special effect

So popular was trickwork and spectacle with nineteenth-century audiences, in fact, that hundreds of plays were written solely as vehicles for magic, special effects, or elaborately trapped settings.

2013, Joel Schechter, Popular Theatre: A Sourcebook (page 16)

(film, television, theater) An effect that cannot be reasonably achieved by normal means, as for example by the digital manipulation of previously filmed footage.


post-production

en-noun

post-production (usually uncountable, plural post-productions)

post-productions (plural)
postproduction (alternative)

(cinematography, television) The stages of film (or audio) production happening between the actual filming (or recording) and the completed product.

postproducció

stages of film production happening between the actual filming and the completed film


conduttore

it-noun

conduttore m (plural conduttori, feminine conduttrice)

conduttori (plural)
conduttrice (feminine)

conduttrice radiofonica

(television, radio) host (of a TV program etc.)


intaglio

en-noun

intaglio (countable and uncountable, plural intagli or intaglios or intaglioes or intaglii)

intagli (plural)
intaglios (plural)
intaglioes (plural)
intaglii (plural)

Borrowed from Italian intaglio, from intagliare (“to engrave”).

(printing) Any printing method in which the ink is laid upon the sunken parts of the printing form.


ψυχή

psychí (romanization)
ψυχές (plural)
ψυχή (nominative singular)
ψυχές (nominative plural)
ψυχής (genitive singular)
ψυχών (genitive plural)
ψυχή (accusative singular)
ψυχές (accusative plural)
ψυχή (singular vocative)
ψυχές (plural vocative)

άβυσσος η ψυχή του ανθρώπου

there's nowt so queer as folk; an abyss [is] the soul of man

Ο Θεός να αναπαύσει την ψυχή της.

Το σώμα είναι η κιβωτός της ψυχής.

η ψυχή της Ελλάδας

(religion, folklore, also figurative) soul, spirit (essence of a person (or place or thing figuratively) usually thought to consist of one's thoughts and personality)


μέτρον

grc-noun

μέτρον • (métron) n (genitive μέτρου); second declension

métron (romanization)
μέτρου (genitive)
τὸ μέτρον (nominative singular)
μέτρω (dual nominative)
τᾰ̀ μέτρᾰ (nominative plural)
τοῦ μέτρου (genitive singular)
μέτροιν (dual genitive)
μέτρων (genitive plural)
τῷ μέτρῳ (dative singular)
μέτροιν (dative dual)
τοῖς μέτροις (dative plural)
τὸ μέτρον (accusative singular)
μέτρω (accusative dual)
τᾰ̀ μέτρᾰ (accusative plural)
μέτρον (singular vocative)
μέτρω (dual vocative)
μέτρᾰ (plural vocative)

Greek: μέτρο (métro)

→ English: metron

desctree

→ Latin: metrum
→ Dutch: metrum
→ Indonesian: metrum
→ French: mètre (see there for further descendants)
→ German: Metrum
→ Luxembourgish: Metrum
→ Old Irish: metar
Irish: meadar
→ English: mether, medar, meather, madder
→ Fingallian: meddar
→ Italian: metro
→ Polish: metrum
Spanish: miedro

From Proto-Indo-European *meh₁- (“to measure”) + -τρον (-tron).


scumming

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(printing) The accumulation of sticky ink on a plate.


ottava

From Italian ottava (“octave”) (also feminine form of ottavo (“eighth”), ordinal form of otto).


television program

en-noun

television program (plural television programs)

television programs (plural)
television programme (alternative)
TV program (alternative)
TV programme (alternative)

Rosie likes the television program about fairies.

(television) The content of an individual television broadcast.

program televiziv

the content of an individual television broadcasting


παραβολή

head

παραβολή • (paravolí) f (plural παραβολές)

paravolí (romanization)
παραβολές (plural)
παραβολή (nominative singular)
παραβολές (nominative plural)
παραβολής (genitive singular)
παραβολών (genitive plural)
παραβολή (accusative singular)
παραβολές (accusative plural)
παραβολή (singular vocative)
παραβολές (plural vocative)

Inherited from Ancient Greek παραβολή (parabolḗ).


orm

orm m (definite singular ormen, indefinite plural ormar, definite plural ormane)

ormen (definite singular)
ormar (indefinite plural)
ormane (definite plural)

From Old Norse ormr, from Proto-Germanic *wurmiz, from Proto-Indo-European *wr̥mis. Akin to English worm.

(folklore) a mythical worm living in a human body parts, teeth or bones, causing various kinds of sickness

(folklore) any mythical dragon-like creature


orm

orm (indefinite nominative singular)
orms (genitive indefinite singular)
ormen (definite nominative singular)
ormens (definite genitive singular)
ormar (indefinite nominative plural)
ormars (genitive indefinite plural)
ormarna (definite nominative plural)
ormarnas (definite genitive plural)

From Old Swedish ormber (“snake, vermin, ringworm”), from Old Norse ormr, from Proto-Germanic *wurmiz, from Proto-Indo-European *wr̥mis, *wrmo- (“serpent, scorpion, maggot, worm”), maybe from Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to turn”). Akin to English worm, wyrm. Doublet of vurm.


time warp

time warps (plural)
timewarp (alternative)

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But as the reports on the Bild investigation suggest, the company’s workplace culture may be stuck in a time warp.

2021 October 17, Ben Smith, “At Axel Springer, Politico’s New Owner, Allegations of Sex, Lies and a Secret Payment”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(science fiction) A hypothetical discontinuity in the flow of time that would uncausally move events from one time period to another.


time warp

en-verb

time warp (third-person singular simple present time warps, present participle time warping, simple past and past participle time warped)

time warps (present singular third-person)
time warping (participle present)
time warped (participle past)
time warped (past)
timewarp (alternative)

(science fiction, transitive, intransitive) To travel through time in such a manner.


tittle

From Middle English tytle, titel, titele, from Anglo-Norman titil, titule and Medieval Latin titulus (“small stroke, diacritical mark, accent”), from Latin titulus (“title”). Doublet of tilde, titer/titre, title, titlo, and titulus.

doublet

The foure pricks or tittles are these. The first is a full prick or period. The second is a comma or crooked tittle.

1590, Bales, The Arte of Brachygraphie (quoted in Daid King's 2001 'The Ciphers of the Monks')

The words "jot" and "tittle" in this passage refer to diacritic marks, that is, dashes, dots, or commas added to a letter to accentuate the pronunciation.

1965, P. A. Marijnen, The Encyclopedia of the Bible:

(the page calls both "a superscript sign (hooklike)" and also a diacritical abbreviation of "er" (er) "tittles")

1987, Andrea van Arkel-De Leeuw van Weenen, Möðruvallabók, AM 132 Fol: Index and concordance, page xii

A tittle is more or less the same thing (the dot over an i, for instance), except that it can be traced back to Medieval Latin for a little mark over or under a letter, such as an accent ague or a cedilla. I don't know whether an umlaut is one or two tittles. Maybe it's a jot and a tittle side by side.

2008, Roy Blount, Alphabet juice: the energies, gists, and spirits of letters:

(typography) Any small dot, stroke, or diacritical mark, especially if part of a letter, or of a letter-like abbreviation; in particular, the dots over the Latin letters i and j.


manchette

(printing) A vertical heading within a newspaper article.


manchette

→ English: manchette

→ Czech: manžeta

desctree

→ Dutch: manchet
Afrikaans: mansjet
→ Indonesian: manset

→ German: Manschette

→ Haitian Creole: manchèt

→ Hebrew: מנג׳ט

→ Hungarian: mandzsetta

→ Norwegian Bokmål: mansjett

→ Portuguese: manchete

→ Romanian: manșetă

→ Russian: манже́та (manžéta)
→ Uyghur: مانجىت (manjit)
→ Uzbek: manjeta

→ Swedish: manschett

→ Turkish: manşet


runa

pl-noun

runa f (related adjective runiczny or runicki or runowy or runiany)

runiczny (adjective)
runicki (adjective)
runowy (adjective)
runiany (adjective)
runa (nominative singular)
runy (nominative plural)
runy (genitive singular)
run (genitive plural)
runie (dative singular)
runom (dative plural)
runę (accusative singular)
runy (accusative plural)
runą (instrumental singular)
runami (instrumental plural)
runie (locative singular)
runach (locative plural)
runo (singular vocative)
runy (plural vocative)

(chiefly in the plural, poetry) rune (Finnic or Scandinavian epic poem, or a division of one, especially a division of the Kalevala)


reprise

repetition, reiteration
(television) a repeat, rerun


frontispiece

frontispieces (plural)
frontispice (alternative archaic)

From Middle French frontispice, from Latin frontispicium, from frōns (“forehead”) + speciō (“to look at”). Spelling altered due to folk etymology, influenced by piece.

Coordinate term: headpiece

The viaduct was illustrated as a frontispiece to THE RAILWAY MAGAZINE of September, 1938. [In this case, the frontispiece is between the title page and the first article.]

1939 September, D. S. Barrie, “The Railways of South Wales”, in Railway Magazine, page 163:

(publishing) An illustration that is on the page before the title page of a book, a section of one, or a magazine.

(archaic, publishing) The title page of a book.


aoi

aoi (genitive singular)
aoi (indefinite nominative singular)
a aoi (indefinite singular vocative)
aoi (genitive indefinite singular)
aoi (dative indefinite singular)
an t-aoi (definite nominative singular)
an aoi (definite genitive singular)
leis an aoi (dative definite singular)
don aoi (dative definite singular)

From Old Irish aí (“poetic inspiration, metrical composition”).

inh

(literary, literature) a metrical composition


Courier

en-proper noun

Courier (countable and uncountable, plural Couriers)

(uncountable, typography) A monospace font that resembles the characters produced by a typewriter.


pyrokinesis

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(parapsychology, fantasy, science fiction) The ability to set objects or people on fire or to supernaturally project fire from one's own being through the concentration of psychic power; the power to control fire.

控火

the ability to set objects or people on fire


superscript

en-noun

superscript (countable and uncountable, plural superscripts)

From Middle French superscript, from Latin superscriptus (“written above”). By surface analysis, super- + script.

In x², the 2 written in superscript means “to the power of two”.

(typography) A type of lettering form that appears as a number, figure, or symbol above the normal line of type, located at the right or left of another symbol or text.


superscript

en-verb

superscript (third-person singular simple present superscripts, present participle superscripting, simple past and past participle superscripted)

superscripts (present singular third-person)
superscripting (participle present)
superscripted (participle past)
superscripted (past)

The ambient or unsaturated value of a variable is superscripted with a "*".

1987, Pragasen Pillay, “Permanent magnet synchronous motor drives and brushless DC motor drives for servo applications”, Conference Record of the 1987 IEEE Industry Applications Society Annual Meeting (Part I), IEEE, page 387

(mathematics, sciences, typography, transitive, of a variable) To provide with a superscript.

Select the number or letter you want to superscript and, in the Font dialog box, enter an Offset percentage to tell PowerPoint how high to raise the number or letter.

