roller

→ Welsh: rholer

* From Middle English rollere, equivalent to roll + -er.
* (credits in TV or film): These were originally printed on a physical cylinder that was rotated in front of the camera.

I learned a lot from watching, but the part that I should have studied harder was the roller. The names of the writers went on for ever.

2006, Clive James, North Face of Soho, Picador, published 2007, page 69:

(television, film) A roll of titles or (especially) credits played over film or video; television or film credits.


run out

en-verb

run out (third-person singular simple present runs out, present participle running out, simple past ran out, past participle run out)

runs out (present singular third-person)
running out (participle present)
ran out (past)
run out (participle past)

(obsolete, printing) To fill a line with quadrats or full points.


vai

𣘾 (CJK)
𦠘 (CJK)
𦢳 (CJK)
ban (alternative)

LL-Q9199 (vie)-Jessica Nguyen (Pamputt)-vai.wav

Attested as Northern Middle Vietnamese ꞗĕai, ꞗai in Dictionarium Annamiticum Lusitanum et Latinum (1651), a dictionary based chiefly on the Northern dialects.
Attested in Phật thuyết đại báo phụ mẫu ân trọng kinh (佛說大報父母恩重經) as 多埋 (MC ta meaj) (modern SV: đa mai).
Compare Proto-Katuic *ʔapaal (“shoulder”) (whence Pacoh apal).
Some North Central dialects have the form ban with unlenited ‹b› (vs. mainstream form with lenited ‹v›) and ‹-n› reflex of earlier *-l.

vai chính

vai phụ


äpärä

äpärä (nominative singular)
äpärät (nominative plural)
äpärä (accusative nominative singular)
äpärät (accusative nominative plural)
äpärän (accusative genitive singular)
äpärät (accusative genitive plural)
äpärän (genitive singular)
äpärien (genitive plural)
äpäröiden (genitive plural)
äpäröitten (genitive plural)
äpäröjen (genitive plural rare)
äpäräin (genitive plural rare)
äpärää (partitive singular)
äpäriä (partitive plural)
äpäröitä (partitive plural)
äpäröjä (partitive plural rare)
äpärässä (inessive singular)
äpäröissä (inessive plural)
äpärissä (inessive plural)
äpärästä (elative singular)
äpäröistä (elative plural)
äpäristä (elative plural)
äpärään (illative singular)
äpäriin (illative plural)
äpäröihin (illative plural)
äpärällä (adessive singular)
äpäröillä (adessive plural)
äpärillä (adessive plural)
äpärältä (ablative singular)
äpäröiltä (ablative plural)
äpäriltä (ablative plural)
äpärälle (allative singular)
äpäröille (allative plural)
äpärille (allative plural)
äpäränä (essive singular)
äpäröinä (essive plural)
äpärinä (essive plural)
äpäräksi (singular translative)
äpäröiksi (plural translative)
äpäriksi (plural translative)
äpärättä (abessive singular)
äpäröittä (abessive plural)
äpärittä (abessive plural)
äpäröin (instructive plural)
äpärin (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
äpäräni (nominative singular)
äpäräni (nominative plural)
äpäräni (accusative nominative singular)
äpäräni (accusative nominative plural)
äpäräni (accusative genitive singular)
äpäräni (accusative genitive plural)
äpäräni (genitive singular)
äpärieni (genitive plural)
äpäröideni (genitive plural)
äpäröitteni (genitive plural)
äpäröjeni (genitive plural rare)
äpäräini (genitive plural rare)
äpärääni (partitive singular)
äpäriäni (partitive plural)
äpäröitäni (partitive plural)
äpäröjäni (partitive plural rare)
äpärässäni (inessive singular)
äpäröissäni (inessive plural)
äpärissäni (inessive plural)
äpärästäni (elative singular)
äpäröistäni (elative plural)
äpäristäni (elative plural)
äpärääni (illative singular)
äpäriini (illative plural)
äpäröihini (illative plural)
äpärälläni (adessive singular)
äpäröilläni (adessive plural)
äpärilläni (adessive plural)
äpärältäni (ablative singular)
äpäröiltäni (ablative plural)
äpäriltäni (ablative plural)
äpärälleni (allative singular)
äpäröilleni (allative plural)
äpärilleni (allative plural)
äpäränäni (essive singular)
äpäröinäni (essive plural)
äpärinäni (essive plural)
äpäräkseni (singular translative)
äpäröikseni (plural translative)
äpärikseni (plural translative)
äpärättäni (abessive singular)
äpäröittäni (abessive plural)
äpärittäni (abessive plural)
äpäröineni (comitative plural)
äpärineni (comitative plural)
äpäräsi (nominative singular)
äpäräsi (nominative plural)
äpäräsi (accusative nominative singular)
äpäräsi (accusative nominative plural)
äpäräsi (accusative genitive singular)
äpäräsi (accusative genitive plural)
äpäräsi (genitive singular)
äpäriesi (genitive plural)
äpäröidesi (genitive plural)
äpäröittesi (genitive plural)
äpäröjesi (genitive plural rare)
äpäräisi (genitive plural rare)
äpärääsi (partitive singular)
äpäriäsi (partitive plural)
äpäröitäsi (partitive plural)
äpäröjäsi (partitive plural rare)
äpärässäsi (inessive singular)
äpäröissäsi (inessive plural)
äpärissäsi (inessive plural)
äpärästäsi (elative singular)
äpäröistäsi (elative plural)
äpäristäsi (elative plural)
äpärääsi (illative singular)
äpäriisi (illative plural)
äpäröihisi (illative plural)
äpärälläsi (adessive singular)
äpäröilläsi (adessive plural)
äpärilläsi (adessive plural)
äpärältäsi (ablative singular)
äpäröiltäsi (ablative plural)
äpäriltäsi (ablative plural)
äpärällesi (allative singular)
äpäröillesi (allative plural)
äpärillesi (allative plural)
äpäränäsi (essive singular)
äpäröinäsi (essive plural)
äpärinäsi (essive plural)
äpäräksesi (singular translative)
äpäröiksesi (plural translative)
äpäriksesi (plural translative)
äpärättäsi (abessive singular)
äpäröittäsi (abessive plural)
äpärittäsi (abessive plural)
äpäröinesi (comitative plural)
äpärinesi (comitative plural)
äpärämme (nominative singular)
äpärämme (nominative plural)
äpärämme (accusative nominative singular)
äpärämme (accusative nominative plural)
äpärämme (accusative genitive singular)
äpärämme (accusative genitive plural)
äpärämme (genitive singular)
äpäriemme (genitive plural)
äpäröidemme (genitive plural)
äpäröittemme (genitive plural)
äpäröjemme (genitive plural rare)
äpäräimme (genitive plural rare)
äpäräämme (partitive singular)
äpäriämme (partitive plural)
äpäröitämme (partitive plural)
äpäröjämme (partitive plural rare)
äpärässämme (inessive singular)
äpäröissämme (inessive plural)
äpärissämme (inessive plural)
äpärästämme (elative singular)
äpäröistämme (elative plural)
äpäristämme (elative plural)
äpäräämme (illative singular)
äpäriimme (illative plural)
äpäröihimme (illative plural)
äpärällämme (adessive singular)
äpäröillämme (adessive plural)
äpärillämme (adessive plural)
äpärältämme (ablative singular)
äpäröiltämme (ablative plural)
äpäriltämme (ablative plural)
äpärällemme (allative singular)
äpäröillemme (allative plural)
äpärillemme (allative plural)
äpäränämme (essive singular)
äpäröinämme (essive plural)
äpärinämme (essive plural)
äpäräksemme (singular translative)
äpäröiksemme (plural translative)
äpäriksemme (plural translative)
äpärättämme (abessive singular)
äpäröittämme (abessive plural)
äpärittämme (abessive plural)
äpäröinemme (comitative plural)
äpärinemme (comitative plural)
äpäränne (nominative singular)
äpäränne (nominative plural)
äpäränne (accusative nominative singular)
äpäränne (accusative nominative plural)
äpäränne (accusative genitive singular)
äpäränne (accusative genitive plural)
äpäränne (genitive singular)
äpärienne (genitive plural)
äpäröidenne (genitive plural)
äpäröittenne (genitive plural)
äpäröjenne (genitive plural rare)
äpäräinne (genitive plural rare)
äpäräänne (partitive singular)
äpäriänne (partitive plural)
äpäröitänne (partitive plural)
äpäröjänne (partitive plural rare)
äpärässänne (inessive singular)
äpäröissänne (inessive plural)
äpärissänne (inessive plural)
äpärästänne (elative singular)
äpäröistänne (elative plural)
äpäristänne (elative plural)
äpäräänne (illative singular)
äpäriinne (illative plural)
äpäröihinne (illative plural)
äpärällänne (adessive singular)
äpäröillänne (adessive plural)
äpärillänne (adessive plural)
äpärältänne (ablative singular)
äpäröiltänne (ablative plural)
äpäriltänne (ablative plural)
äpärällenne (allative singular)
äpäröillenne (allative plural)
äpärillenne (allative plural)
äpäränänne (essive singular)
äpäröinänne (essive plural)
äpärinänne (essive plural)
äpäräksenne (singular translative)
äpäröiksenne (plural translative)
äpäriksenne (plural translative)
äpärättänne (abessive singular)
äpäröittänne (abessive plural)
äpärittänne (abessive plural)
äpäröinenne (comitative plural)
äpärinenne (comitative plural)
äpäränsä (nominative singular)
äpäränsä (nominative plural)
äpäränsä (accusative nominative singular)
äpäränsä (accusative nominative plural)
äpäränsä (accusative genitive singular)
äpäränsä (accusative genitive plural)
äpäränsä (genitive singular)
äpäriensä (genitive plural)
äpäröidensä (genitive plural)
äpäröittensä (genitive plural)
äpäröjensä (genitive plural rare)
äpäräinsä (genitive plural rare)
äpäräänsä (partitive singular)
äpäriään (partitive plural)
äpäröitään (partitive plural)
äpäriänsä (partitive plural)
äpäröitänsä (partitive plural)
äpäröjään (partitive plural rare)
äpäröjänsä (partitive plural rare)
äpärässään (inessive singular)
äpärässänsä (inessive singular)
äpäröissään (inessive plural)
äpärissään (inessive plural)
äpäröissänsä (inessive plural)
äpärissänsä (inessive plural)
äpärästään (elative singular)
äpärästänsä (elative singular)
äpäröistään (elative plural)
äpäristään (elative plural)
äpäröistänsä (elative plural)
äpäristänsä (elative plural)
äpäräänsä (illative singular)
äpäriinsä (illative plural)
äpäröihinsä (illative plural)
äpärällään (adessive singular)
äpärällänsä (adessive singular)
äpäröillään (adessive plural)
äpärillään (adessive plural)
äpäröillänsä (adessive plural)
äpärillänsä (adessive plural)
äpärältään (ablative singular)
äpärältänsä (ablative singular)
äpäröiltään (ablative plural)
äpäriltään (ablative plural)
äpäröiltänsä (ablative plural)
äpäriltänsä (ablative plural)
äpärälleen (allative singular)
äpärällensä (allative singular)
äpäröilleen (allative plural)
äpärilleen (allative plural)
äpäröillensä (allative plural)
äpärillensä (allative plural)
äpäränään (essive singular)
äpäränänsä (essive singular)
äpäröinään (essive plural)
äpärinään (essive plural)
äpäröinänsä (essive plural)
äpärinänsä (essive plural)
äpäräkseen (singular translative)
äpäräksensä (singular translative)
äpäröikseen (plural translative)
äpärikseen (plural translative)
äpäröiksensä (plural translative)
äpäriksensä (plural translative)
äpärättään (abessive singular)
äpärättänsä (abessive singular)
äpäröittään (abessive plural)
äpärittään (abessive plural)
äpäröittänsä (abessive plural)
äpärittänsä (abessive plural)
äpäröineen (comitative plural)
äpärineen (comitative plural)
äpäröinensä (comitative plural)
äpärinensä (comitative plural)

Probably fronted from apara (“dregs, mash”).

