facial

Early 17th century, borrowed from Medieval Latin faciālis (“face-to-face, direct, open”), from faciēs (“form, configuration, figure; face, visage, countenance”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix).

af

But in facials, moving picture technology also enabled an exaggeration of this performance tradition, bringing a new emphasis to the details […]

2004, Simon Popple, Joe Kember, Early Cinema: From Factory Gate to Dream Factory, page 92:

(film) A kind of early silent film focusing on the facial expressions of the actor.

Coordinate term: self-facial

Long-Dong Chuck gave his co-star a creamy facial.

(slang, pornography, sex) A sex act of ejaculation onto another person's face.


treatment

en-noun

treatment (countable and uncountable, plural treatments)

From treat + -ment. Compare French traitement.

(countable, film) A brief, third-person, present-tense summary of a proposed film.


initial

From Middle French initial or directly from its Latin etymon initiālis (“of the beginning, incipient, initial”), from initium (“a going in, entrance, beginning”), from inire (“to go in, enter upon, begin”), from in (“in”) + ire (“to go”).

(typography, calligraphy) A distinguished initial letter of a chapter or section of a document.

caplletra

calligraphy: distinguished initial letter


fusion

fusion (countable and uncountable, plural fusions)

fission

antonym(s) of “nuclear reaction in which nuclei combine”

First appears c. 1555, in a translation by Richard Eden. From Middle French fusion, from Latin fūsiōnem (the accusative of fūsiō), from fusus, past participle of fundō (“I pour, I melt”) (see also found). Doublet of foison.

The act of merging separate things, or the result thereof.

(fiction) The act of two characters merging into one, typically more powerful, being; or the merged being itself.


decorum

decorum (nominative singular)
decora (nominative plural)
decorum (genitive singular)
decorów (genitive plural)
decorum (dative singular)
decorom (dative plural)
decorum (accusative singular)
decora (accusative plural)
decorum (instrumental singular)
decorami (instrumental plural)
decorum (locative singular)
decorach (locative plural)
decorum (singular vocative)
decora (plural vocative)
dekorum (alternative)

Unadapted borrowing from Latin decōrum. Doublet of dekoracja and dekorować.

(literature) decorum (principle of classical rhetoric, poetry, and theatrical theory concerning the fitness or otherwise of a style to a theatrical subject)


bleacher

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From Middle English blechere, equivalent to bleach + -er. Compare Dutch bleker, Swedish blekare. The seating was so named because the boards were bleached by the sun.

In practice, audience members often have badly obstructed views of the sets—whether due to obstructive camera dollies and production personnel or viewers sitting in the bleachers off to the side of the set that is currently being used.

2010, Jeremy G. Butler, Television Style:

(US, television, usually in the plural, by extension) The tiered seating provided for the audience at a television filming.


stock character

stock character (plural stock characters)

(writing, theater, film) Any fictional character drawn from some stereotype who is instantly recognizable.

ամպլուա

fictional character based on a recognizable stereotype


hosepipe

en-verb

hosepipe (third-person singular simple present hosepipes, present participle hosepiping, simple past and past participle hosepiped)

hosepipes (present singular third-person)
hosepiping (participle present)
hosepiped (participle past)
hosepiped (past)

(film, television) To film with erratic panning movements of the camera.


hamartia

en-noun

hamartia (usually uncountable, plural hamartias)

/ˌhæˌmɑɹˈtiː.ə/

/ˌhɑːˌmɑɹˈtiː.ə/

From Ancient Greek ἁμαρτία (hamartía, “tragic failure, sinful nature”), from the verb ἁμαρτάνω (hamartánō, “to miss the mark”).

der

Creon's main hamartia was his excessive pride.

Understanding hamartia as “ignorance of the injurious act,” Lacan distinguishes Greek tragedy from the Renaissance version on the basis that the latter supplants hamartia with the hero's privileged knowledge.

2006, David Ratmoko, On Spectrality: Fantasies of Redemption in the Western Canon, Peter Lang, →ISBN, page 71:

The plot and the tragic figure at its center, destroyed through an act of hamartia, should be tailored to the production of pity and fear. Oedipus is not so much a person as he is a hamartia delivery system, a moving, empty center within the motions of the play, who through his vulnerability to hamartia and its disastrous consequences reveals the pitiable and the fearful to the audience.

2008, Daniel Greenspan, The Passion of Infinity: Kierkegaard, Aristotle and the Rebirth of Tragedy, Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 81:

But ever since the concept of "hamartia" recurred through Aristotle's Poetics, in an attempt to describe man's ingrained iniquity, our impulse has been to identify a telling defect in those brought suddenly and dramatically low.

2014 October 21, Oliver Brown, “Oscar Pistorius jailed for five years […] ”, in The Daily Telegraph (Sport):

(Greek drama) The tragic flaw of the protagonist in a literary tragedy.


kall

kall m (definite singular kallen, indefinite plural kallar, definite plural kallane)

kallen (definite singular)
kallar (indefinite plural)
kallane (definite plural)

From Old Norse karl, from Proto-Germanic *karilaz. Doublet of kar. Cognates include Elfdalian kall and Swedish karl.

(folklore) (a general term for) a male supernatural creature


skip

en-verb

skip (third-person singular simple present skips, present participle skipping, simple past and past participle skipped)

skips (present singular third-person)
skipping (participle present)
skipped (participle past)
skipped (past)

From Middle English skippen, skyppen, of North Germanic origin, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *skupjaną, perhaps related to *skeubaną (“to drive, push”), iterative *skuppōną (“to push/move repeatedly, skip”), from Proto-Indo-European *skewbʰ- (“to push, throw, shake”).
Related to Icelandic skopa (“to take a run”), Old Swedish skuppa (“to skip”), modern dialectal Swedish skopa, skimpa (“to skip, leap”), and English shove. See also dialectal English skimp (“to mock”) (Etymology 1), considered by some to be related.

der

(printing) To have insufficient ink transfer.


heteronym

Coined around 1900, either from hetero- (“different”) + -onym (“name”) or from Ancient Greek ἑτερώνυμος (heterṓnumos), or perhaps both.

polyphone

a letter [or combination of letters] that can be pronounced in two or more different ways, such as 長 / 长 in Chinese, pronounced [cháng] in the sense of ’long’ and [zhǎng] in the sense of ’to grow’

(literature) A fictitious character created by an author for the purpose of writing in a different style.

heteronyymi

fictitious character writing in a different style


gods

So called from the idea of gods (deities) reigning from on high.

(printing, historical) The quadrats used by printers in throwing on the imposing stone, similar to the movement in casting dice.


journalist

head

journalist c (singular definite journalisten, plural indefinite journalister)

journalisten (definite singular)
journalister (indefinite plural)
journalist (indefinite nominative singular)
journalisten (definite nominative singular)
journalister (indefinite nominative plural)
journalisterne (definite nominative plural)
journalists (genitive indefinite singular)
journalistens (definite genitive singular)
journalisters (genitive indefinite plural)
journalisternes (definite genitive plural)

(journalism) a journalist, a reporter (reporter on a newspaper)


edition

From French édition, from Latin ēditiō, from ēdere (“to publish”).

She wanted a copy of the Clericotes edition, but had to settle for the 1921 edition. She had never liked abridged editions.

(publishing) A written work edited and published, as by a certain editor or in a certain manner, or at a certain time.


programming

en-noun

programming (usually uncountable, plural programmings)

/ˈpɹəʊɡɹəmɪŋ/

/ˈpɹoʊɡɹæmɪŋ/

The network changed its programming to mess with DVRs again.

(broadcasting) The designing, scheduling or planning of a radio or television program/programme.

udsendelse

broadcasting: designing, scheduling, or planning of a radio or TV program


mutton

mutton (countable and uncountable, plural muttons)

From Middle English motoun, moton, from Old French mouton (“sheep”), from Vulgar Latin moltō, from Gaulish *multon-, from Proto-Celtic *moltos (“ram, wether”). Doublet of mouton.

(typography slang) Em, a unit of measurement equal to the height of the type in use.


emphasis

emphasis (countable and uncountable, plural emphases)

From Latin emphasis, from Ancient Greek ἔμφασις (émphasis, “significance”), from ἐμφαίνω (emphaínō, “I present, I indicate”), from ἐν- (en-, “in”) + φαίνω (phaínō, “I show”).

der

(typography) The use of boldface, italics, or other such formatting to highlight text.

èmfasi

typography: the use of boldface, italics, or other such formatting to highlight text


optical

It is a glossy film with gross, opulent opticals and little comic, or any, relief; it has the jaundiced complexion of an early 60s underground film, which it is; it is ponderous, Wagnerian, and feels about five hours long (its running time is about an hour).

1976 August 14, Gary Jane Hoisington, “Locker Room As The Site Of Religious Ecstasy”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 7, page 9:

If you plan to output back to film, opticals and effects can be shot on film or generated by computer and then transferred to film.

2006, David K. Irving, Peter W. Rea, Producing and Directing the Short Film and Video, page 294:

(film) Any special effect requiring laboratory work on the film.


A roll

en-noun

A roll (usually uncountable, plural A rolls)

(television, film) The primary footage for non-narrative or interview-based film, usually involving talking heads or footage that directly relates to the moment.


biorobot

(science fiction) A biological organism that has been created and designed by artificial means.


corpsicle

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Blend of corpse + popsicle. The cryogenic sense is a coinage by author Frederik Pohl in The Age of the Pussyfoot (1969).

'Your newspapers called you people corpsicles,' said the blond man. 'I never understood what the tapes meant by that.'
'It comes from Popsicle. Frozen sherbet.' Corbell had used the word himself before he became one of them. One of the corpsicles, the frozen dead.

There are dozens of companies that will turn you into a human corpsicle and store your chilled earthly remains indefinitely.

2007, Daniel H. Wilson, Where's My Jetpack?:, page 176:

I won't turn you into a corpsicle and hope somebody knows how to fix you in a hundred years.

(science fiction) A person who has been cryonically frozen in the hope of later revival.


crotch

Of disputed origin; two possibilities seem likely:
* From Middle English croche, variant of crucche (“crutch”); compare crook.
* From Middle English croche, variant of crouche (“cross, crozier”).

could eat the crotch out of a low flying duck

(typography) The open counter (negative space) formed by two downward strokes that meet at an internal acute angle, potentially above a vertex, as in the letters "V" and "Y".


gutter

Sranan Tongo: gotro

From Middle English gutter, guttur, goter, from Anglo-Norman guttere, from Old French goutiere (French gouttière), ultimately from Latin gutta (“drop”).

(typography) A space between printed columns of text.

(printing) One of a number of pieces of wood or metal, grooved in the centre, used to separate the pages of type in a form.