2011, Peter Weverka, PowerPoint 2007 All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies:

(typography, transitive, of a text) To convert to a superscript form.


punctum

la-noun

pūnctum n (genitive pūnctī); second declension

pūnctum (canonical neuter)
pūnctī (genitive)
pūnctum (nominative singular)
pūncta (nominative plural)
pūnctī (genitive singular)
pūnctōrum (genitive plural)
pūnctō (dative singular)
pūnctīs (dative plural)
pūnctum (accusative singular)
pūncta (accusative plural)
pūnctō (ablative singular)
pūnctīs (ablative plural)
pūnctum (singular vocative)
pūncta (plural vocative)

Asturian: puntu

Catalan: punt

→ Danish: punktum

→ Dutch: punt

→ English: punctum

Friulian: pont

Galician: punto

→ German: Punkt, Punktum

→ Esperanto: punkto

→ Serbo-Croatian: punkt

→ Hungarian: pont

→ Romanian: pont

Irish: ponc

Italian: punto

→ English: punto

→ Ottoman Turkish: پونطو (punto)

Turkish: punto

→ Middle Low German: punct

→ Old Norse: punktr

Danish: punkt

Norwegian Bokmål: punkt

Swedish: punkt

→ Middle Welsh: pwnc

Welsh: pwnc

→ Norwegian Bokmål: punktum

Occitan: ponch

desctree

→ Old Czech: punkt (learned)
Czech: punkt

Old French: point

→ Middle English: point

→ Middle Welsh: pwynt

Welsh: pwynt

English: point, p'int
→ Cantonese: point
→ Indonesian: poin
→ Japanese: ポイント (pointo)
→ Korean: 포인트 (pointeu)
→ Malay: poin

Middle French: poinct

French: point

→ Danish: point

→ Dutch: punt

→ Norwegian Bokmål: poeng

→ Polish: pointa

→ Swedish: poäng

→ Turkish: puan

→ Middle Irish: pointe

Irish: pointe

Norman: point

Portuguese: ponto

→ Polish: punkt (learned)

→ Proto-Brythonic: *puɨθ

Middle Welsh: pwyth

Welsh: pwyth

→ Romanian: punct

→ Russian: пункт (punkt)

Sicilian: puntu

Spanish: punto, puento (dialectal)

→ Tagalog: punto

Venetan: ponto

Neuter form of pūnctus, the perfect passive participle of pungō (“to prick, puncture”).


romp

en-verb

romp (third-person singular simple present romps, present participle romping, simple past and past participle romped)

romps (present singular third-person)
romping (participle present)
romped (participle past)
romped (past)

This wasn't salacious, romping 'sex', tabloid style

1997, Soundings: A Journal of Politics and Culture:

Ladbrokes is offering 2-1 odds that contestants WILL romp in the ten-week show.

2006, Martin Conboy, quoting The Sun, Tabloid Britain: Constructing a Community Through Language, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page 204:

One young lady who had just romped with an A-List Hollywood star, panicked during my strategic silence and threw in an entirely unexpected line about how he'd enjoyed throttling himself with his tie.

2010 May 13, Sharon Marshall, Tabloid Girl, Hachette UK, →ISBN:

(slang, chiefly newspapers) To engage in playful or illicit sex.


prosody

en-noun

prosody (countable and uncountable, plural prosodies)

From Middle French prosodie, from Latin prosōdia, from Ancient Greek προσῳδία (prosōidía, “song sung to music; pronunciation of syllable”), from πρός (prós, “to”) + ᾠδή (ōidḗ, “song”).

der

But the system of prosody in Samson plainly forbids extrametrical syllables in the midst of the line, and there is certainly no other example.

1894, Robert Bridges, Milton's Prosody, Oxford University Press, page 30:

(poetry) The study of poetic meter; the patterns of sounds and rhythms in verse.


slant

Late Middle English, from a variant of the earlier form dialectical slent, from Old Norse or another North Germanic source, cognate with Old Norse slent, Swedish slinta (“to slip”), Norwegian slenta (“to fall on the side”), from Proto-Germanic *slintaną. Probably influenced by aslant.

kalteva lokero

depression with sloping bottom to hold watercolors

Initial inquiries among professional typists uncover names like slant, slant line, slash, and slash mark. Examination of typing instruction manuals discloses additional names such as diagonal and diagonal mark, and other sources provide the designation oblique.

[1965, Dmitri A. Borgmann, Language on Vacation, page 240:

(typography) Synonym of slash ⟨ / ⟩, particularly in its use to set off pronunciations from other text.


wirehead

(science fiction) A person who has an electronic brain implant.


بيت

ar-noun

بَيْت • (bayt) m (plural أَبْيَات (ʔabyāt))

بَيْت (canonical)
bayt (romanization)
أَبْيَات (plural)
بَيْت (indefinite informal singular triptote)
الْبَيْت (definite informal singular triptote)
بَيْت (construct informal singular triptote)
بَيْتٌ (indefinite nominative singular triptote)
الْبَيْتُ (definite nominative singular triptote)
بَيْتُ (construct nominative singular triptote)
بَيْتًا (accusative indefinite singular triptote)
الْبَيْتَ (accusative definite singular triptote)
بَيْتَ (accusative construct singular triptote)
بَيْتٍ (genitive indefinite singular triptote)
الْبَيْتِ (definite genitive singular triptote)
بَيْتِ (construct genitive singular triptote)
بَيْتَيْن (dual indefinite informal singular triptote)
الْبَيْتَيْن (definite dual informal singular triptote)
بَيْتَيْ (construct dual informal singular triptote)
بَيْتَانِ (dual indefinite nominative singular triptote)
الْبَيْتَانِ (definite dual nominative singular triptote)
بَيْتَا (construct dual nominative singular triptote)
بَيْتَيْنِ (accusative dual indefinite singular triptote)
الْبَيْتَيْنِ (accusative definite dual singular triptote)
بَيْتَيْ (accusative construct dual singular triptote)
بَيْتَيْنِ (dual genitive indefinite singular triptote)
الْبَيْتَيْنِ (definite dual genitive singular triptote)
بَيْتَيْ (construct dual genitive singular triptote)
أَبْيَات (broken-form indefinite informal plural triptote)
الْأَبْيَات (broken-form definite informal plural triptote)
أَبْيَات (broken-form construct informal plural triptote)
أَبْيَاتٌ (broken-form indefinite nominative plural triptote)
الْأَبْيَاتُ (broken-form definite nominative plural triptote)
أَبْيَاتُ (broken-form construct nominative plural triptote)
أَبْيَاتًا (accusative broken-form indefinite plural triptote)
الْأَبْيَاتَ (accusative broken-form definite plural triptote)
أَبْيَاتَ (accusative broken-form construct plural triptote)
أَبْيَاتٍ (broken-form genitive indefinite plural triptote)
الْأَبْيَاتِ (broken-form definite genitive plural triptote)
أَبْيَاتِ (broken-form construct genitive plural triptote)

→ Azerbaijani: beyt

→ Persian: بیت (beyt)

→ Urdu: بیت (bait)

→ Ottoman Turkish: بیت (beyt, beyit)

> Turkish: beyit (inherited)

→ Uyghur: بېيىت (bëyit)

→ Uzbek: bayt


llorona

rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines

(folklore) weeping woman (from the Latin American folkloric legend La Llorona)


sous-titre

(cinematography, television, used more in plural) subtitle (textual versions of the dialogue in films (and similar media such as television or video games), usually displayed at the bottom of the screen)

sous-titrage pour sourds et malentendants

(cinematography, television, used more in plural) caption (a piece of text appearing on screen as subtitle or other part of a film or broadcast, and it describe dialogues and sound for viewers who cannot hear it)

(cinematography, television, used more in plural) closed caption


wind-up

(television) A circular hand gesture, supposed to represent the winding on of film, used to signal to a performer to finish quickly.


adaptation

en-noun

adaptation (countable and uncountable, plural adaptations)

adaptations (plural)
adaption (alternative rare)

/ˌædəpˈteɪʃən/

/ˌædæpˈteɪʃən/

/aˈɖæpˌʈeːʃan/

From French adaptation, from Medieval Latin adaptātiō, from Latin adaptō (“I fit, adjust, modify; I adapt, fit or adjust to”); see adapt. Equivalent to adapt + -ation.

der

Having partly a bibliographic value, and partly confirming the statements above as to Balzac's influence, the following details concerning theatrical adaptations of some of his novels may serve as a supplement to this chapter.

(countable, authorship) An artistic work that has been adapted from a different medium.


ascent

en-noun

ascent (countable and uncountable, plural ascents)

Formed from ascend on the model of descend/descent.

(typography) The ascender height in a typeface.


bathos

bathos (usually uncountable, plural bathoses)

Borrowed from Ancient Greek βάθος (báthos, “depth”). Employed ironically following Alexander Pope's Peri Bathous, lampooning various errors in contemporary writers.

bathos

unintentional failure at artistic effect

(literature, the arts) Risible failure on the part of a work of art to properly affect its audience, particularly owing to:

anticlimax: an abrupt transition in style or subject from high to low.

banality: unaffectingly clichéd or trite treatment of a topic.

immaturity: lack of serious treatment of a topic.

While a plain and direct Road is pav'd to their ὐψος, or sublime; no Track has been yet chalk'd out to arrive at our βάθος, or profund.

(literature, the arts) The ironic use of such failure for satiric or humorous effect.


vía

Unknown. Compare Proto-Vietic *r-vaːjʔ (“soul; spirit”) (> Muong wãi), which is from Proto-Mon-Khmer *rwaaj (“tiger > soul; spirit”).

cog

(folklore, religion) po (the soul which does not leave the body after death)

đeo vía

đốt vía

(folklore, religion) an object made of paper that is worn on the body or burned to avoid disasters and illnesses


chibi

en-noun

chibi (countable and uncountable, plural chibis)

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Borrowed from Japanese ちび (chibi, “something small; runt, dwarf; pipsqueak”)

bor+

(countable) A child-like character with exaggerated features, particularly in anime.

Since the eyes take up so much room on the chibi face, the head needs to be stretched and, therefore, usually ends up being oval-shaped to accommodate the oval-shaped eyes.

2013, Christopher Hart, Manga for the Beginner:

(uncountable) A style of cartooning in which the characters are drawn to be very small and cute.


box office

en-noun

box office (countable and uncountable, plural box offices)

box offices (plural)
box-office (alternative)
boxoffice (alternative)

1786, presumably from sales of boxes, box seats (“separated private seating”). Sense of “total sales” from 1904.
Folk etymology is that this derives from Elizabethan theatre, where theater admission was collected in a box attached to a long stick, passed around the audience. However, the term is first attested over a century later (theaters were closed in 1642), making this highly unlikely.

(countable, film, theater) A place where tickets are sold in a theatre/theater or cinema.

If any further insurance was required, the popularity of the three "Topper" films in the 1930s — based on Thorne Smith's characters — would seem to indicate that amusing ghosts made good box office.

2005, Barry Day, Coward on Film: The Cinema of Noël Coward, page 88:

(uncountable, by extension, film) The total amount of money paid by people worldwide to watch a movie at cinemas/movie theaters.


trucking

trucking (countable and uncountable, plural truckings)

(broadcasting) Lateral movement of the camera.


polje

pọ̑lje (canonical)
poljẹ̑ (canonical neuter)
pọ̑lje (nominative singular)
pọ̑lji (dual nominative)
pọ̑lja (nominative plural)
pọ̑lja (genitive singular)
pọ̑lj (dual genitive)
pọ̑lj (genitive plural)
pọ̑lju (dative singular)
pọ̑lji (dative singular)
pọ̑ljema (dative dual)
pọ̑ljama (dative dual)
pọ̑ljem (dative plural)
pọ̑ljam (dative plural)
pọ̑lje (accusative singular)
pọ̑lji (accusative dual)
pọ̑lja (accusative plural)
pọ̑lju (locative singular)
pọ̑lji (locative singular)
pọ̑ljih (dual locative)
pọ̑ljah (dual locative)
pọ̑ljih (locative plural)
pọ̑ljah (locative plural)
pọ̑ljem (instrumental singular)
pọ̑ljema (dual instrumental)
pọ̑ljama (dual instrumental)
pọ̑lji (instrumental plural)
pọ̑lje (singular vocative)
pọ̑lji (dual vocative)
pọ̑lja (plural vocative)
poljẹ̑ (nominative singular)
pọ̑lji (dual nominative)
pọ̑lja (nominative plural)
poljȃ (genitive singular)
pọ̑lj (dual genitive)
pọ̑lj (genitive plural)
pọ̑lju (dative singular)
pọ̑lji (dative singular)
pọ̑ljema (dative dual)
pọ̑ljama (dative dual)
pọ̑ljem (dative plural)
pọ̑ljam (dative plural)
poljẹ̑ (accusative singular)
pọ̑lji (accusative dual)
pọ̑lja (accusative plural)
pọ̑lju (locative singular)
pọ̑lji (locative singular)
pọ̑ljih (dual locative)
pọ̑ljah (dual locative)
pọ̑ljih (locative plural)
pọ̑ljah (locative plural)
pọ̑ljem (instrumental singular)
pọ̑ljema (dual instrumental)
pọ̑ljama (dual instrumental)
pọ̑lji (instrumental plural)
poljẹ̑ (singular vocative)
pọ̑lji (dual vocative)
pọ̑lja (plural vocative)

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *poľe, probably from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- (“flat, wide”).


