Example: The resourcefulness of the Taipings was not too greatly occupied with the establishment of the Celestial Capital to prevent reaching out for the vital strategic centers of Chinkiang and Yangchow, the former a commanding site at the intersection of the Grand Canal with the Yangtse River, the latter on the canal about twenty-five or thirty miles away, both together controlling that vital artery through which flowed the supplies of tribute grain to the capital.
Word: dateliner Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From dateline + -er. 1. An article that is published under a dateline. Example: The telegraph editor can use the undated as the top of the weather story and tack as many dateliners as he cares on the bottom, with the best coming first. Example: A second Punta del Este dateliner, by Juan de Onis, quoted Secretary of State Dean Rusk giving the official U. S. view, which had already been reported extensively by Kenworthy and Szuie.
Word: unsecretively Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From unsecretive + -ly. 1. In an unsecretive manner.
Word: unsecretiveness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From unsecretive + -ness. 1. The quality of being unsecretive. Labels: uncountable
Word: unhalter Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From un- + halter. 1. To remove a halter from (an animal). Labels: transitive
Word: unhalted Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + halted. 1. Not halted; unstopped. Labels: not-comparable
Word: unhaltered Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of unhalter Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: unhaltered Part of Speech: adj 1. Not wearing a halter. Labels: not-comparable
Word: unhalters Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of unhalter Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: unhaltering Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of unhalter Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: unceased Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + ceased. 1. Not ceased; unstopped. Labels: not-comparable
Word: in the cold light of day Part of Speech: prep_phrase Etymology: Probably an allusion to a situation being seen more clearly in daylight, and after some time has passed. The word cold is used in the sense of “dispassionate; not prejudiced or partisan; impartial”. Pronunciation: /ˌɪn ðə ˈkəʊ̯ld ˌlaɪ̯t əv ˈdeɪ̯/, /ˌɪn ðə ˈkoʊ̯ld ˌlaɪ̯t əv ˈdeɪ̯/, /-ˌlʌɪ̯t-/, /ˌɪn ðə ˈkəʉ̯ld ˌlɑe̯t əv ˈdæɪ̯/, /ˌən ðə ˈkɐʉ̯ld ˌlaɪ̯t əv ˈdæɪ̯/ 1. Viewed calmly and dispassionately after allowing emotions to cool or after having sobered up. Labels: figuratively Example: In the cold light of day, I felt I had overreacted. Example: In my over-wrought state of the night before, it had seemed reasonable enough; but here, in the cold light of day, it seemed preposterous. 2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see in, the, cold, light, of, day; during the day; in daylight. Example: And above the crowd of living figures rise colossal forms of armed warriors, and peaceful poets, and sceptred monarchs; these glowing crimson; those standing calm and pale in the cold light of day. Example: However subtle the social pecking order may have been, the outsider entering the famous town with high expectations saw it in the cold light of day shrink into a philistine backwoods dump.
Word: Salazarist Part of Speech: adj 1. Of or relating to António de Oliveira Salazar or Salazarism. Example: Nor were previous forced labor practices to be altered. On the contrary, as we shall see, they were merely rationalized and reinforced by the Salazarist system.
Word: Salazarist Part of Speech: noun 1. A supporter of António de Oliveira Salazar or Salazarism.
Word: toum Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Levantine (and Egyptian) Arabic ْتُوم (tūm, “garlic”). 1. A garlic condiment common in the Levant, similar to aioli, made with garlic, salt, olive or vegetable oil, lemon juice, and sometimes mint. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: […] the magical garlic foam served with these lamb chops. Sure, toum is wilful and unpredictable as well but, as with a favourite naughty child, you persist […]
Word: move with the times Part of Speech: verb 1. To adapt to changes, especially cultural changes.
