Doctor Whovian

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[…] it contains all-original short stories by a swarm of the usual Doctor-Whovian suspects: Jonathan Blum, Martin Day, Paul Ebbs, Jim Mortimore, Kate Orman, Justin Richards, Dave Stone and many others.

2004 spring, Interzone, number 193, page 62, column 1:

This is not the sleek white Apple-store vision of the future, but something altogether Doctor Whovian in its sensibilities, as enamored with the past as with the future’s mind-boggling possibilities.

2015 September 16, Amelia Mason, “How A Music Futurist Composes The Future”, in WBUR, archived from the original on 2023-04-16:

In a surreal multimedia performance-lecture, Nina Stuhldreher recounts an artistic research trip which accidentally turned into a Doctor Whovian robinsonade.

2016, “Nootropics and the Last Frontier of (Un)consciousness”, in Bristol Biennial 2016: In Other Worlds, page 24:

Except, that was Moriarty in the bride's frock, and none of this was real, because it was all taking place in one of Sherlock's mind palaces, that Doctor Whovian device whereby Messrs Moffat and Gatiss can do exactly what they want with their lead characters, in this case, tell a head-scratching one-off tale, while they wait for their two stars to pause making blockbusting films long enough to make a whole series.

2016 January 1, Caroline Frost, “'Sherlock: The Abominable Bride' Review Finds Benedict Cumberbatch And Martin Freeman Suffering Time Constraints”, in HuffPost, archived from the original on 2023-04-16:

One part of this is the Doctor Whovian urge to hide behind the sofa, but it’s far more than that.

2017 January, Kieron Gillen, “Life and Darth”, in SFX, number 281, page 60:

The "I" here also could refer to Offa talking about himself in that sort of Doctor Whovian floating between the eighth century and the twentieth century.

2020, Nadia Ali Ismael, “Anachronism in Geoffrey Hill's 'Mercian Hymns'”, in Arab World English Journal for Translation & Literary Studies, volume 5, number 1, published February 2021, →ISSN, page 75:

1990 / Chris Lydgate built a Dalek with his Doctor Whovian kids.

2021 March, Reed Magazine, volume 100, number 1, Portland, Ore.: the Office of Public Affairs at Reed College, →ISSN, page 38, column 1:

Oh, sure Polestar was already Volvo’s racing team and go-faster division before its Doctor Whovian electric regeneration, and Californian dentists had access to a Genesis, but in the UK these are brand-new, um, brands.

2022 August 19, Ollie Kew, “Genesis GV60 vs Polestar 2: EV newbie showdown”, in Top Gear, archived from the original on 2022-08-19:

Controlling the game with blinks is something we have seen done before, particularly with the well-regarded Before Your Eyes on PC, but tying that to some sort of Doctor Whovian monster mechanic in which the creatures can grab you if you blink too much is absolutely the best/worst possible application for this kind of game mechanic.

2022 November 2, Lee Brady, “The Dark Pictures comes to PS VR2 with essentially Doctor Who angels”, in TrueTrophies, TrueGaming Network Ltd, archived from the original on 2022-11-02:

There are any number of Doctor-Whovian plots that could place the two together — failed mutation experiment, secondary mutation (a la Beast from "The X-Men," for example), or even a portal accident (which, in a fun Easter egg, would prove Geralt's well-documented disdain for the magic true).

2022 December 29, Chris Condry, “12 Witcher Stories Netflix Should Tell After Blood Origin”, in Looper, Static Media, archived from the original on 2022-12-30:


programmable matter

Matter which can change its physics properties in a programmable way.


dragonstone

en-noun

dragonstone (countable and uncountable, plural dragonstones)

(fantasy) A stone or gem having magical powers in relation to dragons.


dragon whisperer

dragon whisperer (plural dragon whisperers)

(fantasy) One who has the ability to talk to and control dragons.


dragonmaster

(fantasy) One who has the ability to control dragons; someone with mastery over dragons.


Harry Potterish

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Last summer interest in U.K. Garage reached Harry Potterish levels in Britain (David’s debut CD alone went six times platinum); […]

2001 April 30, Christopher John Farley, “The Garage Door Opens”, in Time:

‘[…] Oh, you could be something Harry Potterish.’ ‘Or maybe . . . Yes! If I could find the gear, I could go as a character from that book I’ve been reading to them.[…]’

2002, Judith Cutler, Hidden Power, Hodder & Stoughton, →ISBN, page 204:

In Not Just a Witch, Heckie has just finished Witches’ School where all the witches learn how to make the world a better place. Sound a bit Harry Potterish? It is, but it came before the J.K. Rowling adventures began.

All this is to say that the night after the dinner party from hell, I had a redemptive, Harry Potterish sort of dream.

2004, Patricia J. Williams, Open House: Of Family, Friends, Food, Piano Lessons and the Search for a Room of My Own, New York, N.Y.: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 11:

This time, my mind stayed centered in my body, getting off on the scents in the air, the mysterious, mystical copse of Harry Potterish pines in the middle of the hike, and the curious looks on the faces bf the cows.

2004, Jessica Porter, The Hip Chick’s Guide to Macrobiotics: A Philosophy for Achieving a Radiant Mind and Fabulous Body, New York, N.Y.: Avery, →ISBN, page 55:

On the one hand this attention has brought the promise of extra funding - though few at the Universities UK annual conference in the Harry Potterish surroundings of Keble College, Oxford believe that undergraduate fees of up to £3,000 a year from 2006 are the magic wand to solve their problems.

2004 September 15, “Conference call”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 2014-09-16:

He hoped that the rumour about the Canadian school with neckties was true. How bad could that be? It sounded kind of Harry Potterish.

2005, Kathrine K[ristine] Beck, Snitch, Scholastic Children’s Books, →ISBN, pages 87–88:

There is something rather Harry Potterish about them: they can suddenly appear in huge quantities or alternatively disappear. […] Remember that receptors are Harry Potterish, appearing and disappearing.

2005, Vivienne Parry, The Truth About Hormones, London: Atlantic Books, →ISBN, pages 12 and 55:

I had no idea what was going on until I heard one of my roommates ordering my other roommate back into her room to change into something that was more “Harry Potterish.” Somehow, I managed to tear myself away from my Middle East Politics paper to discover the two of them uncontrollably hyper and wearing head-to-toe gold and burgundy. The new Harry Potter movie was opening at midnight, and they had picked up tickets a week in advance.

2005 December 8, Brooke Nevils, “Brining Potter’s lessons to campus”, in The Johns Hopkins University News-Letter, volume CX, number 13, the students of The Johns Hopkins University, page B4, column 1:

A visit to any favourite legal drinking den, El Vino’s, say, in Blackfriars, Daly’s Wine Bar on the Strand, or Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese beside Gough Square, confirms immediately the peculiar Harry Potterish sociality of the Bar – its abiding clubbishness which confirms belonging while also asserting exclusion.

2006, Hywel Williams, Britain’s Power Elites: The Rebirth of a Ruling Class, London: Constable, →ISBN, page 130:

It was where the Glomerels studied Glomery – no, I’m not making this up but it does sound Harry Potterish (or the other way round) – which was a corruption of grammarye or Latin grammar.

2006, Benedict le Vay, Eccentric Cambridge: The Bradt City Guide, Bradt Travel Guides; The Globe Pequot Press, →ISBN, page 116:

“Do not name him. He knows when his name is spoken and seeks out the speaker.” Jack had heard this before. It struck him as Harry Potterish, but he respected the sources and so he abided.

2006, Francis Paul Wilson, Harbingers, New York, N.Y.: Forge, →ISBN, page 81:

I, of course, did not tell Kenneth what I’d done – burning his letter at a wayside shrine – because in some Harry Potterish way he could have made a counter curse to that, too.

2007, Marianne Faithfull, Memories, Dreams & Reflections, London: Fourth Estate, →ISBN, page 53:

I looked up to find an arc of almost-teens around me in Harry Potterish garb. A couple of adults appeared, in robes, pointed hats, and affected accents, beckoning the children to follow closely through this “dangerous” space.

2007 August 9–15, “The war on fun: “Family-friendly” is really a code word for “adult-hostile””, in See Magazine, number 715, page 7, column 3:

Pitch it right to the children, and ‘Taking a walk through a graveyard’ takes on a Harry Potterish aura, and Ireland offers you plenty of chances to do just that.

2008, Terry Marsh, Frommer’s Ireland with your Family: From Vibrant Towns to Picnic Perfect Countryside, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 5, column 1:

I flung out one hand at them. I didn’t have time to think of catchy phrases. No Die Hardish Yippee ki yay motherfuckers or Harry Potterish wand waving Or Bewitched inspired nose twitches.

2009, Leigh Bridger, Soul Catcher, Bell Bridge Books, →ISBN, page 100:

The only thing that keeps me from sheer madness is that Mr. Specter looks like a wizard. He has a severe comb-over of thin, dyed red hair and long yellow teeth. I’d love to leap up, stick my pencil out like a wand and yell something Harry Potterish, like, “Expelliderus!”

2010, Mary Hanlon Stone, Invisible Girl, Philomel Books, →ISBN, page 193:

Buildings date back to 1924 (when they were home to the local senior girls school) consequently there is lots of wood-panelling (slightly Harry Potterish feel to some of it) but, more importantly, lots of dedicated space.

2010, The Good Schools Guide, 15th edition, Lucas Publications, →ISBN, pages 1501–1502:

MapQuest displays it in a place where I’m sure no street exists. The Harry Potterish mystery has a boring resolution; an apartment building called Sheldon Court sits where, presumably, a cul de sac of that name once existed.

2010 September 20, David Guaspari, “Republicans in Ithaca”, in The Weekly Standard, volume 16, number 1, page 19, column 2:

At least one critic has complained that this is a Harry Potterish portrayal of Death, and I must admit that from time to time I found myself wishing this Death had a bit more edge.

2011, Steve Rasnic Tem, “Death and The Book Thief by Markus Zusak”, in Danel Olson, editor, 21st-Century Gothic: Great Gothic Novels since 2000, The Scarecrow Press, Inc., →ISBN, page 45:

As it was the platform number for the Ardrossan train was given as 11A. That sounded a little Harry Potterish to me but there really was such a platform. I have to report that it was far from magical.

2011, Craig Stevenson, John Mackay, The Cheap Way Round, East Kilbride: Cheapwayround Publishers, →ISBN, page 78:

Tegmark’s story sounds a bit like something I read in one of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter books. In fact, much of what you’re about to read concerning the multiverse will seem a bit Harry Potterish. You will find it stretching your imagination. A few of the multiverse concepts described in this book are perhaps as fictitious as the Harry Potter series, […] This little apparent loophole in energy conservation provides a strange, Harry Potterish avenue to an understanding of the forces of nature via a theoretical framework known as quantum field theory.

2011, Steven Manly, Visions of the Multiverse, Pompton Plains, N.J.: New Page Books, →ISBN, pages 21–22 and 93:

Resembling or characteristic of the Harry Potter series.

That bespectacled, Harry Potterish face, frowning earnestly at the assorted jumble of Ben’s computer, stirred the soppiest memories in my breast of the days when my son had himself been just such a pink-cheeked cherub.

2002, Kate Fenton, Picking Up, Flame, →ISBN, page 104:

His dark brown hair was all over the shop, sticking out in tufts, and his spectacles were Harry Potterish.