草書

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (草書):
* → Japanese: 草書(そうしょ) (sōsho)
* → Korean: 초서(草書) (choseo)
* → Vietnamese: thảo thư (草書)

/t͡sʰɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʂu⁵⁵/

/t͡sʰou̯³⁵ syː⁵⁵/

/t͡sʰo⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ t͡sɯ³³/

/t͡sʰo⁵³⁻⁴⁴ su⁴⁴/

/t͡sʰɤ⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ su⁴⁴/

/t͡sʰo⁵³⁻⁴⁴ si⁴⁴/

/t͡sʰau⁴⁴⁵⁻³³ su³³/

/t͡sʰɔ³³ sz̩⁴⁴/

/t͡sʰɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʂu⁵⁵/

/t͡sʰou̯³⁵ syː⁵⁵/

/t͡sʰo⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ t͡sɯ³³/

/t͡sʰo⁵³⁻⁴⁴ su⁴⁴/

/t͡sʰɤ⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ su⁴⁴/

/t͡sʰo⁵³⁻⁴⁴ si⁴⁴/

/t͡sʰau⁴⁴⁵⁻³³ su³³/

/t͡sʰɔ³³ sz̩⁴⁴/

(calligraphy) a Chinese calligraphic style

cursive script
a Chinese calligraphic style


original aspect ratio

en-noun

original aspect ratio (plural original aspect ratios)

modified aspect ratio
modified aspect ratio

(cinematography) The aspect ratio of the rectangular shape that the director intended his or her motion picture to be viewed in, as opposed to modified aspect ratio.


modified aspect ratio

original aspect ratio
original aspect ratio

(cinematography) An aspect ratio in which a motion picture is formatted to fit a specific type of screen (historically 1.33:1), as opposed to original aspect ratio.


commentator

commentators (plural)
commentatour (alternative)

In form, from Middle English commentator, from Latin commentātor (“author, inventor, interpreter, jailer”), from commentātus + -or (“-er: forming agent nouns”), from commentāri (“to ponder, to study, to write upon”), from comminīscor (“to think over, to invent”) + -tārī (“to frequently be ~ed”). In meaning, influenced by comment and commentary.

der

A person who makes a commentary, particularly

(media, sports) A person who provides an instantaneous description of a public event, particularly a sporting event, for a mass media audience.

Specifically, and unforgivably, she restarted the Heathrow Third Runway bandwagon, which had been stalled for more than a decade and even declared dead by most commentators.

2025 February 19, Christian Wolmar, “Reeves talks of 'growth' but pays lip service to the railway”, in RAIL, number 1029, page 35:

(media) A person who provides analysis or opinion on current events, especially for a mass media audience.


chapeau

Antillean Creole: chapo

→ Chinook Jargon: siyáputl, siyápo

→ Quileute: tsiyá·pos

→ Choctaw: shʋpo, shapo

→ Galician: chapeu

→ German: Chapeau

→ Hausa: shàpô

desc

→ Hebrew: שָׁאפּוֹ

→ Hebrew: שָׁאפּוֹ

→ Iberian:

Catalan: xapó

Galician: chapeu

desctree

Portuguese: chapéu; (obsolete) chapeo
→ Ambonese Malay: capeu
→ Guajajára: zapew
→ Konkani: चेपें (cepẽ)
→ Ladino: chapeo
→ Manado Malay: capeo (“hat”)
→ Swahili: chepeo

Spanish: chapeo

→ Jeju: 사포 (sapo)

→ Narragansett: shapú

Inherited from Middle French chappeau m, from Old French chapel m, from Early Medieval Latin cappellus m, diminutive from Late Latin cappa f. The interjection was originally short for chapeau bas.


neo

Ken Bulmer pointed out that the attitude of a fan who had read much sf is different from that of a neo who is reading sf for the first time.

1964 April 2, Bennett Ron, Skyrack, number 65:

This fabulous fannish cover illustrated the three stages of fandom: the neo, the trufan, and the BNF.

1976 August 25, Ian Maule, Checkpoint, number 72:

Edwina, and neofen of her generation (this is not a criticism - everyone starts out as a neo), being new to sffandom, and not a member of faandom, would not have noticed this.

1996 November 3, Richard J. Faulder, Gegenschein, number 80:

(dated, fandom slang, science fiction) Clipping of neofan.


Vokal

de-noun

Vokal m (strong, genitive Vokales or Vokals, plural Vokale)

Vokales (genitive)
Vokals (genitive)
Vokale (plural)
Vokal (nominative singular)
Vokale (definite nominative plural)
Vokales (genitive singular)
Vokals (genitive singular)
Vokale (definite genitive plural)
Vokal (dative singular)
Vokale (dative singular)
Vokalen (dative definite plural)
Vokal (accusative singular)
Vokale (accusative definite plural)
Vocal (alternative obsolete)
Vocalis (alternative obsolete)

15th century, from Latin (littera) vōcālis (“vowel”).

(orthography) vowel letter (letter representing such a sound)


splatter

en-noun

splatter (countable and uncountable, plural splatters)

Uncertain. Emerged 1780s.https://www.etymonline.com/word/splatter Possibly a blend of splash + spatter.

(uncountable, radio) Spurious emissions resulting from an abrupt change in a transmitted radio signal.


paperback

en-verb

paperback (third-person singular simple present paperbacks, present participle paperbacking, simple past and past participle paperbacked)

paperbacks (present singular third-person)
paperbacking (participle present)
paperbacked (participle past)
paperbacked (past)

From paper + back, a shortening of the older term paper-backed book.

Max was anticipating paperbacking The Bodley Head's books in house rather than licensing the paperback rights to a third party, like Penguin, which reduced his royalties and might eventually lose him authors to vertical publishers.

2009, J. Adamson, Max Reinhardt: A Life in Publishing, page 71:

(transitive, publishing) To issue or publish (a book) in a paperback edition.


lolicon

en-noun

lolicon (usually uncountable, plural lolicons)

lolicons (plural)
lolicom (alternative)
loli-con (alternative)
lolikon (alternative)
roricon (alternative)
rorikon (alternative)

Borrowed from Japanese ロリコン (rorikon), clipping of ロリータ・コンプレックス (“Lolita complex”), culturally adapted from the 1966 American academic thesis of the same name that had its name by Russell Trainer, of itself taken from the Vladimir Nabokov novel Lolita and English complex (not from English Lolita complex, which comes from the Japanese term). Lolita comes from Spanish Lolita, diminutive of Lola, from the given name Dolores. By surface analysis, loli + -con (“abnormal sexual attraction”).

clipping

ロリータ・コンプレックス

surf

Innocence’s story—about female sex androids that kill their owners—is possible only in a Lolicon country like Japan. The androids are modeled after little girls[.]

2004, Patrick Macias, Tomohiro Machiyama, Cruising The Anime City: An Otaku Guide to Neo Tokyo, Stone Bridge Press, page 48:

A Japanese term derived from the English phrase “Lolita complex,” lolicon describes a fascination with cartoons of very young-looking girls engaged in varying degrees of erotic behavior.

2014 October 15, Matt Alt, “Pharrell Williams’s Lolicon Video”, in The New Yorker:

(uncountable, Japanese fiction) Attraction (often erotic) to young, typically prepubescent girls, or the fictional depictions thereof.

I don't need to hear you are becoming a lolicon.

1993 October 29, "Eldrick Tobin, Master of Perversion" (username), "The Arc: Joyful Noise Omakefic Unit 01: Sentenced: A Fanboys! Crossover "jnomk01.txt" (1/1)", in alt.hentai.sailor-moon, Usenet

Ken's a lolicon (pedophile).

1998 March 9, Chadwick Ngan, “BLAND Manga Capsules 3/4/98”, in rec.arts.manga (Usenet):

Hey, don't take me for a lolicon: I'm not! It is just that I find that kind of anime... fun, refreshing.

2000 July 6, OLF, i.e. Olf Le Fol, “:: chokes :: :: passes out ::”, in alt.hentai.sailor-moon (Usenet):

I like lolis, I consider myself a lolicon, but I'm not attracted to real children. Your argument fails immediately there since most lolicons are not attracted to real children. Am I a pedophile?

2016 July 14, Aiko_Hiroshi, Kono Bijutsubu ni wa Mondai ga Aru! Episode 2 Discussion:

Let me say it again, lolicon and pedo are a different thing. japanese people are just saying it lolicon because in their mind, they already implanted the word of lolicon as pedo, but in anime community, pedo and lolicon are a different thing. why make it different ? so that we can see the difference from people who likes "fictional" little girl and from people who likes "real" little girl.

2016 July 15, YizelTro, Kono Bijutsubu ni wa Mondai ga Aru! Episode 2 Discussion:

(countable, Japanese fiction) An individual who is attracted to underage girls.

If you are into bishojo, loli-con, or bishonen materials, be advised that customs *does* frown on what might be considered pornography.

1989 September 23, Mark Crispin, “bringing stuff into the US from Japan”, in soc.culture.japan (Usenet):

the whole gamut of lolicon and girls-with-guns genres

1993 March 27, Rafael Brown, “Anime Potrayal of Japanese Women”, in rec.arts.anime (Usenet):

Some critics of lolicon claim that those who enjoy it also necessarily enjoy real child porn […]

2006, Lawrence Eng, Otaku Engagements: subcultural appropriation of science and technology, page 168:

Bizarrely, viewing and collecting lolicon seems to have become a subcultural norm, especially in Japan, […]

2010, Sarah D. Goode, Understanding and Addressing Adult Sexual Attraction to Children: a Study of Paedophiles in Contemporary Society, page 29:

Most importantly, because German child pornography and child abuse laws forbid representation of children as sexual objects, there is a complete ban on shota or lolicon.

2010, Paul M. Malone, “From BRAVO to Animexx.de to Export”, in Boys’ Love Manga, page 33:

(uncountable, Japanese fiction) Erotic or suggestive artwork depicting underage girls.


typesetting

en-noun

typesetting (countable and uncountable, plural typesettings)

(typography) The setting or composition of written material into type.


flashback

→ German: Flashback

→ Spanish: flashback

→ Norwegian: flashback

→ Portuguese: flashback

(authorship) A dramatic device in which an earlier event is inserted into the normal chronological flow of a narrative.

salt enrere

a dramatic device in which an earlier event is inserted into the normal chronological flow of a narrative


dingbat

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Unknown, US mid 19th century. The word-puzzle sense comes from the board game Dingbats, which is based on these puzzles.

"The compulsive editor, when checking the specs on an article, can't help checking also for such items as initial capital and closing dingbat, if they are used routinely. These decorative items have a way of being forgotten..."

1982, The Elements of Editing: A Modern Guide for Editors and Journalists, Arthur Plotnik, p.8

(typography) A special ornamental typographical symbol, such as a bullet, an arrow, a pointing hand etc.


exeunt

en-verb

exeunt (third-person singular simple present exit or exeunts, present participle exeunting, simple past and past participle exeunted)

exit (present singular third-person)
exeunts (present singular third-person)
exeunting (participle present)
exeunted (participle past)
exeunted (past)

Borrowed from Latin exeunt (“they leave”), the third-person plural present active indicative of exeō (“leave”).

bor+

Get thee to bed, and rest; for thou hast need. [Exeunt Lady Capulet and Nurse.]

c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:

Enter two Devils.
 Wagner. How now sir, will you serve me now?
 Robin. Ay, good Wagner, take away the devils then.
 Wagner. Spirits, away! [Exeunt Devils.] Now, sirrah, follow me.

1589–1592 (date written), Ch[ristopher] Marl[owe], The Tragicall History of D. Faustus. […], London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for Thomas Bushell, published 1604, →OCLC:

Jane, Ursa, carrying Thomas, and Moss Bud start to exeunt.

1921, Montrose Jonas Moses, A Treasury of Plays for Children, page 504:

On that dixit we exeunted.