Word: Suqian Part of Speech: name Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 宿遷 /宿迁 (Sùqiān). 1. A prefecture-level city of Jiangsu, in eastern China. Example: Leading members of party organizations at all levels in Suchien County, Kiangsu, have taken the lead in studying and applying the new party Constitution. Example: Coaches begin identifying prospects during regular visits to local elementary schools. Consider that in just one city — Suqian, in Jiangsu Province — every government district was asked to assess children from the ages of 8 to 13 and select candidates for sports schools.
Word: Sutsien Part of Speech: name Etymology: From the Postal Romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 宿遷／宿迁 (Sùqiān). 1. Alternative form of Suqian. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: In the Sutsien country field three Christian leaders and three children have been killed by shells and bombs. Example: On the boat he noticed that Wang sniffed at things to eat and drink, but never swallowed them, and that if he sniffed at anything hot, it at once became icy- cold. When they got to Sutsien, the ghost said, ‘They are giving a play in that village over there. Let’s go and look on’. When they had watched several episodes, the ghost suddenly disappeared.
Word: georadar Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From geo- + radar. 1. Ground-penetrating radar. Labels: uncountable
Word: subproperty Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From sub- + property. 1. A property of another property. Example: The Origin property represents a coordinate and has X and Y subproperties.
Word: subproperties Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of subproperty Labels: form-of, plural
Word: unreconcile Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From un- + reconcile. 1. To sever; to make no longer reconciled to each other. Labels: transitive Example: Now, in the first place, the Poet did not mean we should reconcile our hearts to Bertram, but that he should not unreconcile them to Helena; nay, that her love should appear the nobler for the unworthiness of its object. 2. To undo the reconciliation of. Labels: transitive Example: To unreconcile the item, click on the tick. It will disappear and the item will be unreconciled. Remember that all reconciled amounts must be ticked off on the bank statement as reconciled. Example: To unreconcile the transaction, start at the main dashboard, click on the bank account and tab across to the list of account transactions. Find the transaction and drill down into it […]
Word: unreconciles Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of unreconcile Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: unreconciliation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From un- + reconciliation. 1. The state of not being reconciled; lack of reconciliation. Labels: uncountable
Word: Elvis operator Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The notation ?: humorously reinterpreted as an emoticon representing the eyes and hairstyle of Elvis Presley. 1. A binary operator that returns its first operand if that operand evaluates to true, and otherwise evaluates and returns its second operand. Labels: informal
Word: Elvis operators Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Elvis operator Labels: form-of, plural
Word: payrun Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From pay + run. 1. The periodic calculation of a payroll.
Word: payruns Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of payrun Labels: form-of, plural
Word: pay run Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of payrun. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: pay runs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pay run Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Qingjiangpu Part of Speech: name Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 清江浦 (Qīngjiāngpǔ). 1. A district of Huai'an, in central Jiangsu, in eastern China. Example: 15. Chingchiangpu-Kwachou (on the Yangtse opposite the Chinkiang Railway). It was proposed to build the line from T’ungchou at the mouth of the Yangtse through Chingchiangpu and on to Haichow. The loan agreement to build the section from Tunchow to Chingchiangpu was recently abandoned, however, owing to the proposed line conflicting with a section of the Haichow-Lanchow Railway. Example: Further south in Qingjiangpu, the missionaries reported: "During the ten years that foreigners have been in the city there has never been so much robbery as now—the whole vicinity is terrorized."
Word: hodologically Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From hodological + -ly. 1. In terms of hodology. Labels: not-comparable
Word: substancelessness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From substanceless + -ness. 1. Lack of substance; insubstantiality. Labels: uncountable
Word: bicamerality Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From bicameral + -ity. 1. The state or quality of being bicameral or having bicameral structure or function. Labels: uncountable
Word: ordinal numeral Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈɔː(ɹ).dɪ.nəl ˈnjuːməɹəl/, /ˈɔːɹd.nəl ˈnumɜɹəl/ 1. A word used to represent an ordinal number.
Word: pyrolizable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From pyrolize + -able. 1. Able to undergo pyrolysis.