2003, Jill Mansell, Falling for You, Headline Review, →ISBN, page 80:

I know about projectile vomiting because L—one of my brothers, the Harry Potterish one—had it when he was a baby.

2004, Nicola Morgan, Chicken Friend, Cambridge, Mass.: Candlewick Press, published 2005, →ISBN, page 40:

Tina points to a Harry Potterish lightning bolt on her chin.

2006, Mary Hogan, Susanna Sees Stars, Delacorte Press, published 2007, →ISBN, page 199:

These were round, Harry Potterish, horn-rimmed glasses of zero prescription which increasingly strengthened as you pumped a clear gel solution attached to the frame inside the glass.

2007, Robert D[avid] Kaplan, Hog Pilots, Blue Water Grunts: The American Military in the Air, at Sea, and on the Ground, New York, N.Y.: Random House, →ISBN, page 307:

He was tall, reed-thin in a heavy coat, and absurdly Harry Potterish with round glasses and an owlish gaze.

2009, Noel Hynd, Countdown in Cairo (The Russian Trilogy; 3), Zondervan, →ISBN, page 365:

The core Tangent group would be joined for the next four nights by the visiting crew from Jo’burg: […] Juan the make-up man, surprisingly (and disappointingly, for Guy at least, as he was tall and rather gorgeous in a Harry Potterish way) straight.

2009, Tarras Wilding, Leopard Rock, Little Black Dress, →ISBN, page 115:

He was maybe a fifth- or sixth-grader. Kind of early Harry Potterish. Short and skinny. Glasses. Short, dark hair that cowlicked in the back.

2010, Susan Fletcher, Ancient, Strange, and Lovely (The Dragon Chronicles), Atheneum Books for Young Readers, →ISBN, page 181:

It was him, only more so. The curls were wilder and darker. The glasses were not as Harry Potterish.

2011, Angie Smibert, Memento Nora, Marshall Cavendish, →ISBN, page 28:

Resembling or characteristic of the fictional character Harry Potter.


ma troi

will o' the wisp (in Vietnamese folklore)


ma gia

(Vietnamese folklore) The murderous ghost of an unrecovered drowned person, trying to drown travelers and capsize boats.


ma lai

A type of evil spirit of Vietnamese folklore


Potteresque

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A young teen who reads Rowling’s books, for example, might seek a Potteresque type of excitement by joining the London-based Ordo Anno Mundi (OAM), a sect of occultists who practice Ophidian Witchcraft (i.e., serpent-venerating). Like Hogwarts, which takes its wizards through seven years of training, the OAM has seven degrees of “Magical Training” that include classes strikingly similar to those offered at Hogwarts: […]

2001, Richard Abanes, Harry Potter and the Bible: The Menace behind the Magick, Camp Hill, Pa.: Horizon Books, →ISBN, pages 126–127:

Joanne was delighted at the choice of Daniel as she was with the ten-year-old Emma Watson and eleven-year-old Rupert Grint – a Potteresque name if ever there was one – to play Hermione and Ron.

2001, Sean Smith, J. K. Rowling: A Biography, Michael O’Mara Books Limited, →ISBN, page 178:

Marketing is inherently mysterious, and we forget this at our peril. It is mysterious not only in the sense that we still don’t know how advertising works, why Potteresque fads and crazes occur, or what the marketing philosophy is, exactly.

2005, Stephen Brown, Wizard!: Harry Potter’s Brand Magic (Great Brand Stories), Cyan Books, →ISBN, page 175:

Later in the day (hopefully after a solid night’s sleep, rather than any Potteresque nocturnal adventures) the children will return to the Great Hall of the castle for a Hogwarts-style banquet.

2005 June, Tanya Brown, “UK Report”, in Chronicle, number 260, DNA Publications, Inc., page 30, column 3:

GRYFFINDOR GRUNGE: Joe and Paul’s Potteresque style gets kids listening.

2005 June 6, Rachel Deahl, “Wizards Of Rock”, in Express (a publication of The Washington Post), page 16:

If live-action debutant Andrew Adamson and his team can spin the numbers right, a franchise is born of Potter'''esque proportions that will make the Rings look like a quota quickie.

2006 April, Nick Lowe, “Mutant Popcorn”, in Interzone, number 203, page 68, column 1:

The Grey School of Wizardry website has a number of very Potteresque features, including the ‘Magick Alley’ site from which textbooks and school equipment may be purchased. Although this is a virtual site, it is conceptually similar to Diagon Alley (‘diagonally’) in Harry Potter’s parallel London, where wands and robes, spell ingredients and companion animals (usually owls and cats, but sometimes rats and toads) can be purchased.

2010, Carole M. Cusack, Invented Religions: Imagination, Fiction and Faith, Ashgate Publishing, →ISBN, page 76:

Parents can expect to pay £20,000 for their children to board at the school and former pupils have the marvellously Potteresque name of Old Dragons.

2011, David Nolan, Emma Watson: The Biography, John Blake, →ISBN, page 5:

In his own adventures Buslaev’s world seems less Potteresque; like Volkov before him, Yemets started with an imported fictional world but, having grown confident from working with it, is taking it in a different direction from the one chosen by its original creator.

2011, Aaron Schwabach, Fan Fiction and Copyright: Outsider Works and Intellectual Property Protection, Ashgate Publishing, →ISBN, page 121:

The story was illustrated by Joe Kubert, best known for his work on the DC Comics character Sgt. Rock, and set at a Potteresque school, where instructors with names like Professor Rumbledoore teach army officers about the proper maintenance of magical equipment, including a flying jeep.

2011, Richard Lukas Graham, Government Issue: Comics for the People, 1940s–2000s, New York, N.Y.: Abrams ComicArts, →ISBN, pages 90–91:

Other scenes set at Hogwarts were filmed in the magnificent medieval cloisters, while some of the impressive statues in the abbey’s grand hall have a distinct Potteresque feel.

2011, Great Breaks: Bath, Insight Guides, →ISBN, page 72:

Resembling or characteristic of the Harry Potter series of seven fantasy novels written by British author J. K. Rowling.


Hogwartsian

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These days she spends about 20 to 25 hours a week on the site, which features discussion groups as well as stories archived into four houses, a predictably Hogwartsian touch.

2004 June 4, Connie Ogle, “Harry loves Draco? Only in fan fiction”, in The Miami Herald, 101st year, number 264, page 2A:

An intense setting: high ceilings, darkened wood, portraits of glowering white men in muttonchops and morning dress, a clock stopped perpetually at 9:36. All very Hogwartsian.

2005 March 31, Dana Haynes, “No classes teach leadership skills to legislators, teachers”, in Statesman Journal, volume 153, number 2, page 1C:

Faithfully adapted from the first of C.S. Lewis’ seven Narnia books, which introduces the four Pevensie siblings, sent to the country to avoid the London blitz of World War II, this tale of ordinary schoolchildren finding their inner courage to help out a land of talking fauns, foxes, satyrs and dwarfs combines the Middle-Earthian mythology of The Lord of the Rings with the Hogwartsian heroism (and kid malevolence) of the Harry Potter series.

2005 December 9, Steven Rea, “Fantasy fulfilled?”, in The Philadelphia Inquirer, 177th year, number 192, page W22:

The chapel and the Gothic Upper Dining Room, with its high, vaulted ceiling, were positively Hogwartsian.

2006 January, Alex Shoumatoff, “A Private-School Affair”, in Vanity Fair, page 146, column 2:

They give a better feel for the colleges as students talk about whatever makes their school unique: for example, Yale’s Hogwartsian residential college system or Princeton’s notorious eating clubs.

2006 February 25, Rachel Wolf, “Tour a college from your home DVD player”, in The Idaho Statesman, 141st year, 215th issue, section “Life”, page 2:

We’ll play games and do Hogwartsian crafts and other activities guaranteed to please Muggles.

2007 June 22, Kenosha News, Kenosha, Wis., page B1:

We have lunch together in our college’s Hogwartsian dining hall, where we discuss the evils of investment banking.

2008 October 23, David Scripps, “Diary of a Fresher”, in The Independent, number 6,872, section “Education”, page 3:

Russell went last summer and describes it as a Hogwartsian nirvana: four days of music with 12 to 14 major bands, including The Remus Lupins, on the main stage.

2009 July 12, Jackie Burrell, “Wrock and Rowling: Harry Potter-inspired bands are sweeping the country”, in Oakland Tribune, volume 135, number 142, page D4:

Elphaba is shunned by the other students at a Hogwartsian sorcery school called Shiz University, while the prom-queen perky Galinda rules the roost.

2010 September 4, Don Aucoin, “‘Wicked’ tough to beat, as is its star”, in The Boston Globe, volume 278, number 66, page G5:

About the time Asriel decides to take off for the northern polar regions in search of the source of this stuff, the glamorous Mrs. Coulter (blazingly blond Nicole Kidman) arrives on the scene, making a runway entrance into a vast university dining hall that’s so blatantly Hogwartsian, you half expect to see Albus Dumbledore go tottering by.

2011, Kurt Loder, The Good, the Bad and the Godawful: 21st-Century Movie Reviews, New York, N.Y.: Thomas Dunne Books, →ISBN, pages 6–7:

Privilege gives the reader a peek inside the 2,000-acre St. Paul’s campus, with its beautiful grounds and Hogwartsian great hall, its dress codes, its social life, its rituals and rules.

2011 February 17–23, The Hippo, HippoPress, page 45:

The wand was a stunning piece of Hogwartsian work.

2011 July 15, Brent Northup, “Queue ball”, in Independent Record, page 10A:

The large campus of Sydney Uni dominates the suburbs on the city’s western flank. While its Hogwartsian stone walls may suggest primness and properness, that’s quite far from the reality of Sydney student life.

2012, Peter Dragicevich, Pocket Sydney, Lonely Planet, →ISBN, page 12:

Until today Prince had been her favorite refuge, a Hogwartsian womb of vaulted ceilings and dark-wood wainscoting.

2012, Harry Mazer, Peter Lerangis, Somebody, Please Tell Me Who I Am, Scholastic Inc., published 2013, →ISBN, page 88:

The cozy Hogwartsian set piece I discovered inside was perfection. A hundred-year-old shop, complete with stone mantel and wood-burning fireplace, was out of a dream. And books, books, books, old, new, piled high. There was almost a whiff of magic, though nothing sinister, just charmed.

2012, Jill Kargman, The Rock Star in Seat 3A, William Morrow, →ISBN, page 176:

Newell, who directed the fourth Harry Potter film, has given this adaptation a definite Hogwartsian aura: along with flickering gothic lighting and tilted camera angles.

2012 October 6, Robbie Collin, “Where Oscar winners play”, in The Daily Telegraph, number 48,944, page R6:

Grace needed no bribes to get right in on the fun of our ceremony, and immediately adopted a faux-serious British accent to give a Hogwartsian dignity to the proceedings.

2013, Launa Schweizer, Home Away: A Year of Misapprehensions, Transformations, and Rosé at Lunch, →ISBN, page 259:

He displays a refreshingly old-fashioned patience with exposition, slowly developing the characters and unveiling the fantastical milieu so that by the time you end up in a Hogwartsian underworld complete with leatherbound spell books and gothic statuary, you’re having too much fun not to buy in.

2013 February 15, Kerry Lengel, “‘Beautiful Creatures’ a smart goth fantasy”, in The Town Talk, page D1:

There also is tacky stuff that just shouldn’t be there: reproduction fantasy-art in a fake Hogwartsian gallery and dull talking-head videos by film producers, for instance.

