Sea of Storms

Blend of sea + Ocean of Storms. Variation of Ocean of Storms; replacement of the rare "Ocean" with the common "Sea", where many features on the Moon are called 'seas' (the maria), and only this one feature is called 'ocean'.

Mare Procellarum
Mare Procellarum#Translingual

Oceanus Procellarum
Oceanus Procellarum#Translingual

(planetology) Mare Procellarum: Synonym of Ocean of Storms (“Oceanus Procellarum”); A basin in Nearside, Moon, Earth, Solar System


Ocean of Storms

Calque of Latin Oceanus Procellarum (literally “Ocean of Storms”), from Latin oceanus (“ocean”) + procella (“storm”). Coined by Italian Jesuit astronomer Giovanni Battista Riccioli, by labelling a map created by Italian Jesuit optician Francesco Maria Grimaldi, and then published in 1651 in the Almagestum Novum.

calque

(planetology) A basin in Nearside, Moon, Earth, Solar System

en:Francesco Maria Grimaldi
en:Giovanni Battista Riccioli
en:Ocean of Storms


Sea of Tranquility

the Sea of Tranquility (canonical)
Sea of Tranquillity (alternative)

Calque of Latin Mare Tranquilitātis (spelled with one L), from Latin mare (“sea”)+tranquilitātis (“tranquility”). Coined by Italian Jesuit astronomer Giovanni Battista Riccioli, by labelling a map created by Italian Jesuit optician Francesco Maria Grimaldi, and then published in 1651 in the Almagestum Novum.

(planetology) A basin in Nearside, Moon, Earth, Solar System; location of the first manned moon landing, in 1969.

en:Almagestum Novum
en:Francesco Maria Grimaldi
en:Giovanni Battista Riccioli
en:Sea of Tranquility (disambiguation)


burn away

en-verb

burn away (third-person singular simple present burns away, present participle burning away, simple past and past participle burned away or burnt away)

burns away (present singular third-person)
burning away (participle present)
burned away (participle past)
burned away (past)
burnt away (participle past)
burnt away (past)

The laser burned away the excess body hair.

(ergative) To remove or be removed by burning.

In fact, McChrystal's whole manner was that of someone who's burned away frivolity and distractions from his life.

2020, Barack Obama, chapter 13, in A Promised Land, Crown:

(figurative, by extension) to remove instantly and forcefully; to evaporate


courtesy light

(automotive) A small light inside a motor vehicle that automatically switches on when a door is opened.


snozzle

A few minutes later, when the two RMFD vehicles arrived, the on-scene commander instructed one of them to take up a position on the left side of the airplane and to use its snozzle to apply firefighting agents in the airplane's main cargo compartment.

2005, National Transportation Safety Board, “1.15.3 Emergency Response”, in Aircraft Accident Report: Hard Landing, Gear Collapse, Federal Express Flight 647, Boeing MD-10-10F, N364FE, Memphis, Tennessee, December 18, 2003, archived from the original on 2020-10-18, page 24:

(aviation, firefighting) A reinforced firefighting nozzle used to pierce the exterior skin of an aircraft and spray water or firefighting foam inside the aircraft to help extinguish a fire.


watchout

A change in wind direction is a watchout.

Being uninformed on firefighting strategy and tactics is a watchout.

(firefighting) Any potentially hazardous condition or situation that may make a fire more dangerous.


cerulean blue

en-noun

cerulean blue (usually uncountable, plural cerulean blues)

[…] the cars were painted in "Underground" colours with red and cream (later all red) exteriors, and cerulean blue and cream interiors.

1951 January, “The Inner Circle and its Rolling Stock”, in Railway Magazine, page 59:


meteorist

One who believes that lunar craters were formed by meteorite impacts and not by volcanic action.


MEGA

(astronautics, space flight) Initialism of Mars-Earth gravity assist.


arsonical

He cleared out the coals from under the staircase, built a neat fire of firewood and paper there, he splashed about paraffine and arranged the lamps and can even as he had designed, and made a fine inflammable pile of things in the little parlour behind the shop. “Looks pretty arsonical,” he said as he surveyed it all.

1909, H. G. Wells, chapter 8, in The History of Mr Polly, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, page 214:

1978, Jan Morris, Farewell the Trumpets, New York and London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Part 2, Chapter 18, p. 393,
In Cyprus he must deal with Greeks and Turks whose methods of debate were murderous or arsonical.

Of or relating to arson (the crime of deliberately starting a fire with intent to cause damage).


water fire

(Ocracoke Island) Light appearing on the body of swampy water at night due to gases released by decaying plant matter.


suncolored

When his head nodded, the fire blazed in the blackness of his dreams and sent suncolored streaks racing back and forth between his mind and soul.

2021, Michael Farris Smith, chapter 30, in Nick, New York, Boston, London: Little, Brown and Company, page 158:

Having a dazingly bright, yellow-orange color.


moonlighty

en-adj

moonlighty (comparative more moonlighty, superlative most moonlighty)

more moonlighty (comparative)
most moonlighty (superlative)

Resembling or characteristic of moonlight.


kermesic acid

(organic chemistry) A red chemical pigment from the insect kermes dye named 1-methyl-2-carboxy-3,5,6,8-tetrahydroxyanthraquinone.


Betty lamp

Betty lamps (plural)
betty lamp (alternative)
betty-lamp (alternative)

Derives its name from German besser (“better”).

You, who have more or less trouble with your rush lights, cannot fancy how luxurious it is to have one of these betty-lamps, which costs in care no more than is required to fill them with grease or oil.

Taking the long candlestick from the windowsill, she hurries to the betty lamp, pulls its wick out with the chain pick, and lights her candle from the bear fat flame.

1999, J G Passarella, Wither, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 160:

(historical) A lamp consisting of a shallow lidded metal vessel with a small spout for a coarse wick, fueled by tallow, grease, or oil, usually hung by a hook and chain, and used especially in the American colonies.


burn barrel

A large metal container in which waste materials are disposed of by burning.


overnite

1970-1975, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
Everyone wanted to go to Randy's when done eating & I knew J planned on staying there overnite & spending Sunday there so I asked to be taken back to Sam's, saying I just didn't feel like crashing yet.


overnite

The latest facilities include a new C. B. & Q. westbound express, called the Overnite Denverite, covering the distance in 17 hr. 20 min., and an acceleration of the C. & N. W.-U. P. westbound Columbine to the same figure.

1939 September, “Overseas Railways: More American Accelerations”, in Railway Magazine, page 214:


starbeam

(astronomy, very rare) An intense and visible ray of starlight; a ray or rays emitted from the star.


carboxyrhodamine

(organic chemistry) Any of a range of rhodamine dyes that have one or two carboxylic acid substituents


Prussian red

en-noun

Prussian red (countable and uncountable, plural Prussian reds)

Discovered by Prussian chemist Leopold Gmelin.

(chemistry) Potassium ferricyanide, K₃[Fe(CN)₆], a highly poisonous ferric crystal salt of potassium cyanide used as a pigment.

The colour of this compound: a hue of semi-dark brownish red


Prussian red

en-adj

Prussian red (comparative more Prussian red, superlative most Prussian red)

more Prussian red (comparative)
most Prussian red (superlative)

Prussian red:


fire appliance

Synonym of fire engine (“vehicle used by firefighters”)


crack the flags

en-verb

crack the flags (third-person singular simple present cracks the flags, present participle cracking the flags, simple past and past participle cracked the flags)

cracks the flags (present singular third-person)
cracking the flags (participle present)
cracked the flags (participle past)
cracked the flags (past)

See flag (“a flagstone”); the idea is that the extreme heat might cause paving-stones to split.

Early summer sunshine threatened to crack the flags outside.

1998, Julia Wild, Blue Silk Promise, page 80:

I was apprehensive, feeling butterflies, pissed, the sun cracking the flags.

2005, Andrew Porter, Suicide Squad: The Inside Story of a Football Firm:

[…] plus the sun was still cracking the flags as we headed back to Geneva.

2008, Dave Spencer, A Smudge on My Lens, page 276:

The sun's hot enough to crack the flags and there's not a cloud in sight.

2010, Maureen Lee, The House By Princes Park:

'Tis fit to crack the flags so you'll not be wantin' your brolly.

2012, Audrey Howard, There is No Parting:

(northern England, colloquial) Of the sun or sunshine: to beat down very strongly; to be extremely hot.


burnover

The situation in which a fire overtakes the firefighters who are attempting to deal with it.


mint green

en-noun

mint green (countable and uncountable, plural mint greens)


superconflagration

/suːpəɹˈkɒnfləˈɡɹeɪʃən/

Over there, in the direction of Bainbridge, the sunset glowed like a superconflagration.

