cyberbook

The reader, the cyberbook, costs, say, $200. The wafers cost pennies. The reader, the human, is thus ever after buying a handful of wafers instead of books […]

1972, John Wood Campbell, Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact:

Bookshelves ran up to the ceiling along two walls, and a third wall had shelves full of video disks and cyberbook chips […]

Probably the day is not far off when a three-dimensional cyberbook can begin to effectively chart this web of contacts […]

2005, Michael A Winkelman, Marriage relationships in Tudor political drama:

(science fiction) A digital or electronic equivalent of a book.


cyberdeck

From cyber- + deck, coined by American-Canadian speculative fiction writer William Gibson in 1984 in his novel Neuromancer.

coin

More than twelve hours had passed since the decker had touched the cyberdeck keyboard.

1991, Robert N Charrette, John Zeleznik, Joel Biske, Find Your Own Truth:

...then the interface that provides the experience — say, a cyberdeck — becomes a quantifiable metric of human experience as well as a commodity.

2002, Veronica Hollinger, Joan Gordon, Edging Into the Future:

...people fused either temporarily or permanently with machinery (by brain implants, by jacking in to the cyberdeck, etc.)...

2003, Karen Haber, Exploring the Matrix:

...a glove with silver metallic weaving and a black cord that was connected to his cyberdeck.

(science fiction) A piece of equipment that can be temporarily connected to the user's brain as an interface to cyberspace.


unity of time

(theater, literature) The classical unity stating that the action of a play should take place over no more than twenty-four hours.


thick space

From thick + space. First use appears c. 1683 in the writings of Joseph Moxon.

(letterpress typography) A metal block used to separate words, one third of an em in width.

(typography) In digital text, a character representing a thick space.


thin space

From thin + space. First use appears c. 1683 in the writings of Joseph Moxon.

If it be only a Single Letter or two that drops, he thruſts the end of his Bodkin between every Letter of that Word, till he comes to a Space: and then perhaps by forcing thoſe Letters closer, he may have room to put in another Space or a Thin Space; which if he cannot do, and he finds the Space ſtand Looſe in the Form; he with the Point of his Bodkin picks the Space up and bows it a little; which bowing makes the Letters on each ſide of the Space keep their parallel diſtance; for by its Spring it thruſts the Letters that were cloſed with the end of the Bodkin to their adjunct Letters, that needed no cloſing.

1683, Joseph Moxon, Mechanick Exercises: Or, the Doctrine of Handy-Works. Applied to the art of Printing., volume 2, pages 240–41:

(letterpress typography) A metal block used to separate words, one fifth of an em in width.

All you may see on the keyboard is a space bar, but typographers use several invisible characters: the word space, fixed spaces of various sizes (em space, en space, thin space, figure space, etc) and a hard space or no-break space.

2002, Robert Bringhurst, The Elements of Typographic Style (version 2.5), Vancouver, Hartley & Marks, p 43

(typography) In digital text, a character representing a thin space.


paeon

(poetry) A foot containing any pattern of three short syllables and one long syllable.


verism

en-noun

verism (countable and uncountable, plural verisms)

In place of the high polish and artifice of, say, Friday the 13th, there is a rougher verism [in Jackass].

2007, Andrew Shanken, “The Sublime "Jackass"”, in Places, volume 19:

(art, literature) Presenting common, everyday subjects, specifically eschewing the heroic or legendary.


STL

studio transmitter link
w:studio transmitter link

(broadcasting) Initialism of studio transmitter link.


lamestream

en-adj

lamestream (comparative more lamestream, superlative most lamestream)

more lamestream (comparative)
most lamestream (superlative)

I think my Black Creek ancestors, and current rural Afrindian family members would take issue with being lumped into the prosumer/linear lamestream society...

1998 October 13, Omoya, “wondering...”, in alt.native (Usenet), message-ID <19981012205907.02009.00000368@ng99.aol.com>:

Knowing over 90% of Americans believe in God, the lamestream media is complicit in the effort to cover up the intentional subversion of liberty and freedom in this nation that was once the beacon of hope to the rest of the world.

2008 October 22, Alfred Eugene Pearl, The Gates of Hell, Xulon Press, →ISBN, →OL, page 47:

Thank goodness for social networking sites like this and new media sites which have allowed us to get around the "lamestream" media and present the facts.

2010 June 1, Sarah Palin, “Is It Any Wonder Why We Call Them “Lame”?”, in Facebook, retrieved 2013-01-27:

(slang, derogatory, usually of, media) Mainstream.


end mark

(typography, graphic design) A typographic element that signals the end of an article. Often they are simple bullets, but they can also be intricate symbols.


cybercowboy

...from the voyeur and beau, through the private dick and the hobo to the cybercowboy and the cyborg.

2000, Cutting Edge, Digital desires: language, identity and new technologies:

Unlike the cyborg and cybercowboy, technoman Lenny is a sad figure who cannot move on. Despite Faith's rejections he loiters about the club where she works...

2002, Amanda Fernbach, Fantasies of fetishism: from decadence to the post-human:

...ruthlessly competitive with each other, these corporations hire cybercowboys like Case to do this risky work for them.