2013 May 3, Rosemary Ponnekanti, “Fantasy eye candy at EMP”, in The News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash., page 22:

If you’ve attended First Night events at the Pythian Temple, you’ll have gone through the enormous studded Hogwartsian doors at 924 ½ Broadway.

2014 February 14, Rosemary Ponnekanti, “Knights of Pythias open their house”, in The News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash., page 9:

Come to the Hogwartsian pleasures of Universal’s Islands of Adventure.

The Irish insurgent leader Don Dermutio was placed in the tender care of an inquisitor with the wonderfully Hogwartsian name of William Malefant.

2015, Des Ekin, The Last Armada: Queen Elizabeth, Juan del Águila, and Hugh O’Neill: The Story of the 100-Day Spanish Invasion, New York, N.Y., London: Pegasus Books, published 2016, →ISBN, page 150:

According to McKnight, attendees included “a Turkish exchange student, an Anglican female priest,” and a dishwasher from Merge restaurant who sewed a Hogwartsian cape for himself out of a tablecloth.

2015 February 8, Colin Dabkowski, “Dreamland taps into Buffalo’s creative underground”, in The Buffalo News, page D2:

To openly fantasize about the "fairy tale" (Calloway's word) of studying at a Hogwartsian institution where everyone's accent is pleasant is, as they would say in Cambridge, pretty cringe.

2015 September 2, Lauren Oyler, “Cambridge's Most Controversial Instagram Celebrity Gets the Last Laugh”, in Vice, archived from the original on 2020-11-12:

One overcast morning, a spring tease in the air, I hop the tube to King’s Cross Station, then walk a few hundred yards to the university’s Hogwartsian campus.

2016, Eric Weiner, The Geography of Genius: Lessons from the World’s Most Creative Places, Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, →ISBN, page 3:

Join us before the concert at 3pm for a Halloween party featuring sonic sorcery, our beloved costume contest and all other manner of Hogwartsian fun.

2016 October 23, The Courier, volume 158, number 250, page F5:

There’s something delightful about the idea of dressing up for dinner and sitting in assigned seats in the dining hall, like back in the days of yore, or at Hogwarts. […] Instead, I sat with the baseball team, which was about as un-Hogwartsian as it got.

2017, Bill Konigsberg, chapter 6, in Honestly Ben, Arthur A. Levine Books, →ISBN, page 37:

Notwithstanding all the colourful pomp and ceremony, regardless of the yah-boo drama of Prime Minister’s Questions, our Parliament is fundamentally dysfunctional and outdated, a Hogwartsian institution that, most of the time, is toothless to stop the government of the day doing what it likes.

2017, Nick Clegg, How To Stop Brexit (And Make Britain Great Again), London: The Bodley Head, →ISBN, page 89:

Alpha60’s signature store is hidden within the Hogwartsian chapter house of St Paul’s Cathedral, where fresh, casual women’s clothing is displayed on a phalanx of mannequins while giant projections of roosters keep watch.

2017, Kate Morgan, Kate Armstrong, Cristian Bonetto, Peter Dragicevich, Trent Holden, Melbourne & Victoria, 10th edition, Lonely Planet, →ISBN, page 127, column 1:

Tuition is a steep $49,500 per year, on a par with other boarding schools, although you won’t find a Hogwartsian dining hall or stacks of leather-bound books.

2017, Florence Williams, The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative, New York, N.Y., London: W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 226:

At the Biblioteca Palafoxiana, which UNESCO says may have been the first public library in the Americas, founded in 1646, I lingered under the arched ceilings, wondering how to say “Hogwartsian” in Spanish.

2018 March 18, Christopher Reynolds, “Prides of Puebla”, in Los Angeles Times, page L4:

The night of the ceremony arrived, and I co-hosted an Oscar party in one of Harvard’s Hogwartsian common rooms while nervously anticipating the results.

2019, Ben Zauzmer, Oscarmetrics: The Math Behind the Biggest Night in Hollywood, BearManor Media, →ISBN, page x:

He breaks the bad news with a sweet paternal touch and enrols the orphan in his Hogwartsian school for precocious mutants.

2019 June 7, Matthew Norman, “Let’s hope this phoenix never rises from the ashes”, in Evening Standard, page 28:

The stage itself is sparse, save for a few retracting door frames and Hogwartsian lamps that hang from the ceiling, flickering luminously.

2019 November 24, Tim Balk, “Audience gets into spirit of ‘Carol’”, in Daily News, page 22:

Think X-Men but without the safety of Charles Xavier’s Hogwartsian boarding school.

2019 December 6, Chris Knight, “Powered to the people”, in Montreal Gazette, page C6:

(comparable) Resembling or characteristic of Hogwarts.

Resembling or characteristic of Hogwarts.

> > And now you're killfiled by *me* as well. / > > / > > / Since this *is* a Harry Potter newsgroup, how about making the public plonkings more in line with "Hogwartsian English?" Instead of just a simple "plonk," how about: Anatha Keplonka!

2003 February 17, Patrick Newman, “Next Dark arts teacher”, in alt.fan.harry-potter (Usenet):

Harry is chosen to compete along with a Hogwartsian upperclassman, a French enchantress and a Bulgarian bruiser.

2005 November 25, David DiCerto, “‘Goblet’ full of action, suspense”, in The Catholic News & Herald, volume 15, number 8, page 10:

We discussed all things Hogwartsian with giddy kids in costumes—capes, round black spectacles and lightning-bolt scars drawn on foreheads—until the moment came when we could claim three pre-ordered copies and dash home.

2011 July 18, Ruth Ann Dailey, “To adore the Potter saga is only human”, in Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, volume 84, number 352, page A-2:

The Year of Harry Potter at the library starts on Thursday, Sept. 15, at 6:30 p.m., an all age’s book group devoted the^([sic]) discussion of Hogwartsian plotlines.

2016 September 1, Hartford Courant, volume CLXXX, number 245, page 11:

The first thing I did was to spread out the letters from Augusta on our sofa, photograph them and send him a ceremonial video, prim, with a thick British accent. You could imagine the Harry Potter vibes of a first Hogwartsian letter.

2018 April 5, Vandini Sharma, “The Masters through the eyes of a 16-year-old from India”, in Princeton Daily Clarion, volume 171, number 169, page B8:

On Friday, England’s West Midlands Police tweeted a callout to Harry Potter fans: Should they see a notecard covered front-to-back in handwritten Hogwartsian lore, they should alert authorities. The paper is a valuable Harry Potter prequel written and auctioned off by J.K. Rowling that was stolen from its owner during a burglary in Birmingham, England, three weeks ago.

2017 May 12, Maddie Crum, “J.K. Rowling’s Mysterious, Handwritten 'Harry Potter' Prequel Has Been Stolen”, in HuffPost, archived from the original on 2023-04-17:

(not comparable) Of or relating to Hogwarts.


놀량

opening song of 경기입창 (京畿立唱, gyeonggiipchang, “Korean traditional stand-up song sung in Gyeonggi”), characterized by a slow, wide-ranging melody with a lot of high-pitched singing and falsetto, and an unremarkable introductory melody that sets the tone


star base

(science fiction) Alternative form of starbase


fankind

From fan + -kind, possible punning on mankind.

As most of you are, I'm sure, award, Harry [Broertjes] and his LEGION OUTPOST are well known throughout fankind.

(science fiction fandom slang) Fans collectively.


fanarchistic

fanarchistic (comparative more fanarchistic, superlative most fanarchistic)

more fanarchistic (comparative)
most fanarchistic (superlative)

From fanarchist (“a fan who rejects organized fandom, often as being motivated by anarchist thought”) + -ic.

suf

I am particularly struck with your underlying attitude that all these projects must be sponsored by the NFFF or some similar organization in order to be successful. Now I realise that my own personal fanarchistic attitude may perhaps be coloring my views, but I honestly cannot see the utility of the NFFF in such a connection.

1944, F. T. Laney, Fan-Dango, volume 2, number 3, page 9:

(science fiction fandom slang) Characteristic of a fanarchist; rejecting organized fandom.


fanarchist

During the 1950s Dave was active in the Fanarchist crowd—those largely New York fans who avoided both fannish and mundane politics on the grounds that fanning should be fun.

1975 February, John Boardman, “In Memoriam: David Mason”, in Science Fiction Review, volume 4, number 1, page 13:

(science fiction fandom slang) A fan who rejects organized fandom, often as being motivated by anarchist thought.


gyrocab

They were not there waiting for her, after all. She came upon them getting out of a gyrocab just as she emerged from the tubes a on to street level. The gyrocabbie, wide-eyed, gazed after his fares for a moment, then hovered upward and away.

1951, Isaac Asimov, “Hostess”, in Nightfall and Other Stories, Green City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., published 1969, page 76:


She-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named

Coined as an ironic reference to the nickname "He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named" used by characters who fear speaking Lord Voldemort's name within Rowling's Harry Potter series.

Depending on who you ask, JK Rowling is either a heroine of free speech or She Who Must Not Be Named.

2021 July 28, Charlotte Runcie, “JK Rowling is more than just a Twitter talking point”, in The Telegraph:

Witchcraft and wizardry have been the subject of fascination for centuries—just look at the success of a certain magical franchise written by She Who Must Not Be Named.

2022, Josie Anne Gaitens, “Witch Hunt”, in Reykjavík Grapevine, number 5, page 30:

I used to worship She Who Must Not Be Named of Harry Potter before she started using her platform to peddle a bunch of harmful garbage.

2022 December 14, Prerana Srikantappa, quoting Robbie Crouch, “Robbie Crouch”, in Vulkan, page 83:

(slang, derogatory) The author J. K. Rowling, when viewed as villainous for her espousal of gender-critical or anti-transgender views.

Harry Potter
J. K. Rowling
Lord Voldemort


무악

Sino-Korean word from 巫樂, from 巫 (“shaman”) + 樂 (“music”).


helicab

She'd insisted on creeping out of a back exit and we took three different helicabs.

1999, Phyllis Gotlieb, Violent Stars, New York, N.Y.: Tor Books, →ISBN, page 182:

(science fiction) A helicopter used as a taxicab.


groundlubber

So might I ask just what exactly groundlubbers like you are doing in the Roofdom?

2007, China Miéville, Un Lun Dun, London: Macmillan Children's Books, →ISBN, page 86:

(science fiction, derogatory) Someone who does not regularly travel to space.


glassite

One of those cyclopean cylinders could, conceivably, miss the guiding beam and crash half a mile from its expected landing point—through the glassite roof of the immense waiting room perhaps—so that only a thin organic vapor and some powdered phosphates would be left behind to mark the passing of a thousand men.

1953, Isaac Asimov, Second Foundation, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, page 135:

(science fiction) A fictional material, typically described as being transparent like glass.


holocam

He kept up his cheerful demeanor. It wouldn't do for any of the holocams to see him looking irritable, for any recordings of such a response would appear on the news broadcasts.

2009 April 12, Aaron Allston, Outcast, New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 27:

(science fiction) A device capable of capturing three-dimensional images in the form of a hologram.


gravitied

heavily-gravitied

non-gravitied

(in compounds) Having a specified type or strength of gravity.

It was designed to be accessible while in a gravitied environment, thankfully, even if far too many of the other amenities on board this class of ship were dependent on a lack of gravity to easily access.