1917, Perley Poore Sheehan, Those who walk in darkness, New York G.H. Doran Co, →ISBN, page 205:

Governments and common stocks is embodied in the philosophy that, with large common stock commitments, all the risk of the portfolio should be concentrated in this category while the rest of the portfolio should be riskless - a kind of superconflagration reserve.

1953, Shelby Cullom Davis, Insurance Companies and the Interest Rate, Taylor & Francis:

In the mid-nineties was, physically, barely quarter-century old, almost all of it having been burned to the ground in October in 1871 in a superconflagration.

1983, Marie Louise Burke, Swami Vivekananda in the West: The world teacher, Advaita Ashrama, page 122:

Fires following these earthquakes would be a much bigger and broader issue than shown in the movie. In the much smaller M7.8 “ShakeOut Scenario” earthquake scenario for southern California, more than 1600 fires are projected to start, some becoming superconflagrations.

2015, Disaster Digest (Hollywood Fantasy Not California Reality), page 6:

(rare) A very severe, blazing conflagration.


upbrighten

en-verb

upbrighten (third-person singular simple present upbrightens, present participle upbrightening, simple past and past participle upbrightened)

upbrightens (present singular third-person)
upbrightening (participle present)
upbrightened (participle past)
upbrightened (past)

I looked on thee, at first, as looks the sun / Upon the earth upbrightening in his glance, […]

1904, Louis Kaufman Anspacher, Tristan and Isolde: A Tragedy, page 69:

(ambitransitive, poetic) To make or become brighter.


Tuscan red

en-noun

Tuscan red (countable and uncountable, plural Tuscan reds)

The C.P.R. favours that old favourite of American railways, Tuscan red.

1959 November, J. N. Westwood, “The Railways of Canada”, in Trains Illustrated, page 552:

Tuscan red:

A dark shade of red, once popularly used for railcars.


wetline

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In cheatgrass the wetline technique has proven to be successful and is equally useful in other light to moderate grass fuels on relatively smooth terrain.

1982, Henry A. Wright, Fire Ecology: United States and Southern Canada, page 398:

We have used this method in the evening when strip headfires would burn into the wetline, but the backfire would go out.

1977, Robert E. Martin, Wetline Technique for Prescribed Burning Firelines in Rangeland:

(firefighting) A line that has been doused with water in order to stop the advance of a fire.


naphthol blue

Dyestuffs produced from certain complex nitrogenous derivatives of naphthol or naphthoquinone.


fire sprinkler

A heat-activated device that sprays water in the event of a fire, usually mounted on a ceiling.


burn pit

burn pit exposure in Iraq

(US, military) An open-air pit where waste is burned. Long-term exposure to its smoke is associated with health problems.


blonde bombshell

blonde bombshell (plural blonde bombshells)

Derived from bombshell (“a very attractive woman”).

(slang) A very attractive woman with blonde or yellow hair.

(slang) A stereotypical blonde woman who is very assertive and sensual but unintelligent.


blorange

/ˈblɒɹɪnd͡ʒ/

/ˈblɒɹənd͡ʒ/

Coordinate term: bronde

I couldn't afford to have anybody else color my hair anymore, so I started doing it myself and it became various shades of blond and orange. Blorange, as they call it. It was pretty bad.

(informal) A pale reddish-orange hair color.


light trespass

The encroachment of unwanted or unneeded light from a neighboring property or structure.


alizarin crimson

alizarin crimson (plural alizarin crimsons)

a shade of red that is biased slightly more towards purple than towards orange on the color wheel and has a blue undertone


ash gray

ash grays (plural)
ash-gray (alternative)
ash grey (alternative)
ash-grey (alternative)

A shade of gray that resembles the color of ashes.


sepian

en-adjective

sepian (comparative more sepian, superlative most sepian)

more sepian (comparative)
most sepian (superlative)

He who dived in the swirling Maelstrom saw none to compare with them in horror: tentacular convolutions, tumid bulges, glaring orbs of sepian deformity, would have looked to him innocence beside such incarnations of hatefulness...

(archaic) Of the sepia, i.e. the cuttlefish.


oriental blue

oriental blue:


federal yellow

(dated, US) A shade of yellow used in US government vehicles and school buses, intended to be noticed quickly.


Pyrocene

From pyro- + -cene, coined by American academic Stephen J. Pyne in 2016.

coin

Those images of fire on fire are the raw footage of a planetary phase change, what might end up as a geologic era we could call the Pyrocene. They will continue until, as Shakespeare put it, they “consume the thing that feeds their fury.”

[2016 May 16, Stephen J. Pyne, “Welcome to the Pyrocene”, in Slate, →ISSN:

Instead of ice sheets, glaciers and periglacial environments adjacent to the ice, a Pyrocene manifests itself with fire-informed biotas, fire-starved biotas, hot spots where fire is the dominant energy source, peripyric landscapes where humans equipped with pyrotechnologies have reshaped the scene, and of course a warming atmosphere and unhinged climate that passes over the planet.

2019 November 20, Stephen J. Pyne, “The planet is burning”, in Aeon:

The supercharged blazes of the Pyrocene are putting millions upon millions of people around the world directly at risk, and even larger populations indirectly at risk with smoke.

2020 January 3, Matt Simon, “Australia Is Blazing Into the Pyrocene—the Age of Fire”, in Wired:

But be warned: the full, hellish fury of the pyrocene has yet to arrive.

2021 August 28, Graham Lawton, “The dawn of the pyrocene”, in New Scientist, page 24:

The insights gained by such research will be essential to manage animal populations in the Pyrocene.

2021 November, Dale G. Nimmo, Alexandra J. R. Carthey, Chris J. Jolly, Daniel T. Blumstein, “Welcome to the Pyrocene: Animal survival in the age of the megafire”, in Global Change Biology, volume 27, number 22:

The period of the Holocene/Anthropocene in which climate change causes more frequent and intense wildfires.


cowpiss

Inherited from Middle English cowpisse; equivalent to cow + piss.

Cows were mainly good for kicking over the milk pail, swatting you in the face with a cowpiss-soaked tail.

1964, William Humphrey, “Sam Ordway’s Revenge”, in The Ordways, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, published 1965, →LCCN, page 249:

‘⸺ing Gebler,’ he moaned in a strangled voice, ‘what was in that bottle?’ ‘Cowpiss’, said my uncle. ‘You should have asked me but you didn’t. I would have told you what it was. We took it from a sick cow to give to the veterinarian for urinalysis.’ Brendan, gasping ‘cowpiss’, ran outraged at full speed the few hundred yards outside and down the side of the mountain to throw himself in the freezing waters of Loch Dan.

1982, Stan Davies, “Shed a Tear for Brendan”, in E. H. Mikhail, editor, Brendan Behan: Interviews and Recollections, volume 2, →ISBN, page 294:

Smell like every barn in the world. Hay, mud, cowpiss.

1982, John Olive, Clara’s Play, Samuel French, Inc., published 1984, page 38:

And when the hopeful women came near, the farmers raised up crop-sprayers, and covered them in cowpiss.

1983 July 30, Alex Hamilton, “The stamp of individuality”, in The Guardian, page 6:

cows rub shoulders against their stalls / chains rattling the night / there’s wheezing everywhere, the swish of tails / the devil, riding cowpiss manure, keeps watch

1985, Daniël Daen, “The Prodigal Son”, in Rod Jellema, transl., Country Fair: Poems from Friesland since 1945, Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company; Kampen: Catalogus Uitgeversmaatschappij J. H. Kok, →ISBN, page 173:

Petey was pretty sure it was mostly straw with a little grass plus maybe oregano and cowpiss mixed in or something.

1986, Frederick Busch, Sometimes I Live in the Country, Boston, Mass.: David R. Godine, →ISBN, page 5:

Grab yourself a cold Lone Star longneck. Pop the top, take a swig, swish it around your mouth, savor the unique flavor. You’re enjoying the National Beer of Texas. Tastes like cowpiss cause it is cowpiss.

1986 October 10, “Naked Texan Meets Benito Mussolini”, in Catalyst, volume 20, number 4, Colorado Springs, Colo., page 18:

Rusi, nodding, was eating the froglegs happily enough — but he, of course, had drunk cowpiss just as willingly during our navjote.

1988, Boman Desai, “Froglegs”, in The Memory of Elephants, Chicago, Ill., London: The University of Chicago Press, published 2001, →ISBN, page 178:

[…]the virtues of drinking ‘cowpiss’ as an expurgative[…]

1990, Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London, page 153:

“Hang onto the boat,” Joe called back, and ran up the steep, stony path to where he’d parked, and there it was, clean as cowpiss, his red Chevy pickup hunkered down on four flats, with the valve stems lying around on the ground where someone’d dropped them.