1957, Henry Miller, Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch, page 249:

That let the small problem of getting the van within proximity, running a few yards of cable, spiking the phone line, revving the engine and frying the phones, removing the cable, and exeunting, south

1997, Richard Marcinko with John Weisman, Task Force Blue, page 311:

The lasses picked up their skirts and exeunted.

2003, Neal Stephenson, Quicksilver, page 142:

(archaic, drama) They leave the stage (a stage direction to two or more actors, the plural counterpart of exit).

退场

"they leave", usually in the context of theatre


tympan

As the pressman returns the inkballs to the inkstone, the journeyman closes the frisket and tympan.

2000, Richard L. Saunders, Printing in Deseret:

(printing) A piece of cloth padding placed under the platen of a letterpress to distribute the pressure on the sheet being printed.


tympan

Borrowed from Latin tympanum. Doublet of timbre, which was inherited.


typecast

en-verb

typecast (third-person singular simple present typecasts, present participle typecasting, simple past and past participle typecast or typecasted)

typecasts (present singular third-person)
typecasting (participle present)
typecast (participle past)
typecast (past)
typecasted (participle past)
typecasted (past)

(acting) To cast an actor in the same kind of role repeatedly.

encasellar

to cast an actor in the same kind of role repeatedly

Duensing has elected to resuscitate and typecast faces that in the main might be termed scholarly in nature […]

1967, “Inland Printer, American Lithographer”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), volume 159, part 2, page 116:

(printing, historical) To found type in a mold.


fascicle

From Latin fasciculus, a diminutive of fascis (“bundle”); see also fasces. Doublet of fasciculus.

The OED [Oxford English Dictionary] was initially published in a series of 125 slim fascicles between the years 1884 and 1928. The first complete edition in ten volumes was published in 1928.

1993, Donna Lee Berg, A Guide to the Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 3:

I was inspired to prepare fascicles like this by the example of Charles Dickens, who issued his novels in serial form; he published a dozen installments of Oliver Twist before having any idea what would become of Bill Sikes!

2005, Donald E. Knuth, MMIX–A RISC Computer for the New Millennium (The Art of Computer Programming), volume 1, Addison-Wesley Professional, →ISBN, page iii:

The printed book appeared in a variety of forms during the course of its history in China. These included, among others, the “whirlwind” binding (xuanfeng zhuang), […] the “thread” binding (xianzhuang), a technical designation that refers to the silken or cotton filaments used to stitch together folded sheets of paper into fascicles.

2005, Anne Burkus-Chasson, “Visual Hermeneutics and the Act of Turning the Leaf”, in Cynthia Joanne Brokaw, Kai-wing Chow, editors, Printing and Book Culture in Late Imperial China, University of California Press, →ISBN, page 371:

(publishing) A discrete section of a book issued or published separately, generally as a temporary measure while the work is in progress.


episodic

en-adj

episodic (comparative more episodic, superlative most episodic)

more episodic (comparative)
most episodic (superlative)
episodick (alternative)

[ˌɛp.ɪˈsɑ.ɾɪk]

From episode + -ic. Compare French épisodique.

I just read five attempts at episodic novels — has nobody heard of a plot anymore?

(literature and television) Consisting of a sequence of seemingly unconnected episodes.


decima

Borrowed from Spanish décima, from Latin decima (“a tenth”). Doublet of decim, decime, and dime.

His album... dealt with the song form of Puerto Rican back-country troubadours, and it had a preoccupation with... the décima, a 10-line stanza with specific rhyme schemes.

(poetry) A 10-line verse or stanza, (chiefly) in the form of a song comprising an introductory verse followed by four such divisions.


jamb

jambi (genitive)
jambi (partitive)
jamb (nominative singular)
jambid (nominative plural)
jamb (accusative nominative singular)
jambid (accusative nominative plural)
jambi (accusative genitive singular)
jambid (accusative genitive plural)
jambi (genitive singular)
jambide (genitive plural)
jambi (partitive singular)
jambe (partitive plural)
jambisid (partitive plural)
jambi (illative singular)
jambisse (illative singular)
jambidesse (illative plural)
jambesse (illative plural)
jambis (inessive singular)
jambides (inessive plural)
jambes (inessive plural)
jambist (elative singular)
jambidest (elative plural)
jambest (elative plural)
jambile (allative singular)
jambidele (allative plural)
jambele (allative plural)
jambil (adessive singular)
jambidel (adessive plural)
jambel (adessive plural)
jambilt (ablative singular)
jambidelt (ablative plural)
jambelt (ablative plural)
jambiks (singular translative)
jambideks (plural translative)
jambeks (plural translative)
jambini (singular terminative)
jambideni (plural terminative)
jambina (essive singular)
jambidena (essive plural)
jambita (abessive singular)
jambideta (abessive plural)
jambiga (comitative singular)
jambidega (comitative plural)

Ultimately from Ancient Greek ἴαμβος (íambos).


jamb

pl-noun

jamb m inan (related adjective jambiczny)

jambiczny (adjective)
jamb (nominative singular)
jamby (nominative plural)
jambu (genitive singular)
jambów (genitive plural)
jambowi (dative singular)
jambom (dative plural)
jamb (accusative singular)
jamby (accusative plural)
jambem (instrumental singular)
jambami (instrumental plural)
jambie (locative singular)
jambach (locative plural)
jambie (singular vocative)
jamby (plural vocative)

(poetry, prosody) iamb (metrical foot in verse consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable)


on air

→ Japanese: オンエア (on'ea)

The broadcasting sense derives from the early use of radio, literally sending the transmission on the air waves.

Julie is on air now, presenting the weather forecast.

Channel 9 will be on air in a few minutes, giving a live broadcast.

The transmitter remained on air all through the war.

The microphone was on air, and the whole country heard the outburst.

It can get very hectic in the studio, especially when a news story breaks while we are on air.

2003, Focus on Africa: BBC Magazine - Volumes 14-15, page 43:

However, he had no contract with my Tongan friends and it was strictly against the rules to put performers on air without one.

2009, David Attenborough, Life on Air: Memoirs of a Broadcaster:

You should move to a minimal degree while you are on air.

2013, Graham Andrews, You're On Air, page 92:

The on-air studio will comprise of the equipment for recording, editing and storage – both in analog and digital formats. A hard disk based system, CDs and cassette players would form a part of the room. There will be an on-air indicator at the entrance of the room, which indicates the person entering the studio to be aware that the studio is on air, and indicates that there should not be any disturbance from the external source.

2018, M. Neelamalar, Radio Programme Production, page 174:

Taken a bit in drink one evening, and live on air, Davey got into terrible trouble by varying his standard opening words with the memorable line" when roses are red, they're ready to pluck; when girls are sixteen, they're ready to...

(radio, television, broadcasting) Broadcasting or transmitting through the medium of radio or television.

Don't interrupt while the program is on air.

This show isn't on air at the moment — it's only on in the summer.

The popular television series was on air for ten years before it finally ended.

Was his interview on air?

We can't put this material on air.

Sack can be contacted directly when his show is on air (2-5 p.m. EST Sundays) at 1-800-TALK-YES, and welcomes brief phone questions about employment concerns at 1 -2 1 2-702-9000, extension 34.

Thus, all ABC, CBS, Fox, and NBC affiliates in the top 30 markets, representing 53.5% of all U.S. households, are on air with DTV.

2004, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet, Advancing the DTV Transition, page 25:

Czechoslovakia, for instance, had already participated actively in the founding meetings of the IBU, whereas the Polish delegate had joined in the Geneva frequency discussions before Poland even had its own broadcasting stations on air.

2012, Suzanne Lommers, Europe - On Air: Interwar Projects for Radio Broadcasting, page 93:

Obviously, the Japanese officer was sleeping or drunk with sake, and the Allied broadcast in Japanese was broadcast on air. As the local technicians on duty did not understand Japanese, it went on air for some time.

2019, On Air: Untold Stories from Caldecott Hill:

(radio, television, broadcasting) Being, or so as to be, broadcast or transmitted by radio or television.


clustering

(writing) A prewriting technique consisting of writing ideas down on a sheet of paper around a central idea within a circle, with the related ideas radially joined to the circle using rays.


frigate

From French frégate, from Italian fregata, of uncertain origin.

Frigates are light escort and scouting vessels. They often have extensive GARDIAN systems to provide anti-fighter screening for capital ships, and carry a squad of marines for security and groundside duty. Unlike larger vessels, frigates are able to land on planets.

2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Starships: Frigates Codex entry:

(fiction) A warship or space warship, inspired by one of the many historic varieties of frigate.


battlecruiser

battlecruisers (plural)
battle cruiser (alternative)
battle-cruiser (alternative)

Blend of battleship + cruiser, from being a cruiser-like ship with battleship-like capabilities and possibly operating in the battleline.

(fiction) A warship of intermediate size and/or capability between a heavy cruiser and a (light) battleship.


short story

(literature) A work of fiction that is shorter than a novella.


envoy

From French envoyé (“envoy, messenger”), from envoyer (“send”).

(poetry) Alternative spelling of envoi (“short stanza at end of poem”).


teleplay

(authorship) A script formatted like a screenplay for cinema, but written to be made into an episode of a television show.


screenplay

screenplays (plural)
screen play (alternative)

Coordinate term: radioplay

I know Corinne would be happy if I started writing scripts again. Since my last screenplay, I haven't written anything in over four months.

(authorship, cinematography) A script for a movie or a television show; especially, the former specifically.


radio silence

en-noun

radio silence (countable and uncountable, plural radio silences)

صمت إذاعي

period of time when all radio transmissions cease

杳无音讯

period of time during which nothing is heard from a person or organization

(radio) A status maintained where all fixed or mobile radio stations in an area stop transmitting (sometimes limited to certain frequency bands).

(radio) The period of time during which this status exists.


feedline

(radio) Physical cabling that carries the radio signal to and from the aerial.


lead out

en-verb

lead out (third-person singular simple present leads out, present participle leading out, simple past and past participle leaded out)

leads out (present singular third-person)
leading out (participle present)
leaded out (participle past)
leaded out (past)

(printing, historical, transitive) To pad out (text) by inserting lead slugs between words.


macaronic

en-adj

macaronic (comparative more macaronic, superlative most macaronic)

more macaronic (comparative)
most macaronic (superlative)
maccaronic (alternative)
macaronick (alternative obsolete)

/ˌmækəˈɹɑnɪk/

From New Latin, 1517 coinage, macaronicus, from Italian (Neapolitan dialect) maccarone (“coarse dumpling”).

(literature) Written in a hodgepodge mixture of two or more languages.


macaronic

macaronics (plural)
maccaronic (alternative)
macaronick (alternative obsolete)

/ˌmækəˈɹɑnɪk/

(literature) A work of macaronic character.


νάνος

nános (romanization)
νάνοι (plural)
νάνος (nominative singular)
νάνοι (nominative plural)
νάνου (genitive singular)
νάνων (genitive plural)
νάνο (accusative singular)
νάνους (accusative plural)
νάνε (singular vocative)
νάνοι (plural vocative)

(mythology, folklore) dwarf (member of a race of beings, usually depicted as having some sort of supernatural powers and being skilled in crafting and metalworking)


ragno

ragni (plural)
aragno (alternative archaic)

From Latin arāneus (“spider”), related to arānea (“spider”).

(film) a tripod on which a camera is placed


háček

háčeks (plural)
háčky (plural)
haček (alternative)
hacek (alternative)
hachek (alternative)
haċek (alternative)
hatcheck (alternative)
hatschek (alternative)
hatchek (alternative)
hacheck (alternative)
hac̬ek (alternative)
haczek (alternative)
hácek (alternative)
haĉek (alternative)
haceck (alternative)

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First attested in 1951; from the Czech háček (“háček”, literally “little hook”), the diminutive of hák (“hook”) (from Middle High German hāken, from Old High German hāko (“hook”), from Proto-Germanic *hakô (“hook”), from Proto-Indo-European *keg-, *keng- (“peg, hook”)) + the diminutive suffix -ek. Cognate with and formed like English hooklet and German Häkchen. Also cognate with Old English haca (“hook, door-fastening”) and modern English hake (more information below).

cog

The caret (ˇ), háček, is used over the following consonants: c, d, n, t, r, s, and z to indicate the soft sound.