2016, Jean Johnson, Blockade: First Salik War, New York, N.Y.: Ace Books, →ISBN, page 95:


groundside

Even then she gave them quite a battle. It was like a pair of minnows landing a four-foot bass, but they hauled her down and booted her groundside with a skill that eventually got the two pilots a citation.

1951 November, Paul W[arren] Fairman, “Proud Asteroid”, in Amazing Stories, volume 25, number 11, page 46:

(science fiction) Towards or on the surface of a planet.


gravitics

I scan the Imperial Journal of Physics and the Borshallan Physics Review every day. Nobody's doing comparable work. They're all concerned with gravitics and field dynamics.

2014 October, Don Sakers, Children of the Eighth Day, Linthicum, M.D.: Speed-of-C Productions, →ISBN, page 186:

The fictional science of studying and controlling gravity.

I'll adjust the computer to our assigned radio beam and it can use the gravitics to mimic conventional flight.

1982, Isaac Asimov, Foundation's Edge, London, […]: Grafton Books, →ISBN, page 213:

Devices able to control gravity or gravitational waves, considered collectively.


hubward

en-adv

hubward (comparative more hubward, superlative most hubward)

more hubward (comparative)
most hubward (superlative)

From hub (“the central part of a wheel”) + -ward.

suf

At 1700 station time, he headed hubward to where Captain Arran Syke, formerly captain of Mother Ramona's private guard, now head of Crossways Militia, had his office.

2017 October, Jacey Bedford, Nimbus: A Psi-Tech Novel, New York: DAW Books, →ISBN, page 55:

(science fiction) Towards the center (of a rotating spaceship or space station).


groundcar

This had footpaths worn into it alongside the buildings, while its centre had been tiled level with slabs of hard white ceramic to carry the few groundcars here.

2015, Neal Asher, Dark Intelligence, London: Pan Books, →ISBN, page 368:

(science fiction) A car unable to fly (as opposed to a flying car).


Paramaribop

Paramaribop, a jazz fusion style from Paramaribo, Suriname


wishalloy

A hypothetical material that would have certain desirable properties, but is not known to exist.


Darth Vaderish

en-adj

Darth Vaderish (comparative more Darth Vaderish, superlative most Darth Vaderish)

more Darth Vaderish (comparative)
most Darth Vaderish (superlative)

From the Darth Vaderish heavy breathing that opens this show to the whooping and ooga-booga caveman gibberish, whistling chimes, and seductive African percussion, Levine’s score is a trash compacter powered by pure silliness.

1983 May 24, David Edelstein, “Man out to lunch”, in The Boston Phoenix, section three, page 3, column 4:

In our actual practice in daily life and thought, though, we are all fuzzies, even we economists, however glinty and Darth Vaderish we think we are made by mastery of the identification problem and the Kuhn-Tucker conditions.

1985, Donald N. McCloskey, The Rhetoric of Economics, The University of Wisconsin Press, →ISBN, page 51:

I had just opened the rear door when out the corner of my eye I began to get an inkling maybe somebody had figured where Cifelli had an office as a very Darth Vaderish black-windowed sedan slid into view, the windows slowly lowering.

1991, Stan Cutler, The Face on the Cutting Room Floor, Signet, published 1993, →ISBN, page 14:

Resembling or characteristic of Darth Vader.


visiplate

The glare of a searchlight splashed against his visiplates. Simultaneously, the ship jumped like some toy that had been struck an intolerable blow.

1940, A[lfred] E[lton] van Vogt, Slan, Garden City, N.Y.: Nelson Doubleday, Inc., published 1946, page 101:

(science fiction) An electronic screen capable of displaying images or data.


viewplate

Then the skeleton flitter moved to the left—out into the glare of the early day, a light too bright, even through the shielded viewplates of his helmet.

1956, Andrew North [pseudonym; Andre Norton], Plague Ship, New York, N.Y.: Gnome Press, page 146:

(science fiction, now rare) An electronic screen capable of displaying images or data.


visiscreen

An image of Abby appeared on visiscreens at the front of the room.

2010, David Gregory, The Last Christian, Waterville, M.E.: Thorndike Press, →ISBN, page 611:


visiphone

During the late 21st century, the wide-spread use of portable voice-activated interactive computers and visiphones brought communications to their zenith.

2010, Eileen Siedman, The Faithful: 23rd Century Morality: A Mystery Novel, Bloomington, I.N.: Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 25:

(science fiction, dated) A telephone capable of making video calls.


visiphone

en-verb

visiphone (third-person singular simple present visiphones, present participle visiphoning, simple past and past participle visiphoned)

visiphones (present singular third-person)
visiphoning (participle present)
visiphoned (participle past)
visiphoned (past)

"Plum, try viziphoning them." / Plum pushed a key and said, "CQ, this is the starship Shillelagh of the Asteroid Federation, calling CQ."

1987, Thomas R. McDonough, The Architects of Hyperspace, New York, N.Y.: Avon, →ISBN:

(science fiction, dated) To call someone using a visiphone.


ultrawave

There were short intervals between the reports, for ultrawaves, though traveling at the speed of light, still needed some time to span the tremendous distance.

1969, K[arl] H[erbert] Scheer, Walter Ernsting, translated by Wendayne Ackerman, Enterprise Stardust, London: Severn House, published 1977, →ISBN, page 28:

A type of radiation, often described as allowing for faster-than-light communication.

Of course, the radio signals came through on the ultrawave every so often, but the pep-talk description of the thrilling contest for endurance racing didn't mean much when I put it up against the facts.

1975, Lester del Rey, “Habit”, in Early Del Rey, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., →ISBN, page 41:

A device capable of receiving or producing ultrawaves.


transhumanity

From transhuman + -ity or trans- + humanity.

It was a way, Sean, of interrogating our very humanity—and our transhumanity; a way of enquiring what we might change into. That's the only possible true deep reason for colonization.

1980, Ian Watson, The Gardens of Delight, London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, →ISBN, page 163:


starway

I slept peacefully that night, dreaming of cruising the starways with Andrea. The next morning, I awoke feeling reinvigorated, revitalised, and many years younger.

2015, Frank George, Time's Well: A Chronicle in Three Parts, Bloomington, I.N.: AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 23:

(science fiction) A route or pathway between stars.


spacehound

"I'll be very glad to show you around," he said, "but I must confess I was a little surprised when Rupert passed on your request. I couldn't understand why one of you spacehounds should be interested in our work. Aren't you going in the wrong direction?"

1953, Arthur C[harles] Clarke, Childhood's End, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., →OCLC, page 116:

(science fiction, now rare) A person experienced in space travel.


starfleet

I couldn't sense net-based operations behind the doors, but if the records were correct, Ell Control had once been the central operations focus for the starfleets of the Rebuilt Hegemony, and had hummed with activity.

1996, L[eland] E[xton] Modesitt Jr., Adiamante, New York, N.Y.: Tor Books, →ISBN, page 63:


spaceboat

Compound of space + boat, modelled after spaceship.

Twelve robot spaceboats emerged from the midst of the retreating armada and streaked toward the glowing bubble, which was expanding more rapidly.

1996, Julian May, Magnificat, London: Pan Books, published 1997, →ISBN, page 551:


spacegram

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-spacegram.wav

From space + -gram (“something written, drawn or otherwise recorded”).

suf

Several times during their work and breaks to eat, Versha had received spacegrams or messages through the comcaller.

2006, Andre Norton, Lyn McConchie, Beast Master's Quest, New York, N.Y.: Tor Books, →ISBN, page 65:

(science fiction) A short written message physically sent through space.


spacegram

en-verb

spacegram (third-person singular simple present spacegrams, present participle spacegramming, simple past and past participle spacegrammed)

spacegrams (present singular third-person)
spacegramming (participle present)
spacegrammed (participle past)
spacegrammed (past)

"We'll spacegram the specifications as soon as this call is finished," said Jerry. "How soon can we have a shipment?"

1952 March, Kendell Foster Crossen, “Things of Distinction”, in Startling Stories, volume 25, number 2, page 115:

(transitive, intransitive, science fiction) To send by spacegram.


saucerman

To convince Sam Arkoff to put House of Usher — a film devoid of atomic mutants, bug-eyed saucermen, werewolves, vampires and other poster-friendly manifestations of the fifties' sci-fi boom — into production, Roger Corman had famously informed the joint head of American International that the house was the monster.

2003, Denis Meikle, Vincent Price: The Art of Fear, London: Reynolds & Hearn Ltd, →ISBN, page 76:

(science fiction) Someone who travels in a flying saucer.


spindizzy

From spin + dizzy. The science fiction sense was coined by American author James Blish in 1950 for the Cities in Flight series of books (published 1950–1962).

coinage

So the twin scientific themes of the first book are the development of antigravity technology called spindizzies that enable whole cities to lift into space, and the production of "anti-agathic" drugs that can extend life indefinitely, necessary for the immense journey times in interstellar space.

[2014, Brian Clegg, Final Frontier: The Pioneering Science and Technology of Exploring the Universe, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 26:

(science fiction) An anti-gravity propulsion system capable of faster-than-light travel, powered by the hypothetical Blackett effect.


shapechange

en-verb

shapechange (third-person singular simple present shapechanges, present participle shapechanging, simple past and past participle shapechanged)

shapechanges (present singular third-person)
shapechanging (participle present)
shapechanged (participle past)
shapechanged (past)

He clapped the big man on the shoulder and quickly left. In the shadows of the bridge he shapechanged and headed for Greenvale.

2004, Keri Arthur, Generation 18, London: Piatkus, published 2009, →ISBN, page 161:

(science fiction, fantasy) To shapeshift.


shapechange

I watched Michael's face and asked, "Why was he there then? I'd have put down money that it was a demon, but it was just a shapechange. There was a mortal inside it. Who was he?"

2003, Jim Butcher, Death Masks, New York, N.Y.: Roc Books, →ISBN, page 78:

(science fiction, fantasy) An instance of shapechanging.


spacewrecked

To relieve the solitude of the spacewrecked crew, they decide to send presents, which they wrapped in layers of paper that would burn up in the atmosphere, leaving the contents intact.

2000, Giovanni Caprara, translated by David Climie, Living in Space: From Science Fiction to the International Space Station, Toronto, O.N., Buffalo, N.Y.: Firefly Books, →ISBN, page 11:

(science fiction) Having been wrecked in space.


starfarer

In many ways, it was lucky for starfarers that the same basic DNA code and biochemistry had been found on placets all over the known galaxy, for it meant that habitable environments and edible foods were easy to find.