1990, Vance Bourjaily, Old Soldier, New York, N.Y.: Donald I. Fine, Inc., →ISBN, page 148:

He picked up Vince’s abandoned Guinness and took a swig. “Jesus, that’s real cowpiss, isn’t it?[…]”

1992 July, Bridget McKenna, “A Little Night Music”, in Amazing Stories, volume LXVII, number 4 (whole 572), page 36:

“Esoteric? Don’t be talking, man. It’s plain as cowpiss. Half the world’s problems would go away if we all accepted God and, having accepted Him, admitted that we’d been looking for Him all along.”

1997, Roger Boylan, Killoyle, Dalkey Archive Press, published 1998, →ISBN, page 66:

They flipped through a Penthouse that Brandon had been carrying in his backpack as the mosquitoes buzzed around the muddy herd of cattle. Bugs skimmed across the murky water. They watched the sun set over the distant treeline in shining streaks of orange as cowpiss splashes sounded from behind them, and in the calming air of the dusk they relaxed silently as their sweat evaporated into the fading light.

2000, John McManus, “June 1989”, in Stop Breakin Down, New York, N.Y.: Picador USA, →ISBN, page 85:

Shadow-flit, / Ink-gleam and quill-shine, late now in the day / I need their likes, freshets and rivulets / Starting from nowhere, capillaries of joy / Frittered and flittering like the scimitar / Of cowpiss in the wind that David Thomson / Flashed on my inner eye from the murky byre / Where he imagined himself a cow let out in spring / Smelling green weed, up to his hips in grass.

2001, Seamus Heaney, “Late in the Day”, in Electric Light, New York, N.Y.: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 85:

“Hey—how about a snort of something good. Take a break from that cowpiss.” He brought a bottle of dark liquor from the cabin.

2003, Stuart Sheppard, Spindrift, Berkeley, Calif.: Creative Arts Book Company, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 204:

The water had been warm as cowpiss in the shallows but as the line squished forward the chill made me want to either get in or get out.

2010, Roger Alan Skipper, Bone Dogs, Berkeley, Calif.: Counterpoint, →ISBN, page 48:

But we signed that cowpiss agreement and now the bastard’s suing me.

2014, George Szanto, Whatever Lola Wants, Brindle & Glass, →ISBN, page 221:

He himself felt rough / (Because this lady had a cowpiss scent)

2018, The Collected Poems of Bertolt Brecht, translation of original by Bertolt Brecht:


leek-green

en-adj

leek-green (comparative more leek-green, superlative most leek-green)

more leek-green (comparative)
most leek-green (superlative)

Oat crops are for the most part leek-green and promising well; some of the brown oats are whitening to harvest, and on some farms (outlying) are in stook.

1927, The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, page 4, column 3:

leek-green:

Having a light green colour as that of the top part of a leek.


EWE

en-noun

EWE (countable and uncountable, plural EWEs)

A collective desire to explore some of the themes Rowling hadn't satisfactorily addressed helped fuel the development of hundreds of “Epilogue, What Epilogue?” (EWE) fanfics following the publication of Deathly Hallows.

2009, Peggy Lin Duthie, “The Potterverse and the Pulpits: Beyond Apologia and Bannings”, in Giselle Liza Anatol, editor, Reading Harry Potter Again: New Critical Essays, pages 45–46:

'EWE' (Epilogue-What Epilogue?) fics are similar to some AU stories in that they ignore the often-disliked epilogue of Rowling's Deathly Hallows, and instead create their own future of the Wizarding World.

2015, Amanda K. Allen, “Social Networking, Participatory Culture and the Fandom World of Harry Potter”, in Gail Ashton, editor, Medieval Afterlives in Contemporary Culture, page 280:

Bringing beloved characters back to life is one of the most recurrent elements of EWE fics, […]

2019, Beatriz Brito do Nascimento, "No heteros in this heterotopia: Harry Potter slash fanfiction as heterotopian space", dissertation submitted to the University of Porto, page 120

(Harry Potter fandom slang) Epilogue, What Epilogue?; a subgenre of Harry Potter fanfiction which pointedly ignores the epilogue of the final novel.


candy pink

candy pink (countable and uncountable, plural candy pinks)

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candy pink:


dark night

dark night of the soul
dark night of the soul#English

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see dark, night.


gigalightyear

(astronomy) A unit of a billion light years.


megalight-year

megalight-years (plural)
megalightyear (alternative)

(astronomy, physics) A unit of a million lightyears.


kilolightyear

(astronomy, physics) A unit of a thousand light years.


chocolate black

The Zebra moray is chocolate black with vertical white stripes.

2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, page 72:


Lahaina Noon

An occurrence in the tropics where the sun stands directly above the ground, leaving shadows directly below the objects casting them.


zombie fire

A wildfire that burns underground throughout the winter and reemerges during the fire season.


dirty blonde

en-adj

dirty blonde (comparative more dirty blonde, superlative most dirty blonde)

more dirty blonde (comparative)
most dirty blonde (superlative)
dirty blond (alternative)

dirty blond:

Of a dark blonde color bordering on light brown.


dirty blonde

en-noun

dirty blonde (countable and uncountable, plural dirty blondes)

dirty blondes (plural)
dirty blond (alternative)

A dark shade of blonde, bordering on light brown.


A variant of the British 999, originally selected as an appropriate number for rotary-dial telephones and adapted in New Zealand because the formatting on its pulse-dial system made 1 equivalent to 9 as processed by its British-made telecommunications equipment.

When you call 111 in New Zealand, the Spark operator usually answers the phone with "111 Emergency. Do you require fire, ambulance, or police?"

The telephone number for emergency services in New Zealand and Nauru.


The telephone number for emergency services in Mongolia.


fire regime

The general pattern of natural fire occurrence in a particular ecosystem over an extended period of time, with regards to such factors as frequency, intensity, size, season, severity, etc.


flash over

en-verb

flash over (third-person singular simple present flashes over, present participle flashing over, simple past and past participle flashed over)

flashes over (present singular third-person)
flashing over (participle present)
flashed over (participle past)
flashed over (past)

(intransitive) To undergo an unintended electric discharge or arc over or around an insulator.


lunar hay fever

From lunar + hay fever. From having symptoms like hay fever, but occurring due to encounters with lunar contaminants. Coined by Harrison Schmitt in 1972, Apollo 17 astronaut and geologist, to describe the condition already previously encountered by earlier crews, and by his crew.

(pathology, astronautics, Apollo Program, informal) A condition caused by irritation to the eyes, nose, throat, and lungs, from exposure to highly abrasive lunar dust.


counterermine

(heraldry) Alternative form of counter-ermine


Nantucket red

Nantucket red:

(US) A red colour tending towards pale rose or orange originally associated with preppy pants.


sun-synchronous orbit

en-noun

sun-synchronous orbit (plural sun-synchronous orbits)

(astrodynamics) A nearly polar orbit in which a satellite passes over the surface of a planet maintaining the same local mean solar time.


heliosynchronous orbit

heliosynchronous orbit (plural heliosynchronous orbits)

sun-synchronous orbit
sun-synchronous orbit

(astrodynamics) A sun-synchronous orbit.


blurple

blurple (countable and uncountable, plural blurples)

blurple:

(informal) A bluish-purple colour that is more blue than violet.


Mamie pink

Named for Mamie Eisenhower, who famously loved the shade and redecorated the White House in it, setting off a design trend in the 1950s.

Jackie was still suffering from a postpartum depression that left her drained of energy, but she and Sister worked nonstop through the morning, laying plans to obliterate all the “Mamie pink” and Grand Rapids furniture that dominated the upstairs Family Quarters.

1997, Edward Klein, All Too Human: The Love story of Jack and Jackie, page 461:

The shutters that swing from the windows are painted mottled shades of cream and Mamie pink, a powdery peach tone not seen since the Eisenhower administration (it appears the shutters have not been painted since then either).

2003, Adriana Trigiani, Lucia, Lucia, page 1:

First door, water closet. Added or renovated sometime in the late fifties, if she judged the Mamie pink and the fixtures correctly. Ugly as hell, but some people really liked that stuff.

2016, Cherie Priest, The Family Priest, page 49:

Mamie pink:

A light rosy pink colour with a slight orangish tinge.


Santa Fe pink

From the resemblance of the color to the stucco adobes of Santa Fe, New Mexico, and more generally from its prominence in the design of the American Southwest.

Here I was in a Santa Fe pink and green office, complete with a playpen so that Parsley, aged 4, and Love, aged 10, could be wheeled in for ‘bonding sessions’ with their producer father once a week.

1993, Wensley Clarkson, A Year in La La Land: Adventures of an Englishman in Los Angeles, page 124:

His office neatly mirrors his personality. All Santa Fe pink and coral green, it’s a painted-desert playpen, adorned with ceramic cacti, a hat rack with horns, and pencils shaped like twigs.