Word: pyroninophilic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From pyronine + -o- + -philic. 1. Readily stained by pyronine.
Word: pyroses Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pyrosis Labels: form-of, plural
Word: pyropus Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of pyrope (“type of garnet”). Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: pyropuses Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pyropus Labels: form-of, plural
Word: pyramidons Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pyramidon Labels: form-of, plural
Word: pycnoses Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pycnosis Labels: form-of, plural
Word: purdas Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of purda Labels: form-of, plural
Word: pumicer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From pumice + -er. 1. One who pumices.
Word: pumicers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pumicer Labels: form-of, plural
Word: pulsers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pulser Labels: form-of, plural
Word: pulpmill Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of pulp mill. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: pulpmills Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pulpmill Labels: form-of, plural
Word: pulpital Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From pulpit + -al. 1. Relating to, or befitting, a pulpit.
Word: pudden Part of Speech: noun 1. pudding Labels: dialectal
Word: puddens Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pudden Labels: form-of, plural
Word: ptyalins Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of ptyalin Labels: form-of, plural
Word: transdeletion Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From trans- + deletion. 1. The process of forming an anagram of a word with one letter deleted (e.g. indicator from dictionary), a form of recreational wordplay.
Word: transdeletions Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of transdeletion Labels: form-of, plural
Word: prurituses Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pruritus Labels: form-of, plural
Word: insurrectionalist Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From insurrectional + -ist. 1. Pertaining to insurrectionalism. Example: It is in this sense that one can say that this poem contributes to form and educate the insurrectionalist spirit as well as stimulate revolt against the oppressor. Example: The insurrectionalist anarchists Chrissus and Odotheus argue that: 'In fact, it is this being [the multitude] that has power even when everything would seem to bear witness to the contrary.
Word: insurrectionalist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From insurrectional + -ist. 1. Alternative form of Insurrectionalist. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: ModestIy-armed insurrectionalists battled in the streets against Somoza's 7,500-member National Guard — 4,200 of which have been trained by the U.S. in Nicaragua or at military bases in the Panama Canal Zone and the United States — and... Example: Differing on the means, but with agreement established on the ends of opposition activity, both the subversion of public order as advocated by the insurrectionalists and the institutional conflict favored by the Frei camp continued to bring pressure on the armed forces to take sides. 2. Alternative form of insurrectionist. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: ...on October 5, 1795, the 13th Vendémiaire, an IV, the insurrectionalists were up and assembling bright and early ; but they found the rue Saint-Honoré guarded from the Place de la Révolution to the Palais-Royal, ... Example: The Sawanans brought the insurrectionalists to trial. 3. A proponent of insurrectionalism Example: For this reason the proletarians of our country have been so long divided in revolutionary syndicalists or insurrectionalists and reformists or evolutionarists. Example: Furthermore, it is rather artificial to try to make a clear distinction between 'putschists' and 'insurrectionalists' (the two tendencies were often merged together in individual leaders); the real line of demarcation should perhaps be drawn between those who saw the countryside as the proper theatre of the armed struggle, and those who attributed that role to the cities.
Word: insurrectionalists Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of insurrectionalist Labels: form-of, plural
Word: prounion Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From pro- + union. 1. In favour of trade unions.
Word: proportionals Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of proportional Labels: form-of, plural
Word: pronephroses Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pronephros Labels: form-of, plural
Word: pronatores Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pronator Labels: form-of, plural
Word: priapuses Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of priapus Labels: form-of, plural
Word: poyse Part of Speech: verb 1. Obsolete form of poise. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: poyses Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of poyse Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: poysed Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of poyse Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: poysing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of poyse Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: poynts Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of poynt Labels: form-of, plural
Word: poynts Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of poynt Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: poynted Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of poynt Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: poynting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of poynt Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: overteems Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of overteem Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: overteeming Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of overteem Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: overteemed Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of overteem Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: overgilt Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of overgild Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: Insurrectionalist Part of Speech: name Etymology: From insurrectional + -ist. 1. A member of the insurrectional faction of the FSLN that defeated Anastasio Somoza García on 1979. Example: The Insurrectionalists faction, led by brothers Daniel and Humberto Ortega and Mexican-born Victor Tirado, gradually assumed international prominence as the group most capable of waging direct war against Somoza. Example: While the Insurrectionalists did seek aid from various sectors, their reputation as moderates was an illusion.