(printing, informal) either a widow or an orphan (a single line of a paragraph on a separate page from the rest of the paragraph)


RFT

(newspapers) Initialism of Riverfront Times.


suspense

(fiction) thriller (a suspenseful, sensational genre of fiction)


destroyer

/dəˈstɹɔɪ.ɚ/

From destroy + -er. Designating a warship, it is ellipsis of torpedo-boat destroyer, the longer term appearing at the end of the 19th century and the shorter form early in the 20th.

(military, nautical) A larger warship with guided missile armament, usually intended for air defence or anti-ship roles. Often, but not always, larger than a frigate and smaller than a cruiser.

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


ROC

(statistics, radio) Initialism of receiver operating characteristic.


sentient

en-adj

sentient (comparative more sentient, superlative most sentient)

more sentient (comparative)
most sentient (superlative)

From Latin sentiēns (“feeling, perceiving”), present active participle of sentiō.

Not even a microbe? I don't want to blow up something that could evolve into a sentient species in a couple of billion years.

2002, André Bormanis, “Silent Enemy”, in Star Trek: Enterprise, season 1, episode 12, spoken by Jonathan Archer:

Lemoine has been placed on “paid administrative leave” after publishing a transcript of conversations with LaMDA which he claims support his belief that the chatbot is sentient and comparable to a seven- or eight-year-old child. […] While Lemoine no doubt genuinely believes his claims, LaMDA is likely to be as sentient as a traffic light.

2022 June 14, Toby Walsh, “Labelling Google’s LaMDA chatbot as sentient is fanciful. But it’s very human to be taken in by machines”, in The Guardian:

After more than 25 years as an artificial intelligence researcher[…]Dr. Goertzel knew he had finally reached the end goal: Desdemona, a machine he had built, was sentient. But a few minutes later, he realized this was nonsense.

2022 August 5, Cade Metz, “A.I. Is Not Sentient. Why Do People Say It Is?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(loosely, chiefly science fiction) Possessing human-like awareness and intelligence.

բանական

science fiction: possessing human-like awareness, knowledge and intelligence


sentient

The merpeople and the sentients who lived on the beach often hitched rides on these creatures, steering them by pressure on exposed nerve centers.

1965, Philip José Farmer, The Maker of Universes:

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


crónica

crónicas (plural)
crônica (alternative Brazil)
chronica (alternative)
chrónica (alternative)


smear

en-noun

smear (countable and uncountable, plural smears)

From Middle English smeren, smerien, from Old English smerian, smyrian, smierwan (“to anoint or rub with grease, oil, etc.”), from Proto-West Germanic *smirwijan, from Proto-Germanic *smirwijaną. Doublet of schmear.
Cognate with Saterland Frisian smeere, Dutch smeren, Low German smeren, German schmieren.

In television terms, a certain amount of smear, ringing, and anticipatory overshoot are indigenous to VSB transmission.

1954, Radio & Television News: Radio-electronic engineering section:

Results show the reduction in intelligibility produced by changing the filter condition was much greater than reductions caused by altering smear duration.

1972, Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports:

(radio, television, uncountable) Any of various forms of distortion that make a signal harder to see or hear.


lede

A deliberate misspelling of lead, originally used in instructions given to printers to indicate which paragraphs constitute the lede, intended to avoid confusion with the word lead which may actually appear in the text of an article. Compare dek (“subhead”) (modified from deck) and hed (“headline”) (from head).

LL-Q1860 (eng)-I learned some phrases-lede.wav

Readers usually see the lead picture and read its caption first, before reading the lede of the article, so the article lede should not be a repetition of the caption.

1979, J. W. Click, Russell N. Baird, Magazine Editing and Production, 2nd edition, Dubuque, Iowa: W[illiam] C. Brown, →ISBN, page 90:

"How can Mr. On-line Guy learn to be a journalist if he didn't go through what I went through?" they [newspaper journalists] ask. "I needed the city editor to tell me how to write a graceful sentence, and I was a year into the job before I could craft a decent lede?"

1999, Mike Godwin, “Who’s a Journalist?—II: Welcome the New Journalists on the Internet”, in Robert H. Giles, Robert W. Snyder, editors, What’s Next?: Problems & Prospects of Journalism, New Brunswick, N.J., London: Transaction Publishers, published 2001, →ISBN, page 46:

I was thrilled to be in possession of this nugget, which could probably take over the lede of my story. This essentially and truly implicated one of the most respected homicide detectives in Boston, all based on my initial tip.

2007 February, Brian McGrory, chapter 40, in Strangled, New York, N.Y.: Atria Books, →ISBN, page 314:

The lede (as we spell it) story in today's NYT [The New York Times] is all about their new poll showing that [John] McCain is hurting himself, not [Barack] Obama, with the attacks. […] If something's the lede in the NYT, it tends to get discussed on cable TV all day, etc.

2008 October 15, Michael Tomasky, “Michael Tomasky’s Blog: This Morning’s Stuff You Need to Know”, in The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, archived from the original on 2016-03-06:

Like all forms of writing, there's no hard and fast rule about what makes a great lede. A good lede changes depending on the story you're writing. […] Ledes vary wildly, but you'll start to notice patterns and, more importantly, what kinds of ledes you like and feel are effective.

2018, Branden Salas, “Reporting for Print Media”, in Basic Concept of Journalism, Waltham Abbey, Essex: Ed-Tech Press, published 2020, →ISBN, page 253:

Here are some different types of ledes: […] · Scenario ledes use narrative elements to describe a place of particular importance to the story. / · Narrative ledes begin at a chronological beginning. […] · First-person anecdotal ledes begin with a relevant anecdote that involves the writer. Service and celebrity pieces often begin with first-person ledes.

2019, Naveed Saleh, “Narrative: Beginnings, Middles, and Ends”, in The Writer’s Guide to Self-editing: Essential Tips for Online and Print Publishing, Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, →ISBN, part VII (Global Considerations), page 225:

(chiefly US, journalism) The introductory paragraph or paragraphs of a newspaper, or a news or other type of article; the lead or lead-in.

լիդ

introductory paragraph or paragraphs of a newspaper or other news article


cockatrice

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

First attested 1382 as Middle English cocatrice (“basilisk”), from Old French cocatriz, from Late Latin calcātrīx (“she who treads upon something”), from Latin calcō (“tread”), from calx (“heel, hoof”).

der

For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the Lord.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Jeremiah 8:17:

(fantasy, folklore) A snake or serpent that appears to be hatched from a rooster, or cock's, egg.


bara

Short for barazoku, from Japanese 薔薇族 (barazoku, literally “rose tribe”), referencing the gay men's magazine Barazoku, which was the first of its kind published in Japan, itself named after a post-World War II term for gay men.

bor

(Japanese fiction, strictly) A genre of homoerotic media, usually also pornographic, typically created by gay men and targeted at gay men in Japan.


regia

(theater, television, etc.) direction, production


sector

sector
sector (Star Trek)
sector (instrument)

(science fiction) a fictional region of space designated for navigational or governance purposes.


impressionism

en-noun

impressionism (countable and uncountable, plural impressionisms)

(poetry) A style that used imagery and symbolism to portray the poet's impressions.


fagur

head

fagur (comparative fagrari, superlative fagrastur)

fagrari (comparative)
fagrastur (superlative)
fagur (masculine nominative singular)
føgur (feminine nominative singular)
fagurt (neuter nominative singular)
fagran (accusative masculine singular)
fagra (accusative feminine singular)
fagurt (accusative neuter singular)
føgrum (dative masculine singular)
fagrari (dative feminine singular)
føgrum (dative neuter singular)
fagurs (genitive masculine singular)
fagrar (feminine genitive singular)
fagurs (genitive neuter singular)
fagrir (masculine nominative plural)
fagrar (feminine nominative plural)
føgur (neuter nominative plural)
fagrar (accusative masculine plural)
fagrar (accusative feminine plural)
føgur (accusative neuter plural)
føgrum (dative masculine plural)
føgrum (dative feminine plural)
føgrum (dative neuter plural)
fagra (genitive masculine plural)
fagra (feminine genitive plural)
fagra (genitive neuter plural)

From Old Norse fagr, from Proto-Germanic *fagraz, from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂ḱ- (“to fasten, place”).

der

fagrar bókmentir


fylgja

is-noun

fylgja f (genitive singular fylgju, nominative plural fylgjur)

fylgju (genitive singular)
fylgjur (nominative plural)
fylgja (indefinite nominative singular)
fylgjan (definite nominative singular)
fylgjur (indefinite nominative plural)
fylgjurnar (definite nominative plural)
fylgju (accusative indefinite singular)
fylgjuna (accusative definite singular)
fylgjur (accusative indefinite plural)
fylgjurnar (accusative definite plural)
fylgju (dative indefinite singular)
fylgjunni (dative definite singular)
fylgjum (dative indefinite plural)
fylgjunum (dative definite plural)
fylgju (genitive indefinite singular)
fylgjunnar (definite genitive singular)
fylgna (genitive indefinite plural)
fylgnanna (definite genitive plural)

(folklore) a spirit which follows someone; guardian spirit


plateau

Borrowed from French plateau, diminutive of plat (“a plate”); see plate. Doublet of platter.

(sports, broadcasting) A notable level of attainment or achievement.


colorize

en-verb

colorize (third-person singular simple present colorizes, present participle colorizing, simple past and past participle colorized)

colorizes (present singular third-person)
colorizing (participle present)
colorized (participle past)
colorized (past)
colourise (alternative)
colourize (alternative British Canada English Oxford)

There is a colorized version of Casablanca.

What we see are beautiful overlapping NASA satellite photographs of the American mainland, […]taken in black and white and then luminously colorized by computer for scientific reasons.

1988 August 26, Jonathan Rosenbaum, “Looking for America”, in Chicago Reader:

(photography, cinematography) To convert black and white media to color by digital post production (as is often done in digital photography and in video special effects).

värittää

to convert a black and white media to color


Siebenmeilenstiefel

de-noun

Siebenmeilenstiefel m (strong, genitive Siebenmeilenstiefels, plural Siebenmeilenstiefel)

Siebenmeilenstiefels (genitive)
Siebenmeilenstiefel (plural)
Siebenmeilenstiefel (nominative singular)
Siebenmeilenstiefel (definite nominative plural)
Siebenmeilenstiefels (genitive singular)
Siebenmeilenstiefel (definite genitive plural)
Siebenmeilenstiefel (dative singular)
Siebenmeilenstiefeln (dative definite plural)
Siebenmeilenstiefel (accusative singular)
Siebenmeilenstiefel (accusative definite plural)

From sieben (“seven”) + Meilen (“miles”) + Stiefel (“boots”). In the German-speaking countries a mile was about 7.5 km (thus roughly 5 international miles).

compound

Als sie sich ungefähr drei Fuß über dem Wasserspiegel befand, ruderte ein Boot unter dieselbe, und dann ließ sich ein Siebenmeilenstiefel, dem ein zweiter Siebenmeilenstiefel und noch zwei weitere Siebenmeilenstiefel folgten, langsam ins Boot hinab.