1948, Bohumil Emil Mikula, Progressive Czech (Bohemian), page 6:

Linguistic forms had to be set in ordinary roman type and the capital C of Cäxa had to be left without a háček.

1951, Hans Jakob Polotsky, Notes on Gurage Grammar, page 5:

Good Teutonic Kitsch looks rather forlorn and out of place wearing a Bohemian háček over its shrunken hind quarters. But the high traditions of scholarship must be maintained, and on these pages Meester Kitsch will masquerade as Mr. Kič.

1956, Morris Halle, editor, For Roman Jakobson, page 332:

In the system used here and elsewhere in this article for Bantu tone, low syllables are unmarked, high syllables have an acute accent, and rising syllables a haček respectively; thus a, á, ǎ.

1966, Charles Ernest Bazell et al., editors, In Memory of J.R. Firth, page 205:

The printer had no hatchek — the flattened “v” that appears over letters in Czech — to put over Dvořak’s R. So somebody laboriously inked in all the hatcheks.

1991, Peter Hugh Reed, American Record Guide, LIV:ii, page 69:

háček used to signify the third tone (wǔ — ‘five’)

2002, Torbjörn Lundmark, Quirky QWERTY, page 34:

Another orthographic practice […] was developed […] in the twentieth century: this is the adoption of the hacek for the representation of the Cypriot postalveolar fricatives and affricates, which are otherwise not distinguished by the normal characters of the Greek alphabet alone. It was not until very recently, therefore, that the spellings <σ̌>, <τσ̌>, <ζ̌> and <τζ̌>, for [ʃ], [tʃ], [ʒ] and [dʒ] respectively, became available.

2005, Stavroula Varella, Language Contact and the Lexicon in the History of Cypriot Greek, page 46:

My father always wrote Bětik with a little “v” called haĉek, above the “e”; Marušaks placed the haĉek above the “s”.

2006, Mary Betik Trojacek, Beyond Ellis Island, page 17:

For examples of the usage of other forms of this term see Citations:háček, Citations:haček, Citations:hacek, Citations:haċek, Citations:hachek, Citations:hatcheck, Citations:hatschek, Citations:hǎcek, Citations:hatchek, Citations:hacheck, Citations:hac̬ek, Citations:haczek, Citations:háçek, Citations:hácek, Citations:haĉek, Citations:haceck and Citations:háčky.

diacritical mark
diacritical mark#English

(orthography and typography) A caron; a diacritical mark (ˇ) usually resembling an inverted circumflex, but in the cases of ď, Ľ, ľ, and ť resembling a prime (′) instead.

Ǎǎ Čč Ďď Ěě Ǧǧ Ȟȟ Ǐǐ J̌ǰ Ǩǩ Ľľ Ňň Ǒǒ Řř Šš Ťť Ǔǔ Ǚǚ Žž Ǯǯ DŽDždž Ǆǅǆ

acute accent

diacritics used in Latin-derived scripts

comma

above right ( ̕); below ( ̦), reversed (ʽ), turned (ʻ)

hook

above ( ̉); palatal ( ̡), retroflex ( ̢), rhotic (˞)

tilde

above (˜); below ( ̰), double ( ͠ ), middle / overlay ( ̴), vertical ( ̾)


vampiro

es-noun

vampiro m (plural vampiros, feminine vampiresa, feminine plural vampiresas)

vampiros (plural)
vampiresa (feminine)
vampiresas (feminine plural)

Borrowed from French vampire or German Vampir, from Hungarian vámpír, ultimately from Serbo-Croatian vàmpīr.


ranger

/ˈɹeɪnd͡ʒə(ɹ)/

(literature, roleplaying games) A warrior character, often with wilderness and stealth skill, who typically travels the countryside.


beeper

→ Polish: biper, beeper

Radio "beepers" are easy: all you need is a telephone, and you can basically have an overseas conversation with any DJ or radio news director in America.

2009, Keith Oliver, Command Attention: Promoting Your Organization the Marine Corps Way, page 11:

(radio, informal) A broadcast interview taking place over the telephone (originally having to include a beeping sound to indicate that it was not a live broadcast).


전

—전 (canonical)
-jeon (romanization)
傳 (hanja)

홍길동전 (洪吉童傳)

the hanja entry at 傳 for Sino-Korean compounds of 전


STV

en-noun

STV (countable and uncountable, plural STVs)

(broadcasting, uncountable) Initialism of subscription television.


empathic

en-adj

empathic (comparative more empathic, superlative most empathic)

more empathic (comparative)
most empathic (superlative)

(science fiction) Of, pertaining to, or being an empath: of or having the capability of sensing the emotions of others.


quadrat

Attested since 1683. Possibly from French cadrat or Italian quadrato (“square”), from Latin quadrātum (“square”). Doublet of quadrate and of etymology 1 above. So called because the basic quadrat, the em quadrat, has a square face, having the same width as the height of a line of type.

If his Title be ſhort, he Sets it in the middle of the Line, by Setting Quadrats on both ſides: If his Title be long, he Sets the middle Line in the middle: If it make three or more Lines, he Indents the firſt with an m Quadrat, and the other with two m Quadrats.

1683, Joseph Moxon, Mechanick Exercises: Or, the Doctrine of Handy-Works. Applied to the art of Printing., volume 2, pages 222–23:

The footsticks may be a trifle shorter than the width of two pages and the gutter; for as there should always be a line of quadrats, or a reglet cut to measure, at the foot of each page, the footstick may be a pica shorter without danger, on this account, of any thing falling out, when the form is lifted and it thus prevents the side and foot sticks from binding when locked up.

1841, William Savage, A Dictionary of the Art of Printing, page 330:

(letterpress typography, obsolete) A quad; a blank metal block used to fill space in lines of type.


excelsior

Excelsior (Longfellow)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Stan Lee

From Latin excelsior, comparative of excelsus (“high”). The name of the stuffing material was originally a trademark. As an exclamation, originating in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem Excelsior (1841), based on the New York state motto. Popularized in the comic book fandom by Marvel Comics editor Stan Lee, who chose the term to sign off his columns as it was an obscure term and would confound competing publishers who imitated his style.

pedia

Excelsior (Longfellow)#Adaptations and parodies

Excelsior (Longfellow) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

MARTIN PRINCE: Finally, Bart's one of us!
NERDS: Excelsior!

1993, Frank Mula, “The Last Temptation of Homer”, in The Simpsons, season 5, episode 9:

He makes a fake snorting noises with his nose and says “Excelsior to you too then, man” as he pushes up imaginary glasses on his face as if I'm the nerd.

2014 November 10, Matthew L. Williams, Truth Is, You're Still Dreaming, AuthorHouse, →ISBN:

Comic-Con International in San Diego is the exemplar of the con experience. Hold your breath, prepare your Sonic Screwdriver or Batarang, and dive right in. Excelsior!

2018 April 1, Lonely Planet, Mark Andrew, Amy C Balfour, Sarah Baxter, Andrew Bender, Sara Benson, Alison Bing, Nate Cavalieri, Lisa Dunford, Tom Hall, Lonely Planet Experience USA, Lonely Planet, →ISBN, page 224:

(fandom slang, especially comics) A greeting, farewell or acclamation.


excelsior

(US printing, dated) The size of type between Norse and brilliant, standardized as 3-point.


baria

bareia (alternative)
varia (alternative)

(orthography and typography) An Ancient Greek pitch-marking diacritic: ⟨ ` ⟩; written atop vowels, it denotes normal or low pitch.


peripeteia

en-noun

peripeteia (countable and uncountable, plural peripeteias)

peripeteias (plural)
peripetia (alternative)
peripety (alternative)

/pɛɹɪpɪˈtɪə/

/pɛɹɪpɪˈtaɪə/

/pɛɹɪpɪˈtiə/

/pɛɹɪpɪˈteɪə/

From Late Latin peripetia, and its source Ancient Greek περιπέτεια (peripéteia), from περιπίπτω (peripíptō, “to change suddenly”), from περί (perí, “round, around, about”) + the stem of πίπτω (píptō, “to fall”).

(drama) A sudden reversal of fortune as a plot point in Classical tragedy.

перипетия

a reversal of fortune; a sudden change in circumstances


periplus

periplus (plural peripluses or peripli or periploi)

peripluses (plural)
peripli (plural)
periploi (plural)
periplous (alternative)

/ˈpɛɹɪˌplʌs/

From Latin periplūs (“account of a voyage”) and Ancient Greek περίπλους (períplous, “voyage, naval manouver, account of a voyage”), from περί (perí, “peri-: around”) + πλοῦς (ploûs, “voyage”), from πλεῖν (pleîn, “to swim”). Cf. French périple, Spanish periplo, & Italian periplo.

der

Then follows a Periplus of the Euxine-Sea, which bears the name of Arrian, and was undoubtedly written by him in the time of Adrian, as the inſcription ſhews.

1738, Pierre Bayle, John Peter Bernard, Thomas Birch, John Lockman [et al.], “Hudson (Dr. John)”, in A General Dictionary, Historical and Critical, volume VI, London: Printed by James Bettenham, for G. Strahan, J. Clarke [et al.], →OCLC, page 300, footnote B:

The Periplûs of the Erythrêan Sea is the title prefixed to a work which contains the beſt account of the commerce carried on from the Red Sea and the coaſt of Africa to the Eaſt Indies, during the time that Egypt was a province of the Roman Empire.

1800, William Vincent, The Periplus of the Erythrean Sea, volume I, London: Printed by Andrew Strahan, Printers Street; for Thomas Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies […], →OCLC, page 3:

Another great source of geographical information both for the ancients themselves and, so far as they still exist, for us also, are the Peripli (περίπλοι), that is, descriptions of the coasts of certain seas, in which the towns, ports, and promontories are enumerated, and often with their distances from one another. These peripli were drawn up for the guidance of sailors who had occasion to visit these seas for commercial and other purposes.

1859, Leonhard Schmitz, “Period of Historical Geography, from about B.C. 450, the Age of Herodotus, down to B.C. 276, or the Time of Eratosthenes”, in A Manual of Ancient Geography … With a Map Showing the Retreat of the 10,000 Greeks under Xenophon, Philadelphia, Pa.: Blanchard and Lea, →OCLC, page 25:

[…] the map of the world Ptolemy followed in his geography, finding the longitude that passed through the Gates of Herakles and the island of Rhodes, and placing north and south of it the world as recorded on the periploi of the Phoenician merchants.

1974, Guy Davenport, Tatlin!: Six Stories, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →ISBN:

A periplus of the Mediterranean: Greek sailing directions The following excerpt from one of the most complete periploi was attributed in the nineteenth century to the Greek merchant Scylax of Caryanda, known to have traded with settlements not only along the Red Sea but also on the shores of the Indian Ocean.

1978, “Periplus and Periegesis: Greek Maritime Writings”, in George Kish, editor, A Source Book in Geography (Source Books in the History of the Sciences), Cambridge, Mass., London: Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 24:

Listing cities along a coast, periploi gave details about sailing conditions, harbors, what the area imported or exported, what tariffs to expect, whether the people were friendly or not, and what noteworthy landmarks and marvels (mirabilia) one might expect to see. Hanno, whose periplus of Africa (circa 480 bce) was aborted when supplies ran out, described strange peoples and animals, including Trogodytes clad in animal skins and wild men, called "gorillas."

2016, Georgia Lynette Irby, “Greek and Roman Cartography”, in Georgia L. Irby, editor, A Companion to Science, Technology, and Medicine in Ancient Greece and Rome, volume II, Chichester, West Sussex, Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 827:

(literature) An account of a voyage, particularly those of Hanno and Arrian, recording ports and coastal landmarks.


upfront

upfronts (plural)
up-front (alternative)
up front (alternative)

Virginia Heffernan, Times TV critic, reports from this week's TV upfronts, where the networks debut their new schedules.