1993 March, Patrick Goldstein, “Catch a Wave & You're Sittin' on Top of the World”, in Premiere, page 74:

Though the Santa Fe pink-and-green interior and faux adobe may cause you to shake your head, the food gets a nod.

1995, Stuart Warren, Oregon Handbook, page 385:

Santa Fe pink:

Santa Fe, New Mexico
Southwestern United States


Southwestern pink

He caught up with Melody at the foot of the circular driveway, adjacent to the front of the Southwestern pink house.

2003, Lori Wolf, Parrot on a Limb, page 115:

Lost in a strip mall, Richard's surprises you with a bright atmosphere displaying traditional Southwestern pink and turquoise colors.

2011, James Bernard Frost, America's Southwest: The Best Organic Food Stores, Farmers' Markets & Vegetarian Restaurants, unnumbered page:

Southwestern-pink rocks and desert shrubs littered its courtyard.

2020, Rebecca Bender, In Pursuit of Love: One Woman’s Journey from Trafficked to Triumphant, page 124:


volcanic lightning

(volcanology, meteorology) Electrical discharge that occurs during a volcanic eruption, caused by a build-up of static electricity in colliding ejecta (such as ash and debris).


iron buff

A yellow ancient artificial iron oxide made by oxidating iron in vinegar, one of the oldest man-made pigments, often used in staining textiles.


ocean blue

ocean blue (countable and uncountable, plural ocean blues)


fire safety

Practices intended to prevent fires and reduce the destruction they cause.


firefall

From fire + fall, modelled on waterfall.

(historical) A summertime event held in Yosemite National Park from 1872 to 1968, in which burning hot embers were spilled from the top of Glacier Point to the valley below, giving the appearance of a glowing waterfall.


bisexual lighting

bisexual lighting (countable and uncountable, plural bisexual lightings)

/baɪˌsɛkʃʊəl ˈlaɪtɪŋ/

From bisexual (adjective) + lighting (noun), referring to the pink, purple, and blue colours of the bisexual flag (also known as the bisexual pride flag).

(LGBTQ, often art, film, television) The simultaneous use of pink, purple, and blue lighting, often to indicate bisexuality.


direct orange

direct orange (countable and uncountable, plural direct oranges)


tropical month

The average time for the Moon to pass twice through the same equinox point of the sky (27.32158 days).


lead white

Synonym of white lead, particularly as used in paints and the hue of such paints.


Nanna-Suen

(Mesopotamian mythology) Synonym of Nanna (god of the moon)


The telephone number for firefighting and emergency ambulance service in Singapore.


plasma globe

A particularly cool example of a plasma is one of those “Eye of the Storm” plasma globes.

2020, Don Lincoln, The Large Hadron Collider, Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN, page 198:

boule à plasma

spherical plasma lamp — see also plasma lamp


starfall

starfall (countable and uncountable, plural starfalls)

And how shall Philomel, by song oppressed, At starfall seek to lure me from my rest, When haply, lost in slumber, I may hear Young Cupid harping in that clovered breast?

1912, Norman Gale, Song in September, page 99:

It is quiet and fire of dreams, and at the last/The gathering from wild rushes at starfall/Their bed and weary sleep.

1921, Austin Clarke, The Sword of the West, Maunsel & Roberts, page 26:

While the Bedouin Carries the same tent Over deserts unlocalized, At starfall pitches in whatever Plot, home's continuance.

1964, Journal of the Viola Da Gamba Society of America, page 53:

Had I but told them my heart, told how it was Taunted at noon and pacified at dusk, at starfall midnight Strong in hope once more, ever in eagerness Jumping like joy, would they have heard?

1979, Delmore Schwartz, Robert S. Phillips, Last and Lost Poems of Delmore Schwartz, page 65:

(uncountable) Dark night; the time when stars become visible.


engine house

(firefighting) A building for housing a fire engine, a firehouse or fire station.


Madonna blue

No doubt it had a beauty all its own, but beneath its fantastic, isolated blooms and leaves of Madonna blue, the gnarled roots sheltered a hundred varieties of poisonous reptiles and insects.

1917 August, Cynthia Stockley, “Blue Aloes: The Strange Story of a Karoo Farm”, in Cosmopolitan, volume LXIII, number 3, page 30, column 1:

A little Dutch bonnet for the tiny girl is made of Madonna blue broadcloth.

1922, The Illustrated Milliner, page 57:

She was wearing a gown of Madonna blue and looked very fragile and ethereal.

1932, Agatha Christie, Peril at End House, page 85:

But now, in a few months’ time, the lease would be terminated, the owners were unwilling to renew it, and nowhere upon the Island could Reverend Mother find another vacant house large enough to house twenty female orphans; devout, happy little orphans who went to Mass on Sundays walking two by two, clothed in dresses of Madonna blue with white tuckers at the necks, blue cloaks, and black bonnets tied beneath their orphaned chins with neat blue bows.

1944, Elizabeth Goudge, Green Dolphin Street, New York, N.Y.: Coward-McCann, Inc., page 280:

Tanks would be filled and the sprayers would move through the frilly groves of vine, covering each leaf, wrapping each bunch of green grapes in a delicate web of Madonna blue.

1969, Gerald Durrell, Birds, Beasts and Relatives, London: Collins, page 236:

Twilight had fallen, of a pure Madonna blue.

1971, Nicolas Freeling, The Lovely Ladies, Harper & Row, page 87:

She was painted on the plaster, her halo and the cross in her hand picked out in gold leaf, her mermaid’s tail a grand sweep of Madonna blue, lilac, and deep sea-green.

2014, Shelley Adina, A Lady of Spirit (Magnificent Devices; book six), Moonshell Books, →ISBN:


bubble-pink

bubble pink:

The antechamber to the screening room is a bubble-pink gallery, compatible with Jeff Burton’s candylike C-prints that will hang there.

2001 July 13, Ellen Berkovitch, “Unfurling ‘Beau Monde’”, in The Santa Fe New Mexican, page 66:

“You look bored,” she said, with an overplayed moue on her bubble-pink lips.

2013, Steven Brust, Skyler White, The Incrementalists, New York, N.Y.: Tor Books, →ISBN:

Mermaidcore is one iteration of the style, with a focus on long, aquamarine or bubblepink hair.

2021 September 28, Priya Elan, “From minimalist to menocore! The 21 biggest style tribes of 2021”, in The Guardian:

Faced with metallic bubble-pink leather and designed with an elegant arch, they’ll satisfy any material girl.

2022 June 8, Gennady Oreshkin, “Some Like It Hot”, in Prestige Hong Kong:


pyroculture

pyroculture (countable and uncountable, plural pyrocultures)

pyrocultures (plural)
pyro-culture (alternative)

Furthermore, as pointed out earlier, traditional pyro-culture did not include the total destruction or removal of trees. Undisturbed tree roots served to bind soil particles together and to prevent sheet erosion. Traditional African farmers recognized that it is easier to restore nutrients to exhausted soils than to "rebuild" a soil after it has "collapsed" in physical terms (Lal & Greenland, 1979).

1991, Sam L. J. Page & Helán E. Page, "Western Hegemony over African Agriculture in Southern Rhodesia and its Continuing Threat to Food Security in Independent Zimbabwe", Agriculture and Human Values, Fall 1991, page 12

The colonization by the British initially was a relief to the Shona in that it enabled them to resume their original management practices for farming (pyro-culture) and natural resource use (slash and burn).

1999, Wybe Van Halsema, "Endogenous Development of Natural Resource Management in Communal Areas of Southern Zimbabwe: A Case Study Approach", dissertation submitted to the University of South Africa, page 117

Success depended on technologies or innovations such as shifting cultivation and pyro-culture (slash and burn), both of which were characterised by minimum disturbance of the soil (Manyanga, 2006), which in contemporary language could be minimum or zero-tillage.

2013, Collin Calvin Mabiza, "Integrated Water Resources Management, Institutions and Livelihoods Under Stress: Bottom-Up Perspectives from Zimbabwe", dissertation submitted to Delft University of Technology, page 99


controlled burn

controlled burn (plural controlled burns)

A wildfire or brushfire set intentionally and carefully managed for purposes of fire suppression, agriculture, ecological management, etc.


prescribed burn

prescribed burn (plural prescribed burns)


pyrocultural

en-adj

pyrocultural (comparative more pyrocultural, superlative most pyrocultural)

more pyrocultural (comparative)
most pyrocultural (superlative)

From pyro- + cultural or pyroculture + -al.

Reinterpreting early eyewitness accounts and visual records, Gammage enables the reader to ‘see’ what was once invisible: a land intentionally shaped by skilful pyrocultural interventions.

2020, Jeremy Walker, More Heat Then Life: The Tangled Roots of Ecology, Energy and Economics, page 61:

This first pyrocultural activity entailed the chemical reduction of ore minerals in charcoal-burning furnaces.