(comics) A space between comic strip panels.


taut

en-adj

taut (comparative tauter, superlative tautest)

tauter (comparative)
tautest (superlative)

The adjective is derived from Middle English taught [and other forms], Early Middle English tohte, towehte (“strained, stretched; distended; tight; firm”), probably from tough, touth, touʒth, toʒt (“powerful, strong; fierce, violent; not tender, tough; hardy, resilient; steadfast, stout; difficult to do or endure”) and possibly influenced by togen, towen, past participle of ten (“to extend, stretch out; to drag, haul, pull, tow, tug”) (modern English tee (“(obsolete) to draw, lead; to draw away; to go, proceed”)), or directly from its etymon Old English tēon (“to drag, draw, pull”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dewk- (“to draw, pull”)) The word may be related to thight (“(dialectal) compact, dense; close-fitting, tight”) and tight; and is cognate with Scots tacht, taght (“taut”).
The verb is probably derived from the adjective.

nb...

toft, toght, tohte, toth, tought, touht, tout, touȝt, touʒt, towght, towht, towt, towte, toȝt, toʒte

der

If he curbs his swing a little and gets something crisper and tauter in his methods he may yet be very good.

1921 March 19, Bernard Darwin, “Golf on the Forest”, in Peter Anderson Graham, editor, Country Life, volume XLIX, number 1263, London: George Newnes […], →OCLC, page 321, column 2:

The superbly crafted suspense thriller that director Jonathan Demme has made from Thomas Harris's taut best-selling novel The Silence of the Lambs slams you like a sudden blast of bone-chilling, pulse-pounding terror.

1991 February 14, Peter Travers, “The Silence of the Lambs [film review]”, in Rolling Stone, New York, N.Y.: Wenner Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2017-12-05:

Quick action and dialogue create a taut story, although it is illustration that shapes the characters.

1997, “Minty: A Story of a Young Harriet Tubman (written by Alan Schroeder, 1996) [book review]”, in Linda R. Andres, editor, Children’s Literature Review, volume 43, Detroit, Mich.: Gale Research, →ISBN, page 174, column 2; quoted in Milton C. Sernett, “‘Minty’”, in Harriet Tubman: Myth, Memory and History, Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2007, →ISBN, page 35:

Guitarist Jade Puget and vocalist Davey Havok have distilled AFI's strengths (a ferocious, post-hardcore rhythmic backbone; goth-tinctured, post-punky guitars; and Havok's desperate, dramatic croon) into 14 taut, hook-driven songs.

2017 January 20, Annie Zaleski, “AFI Sounds Refreshed and Rejuvenated on Its 10th Album, AFI (The Blood Album)”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 2019-11-03:

(of music, writing, etc.) Containing only relevant parts; brief and controlled.

napínavý

containing only relevant parts; brief and controlled


gallows

en-noun

gallows (plural gallows or (rare) gallowses)

gallows (plural)
gallowses (plural rare)

From Middle English galwes, galewes, plural of galwe, galowe, from Old English galga, gealga, from Proto-West Germanic *galgō, from Proto-Germanic *galgô, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰalgʰ-, *ǵʰalg- (“long switch, rod, shaft, pole, perch”). The plural construction probably refers to the vertical and horizontal beams.
Compare West Frisian galge, Dutch galg, German Galgen, Danish galge, Icelandic gálgi.
For the pronunciation /ˈɡæləs/, compare bellows, bodice.

(printing, obsolete) The rest for the tympan when raised.


Dvorak

August Dvorak
Dvorak Simplified Keyboard

From Czech Dvořák. The keyboard is named after the American inventor August Dvorak.

Dvorak keyboard

(computing, typography) Describing an optimized keyboard layout for the English language, in which the alphabet is arranged in the order PYFGCRL on the top row, AOEUIDHTNS on the middle, or home row, and QJKXBMWVZ on the bottom row, thus placing the letters most frequently used in the home row. Many variants on Dvorak layouts also exist, including keyboards for right-hand-only and left-hand-only-typists.


obelisk

Hippodrome of Constantinople
Obelisk of Theodosius
Theodosius I
Thutmose III

From Middle French obelisque, from Latin obeliscus (“obelisk”), from Ancient Greek ὀβελίσκος (obelískos), diminutive of ὀβελός (obelós, “needle”). Compare obelus.

(historical) A symbol resembling a horizontal line (–), sometimes together with one or two dots (for example, ⨪ or ÷), which was used in ancient manuscripts and texts to mark a word or passage as doubtful or spurious, or redundant.

A dagger symbol (†), which is used in printed matter as a reference mark to refer the reader to a footnote, marginal note, etc.; beside a person's name to indicate that the person is deceased; or beside a date to indicate that it is a person's death date.


caster

caster (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
castant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
casté (participle past)
caste (first-person indicative present singular)
castes (indicative present second-person singular)
caste (indicative present singular third-person)
castons (first-person indicative plural present)
castez (indicative plural present second-person)
castent (indicative plural present third-person)
castais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
castais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
castait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
castions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
castiez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
castaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
castai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
castas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
casta (historic indicative past singular third-person)
castâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
castâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
castèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
casterai (first-person future indicative singular)
casteras (future indicative second-person singular)
castera (future indicative singular third-person)
casterons (first-person future indicative plural)
casterez (future indicative plural second-person)
casteront (future indicative plural third-person)
casterais (conditional first-person singular)
casterais (conditional second-person singular)
casterait (conditional singular third-person)
casterions (conditional first-person plural)
casteriez (conditional plural second-person)
casteraient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
caste (first-person present singular subjunctive)
castes (present second-person singular subjunctive)
caste (present singular subjunctive third-person)
castions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
castiez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
castent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
castasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
castasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
castât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
castassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
castassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
castassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
caste (imperative second-person singular)
castons (first-person imperative plural)
castez (imperative plural second-person)

(transitive, film) to cast (into a role)


distribute

en-verb

distribute (third-person singular simple present distributes, present participle distributing, simple past and past participle distributed)

distributes (present singular third-person)
distributing (participle present)
distributed (participle past)
distributed (past)
distribute (infinitive)
distribute (first-person present singular)
distributed (first-person past singular)
distribute (present second-person singular)
distributest (archaic present second-person singular)
distributed (past second-person singular)
distributedst (archaic past second-person singular)
distributes (present singular third-person)
distributeth (archaic present singular third-person)
distributed (past singular third-person)
distribute (plural present)
distributed (past plural)
distribute (present subjunctive)
distributed (past subjunctive)
distribute (imperative present)
distributing (participle present)
distributed (participle past)

PIE word
 *tréyes
From Latin distributus, past participle of distribuere (“to divide, distribute”), from dis- (“apart”) + tribuere (“to give, impart”); see tribute.

(printing) To separate (type which has been used) and return it to the proper boxes in the cases.

(printing) To spread (ink) evenly, as upon a roller or a table.


SBS

(Australia, broadcasting) Initialism of Special Broadcasting Service.

Seoul Broadcasting System
w:Seoul Broadcasting System

(South Korea, broadcasting) Initialism of Seoul Broadcasting System.


spoiler

spoiler (nominative singular)
spoilery (nominative plural)
spoilera (genitive singular)
spoilerów (genitive plural)
spoilerowi (dative singular)
spoilerom (dative plural)
spoiler (accusative singular)
spoilery (accusative plural)
spoilerem (instrumental singular)
spoilerami (instrumental plural)
spoilerze (locative singular)
spoilerach (locative plural)
spoilerze (singular vocative)
spoilery (plural vocative)
spojler (alternative)

Unadapted borrowing from English spoiler.

ubor

(colloquial, media) spoiler (document, review, or comment that discloses the ending or some key surprise or twist in a story, or the internal rules controlling the behaviour of a video game, etc.)


baseline

Several characters typically have descenders below the lower baseline.

(typography) A line used as the basis for the alignment of glyphs.

účaří

typography: line used as the basis for the alignment of glyphs


caption

Borrowed from Latin captiō (“deception, fraud”), from the past participle of capiō (“I take, I seize”) (English capture). Compare Middle English capcioun (“seizure, capture”).

cog

(typography) The descriptive heading or title, of a document or part thereof.

заглавие

descriptive title or heading of (part of) a document

(theater, performance production) By analogy, text in a similar system used in a performance venue for transcription of a live event.

(cinematography, television) A piece of text appearing on screen as a subtitle or other part of a film or broadcast, describing dialogue (and sometimes other sound) for viewers who cannot hear.

надписи

piece of text appearing on screen as part of a film or broadcast

sous-titrage pour sourds et malentendants


octavo

From Latin octavo. Doublet of octave, oitava, and ochava.

(paper, printing) A sheet of paper 7 to 10 inches (= 17.78 to 25.4 cm) high and 4.5 to 6 inches (= 11.43 to 15.24 cm) wide, the size varying with the large original sheet used to create it. It is made by folding the original sheet three times to produce eight leaves.

He was also much of a politician; too much, perhaps, for his station. There fell lately into my hands, in London, a collection he had made of all the principal pamphlets, relating to public affairs, from 1641 to 1717; many of the volumes are wanting as appears by the numbering, but there still remain eight volumes in folio, and twenty-four in quarto and in octavo.

1909 [1793], Benjamin Franklin, edited by Charles W. Eliot, LL.D., The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (The Harvard Classics; 1), U.S.A.: P. F. Collier & Son Corporation, published 1937, page 8:


romance

→ Indonesian: romansa

(literature, music, historical) an emotional popular-historical epic ballad

(literature, music) a sentimental love song or love story


romance

Borrowed from Old Occitan romans, from Medieval Latin, Vulgar Latin rōmānicē (“in a Roman manner”), from Latin rōmānicus (“Roman”, adjective), from rōmānus (“Roman”, noun), from Rōma (“Rome”).

der

(literature) novel (work of prose fiction)


dek

Deliberate misspelling of deck, to distinguish the word as not belonging in the story.

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(journalism, slang) The subhead of a news story.


ghosting

en-noun

ghosting (countable and uncountable, plural ghostings)

(electronics, television) The blurry appearance of a television picture resulting from interference caused by multipath reception.

Geisterbild

appearance of ghosts on a television screen


archdevil

/ɑɹt͡ʃˈdɛvəl/

/ɑɹt͡ʃˈdɛvɪl/

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From the context and other parts of the work, we are to understand that the demons here described are the personal friends of our sovereign, and that the archdevil was the mother of our sovereign.

1802, The Anti-Jacobin Review and Magazine, Volume 12, Open Court Publishing Company, page 30:

In short, it is purely the work of the devil that they are doing, and especially that of the archdevil, who presides at Muhlhausen, and directs nothing but robbery, murder and bloodshed.

1841, George Waddington, A History of the Reformation on the Continent: In Three Volumes, Duncan and Malcolm, page 155:

A spirit of ultraism seems to pervade the whole community. The language of Milton's archdevil "Evil, be thou my good" is the creed of modern reformers, or, in other words — anything for a change. What is to come of all this, I have not wisdom even to guess. It is an age of transition and whether you and I live to see the elements of the moral and political world at rest, is, I think, extretmely doubtful.

1851, Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers: With Brief Notices of Passing Events, Facts, and Opinions, A.D. 1812 to A.D. 1842, Lippincott, Grambo and Company, page 517:

The bishops in question were described as archdevils, priests of Baal, standard-bearers of the Balaamites, and children of perdition.