When she was about three feet above the water's surface, a boat rowed underneath, and then a seven-mile boot, which a second seven-mile boot and then two more seven-mile boots followed, slowly came into the boat.

(folklore, fairy tales, often in the plural) a seven-league boot (one of a pair of boots enabling the wearer to cross seven leagues at one stride)


seven-league boots

en-noun

seven-league boots pl (normally plural, singular seven-league boot)

The Count strode away as if he had secured seven-league boots, and in less time than it seemed possible, though it was an age to Lady Anne (...), he returned with two bank of England notes in his hand, which he put into the bailiff's, saying,—"There's your money for yourself and all. You have proper behavour, and will make no say of this littel matter."

1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter XL, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 211:

(folklore, fairy tale) A pair of boots enabling the wearer to cross seven leagues at one stride.


stringer

And he told a few stories about time he had spent in New York in the 1950s as a stringer for the Asahi newspapers… about meeting Diana Vreeland and Truman Capote and Judy Holiday.

1991, Douglas Coupland, “Enter Hyperspace”, in Generation X, New York: St. Martin's Press, →OCLC:

(journalism) A freelance correspondent not on the regular newspaper staff, especially one retained on a part-time basis to report on events in a particular place.


velociraptor

/vəˌlɒsɪˈɹæptɚ/

/vəˈlɒsɪɹæptɚ/

From New Latin Velociraptor genus name, from vēlōx (“swift”) + raptor (“thief”).
The application to Deinonychus came about because Gregory S. Paul proposed that Velociraptor and Deinonychus were the same genus and this idea was taken up in the book leading to the Jurassic Park film series.

This is my favorite velociraptor, and that is saying a lot....That this species is sunk into Velociraptor is rather unfortunate, because the name Deinonychus Ostrom 1969a is a fine one.

1988, Gregory S. Paul, Predatory Dinosaurs of the World, New York, London, Toronto, Sydney, Tokyo: Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, pages 366–7:


unjustified

en-adj

unjustified (comparative more unjustified, superlative most unjustified)

more unjustified (comparative)
most unjustified (superlative)

unjustified text in a wordprocessor

(typography) Not justified (of text, arranged on a page or a computer screen such that the left and right ends of all lines within paragraphs are aligned)


taka

is-noun

taka f (genitive singular töku, nominative plural tökur)

töku (genitive singular)
tökur (nominative plural)
taka (indefinite nominative singular)
takan (definite nominative singular)
tökur (indefinite nominative plural)
tökurnar (definite nominative plural)
töku (accusative indefinite singular)
tökuna (accusative definite singular)
tökur (accusative indefinite plural)
tökurnar (accusative definite plural)
töku (dative indefinite singular)
tökunni (dative definite singular)
tökum (dative indefinite plural)
tökunum (dative definite plural)
töku (genitive indefinite singular)
tökunnar (definite genitive singular)
taka (genitive indefinite plural)
takna (genitive indefinite plural)
takanna (definite genitive plural)
taknanna (definite genitive plural)

(film, usually in the plural) video capture, filming


CBBC

(television) Initialism of Children's BBC.


puff

puff (indefinite nominative singular)
puffs (genitive indefinite singular)
puffen (definite nominative singular)
puffens (definite genitive singular)
puffar (indefinite nominative plural)
puffars (genitive indefinite plural)
puffarna (definite nominative plural)
puffarnas (definite genitive plural)

a nudge (gentle push)
(journalism) a blurb


Mittel

de-noun

Mittel n (strong, genitive Mittels, plural Mittel)

Mittels (genitive)
Mittel (plural)
Mittel (nominative singular)
Mittel (definite nominative plural)
Mittels (genitive singular)
Mittel (definite genitive plural)
Mittel (dative singular)
Mitteln (dative definite plural)
Mittel (accusative singular)
Mittel (accusative definite plural)

From Middle High German mittel, from Old High German mittil (akin to Old Saxon middil), from Proto-Germanic *midlą, *midilą, *medalą (“middle”), *midil-. Compare Dutch middel, English middle. See also Mitte.

(uncountable, printing, dated) The middle of the 7 traditional sizes of German type, between Cicero and Tertia, standardized as 14 point and taken as roughly equivalent to "English" type.


falla

Borrowed from English fall, with influence from the lemma above.


beinn

is-adj

beinn (comparative beinni, superlative beinastur)

beinni (comparative)
beinastur (superlative)
beinn (masculine nominative strong)
bein (feminine nominative strong)
beint (neuter nominative strong)
beinan (accusative masculine strong)
beina (accusative feminine strong)
beint (accusative neuter strong)
beinum (dative masculine strong)
beinni (dative feminine strong)
beinu (dative neuter strong)
beins (genitive masculine strong)
beinnar (feminine genitive strong)
beins (genitive neuter strong)
beinir (masculine nominative strong)
beinar (feminine nominative strong)
bein (neuter nominative strong)
beina (accusative masculine strong)
beinar (accusative feminine strong)
bein (accusative neuter strong)
beinum (dative strong)
beinna (genitive strong)
beini (masculine nominative weak)
beina (feminine nominative weak)
beina (neuter nominative weak)
beina (masculine weak)
beinu (feminine weak)
beina (neuter weak)
beinu (plural weak)
beinni (masculine singular weak)
beinni (feminine singular weak)
beinna (neuter singular weak)
beinni (plural weak)
beinastur (masculine nominative strong)
beinust (feminine nominative strong)
beinast (neuter nominative strong)
beinastan (accusative masculine strong)
beinasta (accusative feminine strong)
beinast (accusative neuter strong)
beinustum (dative masculine strong)
beinastri (dative feminine strong)
beinustu (dative neuter strong)
beinasts (genitive masculine strong)
beinastrar (feminine genitive strong)
beinasts (genitive neuter strong)
beinastir (masculine nominative strong)
beinastar (feminine nominative strong)
beinust (neuter nominative strong)
beinasta (accusative masculine strong)
beinastar (accusative feminine strong)
beinust (accusative neuter strong)
beinustum (dative strong)
beinastra (genitive strong)
beinasti (masculine nominative weak)
beinasta (feminine nominative weak)
beinasta (neuter nominative weak)
beinasta (masculine weak)
beinustu (feminine weak)
beinasta (neuter weak)
beinustu (plural weak)

From Old Norse beinn, from Proto-Germanic *bainaz.


sleeper

From Middle English sleper, equivalent to sleep + -er.

(science fiction) A pod or similar device containing a person in cryosleep.


blooper

WLK. First radio station. On December 31, 1921, local engineer Francis F. Hamilton's radio station, 9ZJ, signed on with an address from Mayor Samuel (Lew) Shank. Broadcasting from Hamilton's garage at 2011 North Alabama Street, Shank made the city's first radio blooper: "Hamilton, do you mean to tell me that people can actually hear me over that damn' dingus?"

1921 December 31, “WLK”, in David J. Bodenhamer and Robert G[raham] Barrows, with the assistance of David G[ordon] Vanderstel, editors, The Encyclopedia of Indianapolis, Bloominton, Indianapolis, Ind.: Indiana University Press, published 1994, →ISBN, page 1399, column 2:

The 10th anniversary of the Kermit Schafer Blooper LP's on Jubilee will be marked by a brand-new blooper LP called "Washington Bloopers." Set is the 12th in the blooper series which started in 1953. […] Schafer's blooper packages have become so popular that he has formed a Blooper Snooper Club. Members of the club get prizes for blooper contributions, and it will soon have a monthly newsletter.

1963 August 24, “Some Goof: Success through Mistakes”, in Lee Zhito, editor, Billboard: The International Music-record Newsweekly, volume 75, number 34, Cincinnati, Oh.: The Billboard Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 7, columns 1 and 3:

With DVDs steadily joining VHS cassettes as extinct technology, what has become of the fun, insightful mixed bag that movie fans came to know as bonus features — the audio commentaries, behind-the-scenes featurettes, bloopers, deleted scenes and alternate endings?

2018 April 6, Fabrice Robinet, “Oh for the Days of the Making-Of Featurette — Seriously”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(film, informal) A filmed or videotaped outtake that has recorded an amusing accident and/or mistake.

pilalle mennyt otos (or otto, kohtaus instead of otos)


chaîne

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Inherited from Middle French chaisne, from Old French chaene, chaiene, caiene, inherited from Latin catēna. Doublet of cadène and catène. The long vowel derives from the Old French hiatus; by analogy the length was expressed with a silent -s- in Middle French, which was then replaced with the circumflex.

Pouvez-vous changer de chaîne, s'il vous plaît?

En janvier, 6ter a été la première chaîne à diffuser le format original de « Storage Wars » qui se déroule en Californie et qui a réuni 215 000 téléspectateurs lors de la première diffusion, le 3 janvier, en deuxième partie de soirée.

2015 November 21, “« Storage Wars », une chasse au trésor bien artificielle”, in Le Monde:

In January, 6ter was the first channel to broadcast the original format of Storage Wars, which takes place in California and attracted 215,000 viewers for the first broadcast on January 3 during the prime-time slot.


dead donkey

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From the saying that no one ever sees a dead donkey, hence a rarity. This then became a stock example of a slow-news-day story, which was popularized by the title of the British sitcom Drop the Dead Donkey.

Swap these ages around to produce a 59-year-old father and a 45-year-old mother and what was previously a hot news story becomes a dead donkey.

1994, New Scientist, volume 141, numbers 1907–1912, page 3:

Those are the people who should have some protection from media excesses, even if only to gain some form of compensation for the damage sustained once the media has left and they, like the proverbial dead donkey, are dropped, their lives in tatters, because they were used by the media in an unsavoury ciruclation or viewing war.

1999, Council of Europe. Parliamentary Assembly, Official Report of Debates, volume 2, page 525:

When disaster strikes, the dead donkey does not get dropped, but merely occurs later on the television news.

2003, Peter Narváez, Of corpse: death and humor in folklore and popular culture, page 25:

(journalism) A news item of no real significance, usually of whimsical or sentimental nature, placed at the end of a news bulletin or in a newspaper as filler. A dead donkey can often be removed from the programme or publication if a more significant story needs extra time or space.


ghostwrite

en-verb

ghostwrite (third-person singular simple present ghostwrites, present participle ghostwriting, simple past ghostwrote, past participle ghostwritten)

ghostwrites (present singular third-person)
ghostwriting (participle present)
ghostwrote (past)
ghostwritten (participle past)
ghost-write (alternative)
ghost write (alternative)

Mariana would rather not ghostwrite for a living because she finds it a thankless task.

(authorship, intransitive) To write under the name of another (especially literary works).

The president has someone to ghostwrite his addresses.

(authorship, transitive) To author a literary work or speech in the place of another.


sound bite

sound bites (plural)
soundbite (alternative)

The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30-second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudo-science and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance.