2016, Mike Leeder, Joy Lawlor, GeoBritannica: Geological Landscapes and the British Peoples:

Due to his ingenuity Homo learned to unleash the energy of wood by taming wild fire and stepped into the pyrocultural age.

2018, Johannes Deutsch, “Exploring energy related knowledge in technology and natural science education: Uncovering energy related understanding of students in the German federal state North Rhine-Westphalia at the end of lower secondary education”, in Marc J. de Vries et al., editors, Research in Technology Education: International Approaches, page 45:


pyrocentric

pyrocentric (comparative more pyrocentric, superlative most pyrocentric)

more pyrocentric (comparative)
most pyrocentric (superlative)

To Pythagoras himself has been frequently ascribed the idea of a pyrocentric Kosmos—with worlds revolving round a central sun—according to the Copernican, or, to speak more accurately, the Newtonian scheme.

1874, Bernard H. Becker, Scientific London, page 302:

Apollyon, who, as god of the sun, has a certain stake in the matter, teaches the Prior the truth of what the Greeks, Pythagoras' disciples, knew many years before— the nature of the heliocentric (or pyrocentric) planetary system.

1967, Gerald Cornelius Monsman, Pater's Portraits: Mythic Pattern in the Fiction of Walter Pater, pages 187–188:

All the same, some 2000 years later Copernicus would refer to Philolaus' pyrocentric world model for support of the idea that the Earth is a circularly moving planet.

2007, Helge S. Kragh, Conceptions of Cosmos: From Myths to the Accelerating Universe: A History of Cosmology, page 16:

(astronomy, history) Of or relating to the Pythagorean astronomical system, which posited that the Earth, Moon, Sun, and planets orbit an invisible "Central Fire".

The result of that sojourn was a book called The Ice, a meditation on the planet's southernmost continent which—from Pyne's admittedly pyrocentric viewpoint—is also one of the few nearly fireless places, oceans aside, on the face of the earth.

1991, William Cronon, "Forward: Eucalypt History", in Stephen J. Pyne, Burning Bush: A Fire History of Australia (1998 ed.), page x

In contrast, the pyrocentric hypothesis holds that fire is a major consumer shaping the patterns, structure, and composition of vegetation.

2019, William J. Bond, Open Ecosystems: Ecology and Evolution Beyond the Forest Edge, page 100:

The prominent scholar of fire, Stephen Pyne (2018) argues we are pyrophilic creatures, immersed in pyrocentric civilisations whose 'new combustion regime based on fossil biomass' has resulted in a pyric transition that has not only shaped our technologies, mobility and habitation patterns, but also our values and relationships with landscapes.

2020, Jason Alexandra, “Burning Bush and Disaster Justice in Victoria, Australia: Can Regional Planning Prevent Brushfires Becoming Disasters?”, in Anna Lukasiewicz, Claudia Baldwin, editors, Natural Hazards and Disaster Justice: Challenges for Australia and Its Neighbours, page 77:

Centering fire as a key force in nature, civilization, etc.


Parliamentary green

A green colour used by the House of Commons.


Parliamentary red

A red colour used by the House of Lords.


Kremnitz white

From confusion of Kremnitz in Austria-Hungary (now Kremnica, Slovakia) with Krems, Austria, the actual location of the galena mines that previously produced exceptionally pure white lead.

Synonym of French white (“an especially pure form of lead oxide, particularly as used for paints.”)


dragonflame

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The records of the battle speak only of rolling smoke and of dragonflame mixed with the white fire of the three Ancients.

1981 November, David J[ames] Ritchie, “A History of the Third Fomorian War: The Last Struggle and Decline of the Sidh in Albion”, in Ares, number 11, New York, N.Y.: Simulations Publications, Inc., section “The Great Worm”, page 7, column 2:

She felt her skin pop and eyes melt in the blast of dragonflame, and the snapping of her bones as his teeth skewered her—

1985, Dave Smeds, The Sorcery Within, New York, N.Y.: Ace Fantasy Books, →ISBN, page 272:

Already weakened by blasts of dragonflame, the dome cracked under the force of impact, and a moment later half of it came tumbling down, crushing both dragon and dragonslayers under tons of broken stone and rubble.

2013, George R[aymond] R[ichard] Martin, “The Princess and the Queen, or, The Blacks and the Greens”, in George R. R. Martin, Gardner Dozois, editors, Dangerous Women, New York, N.Y.: Tor Books, →ISBN, pages 765–766:


dragonfire

“Spurs!” Imbri sent in a dream like a blast of dragonfire. “Hotter than the breath of Baal, your thought! But I don’t use the spurs, once my steed is tame,” he argued.

1982, Piers Anthony, Night Mare, New York, N.Y.: Del Rey Books, page 100:

With a roar of dragonfire something enormous blazed by overhead, as if the Moon itself were dropping onto us.

1982, Mike Scott Rohan, Run to the Stars, Arrow Books, →ISBN, page 14:

At the same time, it made me desperate to get to Ember. To get us all out of here and find someplace safe before the world exploded in a hellstorm of dragonfire.

2017, Julie Kagawa, Legion, HQ, →ISBN, page 210:


pyrodiverse

pyrodiverse (comparative more pyrodiverse, superlative most pyrodiverse)

more pyrodiverse (comparative)
most pyrodiverse (superlative)

(ecology) Of an environment or ecosystem, subject to variation in the kinds of fire experienced, whether produced by natural conditions or controlled burning.


lunarcrete

Blend of lunar + concrete, equivalent to lunar + -crete.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


Luna City

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

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


smoke diver

Secondly, the fire detectors will immediately call the fire extinguishing crew who have at their disposal smoke diver equipment and extinguishing material.

1952, Ingeniørvidenskabelige skrifter, page 62:

He wasn't just satisfied to be a firefighter, he [became a] smoke diver as well. He also wanted to be a fire chief.

This was one of three drills experienced firefighters from across the nation had to complete Tuesday as part of a weeklong training course to become certified as smoke divers.

2012 November 14, Joy Lukachick Smith, “Rigorous Smoke Diver training challenges firefighters in Dalton”, in Chattanooga Times Free Press:

A smoke diver is considered an “interior attack firefighter” specially trained to carry out rescues and extinguish flames while wearing a self-contained breathing apparatus.

2020 July 23, Mark Webber, “Smoke Diver: Gruner completes challenging course in emergency response and disaster training”, in The Republic:

A firefighter with breathing apparatus who enters smoke-filled rooms and buildings (to search, rescue, and extinguish).


mooncrete

Blend of moon + concrete, equivalent to moon + -crete.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


moonship

moonships (plural)
moon ship (alternative)
moon-ship (alternative)

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The space agency has requested the Lockheed Missiles & Space Co. to develop a method for controlling trace contaminants inside a spacecraft. […] Unlike the Earth's atmosphere, the air inside a moonship doesn't get cleaned by rains or winds.

1969 November, Arthur Fisher, “Science Newsfront: Last-minute news and notes to keep you up-to-date”, in Popular Science, volume 195, number 5, pages 22–24:

Other kits were for making aeroplanes, one a scale model of the Scandinavian Air Lines Douglas D.C.-8 which was expected to make the first flight from Britain to Los Angeles in April 1960. There was also a moonship of a type which the firm said will eventually reach the moon: all of which goes to show that sometimes toys precede the actual event and are not necessarily mementoes which come afterwards.

1971, Gwen White, Antique Toys And Their Background, page 144:

(astronautics, science fiction) A spaceship designed for travelling to the Moon.


bee violet

en-noun

bee violet (countable and uncountable, plural bee violets)

Karl von Frisch discovered that honey bees can see six colors—blue, blue-green, yellow, bee purple, ultraviolet, and bee violet.

2010, Martha Scott, Honey Bee, Where Are You?:

To a bee, it is a carelessly formed, perhaps Impressionistic world in which movement carries great meaning and in which the richness of color is extended to endow two flowers, each an insipid white to us, with radically different shades of "bee-violet."

2013, Arthur C. Giese, Photophysiology, page 79:

A color visible to bees that has a frequency of about 400 mμ, spanning a portion of the spectrum that covers violet blue through the lower frequencies of the ultraviolet range.


light barrier

On the grounds that special relativity predicts that no object can travel faster than light. Compare sound barrier.

The speed of light, seen as a barrier to faster-than-light travel.


smoke diving

Mr. Phillips in his letter appears to confound the smoke respirator of Mr. Roberts, with the "smoke diving apparatus" of the late Mr. Deane (patented by him in 1823), which has for some time past been most successfully employed by the firemen of the London Fire Brigade

1849, Wm. Baddley, Mechanics Magazine, volume 50 (letter), page 7:

According to the questionnaire, the most demanding fire-fighting and rescue tasks on physical work capacity in terms of cardio-respiratory capacity, muscular performance and motor coordination were smoke-diving, which requires the use of full personal protective equipment, clearing tasks with heavy manual tools, and roof work, respectively.