1896, Marvin Richardson Vincent, The Age of Hildebrand, Christian Literature Company, page 267:

They are archdevils. Partake not of anything from their hands. Now I shall sell myself and do this act if only I have thee at my back.

1940, United States Congress, The Madras Law Journal, page 813:

(theology, rare, religion, fantasy, science fiction) A chief or reigning devil.


cartoon

Punch (magazine)
Russian Bear
The Great Game
cartoon

→ Portuguese: cartune, cartum

→ Swahili: katuni

In British English first, from French carton (“sketch, cardboard, card”), from Italian cartone (“cardboard, carton, box”), augmentative of carta (“paper”), from Latin carta (“papyrus, paper”), from Ancient Greek χάρτης (khártēs) (see there for further etymology). Doublet of carton and card.

tekenprent

animated cartoon — see also animated cartoon

(comics) A humorous drawing, often with a caption, or a strip of such drawings.

(comics) A drawing satirising current public figures.


cartoon

en-verb

cartoon (third-person singular simple present cartoons, present participle cartooning, simple past and past participle cartooned)

cartoons (present singular third-person)
cartooning (participle present)
cartooned (participle past)
cartooned (past)

(art, comics, animation) To draw a cartoon, a humorous drawing.


cartoon

Unadapted borrowing from English cartoon.


macaroni

en-noun

macaroni (countable and uncountable, plural macaronis or macaronies)

macaronis (plural)
macaronies (plural)
maccaroni (alternative)
maccheroni (alternative)
mac (alternative)

→ Japanese: マカロニ (makaroni)

→ Korean: 마카로니 (makaroni)

→ Malay:

Arabic script: ماكاروني

Latin script: makaroni

→ Scottish Gaelic: macaroni

From Italian maccaroni, plural of maccarone, obsolete variant of maccheroni (“macaroni, fool”), of uncertain origin. Variously derived from late Byzantine Greek μακαρία (makaría, “food made from barley”), from Ancient Greek μακάριος (makários, “blessed, favored by the gods”), and from maccare (“to bruise, to crush”), archaic variant of ammaccare, from Latin maccāre (“to bruise, to crush”). Compare Sicilian maccarruni (“a single piece of macaroni”). As a fop, apparently from the British Macaroni Club rather than from Italian use of maccarone for fools and bumpkins. As a former form of currency, used to calque Spanish macuquino, 18th-century colonial Spanish slang for a similarly clipped coin.

cog

... political songs in Latin or in a maccaroni of Latin and English ...

1884, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, Six Centuries of Work and Wages, volume I, page 166:

(uncountable, literature, obsolete) A mix of languages in macaronic verse.


quad

Shortened, via clipping or abbreviation, from various English terms. Ultimately related to Latin quattuor (“4”); compare quadri-, quadruple.
The typography senses are from the abbreviation quad. for obsolete quadrat; the keyboard command comes from the verb sense.

“Quadrats, sir. We call 'em quads.” . . . Quads are the spaces left between the paragraphs that come white on the paper. If you look here, at this page that is set-up, you will see that they are deeper than the spaces left between the words and letters—regular little trenches.

1853 April 16, Charles Dickens, Household Words, number 160, page 148:

Horizontal spacing is further divided into multiples and fractions of the em. The multiples are called quads. The fractions are called spaces.

1979, Marshall Lee, Bookmaking, page 110:

Other larger spaces – known as quads – were used to space out lines.

2005, Phil Baines, Andrew Haslam, Type & Typography, 2nd edition, page 91:

(typography, obsolete) Abbreviation of quadrat.

(letterpress typography) A blank metal block used to fill short lines of type.

(printing slang) A joke used to fill long days of setting type.

(typography, phototypesetting and digital typesetting) A keyboard command which aligns text with the left or right margin, or centred between them. In combination, as quad left, quad right, or quad centre.

Clipping of quadruplet (“a set of four; one of a set of four”).

(radio) A quad antenna, a directional radio antenna consisting of multiple loop antennas.


quad

en-verb

quad (third-person singular simple present quads, present participle quadding, simple past and past participle quadded)

quads (present singular third-person)
quadding (participle present)
quadded (participle past)
quadded (past)

(typography, letterpress typography, transitive, intransitive) To fill spaces in a line of type with quads. Also quad out.

(typography, phototypesetting and digital typesetting, transitive, intransitive) To align text with the left or right margin, or centre it.


multiplex

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From multi- + -plex or multi- + complex.

(television) A grouping of program services as interleaved data packets for broadcast over a network or modulated multiplexed medium.


blink

blink (third-person singular simple present blinks, present participle blinking, simple past and past participle blinked)

blinks (present singular third-person)
blinking (participle present)
blinked (participle past)
blinked (past)

From Middle English blynken, blenken, from Old English blincan (suggested by causative verb blenċan (“to deceive”); > English blench), from Proto-Germanic *blinkaną, a variant of *blīkaną (“to gleam, shine”).
Cognate with Dutch blinken (“to glitter, shine”), German blinken (“to flash, blink”), Danish blinke (“to flash, twinkle, wink, blink”), Swedish blinka (“to flash, blink, twinkle, wink, blink”). Related to blank, blick, blike, bleak.

blikat

to flash on and off at regular intervals

(science fiction, video games) To teleport, mostly for short distances.


gray hat

gray hats (plural)
grayhat (alternative)
grey hat (alternative)
greyhat (alternative)

From being grey (“gray”), a mix between black and white, morally grey/gray. From white hat + black hat. From cowboy country and western fiction, where good guys wear white Stetson hats with light attire, and bad guys wear black ones with black attire. From chivalric fiction, with white knights and black knights. From the association of the color white with good and black with evil.

(idiomatic, fiction) A morally ambiguous character; an antihero.


supernumerary

From Late Latin supernumerarius (“extra soldier added to a legion; supernumerary”), from super (“above; beyond”) + numerus (“number; collection, quantity”) + -ārius (suffix forming adjectives from nouns or numerals). The word is analysable as super- + numeral + -ary.

refn

From Joseph C. Hughes (1897 September) “Supernumerary Finger Growing from First Metacarpal Bone”, in James Moores Ball, editor, Tri-State Medical Journal and Practitioner, volume IV, number 9, St. Louis, Mo.: [s.n.] 3509 Franklin Avenue, →OCLC, figure 2, page 436.

bor

[A] minor actor or supernumerary often has a better opportunity to watch great actors than the great actors themselves.

1983, H[endrik] B[rugt] G[erhard] Casimir, “Introduction”, in Haphazard Reality: Half a Century of Science (A Sloan Foundation Book), New York, N.Y.: Harper and Row, →ISBN; republished Amsterdam: Amsterdam Academic Archive, Amsterdam University Press, 2010, →ISBN, page 1:

Though little is known about Noble Luke Usher before his first recorded performance in Washington, D.C., in 1800, it is certain that he made the rounds of the eastern theatres as a supernumerary before as well as after that year.

2009, West T. Hill, Jr., “The First Western Circuit”, in The Theatre in Early Kentucky 1790–1820, paperback edition, Lexington, Ky.: University Press of Kentucky, →ISBN, page 72:

(film, theater) An extra or walk-on, often non-speaking, in a film or play; a spear carrier.


orientation

en-noun

orientation (countable and uncountable, plural orientations)

→ Japanese: オリエンテーション (orientēshon)

→ Korean: 오리엔테이션 (orienteisyeon)

/ˌɔɹiɛnˈteɪʃən/

From French orientation. By surface analysis, orient + -ation.

(typography, countable) The direction of print across the page; landscape or portrait.


out-of-print

I'm sorry, but that book has been out-of-print for twenty years.

(publishing) No longer offered for sale by a publisher; no longer on the firsthand market.


out of sorts

en-adj

out of sorts (comparative more out of sorts, superlative most out of sorts)

more out of sorts (comparative)
most out of sorts (superlative)

Comes from printing terminology where "sort" means a metal type for printing a particular letter.

(printing, dated) With some letters or sorts of type deficient or exhausted in the case or font.


gore

(film) gore; splatter (genre of gory horror)


deconstruction

en-noun

deconstruction (countable and uncountable, plural deconstructions)

(philosophy, literature) A philosophical theory of textual criticism; a form of critical analysis that emphasizes inquiry into the variable projection of the meaning and message of critical works, the meaning in relation to the reader and the intended audience, and the assumptions implicit in the embodied forms of expression.

αποδομισμός

a philosophical theory of textual criticism


lucharachán

head

lucharachán m (genitive singular lucharacháin, nominative plural lucharacháin)

lucharacháin (genitive singular)
lucharacháin (nominative plural)
lucharachán (indefinite nominative singular)
lucharacháin (indefinite nominative plural)
a lucharacháin (indefinite singular vocative)
a lucharachána (indefinite plural vocative)
lucharacháin (genitive indefinite singular)
lucharachán (genitive indefinite plural)
lucharachán (dative indefinite singular)
lucharacháin (dative indefinite plural)
an lucharachán (definite nominative singular)
na lucharacháin (definite nominative plural)
an lucharacháin (definite genitive singular)
na lucharachán (definite genitive plural)
leis an lucharachán (dative definite singular)
don lucharachán (dative definite singular)
leis na lucharacháin (dative definite plural)
leipreachán (alternative)
lucharbán (alternative)
luchargán (alternative)
lucharpán (alternative)
luchormán (alternative)
luchorpán (alternative)
luchramán (alternative)
luprachán (alternative)

/ˈl̪ˠʊxəɾˠəxɑːnˠ/

From Middle Irish luchrupán, from Old Irish luchorpán (from Old Irish lú (“small”, from Proto-Indo-European *legʷʰ-) + corp (“body”, which is from Latin corpus) + -án (diminutive suffix)).

af

from Proto-Indo-European <i class="Latn mention" lang="ine-pro">*legʷʰ-</i>

which is from Latin <i class="Latn mention" lang="la">corpus</i>


kill off

en-verb

kill off (third-person singular simple present kills off, present participle killing off, simple past and past participle killed off)

kills off (present singular third-person)
killing off (participle present)
killed off (participle past)
killed off (past)

The writers are killing off lots of people in the soap opera.

television series
television series#English

(film, television, literature) Of writers or producers, to permanently take a character out of a television series or other work by purposefully and deliberately having them killed within the plot.


knockdown

en-noun

knockdown (countable and uncountable, plural knockdowns)

We shot 'The Caterpillar' at General Service Studios, and the dressing rooms for the actors were what they call knockdowns: wooden frames covered in grungy, dirty red canvas. It looked like a circus tent.

1999, Scott Skelton, Jim Benson, Rod Serling's Night Gallery: An After-hours Tour, page 294:

(film, television) A shelter erected for use as a temporary dressing room.


xenophilia

While it may appear that Sturgeon has thus become an advocate of homoeroticism, incest, xenophilia, and other exotic or decadent sexual practices, he remains committed rather to the ideals of understanding and tolerance.