1995, Carl Sagan, “Science and Hope”, in The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, 1st edition, New York: Random House, →ISBN, pages 25–26:

(journalism, television) An extract from a speech or interview used as edited into a news or other broadcast; an interview clip, especially seen as particularly expressive or pithy.


steampunk

steampunk (nominative singular)
steampunku (genitive singular)
steampunkowi (dative singular)
steampunk (accusative singular)
steampunkiem (instrumental singular)
steampunku (locative singular)
steampunku (singular vocative)

Unadapted borrowing from English steampunk.

ubor

(film, science fiction) steampunk (sci-fi subgenre)


streamer

From Middle English stremer, stremere, equivalent to stream + -er.

(journalism) A newspaper headline that runs along the top of a page.

koko sivun levyinen otsikko

newspaper headline that runs across the entire page

Coordinate term: broadcaster

For starters, the business models for American broadcasters like NBC and streamers like Netflix (or Hulu, or Amazon) are drastically different.

2016 February 23, Jason Mittell, “Why Netflix Doesn’t Release Its Ratings”, in The Atlantic, retrieved 2022-11-01:

So where HBO used to boast that it was “not TV,” modern streamers send the message, “We’ll give you a whole lot of TV.”

2024 April 27, James Poniewozik, “The Comfortable Problem of Mid TV”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(television, Internet) A subscription service that streams content to an audience.


synaesthesia

en-noun

synaesthesia (countable and uncountable, plural synaesthesiae or synaesthesias)

synaesthesiae (plural)
synaesthesias (plural)
synæsthesia (alternative)
synesthesia (alternative)

/ˌsɪn.ɪsˈθiː.ʒə/

From Ancient Greek σύν (sún, “with”) + αἴσθησις (aísthēsis, “sensation”), modelled after anaesthesia. It is analysable as syn- + -aesthesia.

Linking moods with colours is one example of synaesthesia. […] As a tool for improving writing, the idea of synaesthesia is versatile and innovative. Why use only visual references to describe visual impressions? Why just describe sounds using sound-related words? Play with cross-matching the senses.

2006, Stephen Bowkett, “Descriptive Writing”, in Boys and Writing (Pocket PAL), London: Network Continuum Education, Continuum International Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 38:

[I]t may be stated that the concept of synaesthesia is instrumental for understanding music videos, since videos are based on the soundtrack's visual associations. Yet to discuss associations here may cause some problems. […] [Nicholas Cook] seems to be relying on a rather normative conception of synaesthesia, which for its part supports the idea of absolute, nonrepresentational music. The implication of his discussion is that the "true" forms of music–image synaesthesia come only in the forms of perception of color or light when hearing a certain musical sound.

2007, Antti-Ville Kärjä, “Visions of a Sound Nation: Finnish Music Videos and Secured Otherness”, in Roger Beebe, Jason Middleton, editors, Medium Cool: Music Videos from Soundies to Cellphones, Durham, N.C., London: Duke University Press, →ISBN, page 181:

(art, literature) A literary or artistic device whereby one kind of sensation is described in the terms of another.


tarnen

de-verb

tarnen (weak, third-person singular present tarnt, past tense tarnte, past participle getarnt, auxiliary haben)

tarnt (present singular third-person)
tarnte (past)
getarnt (participle past)
haben (auxiliary)
haben (auxiliary)
tarnen (infinitive)
tarnend (participle present)
getarnt (participle past)
tarne (first-person indicative present singular)
tarnen (first-person indicative plural present)
tarne (first-person singular subjunctive subjunctive-i)
tarnen (first-person plural subjunctive subjunctive-i)
tarnst (indicative present second-person singular)
tarnt (indicative plural present second-person)
tarnest (second-person singular subjunctive subjunctive-i)
tarnet (plural second-person subjunctive subjunctive-i)
tarnt (indicative present singular third-person)
tarnen (indicative plural present third-person)
tarne (singular subjunctive subjunctive-i third-person)
tarnen (plural subjunctive subjunctive-i third-person)
tarnte (first-person indicative preterite singular)
tarnten (first-person indicative plural preterite)
tarnte (first-person formal rare singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
tarnten (first-person formal plural rare subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
tarntest (indicative preterite second-person singular)
tarntet (indicative plural preterite second-person)
tarntest (formal rare second-person singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
tarntet (formal plural rare second-person subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
tarnte (indicative preterite singular third-person)
tarnten (indicative plural preterite third-person)
tarnte (formal rare singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii third-person)
tarnten (formal plural rare subjunctive subjunctive-ii third-person)
tarn (imperative second-person singular)
tarne (imperative second-person singular)
tarnt (imperative plural second-person)
haben (auxiliary)
habe getarnt (first-person indicative multiword-construction perfect singular)
haben getarnt (first-person indicative multiword-construction perfect plural)
habe getarnt (first-person multiword-construction perfect singular subjunctive)
haben getarnt (first-person multiword-construction perfect plural subjunctive)
hast getarnt (indicative multiword-construction perfect second-person singular)
habt getarnt (indicative multiword-construction perfect plural second-person)
habest getarnt (multiword-construction perfect second-person singular subjunctive)
habet getarnt (multiword-construction perfect plural second-person subjunctive)
hat getarnt (indicative multiword-construction perfect singular third-person)
haben getarnt (indicative multiword-construction perfect plural third-person)
habe getarnt (multiword-construction perfect singular subjunctive third-person)
haben getarnt (multiword-construction perfect plural subjunctive third-person)
hatte getarnt (first-person indicative multiword-construction pluperfect singular)
hatten getarnt (first-person indicative multiword-construction pluperfect plural)
hätte getarnt (first-person multiword-construction pluperfect singular subjunctive)
hätten getarnt (first-person multiword-construction pluperfect plural subjunctive)
hattest getarnt (indicative multiword-construction pluperfect second-person singular)
hattet getarnt (indicative multiword-construction pluperfect plural second-person)
hättest getarnt (multiword-construction pluperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
hättet getarnt (multiword-construction pluperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
hatte getarnt (indicative multiword-construction pluperfect singular third-person)
hatten getarnt (indicative multiword-construction pluperfect plural third-person)
hätte getarnt (multiword-construction pluperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
hätten getarnt (multiword-construction pluperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
tarnen werden (future future-i infinitive multiword-construction)
werde tarnen (first-person future future-i multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-i)
werden tarnen (first-person future future-i multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-i)
werdest tarnen (future future-i multiword-construction second-person singular subjunctive subjunctive-i)
werdet tarnen (future future-i multiword-construction plural second-person subjunctive subjunctive-i)
werde tarnen (future future-i multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-i third-person)
werden tarnen (future future-i multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-i third-person)
werde tarnen (first-person future future-i indicative multiword-construction singular)
werden tarnen (first-person future future-i indicative multiword-construction plural)
würde tarnen (first-person future future-i multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
würden tarnen (first-person future future-i multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
wirst tarnen (future future-i indicative multiword-construction second-person singular)
werdet tarnen (future future-i indicative multiword-construction plural second-person)
würdest tarnen (future future-i multiword-construction second-person singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
würdet tarnen (future future-i multiword-construction plural second-person subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
wird tarnen (future future-i indicative multiword-construction singular third-person)
werden tarnen (future future-i indicative multiword-construction plural third-person)
würde tarnen (future future-i multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii third-person)
würden tarnen (future future-i multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-ii third-person)
getarnt haben werden (future future-ii infinitive multiword-construction)
werde getarnt haben (first-person future future-ii multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-i)
werden getarnt haben (first-person future future-ii multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-i)
werdest getarnt haben (future future-ii multiword-construction second-person singular subjunctive subjunctive-i)
werdet getarnt haben (future future-ii multiword-construction plural second-person subjunctive subjunctive-i)
werde getarnt haben (future future-ii multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-i third-person)
werden getarnt haben (future future-ii multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-i third-person)
werde getarnt haben (first-person future future-ii indicative multiword-construction singular)
werden getarnt haben (first-person future future-ii indicative multiword-construction plural)
würde getarnt haben (first-person future future-ii multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
würden getarnt haben (first-person future future-ii multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
wirst getarnt haben (future future-ii indicative multiword-construction second-person singular)
werdet getarnt haben (future future-ii indicative multiword-construction plural second-person)
würdest getarnt haben (future future-ii multiword-construction second-person singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
würdet getarnt haben (future future-ii multiword-construction plural second-person subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
wird getarnt haben (future future-ii indicative multiword-construction singular third-person)
werden getarnt haben (future future-ii indicative multiword-construction plural third-person)
würde getarnt haben (future future-ii multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii third-person)
würden getarnt haben (future future-ii multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-ii third-person)

Early 20th century, a borrowing (inspired by older Tarnkappe) from Middle High German tarnen, from Old High German *tarnōn, from Proto-West Germanic *darnōn.


stylish

en-adj

stylish (comparative more stylish, superlative most stylish)

more stylish (comparative)
most stylish (superlative)
stilish (alternative obsolete)

→ German: stylisch

(film) Having a particular directing style or cinematography.


cross the line

en-verb

cross the line (third-person singular simple present crosses the line, present participle crossing the line, simple past and past participle crossed the line)

crosses the line (present singular third-person)
crossing the line (participle present)
crossed the line (participle past)
crossed the line (past)

(cinematography) To film from the opposite side of an imaginary axis on set in order to view the actors from the opposite direction.


ditty bag

Suggested to be a clipping of commodity bag, a British naval term.

(television) A cameraman's bag containing various small tools.


jingle

/ˈd͡ʒɪŋɡ(ə)l/

The verb, which is older than the noun, is from Middle English gyngle. Onomatopoeic; compare jangle.

That used-car dealership's jingle has been stuck in my head since we heard that song.

The best of friends become the worst of enemies when Barney makes a hilarious attack ad where he viciously pummels a cardboard cut-out of Homer before special guest star Linda Ronstadt joins the fun to both continue the attack on the helpless Homer stand-in and croon a slanderously accurate, insanely catchy jingle about how “Mr. Plow is a loser/And I think he is a boozer.”

2012 June 3, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Mr. Plow” (season 4, episode 9; originally aired 11/19/1992)”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):

(broadcasting, advertising, music) A memorable short song, or in some cases a snippet of a popular song with its lyrics modified, used for the purposes of advertising a product or service in a TV or radio commercial.


KBS

Korean Broadcasting System
w:Korean Broadcasting System

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

Kyoto Broadcasting System
w:Kyoto Broadcasting System

(Japan, broadcasting) Initialism of Kyoto Broadcasting System.


tinta

→ Tagalog: tinta

→ Tataltepec Chatino: tintya

→ Yogad: tinta

Inherited from Latin tincta (“dyed”), perfect passive participle of tingō (“dye”, verb). Cognate with English tint, Dutch tint, Estonian tint, French teinte, German Tinte, Hungarian tinta, Italian tinta, Luxembourgish Tintin, and Portuguese tinta.


regi

regi m (definite singular regien, indefinite plural regiar, definite plural regiane)

regien (definite singular)
regiar (indefinite plural)
regiane (definite plural)

Borrowed from French, derived from Latin regere (“to reign, control”).


realia

realia (nominative plural)
realiów (genitive plural)
realiom (dative plural)
realia (accusative plural)
realiami (instrumental plural)
realiach (locative plural)
realia (plural vocative)

Learned borrowing from Late Latin realia, neuter plural of realis (“real”).

lbor

(literature, film) backstory, background


monologue

monologues (plural)
monolog (alternative US noun)

dialogue

antonym(s) of “a monopolizing utterance”

First attested in c. 1550. Borrowed from Middle French monologue, modeled on dialogue, ultimately from Byzantine Greek μονόλογος (monólogos, “soliloquy, monologue”).

der

(drama, authorship) A long speech by one person in a play; sometimes a soliloquy; other times spoken to other characters.