1997, Åsa Kilbom, Nordic Research on the Elderly Workforce, page 33:

This advanced course covers smoke diving, tactical control, organised control of smoke divers and search and rescue.

2001, Lloyd's Ship Manager: LSM, page 40:

Fire-fighting work that requires the use of protective equipment resembling that used by marine divers.


globe lightning

globe lightning (usually uncountable, plural globe lightnings)


globular lightning

globular lightning (usually uncountable, plural globular lightnings)


regal purple

regal purple (countable and uncountable, plural regal purples)


Barbie pink

Barbie pink (countable and uncountable, plural Barbie pinks)

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From the trademarked color used in the packaging and branding of the fashion doll Barbie.

OK, so now I was standing back from it, I appreciated that it was a bit splotchy and would definitely need a second coat of paint to get rid of the Barbie pink trying to shine through.

2006, Karen McCombie, Friends, Freak-outs and Very Secret Secrets, page 117:

Sandra said she had decided on Barbie pink as her color.

2010, Jillian Conley, Maid of Honor, page 37:

Barbie pink:


Barbie pink

en-adj

Barbie pink (comparative more Barbie pink, superlative most Barbie pink)

more Barbie pink (comparative)
most Barbie pink (superlative)

The only catch was that mine had a Barbie pink interior - not really my sort of thing at all, but to be honest, by this time it was the last of my worries.

2004, Jimmy Doherty, On the Farm, page 24:


lightning storm

en-noun

lightning storm (plural lightning storms)


helitack

A member of a team of wildland firefighters who are transported by helicopter to fight a fire.


helispot

(US) A designated location near a fire where it is safe for firefighters' helicopters to land and take off.


bucket line

Synonym of bucket brigade (“line of people involved in firefighting”)


mousy brown

en-adj

mousy brown (comparative more mousy brown, superlative most mousy brown)

more mousy brown (comparative)
most mousy brown (superlative)

mousy brown:

(of hair) Of a light brunette color with cool, greyish tones.


benthic black

en-noun

benthic black (countable and uncountable, plural benthic blacks)

benthic black:


owl bus

A bus that operates late at night, a night bus.


abyssopelagic water

abyssopelagic water (countable and uncountable, plural abyssopelagic waters)

abyssopelagic water:


endless galaxy

endless galaxy (countable and uncountable, plural endless galaxies)

endless galaxy:


alone in the dark

alone in the dark (countable and uncountable, plural alone in the darks)

alone in the dark:


Scotch blue

Scotch blue:


Scotch blue

But there was no mistaking those eyes of hers, Scotch blue and uncompromisingly direct in their gaze.

1919, B.M. Bower, chapter 9, in Rim o' the World:


midnight in Tokyo

midnight in Tokyo:


Duke blue

Duke blue (countable and uncountable, plural Duke blues)

Duke blue:


Vantablack

Vantablack (countable and uncountable, plural Vantablacks)

From VANTA (“vertically aligned carbon nanotube array”) + black.

af

(uncountable) A class of super-black coatings that absorb almost all light.

Vantablack:


black glaze

en-noun

black glaze (countable and uncountable, plural black glazes)

black glaze:


angel fingers

(firefighting) Tongues of flame that are a sign of impending rollover.


accountant's lamp

accountant's lamp (plural accountant's lamps or accountants' lamps)

accountant's lamps (plural)
accountants' lamps (plural)

Spencer has left the door to his study open. I turn on the green accountant's lamp. A thousand times I have come into this room, but never with the intent of finding something.

2003, Jodi Picoult, Second Glance, Atria Books export edition, Atria Books, published 2007, →ISBN, page 237:


sunwing

The common-wall opening was left uncovered, but the chill from the sunwing during cold nights was so noticeable that we decided to install pocket doors and insulate the remainder of the wall. Foss thus created a buffered sunwing, an addition outside the thermal envelope of the house.

Many of the hard-earned lessons of the solar home industry are being brought to bear on sunwing design.

1990, James Lawrence, The Harrowsmith Country Life Reader, page 58:

(rare) A solar greenhouse, sun porch or solarium added as an extension to a building, in order to provide a space that captures heat from sunlight.

While we still had the giant sunwings we traveled the world, exploring other continents from the air.

2003, Sean Mcmullen, Eyes of the Calculor:

Slowly, on parallel tracks into the breeze, the sunwings rolled off.

(science fiction) A wing or extension designed to capture energy from sunlight.

A thousand random fragrances of morn Float from lush solitudes and leafy dells, While summer's sunwings rest on lake and tree.

1910, William Dowsing, Sheffield Vignettes: A Series of Sonnets, page 3:

A boy awakening under a plane-tree Whose bark peels every grade of green, With sunwings winking in-between?

1984, Francis Scarfe, Grounds for Conceit, page 8:


lightning never strikes twice

An allusive shortening of lightning never strikes twice in the same place, usually used figuratively.


en-proverb

lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place

lightning never strikes twice in the same place#English

Alternative form of lightning never strikes twice in the same place


ravenette

He was caught off guard by the ravenette leaping into his arms, his wide eyes softening at the sobs reaching his ears.

2010, Ashley M. Carter, Devilry Hunters, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN, page 84:

The green eyed ravenette grabbed Capgras’ bottle of Powers off the bar, raised it over her head and brought it down with a crash.

2012 fall/winter, Matt Fountain, “Holiday in Chesterport”, in Holiday Guide, San Luis Obispo, Calif.: New Times Media Group, page 53:

The moment his hand came in contact, the ravenette’s body twitched greatly as his face twisted in pain.

2014, The Chatman Sisters [i.e., Shellyta, Lora, Jessyka, and Zoe], Gifted Chains: Unlocked Beginnings, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN, page 71:

“That's my boss lady. Smart, strong, and super sexy,” he said, giving the ravenette an exaggerated wink.

2018, Brandon Varnell, Enclave (The Executioner Series; 3), [s.l.]: Kitsune Incorporated, →ISBN, →OCLC:

The ravenette smiled. Today was her little sister’s birthday, and what better way to commemorate than eating salad brimmed with the freshest of fruits. Following Tala, Amihan felt her heart sore. Luscious short brown hair, almond-shaped eyes, gleaming smiles, there is no one as extravagant as her beloved, Bagwis.

2020 September, Darcy Encarnacion, “When It Falls”, in Scribbles, volume 1, number 1, Manila: De La Salle University Writers’ Guild, page 14:

(rare) A raven-haired person (especially a woman).


deuterium bottleneck

(cosmology) A critical stage in the early universe's nucleosynthesis process, in which the temperature was high enough for many photons to have energy greater than the binding energy of deuterium; therefore any deuterium that was formed was immediately destroyed.


Moonite

(science fiction) An inhabitant of the Moon.


vampire time

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In the night, in the smoky smoky night: vampire time. Rebop syncopate do the dirty bop, request "Sixty-Minute Man," hear the Shammies, sing the song.

1981, Beverly Lowry, Daddy's Girl, page 164:

The stars were twinkling on, and the moon rising. Vampire time, the beginning of the night.

It's summer vampire time, 3:47 a.m., and I'm dancing, listening to "Ragas on Slide Guitar" on the CD player.

2005, Maggie Jaffe, Esther Rodriguez, Roque Dalton Redux: An Anthology of Poetry & Prose, page 60:

(informal) Night; the time when there is no sunlight.

In vampire time Aleya had not really been around that long, but the sound, the scent, the routines that were uniquely her were missing. He missed her.

2010, Oliver Bonewits, Of Blood And Magic - A Vampire's Story, page 215:

Ah, she was young in real time or vampire time?

2016, Kathryn Meyer Griffith, The Last Vampire, page 214:

Such elaborate patterning is made possible by vampire time and enables both stasis – the male vampire's desire for his true love remains unchanged over the years – and change – the object of that love may actually change as it is switched from one female to another.

2016, Lorna Jowett, Kevin Robinson, David Simmons, Time on TV, page 130:

He was younger than Nikolai by a few hundred years which, in vampire time, was not that much.

2020, Isadora Brown, The Vampire's Executioner:

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see vampire, time.

Time, when considered relative to a vampire's immortal lifespan.

Even before this verbal utterance, the clock strikes one, the lonely caretaker looks up, the bats fly through the trees, a shrouded figure glides across the rooftops, and a scream is heard. These events tell the audience, "Boy it sure is vampire time tonight ! "

1976, CinemaTexas Program Notes, page 75:

Sooner or later, it would be vampire time for her.

2009, Susan Squires, Time For Eternity, page 3:

Finally it was the vampires turn to attack. […] It was vampire time now.

2011, Nick Armbrister, “Finland Station Soviet Style”, in Heart of the Country Short Story Collection, page 51:

The problem is that this was supposed to be my vampire time, not Cousin Carlo time. I don't suppose you know of any Italian vampires?