1983, Frank Northen Magill, Survey of modern fantasy literature, Volume 4, Salem Press, →ISBN, page 1707:

An alien—seemingly just a tourist—lands in the middle of Washington, assumes human, male form, and is adopted by four college kids for fun and sex. The story is told in snatches of dialogue and scraps of poetry (the title is from e.e. cummings), and is all goofy juxtapositions, happy xenophilia, and affection for the enthusiastic and accepting youth.

2007, Julie Phillips, James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon, →ISBN, page 300:

Xenophilia (header) From a young age, even before I knew what sex was, I always had a thing for girls. Alien girls I mean — Alorians in particular. I broke out in a sweat every time I saw them. They were so beautiful.

2012, Mark Guinane, Horizon's Edge, →ISBN, page 303:

(science fiction) Love (especially sexual love) between humans and extraterrestrials.


italicize

en-verb

italicize (third-person singular simple present italicizes, present participle italicizing, simple past and past participle italicized)

italicizes (present singular third-person)
italicizing (participle present)
italicized (participle past)
italicized (past)
italicise (alternative Commonwealth)

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italics

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There is no need to put the whole paragraph in italics.

[T]hey [the Catholics and Puritans] encumbered their verſion [of the Bible] with a load of uſeleſs Italics; often without the leaſt neceſſity, and almoſt always to the detriment of the text. In fact, either the words in Italics are virtually implied in the Hebrew, or they are not. In the former caſe they are a real part of the text, and ſhould be printed in the ſame character: in the latter, they are generally ill aſſorted and clumſy ekes, that may well be ſpared; and which often disfigure the narration under pretence of connecting it.

1786, Alexander Geddes, Prospectus of a New Translation of the Holy Bible from Corrected Texts of the Originals, Compared with the Ancient Versions. […], Glasgow: Printed for the author, and sold by R[obert] Faulder, […]; C. Eliot, […]; and —— Cross, […], →OCLC, page 95:

Writing of cyclic diagramming, he speaks of ". . . the practical state of locomotives that pass through any number of engine and maintenance crews' hands in the course of a week's common user working, receiving love from none". The italics are mine.

1959 May, G. F. Fiennes (reviewer), “New Reading on Railways: British Railways Today and Tomorrow. By G. Freeman Allen. Ian Allan. 25s.”, in Trains Illustrated, page 271:

(typography, plural only) Letters in an italic typeface.


lineo

Borrowed from English line, French ligne, German Linie, Italian linea, Russian ли́ния (línija), Spanish línea. Compare Esperanto linio.

io-bor

(genealogy, geometry, military, printing, telegraphy, writing, etc.) line


knock up

en-verb

knock up (third-person singular simple present knocks up, present participle knocking up, simple past and past participle knocked up)

knocks up (present singular third-person)
knocking up (participle present)
knocked up (participle past)
knocked up (past)

(obsolete, printing) To straighten up a stack of paper.


mob

(chiefly Japanese media) A background character in general.


fantasia

Borrowed from Latin phantasia, from Ancient Greek φαντασία (phantasía).


plano

Learned borrowing from Latin planus, from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂-. Compare llano, a doublet inherited from the same source.


mediasphere

(journalism) The collective ecology of the world's media, including newspapers, journals, television, radio, books, novels, advertising, press releases, publicity and the blogosphere; any and all media both broadcast and published.


insert

From Latin insertus, past participle of inserō, from in- + serō (“join, bind together, connect, entwine, interweave”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ser- (“to bind, put together, to line up”). Compare exsert.

der

(television) A pre-recorded segment included as part of a live broadcast.

[…] close-ups of her legs on the escalator, an insert of the emergency stop button (ARRET D'URGENCE), intercut close-ups of her glance and the cinema sign, […]

2013, David Bordwell, Narration in the Fiction Film, page 316:

(film, television) A close-up shot used to draw attention to a particular element of a larger scene.


ultraism

en-noun

ultraism (countable and uncountable, plural ultraisms)

The eight young signers of this “Ultra manifesto” could not have known at the time how accurate and prescient their declaration was. Spanish ultraism, born as a movement with that document, would be distinguished, ironically, by its indiscriminate and eclectic borrowings from the other European vanguard tendencies.

1981, Thorpe Running, Borges' Ultraist Movement and its Poets, Lathrup Village, Mich.: International Book Publishers, →ISBN, page 1:

(poetry) A Spanish poetic movement opposed to modernism.


counter

From Old French contre, Anglo-Norman cuntre, both from Latin contra.

[ˈkʰaʊ̯.ɾ̃ɚ]

(typography) The enclosed or partly closed negative space of a glyph.


TAC

The American Conservative
w:The American Conservative

(publishing) Initialism of The American Conservative.


getup

getups (plural)
get up (alternative)
get-up (alternative)

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(publishing) Layout and production style, as of a magazine.


picaresque

en-adj

picaresque (comparative more picaresque, superlative most picaresque)

more picaresque (comparative)
most picaresque (superlative)

From picaro (“adventurer, rogue”) + -esque (suffix meaning ‘in the style or manner of’ forming adjectives), modelled after Spanish picaresco (“in the style or manner of a picaro; picaresque”), from pícaro (“rogue”) + -esco (suffix forming adjectives indicating a relation). Compare French picaresque (attested later than the English word), Italian picaresco, Portuguese picaresco.

der

A mere piece of roguery told in the abstract, without the proper picaresque ornaments, its manifold sinuosities and dexterities, has no interest for the reader; it may recommend the executor of it to the administration of a cat-o-nine-tails, or to an honourable post in the gallies: but there is no music in it without the proper accompaniments.

1822, “Art. I.—Primera, y Segunda Parte de Guzman de Alfarache, por Matheo Aleman, Criado del Rey nuestro Senor, Natural, y Vezino de Sevilla. Madrid, 1723. 4to. The Rogue; or, The Life of Guzman de Alfarache. Written in the Spanish by Matheo Aleman, Servant to His Catholic Majestie, and Borne in Sevill. London, printed for Edward Blount, 1623.”, in The Retrospective Review, volume V, part II, London: Charles Baldwyn, […], →OCLC, pages 189–190:

Spain became celebrated about the end of this century for her novels in the picaresque style, of which Lazarillo de Tormes is the oldest extant specimen.

1839, Henry Hallam, “Section III. On Works of Fiction.”, in Introduction to the Literature of Europe, in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Centuries, volume II, London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, paragraph 41, pages 435–436:

He [Daniel Defoe] produced an amazing variety of wares: newspapers, magazines, ghost stories, biographies, journals, memoirs, satires, picaresque romances, essays on religion, reform, trade, projects, – in all more than two hundred works.

1923, William J[oseph] Long, “Eighteenth-century Literature”, in Outlines of English Literature: […], Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Ginn and Company, →OCLC, page 189:

Opening in France just before the Revolution and concluding just after the attack on the Tuileries, [Rafael] Sabatini's novel deftly combines historical romance, picaresque novel and revenge tragedy.

2009 November 1, Neil McDonald, “Scaramouche and the Swashbuckler”, in Quadrant, volume LIII, number 11 (number 461 overall), Sydney, N.S.W.: Quadrant Magazine Limited, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2018-04-15, page 103:

The picaresque novel finds its origins in the humanist search for an expansion of the historiographical genre. [...] The protagonist of the picaresque novel is the pícaro, a character of lowly descent who, by passing through a wide array of professions, attempts to rise in social standing.

2014, Konstantin Mierau, Binne de Haan, “Introduction: Bringing together Microhistory and the Picaresque Novel: Studying Menocchio, Guzmán de Alfarache, and Kin”, in Binne de Haan, Konstantin Mierau, editors, Microhistory and the Picaresque Novel: A First Exploration into Commensurable Perspectives, Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, →ISBN, page 2:

(literature) Characteristic of a genre of Spanish satiric novel dealing with the adventures of a roguish hero.

приключенски

characteristic of a genre of Spanish satiric novel dealing with the adventures of a roguish hero


picaresque

Du sublime au ridicule il n'y a qu'un pas [From the sublime to the ridiculous there is only one step]; and that step in Spain was taken by Diego Hurtado de Mendoza (already dealt with in his higher walk), the originator of the Picaresque, or low rogue's march novels, of which his Lazarillo de Tormes was the type— [...]

1850 September, “Art. I.—History of Spanish Literature. By George Ticknor. 3 vols. 8vo. London, 1849. [book review]”, in John Taylor Coleridge, editor, The Quarterly Review, volume LXXXVII, number CLXXIV, London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, page 326:

[T]he word picaro, which is almost synonymous with rogue, [...] has given a name to a whole series of novels in Spain called "Picaresques," the heroes of which are adventurers.

1856, Louis de Loménie, chapter XXVII, in Henry S. Edwards, transl., Beaumarchais and His Times. Sketches of French Society in the Eighteenth Century from Unpublished Documents. [...] In Four Volumes, international copyright edition, volume IV, London: Addey and Co., […], →OCLC, page 121:

And we had agreed completely as to the main stream in the history of the novel … as to its passing from Lope da Vega and the Spanish picaresques, by way of [Danie] Defoe and Richardson, to [Denis] Diderot, Stendahl and [Gustave] Flaubert [...]

1937, Ford Madox Ford, “[Theodore] Drieser”, in Portraits From Life: […], Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin Company; […], →OCLC, page 175:

In picaresques, the protagonist usually acts as narrator to provide coherence and unity to the genre's inherent structural weakness—its episodic plot.

1992, Kathryn Zabelle Derounian-Stodola, “The New England Frontier and the Picaresque in Sarah Kemble Knight’s Journal”, in Kathryn Zabelle Derounian-Stodola, editor, Early American Literature and Culture: Essays Honoring Harrison T. Meserole, Newark, N.J.: University of Delaware Press; Cranbury, N.J.; London: Associated University Presses, →ISBN, pages 122–123:


cornetto

From corno (“horn”, from Latin cornū) + -etto (diminutive suffix).

suffix

from Latin <i class="Latn mention" lang="la">cornū</i>

(folklore) horn-shaped amulet resembling a hot pepper


tramline

tramlines (plural)
tram line (alternative)

The tramline is therefore much less obvious on the screen. Also, if the scratch is on the base (i.e., on the back of the film), then it will not be in sharp focus.

1984, Movie Maker, volume 18, number 2, page 47:

(film) A scratch on a film, usually vertical, that extends through multiple frames.