рыба

ru-noun+

ры́ба • (rýba) f anim or f inan (genitive ры́бы, nominative plural ры́бы, genitive plural рыб, relational adjective ры́бный or ры́бий, diminutive ры́бка or рыбёшка or ры́бонька or ры́бочка or ры́бица, augmentative ры́бища or ры́бина, pejorative рыбёха or рыбчо́нка)

ры́ба (canonical)
rýba (romanization)
ры́бы (genitive)
ры́бы (nominative plural)
рыб (genitive plural)
ры́бный (adjective relational)
ры́бий (adjective relational)
ры́бка (diminutive)
рыбёшка (diminutive)
ры́бонька (diminutive)
ры́бочка (diminutive)
ры́бица (diminutive)
ры́бища (augmentative)
ры́бина (augmentative)
рыбёха (pejorative)
рыбчо́нка (pejorative)
ры́ба (nominative singular)
ры́бы (nominative plural)
ры́бы (genitive singular)
ры́б (genitive plural)
ры́бе (dative singular)
ры́бам (dative plural)
ры́бу (accusative animate singular)
ры́б (accusative animate plural)
ры́бу (accusative inanimate singular)
ры́бы (accusative inanimate plural)
ры́бой (instrumental singular)
ры́бою (instrumental singular)
ры́бами (instrumental plural)
ры́бе (prepositional singular)
ры́бах (plural prepositional)
ры́ба (dated nominative singular)
ры́бы (dated nominative plural)
ры́бы (dated genitive singular)
ры́бъ (dated genitive plural)
ры́бѣ (dated dative singular)
ры́бамъ (dated dative plural)
ры́бу (accusative animate dated singular)
ры́бъ (accusative animate dated plural)
ры́бу (accusative dated inanimate singular)
ры́бы (accusative dated inanimate plural)
ры́бой (dated instrumental singular)
ры́бою (dated instrumental singular)
ры́бами (dated instrumental plural)
ры́бѣ (dated prepositional singular)
ры́бахъ (dated plural prepositional)

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *ryba, further etymology uncertain.

как ры́ба в воде́чу́вствовать себя́ как ры́ба в воде́

(inanimate, publishing, music) placeholder, lorem ipsum

би́ться как ры́ба об лёд

как ры́ба об лёд (kak rýba ob ljod)

без труда́ не вытащи́шь и ры́бку из пруда́


stinger

From sting + -er. Both figurative and literal senses appeared in the 16th century.

(slang, television and film) An extension cord.


filmology

[title] International Bureau of Filmology ¶ When the International Film Congress met in Paris in 1947 a plan was approved for the organization of a “Bureau International de Filmologie.”

1949, Renée Jeanne Fulton, “Theatre, Film, and Radio Notes”, in The French Review, volume 22, number 3, American Association of Teachers of French, page 279:

Pervy's research in filmology may eventually open wider applications of films in modern languages.

1949, Renée Jeanne Fulton, “Theatre, Film, and Radio Notes”, in The French Review, volume 23, number 2, American Association of Teachers of French, page 144:

[title]

1950, Adolphe Pervy, “Filmology Applied to the Fields of Vocabulary Growth and Modern Language Methods”, in Modern Language Forum, v 35 (March–June), pp 42–53

So the University of Paris set out to study the science of filmology—after Cohen-Séat's important book had given rise to an institute, a review, and a whole series of investigations.

1956, Jean Debrix, “Cinema and Poetry”, in Yale French Studies, number 17, Yale University Press, page 88:

The fourth approach is that of filmology—of the scientific study conducted from outside by psychologists, psychiatrists, aestheticians, sociologists, educators, and biologists. [contrasted with film criticism, the history of the cinema, and the “theory of cinema”]

1991, Christian Metz, Michael Taylor, Film Language: A Semiotics of the Cinema, University of Chicago Press, page 90:

190: According to Marc Soriano, secretary editor of the institute's review, “Before filmology, one was restricted to verifying a basic truth, that the projection of a film affected the audience. As far as how and why, that was another question. It was thus this ‘how and why’ that the nascent filmology tackled.”
198: This problem of the film spectator, which we have just begun to address, was already at the center of the filmology movement's debates during the 1950s.

1992, Jacques Aumont et al, Richand Neupert transl., Aesthetics of Film, University of Texas Press

In the history of the filmology movement this conjuncture of disciplines underwent a gradual but unrelenting reconfiguration wherein the disciplines of psychology and sociology (at this time overwhelmingly Durkheimian in cast) acquired such prominence that aesthetic or hermeneutic concerns were virtually eliminated.

1992, John Mowitt, Text, Duke University Press, page 143:

9: Filmology once again set an example, by explicitly proposing a new vocabulary (“filmofanic,” “profilmic,” “diegetic,” etc.), just as semiotics and psychoanalysis would become exemplary in the 1960s and 1970s by tending toward private lexemes (“syntagmatic,” “icon,” “suture,” etc.).
103: It should be noted that filmology is not the only branch of the ongoing research, however; but we have had strong reasons for privileging it so far. It cannot be said too often that filmology introduced a scientific approach to cinema for the first time and that, during the 1950s and 1960s, it hosted the most important psychological contributions to the topic. But when the references to this experience started disappearing, especially in the second half of the 1970s, other lines of enquiry emerged, close to filmology in spirit.

1999, Francesco Casetti, Elizabeth Gard Bartolini-Salimbeni, Theories of Cinema, 1945–1995:

If filmology, for its part, has not shown much interest in films, it has significantly contributed to the shift in film theory's center of gravity by determining it in relation to certain “scientific” achievements, and, despite the generality of its stakes, has sometimes wound up touching several levels of textual singularity—and above all reviving a concern for method, which will have more or less long term direct effects on the analysis of film, thanks to a progressive displacement at work from filmology toward semiology.

2000, Raymond Bellour, Constance Penley, The Analysis of Film, Indiana University Press, page 6:

(film) A 1950s–60s movement of theoretical study relating to film.


widescreen

(film) Filmed in a greater aspect ratio than the 1.33:1 or 1.37:1 aspect ratio.


letterbox

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(film) Transferred to home video formats while preserving the original aspect ratio, having black bars above and below the picture area.


letterbox

en-verb

letterbox (third-person singular simple present letterboxes, present participle letterboxing, simple past and past participle letterboxed)

letterboxes (present singular third-person)
letterboxing (participle present)
letterboxed (participle past)
letterboxed (past)
letter box (alternative)

(film, transitive) To transfer a widescreen motion picture to home video formats while preserving the original aspect ratio, with the placing of black bars above and below the picture area.


pan and scan

Paul disdained pan and scan DVD releases, always holding out for the widescreen special editions.

(film) Formatted to fit within proportions of a 1.33:1 or 1.78:1 aspect ratio television screen, with sides of the original widescreen image (especially 2.35:1 aspect ratio) cropped off.


pan and scan

en-noun

pan and scan (countable and uncountable, plural pan and scans)

pan and scans (plural)
pan-and-scan (alternative)

Alicia hated the person who had invented pan and scan, since the heightened panning effect aggravated her nausea when watching action movies.

(uncountable, film) The method or practice of adjusting widescreen film images, especially 2.35:1 or 2.39:1 aspect ratio, so that they can be shown within the proportions of a 1.33:1 or 1.78:1 aspect ratio television screen, by cropping off sides of the original widescreen image, as opposed to letterboxing.

recadrage

In the discount bin by the door sat a pile of pan and scans, mostly comedies, that no one would touch.

(film) A movie recording employing this technology.


pan and scan

en-verb

pan and scan (third-person singular simple present pans and scans, present participle panning and scanning, simple past and past participle panned and scanned)

pans and scans (present singular third-person)
panning and scanning (participle present)
panned and scanned (participle past)
panned and scanned (past)
pan-and-scan (alternative)

(film) To adjust widescreen film images so that they can be shown with standard television aspect ratios by cropping the original image, i.e. using pan and scan methods.

In the full-screen version of Star Wars Episode II, only Anakin and Obi-Wan appear in the scene because Padmé was panned and scanned out.

(film) To crop out (a character or object) when performing the pan and scan process, resulting in the deletion of a character or object.


sequential art

(art, comics) A form of art where the content is presented in a series of artistic items positioned in a specific order to convey its message or effect, such as a comic strip.


fon

From English font, from Middle French fonte, feminine past participle of verb fondre (“to melt”).


fon

fon serif


backing

en-noun

backing (countable and uncountable, plural backings)

The simplest and cheapest answer is to introduce a scenic backing of some kind, a backdrop, a drape, some flats to restrict the shot and obscure whatever is outside.

2013, Gerald Millerson, TV Scenic Design, page 134:


ARC

ARC (countable and uncountable, plural ARCs)

“One of them came up to me in a signing line and asked for a blurb,” says Jen. “Can you believe it? Title I’ve never heard of, from some small press I’ve never heard of, and she comes up to me with a bound ARC, beaming, like of course I’m going to say yes.”

2023, R. F. Kuang, Yellowface, The Borough Press, page 90:

(publishing) Acronym of advance reader's copy, a copy of a book given to a reviewer free in advance for review purposes.


shape-shifter

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(fantasy, mythology, science fiction) Alternative form of shapeshifter.


changeling

/ˈt͡ʃeɪnd͡ʒlɪŋ/

The noun is derived from change + -ling (suffix with the sense ‘immature; small’). Sense 6 (“idiot, simpleton”) is from the idea that foolish children had been left by magical creatures (sense 1).
The adjective is derived from the noun.

suffix

[S]he, as her attendant, hath / A louely boy ſtollen, from an Indian king: / She neuer had ſo ſweete a changeling.

[c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, A Midsommer Nights Dreame. […] (First Quarto), London: […] [Richard Bradock] for Thomas Fisher, […], published 1600, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:

Every Lover admires his miſtris, though ſhee be very deformed of her ſelfe, [...] her feet ſtinke, ſhee breed lice, a meere changeling, a very monſter, [...]: if he loue her once, he admires her for all this, he takes no notice of any ſuch errors, or imperfections of body or minde.

1638, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], “Symptomes or Signes of Love Melancholy, in Body, Minde, Good, Bad, &c.”, in The Anatomy of Melancholy. […], 5th edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] [Robert Young, Miles Flesher, and Leonard Lichfield and William Turner] for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 3, section 2, member 3, subsection 1, page 515:

Juſt as a Changeling ſeems below the reſt / Of Men, or rather is a two-legg’d Beaſt, / So theſe Gigantick Souls amaz'd we find / As much above the reſt of human kind.

1709, Earl of Murlgrave [i.e., John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby, formerly Earl of Mulgrave], An Essay on Poetry, London: […] H. Hills, […], →OCLC, page 15:

Nothing will induce parents to show any attention to a child that they suspect of being a changeling.

1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 263:

It was easy enough to see that the child was a changeling, for it wasn't like other children at all it screamed and cried, as if a knife stuck in it, and it wheezed and hit about with its arms like a huldre-cat, and was as ugly as sin.

1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 298:

His nurse had told him all about changelings, and how the little people would always try to steal a beautiful human child out of its cradle and put in its stead one of their own ailing, puking brats [...]