2018, Katie Macalister, The Vampire Always Rises:

Vampire time! Know thy enemy. Out with the cross, in with the steaks, and all that stuff.

2018, Craig Steele, Time's Up. She's Breaking the Ice, page 203:

The time at which one encounters a vampire.


Turkey blue

en-adj

Turkey blue (comparative more Turkey blue, superlative most Turkey blue)

more Turkey blue (comparative)
most Turkey blue (superlative)

From the manner of preparing indigo practiced in the Ottoman Empire ("Turkey"). Doublet of turquoise blue.


octarine

See octa-, -ine. Coined by author Terry Pratchett for his Discworld series.

[…] colors like octarine, the eighth color, an elusive spectral mix that's hard to describe and impossible to perceive. That's the thing about color. Try describing a rainbow or a sunset to a blind person or ask a synesthete[…]

2010 January 14, Peter Morville, Jeffery Callender, Search Patterns: Design for Discovery, "O'Reilly Media, Inc.", →ISBN, page 13:

Back in ScienceFictionaLand, octarine is the color of magic, an animating force in the Diseworld series by Terry Pratchett. A fluorescent, greenish-yellow purple, octarine can only be detected by wizards and cats.

2013 September 17, Jude Stewart, ROY G. BIV: An Exceedingly Surprising Book About Color, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, →ISBN, page 129:

Another way of looking at the magical character customization option [in which players choose their color] is that it allows players to find their own octarine, the color of their own magical self in Peter Carroll's vision of things. Octarine is a fictitious eighth color of magic invented by Terry Prachett in his novel The Colour of Magic and later used by occultist Peter Carroll in Liber Kaos to describe the color of a magician's rebellious, mischievous sorcerous self[…]

2014 April 22, Jeff Howard, Game Magic: A Designer's Guide to Magic Systems in Theory and Practice, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 177:

Octarine, the color of magic, glows from your finished pages.

2017 April 25, Terry Pratchett, Terry Pratchett's Discworld Coloring Book, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 3:

The eight types of magic can be attributed to the seven classical planets, plus Uranus for octarine. […] Following Prachett's hypothesis (and many a useful thing is said in jest), the eighth color of the spectrum, which is the magician's personal perception of the color of magic, may be called octarine. […]

2023 July 3, Peter J. Carroll, Liber Kaos: Chaos Magic for the Pandaemonaeon (Revised and Expanded Edition), Weiser Books, →ISBN, page 87:

(chiefly fiction) The color of magic, a notional extra color distinct from the colors of the rainbow / normal visible light spectrum, which is said (chiefly in certain fiction but also by some occultists) to be visible to users of magic.


slate white

Synonym of white lead, particularly as used in paints.


Berlin white

From its supposed origin in Berlin, Germany.

Synonym of French white (“an especially pure form of white lead, particularly as used in paints”)


Nottingham white

From its supposed origin in Nottingham, England.


Vienna white

From its supposed origin in Vienna, Austria.


Crems white

(dated) Alternative form of Krems white.


Krems white

A calque of German Kremsweiss, from its original production from exceptionally pure white lead produced by galena mines near Krems, Austria.

Crems white (alternative)
Kremser white (alternative)
Kremnitz white (alternative)
Cremnitz white (alternative)

Synonym of French white (“an especially pure form of white lead, particularly as used in painting”)


Descartes Highlands

A region on the Moon. Apollo 16 landed there.


crow-black

For quotations using this term, see Citations:crow-black.

Jet-black, raven, as black as the feathers of a crow.


Venetian white

(chiefly historical) Synonym of Venetian ceruse.


kobicha

For quotations using this term, see Citations:kobicha.

A dark, orangish or grayish brown color historically used in Japan.


bunker out

en-verb

bunker out (third-person singular simple present bunkers out, present participle bunkering out, simple past and past participle bunkered out)

bunkers out (present singular third-person)
bunkering out (participle present)
bunkered out (participle past)
bunkered out (past)

(slang, firefighting, intransitive) To suit up in firefighting gear.


yellow-orange

en-adj

yellow-orange (comparative more yellow-orange, superlative most yellow-orange)

more yellow-orange (comparative)
most yellow-orange (superlative)

yellow-orange:

web yellow-orange:


arrest-me-red

arrest-me-red (comparative more arrest-me-red, superlative most arrest-me-red)

more arrest-me-red (comparative)
most arrest-me-red (superlative)
arrest-me red (alternative)
arrest me red (alternative)

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Suggesting that vehicles painted bright red are more likely to attract the attention of law enforcement.

Since buying the town house on the other side of the clinic, he had enjoyed that rarest of New York rarities, an honest-to-goodness private garage, and he had celebrated by buying a brand-new arrest-me-red Ferrari.

1990, Judith Gould, Never Too Rich, New York, N. Y.: Penguin Group, published 1991 November, →ISBN, page 235:

(humorous, chiefly of a motor vehicle) Of a bright red colour.


apple red

en-noun

apple red (countable and uncountable, plural apple reds)

apple reds (plural)
apple-red (alternative)

apple red:

bright apple red:

A dark red color with a light tint of purplish-red, like that of a Red Delicious apple.


optic yellow

optic yellow (countable and uncountable, plural optic yellows)

optic yellow:

A greenish-yellow color similar to a very bright chartreuse; the standard color for tennis balls in televised matches.


fog out

en-verb

fog out (third-person singular simple present fogs out, present participle fogging out, simple past and past participle fogged out)

fogs out (present singular third-person)
fogging out (participle present)
fogged out (participle past)
fogged out (past)

(transitive, firefighting) To ventilate a space by breaking open a window to let smoke out.


spider lightning

One evening while working, Michael Peterson found himself staring at an enormous spider. But Peterson, a remote sensing scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory, wasn’t looking at a critter of the eight-legged variety. Instead the form crawling across his screen was a monstrous flash of so-called spider lightning—a twisting network of light stretching hundreds of miles across stormy skies. The events highlighted in this latest study are what’s known as spider lightning. While you may envision lightning as largely vertical, spider lightning races horizontally through the clouds.

2019 August 22, Maya Wei-Haas, “Record-breaking lightning as long as Kansas spotted”, in National Geographic:

Very long flashes of lightning (tens or sometimes hundreds of kilometers long) that travel horizontally across the sky, tapping extensive pools of electrical charge in the clouds, particular once a CG (cloud-to-ground) channel is established.


drafting site

If you don’t have a drafting site, but you do have an accessible creek, is it possible to build an impoundment on the creek for fire water supply?

2012 March 1, “Drafting Tools & Techniques”, in FirefighterNation, Fairlawn, New Jersey: Clarion Fire & Rescue Group, retrieved 2024-11-01:

Conditions at the drafting site, however, were less than ideal, which forced the engine companies to violate some of the basic guidelines of drafting.

2017 November 1, “Urban Drafting Operations at a Chemical Warehouse Fire”, in Fire Engineering, Fairlawn, New Jersey: Clarion Fire & Rescue Group, retrieved 2024-11-01:

(firefighting) A designated location for a firefighter to draw or pump water out of a natural source, such as a lake or river.

Saugstelle

designated location for a firefighter to draw water out of a natural source


third shift

Near-synonyms: graveyard shift (often synonymous), night shift (often synonymous)

A regularly scheduled period of work, being the third one in the standard working day of any particular company: usually the third of three (with 24/3 = 8 hours long), usually at night, and usually from midnight to 8:00 a.m.

A group of workers who work during this time slot.


first shift

Near-synonym: day shift (often synonymous)

A regularly scheduled period of work, being the first one in the standard working day of any particular company: usually during the day; often the first of three (with 24/3 = 8 hours long), and often from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.; sometimes the first of two, and sometimes with other time values.


Jablochkoff candle

Yablochkov candle
Yablochkov candle#English


Selenian

(chiefly science fiction) An inhabitant of the Moon.


brat green

en-noun

brat green (countable and uncountable, plural brat greens)

brat greens (plural)
brat-green (alternative)
Brat green (alternative)

Named after Brat (2024), a studio album by English singer Charli XCX. The album's cover art features a lime green square with the title in lowercase imposed in Arial font (see image). Compare brat (“characteristic of a confident and assertive woman”).

brat green:

Brat green is taking the world by storm. The trend was set in motion by the singer Charli xcx—whose new album brat is brought to life by a specific shade of slime green—it was always going to be just a matter of time before the mood reached our fingertips.

2024 June 27, Hannah Coates, “brat Green is the Mani Shade of The Moment”, in Vogue:

As her brother stood and cheered and shouted and wept, Hope Walz sat teary-eyed beside him, making a Taylor Swift–like heart with her hands. Her nails, I saw, were painted a very specific shade: brat green.