IR

(pornography) Initialism of interracial.


pancake

en-noun

pancake (countable and uncountable, plural pancakes)

pancakes (plural)
pan cake (alternative)

→ Cantonese: 班戟 (baan¹ gik¹)

→ Mandarin: 班戟 (bānjǐ)

→ Cebuano: pankeyk

→ French: pancake

→ German: Pancake

desc

→ Hijazi Arabic: بانكيك (bānkēk, pānkēk)

→⇒ Irish: pancóg

→ Japanese: パンケーキ (pankēki)

→⇒ Khmer: នំផេនខេក (num pheenkheek)

→ Korean: 팬케이크 (paenkeikeu)

→ Nauruan: epankeik

→ Portuguese: panqueca, (dated) panqueque, (dated) pancake

→ Russian: панкейк (pankejk)

→ Spanish: (Argentina, Chile, Ecuador, Peru, Uruguay) panqueque, (Costa Rica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Puerto Rico) pancake, (Venezuela) panqueca

→ Thai: แพนเค้ก (pɛɛn-kéek)

→ Turkish: pankek

→ Azerbaijani: pankek

→ Yoruba: pan̄kéèkì

Inherited from Middle English pancake, panne cake, pankake, ponkake, equivalent to pan + cake.
Perhaps adapted from Middle Low German pankôke, pannekôke, from Old Saxon *pannakōko (suggested by derivatives Old Saxon pannakōkilo and pannakōkilīn), where the compound is much older; compare Old High German phankuohho (8th century), whence Middle High German phankuoche, German Pfannkuchen (“pancake”); further
Saterland Frisian Ponkouke, Ponkuuke (“pancake”), West Frisian pankoek (“pancake”), Dutch pannenkoek (“pancake”), German Low German Pannkook (“pancake”).
The juggling sense is by analogy with a pancake being tossed in a pan.

(countable, film, slang) A box on which an actor stands to make them appear taller.


multiverse

First appears c. 1895. Blend of multiple + universe, coined by American philosopher William James. By surface analysis, multi- + -verse.

coined

In the DC multiverse, our reality is called "Earth-33". But in the Marvel multiverse, it's "Earth-1218".

(fiction) The different canons, continuities or timelines of a fictional property, considered as a whole.


aktoro

From Esperanto aktoro (“actor”), English actor, French acteur, Italian attore, Spanish actor, Russian актёр (aktjór), from Latin āctor.

(theater, film) actor; actress (male or female)


runt

The OED classifies this word as "of obscure origin". Some see a connection to Middle Dutch runt (“ox”), but the OED considers this to be unlikely.

unk

obscure

(typography) A single word (or portion of a hyphenated word) that appears as the last line of a paragraph.

orposana

single word that appears as the last line of a paragraph


engraving

en-noun

engraving (countable and uncountable, plural engravings)

(printing) The art of producing an image from an engraved printing form, typically made of copper.


em dash

em dashes (plural)
em rule (alternative)
emdash (alternative)
em-dash (alternative)
m dash (alternative)
m-rule (alternative)
mutton dash (alternative)

Named for its width, which is equal to the width of the letter m or M, or approximately twice the width of an en dash.

(typography) The symbol (—) (used to demarcate a parenthetical thought or to indicate a break, or for emphasis)


en dash

en dashes (plural)
en rule (alternative)
endash (alternative)
en-dash (alternative)
n dash (alternative)
n-rule (alternative)
nut dash (alternative)

Named for its width, which is equal to the width of the letter n or N, or approximately half the width of an em dash.

(typography) The punctuation mark –, which is used, for instance, to indicate a range.


redaktar

head

redaktar (present tense redaktas, past tense redaktis, future tense redaktos, imperative redaktez, conditional redaktus)

redaktas (present)
redaktis (past)
tense redaktos (future)
redaktez (imperative)
redaktus (conditional)
redaktar (infinitive present)
redaktir (infinitive past)
redaktor (future infinitive)
redaktas (present)
redaktis (past)
redaktos (future)
redaktus (conditional present)
redaktez (imperative present)
redaktanta (active adjective participle present)
redaktinta (active adjective participle past)
redaktonta (active adjective future participle)
redaktante (active adverbial participle present)
redaktinte (active adverbial participle past)
redaktonte (active adverbial future participle)
redaktanto (active noun-from-verb participle present singular)
redaktinto (active noun-from-verb participle past singular)
redaktonto (active future noun-from-verb participle singular)
redaktanti (active noun-from-verb participle plural present)
redaktinti (active noun-from-verb participle past plural)
redaktonti (active future noun-from-verb participle plural)
redaktata (adjectival participle passive present)
redaktita (adjectival participle passive past)
redaktota (adjectival future participle passive)
redaktate (adverbial participle passive present)
redaktite (adverbial participle passive past)
redaktote (adverbial future participle passive)
redaktato (noun-from-verb participle passive present singular)
redaktito (noun-from-verb participle passive past singular)
redaktoto (future noun-from-verb participle passive singular)
redaktati (noun-from-verb participle passive plural present)
redaktiti (noun-from-verb participle passive past plural)
redaktoti (future noun-from-verb participle passive plural)

Borrowed from English redaction, French rédaction, German Redaktion, Italian redazione, Russian реда́кция (redákcija), Spanish redacción. (Compare Esperanto redakti).

redakturo

drawing up (deeds, etc.); editing periodicals; redaction

(journalism, computing) to edit (a newspaper, journal, document, file)


wide-angle

en-adj

wide-angle (comparative wider-angle, superlative widest-angle)

wider-angle (comparative)
widest-angle (superlative)

(cinematography, photography) Of or pertaining to a short focal length lens that has an angle of view greater than about 70°; of or pertaining to an image produced with such a lens.


probe

For verb: borrowed from Latin probare (“to test, examine, prove”), from probus (“good”). Doublet of prove.
For noun: borrowed from Late Latin proba (“a proof”), from probare (“to test, examine, prove”); Doublet of proof. Compare Spanish tienta (“a surgeon's probe”), from tentar (“try, test”); see tempt.

сонда

any of various medical instruments used to explore wounds, organs, etc

You know, XR178.9, we haven't done any anal probes in a while.

2004 August 2, Bayard Russell, nonemorecomic:

You listen here! We don't do anal probes like other aliens, but I'm about to make an exception!

2009 September 14, Ryan Hudson, “Can I Abduct You?”, in ChannelATE:

(surgery) Any of various medical instruments used to explore wounds, organs, etc.

(comedy, fiction) An anal probe, a fictional instrument commonly used by aliens on abducted humans.


widow

PIE word
 *dwóh₁
From Middle English widwe, from Old English widuwe, from Proto-West Germanic *widuwā, from Proto-Germanic *widuwǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁widʰéwh₂, possibly from *h₁weydʰh₁-, *widʰ- (“to separate, split, cleave, divide”), whence also wood from Old English widu, wudu.
Cognates include German Witwe, Dutch weduwe, Gothic 𐍅𐌹𐌳𐌿𐍅𐍉 (widuwō), Old Irish fedb, Latin vidua, Old Church Slavonic въдова (vŭdova), Sanskrit विधवा (vidhavā) and Persian بیوه (bive, bêva), Middle Persian wēwag, Avestan viðavā- "widow" .

(typography) A single line of type that ends a paragraph but is separated from it by being carried over to the next page or column.

intañvez

single line of type carried over to the next page


wilco

Wilco, Bravo Six Three will take the north road. Bravo Six Four will take the south road, out.

(radio communications) Indicates agreement and compliance.


wilco

en-verb

wilco (third-person singular simple present wilcos, present participle wilcoing, simple past and past participle wilcoed)

wilcos (present singular third-person)
wilcoing (participle present)
wilcoed (participle past)
wilcoed (past)

(radio communications, rare) To give the "wilco" indication.


stew

en-noun

stew (usually uncountable, plural stews)

→ Japanese: シチュー (shichū)

From Middle English stewe, stue, from Anglo-Norman estouve, Old French estuve (“bath, bathhouse”) (modern French étuve), from Medieval Latin stupha, of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Vulgar Latin *extufāre, from ex- + Ancient Greek τῦφος (tûphos, “smoke, steam”), from τύφω (túphō, “to smoke”). See also Italian stufare, Portuguese estufar. Compare also Old English stuf-bæþ (“a hot-air bath, vapour bath”); see stove.

cog

mike stew

(broadcasting, slang) Unwanted background noise recorded by the microphone.


lipogram

From Ancient Greek λειπογγράμμα (leipongrámma), from λείπω (leípō, “leaving out”) + γράμμα (grámma, “letter”), 18th c.

der

λειπογγράμμα

compound

"Transubstantiationalists" is a particularly long single-word lipogram, not using the letter "e".

(literature) A word or writing that does not use a particular symbol or symbols.


cruiser

(military, nautical) A class of fast warships of medium tonnage, having a long cruising range but less armour and firepower than a battleship.

(science fiction, by extension) A starship of comparable role


huddle

From Middle English *hudelen, alteration (due to hudels, hidels (“hiding place”), see hiddle) of *huderen, hoderen (“to cover; press together; huddle”), a frequentative form of Middle English huden, hiden (“to hide”), equivalent to hide + -le and/or hide + -er. Compare Low German huderken (“to brood; coddle; nurse; lull children to sleep”).

cog

The post-PMQs huddle takes place just outside the press gallery, and all the journalists swarm first around the Prime Minister's press team[…]

2018, Ayesha Hazarika, Tom Hamilton, Punch and Judy Politics: An Insiders' Guide to Prime Minister's Questions:

A small group of individuals in very close proximity to one another.

(journalism) A session in which a group of journalists assemble in an informal, dense cluster to question a person of interest.


aubade

Princess Christina of the Netherlands
Rosalía de Castro

PIE word
 *albʰós
Borrowed from French aubade, from Old French albade, from Old Spanish albada (“musical or poetic composition to be performed in the morning”), from alba (“dawn”), from Vulgar Latin *alba (“dawn; sunrise”), from Latin albus (“bright, clear; white”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *albʰós (“white”).

beuregan

And there he lingered till the crowing cock, / The Alectryon of the farmyard and the flock, / Sang his aubade with lusty voice and clear, / To tell the sleeping world that dawn was near.

1873 August, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “[I. Tales of a Wayside Inn.] The Student’s Tale. Emma and Eginhard.”, in Aftermath, Boston, Mass.: James R[ipley] Osgood and Company, late Ticknor & Fields, and Fields, Osgood, & Co., →OCLC, page 27:

Alladad Khan woke to the far crying of kampong cocks in the dark. That noise had been the farmyard aubade in the Punjab in his dream.

1956, Anthony Burgess, chapter 11, in Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), London: William Heinemann, published 1968, →ISBN, page 155:

(music, poetry) A poem or song evoking or greeting the dawn or early morning.