2007 May 17, Bill Carter, “As the Networks Order New Shows, Fox Moves to Consolidate Its Gains”, in New York Times:

(television) A meeting of network executives with the press and major advertisers, signaling the start of advertising sales for a new season


rann

head

rann m (genitive singular rainn, nominative plural rainn)

rainn (genitive singular)
rainn (nominative plural)
rann (indefinite nominative singular)
rainn (indefinite nominative plural)
a rainn (indefinite singular vocative)
a ranna (indefinite plural vocative)
rainn (genitive indefinite singular)
rann (genitive indefinite plural)
rann (dative indefinite singular)
rainn (dative indefinite plural)
an rann (definite nominative singular)
na rainn (definite nominative plural)
an rainn (definite genitive singular)
na rann (definite genitive plural)
leis an rann (dative definite singular)
don rann (dative definite singular)
leis na rainn (dative definite plural)


rann

rann m (genitive singular rainn, plural rannan)

rainn (genitive singular)
rannan (plural)

às na ceithir ranna ruadha

from all corners of the earth, from all four corners of the world; from the four red parts


хаос

ru-noun+

ха́ос or хао́с • (xáos or xaós) m inan (genitive ха́оса or хао́са, nominative plural ха́осы or хао́сы, genitive plural ха́осов or хао́сов, relational adjective хаоти́чный)

ха́ос (canonical)
хао́с (canonical)
xáos (romanization)
xaós (romanization)
ха́оса (genitive)
хао́са (genitive)
ха́осы (nominative plural)
хао́сы (nominative plural)
ха́осов (genitive plural)
хао́сов (genitive plural)
хаоти́чный (adjective relational)
ха́ос (nominative singular)
хао́с (nominative singular)
ха́осы (nominative plural)
хао́сы (nominative plural)
ха́оса (genitive singular)
хао́са (genitive singular)
ха́осов (genitive plural)
хао́сов (genitive plural)
ха́осу (dative singular)
хао́су (dative singular)
ха́осам (dative plural)
хао́сам (dative plural)
ха́ос (accusative singular)
хао́с (accusative singular)
ха́осы (accusative plural)
хао́сы (accusative plural)
ха́осом (instrumental singular)
хао́сом (instrumental singular)
ха́осами (instrumental plural)
хао́сами (instrumental plural)
ха́осе (prepositional singular)
хао́се (prepositional singular)
ха́осах (plural prepositional)
хао́сах (plural prepositional)

Borrowed from Ancient Greek χάος (kháos, “vast chasm, void”).

bor+

(fiction, usually capitalised) Chaos, demonic entities, their monsters, and armies from the Warhammer franchises by Games Workshop


time shifting

(broadcasting) The practice of recording a broadcast with the intention of watching or listening to it later at a more convenient time.

(television) The practice of network affiliates from different time zones of making television programs available at multiple times during the day.


sanjak

From Arabic سـجـع (sajʕ, “rhymed prose”). Doublet of sajak.

(literature) short essays with a certain form (such as poetry, pantun, gurindam)


curly

en-adj

curly (comparative curlier, superlative curliest)

curlier (comparative)
curliest (superlative)

(typography) Curling in a direction, as opposed to straight (quotation marks or apostrophes)

courbe

(typography) curling in a direction, as opposed to straight (quotation marks or apostrophes)


realist

(art, literature) An adherent of the realism movement; an artist who seeks to portray real everyday life accurately.


Apollonian

/æpəˈləʊnɪ.ən/

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From Latin Apollō (Apollōn-) + -ian and Apollonius/Apollonia + -an.

2008, C. G. Stevenson, The Apollonian Appearance: The Being from the Planet Apollo, →ISBN:

At first, when the Apollonians converged on her, Mary Theresa thought she had made a major mistake by going to the battle.

2013, Jim Henry, Universal Life Force Series Featuring Antiquity Calais Vol. 1-3, →ISBN:

The last person who tried this kind of appeal was actually the new vessel -- an Apollonian, one I knew briefly.

2013, James Bartholomeusz, The Grey Star, →ISBN, page 17:

(science fiction) A native of the planet Apollo.


sans serif

sans serifs (plural)
sanserif (alternative)
sans-serif (alternative)

/ˌsɑ̃ ˈsɛɹɪf/

(typography) A typeface in which the characters do not have serifs.


sans serif

/ˌsɑ̃ ˈsɛɹɪf/

sanserif (alternative)
sans-serif (alternative)

If you have some sans-serif fonts on your computer, you can play this game, too.

2008, Clay Shirky, Gin, Television, and Cognitive Surplus:

(typography) Of a typeface, without serifs.


tipo

From Latin typus (“figure; type”), from Ancient Greek τύπος (túpos, “mark”), from τύπτω (túptō, “to poke”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewp-.

(typography) type (letter or character used for printing)


tipo

Borrowed from Spanish tipo, from Latin typus (“figure; type”), from Ancient Greek τύπος (túpos, “mark”).


Lunarian

From the stem of Latin lunaris (“of the moon, lunar”) + -ian.

(science fiction) An inhabitant of Earth's Moon (Luna): either an indigenous one or a human one.


Lunarian

(science fiction) Pertaining to the inhabitants of Luna (Lunarians).


Mercurian

(science fiction) An inhabitant of the planet Mercury.


Plutonian

From Pluto (“dwarf planet in the Solar System”) + -n- + -ian (suffix forming adjectives meaning ‘from, related to, or like’, or nouns meaning ‘one belonging to, relating to, or like’), probably influenced by Plutonian (“of or relating to Pluto, Greek and Roman god of the underworld”) (see etymology 1).

affix

The Plutonians, who are almost extinct, once held a superscience that they have largely lost. Early Plutonian visits to Earth survived in folk memory as the devil, since Plutonians are gigantic, with horns, hooves, and tail.

1998, Everett F[ranklin] Bleiler, Richard Bleiler, “[Story Descriptions.] 1423. THE EARTHMAN’S BURDEN. Astounding Stories, June 1931, Ill. Paul.”, in Science-Fiction: The Gernsback Years: A Complete Coverage of the Genre Magazines Amazing, Astounding, Wonder, and Others from 1926 through 1936, Kent, Oh., London: Kent State University Press, →ISBN, page 409, column 1:

(chiefly science fiction) An inhabitant of the dwarf planet Pluto.


robots

robots (nominative singular)
roboti (nominative plural)
robota (genitive singular)
robotu (genitive plural)
robotam (dative singular)
robotiem (dative plural)
robotu (accusative singular)
robotus (accusative plural)
robotu (instrumental singular)
robotiem (instrumental plural)
robotā (locative singular)
robotos (locative plural)
robot (singular vocative)
roboti (plural vocative)

From Czech robot, from robota (“drudgery, servitude”). Coined in the 1921 science-fiction play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) by Karel Čapek after having been suggested to him by his brother Josef http://ui.fpf.slu.cz/persons/Kelemen/articles/HorKelALIFEIXDef.pdf, and taken into other languages without change.

(science fiction) robot (intelligent machine designed to look like a human being)


Solarian

en-adj

Solarian (comparative more Solarian, superlative most Solarian)

more Solarian (comparative)
most Solarian (superlative)

(chiefly science fiction) Of or relating to the Sun.

He grinned at the profanity that came out of the communicator-speaker. Then—back at the irreverently nicknamed Galloping Cow which was the base ship of the Extra-Solarian Research Institute expedition to this star-cluster—McRae cut off.

1947 April, Murray Leinster, “Skit-Tree Planet”, in Thrilling Wonder Stories, volume 30, number 1, page 42:

(chiefly science fiction) Of or relating to the Solar System.

The Solarian one-man ships were even smaller than the Nigrian one-man ships, and some of these did a tremendous amount of damage.

1930 Fall, John Wood Campbell, “The Black Star Passes”, in Amazing Stories Quarterly, volume 3, number 4, page 521:

(chiefly science fiction) Of or relating to the inhabitants of the Solar system.


Solarian

It will be proved that a Solarian, supposing him to have a stature equal to our own, would do as much work as seven of our cultivators; and yet the Solarians are the happiest of beings; their lot is the highest degree of happiness to which we can aspire until the epoch when there shall exist stars of a more exalted rank, that are not yet to be found in our young universe.

1851, Charles Fourier, The Passions of the Human Soul, page 225:

"There has been another dive since our meeting, Jacob, and on that dive, we are told, only the first and more prosaic species of Solarian was observed. Not the second variety which has caused Dr. Kepler so much concern." Jacob was still confused by the hurried explanations Kepler had given of the two types of Sun-creatures so far observed.

(science fiction) An inhabitant of the Sun.

The small ships of the Nigrians were beginning to take a terrific toll in the thin ranks of the Solarians. The coming of the Rocket Squad had been welcomed indeed!

Is it true that all Terrans, and other Solarians are frightfully rich, and go simply everywhere, and do as they please, and that almost nobody works?

1956 August, Charles Stearns, “The Golden Ones”, in Science Fiction Quarterly, volume 4, number 4, page 30:

(chiefly science fiction) An inhabitant of any part of the solar system of the Sun.


Mrs. Claus

Mrs. Clauses (plural)
Mistress Santa Claus (alternative)
Mrs Claus (alternative)
Mrs Santa Claus (alternative)
Mrs. Santa Claus (alternative)

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A relatively new gala, the Celebrate Santa Convention boasts a sea of Santas, Mrs. Clauses, elves, and reindeers, […]

2011, Kristin Luna, Tennessee Curiosities: Quirky Characters, Roadside Oddities & Other Offbeat Stuff, Guilford, Conn.: Globe Pequot Press, →ISBN, page 167:

In normal years, he runs a roving school for Santas and Mmes. Claus and supplies a workforce of bearded men to malls and corporate events around the country. […] He led a neighborhood tree-lighting in a blue surgical mask with a Mrs. Claus friend near his apartment in Upper Manhattan, and a few buddies volunteered for a socially distanced Christmas parade.

2020 December 25, Emma Green, “The Christmas Crisis”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 2020-12-25:

“Why do I get the feeling that ‘we’ includes me?” I said warily. “Of course it includes you. You’re Mrs. Claus.” She reconsidered. “One of the Mrs. Clauses, at any rate. I signed you up for two shifts and some cookies. Surely that’s not too much to ask?”

2021, Liz Ireland, Mrs. Claus and the Halloween Homicide, Kensington Books, →ISBN:

In 1937, a Michigan school was established in Midland, and it has been training Santas and Mrs. Clauses for eighty-five years.

2022, Bill Loomis, Christmas in Detroit, Charleston, S.C.: The History Press, →ISBN, page 67:


frisket

And while the Tympan is coming, he slips his Left Hand Fingers from under the Frisket to the hither outer corner of it, as well to keep the Sheet close to the Tympan in its position, as to avoid the jobbing of the lower side of the Frisket against the small square shoulder

1677–1683, Joseph Moxon, “(please specify the page)”, in Mechanick Exercises, or The Doctrine of Handy-Works, […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] Joseph Moxon, published 1678–1683, →OCLC:

As the pressman returns the inkballs to the inkstone, the journeyman closes the frisket and tympan.

2000, Richard L. Saunders, Printing in Deseret:

(printing) A thin frame in a printing press that holds the sheet of paper in position and acts as a mask.


couplet

From French couplet, from couple + -et. Doublet of cabaletta.

(literature) A pair of lines, typically with rhyming end words.

բեյթ

in poetry, a pair of lines with rhyming end words


couplet

→ Dutch: couplet

→ English: couplet

→ German: Couplet

→ Spanish: cuplé

→ Russian: купле́т (kuplét)


spondaic

From Latin spondaicus, spondiacus, from Ancient Greek σπονδειακός (spondeiakós, “(music) used at a libation”).

der

(poetry) Having or relating to spondees.


trochaic

trochaics (plural)
troch. (alternative abbreviation)
trochaick (alternative obsolete)

Either via the French trochaïque or directly from its etymon, the Latin trochaicus, from the Ancient Greek τροχαικός (trokhaikós), from τροχαῖος (trokhaîos), whence trochee.