Word: Insurrectionalists Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Insurrectionalist Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Tercerista Part of Speech: noun 1. A member of the insurrectional faction of the FSLN that defeated Anastasio Somoza García on 1979. Example: The situation changed in 1976 when a third distinct faction within the FSLN emerged, the Terceristas or Insurrectionalists.
Word: Terceristas Part of Speech: name 1. plural of Tercerista Labels: form-of, plural
Word: neoschizomer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From neo- + schizomer. 1. One of a pair of restriction enzymes that recognizes the same nucleotide sequence but cleaves it differently.
Word: neoschizomers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of neoschizomer Labels: form-of, plural
Word: bookbin Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of book bin. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: Instead of destroying or selling the residue as second-hand stuff, the bookbin should exchange it with other bookbins in the country. Example: Oversized and thin picture books, which would be lost in conventional shelving, should be placed in bookbins.
Word: bookbins Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of bookbin Labels: form-of, plural
Word: book bin Part of Speech: noun 1. A bin for collecting or storing books. Example: Children eventually bring their book bins to the meeting area for minilessons, and during minilessons they sit beside their reading partners in assigned rug spots.
Word: book bins Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of book bin Labels: form-of, plural
Word: shotgun double Part of Speech: noun 1. Two shotgun houses which share a central wall. Labels: US Example: I saw a dead guy on the front porch of a shotgun double on a working-class street, and the only sound was wind chimes.
Word: Seif Part of Speech: name Etymology: Two possible origins: * Borrowed from German Seif, a metonymic occupational surname for a soap-maker, from Seife (“soap”). * A variant spelling of Saif, an Arabic surname which can be found in both Muslim and Christian communities. 1. A surname.
Word: shell road Part of Speech: noun 1. A road with a bed or other layer made from shells. Labels: US Example: You know, the kind of New Orleans rain that […] tamps down the dust of the old shell roads and washes down the oyster stink in the French Quarter gutters and slicks up all the playground equipment and makes New Orleans smell—is it possible?—so fresh.
Word: shell roads Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of shell road Labels: form-of, plural
Word: neutral ground Part of Speech: noun Etymology: (Sense 1) Per Chase (1979), probably the first explanation of the term neutral ground is by George Cable in 1884: "The people of New Orleans take pride in Canal street^([sic])... Its two distinct granite paved roadways are each forty feet wide, and the tree-bordered 'neutral ground' measures fifty-four feet across. It was 'neutral' when it divided between the French Quarter [i.e., the Creole section] and the Americans [the Anglo section] at the time when their municipality governments were distinct from each other." The Creole and Anglo sections of the city were historically antagonistic toward one another, making the small space between them a notable, if somewhat jocular, "neutral" space. Pronunciation: /ˈnuːtɹəl ɡraʊnd/, [ˈnuːtɹɫ̩ ɡɹaʊ̯nd] 1. The median strip or central reservation between lanes of traffic in a divided highway. Labels: Louisiana Example: I just hope it's not the two guys who've been assigned to cut the grass on the neutral grounds for the past ten years; man, things would really be different around here without them. 2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see neutral, ground. Example: He arranged a Crush with the tribes. A meeting on neutral ground. He wanted to talk.