1961, Muriel Saint Clare Byrne, Elizabethan Life in Town and Country, 8th edition, London: Methuen & Co., →OCLC, page 285:

(European folklore, also figurative) In pre-modern European folklore: an infant of a magical creature that was secretly exchanged for a human infant. In British, Irish and Scandinavian mythology the exchanged infants were thought to be those of fairies, sprites or trolls; in other places, they were ascribed to demons, devils, or witches.

خائن

infant of a magical creature secretly exchanged for a human infant

(fantasy, science fiction) An organism which can change shape to mimic others; a shape-shifter.


hard-boiled

en-adj

hard-boiled (comparative more hard-boiled, superlative most hard-boiled)

more hard-boiled (comparative)
most hard-boiled (superlative)
hardboiled (alternative)
hard boiled (alternative)

(literature, especially detective fiction) Written in a laconic, dispassionate, often ironic style for a realistic, unsentimental effect.


elemental

(alchemy, folklore, mythology) elemental


formalism

en-noun

formalism (countable and uncountable, plural formalisms)

/ˈfɔɹml̩ˌɪzm̩/

(literature) An approach to interpretation and/or evaluation focused on the (usually linguistic) structure of a literary work rather than on the contexts of its origin or reception.

形式主義 /形式主义

literature: structural approach to interpretation


sweeps

(US, television) The Nielsen ratings used to measure television show viewership several times a year.


agen

agèn (canonical)
agen-agen (plural)
agens (alternative)
agén (alternative)
éjén (alternative)

From Dutch agent, from French agent, from Latin agēns. Doublet of agens.

(drama) a person who looks for work for another person


leikata

leikkaan (first-person indicative present singular)
en leikkaa (first-person indicative negative present singular)
olen leikannut (first-person indicative perfect singular)
en ole leikannut (first-person indicative negative perfect singular)
leikkaat (indicative present second-person singular)
et leikkaa (indicative negative present second-person singular)
olet leikannut (indicative perfect second-person singular)
et ole leikannut (indicative negative perfect second-person singular)
leikkaa (indicative present singular third-person)
ei leikkaa (indicative negative present singular third-person)
on leikannut (indicative perfect singular third-person)
ei ole leikannut (indicative negative perfect singular third-person)
leikkaamme (first-person indicative plural present)
emme leikkaa (first-person indicative negative plural present)
olemme leikanneet (first-person indicative perfect plural)
emme ole leikanneet (first-person indicative negative perfect plural)
leikkaatte (indicative plural present second-person)
ette leikkaa (indicative negative plural present second-person)
olette leikanneet (indicative perfect plural second-person)
ette ole leikanneet (indicative negative perfect plural second-person)
leikkaavat (indicative plural present third-person)
eivät leikkaa (indicative negative plural present third-person)
ovat leikanneet (indicative perfect plural third-person)
eivät ole leikanneet (indicative negative perfect plural third-person)
leikataan (indicative passive present)
ei leikata (indicative negative passive present)
on leikattu (indicative passive perfect)
ei ole leikattu (indicative negative passive perfect)
leikkasin (first-person indicative past singular)
en leikannut (first-person indicative negative past singular)
olin leikannut (first-person indicative pluperfect singular)
en ollut leikannut (first-person indicative negative pluperfect singular)
leikkasit (indicative past second-person singular)
et leikannut (indicative negative past second-person singular)
olit leikannut (indicative pluperfect second-person singular)
et ollut leikannut (indicative negative pluperfect second-person singular)
leikkasi (indicative past singular third-person)
ei leikannut (indicative negative past singular third-person)
oli leikannut (indicative pluperfect singular third-person)
ei ollut leikannut (indicative negative pluperfect singular third-person)
leikkasimme (first-person indicative past plural)
emme leikanneet (first-person indicative negative past plural)
olimme leikanneet (first-person indicative pluperfect plural)
emme olleet leikanneet (first-person indicative negative pluperfect plural)
leikkasitte (indicative past plural second-person)
ette leikanneet (indicative negative past plural second-person)
olitte leikanneet (indicative pluperfect plural second-person)
ette olleet leikanneet (indicative negative pluperfect plural second-person)
leikkasivat (indicative past plural third-person)
eivät leikanneet (indicative negative past plural third-person)
olivat leikanneet (indicative pluperfect plural third-person)
eivät olleet leikanneet (indicative negative pluperfect plural third-person)
leikattiin (indicative passive past)
ei leikattu (indicative negative passive past)
oli leikattu (indicative passive pluperfect)
ei ollut leikattu (indicative negative passive pluperfect)
leikkaisin (conditional first-person present singular)
en leikkaisi (conditional first-person negative present singular)
olisin leikannut (conditional first-person perfect singular)
en olisi leikannut (conditional first-person negative perfect singular)
leikkaisit (conditional present second-person singular)
et leikkaisi (conditional negative present second-person singular)
olisit leikannut (conditional perfect second-person singular)
et olisi leikannut (conditional negative perfect second-person singular)
leikkaisi (conditional present singular third-person)
ei leikkaisi (conditional negative present singular third-person)
olisi leikannut (conditional perfect singular third-person)
ei olisi leikannut (conditional negative perfect singular third-person)
leikkaisimme (conditional first-person plural present)
emme leikkaisi (conditional first-person negative plural present)
olisimme leikanneet (conditional first-person perfect plural)
emme olisi leikanneet (conditional first-person negative perfect plural)
leikkaisitte (conditional plural present second-person)
ette leikkaisi (conditional negative plural present second-person)
olisitte leikanneet (conditional perfect plural second-person)
ette olisi leikanneet (conditional negative perfect plural second-person)
leikkaisivat (conditional plural present third-person)
eivät leikkaisi (conditional negative plural present third-person)
olisivat leikanneet (conditional perfect plural third-person)
eivät olisi leikanneet (conditional negative perfect plural third-person)
leikattaisiin (conditional passive present)
ei leikattaisi (conditional negative passive present)
olisi leikattu (conditional passive perfect)
ei olisi leikattu (conditional negative passive perfect)
leikkaa (imperative present second-person singular)
älä leikkaa (imperative negative present second-person singular)
leikatkoon (imperative present singular third-person)
älköön leikatko (imperative negative present singular third-person)
olkoon leikannut (imperative perfect singular third-person)
älköön olko leikannut (imperative negative perfect singular third-person)
leikatkaamme (first-person imperative plural present)
älkäämme leikatko (first-person imperative negative plural present)
leikatkaa (imperative plural present second-person)
älkää leikatko (imperative negative plural present second-person)
leikatkoot (imperative plural present third-person)
älkööt leikatko (imperative negative plural present third-person)
olkoot leikanneet (imperative perfect plural third-person)
älkööt olko leikanneet (imperative negative perfect plural third-person)
leikattakoon (imperative passive present)
älköön leikattako (imperative negative passive present)
olkoon leikattu (imperative passive perfect)
älköön olko leikattu (imperative negative passive perfect)
leikannen (first-person potential present singular)
en leikanne (first-person negative potential present singular)
lienen leikannut (first-person perfect potential singular)
en liene leikannut (first-person negative perfect potential singular)
leikannet (potential present second-person singular)
et leikanne (negative potential present second-person singular)
lienet leikannut (perfect potential second-person singular)
et liene leikannut (negative perfect potential second-person singular)
leikannee (potential present singular third-person)
ei leikanne (negative potential present singular third-person)
lienee leikannut (perfect potential singular third-person)
ei liene leikannut (negative perfect potential singular third-person)
leikannemme (first-person plural potential present)
emme leikanne (first-person negative plural potential present)
lienemme leikanneet (first-person perfect plural potential)
emme liene leikanneet (first-person negative perfect plural potential)
leikannette (plural potential present second-person)
ette leikanne (negative plural potential present second-person)
lienette leikanneet (perfect plural potential second-person)
ette liene leikanneet (negative perfect plural potential second-person)
leikannevat (plural potential present third-person)
eivät leikanne (negative plural potential present third-person)
lienevät leikanneet (perfect plural potential third-person)
eivät liene leikanneet (negative perfect plural potential third-person)
leikattaneen (passive potential present)
ei leikattane (negative passive potential present)
lienee leikattu (passive perfect potential)
ei liene leikattu (negative passive perfect potential)
leikata (infinitive infinitive-i)
leikkaava (active participle present)
leikattava (participle passive present)
leikatakseni (first-person possessive singular)
leikataksemme (first-person plural possessive)
leikataksesi (possessive second-person singular)
leikataksenne (plural possessive second-person)
leikatakseen (possessive third-person)
leikataksensa (possessive third-person)
leikannut (infinitive-i-long past)
leikattu (infinitive-i-long past)
leikatessa (inessive second-person)
leikattaessa (inessive second-person)
leikkaama (agent)
leikatessani (first-person possessive singular)
leikatessamme (first-person plural possessive)
leikatessasi (possessive second-person singular)
leikatessanne (plural possessive second-person)
leikatessaan (possessive third-person)
leikatessansa (possessive third-person)
leikkaamaton (inessive negative second-person)
leikaten (instructive second-person)
leikkaamassa (inessive third-person)
leikkaamasta (elative third-person)
leikkaamaan (illative third-person)
leikkaamalla (adessive third-person)
leikkaamatta (abessive third-person)
leikkaaman (instructive third-person)
leikattaman (instructive third-person)
leikkaaminen (fourth-person noun-from-verb)
leikkaamaisillani (first-person possessive singular)
leikkaamaisillamme (first-person plural possessive)
leikkaamaisillasi (possessive second-person singular)
leikkaamaisillanne (plural possessive second-person)
leikkaamaisillaan (possessive third-person)
leikkaamaisillansa (possessive third-person)

[ˈle̞i̯kɑ̝t̪ɑ̝(ʔ)]

From Proto-Finnic *lëik'at'ak, possibly borrowed from Proto-Germanic *blaikijaną (see the Proto-Finnic entry for more details). Cognates include Estonian lõikama (“to cut”).

(transitive, film) to edit (assemble a film by cutting and splicing raw footage)


QWERTY

QWERTY (countable and uncountable, plural QWERTYs)

QWERTYs (plural)
qwerty (alternative)
Qwerty (alternative)

Christopher Latham Sholes
Henry Holt and Company

From the first six letters on one of the upper rows of such a keyboard.

It was the Monotype model D keyboard introduced in 1907 which became the standard for printers, with a "qwerty" typewriter lay and removable keybars which made the keyboard independent of the matrix case arrangement.

1978, Allen Kent, Harold Lancour, Jay E[lwood] Daily, editors, Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science, volumes 24 (Printers and Printing to Public Policy, Copyright), New York, N.Y., Basel: Marcel Dekker, →ISBN, page 109:

The older children we came to know had had a great deal of experience with written language, and they certainly had a firm grasp of the alphabetic sequence. They were annoyed with the arrangement of letters on the typewriter keyboard, which begins at the second from the top row and proceeds left to right with the letters, "Q," "W," "E," "R," "T," and "Y." Computer professionals, who refer to this arrangement as the "QWERTY keyboard," have pointed out that, although it originated in order to avoid jam-ups of frequently used keys on the manual typewriter, the QWERTY arrangement is now completely obsolete but apparently here to stay. Third and fourth graders knew only that QWERTY had no logic that they could discern, and, until they developed basic keyboard familiarity, it greatly delayed their attempts at finding the keys they needed.