(poetry) A poetical composition of this kind.


second unit

It is the apotheosis of what we in modern sport are obliged to call “plotlines”, and if Leni Riefenstahl were still alive, I imagine she’d be shooting second unit on it.

2024 March 5, Marina Hyde, “It’s the Christian Horner paradox: F1 is now hideously dull, but the drama has never been better”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(cinematography) A separate team that shoots footage that is of secondary importance for the final cut of the motion picture, as opposed to first unit.


first unit

(cinematography) The team that shoots footage which is of primary importance for the final cut of the motion picture, including all scenes involving actors, or at least stars of the motion picture.


cryokinesis

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(fantasy, science fiction) The psychic ability to control and create ice and cold temperatures.


burts

burts (nominative singular)
burti (nominative plural)
burta (genitive singular)
burtu (genitive plural)
burtam (dative singular)
burtiem (dative plural)
burtu (accusative singular)
burtus (accusative plural)
burtu (instrumental singular)
burtiem (instrumental plural)
burtā (locative singular)
burtos (locative plural)
burt (singular vocative)
burti (plural vocative)

Originally the masculine past participle of the verb burt (“to conjure magic”) (q.v.). Just as burt originally meant “to carve (marks, on a tree),” burts was originally “mark(s) carved on a tree.” Cognates include Lithuanian bùrtas (“lot, (pl.) sorcery”).

cog

metāla, koka burti

burtu garnitūras

burtu liešana

(typography) type, font (typesetting printing unit; syn. burtstabiņš, litera)


aerokinesis

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(fantasy, science fiction) A telekinetic ability to control the movement of air.


ESS

en-noun

ESS (countable and uncountable, plural ESSes)

(television) Initialism of electronic still store.


xenia

xenia (nominative singular)
xenie (nominative plural)
xenii (genitive singular)
xenii (genitive plural)
xenij (archaic genitive plural)
xenii (dative singular)
xeniom (dative plural)
xenię (accusative singular)
xenie (accusative plural)
xenią (instrumental singular)
xeniami (instrumental plural)
xenii (locative singular)
xeniach (locative plural)
xenio (singular vocative)
xenie (plural vocative)

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ξενίᾱ (xeníā).

lbor

(poetry) Xenien (biting epigram in the form of a two-line poem)


मान

mān (romanization)
مان (Urdu)
मान (direct singular)
मान (direct plural)
मान (oblique singular)
मानों (oblique plural)
मान (singular vocative)
मानो (plural vocative)

Borrowed from Sanskrit मान (māna), from मन् (man, “think, believe”).

(literature) a period of distress experienced by a heroine


parataxis

en-noun

parataxis (usually uncountable, plural parataxes)

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek παράταξις (parátaxis, “placement side by side”), from παρα- (para-) + τάξις (táxis, “arrangement”); equivalent to para- + taxis.

lbor

(literature) The juxtaposition of two images or fragments, usually starkly dissimilar, without a clear connection.


Verfremdungseffekt

Verfremdungseffekte (plural)
verfremdungseffekt (alternative)

Borrowed from German Verfremdungseffekt.

Brecht's famous ‘Verfremdungseffekte’^([sic]) or ‘alienation effect’, intended to counter the magical associations of stage illusion and the tendency for spellbound audiences to identify emotionally with characters on stage, both of which Brecht found abhorrent.

1997 May, Clive Barker, Simon Trussler, editors, New Theatre Quarterly, volume 13, number 50, page 114:

(theater, literature) Brecht's distancing effect.


Verfremdungseffekt

de-noun

Verfremdungseffekt m (strong, genitive Verfremdungseffektes or Verfremdungseffekts, plural Verfremdungseffekte)

Verfremdungseffektes (genitive)
Verfremdungseffekts (genitive)
Verfremdungseffekte (plural)
Verfremdungseffekt (nominative singular)
Verfremdungseffekte (definite nominative plural)
Verfremdungseffektes (genitive singular)
Verfremdungseffekts (genitive singular)
Verfremdungseffekte (definite genitive plural)
Verfremdungseffekt (dative singular)
Verfremdungseffekte (dative singular)
Verfremdungseffekten (dative definite plural)
Verfremdungseffekt (accusative singular)
Verfremdungseffekte (accusative definite plural)

Verfremdung (“alienation”) + -s- + Effekt (“effect”), coined by Bertolt Brecht in 1936.

af

Dass dieser berüchtigte Treffpunkt der Hexen […] zur Szenerie der christlichen Passionsgeschichte gemacht wird, sodass sich zwei mythische Welten überlagern, ist ein überraschender modernistischer Kunstgriff, ein Verfremdungseffekt, wie er im Buche steht.

2017, “Notizen des Übersetzers”, in Alexander Nitzberg, transl., Meister und Margarita, Galiani, →ISBN:


dur

head

dur m (feminine singular dura, masculine and feminine plural dur)

dura (feminine singular)
dur (feminine masculine plural)
dür (alternative Modern)

From Latin dūrus, from Proto-Italic *dūros, from Proto-Indo-European *duh₂-ró-s (“long”), from *dweh₂- (“far, long”). Cognate with Ancient Greek δηρός (dērós, “long”), Sanskrit दूर (dūrá, “distant, far, long”).


lana

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *laña.

inh+

(folklore) oil that supposedly grants the ungo the abilities of flight, shapeshifting, etc.


terza rima

en-noun

terza rima (usually uncountable, plural terze rime)

/ˌtɛːtsə ˈɹiːmə/

Borrowed from Italian terza rima (literally “third rhyme”).

bor

In attempting to make the ‘Divina Commedia’ better known to English readers, it might have been held only a fitting mark of deference to my original to reproduce it, if practicable, in the metre of the poet's own choice. But on the appearance of my ‘Inferno,’ its Terza Rima was denounced as the one ‘deleterious ingredient’ which corrupted the version throughout, […]

1865, Dante Alighieri, “preface”, in John Dayman, transl., The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Translated in Terza Rima by John Dayman, page viii:

(poetry) An arrangement of triplets, generally in iambic pentameter in English, with rhyme scheme aba bcb cdc.

тэрцы́на

arrangement of triplets rhyming aba bcb cdc


terza rima

(poetry) terza rima (arrangement of triplets rhyming aba bcb cdc)


slush

en-noun

slush (usually uncountable, plural slushes)

Most likely imitative; related to slosh.

(publishing) Unsolicited manuscripts, as in slush pile.


backlist

(publishing) A list of older books available from a publisher, as opposed to the frontlist of more recent titles.

Coordinate term: midlist

The celebrity tell-all has been proposed as a frontlist title, whereas the cookbook has been proposed as a backlist title and the food history book as a midlist title.

(publishing, attributively, of books being planned) Expected to achieve years of adequate sales while on a backlist, and to be profitable on that basis, even if predicted not to sell in huge numbers when new.


backlist

en-verb

backlist (third-person singular simple present backlists, present participle backlisting, simple past and past participle backlisted)

backlists (present singular third-person)
backlisting (participle present)
backlisted (participle past)
backlisted (past)

(transitive, publishing) To place (a book) on a backlist.


fixer

Yet at the same time, this is also the source of what journalists see as one of the major risks involved in dependence on the fixer: the fixer may determine, to some extent, what the journalist sees. It is at this point that differences between journalists become apparent in the interviews – they give different evaluations of the risks. Clearly, this is a point of tension in their understanding of the situation: the prime positive qualities of the fixer are also the potentially negative ones.

2007, Myriam Salama-Carr, Translating and Interpreting Conflict, Rodopi, →ISBN, page 25:

(journalism) A person who assists foreign journalists in volatile countries, often providing interpretation, personal connections, and transportation services.


polymorph

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(fiction) The transformation of an item or creature into something different by magic.


polymorph

polymorph (third-person singular simple present polymorphs, present participle polymorphing, simple past and past participle polymorphed)

polymorphs (present singular third-person)
polymorphing (participle present)
polymorphed (participle past)
polymorphed (past)

I got hemmed in by the werewolf again and, in desperation, tried an experimental new wand on it; and polymorphed it into a black pudding.

1999, Robin Johnson, “My gnomish healer has been having a rough time of it”, in rec.games.roguelike.nethack (Usenet):

(fiction, ambitransitive) To transform into something different by magic.


genki

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Borrowed from Japanese げんき (“energetic, peppy”).

bor+

(anime and manga) A playful, hyperactive girl.


genki

en-adj

genki (comparative more genki, superlative most genki)

more genki (comparative)
most genki (superlative)

Akira, the genki red head, is accosted by Kyouko, a predatory blond girl in her high school.

2009 July 7, Dave Baranyi, “Aoi Hana - Blue Flowers for a Blue Girl”, in rec.arts.anime.misc (Usenet):

(anime and manga, typically of a girl) Playful and hyperactive.


feyness

en-noun

feyness (countable and uncountable, plural feynesses)

(Shetland, folklore, countable) A ghost resembling a living person, seeing which is an omen of that person's death.


adrenochrome

adrenochrome (countable and uncountable, plural adrenochromes)

“[…]He's one of these Satanism freaks. He offered me human blood—said it would make me higher than I'd ever been in my life,” he laughed. “I thought he was kidding, so I told him I'd just as soon have an ounce or so of pure adrenochrome—or maybe just a fresh adrenalin gland to chew on.”

1971, Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, New York: Popular Library, →ISBN, page 132:

It also revives old slurs, but instead of openly accusing Jews of drinking the blood of gentile children, various euphemisms are employed: “Coastal elites,” “Hollywood,” and “George Soros” are now said to be harvesting a chemical called adrenochrome to prolong their life spans.

2020 September 30, Helen Lewis, “The Joke’s on Us”, in The Atlantic:

(fiction) A fictional drug obtained from human adrenal glands.


pressie

(media, informal) A press conference or press briefing.


legman

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From leg + -man, modelled after legwork, in reference to the walking such a person does.

[page 136] This was my abrupt introduction to the system by which most of the live news is handled for the New York evening newspapers [...] Its continued use has bred up two distinct and separate types of news-specialists—the leg man, who gets the story, but rarely writes it; and the rewrite man, who writes the story but rarely gets it. [...] [page 140] City editors rail against these news combines, but it was the instinct of self-preservation that long ago drove the leg men into tight and fast organizations.

1913, Irvin S[hrewsbury] Cobb, The Saturday Evening Post, volume 185, Philadelphia, Pa., London: Curtis Publishing Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 23; republished in “The Third Stick”, in Stickfuls: (Myself—To Date) (The Works of Irvin S. Cobb), New York, N.Y.: The Review of Reviews Corporation publishers; published by arrangement with George H[enry] Doran Company, 1923, →OCLC, part 1 (Getting Set in New York: In Three Takes), pages 136 and 140:

Morris Cramm was night legman for a columnist and worked from seven in the evening to five in the morning.

1949, John Macdonald [pseudonym; Kenneth Millar], chapter 5, in The Moving Target, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, →OCLC; republished as Ross Macdonald, The Moving Target (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard), New York, N.Y.: Vintage Books, March 1998, →ISBN, page 32:

The guy looked and acted like a cheap hood when he was the head legman for one of the biggest of the syndicated columnists.

1951, Mickey Spillane, chapter 5, in The Big Kill (Guilt Edged Mystery), New York, N.Y.: E[dward] P[ayson] Dutton, →OCLC; republished as The Big Kill (Mike Hammer series; 5), London: The Murder Room, 2015, →ISBN:

Many of the changes which have taken place in the newspaper field within the last fifty years have been in the direction of specialization. At the turn of the century, for example, a reporter got his stories, wrote them, and sometimes even made up his own headlines. Legmen and rewrite men were practically unknown.

1954, Edmond D[avid] Coblentz, “Introduction: The Drift toward Specialization”, in Edmond D. Coblentz, editor, Newsmen Speak: Journalists on Their Craft, Berkeley, Los Angeles, Calif., London: University of California Press, →OCLC, page 125:

LEG MEN cover local events and phone the information to a rewrite man. The leg man must have a good nose for news and the ability to give information over the phone quickly and accurately. He seldom writes his own stories.