Word: ponors Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of ponor Labels: form-of, plural
Word: hyperadult Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From hyper- + adult. 1. Having excessively or inappropriately adult characteristics. Example: As matters now stand, "programs" too often result in the formation of individuals whose intelligence may be hyperadult, but whose affective and moral sensibility is childish. Example: It was slow enough now that I could take a good look at her — I couldn't decide her age, but there seemed to be a youthfulness to her that belied her hyperadult authority. 2. Exhibiting hypermorphosis; Having features that exaggerate adult morphology. Example: When sexual maturity is delayed development of the organism may continue over a longer time span. this extension of the growth phase facilitates the formation of a “hyperadult” morphology and a large size, a situation referred to as hypermorphosis. Example: Vrba continues by stating that this '. . . can result in a major reorganization - or "shuffling" of body proportions such that some characters become larger and others smaller, some hyperadult and others more juvenilized' (1996, p. 1 ).
Word: caffetiere Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of cafetière. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: 'Luigi, un caffé latte per la signorina, per favore,' she called to Luigi, who immediately spooned ground coffee into the caffetiere and placed it on the stove. Example: In the small aquatinted kitchen her caffetiere melded together tap water and coarsely ground Peruvian Blend coffee.
Word: caffetieres Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of caffetiere Labels: form-of, plural
Word: marriage–industrial complex Part of Speech: noun Etymology: By analogy with military–industrial complex. 1. The totality of businesses such as wedding planners, bridal registries, specialized caterers, bridal wear stores, etc. that exist for assisting with holding a wedding. Example: Even when you want to do it for yourself, outside of the marriage industrial complex, it's practically impossible. Example: Also on the table was a developing critique of "matrimania" – the excessive hyping of marriage and coupling – and the concomitant multibillion-dollar marriage industrial complex. 2. The set of American institutions such as therapists, self-help books, support groups, etc., designed to respond to adultery. Example: The growth of the marriage-industrial complex has not done much to slow the national divorce epidemic. Example: There are strict rules in the marriage industrial complex. Almost all these sites demand the adulterer confess every act of sex, every telephone conversation, and every detail of every assignation.
Word: petty-bourgeois Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative spelling of petty bourgeois. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable Example: At the very moment when their petty-bourgeois counterparts were coming to power elsewhere in Africa, these Mozambicans found the Portuguese turning their backs on neocolonialism and digging in their heels militarily against any such denouement to their rule.
Word: unprohibitive Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + prohibitive. 1. Not prohibitive.
Word: blue-ringed octopuses Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of blue-ringed octopus Labels: form-of, plural
Word: blue-ringed octopi Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of blue-ringed octopus Labels: form-of, hypercorrect, nonstandard, plural
Word: wireless fidelity Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Back-formation from Wi-Fi. The term "Wi-Fi" was coined as a pun on "hi-fi" which is an abbreviation for "high fidelity." 1. Wi-Fi. Labels: uncountable
Word: fashion parade Part of Speech: noun 1. An event at which a series of models display clothing in front of an audience. Example: Now to secure the real benefits that come from walking there should be no laziness about it. Do not walk as though you were on a fashion parade. Example: “Miss Green, I wonder, if you’ve time on your hands now, could you be coaxed into being in a fashion parade of which I’m chairman, at the Sherry Netherland next week? Jean de Perrault’s spring line.”
Word: fashion parades Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of fashion parade Labels: form-of, plural
Word: prime triplet Part of Speech: noun 1. An ordered set of three prime numbers in which the smallest and largest of the three differ by six.
Word: identification parade Part of Speech: noun 1. A process by which a witness confirms the identity of a criminal suspect, by viewing the suspect together with other people who were not involved in the crime. Example: He had once in his early days dropped in with his Superintendent at an identification parade. It was not his case, and they were both there on other business, but they lingered in the background and watched while a man and a woman, separately, walked down the line of twelve nondescript men, looking for the one they hoped to recognise. Example: One of the ticket clerks at the Brahmpur Railway Station was going to be asked to try to pick Maan out at an identification parade in the jail. Under these circumstances, he could not let Maan’s head be shaved.