2017, Christopher L. Bennett, Patterns of Interference, New York, N.Y. […]: Pocket Books, →ISBN, pages 150–151:

(science fiction) Someone who travels between stars.


təkbuynuz

az-noun

təkbuynuz (definite accusative təkbuynuzu, plural təkbuynuzlar)

təkbuynuzu (accusative definite)
təkbuynuzlar (plural)
təkbuynuz (nominative singular)
təkbuynuzlar (nominative plural)
təkbuynuzu (accusative definite singular)
təkbuynuzları (accusative definite plural)
təkbuynuza (dative singular)
təkbuynuzlara (dative plural)
təkbuynuzda (locative singular)
təkbuynuzlarda (locative plural)
təkbuynuzdan (ablative singular)
təkbuynuzlardan (ablative plural)
təkbuynuzun (definite genitive singular)
təkbuynuzların (definite genitive plural)
təkbuynuzum (first-person nominative possessed-single possessive singular)
təkbuynuzlarım (first-person nominative possessed-many possessive singular)
təkbuynuzun (nominative possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
təkbuynuzların (nominative possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
təkbuynuzu (nominative possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
təkbuynuzları (nominative possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
təkbuynuzumuz (first-person nominative plural possessed-single possessive)
təkbuynuzlarımız (first-person nominative plural possessed-many possessive)
təkbuynuzunuz (nominative plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
təkbuynuzlarınız (nominative plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
təkbuynuzu (nominative plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
təkbuynuzları (nominative plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
təkbuynuzları (nominative plural possessed-many possessive third-person)
təkbuynuzumu (accusative first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
təkbuynuzlarımı (accusative first-person possessed-many possessive singular)
təkbuynuzunu (accusative possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
təkbuynuzlarını (accusative possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
təkbuynuzunu (accusative possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
təkbuynuzlarını (accusative possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
təkbuynuzumuzu (accusative first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
təkbuynuzlarımızı (accusative first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
təkbuynuzunuzu (accusative plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
təkbuynuzlarınızı (accusative plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
təkbuynuzunu (accusative plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
təkbuynuzlarını (accusative plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
təkbuynuzlarını (accusative plural possessed-many possessive third-person)
təkbuynuzuma (dative first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
təkbuynuzlarıma (dative first-person possessed-many possessive singular)
təkbuynuzuna (dative possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
təkbuynuzlarına (dative possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
təkbuynuzuna (dative possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
təkbuynuzlarına (dative possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
təkbuynuzumuza (dative first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
təkbuynuzlarımıza (dative first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
təkbuynuzunuza (dative plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
təkbuynuzlarınıza (dative plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
təkbuynuzuna (dative plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
təkbuynuzlarına (dative plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
təkbuynuzlarına (dative plural possessed-many possessive third-person)
təkbuynuzumda (first-person locative possessed-single possessive singular)
təkbuynuzlarımda (first-person locative possessed-many possessive singular)
təkbuynuzunda (locative possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
təkbuynuzlarında (locative possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
təkbuynuzunda (locative possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
təkbuynuzlarında (locative possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
təkbuynuzumuzda (first-person locative plural possessed-single possessive)
təkbuynuzlarımızda (first-person locative plural possessed-many possessive)
təkbuynuzunuzda (locative plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
təkbuynuzlarınızda (locative plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
təkbuynuzunda (locative plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
təkbuynuzlarında (locative plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
təkbuynuzlarında (locative plural possessed-many possessive third-person)
təkbuynuzumdan (ablative first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
təkbuynuzlarımdan (ablative first-person possessed-many possessive singular)
təkbuynuzundan (ablative possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
təkbuynuzlarından (ablative possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
təkbuynuzundan (ablative possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
təkbuynuzlarından (ablative possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
təkbuynuzumuzdan (ablative first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
təkbuynuzlarımızdan (ablative first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
təkbuynuzunuzdan (ablative plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
təkbuynuzlarınızdan (ablative plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
təkbuynuzundan (ablative plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
təkbuynuzlarından (ablative plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
təkbuynuzlarından (ablative plural possessed-many possessive third-person)
təkbuynuzumun (first-person genitive possessed-single possessive singular)
təkbuynuzlarımın (first-person genitive possessed-many possessive singular)
təkbuynuzunun (genitive possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
təkbuynuzlarının (genitive possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
təkbuynuzunun (genitive possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
təkbuynuzlarının (genitive possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
təkbuynuzumuzun (first-person genitive plural possessed-single possessive)
təkbuynuzlarımızın (first-person genitive plural possessed-many possessive)
təkbuynuzunuzun (genitive plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
təkbuynuzlarınızın (genitive plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
təkbuynuzunun (genitive plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
təkbuynuzlarının (genitive plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
təkbuynuzlarının (genitive plural possessed-many possessive third-person)


시간여행

siganyeohaeng (romanization)
時間旅行 (hanja)

[ɕʰiɡa̠ɲʌ̹ɦɛŋ]

[ɕʰiɡa̠ɲʌ̹ɦe̞ŋ]

시간(時間) (sigan, “time”) + 여행(旅行) (yeohaeng, “travel”).


First Contact Day

en-noun

First Contact Day (plural First Contact Days)

first contact + day.
From the fictional instance of official first contact in the Star Trek fictional universe for Earth, occurring in the 1996 film First Contact on 5 April 2063. Taken by Trekkies as a day to celebrate Star Trek.

(fandom slang) April 5th, an annual occasion to celebrate Star Trek.

en:First Contact Day
en:Star Trek: First Contact

Back to the Future Day (21 October 2015)


magmatter

(physics) A hypothetical form of matter, consisting of magnetic monopoles and expected to be vastly stronger and denser than normal matter.


unicorn beast

It was exactly that, Prince Empyrean had changed into the unicorn beast of white, holy fire.

2015, Elizabeth Wilde, The Apprentice, The Swordsman, and The Impossible Mission, page 185:

The unicorn-beast, the same one from the alley, stepped to the fore.

2023, Megan Mackie, Saint Code: The Lost:

(fantasy) Any animal having a single horn on its head; a unicorn.


fantasy world

If she thinks she can become President, she's living in a fantasy world!

A person's unrealistic individual notions of the real world.


Calydonian Boar

(Greek mythology) A giant boar, who was sent by the goddess Artemis to ravage the area of Calydon.


Neue Deutsche Todeskunst

de-proper noun

die Neue Deutsche Todeskunst f (proper noun, usually definite, definite genitive der Neuen Deutschen Todeskunst)

die Neue Deutsche Todeskunst (canonical feminine)
der Neuen Deutschen Todeskunst (definite genitive)

Literally, “New German Death Art”, after Neue Deutsche Welle.

Neue Deutsche Todeskunst wird seit Anfang der 90er-Jahre als Oberbegriff für eine Reihe damals neuer Künstler verwendet, in deren vorwiegend deutschen Texten häufig morbide Inhalte Platz fanden.

[2008, Axel Schmidt, Klaus Neumann-Braun, Die Welt der Gothics: Spielräume düster konnotierter Transzendenz, Springer, →ISBN, page 284:

(music) A German musical genre of the late 1980s, influenced by gothic rock, darkwave, and coldwave.


lunarcrete

Researcher Larry Beyer of the University of Pittsburgh says a lunarcrete project would begin with the shipment of two molds and a work crew from Earth. First, the workers would bolt together an inner mold. It would be pressure tight and would serve as their temporary quarters. Then they'd erect an outer mold with a six-foot gap from the inner mold.

1990, David Gump, Space Enterprise: Beyond NASA, New York, N.Y., Westport, C.T., London: Praeger, →ISBN, page 190:

Lunarcrete or mooncrete could be made from lunar regolith, water and cement with the cement manufactured from lunar rock with a high calcium content.

2016, Louisa Preston, Goldilocks and the Water Bears: The Search for Life in the Universe, London: Bloomsbury Sigma, →ISBN, page 265:

One method is to combine regolith with a bonding agent to create lunar concrete (aka. "lunarcrete"), which can be printed out to build structures. In terms of benefits, lunarcrete requires less energy to produce than other building materials, is unaffected by extreme variations in temperature, absorbs harmful radiation, and is unaffected by prolonged exposure to vacuum.

2021 December 13, Matthew S. Williams, “The Logistics of Going "Interplanetary": What Does It Take to Live on the Moon?”, in Interesting Engineering, archived from the original on 2023-03-10:

This paper provides a fundamental basis for future research on confinement and strengthening for future coarse aggregate-free concretes, such as lunarcrete and 3D-printed concrete.

2023 February 15, Cheng Jiang, “Strength enhancement due to FRP confinement for coarse aggregate-free concrete”, in Engineering Structures, volume 277, New York, N.Y.: Elsevier, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC:

A hypothetical concrete-like material, made from lunar matter, that could be used to build a colony on the Moon.


divoženka

divoženka (nominative singular)
divoženky (nominative plural)
divoženky (genitive singular)
divoženek (genitive plural)
divožence (dative singular)
divoženkám (dative plural)
divoženku (accusative singular)
divoženky (accusative plural)
divoženko (singular vocative)
divoženky (plural vocative)
divožence (locative singular)
divoženkách (locative plural)
divoženkou (instrumental singular)
divoženkami (instrumental plural)

[ˈɟɪvoʒɛŋka]

From divý + -o- + žínka. Commpare Polish dziwożona.

wild woman, she-woodwose (Slavic mythology)


Shibuya-kei

Borrowed from Japanese 渋谷系(しぶやけい) (shibuyakei, “Shibuya style”).

ja-r

(music) A Japanese pop music subgenre and fashion aesthetic of the mid- to late 1990s, inspired by 1960s culture and Western pop music.


amphithere

(heraldry, fantasy) Alternative form of amphiptere


doom rock

More industrial rhythms and gothic, doom rock combined with suitably mocking voice to express the dark matters afoot in the songs, which this time dwell on the subject of suicide, making Manson the latest in a long line of heavy metal artists to do so.

2006, Steve Taylor, The A to X of Alternative Music, A&C Black, →ISBN, page 144:

They're not death metal; they're calling it doom rock. It's essentially an updated version of early 70s Sabbath.

[2007 March 16, Paul Lester, quoting Elijah Wood, “Frodo gets funky”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

By the 1990s goth had given rise to more broadly popular subgenres like ‘death rock’ and ‘doom rock’, whose stars, people like Marilyn Manson and Trent Reznor, used self-harm as a significant motif within their lives and lyrics.

2015, Peter Steggals, Making Sense of Self-harm: The Cultural Meaning and Social Context of Nonsuicidal Self-injury, Springer, →ISBN:

(music) A subgenre of rock music influenced by hard rock, protometal, psychedelic rock, progressive rock, and blues, commonly incorporating lyrics about the occult or referencing horror movies and books.


walking dead

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The term I've typically seen used for the latter is "walking dead" -- meaning you can still wander around, but no progress can be made, and therefore you have effectively lost the game -- ie "died" -- and just don't know it.

2005 March 4, M. Damian Dollahite, “Re: Boundlessness & IF”, in rec.arts.int-fiction (Usenet):

There are numerous ways to instantly get killed, as well as walking dead situations, which were practically banned across all other adventure games when this game was released in 1996.

2018 October 3, Kurt Kalata, “Dragon Lore II: Heart of the Dragon Man”, in Hardcore Gaming 101:

[I]t’s inevitable that we’d have some walking dead scenarios. Regretfully, I hit one. [...] I left my Boysenberry computer at my house when I headed off to the airport. [...] I [...] jumped into a cannibal-infested jungle before discovering that I lose immediately if I parachute in without the computer.

2021 February 23, Joe Pranevich, “Missed Classic: Bureaucracy - Won! And Final Rating”, in The Adventurers Guild:

(video games) Corresponding to an unwinnable game state, where the player can still act in the game world but victory is impossible.


scisaac

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Scott McCall and Isaac Lahey from the Teen Wolf series.


Klingonian

en-adj

Klingonian (comparative more Klingonian, superlative most Klingonian)

more Klingonian (comparative)
most Klingonian (superlative)

Anyway, German has the highest percentage of foreign literature in translation (taking over the lead from Russian), and although Canadian authors have indeed at high reputation among readers, US-American and British books (as well as French, Swedish, Israeli and Klingonian ones) also get a fair chance at the German reading public’s interest.