2024 August 22, Stephanie McNeal, “A Moment for Hope Walz and Her Brat-Green Nails at the DNC”, in Glamour:

There would be no BRAT without brat green. The color heard 'round the world this summer will undoubtedly be the biggest theme of dress at the SWEAT Tour. My biggest piece of advice for nailing this look: Get the shade right.

2024 September 14, Heath Owens, “What to Wear to Charli xcx & Troye Sivan's Tour If You Wanna 'SWEAT'”, in Cosmopolitan:


brat green

en-adj

brat green (comparative more brat green, superlative most brat green)

more brat green (comparative)
most brat green (superlative)
brat-green (alternative)
Brat green (alternative)

Manicurist Eri Narita was behind the brat-green French tips seen at Vogue World, and revealed that her initial inspiration was the greens found in and around a tennis court, from the grass to the balls.

[see title]

Having a dark, vibrant lime green colour.


flame lamp

A type of filament lamp in which the bulb's shape resembles a flame.


cadmium orange

a pigment composed of a solution of cadmium selenide and cadmium sulfide.


Sea of Moscow

A calque of translingual Mare Muscoviensis (literally “Muscovian Sea”), from New Latin Mare Muscoviensis, from Latin mare (“sea”) + Latin Muscoviensis (“Muscovian, of Muscovy”)

affix

(planetology) A basin in the Moon, orbiting the Earth, in the Solar System.


butter yellow

en-noun

butter yellow (countable and uncountable, plural butter yellows)

butter yellows (plural)
butter-yellow (alternative)

The year’s defining color is hiding in plain sight. Butter yellow (yes, the pastel between canary and beige) has been on the rise for the past few years, and we’ve seen it splashed across enough recent runways and style influencers to finally make a call: The soft, silky shade is about to go supernova.

2024 February 22, Jake Henry Smith, “Butter Yellow Will Be Everywhere This Year—Here’s How to Style It”, in Glamour:

(organic chemistry) An azo dye with the formula C₆H₅N₂C₆H₄N(CH₃)₂, used as a food additive in butter and margarine before its toxicity was recognized.


butter yellow

en-adj

butter yellow (comparative more butter yellow, superlative most butter yellow)

more butter yellow (comparative)
most butter yellow (superlative)
butter-yellow (alternative)

Don’t be afraid to invest in a cute spring dress, a high-end bag, or a pair of loafers; the shade isn’t going away anytime soon. Shop some of our favorite butter yellow pieces (for every season, mind you) below.


snapwood

dry, brittle wood that can be easily broken by hand, which is useful as firewood.


fire site

Colletti said having safety officers at fill and dump sites is a good idea because in most shuttle scenarios, everyone is rushing and in a hurry to get water to the fire site as quickly as possible, sometimes throwing caution to the wind.

2017 May 19, Ed Ballam, “Rural Water Supply for Fire Supression Is an Art Form”, in Firehouse, Nashville, Tennessee: Endeavor Business Media, retrieved 2024-11-01:

One of the key components of most water-shuttle operations is the use of dump tanks to hold water at the fire site for the initial pumpers to draw water from.

2014 March 1, “A Water-Shuttle & Drafting Drill”, in FirefighterNation, Fairlawn, New Jersey: Clarion Fire & Rescue Group, retrieved 2024-11-01:


fill site

The most important attribute of a fill site is a substantial and accessible water supply. Without a water source able to support fireground operations, a fill site is of little value.

2021 October 1, Andrew Corselli, “Highway Hydraulics: Main Street to Country Roads, Part 3: Routing and Fill Sites”, in Fire Apparatus & Emergency Equipment, Fairlawn, New Jersey: Clarion Fire & Rescue Group, retrieved 2024-11-01:


filling site

Water shuttles involve a process in which tankers deliver their load of water to the emergency scene (the dump site), travel to a filling site, reload with water, and then return to the emergency scene to dump again.

2003, Safe Operation of Fire Tankers, Emmitsburg, Maryland: United States Fire Administration, retrieved 2024-11-01, page 97:


winter blue

en-noun

winter blue (countable and uncountable, plural winter blues)

A blue colour reminiscent of the icy weather of winter.


summer yellow

summer yellow (countable and uncountable, plural summer yellows)

A bright yellow colour reminiscent of summer.


summer yellow

Of a bright yellow colour reminiscent of summer.


autumn orange

autumn orange (countable and uncountable, plural autumn oranges)

An orange color reminiscent of fallen leaves in autumn.


fall orange

fall orange (countable and uncountable, plural fall oranges)


surround and drown

Firefighting carried out from the exterior of the burning structure.


flameover

flameover (countable and uncountable, plural flameovers)


fire shirt

A lightweight fire-resistant shirt worn by firefighters.


left-handed smoke shifter

left-handed smoke shifter (plural left-handed smoke shifters)

A fictional item, the subject of a fool's errand among firefighters.


fire barn

A fire station, originally one with a stable for horses.


jumping-sheet

A sheet held by a group of firefighters down to which people can jump from a burning structure.


FFFP

Initialism of film-forming fluoroprotein (“type of foam used in firefighting”).


VEIS

Initialism of vent, enter, isolate, search (“a firefighting and rescue strategy”).


burning index

A number describing the potential amount of effort needed to contain a single fire of a particular fuel type within a certain area.


fire camp

A temporary camp established near a large fire to provide facilities to the firefighters.


pencil ladder

A kind of narrow collapsible ladder used by firefighters.


burn building

A structure built to be set on fire to train firefighters.


turnout pants

(Canada, US) A firefighter's protective pants (trousers).


dry chemical

A fluidized and siliconized monoammonium phosphate powder used in firefighting.


spike camp

A remote fire camp with limited facilities.


brush truck

A small fire engine equipped for wildland firefighting.


fuelbreak

A point where a natural or artificial change in fuel characteristics reduces the spread of a fire.


primary fire

Coordinate term: secondary fire

(UK) A major fire, generally occurring in a building or vehicle and involving rescues or fatalities.


secondary fire

Coordinate term: primary fire

(UK) A minor fire, generally outdoors and not harming people or damaging property.


still alarm

The notification of a fire without sounding a fire alarm, for example by telephone.


trash line

A short hose used to put out trash fires or in other situations where a longer hose would be unwieldy.


life net

A portable net for catching people as they fall or jump from a burning structure.


hose jacket

(firefighting) A device that clamps around a burst or leaking portion of hose.


Thornton's rule

The observation that each kilogram of oxygen used in the combustion of common organic materials results in the release of 13.1 megajoules of energy.


light orange

light orange (countable and uncountable, plural light oranges)

From Middle English [Term?], equivalent to light + orange.

Coordinate term: dark orange


preconnect

It is impractical to calculate rate of flow at the time of the fire. If the fire compartment is larger than two standard preconnects can extinguish, or if the fuel load will create a fire situation beyond the control […]

2020, Bernard "Ben" J. Klaene, Thomas C. Lakamp, Structural Firefighting (page 84)

(firefighting) A hose with one end ready connected to a pump outlet.


NYFD

The kids' costumes thus evoke their reallife costumic counterparts, the hundreds of thousands of NYPD and NYFD t-shirts and other memorabilia sold immediately after 9/11, […]

2011, Véronique Bragard, Christophe Dony, Warren Rosenberg, Portraying 9/11, page 18:

Nesh Pillay said she put on her wedding dress in the salon, a fire department chaplain threw a NYFD jacket over her shoulder and then escorted the trio to City Hall Park. The chaplain herself officiated.

2016 February 5, Ray Sanchez, “New York City crane collapse leaves 1 dead, 3 injured”, in CNN:


firestream

firestreams (plural)
fire stream (alternative)

The fireman on the right of the nozzle is the director of the firestream. Two firemen can handle all ordinary nozzle pressures […]

1934, Robert Bolton Rogers, The Standard Drill Manual, page 62:

(firefighting) The stream of water or foam used to extinguish a fire.


hose bridge

(firefighting) A device laid over a hose so that vehicles can pass over it without pinching or damaging it.


LACES

(firefighting) Acronym of lookouts, anchor points, communications, escape routes, safety zones.


flash fuel

(firefighting) Any natural forest material, such as grass or pine needles, that ignites easily and burns quickly.


chocolate-brown

The family feeling was intensified as we stopped to speak to mothers in the cottage gardens, or waved to distant tractors turning over chocolate-brown furrows and driven by 'my dad' or 'my Uncle Bob'.

1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 217:

Synonym of chocolate, a deep brown colour.


verded

From Late Middle English uerd (“the colour green”) (c. 1450), later verd (“green, verdancy”) (1603).

The verded fields stretched as far as the eye could see.


cadmium green

cadmium green (countable and uncountable, plural cadmium greens)

A vivid green pigment which is a mixture of cadmium yellow and viridian