Word: counterspelled Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of counterspell Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: counterspelling Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of counterspell Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: Guling Part of Speech: name Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 牯嶺 /牯岭 (Gǔlǐng). 1. A town in Lushan, Jiujiang, Jiangxi, in eastern China. Example: In November 1981, he was touring Jiangsi province to explore investment possibilities and stopped for the night in Guling on Mount Lu. On the evening of Nov. 7, Hoose wrote a sentimental letter to his wife, Georgia. “Here I am, 61 years later, at the place I was born on June 2, 1920. Amazingly, I remember a few features from when I was six. Little has changed—just different neighbors. It is beautiful here. … Am off and down the Mt. to Kiukiang tomorrow.
Word: Kuling Part of Speech: name Etymology: The postal romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 牯嶺／牯岭 (Gǔlǐng). 1. Alternative form of Guling. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: Kuling perched dramatically above a gorge of the Yangtze which could be seen far below, the view being rather like that from Lookout Mountain near Chattanooga or Murren in Switzerland, magnified several times. Example: My father put down his razor and straightened his face. "I've been meaning to tell you," he said. "We can't go to Peitaiho this summer, Jean. We'll be going to Kuling." I couldn't believe it. There he was with soap over one half of his face, saying Kuling, not Peitaiho, just as if he were saying cornflakes, not Grape-Nuts.
Word: Tsingkiangpu Part of Speech: name Etymology: From the Postal Romanization of the Nanking court dialect Mandarin 清江浦 (Qīngjiāngpǔ), from before the modern palatalization of [k] to [t͡ɕ]. 1. Alternative form of Qingjiangpu. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: On the return, he left the canal eighty-five miles below Tsingkiangpu, and to the astonishment and alarm of country folk, he roared and bumped home along the Imperial Highway, narrow and rough, easily beating the record for a journey between Shanghai and Tsingkiangpu. Example: The upper four-fifths of the Jiangsu Province was almost untouched by the Gospel with less than 100 Chinese believers among, perhaps, 30 million people. Eventually the Grahams moved to Tsingkiangpu, a town in northeastern Jiangsu with a population of approximately 130,000 (in modern China the city of Tsingkiangpu is renamed Huaiyin).
Word: Hwaian Part of Speech: name Etymology: From the Postal Romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 淮安 (Huái'ān). 1. Alternative form of Huai'an. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: Chou's life bridged traditional and revolutionary China. He was born in the waning years of the Manchu Dynasty, in 1898—the exact date is unclear— in the eastern city of Hwaian, in Kiangsu Province. Example: She spent her very early years in the ancient city of Hwaian (now spelled Huaian) in the eastern section of China. Hwaian sits on the banks of the Grand Canal, the world's oldest and longest artificial waterway at more than 1000 miles.
Word: uie Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of uey. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: semiproletarianized Part of Speech: adj 1. Having been made somewhat proletarian. Labels: not-comparable Example: Thus his analysis underscores, once again, the “availability” of both peasantry and semiproletarianized workers (self-evidently the dividing line is not a clean one) for revolutionary purposes.
Word: catapleurotic Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of cataplerotic. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
Word: flare path Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From flare + path. 1. A runway (or simple field) that is illuminated at night, or during fog, to enable aircraft to land or take off safely.
Word: flare paths Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of flare path Labels: form-of, plural
Word: underfloor heating Part of Speech: noun 1. Any of various central heating (and sometimes cooling) systems that achieve indoor climate control for thermal comfort using conduction, radiation, and convection. Labels: uncountable
Word: Kaoyu Part of Speech: name Etymology: The postal romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 高郵／高邮 (Gāoyóu). 1. Alternative form of Gaoyou. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: That bitterly cold winter the Grand Canal had frozen, and Nelson roared down the old Imperial Highway beside it until he reached open water eighty-three miles south of Tsingkiangpu, at Kaoyu. Example: From nearby Kaoyu county they learned of a remedy made from a medicinal herb.