1991, Marilyn Cochran-Smith, Cynthia L. Paris, Jessica L. Kahn, “Hunting, Pecking, and Checking: Learning to Write with Word Processing”, in Learning to Write Differently: Beginning Writers and Word Processing (Language and Educational Processes), Norwood, N.J.: Ablex Publishing, →ISBN, page 137:

[…] The Dvorak typewriter keyboard is, it has been claimed, ergonomically superior to the standard "Qwerty" arrangement. But having settled on the current standard keyboard, largely by historical accident, now manufacturers are supposedly reluctant to produce Dvorak keybboards so long as almost all typists are trained on Qwerty, while typists don't want to train on Dvorak when almost all keyboards are Qwerty. Even the inferior keyboard as a matched choice is superior to failing to coordinate at all.

1992, Jack Hirshleifer, John G. Riley, “Strategic Uncertainty and Equilibrium Concepts”, in The Analytics of Uncertainty and Information (Cambridge Surveys of Economic Literature), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, published 2002, →ISBN, section 9.1 (Nash Equilibrium), page 330:

The ‘QWERTY’ layout of keyboards is also a cause for concern. The design means that the fingers of the left hand (the less dominant hand for most Westerners) do 57 per cent of the work in typing English text. RSI symptoms are often found to be more intense in the left hand of keyboard users.

1993 September 11, John Ballard, “RSI on Trial: More People Suffering from Repetitive Strain Injury are Seeking Compensation in Court as Fresh Evidence Comes to Light about the Symptoms and Causes of this Crippling Disorder”, in New Scientist, London: New Scientist Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2016-04-13:

The typewriter using separate characters on type bars striking on a cylinder soon dominated the market. Because adjacent striking bars tended to jam when struck rapidly, manufacturers abandoned the alphabetical placement of letters on the keyboard in favor of the left-to-right "qwerty" disposition that takes into account the frequency and sequence of letters in English.

1994, Henri-Jean Martin, “Beyond Writing”, in Lydia G. Cochrane, transl., The History and Power of Writing, Chicago, Ill., London: University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 465:

(uncountable, computing, typography, chiefly attributive) A standard layout of keys on a keyboard for typing, in which the leftmost keys of the top lettered row are Q-W-E-R-T-Y.

كويرتي

If you need to get a grip on a remote workstation, remote-control software can put your fingers on the pearly white QWERTYs of any computer, even half a world away.

1995 February 20, “Windows remote-control software: Reaching beyond your grasp”, Product Comparison, in InfoWorld, volume 17, number 8, San Mateo, Calif.: InfoWorld Publishing Company, →ISSN, page 66:

(countable, computing, typography) A keyboard with such a layout.


headline

The headline on today's newspaper reads "John Doe Wins Wood-Splitting Competition."

Say that you'll never, never, never, never need it
One headline, why believe it?
Everybody wants to rule the world

1985, Roland Orzabal, Ian Stanley, Chris Hughes, “Everybody Wants to Rule the World”, in Songs from the Big Chair, performed by Tears for Fears:

Risk is everywhere. From tabloid headlines insisting that coffee causes cancer (yesterday, of course, it cured it) to stern government warnings about alcohol and driving, the world is teeming with goblins. For each one there is a frighteningly precise measurement of just how likely it is to jump from the shadows and get you.

2013 June 22, “Snakes and ladders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 76:

(journalism) The heading or title of a magazine or newspaper article.

(printing, dated) The line at the top of a page containing the folio or number of the page.


uke

From Japanese 受け (uke), the 連(れん)用(よう)形(けい) (ren'yōkei, “stem or continuative form”) of the verb 受(う)ける (ukeru, “to receive, to get”).

ja-ryk

Yaoi uke in fanfics often bear the brunt of stereotypical "negative female characteristics" such as passivity, helplessness, and masochism.

2008, Tan Bee Kee, “Rewriting Gender and Sexuality in English-language Yaoi Fanfiction”, in Antonia Levi, Mark McHarry, Dru Pagliassotti, editors, Boys' Love Manga: Essays on the Sexual Ambiguity and Cross-Cultural Fandom of the Genre, McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 142:

You'd rather have Sebas be an uke?

2010, Pentabu, My Girlfriend’s a Geek, volume 1, Yen Press, published 2012, →ISBN:

Shizuku is so, so, so cute! I love him as an uke so much I can't stand it!

2010, Kyoka Wakatsuki, “Afterword”, in The Selfish Demon King, Digital Manga Publishing, →ISBN, page 137:

(Japanese fiction, fandom slang) A passive or submissive male fictional character in a same-sex relationship; a bottom.


matte

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Matte painting is a tool that filmmakers can use to create a scene that is impossible to achieve with conventional cinematographic means.

(film) A background, often painted or created with computers


shoot 'em up

shoot 'em ups (plural)
shoot-em-up (alternative)
shoot-'em-up (alternative)
shoot them up (alternative)

My wife won't watch this movie; it's a shoot ’em up.

The arcaders have it easy. All they need to do is drop a quarter into a machine to find out how good the latest shoot 'em up game really is. But for the home computer owner, it's another story.

1983 August, Popular Mechanics, volume 160, number 2, page 88:

An unmissable shoot 'em up.

1989, Duncan Macdonald, R-Type (video game review) in Your Sinclair issue 37, January 1989

(idiomatic, film, television, literature, video games) A piece of media which depicts considerable gunplay.

Bullet Hell: DoDonPachi exemplifies the term better than any other shoot 'em up, providing a snowstorm of fiery pixels to both simultaneously dodge and eliminate.

2011 December 5, Tony Mott, 1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die: You Must Play Before You Die, Hachette UK, →ISBN:

In a shoot'em up, the player usually looks from above on her player character (most commonly in the form of a spaceship). The spaceship is constantly moving forward, but since the perspective is relatively fixed on it, the traversed space is actually moving from top to bottom or left to right, and the player has no ability to influence that movement.

2013 August 28, Sebastian Domsch, Storyplaying: Agency and Narrative in Video Games, Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 65:

It is surprising nowadays to see so much silicon dedicated to a "niche" feature [starfield rendering], but the extreme popularity of shoot em ups like R-Type, Gradius, or Darius at the time made a good case for it.

2022 November 5, Fabien Sanglard, The Book of CP-System, Sanglard Publishing, page 88:

(video games) A video game in which one plays as a character moving and shooting in an autoscrolling two-dimensional world, with emphasis on dodging bullets and predicting enemy movement patterns.


exposition

en-noun

exposition (countable and uncountable, plural expositions)

From Middle English exposicioun, from Old French esposicion, from Latin expositiō, from expōnere (“to put forth”). The sense meaning "exhibition" is a later semantic loan from French exposition.

This essay has too much exposition in it.

My reviewer said she couldn't picture the setting for my story, so I'm improving the exposition.

(authorship) The act or process of declaring or describing something through either speech or writing, in nonfiction or in fiction; the portions and aspects of a piece of writing that exist mainly to describe or explain a set of things (such as, in fiction, the setting, characters and other non-plot elements).

I turned my research into an exposition on the traditional music of Borneo.

(authorship) An essay or speech in which any topic is discussed in detail.

বয়ান

(authorship) An opening section in fiction, in which background information about the characters, events or setting is conveyed.


reportage

head

reportage c (singular definite reportagen, plural indefinite reportager)

reportagen (definite singular)
reportager (indefinite plural)
reportage (indefinite nominative singular)
reportagen (definite nominative singular)
reportager (indefinite nominative plural)
reportagerne (definite nominative plural)
reportages (genitive indefinite singular)
reportagens (definite genitive singular)
reportagers (genitive indefinite plural)
reportagernes (definite genitive plural)


Bruno

en-proper noun

Bruno (countable and uncountable, plural Brunos or Brunoes)

From Italian, German etc continental European Bruno, name of medieval Italian and German saints and royalty, Latinized form of Old High German brūn (“brown”), from Proto-West Germanic *brūn. The surname is mostly borrowed from Italian Bruno. Doublet of Brown.


amant

pl-noun

amant m pers (female equivalent amantka, diminutive amancik)

amantka (feminine)
amancik (diminutive)
amant (nominative singular)
amanci (nominative plural)
amanty (derogatory nominative plural)
amanta (genitive singular)
amantów (genitive plural)
amantowi (dative singular)
amantom (dative plural)
amanta (accusative singular)
amantów (accusative plural)
amantem (instrumental singular)
amantami (instrumental plural)
amancie (locative singular)
amantach (locative plural)
amancie (singular vocative)
amanci (plural vocative)

Borrowed from French amant, from Latin amāns. First attested in 1743.

ref

Barbara Rykiel-Kempf (20.08.2007) “AMANT”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century]

(acting) romantic role or lead (actor playing the roles of a lover or seducer)


perla

Horace
Jean Jannon
New Testament
Vergil
it:perla

Borrowed from French perle, the name given by Jean Jannon to the type used in his miniature editions of Vergil, Horace, & the New Testament in the 1620s, which were the smallest printed works to his time.

(printing, dated) a small size of type, standardized as 4 point


perla

(printing, dated) a small size of type, standardized as 4 or 5 point


pick up

en-verb

pick up (third-person singular simple present picks up, present participle picking up, simple past and past participle picked up)

picks up (present singular third-person)
picking up (participle present)
picked up (participle past)
picked up (past)

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The story does not seem to have been widely picked up.

News of this notice from the university was picked up by local media and had the effect of raising the ire of some citizens who saw this as an attack on ‘Chinese heritage’[.]

2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 3:

(transitive, media) To obtain and publish a story, news item, etc.


tone down

tone down (third-person singular simple present tones down, present participle toning down, simple past and past participle toned down)

tones down (present singular third-person)
toning down (participle present)
toned down (participle past)
toned down (past)

(literature, television, media, ambitransitive) To make a television program, piece of writing, etc. less offensive and so more suitable for a family audience.


crochet

→ English: crochet

desc

→ Portuguese: colchete (“hook, bracket”)

→ Portuguese: crochê (“crochet”), croché, crochet (unadapted form)

→ Spanish: corchete

→ Turkish: kroşe


diva

→ Catalan: diva

→ Chinese: 迪娃 (díwá), 迪瓦 (díwǎ)

→ Dutch: diva

→ English: diva

→ Finnish: diiva

→ French: diva

→ German: Diva

→ Hungarian: díva

→ Japanese: ディーバ (dība), ディーヴァ (dīva)

→ Polish: diwa

→ Portuguese: diva

→ Russian: ди́ва (díva)

→ Spanish: diva

→ Swedish: diva

→ Turkish: diva

From Latin, the feminine form of divus (“divine one; notably deified mortal”).

(acting) a star (female, especially a singer or actress)


OSS

en-noun

OSS (countable and uncountable, plural OSSes or OSS's or OSSs)

OSSes (plural)
OSS's (plural)
OSSs (plural)

(film) Initialism of over-the-shoulder shot.


sted

From Middle English sted, from Old English stede (“place, spot, locality”).

der

(This version CORRECTS Corrects title of movie to ‘Echoes of the Rainbow’ sted ‘Echoes of a Rainbow.’)

2010 February 22, “Hong Kong rejoices over Berlin film prize”, in Long Island Press, retrieved 2012-07-25:

Eds: CORRECTS name of city to 'Pass Christian' sted 'Port'. Moving on general news and financial services. AP Video.

2010 May 10, Vicki Smith, Holbrook Mohr, “Gulf Oil Spill: Unemployed Fishermen Struggling To Get By”, in Huffington Post, retrieved 2012-07-25:

(journalism, slang) short for instead of


RTHK

Radio Television Hong Kong
w:Radio Television Hong Kong

(Hong Kong, broadcasting) Initialism of Radio Television Hong Kong: the government broadcaster of Hong Kong.