2000, Ellipse, Université de Sherbrooke, page 42:

‘Manga’. No matter how Klingonian this sounds to you, it has been a worldwidely-known word since 1990.

2005, The Broken Mirror: Portrait of the Self, Langgeng Gallery, page 115:

As an example, if we need to create a Klingonian locale file based on English language, we have to open a shell to create the new file in this way: / # cp share/locale/eng-GB.ini / share/locale/kln-KL.ini

2009, Francesco Fullone, Francesco Trucchia, eZ Publish 4: Enterprise Web Sites Step-by-Step, Packt Publishing, →ISBN:

As was the case with his father, words from Bobby Junior’s mouth appeared to be spoken in some far-removed Klingonian dialect.

2018, Jeff Pearlman, “Title Dreams”, in Football for a Buck: The Crazy Rise and Crazier Demise of the USFL, Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 94:

“Don’t you remember me? I’m the passenger in the taxi which almost knocked you down last night,” Laura addressed her in what she liked to call “Scandinavian”, a concoction of Swedish and Danish, that is, she had learned to get by with in most Scandinavian countries except Finland, of course. Helle’s face lit up with an expression of recognition. She groped in her coat pocket and pulled out Laura’s “Klingonian” address. Laura nodded.

2019, Paul Werner, The Last Voyage of the Yankee Seas, TWENTYSIX, →ISBN, page 59:

Yet, somehow, today there is a quasi-official Klingon language institute, people who speak Klingon almost exclusively, and alleged cases of persons who want to raise their children in Klingon-speaking households. (Ludlow 2006: 162–3) […] Klingon may fictionally have begun its existence among fictional extra-terrestrials, and actual households may communicate in an actual language that has all the characteristic Klingonian flair, but that is nevertheless not Klingon.

2020, Stefano Predelli, “Cat’s Cradle: Peripheral Importations”, in Fictional Discourse: A Radical Fictionalist Semantics, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, section 5 (Fictional Languages), pages 82–83:

Pertaining to, or characteristic of, the Klingon language.


chanson de geste

fr-noun

chanson de geste f (plural chansons de geste)

→ English: chanson de geste

→ Italian: canzone di gesta (calque)

→ Portuguese: canção de gesta (calque)

→ Spanish: cantar de gesta (calque)

chanson de geste
chanson de geste#English


Heldensage

de-noun

Heldensage f (genitive Heldensage, plural Heldensagen)

Heldensage (genitive)
Heldensagen (plural)
Heldensage (nominative singular)
Heldensagen (definite nominative plural)
Heldensage (genitive singular)
Heldensagen (definite genitive plural)
Heldensage (dative singular)
Heldensagen (dative definite plural)
Heldensage (accusative singular)
Heldensagen (accusative definite plural)


Lunarite

From Lunar (“pertaining to Luna”) + -ite.

Although his achievements were not numerous, he was able to hammer out a successful trade agreement with the Moon. The Lunarites were certainly pleased that their rich mining resources, needed by the Earth, were traded practically straight across for the air and water which they so desperately needed.

1993, Linda Hall, The Josiah Files, Nashville, T.N.: Thomas Nelson Publishers, →ISBN, page 132:

(science fiction) Synonym of Lunarian (“inhabitant of the Moon”).


Lunite

"Our situation," Lamar remarked, "is similar to that which a Lunite might have encountered had he visited New England in 1690. Any wretch who claimed ancestry among the people of the moon in those days, would have been convicted of witchcraft and burned at the stake without mercy."

1933 February, Julian Kendig, Jr., “The Eternal Mask”, in Amazing Stories, volume 7, number 11, page 1036, column 2:

(science fiction, now rare) Synonym of Lunarian (“inhabitant of the Moon”).


planetman

Compound of planet + man, modelled after countryman.

One does not disturb a dreamer. It would be dangerous for both your planetman and the dreamer herself.

1976, Andre Norton, “Get Out of My Dream”, in Perilous Dreams, New York, N.Y.: DAW Books, Inc., page 130:

(science fiction, now rare) Someone from one's own planet.


lifeship

You target our habs and lifeships, you slaughter us in our millions. We attack your military and infrastructure. And you call us the terrorists.

2004, Iain M. Banks, The Algebraist, London: Orbit, →ISBN, page 459:

(science fiction) A spaceship serving as an emergency medical center.


jumpship

Ben stared at the hologram. "The megacorps don't have quite the monopoly on fast transit that they think they have," he said. "But it would certainly help if we had a few more jumpships. That would solve a lot of transit problems."

2015, Jacey Bedford, Crossways, New York, N.Y.: DAW Books, Inc., →ISBN, page 59:

(science fiction) A spaceship able to instantaneously move large distances through space by traveling through hyperspace or jumpspace.


jumpspace

The Fergus entered jumpspace, but never emerged. The Scandyans were kind enough to let us check their records, and they show a clean drop.

2003, L[eland] E[xton] Modesitt Jr., The Ethos Effect, New York, N.Y.: Tor Books, →ISBN, page 176:


rocketport

This time, he knew for whom he was asking: they waited—as they've always waited, at rocketports, pneumatique stations, in delousing sheds and hand-out queues; in the greasy front offices of courts and refugee camps and detention bureaus—tired and grimy and stoned.

1974, M[ichael] John Harrison, The Centauri Device, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., →ISBN, page 178:


moonman

In this manner did I discourse with the Moonmen while taking my repast; after which they told me, if I had no objection, that they intended taking me to Moontown, to introduce me to their king […]

1863, William George Caldcleugh, “Story of Chico Capaac, or the Man in the Moon (the Story of the Moonmen)”, in Eastern Tales, James Challen and Son, retrieved 2023-05-10, page 230:

On the floor the Moonman's body shivered again.

1954, Catherine Lucile Moore, Northwest of Earth, Gnome Press, retrieved 2023-05-10, page 54:

As the first moonmen worked to set up their rudimentary base, supply ships would have to be sent periodically with additional provisions for more permanent materials for the eventual large lunar base. Meanwhile, the moonmen would continue to live in their pressurized domes. As supplies accumulated, construction of the permanent base would begin.

1958 March 14, William Leavitt, “Man in space”, in Air Force Magazine, retrieved 2023-05-10, page 122:

en:member of a nation of fictional moon dwellers

(science fiction, dated) Synonym of Lunarian (“inhabitant of the Moon”).


robotrix

The black man paced about across the oil-streaked cement, his arms folded, an absent expression on his face. Evidently he waited for the robotrix attendant to finish fueling up his ship.

1974, Philip K[indred] Dick, Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said, New York, N.Y.: DAW Books, Inc., published 1975, page 198:

The decor was different in every bar — there were chrome-plated Metropolis joints with dancing robotrixes, and sawdust-on-the-floor Western saloons with gunfights and can-can girls — but the faces were the same.

1989, Kim Newman, The Night Mayor, London […]: Pocket Books, published 1999, →ISBN, page 132:

(science fiction) A female robot, or one with feminine characteristics.


rimworld

The traffic chief shook his head. "You're making a mistake. You should stay up in the rimworlds where the Orchestra is loved. Downsystem you're nothing."

1985, Kim Stanley Robinson, The Memory of Whiteness: A Scientific Romance, New York, N.Y.: Tor, →ISBN, page 91:

(science fiction) A planet located near the edge or rim of a galaxy.


vitakinesis

The ability to control the healing process.


zoolingualism

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jonbar hinge

A reference to the 1938 novel The Legion of Time, in which the character John Barr having the choice of picking up of one of two objects (a magnet or a pebble) marks a major turning point in history: one will lead to the utopian empire of Jonbar (named after John Barr himself), while the other leads to the rise of the tyrannical state of Gyronchi. Further etymology at John, Barr.

(science fiction) In time travel stories: a seemingly trivial event which ultimately marks the point of divergence between two radically different timelines.


cybergrind

A microgenre of grindcore that emerged from the late 1990s, which includes mass use of keyboards and synthesizers as well as samples from various media, such as video games and movies.


Luna City

From Luna (“the name of Earth's moon”) + city.

(science fiction) The name of a major colony or city on the Moon in various science fiction works.


threedy

From the pronunciation of 3D (“three-dimensional”).

"Nothing else. We don’t know anything... at all... about what brings St. Andrews into this. But she knows too much, Benny. Lots and lots of stuff that didn't appear—and never will appear—in the newspapes, or on the threedies."

1994 February, Earthsong: Native Tongue III, New York, N.Y.: DAW Books, Inc., →ISBN, page 176:

(science fiction) A three-dimensional movie or television program.


mindlink

"No," Bean replied. "More likely, the Minkowski Line would learn how to create more efficient mindlinks than the one that the Martians developed without access to advanced technology. But that would be enough."

2009 July, Lawrence Barker, Blood Red Sphere, Arlington, Tex.: Swimming Kangaroo Books, →ISBN, page 231:

(science fiction) A telepathic link or connection between separate minds.


ultradrive

Politically, the assistance Marius provided was subtle and invaluable, allowing Ethan to build alliances within the Council and among the Clerics of the Orchard Palace, propelling him to a position where he could put himself forward for election with a great deal of confidence. Included with that was the offer of ultradrives for the Pilgrimage ships, a gift that would generate a near-certain success.

2008, Peter F. Hamilton, The Temporal Void, London: Macmillan, →ISBN, pages 358–359:

(science fiction) A spaceship drive capable of travelling faster than the speed of light.


xenological

"I don't think they'll be in any mood to trade xenological theory, Oma. They might not be so lenient with us now we've put up a fight."

2017, Eric Brown, Binary System, Oxford, Oxforshire: Solaris, →ISBN, page 226:

(science fiction) Relating to xenology ("the study of alien life").


ultraphone

Amalfi wondered if the Hruntans understood English; not that he was worried about the present interchange being overheard—the giant planet would block that most effectively, since the Utopians used ordinary radio rather than ultraphones or Dirac communicators—but it was of the utmost importance, if Hazleton's scheme was to be made workable, that the Hruntans should have heard and understood the warning the Earth police had issued to the city.

1955, James Blish, Earthman, Come Home (Cities in Flight; 1), New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, published 1958, page 29:

(science fiction) A telephone capable of transmitting communications faster than the speed of light.


catman

(fantasy) A man having physical characteristics of a cat.


mindmeld

en-verb

mindmeld (third-person singular simple present mindmelds, present participle mindmelding, simple past and past participle mindmelded)

mindmelds (present singular third-person)
mindmelding (participle present)
mindmelded (participle past)
mindmelded (past)

Compound of mind + meld, originally from the Star Trek franchise.

Besides, the old Social Bandit has been soft on Wasps since the moonshot, when he mindmelded with the astronauts.

1993, Norman Mailer, “The Trouble With Harry”, in John Leonard, editor, The Last Innocent White Man in America, and Other Writings, New York, N.Y.: The New Press, →ISBN, page 189:

We are now deep into jury selection, eight days in court huddled at the table with our jury consultant, trying to mindmeld with strangers whose names have been churned out from computerized voter lists and drivers' license records at DMV.

2005, Steve Martini, Double Tap, Coalville, Leicestershire: Charnwood, published 2006, →ISBN, page 295:

That didn't happen with [Adam] Franklin, who was probably too distracted in 2008 by his underrated band's reunion, as well as his brilliant solo effort Bolts of Melody, to take over the wheel of Magnetic Morning. Instead, the two UK musicians mindmelded and found a middle ground, which sounds very cool indeed.