(music, specifically) A morning love song, or a song of lovers parting in the morning.

aubade

morning love song; song of lovers parting in the morning


alio

alio (nominative singular)
aliot (nominative plural)
alio (accusative nominative singular)
aliot (accusative nominative plural)
alion (accusative genitive singular)
aliot (accusative genitive plural)
alion (genitive singular)
alioiden (genitive plural)
alioitten (genitive plural)
aliota (partitive singular)
alioita (partitive plural)
aliossa (inessive singular)
alioissa (inessive plural)
aliosta (elative singular)
alioista (elative plural)
alioon (illative singular)
alioihin (illative plural)
aliolla (adessive singular)
alioilla (adessive plural)
aliolta (ablative singular)
alioilta (ablative plural)
aliolle (allative singular)
alioille (allative plural)
aliona (essive singular)
alioina (essive plural)
alioksi (singular translative)
alioiksi (plural translative)
aliotta (abessive singular)
alioitta (abessive plural)
alioin (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
alioni (nominative singular)
alioni (nominative plural)
alioni (accusative nominative singular)
alioni (accusative nominative plural)
alioni (accusative genitive singular)
alioni (accusative genitive plural)
alioni (genitive singular)
alioideni (genitive plural)
alioitteni (genitive plural)
aliotani (partitive singular)
alioitani (partitive plural)
aliossani (inessive singular)
alioissani (inessive plural)
aliostani (elative singular)
alioistani (elative plural)
aliooni (illative singular)
alioihini (illative plural)
aliollani (adessive singular)
alioillani (adessive plural)
alioltani (ablative singular)
alioiltani (ablative plural)
aliolleni (allative singular)
alioilleni (allative plural)
alionani (essive singular)
alioinani (essive plural)
aliokseni (singular translative)
alioikseni (plural translative)
aliottani (abessive singular)
alioittani (abessive plural)
alioineni (comitative plural)
aliosi (nominative singular)
aliosi (nominative plural)
aliosi (accusative nominative singular)
aliosi (accusative nominative plural)
aliosi (accusative genitive singular)
aliosi (accusative genitive plural)
aliosi (genitive singular)
alioidesi (genitive plural)
alioittesi (genitive plural)
aliotasi (partitive singular)
alioitasi (partitive plural)
aliossasi (inessive singular)
alioissasi (inessive plural)
aliostasi (elative singular)
alioistasi (elative plural)
alioosi (illative singular)
alioihisi (illative plural)
aliollasi (adessive singular)
alioillasi (adessive plural)
alioltasi (ablative singular)
alioiltasi (ablative plural)
aliollesi (allative singular)
alioillesi (allative plural)
alionasi (essive singular)
alioinasi (essive plural)
alioksesi (singular translative)
alioiksesi (plural translative)
aliottasi (abessive singular)
alioittasi (abessive plural)
alioinesi (comitative plural)
aliomme (nominative singular)
aliomme (nominative plural)
aliomme (accusative nominative singular)
aliomme (accusative nominative plural)
aliomme (accusative genitive singular)
aliomme (accusative genitive plural)
aliomme (genitive singular)
alioidemme (genitive plural)
alioittemme (genitive plural)
aliotamme (partitive singular)
alioitamme (partitive plural)
aliossamme (inessive singular)
alioissamme (inessive plural)
aliostamme (elative singular)
alioistamme (elative plural)
alioomme (illative singular)
alioihimme (illative plural)
aliollamme (adessive singular)
alioillamme (adessive plural)
alioltamme (ablative singular)
alioiltamme (ablative plural)
aliollemme (allative singular)
alioillemme (allative plural)
alionamme (essive singular)
alioinamme (essive plural)
alioksemme (singular translative)
alioiksemme (plural translative)
aliottamme (abessive singular)
alioittamme (abessive plural)
alioinemme (comitative plural)
alionne (nominative singular)
alionne (nominative plural)
alionne (accusative nominative singular)
alionne (accusative nominative plural)
alionne (accusative genitive singular)
alionne (accusative genitive plural)
alionne (genitive singular)
alioidenne (genitive plural)
alioittenne (genitive plural)
aliotanne (partitive singular)
alioitanne (partitive plural)
aliossanne (inessive singular)
alioissanne (inessive plural)
aliostanne (elative singular)
alioistanne (elative plural)
alioonne (illative singular)
alioihinne (illative plural)
aliollanne (adessive singular)
alioillanne (adessive plural)
alioltanne (ablative singular)
alioiltanne (ablative plural)
aliollenne (allative singular)
alioillenne (allative plural)
alionanne (essive singular)
alioinanne (essive plural)
alioksenne (singular translative)
alioiksenne (plural translative)
aliottanne (abessive singular)
alioittanne (abessive plural)
alioinenne (comitative plural)
alionsa (nominative singular)
alionsa (nominative plural)
alionsa (accusative nominative singular)
alionsa (accusative nominative plural)
alionsa (accusative genitive singular)
alionsa (accusative genitive plural)
alionsa (genitive singular)
alioidensa (genitive plural)
alioittensa (genitive plural)
aliotaan (partitive singular)
aliotansa (partitive singular)
alioitaan (partitive plural)
alioitansa (partitive plural)
aliossaan (inessive singular)
aliossansa (inessive singular)
alioissaan (inessive plural)
alioissansa (inessive plural)
aliostaan (elative singular)
aliostansa (elative singular)
alioistaan (elative plural)
alioistansa (elative plural)
alioonsa (illative singular)
alioihinsa (illative plural)
aliollaan (adessive singular)
aliollansa (adessive singular)
alioillaan (adessive plural)
alioillansa (adessive plural)
alioltaan (ablative singular)
alioltansa (ablative singular)
alioiltaan (ablative plural)
alioiltansa (ablative plural)
aliolleen (allative singular)
aliollensa (allative singular)
alioilleen (allative plural)
alioillensa (allative plural)
alionaan (essive singular)
alionansa (essive singular)
alioinaan (essive plural)
alioinansa (essive plural)
aliokseen (singular translative)
alioksensa (singular translative)
alioikseen (plural translative)
alioiksensa (plural translative)
aliottaan (abessive singular)
aliottansa (abessive singular)
alioittaan (abessive plural)
alioittansa (abessive plural)
alioineen (comitative plural)
alioinensa (comitative plural)

(journalism) an article, often speculative and/or opinionated, placed against the bottom edge of a page and spread over multiple columns, often on the same spread as the main editorial or leader


anca

From Vulgar Latin *hanca (“hip”), from Frankish *hanka, from Proto-Germanic *ankijǭ (“joint”), from Proto-Indo-European *ang- (“joint”). Cognates include Italian anca (“hip”) and French hanche (“hip”).


dodge

en-verb

dodge (third-person singular simple present dodges, present participle dodging, simple past and past participle dodged)

dodges (present singular third-person)
dodging (participle present)
dodged (participle past)
dodged (past)

Likely from dialectal dodge, dod, dodd (“to jog, trudge along, totter", also "to jerk, jig”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from unrecorded Middle English *dodden, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *dud- (“to move”), related to Old English dydrian, dyderian (“to delude, deceive”), Middle English dideren (“to tremble, quake, shiver”), English dodder, Norwegian dudra (“to tremble”).

cog

Coordinate term: burn

(photography, videography) To decrease the exposure for certain areas of an image in order to make them darker.

varjostaa

photography: to decrease the exposure for certain areas of a print


walker

→ Irish: válcaeir

→ Persian: واکر (vâker)

From Middle English walkere (“one who walks, traveller”), equivalent to walk + -er.

inh

Dead people, walkers, as you call them, are somehow, and for some reason, attacking.

1980, Gary Brandner, chapter 17, in Walkers (fiction; paperback), Fawcett Publications, →ISBN:

Two of the walkers circled the pillars. Their searchlights played through the trees, then turned back to Leia and the others.

2011, Dave Wolverton, The Courtship of Princess Leia: Star Wars Legends, page 144:

It also takes a good amount of inspiration from Metal Gear Solid 4s biomechanical designs, namely the Gekko walkers' and their synthetic musculature.

2019, Joe Meno, BrickJournal #60, page 37:

(science fiction) A kind of military robot or mecha with legs for locomotion.


tofu

en-noun

tofu (countable and uncountable, plural tofus)

Borrowed from Japanese 豆(とう)腐(ふ) (tōfu), from Middle Chinese 豆腐 (duwᴴ bju^X, “curdled bean”). Doublet of dubu.

der

(computing, typography) A box or rectangle, empty or with a question mark or hexadecimal code inside, displayed by some systems in place of a character not supported by available fonts. (such as _□ or 𐕪)


wrapping

From Middle English wrappinge, wrappynge, equivalent to wrap + -ing.

See also: autowrap, backwrap, line break, word wrap, and wraparound

(computing, writing) The breaking of a section of text into lines so that it will fit into the available width of a display area.


sapient

en-adj

sapient (comparative more sapient, superlative most sapient)

more sapient (comparative)
most sapient (superlative)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Naomi Persephone Amethyst (NaomiAmethyst)-sapient.wav

From Middle English sapient, from Old French sapient, or its source, Latin sapiēns. Doublet of savant.

When EXPLORATION blazed through space / The first sky-trail to far-flung stars, / And found men, sapient, on Mars, / He gained renown's most honored place.

1935 February, Bob Olsen, “Who Deserves Credit?”, in Amazing Stories, volume 9, number 10, page 81:

It was inhabited by a sapient humanoid race, and some of them were civilized enough to put it in Class V, and Colonial Office doctrine on Class V planets was rigid.

1962 January, Henry Beam Piper, “Naudsonce”, in Analog Science Fact and Science Fiction, volume 68, number 5, page 9:

Nessus had not spoken mockingly; but Speaker reacted with rage. “What sapient being would not fear such power?”

a high degree of self-awareness
self-awareness

(chiefly science fiction) Of a species or life-form, possessing intelligence or a high degree of self-awareness.


sapient

It seemed to him a possibility that the Cold War Corps of March might have contacted hitherto unknown sapients on some just discovered interstellar planet.

1960, Philip José Farmer, A Woman a Day, page 30:

(chiefly science fiction) An intelligent, self-aware being.


manifesto

Learned borrowing from Latin manifestus.

(literature) programmatic text of a literary school or literary movement


monter

monter (infinitive)
avoir (infinitive multiword-construction)
être + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
montant (gerund participle present)
ayant (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
étant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
monté (participle past)
monte (first-person indicative present singular)
montes (indicative present second-person singular)
monte (indicative present singular third-person)
montons (first-person indicative plural present)
montez (indicative plural present second-person)
montent (indicative plural present third-person)
montais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
montais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
montait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
montions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
montiez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
montaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
montai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
montas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
monta (historic indicative past singular third-person)
montâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
montâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
montèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
monterai (first-person future indicative singular)
monteras (future indicative second-person singular)
montera (future indicative singular third-person)
monterons (first-person future indicative plural)
monterez (future indicative plural second-person)
monteront (future indicative plural third-person)
monterais (conditional first-person singular)
monterais (conditional second-person singular)
monterait (conditional singular third-person)
monterions (conditional first-person plural)
monteriez (conditional plural second-person)
monteraient (conditional plural third-person)
present indicative of avoir (indicative multiword-construction perfect present)
être + past participle (indicative multiword-construction perfect present)
imperfect indicative of avoir (indicative multiword-construction pluperfect)
être + past participle (indicative multiword-construction pluperfect)
past historic of avoir (anterior indicative multiword-construction past)
être + past participle (anterior indicative multiword-construction past)
future of avoir (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
être + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
être + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
monte (first-person present singular subjunctive)
montes (present second-person singular subjunctive)
monte (present singular subjunctive third-person)
montions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
montiez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
montent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
montasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
montasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
montât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
montassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
montassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
montassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
present subjunctive of avoir (multiword-construction past subjunctive)
être + past participle (multiword-construction past subjunctive)
imperfect subjunctive of avoir (multiword-construction pluperfect subjunctive)
être + past participle (multiword-construction pluperfect subjunctive)
monte (imperative second-person singular)
montons (first-person imperative plural)
montez (imperative plural second-person)
simple imperative of avoir (imperative multiword-construction second-person singular)
être + past participle (imperative multiword-construction second-person singular)
simple imperative of avoir (first-person imperative multiword-construction plural)
être + past participle (first-person imperative multiword-construction plural)
simple imperative of avoir (imperative multiword-construction plural second-person)
être + past participle (imperative multiword-construction plural second-person)

→ German: montieren

→ Polish: montaż

→ Polish: montować

→ Swedish: montera

Inherited from Middle French monter, from Old French monter, from Vulgar Latin *montāre, from Latin montem (“mountain”).


dead air

(idiomatic, broadcasting) An unintended interruption in a broadcast during which nothing is transmitted: a silent period on radio or a silent period with no picture on television.


overnight

overnights (plural)
over night (alternative)
overnite (alternative informal)

Inherited from Middle English overnyght, from Old English ofer niht (“through the night, overnight”), equivalent to over + night. Verbal use (late 19th c.) may have been influenced by German übernachten (16th c.), though it could also have developed independently.

inh

Word spread that Barney was on his way out to the location and that the Nielsen overnights had been terrific, or why else would he come.