1973, “Newspaper and Wire Service Operations”, in Journalist 3 & 2: Naval Training Command Rate Training Manual (NAVTRA 10294-C), Washington, D.C.: Published by Naval Training Command; United States Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 153, column 2:

They all said, "What can you expect when you put a leg-man into a spot like that?" and "How can a youngster like that, with only a year's experience in the newspaper business behind him, handle that sort of an assignment?" [...]

a. 1986, Theodore Sturgeon, “His Good Angel”, in Paul Williams, editor, The Ultimate Egoist, volume I (The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon), Berkeley, Calif.: North Atlantic Books, published 1994, →ISBN, page 107:

Of course newspapers have to have "leg men," especially for afternoon editions, who seldom write their own stories but have to telephone in facts to be hurried into type for press time. But leg men nowadays are expected to be literate, though sometimes barely.

2008, Louis M. Lyons, “Leg Men”, in M. A. Lyons, editor, A Pause to Copy: Memoirs of Louis M. Lyons, Journalist, volume IV, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN, page 91:

[Allen] Raymond was the son of a Methodist lay preacher who traded his Ivy League, New England pedigree for a hardboiled journalistic persona cultivated over decades as a "legman," rewrite man, copyeditor, and reporter for a dozen urban newspapers, mostly in metropolitan New York.

2009, James T. Fisher, “Epilogue: Souls of the (Port) Apostolate”, in On the Irish Waterfront: The Crusader, the Movie, and the Soul of the Port of New York (Cushwa Center Studies of Catholicism in Twentieth-century America), Ithaca, N.Y., London: Cornell University Press, →ISBN, page 299:

(originally US, journalism) A reporter who frequently travels to conduct research, interview witnesses, etc., and then conveys the information to a rewriteman who writes up the story.


machinima

machinima (countable and uncountable, plural machinimas or machinima)

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Fiona's been off at some kind of anime camp in New Jersey – Quake movies and machinima workshops, Japanese staff who claim not to know a word of English beyond ‘awesome’ and ‘sucks’, which for a vast range of human endeavor, actually, is more than enough…

2013, Thomas Pynchon, Bleeding Edge, Vintage, published 2014, page 135:

(video games, film, countable, uncountable) The rendering of computer-generated imagery using low-end (real time) 3D engines such as those found in video games, as opposed to the high-end, complex 3D engines used by professionals.

(video games, film, uncountable) The genre of films created by such techniques.


boards

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

nonlemma

non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger

His new novel just came out in boards. The paperback will follow in about a year.

(publishing, informal) A hardcover binding on a book.


rei

rei f (definite singular reia, indefinite plural reier, definite plural reiene)

reia (definite singular)
reier (indefinite plural)
reiene (definite plural)

From Old Norse reið, Proto-Germanic *raidō. Doublet of raide.


набор

bg-noun

на́бор • (nábor) m (relational adjective на́борен)

на́бор (canonical)
nábor (romanization)
на́борен (adjective relational)
на́бор (indefinite singular)
на́бори (indefinite plural)
на́борът (definite singular subjective)
на́борите (definite plural subjective)
на́бора (definite objective singular)
на́борите (definite objective plural)
на́бора (count-form plural)

O-grade deverbal of набера́ (naberá, “to pick up”). By surface analysis, на- (na-) + Proto-Slavic *borъ (“collection”).

surf

набор за печат

(printing) typesetting, composition of written material


набор

ru-noun+

набо́р • (nabór) m inan (genitive набо́ра, nominative plural набо́ры, genitive plural набо́ров)

набо́р (canonical)
nabór (romanization)
набо́ра (genitive)
набо́ры (nominative plural)
набо́ров (genitive plural)
набо́р (nominative singular)
набо́ры (nominative plural)
набо́ра (genitive singular)
набо́ров (genitive plural)
набо́ру (dative singular)
набо́рам (dative plural)
набо́р (accusative singular)
набо́ры (accusative plural)
набо́ром (instrumental singular)
набо́рами (instrumental plural)
набо́ре (prepositional singular)
набо́рах (plural prepositional)

→ Azerbaijani: nabor

(printing) font type case containing movable type


nabor

az-noun

nabor (definite accusative naboru, plural naborlar)

naboru (accusative definite)
naborlar (plural)
nabor (nominative singular)
naborlar (nominative plural)
naboru (accusative definite singular)
naborları (accusative definite plural)
nabora (dative singular)
naborlara (dative plural)
naborda (locative singular)
naborlarda (locative plural)
nabordan (ablative singular)
naborlardan (ablative plural)
naborun (definite genitive singular)
naborların (definite genitive plural)
naborum (first-person nominative possessive singular)
naborlarım (first-person nominative possessive singular)
naborun (nominative possessive second-person singular)
naborların (nominative possessive second-person singular)
naboru (nominative possessive singular third-person)
naborları (nominative possessive singular third-person)
naborumuz (first-person nominative plural possessive)
naborlarımız (first-person nominative plural possessive)
naborunuz (nominative plural possessive second-person)
naborlarınız (nominative plural possessive second-person)
naboru (nominative plural possessive third-person)
naborları (nominative plural possessive third-person)
naborumu (accusative first-person possessive singular)
naborlarımı (accusative first-person possessive singular)
naborunu (accusative possessive second-person singular)
naborlarını (accusative possessive second-person singular)
naborunu (accusative possessive singular third-person)
naborlarını (accusative possessive singular third-person)
naborumuzu (accusative first-person plural possessive)
naborlarımızı (accusative first-person plural possessive)
naborunuzu (accusative plural possessive second-person)
naborlarınızı (accusative plural possessive second-person)
naborunu (accusative plural possessive third-person)
naborlarını (accusative plural possessive third-person)
naboruma (dative first-person possessive singular)
naborlarıma (dative first-person possessive singular)
naboruna (dative possessive second-person singular)
naborlarına (dative possessive second-person singular)
naboruna (dative possessive singular third-person)
naborlarına (dative possessive singular third-person)
naborumuza (dative first-person plural possessive)
naborlarımıza (dative first-person plural possessive)
naborunuza (dative plural possessive second-person)
naborlarınıza (dative plural possessive second-person)
naboruna (dative plural possessive third-person)
naborlarına (dative plural possessive third-person)
naborumda (first-person locative possessive singular)
naborlarımda (first-person locative possessive singular)
naborunda (locative possessive second-person singular)
naborlarında (locative possessive second-person singular)
naborunda (locative possessive singular third-person)
naborlarında (locative possessive singular third-person)
naborumuzda (first-person locative plural possessive)
naborlarımızda (first-person locative plural possessive)
naborunuzda (locative plural possessive second-person)
naborlarınızda (locative plural possessive second-person)
naborunda (locative plural possessive third-person)
naborlarında (locative plural possessive third-person)
naborumdan (ablative first-person possessive singular)
naborlarımdan (ablative first-person possessive singular)
naborundan (ablative possessive second-person singular)
naborlarından (ablative possessive second-person singular)
naborundan (ablative possessive singular third-person)
naborlarından (ablative possessive singular third-person)
naborumuzdan (ablative first-person plural possessive)
naborlarımızdan (ablative first-person plural possessive)
naborunuzdan (ablative plural possessive second-person)
naborlarınızdan (ablative plural possessive second-person)
naborundan (ablative plural possessive third-person)
naborlarından (ablative plural possessive third-person)
naborumun (first-person genitive possessive singular)
naborlarımın (first-person genitive possessive singular)
naborunun (genitive possessive second-person singular)
naborlarının (genitive possessive second-person singular)
naborunun (genitive possessive singular third-person)
naborlarının (genitive possessive singular third-person)
naborumuzun (first-person genitive plural possessive)
naborlarımızın (first-person genitive plural possessive)
naborunuzun (genitive plural possessive second-person)
naborlarınızın (genitive plural possessive second-person)
naborunun (genitive plural possessive third-person)
naborlarının (genitive plural possessive third-person)

(printing, proscribed) typesetting, composition


versification

en-noun

versification (countable and uncountable, plural versifications)

(poetry) The act, art, or practice of composing poetic verse; the construction or measure of verse or poetry; metrical composition.


anchorman

From anchor + man. Senses 1 and 4 derive from sense 2, sense 3 is literal.

(television, radio) The main host of a television or radio program, particularly one relating to the broadcast of news.

مُذِيع أَخْبَار

muḏīʕ ʔaḵbār


fade to black

en-verb

fade to black (third-person singular simple present fades to black, present participle fading to black, simple past and past participle faded to black)

fades to black (present singular third-person)
fading to black (participle present)
faded to black (participle past)
faded to black (past)

From the movie industry, where it was customary to end a scene or session of filming by closing off light to the camera, sometimes for dramatic effect, but often as a practical measure.

They danced the famous Merengue / Now we dolly back / Now we fade to black

1976, Walter Becker, Donald Fagen, “Haitian Divorce”, in The Royal Scam, performed by Steely Dan:

We don't have to fade to black / Let the sun come in

2023, “Let the Sun Come In”, in Relentless, performed by The Pretenders:

(film) To end a film or a scene of a film by causing the image to be gradually dimmed into black.


interrogative

/ˌɪn.təˈɹɒɡ.ə.tɪv/

/ˌɪn.təˈɹɑ.ɡə.tɪv/

[ˌɪn.təˈɹɑ.ɡə.ɾɪv]

/ˌɪn.təˈɹɔɡ.ə.tɪv/

[ˌɪn.təˈɹɔɡ.ə.ɾɪv]

There be five manner of points and divisions most used among cunning men; the which if they be well used, make the sentence very light and easy to be understood, both to the reader and hearer: and they be these, virgil,—come,—parenthesis,—plain point,—interrogative.

Whoever introduced the several points, it seems that a full-point, a point called come, answering to our colon-point, a point called virgil answering to our comma-point, the parenthesis-points and interrogative-point, were used at the close of the fourteenth, or beginning of the fifteenth century.

1842, F. Francillon, An Essay on Punctuation, page 9:

(typography, archaic) Synonym of question mark ⟨?⟩.


timestream

timestreams (plural)
time stream (alternative)

By killing his great-grandfather, the time traveller disrupted the timestream.

The slightest excess of effort might upset the balance at any point of the time stream, sending them backward into the past or forward into the future independently of my will.

[1931 December, Eric Temple Bell, “The Time Stream”, in Wonder Stories:

The timestream is littered with these blank areas.

Two different timestreams running parallel but at different speeds. Amy, you're in a faster timestream.

2011, Tom MacRae, “The Girl Who Waited”, in Nick Hurran, director, Doctor Who, season 6, episode 10, spoken by The Doctor (Matt Smith):

(science fiction, mythology) A metaphorical conception of time as a stream, or flowing body of water.


lithographic

(printing) Related to the method of lithography.


erlking

erlkings (plural)
Erlking (alternative)
erl-king (alternative)

Partial calque of German Erlkönig (literally “alder-king”), a mistranslation of Danish ellerkonge (“king of the elves”).

pcal

This line, and indeed the whole passage (lines 653-664), allude to the well-known poem by Goethe about the erlking, hoary enchanter of the elf-haunted alderwood, who falls in love with the delicate little boy of a belated traveler.

1962, Charles Kinbote [pseudonym; Vladimir Nabokov], Pale Fire, New York, N.Y.: Berkley Books, published November 1985, →ISBN:

So easy for one young son to be swallowed up in a world teeming with Erlkings, real and imagined.

2010, Rachel Billington, The Missing Boy, Hachette, →ISBN:

He was in the forest looking to see the trees / But none were there / He found a girl / She found the erlking

2012, ミラクルミュージカル, “Murders”, in Hawaii: Part II:

By now, he seems less a cartoon character than some contemporary Erlking, the malicious spirit made famous by Goethe (and Schubert) but found originally in a Danish ballad.

2018 October 22, Carol Rumens, “Poem of the week: Three Poetesses by Kristín Ómarsdóttir”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(European folklore) In German literature and modern folklore, a malicious elf or spirit who preys on children.


in character

It was difficult to stay in character, because I kept wanting to laugh.

(idiomatic, drama, roleplaying games) Acting as the character, not as oneself.


lead-in

(journalism) A short phrase that begins the caption of a photograph.