Word: Gaoyou Part of Speech: name Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 高郵 /高邮 (Gāoyóu). 1. A county-level city of Yangzhou, Jiangsu, in eastern China. Example: Among the rebel leaders who appeared in the Huai area after the 1351 floods was a more ambitious man than Fang Kuo-chen, named Chang Shih-ch'eng 張士誠 (1321-1367). Like Fang, Chang had a salt trade background. Native to the Kao-yu region of modern Kiangsu province, north of the Yangtze, Chang and his brothers grew up as canal boatmen employed by the state salt monopoly. Example: Seven people were killed in Gaoyou city in neighboring Jiangsu province, the agency said, adding that 53 were injured. "Winds and heavy rain cut off power and telecommunications, ripped off rooftops and uprooted thousands of trees," a Gaoyou government official was quoted as saying.
Word: bufferedness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From buffered + -ness. 1. The quality of state of being buffered. Labels: uncountable Example: This is also the result of a comparative analysis of Japanese, North American and European automobile companies concerning relative leanness or bufferedness of the plant production management policies. Example: Those qualities make bufferedness more than a situation where provincial vaguenss and limited monitoring provide a window of opportunity for locals to run with local ideas.
Word: LDW Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of loss disguised as a win (as presented by gambling machines etc.) Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: LDWs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of LDW Labels: form-of, plural
Word: pachinko allocation Part of Speech: noun 1. In machine learning and natural language processing, a suite of algorithms to determine the thematic structure of a collection of documents by modelling correlations between topics in addition to the word correlations that constitute topics. Labels: uncountable
Word: fame digger Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From fame + digger, in analogy with gold digger. 1. A person (usually female) who cultivates a personal relationship in order to attain fame. Labels: derogatory, figuratively
Word: takh Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Khalkha Mongolian тахь (taxʹ). 1. Synonym of Przewalski's horse.
Word: takhs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of takh Labels: form-of, plural
Word: wooze Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English wosen, from Old English wōsan, variant of wēsan. Doublet of ooze. 1. A liquid formed by leaching bark that is used for soaking hides during the tanning process. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: No person shall set the fats in tan hills, or other places, where the woozes or leather may take any unkind heats; or shall put any leather into any hot or warm woozes; or shall tan any hide or skin with any hot or warm woozes; [...] Example: [B]y tanned hides or ſkins, or by tanned pieces of hides or ſkins, are meant only ſuch as are tanned in wooſe made of the bark of trees, or ſumack, or whereof the principal ingredients ſhall be ſuch bark, or ſumack; [...] 2. A state of wooziness. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: "Ah, but you are punishing yourself needlessly, Sonya, I think." Ilya said expansively, leaning a bit closer himself, and seeming to weave in her vision woozily, though whether she was woozing, or he was woozing, or both of them were sharing a friendly little wooze together, it was hard to tell. Example: He felt that postbennie wooze.
Word: wooze Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English wosen, from Old English wōsan, variant of wēsan. Doublet of ooze. 1. To soak hides in wooze. Example: As to what we called crop leather, when the hides are woozed enough for laying away I have a very strong wooze drawn from them. 2. To cause to feel woozy. Example: Sebastian is too woozed by alcoholism to make any formal contribution to politics, but he makes a special trip to Germany to convince a German friend to abandon Naziism. Example: I am woozed out with a sedative, wheeled into the operating room, ... 3. To become woozy or sleepy. Example: My head was feeling strange, woozing in and woozing out. Example: As I woozed, he gut-punched me. 4. To move or function while in a daze. Example: Dismissing Zing's desertion, Sheri pitched in so intensively that she barely woozed through the final afternoon, like a setting hen on H-day, feeling life stir in the eggs. Example: Stoned, we woozed through monster traffic jams, wisecracking in Vietnamese to the Vietnamese, then stopped at the bars along Tu Do Street, where none of us could afford the drinks and we were cold- shouldered by the bar girls and bawled out. 5. To speak while intoxicated; to say in a slurred voice. Example: "Click Dark," woozed Amber, "nice to meet ya." Example: Now — her voice woozed from the speaker—"The little money I accumulate comes from old residuals, poetry, and favors to men . . . I love the Negro race and I will accept money only from Negroes.” 6. To gradually go in and out of mental focus. Example: This was woozing through my mind and the voices spoke again. Example: This old song from Simon and Garfunkel woozes its way up and I'm hearing the lyric, 'Time it was, and what a time it was: a time of innocence, a time of confidences'. 7. To move sinuously. Example: He had floated up from the bottom and he grinned at us horribly from his bullet-shattered skull as he slowly woozed away from us downstream leaving a wake of stinking bubbles behind him. Example: Albert P. Rockwood described these springs: 'The spring was a muddy, sulfry, cold and black nasty water that woozed through the mire and formed...