2008 October 12, Scott Thill, “Swervedriver and Interpol's Magnetic Morning Dawns”, in Wired, San Francisco, C.A.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-12-08:

(colloquial) To form a mind meld; to create a deep connection with someone, as though combining into a single mind.


vibroblade

Perhaps the last sound they heard was each other's laughter; or perhaps it was the hum of vibroblades in the seconds before death.

2010, John Meaney, Absorption, London: Gollancz, →ISBN, page 129:

(science fiction) A weapon or tool with a rapidly vibrating blade.


tri-V

Moki and Ukatonen weren't supposed to go out without Eerin or Analin, so they spent most of the day watching the Tri-V or listening to Analin and Eerin talk about them. It was fun at first, seeing themselves on the Tri-V, but they only showed the same few pictures and words.

1999, Amy Thomson, Through Alien Eyes, New York, N.Y.: Ace Books, →ISBN, page 85:

(science fiction) A system capable of recording or displaying three-dimensional video.


trideo

en-noun

trideo (countable and uncountable, plural trideos)

Getting Karissa back to her cabin had been fairly easy, encountering only a few passengers along the way, who were too surprised by the chance encounter to ask for autographs or personal trideos with the star, especially as Grant kept her moving with a firm hand on her elbow.

2017, Veronica Scott, “Star Cruise: Songbird”, in Embrace the Romance: Pets in Space 2, →ISBN, page 381:

(science fiction) A three-dimensional video.

His father had been Prime Minister for the last twelve years. There had been puff pieces about Randal on the trideo since he was a child.

2011, J. Wesley Bush, Knox's Irregulars, →ISBN, page 78:

(science fiction) Synonym of tri-V (“a system capable of recording or displaying three-dimensional video”).


tri-vid

There should have been women in silver suits taking in a show at the tri-vids before indulging in a spot of lunch, the kind that came in three-course pills, great big subservient robots trailing behind them. Instead there was a brown man in overalls collecting rubbish with a long stick outside an adult cinema, and the cars were halted, bumper-to-bumper, beside a traffic light that seemed to be stuck permanently on red.

2011, Lavie Tidhar, Osama: A Novel, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Solaris, published 2012, →ISBN, page 233:


mutie

Manuel waded through rivulets of the dirty water. It steamed away or gurgled into cracks. Some muties were so addled that they kept slurping at the runoff even though the hunt was storming past, the thumps and snaps of men firing clear in the air.

1983, Gregory Benford, Against Infinity, New York, N.Y.: Avon Eos, published 1998, →ISBN, page 108:


neurolink

The clone soldiers were given basic cognitive advancement via neurolinks while they were still in the tanks.

2010, Alex Irvine, Iron Man: Virus, London: Titan Books, →ISBN, page 32:

(science fiction) A technology that allows the human brain to communicate directly with a computer.


plastiskin

Gavin's supple, plastiskin face was somber, his voice subdued. Ursula could tell that he had been doing a lot of thinking.

1986, David Brin, “Lungfish”, in The River of Time, Niles, Illinois: Dark Harvest, →ISBN, page 340:

(science fiction) synthetic skin, especially that of an android.


organlegger

Blend of organ + bootlegger (“an illegal trader of goods, especially of alcohol”).

blend

Owen lay dead in the bloody snow, his noble body gashed and punctured in many places, and soaked in his own gore. And that was how the organleggers found him.

2004, Simon R[ichard] Green, Deathstalker Return, New York, N.Y.: Roc Books, →ISBN, page 404:

(science fiction) Someone who illegally harvests and sells human organs.


Loonie

"I used to hate Loonies. All Odans do. But in my opinion, only the Jupiters and generals and Committee members are truly awful. The rest of you are . . . tolerable. And you? Definitely more than tolerable."

2015, Karen Bao, Dove Arising, New York, N.Y.: Viking, →ISBN, page 309:

(science fiction) An inhabitant of Earth's Moon.


vibroknife

Beneath my jacket, I tugged the vibroknife from its sheath in the small of my back and activated the motor. With my free hand I pressed down hard on the dead man's spine and started cutting.

2003, Richard Morgan, Broken Angels, London: Gollancz, →ISBN, page 75:

(science fiction) Synonym of vibroblade (“a weapon or tool with a rapidly vibrating blade”).


prespace

"No way to tell now," Miram admitted. "Lots of space junk around the second planet, though. Could be native, an example of a prespace culture making the transition, but the debris could also be the results of a mining operation or something else I have no frame of reference for."

2016, Evan Currie, Warrior King, Seattle, O.R.: 47North, →ISBN, page 233:

(science fiction) Of a civilization: having yet to develop space travel.


telekineticist

"Kids—like girls and boys?" Squid asks. "I've only ever heard of female telekineticists."

2017, Corey J. White, Killing Gravity, New York, N.Y.: Tom Doherty Associates, →ISBN, page 67:

(science fiction, fantasy) Someone who has the ability to move objects with their mind; a telekinetic.


telempathic

I did a telempathic analysis of Leo a few weeks back. He was in a difficult situation. Easily twice as intelligent than his family and school mates. I knew he was desperate for just about any kind of change in his life.

2007, Hugh A[lan] D[ouglas] Spencer, “When Bloomsbury Fails”, in Why I Hunt Flying Saucers & Other Fantasticals: A Science Fiction Short Story Retrospective, Milton, O.N.: Brain Lag, published 2016, →ISBN, page 218:

(parapsychology, science fiction) Relating to or involving telempathy ("the paranormal ability to sense the emotions of others").


telempathy

"Telempathy is a skill that so far exists only in legends and rumors," Sue says. "To be able to master it would be something immensely valuable to the Sekhem."

2013, C[ynthia] J[aynes] Omololu, Intuition, New York, N.Y. […]: Walker Books, →ISBN, page 213:

(parapsychology, science fiction) The paranormal ability to sense the emotions of others; empathy.


telempath

"Very brave of you, but the ancient dragons of the Circle are very powerful telempaths and often use mind control on dragons untrained in mental battle. I will teach you how to protect your mind and fight a telepathic battle just in case you ever encounter one of their enforcers, or a human wizard."

2010, Susan Trombley, Princess's Dragon, New York, N.Y., Bloomington, I.N.: iUniverse, Inc., →ISBN, page 60:

(parapsychology, science fiction) Someone able to sense the emotions of others by paranormal means; someone who has the power of telempathy.


sub-ether

en-noun

sub-ether (countable and uncountable, plural sub-ethers)

(science fiction) Alternative form of subether


threevee

The demon paused before answering, as though listening to an internal voice. Seen up close, he too was slightly blurred — like a threevee picture in the middle of a bad day for sunspots, Kin thought.

1981, Terry Pratchett, Strata, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 157:

She loved to sit with me when three or four of us went to the Blue Sea, to the Bay of Lue, to threevees in the city, to musical shows, or just to eat iced meloncolion on the showy balconies of the comiche.

2016, John Argo, Moon Berry Wine: A Far Future Science Fiction Novel, San Diego, C.A.: Clocktower Books, →ISBN, page 38:

(science fiction) A screen or television able to display a three-dimensional image.


imagescreen

As they ate, Hallvard told their visitors what had happened in the City and what they‘d seen on the imagescreen in his cell in the Temple.

2013, Patricia Robertson, The Fire Reapers, Whitehorse, Y.T.: Linnaea Press, →ISBN, page 388:

(rare, sometimes in science fiction) A screen capable of displaying images.


subetherics

That surprised Ariel. ""We don't even know how he died." / "Gruesomely, according to the subetherics. Crushed." He glanced sidelong at her. "Sound familiar?"

2002, Mark W. Tiedemann, Aurora, New York, N.Y>, →ISBN, page 32:

(science fiction) Devices able to communicate using the subether ("a fictional medium through which faster-than-light signals are able to travel"), considered collectively.


tridim

By the time they got to the Wrapateria the line of kids snaked down the block. The usual jokers were taking tri-dims of the crowd and playing them back to each other.

2005, Karen Haber, Crossing Infinity, New York, N.Y.: ibooks, →ISBN, page 51:

(science fiction) Synonym of trideo (“a three-dimensional video”).

I entered theaters where the happy lotus eaters sat slumped in their massage chairs, transfixed by the glowing tridim images—and capered down the aisles. No one grumbled at me.

1963, Robert Silverberg, “To See the Invisible Man”, in Earth in Transit, New York, N.Y.: Dell Publishing Co., Inc., published 1976, page 59:


Terranian

Possibly Terra + -an + -ian, thus making the term redundant.

"How we've all longed for this glorious day! And thanks to our glorious Fire Reaper techno, all Terranians can join with us in our final triumph!"

2013, Patricia Robertson, The Fire Reapers, Whitehorse, Y.T.: Linnaea Press, →ISBN, page 370:

(science fiction) An inhabitant of Earth.


Terranian

The first operator spoke no Terranian languages at all. The second one could only speak French and German.

1954 May, Bill Wesley, “The Primus Curse”, in Planet Stories, volume 6, number 6, New York, N.Y.: Fiction House, page 53:

(science fiction) Relating to Earth or its people.


planetographer

From planet + -o- + -grapher, perhaps modelled off of cartographer.

In the century-plus since Eris was settled, we have already raised the temperature of its lithosphere by several degrees, just as we've thickened the atmosphere ot Callisto a thousandfold: if this goes on, the more annoyingly farsighted planetographers warn, we can look forward to an increased incidence ot icequakes and the threat of a year-round atmosphere.

2008, Charles Stross, Saturn's Children: A Space Opera, New York, N.Y.: Ace Books, →ISBN, page 269:

(chiefly science fiction) Someone who studies planetography ("the branch of astronomy concerned with the description of the physical features of planets").


telescanner

"If you or Dr. Rankin cares to start a search program with the telescanner, you have my blessing."

1985, Michael P[aul] Kube-McDowell, Emprise, New York, N.Y.: Berkley Books, →ISBN, page 259:

(science fiction) A scanner, especially one able to collect information from far away.


Tau Cetian

(science fiction) Relating to the Tau Ceti system or its people.


Tau Cetian

(science fiction) An inhabitant of the Tau Ceti system.


Tau Cetian

(science fiction) The fictional language spoken in the Tau Ceti system.


spacedog

But Station Yorick's customers liked that first interview. The grizzled old spacedog, pipe in mouth, glass in hand, spinning a yarn.... […]

1980 April, A[rthur] Bertram Chandler, Asimov's Science Fiction, New York, N.Y.: Davis Publications, Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 97:

(science fiction) A person experienced in space travel.


subether

subether (countable and uncountable, plural subethers)

Her instrument panel was dead, not a single light across the con- sole on. Evidently the bdellium dish wasn't working. Either that, or the subether was still. Though the subether was never still, filled with voices from unimaginable distances.

1996, Michael Kandel, Panda Ray, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 134:

(science fiction) A fictional medium through which faster-than-light signals are able to travel.


doom folk

While best known for lending her haunting pipes to doom-folk troupe Espers, Meg Baird's quavering voice reveals itself as singularly lucid and enchanting on her solo work.


teleportering

teleportering (indefinite nominative singular)


Linny

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Luna Lovegood and Ginny Weasley from Harry Potter.


Pansmione

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Pansy Parkinson and Hermione Granger from Harry Potter.