2000, Dorothy C. Swanson, Story of Viewers For Quality TV: From Grassroots to Prime Time:

The TV critic had the results of the June rating survey by Arbitron and Nielsen. […] He has the hard numbers on the June book plus the recent Nielsen overnights.

(television, in the plural) Viewership ratings for a television show that are published the morning after it is broadcast, and may be revised later on.


playback singer

en-noun

playback singer (plural playback singers)

(singing, cinematography) A singer whose songs are pre-recorded for use in films, especially Bollywood musicals, where actors lip-sync them.

নেপথ্য গায়ক

singer whose songs are lip-synced by an actor


bump

bump (countable and uncountable, plural bumps)

From Early Modern English bump (“a shock, blow from a collision”), probably of North Germanic origin; compare Danish bump (“a thump”), Danish bumpe (“to thump”), Old Danish bumpe (“to strike with a clenched fist”), all probably of imitative origin.
Apparently related to Middle English bumben, bummen (“to make a hollow noise”), Dutch bommen (“to hum, buzz”), German Low German bumsen (“to bump, push”), German bummen (“to hum, buzz”), Icelandic bumba (“drum”). More at bum, bumble. Compare also bomb.

onom

imitative

kuhmu

phrenological protuberance and associated aptitude

(US, broadcasting) A short, self-promotional spot on a radio or television station.


bump

en-verb

bump (third-person singular simple present bumps, present participle bumping, simple past and past participle bumped)

bumps (present singular third-person)
bumping (participle present)
bumped (participle past)
bumped (past)

onom

imitative

(printing, dated) To spread out material so as to fill any desired number of pages.


get in

en-verb

get in (third-person singular simple present gets in, present participle getting in, simple past got in, past participle (UK) got in or (US) gotten in)

gets in (present singular third-person)
getting in (participle present)
got in (past)
got in (UK participle past)
gotten in (US participle past)

(obsolete, printing, of a matter) To produce fewer copies than anticipated.


matt

(film) Alternative spelling of matte (“background, often painted or created with computers”).


bocadillo

rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines

(comics) speech bubble (rounded outline, containing words, representing speech)


soliloquy

en-noun

soliloquy (countable and uncountable, plural soliloquies)

Augustine of Hippo
Hamlet
Soliloquiorum libri duo
To be, or not to be
William Shakespeare

1595–1605; From Late Latin sōliloquium in the title of St. Augustine's Soliloquiorum libri duo ("Two Books of Soliloquies"), from sōlus (“only, sole”) + loquor (“I speak”).

Coordinate term: aside

At the end of the second act the main villain gave a soliloquy detailing his plans to attack the protagonist.

Yet if I were to say […] that Hamlet's soliloquy had been much over-rated, it would not be said, on this account, that I was unable to appreciate Shakespeare.

1901, Edmund Selous, Bird Watching, J.M. Dent & Co, London, Chapter XII: Watching Blackbirds, Nightingales, Sand-martins, etc., page 315:

(drama) The act of a character speaking to themselves so as to reveal their thoughts to the audience.

The feeling of Singleton's bosom grew heightened in its tone of melancholy, and a more passionate emphasis of thought broke forth in his half-muttered soliloquy:— ¶"How I remember as I look […]

1835, William Gilmore Simms, The Partisan, Harper, Chapter XI, page 135:

Here is a very over-simplified example, this time expressed in the form of a subjective soliloquy rather than a computer simulation.

1976, Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene, Kindle edition, OUP Oxford, published 2016, page 126:

(authorship) A speech or written discourse in this form.


campo

From Latin campus (“wild field”). Compare English camp.

campo lungo


zombi

(computing, fiction, voodoo) alternative spelling of zombie


caja

→ Cebuano: kaha

→ Tagalog: kaha

Probably borrowed from Catalan caixa or Occitan caissa, from Latin capsa. (Latin /-ps-/ yields palatal outcomes in the latter two, but not in Spanish; cf. Latin ipse > Sp. ese, Catalan eixe.) Related to English case and cash and, more distantly, Spanish quijada.


flush

en-adj

flush (comparative flusher, superlative flushest)

flusher (comparative)
flushest (superlative)

Same as Etymology 3, according to the American Heritage Dictionary.

flush left and right
flush left and right#English

(typography) Ellipsis of flush left and right: a body of text aligned with both its left and right margins.


graphic novel

(comics) A comic book containing a single and full nonepisodic story.


graphic novelist

en-noun

graphic novelist (plural graphic novelists)

graphic novel + -ist or graphic + novelist

(comics) A person who creates fiction using a succession of pictures interspersed with text (i.e. a comic book).


strip cartoon

(comics) A series of illustrations depicting a humorous narrative.

comic

illustrations depicting humorous narrative


cartoonist

→ Indonesian: kartunis

(comics) One who creates a cartoon or strip cartoon.

cartooniste m or f dessinateur de dessins animés

(comics) One who both writes and illustrates comic books or graphic novels.

sarjakuvataiteilija

person who writes and illustrates comic books


echolalia

echolalia (nominative singular)
echolalii (genitive singular)
echolalii (dative singular)
echolalię (accusative singular)
echolalią (instrumental singular)
echolalii (locative singular)
echolalio (singular vocative)

(rhetoric, poetry) echolalia (stylistic device consisting of the repetition of identical or similar vocal groups solely in order to emphasise the rhythmic or melodic character of the text)


hyperspace

hyperspace (countable and uncountable, plural hyperspaces)

hyperspaces (plural)
hyper space (alternative)
hyper-space (alternative)

We can only get to the Nimrodian Galaxy if we go through hyperspace.

I'm in command of 18 competitively selected super-perfect physical specimens with an average age of 24.6 who have been locked up in hyperspace for 378 days.

1956, Cyril Hume, Forbidden Planet, spoken by Commander Adams (Leslie Nielsen):

(science fiction) A notional space orthogonal to the usual dimensions of space-time often used for faster-than-light travel.


hyperspace

en-verb

hyperspace (third-person singular simple present hyperspaces, present participle hyperspacing, simple past and past participle hyperspaced)

hyperspaces (present singular third-person)
hyperspacing (participle present)
hyperspaced (participle past)
hyperspaced (past)
hyper space (alternative)
hyper-space (alternative)

If she hyperspaced out to Tionisla or Lave the Courier would simply follow through her witchspace wormhole.

2010, Drew Wagar, Status Quo (Oolite Saga), Drew Wagar, →ISBN:

(science fiction, ambitransitive) To travel or transport into hyperspace.


lector

lectors (plural)
lectour (alternative obsolete)

From Middle English lector, lectoure, lectour, from Late Latin lēctor, from legō (“I read”). “Voice-over” sense probably adapted from Polish lektor.

The Hungarian viewer of The Colbert Report wants to experience authentic American comedy, and the lector—like an interpreter performing chuchotage at a high-level meeting of heads of state—serves primarily as a check on the viewer's grasp of the real thing.

2011, David Bellos, chapter 12, in Is that a Fish in Your Ear?:

(television, film) A person doing voice-over translation of foreign films, especially in Eastern European countries.


shojo

/ˈʃəʊˌd͡ʒəʊ/

/ˈʃoʊˌd͡ʒoʊ/

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From Japanese 少女(しょうじょ) (shōjo, “young woman”).

shōjo (alternative)
shoujo (alternative)

(anime, manga) A style of anime and manga intended for young women.


shojo

en-adj

shojo (comparative more shojo, superlative most shojo)

more shojo (comparative)
most shojo (superlative)
shōjo (alternative)
shoujo (alternative)

/ˈʃəʊˌd͡ʒəʊ/

/ˈʃoʊˌd͡ʒoʊ/

(anime, manga) Being in the style of shōjo manga or anime.


shojo

ja-r

猩々(しょうじょう) (shōjō)

(folklore) A creature in Japanese folklore, often depicted as a sea spirit with red hair and a fondness for alcohol.


少女

ja-noun

少(しょう)女(じょ) • (shōjo) ^(←せうぢよ (seudyo)?)

少女 (canonical)
shōjo (romanization)
seudyo (romanization)
せうぢよ (hiragana historical)

From Middle Chinese compound 少女 (MC syewX|syewH nrjoX|nrjoH). Compare modern Mandarin 少女 (shàonǚ).

少女歌劇

少女歌劇 しょうじょかげき

a kind of traditional Japanese light drama with no male actors and mostly young girls playing the parts

少女趣味

少女趣味 しょうじょしゅみ

hobbies or interest common to young girls

(anime, manga) a style of anime and manga made for young women, shojo


drop letter

(typography) A large letter at the beginning of a line of text, positioned in a decorative way below the baseline of the rest of the type.


warp

en-verb

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

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

→ Japanese: ワープ (wāpu)

From Middle English werpen, weorpen, worpen, from Old English weorpan (“to throw”), from Proto-West Germanic *werpan, from Proto-Germanic *werpaną (“to throw, turn”), from Proto-Indo-European *werb- (“to bend, turn”).
Cognate with Scots warp (“to throw, warp”), North Frisian werpen (“to throw”), Dutch werpen (“to throw, cast”), German werfen (“to throw, cast”), Icelandic verpa (“to throw”).

der

Then we warp a ball of atmosphere right out of the sky into the domes, and some fruit trees to go with them, and we also abduct some livestock.

2004, Travis S. Taylor, Warp Speed, →ISBN:

Valerie asked why they couldn't warp to the planet.

2012, Jonathan Henry, The Revelation of Earth: First Contact, page 188:

(ambitransitive, science fiction, video games) To travel or transport across a medium without passing through it normally, as by using a teleporter or time warp.

harpata

(science fiction and videos games) to travel without passing through a medium


wigging

en-noun

wigging (countable and uncountable, plural wiggings)

“So why are there so few women in the stunt industry? Many point to the practice of “wigging” – which is when male stunt actors play female characters.”