Word: woozes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of wooze Labels: form-of, plural
Word: woozes Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of wooze Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: woozing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of wooze Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: woozed Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of wooze Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: woozed Part of Speech: adj 1. Woozy. Example: Long months and years With sobs and tears, He sat, all woozed and whizzy, And his soul did flit As the 'phone box split With a last, long, wheezy “Busy!” Example: All of my efforts to abandon Chicago had hitherto been conceived, planned and unsuccessfully executed while I was woozed, poetic, and therefore non-practical; my work had been gritty and minus the decisive clutch ;
Word: risk society Part of Speech: noun 1. A modern human society focused on possible future outcomes and what could go wrong.
Word: risk societies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of risk society Labels: form-of, plural
Word: nongarish Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + garish. 1. Not garish. Example: How could I have forgotten old nongarish Joan. Example: People in the upper-upper class often live in fashionable, nongarish houses nestled comfortably on family estates.
Word: fame diggers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of fame digger Labels: form-of, plural
Word: humpback bridge Part of Speech: noun 1. (usually) a single-arch bridge with steep approaches on either side Labels: UK
Word: humpback bridges Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of humpback bridge Labels: form-of, plural
Word: parapolitical Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From para- + political. 1. Of or pertaining to parapolitics. Labels: not-comparable Example: In addition, a more formalized committee structure was also emerging to complement and focus the political energy stirring in such meetings. This involved the establishment of an elected committee (and, more often than not, a local militia unit) at the circulo or locality level. True, the exact format of this basic institution varied somewhat from place to place since, in Mondlande’s words, “existing parapolitical structures, traditional and modern, have been incorporated in the structure of the liberation movement.”
Word: postclass Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From post- + class. 1. Occurring after a class is finished. Labels: not-comparable Example: Students who just had a 90-minute (smoke-free) class were either asked to participate in our study before or after they had their postclass cigarette. Example: The postclass survey consisted of 19 open-ended questions, focusing on participants' hopes of their future work as leaders who would support adult development, their conceptions of supporting adult learning after LTL, and any experiences that supported their learning and leadership development in LTL. 2. Having no rigid class structure (in a society that previously had one). Labels: not-comparable Example: Sharryn Kasmir's analysis enables us to penetrate the otherwise paradoxical situation in which cooperators in this putative postclass paradise are beginning to organize syndicates to protect their interests. Example: Nor will the emergence of postclass society imply the end of social division and conflict.
Word: British Museum algorithm Part of Speech: name Etymology: Named by Newell, Shaw, and Simon in allusion to the inefficient idea of placing monkeys in front of typewriters in order to reproduce all the books in the British Museum. 1. A search procedure which involves generating and checking all possible scenarios.
Word: semiaffordable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From semi- + affordable. 1. Expensive but affordable if one stretches one's resources. Labels: not-comparable Example: The route disgusted me, but it led to the only semiaffordable, partially accessible place I could find. Example: Serious shoppers who cannot afford serious prices, however, can walk around the corner to the vicinity of the Rue Boccador, where there are small shops with affordable, or at least semiaffordable, treasures.