AFP

When asked about the legal proceedings, Durov reportedly told the AFP that he “trusts the French justice” system but refused to elaborate on the case.

2024 December 7, Zoltan Vardai, “Telegram founder Pavel Durov questioned in Paris court for first time: Report”, in Cointelegraph:

(journalism) Initialism of Agence France-Presse.


AFP

(journalism, in France) initialism of Agence France-Presse


LTC

en-noun

LTC (countable and uncountable, plural LTCs)

(broadcasting) Initialism of last telecast.


tekst

nl-noun

tekst m (plural teksten, diminutive tekstje n)

teksten (plural)
tekstje (diminutive neuter)

Afrikaans: teks

→ Indonesian: teks

(uncountable, printing, dated) a large size of type standardized as 16 point


tekst

pl-noun

tekst m inan (diminutive tekścik, related adjective tekstowy)

tekścik (diminutive)
tekstowy (adjective)
tekst (nominative singular)
teksty (nominative plural)
tekstu (genitive singular)
tekstów (genitive plural)
tekstowi (dative singular)
tekstom (dative plural)
tekst (accusative singular)
teksty (accusative plural)
tekstem (instrumental singular)
tekstami (instrumental plural)
tekście (locative singular)
tekstach (locative plural)
tekście (singular vocative)
teksty (plural vocative)

(literature) text (book, tome, or other set of writings)


bring up

en-verb

bring up (third-person singular simple present brings up, present participle bringing up, simple past and past participle brought up)

brings up (present singular third-person)
bringing up (participle present)
brought up (participle past)
brought up (past)

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From Middle English bring up, dissimilated from Middle English upbringen (“to bring up, raise”). Doublet of upbring.

der

(obsolete, printing) To level type or make it ready for printing by overlaying it.


HT

en-noun

HT (countable and uncountable, plural HTs)


comm

comms (plural)
comm. (alternative abbreviation)

My comm was set on silent mode—nothing in or out except emergency transmissions.

2018, Joseph Kainz, Sector 12 and the Art of Burning, page ix:


gen

en-verb

gen (third-person singular simple present gens, present participle genning, simple past and past participle genned)

gens (present singular third-person)
genning (participle present)
genned (participle past)
genned (past)

Samples could be taken from the original, and plans could be made, but genning could not be initiated until death had occurred.

2008, Bart Dahmer, Primal Screams, →ISBN, page 36:

Her nurturer ears, genned to be hyper-sensitive, had to be hurting from the noise.

2011, Karen Sandler, Tankborn, →ISBN, page 28:

(science fiction) To genetically engineer.


speech bubble

(comics) A rounded outline, containing words, representing speech in a comic.

shtëllungë ligjërimi

rounded outline representing speech in a cartoon


PSB

en-noun

PSB (countable and uncountable, plural PSBs)

(broadcasting) Initialism of program station basis.


LWT

London Weekend Television
w:London Weekend Television

(UK, television) Initialism of London Weekend Television.


Rapunzel

[χa.pũˈzɛʊ̯]


run-in

en-adj

run-in (not generally comparable, comparative more run-in, superlative most run-in)

more run-in (comparative)
most run-in (superlative)

These headings are of the run-in type because a free-hanging style would just be a waste of column inches.

participial adjective
participial adjective

(participial adjective; editing, typography) (not comparable) Having been run in before or behind previous text.


anapest

anapest (nominative singular)
anapesty (nominative plural)
anapestu (genitive singular)
anapestů (genitive plural)
anapestu (dative singular)
anapestům (dative plural)
anapest (accusative singular)
anapesty (accusative plural)
anapeste (singular vocative)
anapesty (plural vocative)
anapestu (locative singular)
anapestech (locative plural)
anapestem (instrumental singular)
anapesty (instrumental plural)

K nejfrekventovanějším stopám patří trochej (¯ ˘), jamb (˘ ¯), daktyl (¯ ˘ ˘), anapest (˘ ˘ ¯), amfibrach (˘ ¯ ˘) a spondej (¯ ¯).

1997, Jiří Fukač with Jiří Vysloužil and Petr Macek, Slovník české hudební kultury, Praha: Editio Supraphon, →ISBN, page 742:

Trochee (¯ ˘), iamb (˘ ¯), dactyl (¯ ˘ ˘), anapest (˘ ˘ ¯), amphibrach (˘ ¯ ˘) and spondee (¯ ¯) belong among the most frequented feet.

Jakmile jsem si vytvořil tento vztah ke zvuku, jazyku a námětu, okamžitě jsem viděl – lépe řečeno, okamžitě jsem slyšel –, že anapest nemusí pokaždé skončit jako monotónní, ucouraná, vlezlá odrhovačka na způsob básní Edgara Allana Poea, Roberta Service, Kiplinga a dalších.

2007, James Dickey, “Básník jde do sebe”, in Revolver revue, volumes 67–68, page 125:

I saw at once—or rather I heard at once—when I began to have this kind of relationship to sound, language and subject, that the anapest needn't result in the monotonous, slugging, obtrusive singsong that it has in the poems of Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Service, Kipling, and others.

(poetry) anapest, a metrical foot consisting of three syllables, two short or unstressed and one long or stressed


TST

en-noun

TST (countable and uncountable, plural TSTs)

(broadcasting) Initialism of total story time.


rotunda

rotundas (plural)
rotundae (plural)
Rotunda (alternative)

Learned borrowing from Latin rotunda, from rotundus (“round”). In the architectural sense, from Sancta Maria Rotunda (the name for a church in the Pantheon).

(typography, frequently capitalized) A Gothic typeface used in early printed books in Northern Italy, based on a rounded script developed in the 13th cent.; the manuscript hand on which this typeface was based.

rotunda

typography: Gothic typeface based on a 13th-C. rounded script


rotunda

rotundowy (adjective)
rotunda (nominative singular)
rotundy (genitive singular)
rotundzie (dative singular)
rotundę (accusative singular)
rotundą (instrumental singular)
rotundzie (locative singular)
rotundo (singular vocative)

(uncountable, typography) rotunda (Gothic typeface used in early printed books in Northern Italy, based on a rounded script developed in the 13th century; the manuscript hand on which this typeface was based)


ルビ

Coordinate term: 親文字


in-line

An in-line mathematical formula does not have to be on a line of its own.

Parenthetical referencing is a citation style which uses in-line citations enclosed within parentheses.

This is an inline (e.g. mid-sentence) template for marking up text as a Wikipedia self-reference.

(writing) Inserted in the flow of a text.


sestet

From Italian sestetto, from sesto (“sixth”), Latin sextus, from sex (“six”).

(poetry) The last six lines of a sonnet, forming two stanzas of three lines each.


rede

From Old Galician-Portuguese rede, from Latin rēte.

network (an interconnected group or system)

(broadcasting) network (group of affiliated television stations)


hinting

hinting (countable and uncountable, plural hintings)

(typography) The process of adding hints to a computer-based font in order to align the glyphs to a rasterized grid at specific sizes in a visually appealing manner.


glossy

Anna Magnani has been making Hollywood glossies recently, so it was good to see her back again in a native Italian production, The Last Temptation, in which with great artistry and all her usual power she played a Nun who finds a woman's and even a mother's heart beating strongly beneath her 'sister's' habit.

[…] the first home-made guide to TV films by which is meant old films shown on the box, not those new Hollywood glossies made specially for it (though a guide there too would soon be welcome).

1973, Films and Filming, volume 20, page 10:

(film, informal) A film depicting people with glamorous lifestyles.


MOS

man on the street
man on the street#English

(broadcasting) Initialism of man on the street.


MOS

Disputed, with many speculative suggestions; see Wikipedia.

(film) Without a synchronous audio track.


drive out

en-verb

drive out (third-person singular simple present drives out, present participle driving out, simple past drove out, past participle driven out)

drives out (present singular third-person)
driving out (participle present)
drove out (past)
driven out (participle past)

(obsolete, printing, of type) To set closely; to take up less space because the typesetter uses type that is thinner than the copy or the typesetter whites out more or squeezes in more lines on each page.


tratado

tratados (plural)
tractado (alternative obsolete)

Past participle of tratar, or a semi-learned borrowing from Latin tractātus, perfect passive participle of tractō (“to handle; to manage”).

(literature) treatise (systematic discourse on some subject)


lectura

Borrowed from Late Latin lēctūra, from Latin lēctūrus.

(printing, dated) a medium size of type equated with the French cicéro and variously equal to 11 or 12 points


programa

From Late Latin programma, from Ancient Greek πρόγραμμα (prógramma).

(broadcasting) program (a particular unit or show broadcasted on radio or television)


programa

From Dutch programma (“show”), from Late Latin programma, from Ancient Greek πρόγραμμα (prógramma). Doublet of program.


programa

programas (plural)
programma (alternative)

Learned borrowing from Late Latin programma, from Ancient Greek πρόγραμμα (prógramma).

lbor

/pɾoˈɡɾɐ̃.mɐ/

/pɾoˈɡɾɐ̃.mɐ/

/pɾuˈɡɾɐ.mɐ/

[pɾuˈɣɾɐ.mɐ]

/pɾuˈɡɾɐ.mɐ/

[pɾuˈɣɾɐ.mɐ]

(television, radio) performance of a show or other broadcast on radio or television; programme


sirena

[sɪˈɾɛː.n̪ɐ]

Borrowed from Spanish sirena, from Late Latin Sirēna, from Latin Sīrēn, from Ancient Greek Σειρήν (Seirḗn). The third sense is an extension of the original, further popularized by the rap song Sirena.

Ligaya Tiamson Rubin, may mga kuwento ang mga taga- Angono tungkol sa mga sirena na siyang nakikita sa isang malaking bato na umaawit at may mahabang gintong buhok. Kapag may dumarating na tao ay agad itong nawawala.

2005, Ligaya Tiamson- Rubin, (Es) kultura ng bayan: Kakambal ng ibang mga bayan:

Diego: 'Yun pong bahagi ng dagat ditong nilalabasan ng mga sirena. Galit daw po ang mga sirena sa mga tagarito. Ayon po kasi sa kuwentu-kuwento, noong unang panahon daw e pinakialaman ng mga mangingisda dito ang mga sirena ...

1993, Ricardo Lee, Salome: a Filipino filmscript, Univ of Wisconsin Center for:

Sa kaharian nila Amelita... Sa kaharian ng mga Sirena...Nakaramdam ako ng kasiyahan. Si Lagrimas... Sana ay masaya siya saan man siya naroon.... Katapusan Si Robinson Mago ay isang Electronics and Communication Engineer na ...

2014, Robin Mago, Amelita, Robinson Mago:

Natutuklasan nila sa mga libro ni Gaying na lahat ng mga taga-Angono ay nagiging bida, walang bandido, nagiging mga diwata, higante at mga sirena sa kanilang mahal na Angono. Nagkakaroon tuloy sila ng pakiramdam na sila man ay ...

2005, Ligaya Tiamson- Rubin, Angono, Rizal: Pagtatala ng gunita, panimulang dokumentasyon ng mga bayan sa Pilipinas, →ISBN:


prueba

Deverbal from probar or Late Latin proba, from Latin probō.


extended

en-adj

extended (comparative more extended, superlative most extended)

more extended (comparative)
most extended (superlative)

(typography, of a typeface) Wider than usual.