JKR

Initialism of Joanne Kathleen Rowling (born 1965), British author.


màquina del temps

ca-noun

màquina del temps f (plural màquines del temps)


後搖滾

ㄏㄡˋ ㄧㄠˊ ㄍㄨㄣˇ

/xoʊ̯⁵¹ jɑʊ̯³⁵ ku̯ən²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/hɐu̯²² jiːu̯²¹ kʷɐn³⁵/

/xoʊ̯⁵¹ jɑʊ̯³⁵ ku̯ən²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/hɐu̯²² jiːu̯²¹ kʷɐn³⁵/


後搖

/xoʊ̯⁵¹ jɑʊ̯³⁵/

/hɐu̯²² jiːu̯²¹/

/xoʊ̯⁵¹ jɑʊ̯³⁵/

/hɐu̯²² jiːu̯²¹/


mooncrete

He gestured at the mooncrete. "Great stuff, huh? And another case of the Builders showing off. They not only make us a moon; they make us one that will remain forever new."

1988, David F Nighbert, Timelapse, Headline, →ISBN, page 159:

The driver slowed down to a crawl; the vehicle's inflated wheels bumped slightly as they moved onto a mooncrete ramp, then the bus began rolling downward toward a pair of double doors.

2007, Allen Steele, Spindrift, London: Orbit, →ISBN, page 20:

The design emphasized the use of extra-terrestrial materials preferably from the Moon. "Mooncrete" – or lunar concrete – should be produced by processing lunar rocks in a factory.

2017 March, Werner Grandl, “Human life in the Solar System”, in REACH, Amsterdam: Elsevier, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 10:

An otherworldly project is underway. A researcher at the University of Miami is currently making "mooncrete," a material he hopes to perfect for building a habitable base on the moon.

2019 July 25, Tate Jacaruso, “Thanks To A Miami Researcher We Might Actually Be Building A Habitable Base On The Moon Soon”, in Narcity, archived from the original on 2021-06-14:

Synonym of lunarcrete (“a hypothetical concrete-like material, made from lunar matter, that could be used to build a colony on the Moon”).


영애

(fantasy) aristocratic girl; young noble lady


Hogwartian

en-adj

Hogwartian (comparative more Hogwartian, superlative most Hogwartian)

more Hogwartian (comparative)
most Hogwartian (superlative)

You cannot go to Turin without expecting to see its greatest attraction: the Sindone, or as we call it in English, the Shroud. The problem is that the Turin Shroud is kept well and truly shrouded in the Duomo, the rather subdued Renaissance cathedral. Enclosed in a Hogwartian trunk behind a sheet of plate glass, bulletproofed in case anyone wanted to assassinate it, the shroud’s appearances are strictly controlled.

2003, William Black, Al Dente: The Adventures of a Gastronome in Italy, Bantam Press, →ISBN, page 14:

With just the right sequence, we can get a computer to read a book out loud, understand human speech, anticipate (and prevent) a heart attack, or predict the movement of a stock-market holding. If an incantation is just slightly off mark, the magic is greatly weakened or does not work at all. One might object to this metaphor by pointing out that Hogwartian incantations are brief and therefore do not contain much information compared to, say, the code for a modern software program.

2005, Ray Kurzweil, The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology, Viking, →ISBN, page 5:

Despite the Hogwartian allure of Yale’s Gothic-style colleges, Muggle undergraduates may have to look elsewhere to catch a true glimpse of the magical world of Harry Potter.

2007 October 30, Patrick Lee, “For seminar selection, Potter will have to wait”, in Yale Daily News, page 3:

Consider the role of Hogwarts in the Harry Potter series. From the first volumes, Hogwarts played a tremendous role in the story, gathering the young protagonists—Harry [Potter] and his friends—into its curious and often-changing halls. It became the place where magic was learned and friendships formed. It stood for what must be saved: the ideals of the Hogwartian school, where magical powers were taught for the sake of good.

2008, Philip Martin, “Developing a Sense of Place”, in Philip Martin, editor, The New Writer’s Handbook: A Practical Anthology of Best Advice for Your Craft & Career, volume 2, Minneapolis, Minn.: Scarletta Press, →ISBN, pages 98–99:

To me, the UO [University of Oregon] is Hogwarts, a secretive organization that pirates the best of the very poor, teaches them to value their new status much too highly and leaves the suffering to understand that they, of the inferior mundane class, simply don’t deserve housing, legal care, medical care, dental care or even a basic sense of belonging. […] Getting a Ph.D. in sociology or mathematics must be a fascinating exercise in Hogwartian mysticism, but what on earth does that do for the very poor, the despairing, those left on the other side of the town-gown wall?

2008 April 17–24, Hugh Massengill, “UO = Hogwarts”, in Eugene Weekly, page 5:

But I’d never seen a hurling match before and sat fixated by the TV in our room, which showed one of the fastest, most bizarre, and seemingly most dangerous games I’ve ever experienced. Harry Potter would love it. Fifteen men a side hurtled by and into one another in seemingly total Hogwartian disarray, flailing long cáman paddle-sticks on which they carried—yes, carried—a small white leather ball (sliotar)—although in the truly wild days when the game first emerged I heard it was often a human skull.

2009, David Yeadon, At the Edge of Ireland: Seasons on the Beara Peninsula, Harper Perennial, →ISBN, pages 17–18:

[…] part of [J. K.] Rowling’s skill lies in the way in which she makes this bygone world instantaneously modern to an age of children who live in an electronic multimedia world. For example, moving staircases, portraits of ancient Hogwartian dignitaries who talk and move, the Marauder’s Map and flying dragons are familiar features of computer virtual reality games.

2009, Diane Duncan, Teaching Children’s Literature: Making Stories Work in the Classroom, London, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 195:

Bookended by J.K. Rowling at Harvard [University]’s Commencement and the traditional laying-on of hands at Clare [College]’s, her year had a Hogwartian quality.

2010, Harvard and Radcliffe Class of 1975: Thirty-fifth Anniversary Report, Cambridge, Mass., page 35:


Hogwartian

The departed Hogwartians in the portraits that line the school’s corridors leave their frames and visit one another.

[Robbie] Coltrane’s performance as the noble if slightly buffoonish [Rubeus] Hagrid is the standout among the sterling adult cast, and the Sorting Hat, a sort of garrulous talking napkin that assigns new Hogwartians to their houses, is a low-tech effect put to hilarious use.

2001 November 16, Andrew O’Hehir, ““Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone”"”, in Salon.com, archived from the original on 2011-12-29; published in Scot Peacock, editor, Children’s Literature Review: Excerpts from Reviews, Criticism, and Commentary on Books for Children and Young People, volume 80, Gale, 2002, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 198:

“But how did you know I go to Hogwarts?” inquired Harry [Potter]. “Ah! I can always tell a, um, Hogwartian,” said Jack Flash cheerily.

2003, J.B. Miller, “J. K. Rowling: Harry Potter and the Rolling Stone”, in The Satanic Nurses: And Other Literary Parodies, New York, N.Y.: Thomas Dunne Books, →ISBN:

Screams of terror rent the air: The fighters scattered, Death Eaters and Hogwartians alike, and red and green jets of light flew into the midst of the oncoming monsters, which shuddered and reared, more terrifying than ever.

2007 July 21, J. K. Rowling [pseudonym; Joanne Rowling], Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter; 7), London: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:

Interactions between the Trio, the Order of the Phoenix, Voldemort and his Death Eaters, Hogwartians, and house-elves and other magical creatures are relevant not only in critical analysis, but in the overall context of the story.

2012, Todd S. Waters, “Is Hermione Granger the Real Chosen One?”, in Christopher E. Bell, editor, Hermione Granger Saves the World: Essays on the Feminist Heroine of Hogwarts, Jefferson, N.C., London: McFarland & Company, Inc., →ISBN, page 198:

Zombie Snow-White and zombie Bo-Peep picnicked alongside Zombie hobbits and Hogwartians.

2013, Jennifer Rutherford, Zombies, London, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 3:

In the book’s [Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows] version of the “Battle of Hogwarts” an armed collective of many different magical creatures and wizards comes to the aid of the defeated Hogwartians as the battle recommences.

2016, Vincent F. Rocchio, Christianity and the Culture Machine: Media and Theology in the Age of Late Secularism, Eugene, Ore.: Cascade Books, →ISBN:

The retrieval of the memory of the Death Eaters trial suggestively presents the trial as a moment that renders transgression visible – a transgression that is repressed by the conscious – but simultaneously demonstrates the reestablishment of order through the punishment of the defendants. It represents therefore a repetition of violence that is overcome by the process of law. The memory of this moment is in fact a menace to institutional order because it suggests its fragility and reminds Hogwartians of the ever-present possibility of transgression.

2018, Isabel Capeloa Gil, “Lex Fugit: On Acts of Legibility”, in Legibility in the Age of Signs and Machines (Thamyris/Intersecting: Place, Sex and Race; 33), Koninklijke Brill nv, →ISBN, part 2 (Justice), pages 108–109:

5.2¾ INDEXICALITY AND INFERENCE / This is a concealed section that only Hogwartians will find.

2020, Peter Grundy, Doing Pragmatics, 4th edition, Routledge, →ISBN:


groundsider

Near the main airlock she foimd Tregare arguing loudly with persons she had never seen—groundsiders here, she thought.

1976, F[rancis] M[arion] Busby, Rissa Kerguelen, Berkley Publishing Corporation, →ISBN, page 67:

Coming back groundside, you always felt the dissociation. They shouldn't have brought him all the way back here; they should have left him out at a Jupiter station, or somewhere his own kind were. These groundsiders were the real aliens. He couldn't make any connections with contemporary Earth—this wasn't the America he remembered.

1988, Janet Morris, Chris Morris, Outpassage, New York, N.Y.: Pageant Books, →ISBN, page 7:

Trinli paused a second, holding his place with one hand while his whole body quivered with the need for crampons and ropes, and pitons driven solid into the walls around him. Lord. It had been a long time since his groundsider orientation had come back this strongly. He moved forward. Forward. Not up.

1999, Vernor Vinge, A Deepness in the Sky, New York, N.Y.: Tor Books, →ISBN, page 109:

The server was cute, and I wondered how she got here, because her physique was groundsider, even more than mine. She had a wedge do with blond highlights and was cheerful without being icky.

2016, Michael Z. Williamson, Angeleyes, Riverdale, N.Y.: Baen Books, →ISBN, page 118:

(science fiction) Someone who lives on the ground (as opposed to space).


planetsider

Todd knew billions of planetsiders were watching, most of Earth. What would they make of this? They had to take the threat seriously. Pat had to make them understand—as he hadn't made them imderstand the true significance of the alien messenger.

1981, Juanita Coulson, Tomorrow's Heritage, New York, N.Y.: Del Rey Books, page 349:

Her chest was hurting already — no star-traveller had the stamina to outrun a planetsider—and she knew she could not keep up her pace for much longer.

1985, Melissa Scott, Five-Twelfths of Heaven, New York, N.Y.: Baen Books, →ISBN, page 307:

The passers-by were mostly planetsiders, some so recent you could see they had trouble handling low-G movement.

1989, Larry Niven, Man-Kzin Wars II, New York, N.Y.: Baen Books, →ISBN, page 216:

"So youre not a planetsider." Raine laughed. "A dirtgrubber? Of course not. I'm from the Habitat. Gryphon torus."

2011, Garth Nix, A Confusion of Princes, London: HarperCollins Children's Books, →ISBN, page 209:

(science fiction) Someone who lives on a planet.