2018, Daniel Lavelle, “Why stuntwomen are angry about 'wigging' – and are changing the industry from within”, in The Guardian:

(film) The practice of male stuntmen performing for actresses.


italic

Named after the nation of Italy, as it was first used by an Italian printer, Aldo Manuzio, around 1500. Literally Italy + -ic.

(typography, of a typeface or font) Designed to resemble a handwriting style developed in Italy in the 16th century.

курсивен

designed to resemble a handwriting style

The text was impossible to read: every other word was underlined or in a bold or italic font.

(typography, of a typeface or font) Having letters that slant or lean to the right; oblique.


italic

Names of vessels, as the Kearsarge or the Alabama, are frequently put in italic.

1902, Theodore Low DeVinne, The Practice of Typography: Correct Composition, page 104:

[…] ROBERT GRANJON, possibly in collaboration with CLAUDE GARAMOND, had created an italic which matched Garamond Roman.

1983, Ida M. Kimber, The Art of Lettering, translation of original by Albert Kapr, page 329:

(typography) A typeface in which the letters slant to the right.

շղատառ

typeface whose letters slant to the right


Terran

(chiefly science fiction) Of Earth; of terrestrial origin.


Terran

The magazines, in the nearby rack, were in English. And on their covers, laughing Terrans.

1966, Philip K. Dick, Now Wait for Last Year:

(chiefly science fiction) An inhabitant of Earth; an earthling, especially a human.


petit

From French petit (“brevier”) directly or via German Petit (“brevier”).

(printing, dated, French and German contexts) Synonym of brevier.


parte

parté (canonical)
ᜉᜇ᜔ᜆᜒ (Baybayin)
parti (alternative obsolete)

Borrowed from Spanish parte, from Old Spanish parte (“part”), from Latin partem. Doublet of part.

(theater, film) role; stint; part (in a theatrical play, drama, or film shoot)


conscience

conscience (countable and uncountable, plural consciences)

From Middle English conscience, from Old French conscience, from Latin conscientia (“knowledge within oneself”), from consciens, present participle of conscire (“to know, to be conscious (of wrong)”), from com- (“together”) + scire (“to know”).

der

(chiefly fiction, narratology) A personification of the moral sense of right and wrong, usually in the form of a person, a being or merely a voice that gives moral lessons and advices.


حقيقة

ar-noun

حَقِيقَة • (ḥaqīqa) f (plural حَقَائِق (ḥaqāʔiq))

حَقِيقَة (canonical)
ḥaqīqa (romanization)
حَقَائِق (plural)
حَقِيقَة (ar-infl-a indefinite informal singular triptote)
الْحَقِيقَة (ar-infl-a definite informal singular triptote)
حَقِيقَة (ar-infl-a construct informal singular triptote)
حَقِيقَةٌ (ar-infl-a indefinite nominative singular triptote)
الْحَقِيقَةُ (ar-infl-a definite nominative singular triptote)
حَقِيقَةُ (ar-infl-a construct nominative singular triptote)
حَقِيقَةً (accusative ar-infl-a indefinite singular triptote)
الْحَقِيقَةَ (accusative ar-infl-a definite singular triptote)
حَقِيقَةَ (accusative ar-infl-a construct singular triptote)
حَقِيقَةٍ (ar-infl-a genitive indefinite singular triptote)
الْحَقِيقَةِ (ar-infl-a definite genitive singular triptote)
حَقِيقَةِ (ar-infl-a construct genitive singular triptote)
حَقِيقَتَيْن (ar-infl-a dual indefinite informal singular triptote)
الْحَقِيقَتَيْن (ar-infl-a definite dual informal singular triptote)
حَقِيقَتَيْ (ar-infl-a construct dual informal singular triptote)
حَقِيقَتَانِ (ar-infl-a dual indefinite nominative singular triptote)
الْحَقِيقَتَانِ (ar-infl-a definite dual nominative singular triptote)
حَقِيقَتَا (ar-infl-a construct dual nominative singular triptote)
حَقِيقَتَيْنِ (accusative ar-infl-a dual indefinite singular triptote)
الْحَقِيقَتَيْنِ (accusative ar-infl-a definite dual singular triptote)
حَقِيقَتَيْ (accusative ar-infl-a construct dual singular triptote)
حَقِيقَتَيْنِ (ar-infl-a dual genitive indefinite singular triptote)
الْحَقِيقَتَيْنِ (ar-infl-a definite dual genitive singular triptote)
حَقِيقَتَيْ (ar-infl-a construct dual genitive singular triptote)
حَقَائِق (broken-form diptote indefinite informal plural)
الْحَقَائِق (broken-form definite diptote informal plural)
حَقَائِق (broken-form construct diptote informal plural)
حَقَائِقُ (broken-form diptote indefinite nominative plural)
الْحَقَائِقُ (broken-form definite diptote nominative plural)
حَقَائِقُ (broken-form construct diptote nominative plural)
حَقَائِقَ (accusative broken-form diptote indefinite plural)
الْحَقَائِقَ (accusative broken-form definite diptote plural)
حَقَائِقَ (accusative broken-form construct diptote plural)
حَقَائِقَ (broken-form diptote genitive indefinite plural)
الْحَقَائِقِ (broken-form definite diptote genitive plural)
حَقَائِقِ (broken-form construct diptote genitive plural)

desc

→ Middle Armenian: հաղիղաթ (haġiġatʻ), հաղիաթ (haġiatʻ), հաղէղէթ (haġēġētʻ), հաղիղէթ (haġiġētʻ)

desctree

→ Ottoman Turkish: حقیقت (hakikat)
Turkish: hakikat

→ Persian: حقیقت (haqiqat)
→ Azerbaijani: həqiqət
→ Bashkir: хәҡиҡәт (xəqiqət)
→ Bengali: হকিকত (hokikot)
→ Hindustani:
Hindi: हक़ीक़त (haqīqat)
Urdu: حَقِیقَت (haqīqat)
→ Indonesian: hakikat
→ Kazakh: ақиқат (aqiqat)
→ Kyrgyz: акыйкат (akıykat)
→ Malay: hakikat
→ Tausug: hakīkat
→ Turkish: hakikat
→ Turkmen: hakykat
→ Uzbek: haqiqat

→ Swahili: hakika

→ Uyghur: ھەقىقەت (heqiqet)


grim

grim m (definite singular grimen, indefinite plural grimar, definite plural grimane)

grimen (definite singular)
grimar (indefinite plural)
grimane (definite plural)


portrait

en-noun

portrait (countable and uncountable, plural portraits)

portraits (plural)
pourtraict (alternative)

non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger

From Middle French portraict, pourtraict, nominal use of the past participle of portraire (“portray”), from Latin prōtrahō (< pro- + traho).
Compare typologically English drawing.

(computing, printing) A print orientation where the vertical sides are longer than the horizontal sides.

κατακόρυφος προσανατολισμός

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portrait

→ Bulgarian: портрет (portret)

→ Czech: portrét

→ Danish: portræt

desctree

→ Dutch: portret
Afrikaans: portret
Petjo: potrèt
→ Caribbean Javanese: potrèg, potrèt
→ Indonesian: potret
→ Papiamentu: portrèt, pòtrèt, pòrtrèt, portret

→ German: Porträt, Portrait (rarer since ca. 1900, now nonstandard outside Switzerland)
→ Russian: портрет (portret)
→ Serbo-Croatian: portret / портрет
→ Ukrainian: портрет (portret)

desc

→ Greek: πορτρέτο (portréto), πορτραίτο n (portraíto)

→ Norwegian: portrett

→ Polish: portret

→ Romanian: portret

→ Slovene: portret

→ Swedish: porträtt
→ Finnish: potretti

→ Turkish: portre


unity

en-noun

unity (countable and uncountable, plural unities)

Etymology tree
Middle English unite
English unity
From Middle English unite, from Anglo-Norman, Old French unité, from Latin ūnitās, from ūnus (“one”) + noun of state suffix -itās, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *óynos (“one, single”), hence distantly related to one and an. Displaced native Old English ānnes (literally “oneness”).

der

(drama) Any of the three classical rules of drama: unity of action (nothing should be admitted not directly relevant to the development of the plot), unity of place (the scenes should be set in the same place), and unity of time (all the events should be such as might happen within a single day).

eenheid

drama: any of the three classical rules of drama


montage

en-noun

montage (countable and uncountable, plural montages)

, La matière denaturalisée. Destruction 2. (Denatured Matter. Destruction 2.; c. 1923), from the collection of the Fries Museum in Leeuwarden, Friesland, Netherlands. The work is a collage, a type of montage.]]
Unadapted borrowing from French montage (“assembly, set-up”).

ubor

THE MYTH: Training montages are inspiring, harmless fun. At some point in any sports movie, the grossly unqualified underdog will start training to the sound of some inspirational rock song.

2013 October 29, Cracked.com, The De-Textbook: The Stuff You Didn't Know About the Stuff You Thought You Knew, Penguin, →ISBN, page 177:

Unfortunately, nothing much happens in the rest of the episode either. It gets to the point where a montage is devoted to establishing Sam's monotony at Oldtown.

2017 July 16, Brandon Nowalk, “Chickens and Dragons Come Home to Roost on Game of Thrones (Newbies)”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 2017-12-04:

The day after that, I was still in pain, so I cycled. The day after that, the pain was manageable, so I ran again because I love to run. This was my training montage all the way up to the paratriathlon.

2020 11, Paul D. Lowe, and 21 Global Authors, Mastering The Game Of Life: World Game-Changers Sharing Their Inspirational Stories Of Transformation, Paragon Publishing, →ISBN, page 141:

(countable, television and film) A sequence of brief clips, often set to music, used to compress a long event or series of events into a short scene.


montage

desc

→ Arabic: مونتاج

→ Arabic: مونتاج

→ Chinese: 蒙太奇 (méngtàiqí)

→ English: montage

→ Greek: μοντάζ (montáz)

→ Japanese: モンタージュ

→ Italian: montaggio

→ Polish: montaż

→ Romanian: montaj

desctree

→ Russian: монтаж (montaž)
→ Armenian: մոնտաժ (montaž)
→ Georgian: მონტაჟი (monṭaži)
→ Kazakh: монтаж (montaj)

→ Turkish: montaj
→ Northern Kurdish: montaj

From monter (“to mount”) (from mont (“mount(ain)”), from Latin mons (“mountain”) + -age.


slur

en-verb

slur (third-person singular simple present slurs, present participle slurring, simple past and past participle slurred)

slurs (present singular third-person)
slurring (participle present)
slurred (participle past)
slurred (past)

From Middle English sloor (“thin or fluid mud”). Cognate with Middle Low German sluren (“to trail in mud”). Also related to dialectal Norwegian sløra (“to be careless, to scamp, dawdle”), Danish sløre (“to wobble, be loose”) (especially for wheels); compare Old Norse slóðra (“to drag oneself along”).
* (an extremely offensive term): Influenced by various compounds of sense 1 such as racial slur, ethnic slur, etc.

cog

(printing, dated) To blur or double, as an impression from type; to mackle.

dissimuler

printing: to blur or double, as an impression from type; to mackle