2003, Frederick Buell, From apocalypse to way of life: environmental crisis in the American century:

(science fiction) A character who carries out contract work, especially of a legally dubious nature, in cyberspace.


aircheck

(broadcasting) A demonstration recording, often intended to show off the talent of an announcer to a prospective employer.


timeslip

In any case, neither Morris nor Adeler used a timeslip like Twain.

1996, Rebecca A Umland, The use of Arthurian legend in Hollywood film:

And, although not in a timeslip tale, the horse protagonist of Richard Adams's Traveler (1988) is a creature inherently bound to General Lee...

1999, John Clute, John Grant, The Encyclopedia of Fantasy:

For an instant, she felt as though she were caught in a timeslip — her crew suffering from scurvy, the transporter a significant advantage...

He Walked Around the Horses by H. Beam Piper (1948) uses a timeslip to explain a mysterious actual event summarized in the story's prologue...

2003, Edward James, Farah Mendlesohn, The Cambridge companion to science fiction:

In an apparently fantastic moment, Stephen experiences a timeslip that enables him to secure his own existence.

(science fiction) A phenomenon that causes unexpected time travel.


mechanoid

Originally he'd entered the Game to rescue the others. He was a sanitation Mechanoid, programmed to clean, and, in theory, should have been immune to the Game's lure. But he wasn't.

(science fiction) A robot that is designed to look and act like a human.


Sirian

(science fiction) An inhabitant of (an exoplanet orbiting) Sirius.


synizesis

en-noun

synizesis (countable and uncountable, plural synizeses)

From Ancient Greek συνίζησις (sunízēsis, “a sitting together”), from σύν (sún, “with”) (English syn-) + ἱζάνω (hizánō, “to sit”).

der

(poetry) A poetic figure of speech in which two consecutive vowel sounds in the same word are pronounced as a single phoneme so that certain words adhere to a particular poetic meter.


flong

A few sheets of paper are soaked in water and then pasted together to form a flong. This flong is beaten into a page of type and dried, thus forming a matrix to receive the molten metal, which, when cooled, becomes an exact duplicate of the type page.

1892, Charles Sumner Partridge, Stereotyping, the Papier Mache Process:

(printing) A mould, especially one made from papier-mâché, used to create a stereotype.


antinovelist

From antinovel + -ist or anti- + novelist.

The difference between a modern novelist like Roth and an eighteenth-century moralist and antinovelist like Rousseau […]

1995, Dennis Porter, Rousseau's legacy: emergence and eclipse of the writer in France:

But for Augustine, as for the harsher Puritans who followed him, there is no real point in saying what some humanist antinovelists very much wished to say […]

1997, Margaret Anne Doody, The True Story of the Novel:

At no point in her writing does Mary Lee Settle become an antinovelist or a player of literary games.

2000, Roger Shattuck, Candor and perversion: literature, education, and the arts:


(poetry) Placed over a vowel letter to indicate that the syllable is short. Also used alone to mark a syllable without stress in a metrical foot or verse: see ⟨˘⟩.


APM

American Public Media
w:American Public Media

(broadcasting) Initialism of American Public Media.


docufiction

en-noun

docufiction (countable and uncountable, plural docufictions)

Coordinate term: docudrama

The Novel as Document: The "Docufiction" of Norman Mailer, Jay Cantor, and Jack Kerouac
WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO SAY that a novel-a work of fiction is based on the life of a real person, on events that really happened in the world […]

1988, Welch D. Everman, Who Says This?: The Authority of the Author, the Discourse, and the Reader, SIU Press, →ISBN, page 3:

Although not a new phenomenon as such, the genre of the docufiction film has grown spectacularly since the global and digital turns in the 1990s. Retrospectively attributed to the practices of such diverse filmmakers as Robert Flaherty, Jean Rouch, or Abbas Kiarostami, the genre, as the name suggests, applies to hybrid films that cross the traditional division of films between fiction and documentary. […] The docufiction genre generally, and Werner Herzog's recent films in particular, form crystals of a special kind.

2019, Jeroen Gerrits, chapter 4, in Cinematic Skepticism: Across Digital and Global Turns, SUNY Press, →ISBN, page 73:

(film) A cinematographic combination of documentary and fiction.


silent film

silent film (countable and uncountable, plural silent films)

Lewis Stone as the Marquis gives one of the greatest performances in silent film I have ever seen.

2009, Neil McDonald, Quadrant, November 2009, No. 461 (Volume LIII, Number 11), Quadrant Magazine Limited, page 104

(cinematography, retronym) A film with no synchronized recorded sound, especially spoken dialogue.


kohai

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Borrowed from Japanese 後(こう)輩(はい) (kōhai, literally “later cohort”). Doublet of hoobae.

ja-r

(anime and manga, fandom slang) An underclassman or younger student.


layback

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From lay + back (presumably from confusion between lay and lie).

(audio editing) The process of recording the final sound onto the master track.


countershot

(film) A shot taken to contrast with another.


contone

(printing) Having a continuous range of tones from white to black, rather than an approximation such as stippling.


contone

(printing) An image having a continuous range of tones from white to black, rather than an approximation such as stippling.


legendarium

Neuter form of Medieval Latin legendarius, from Latin legendus.

“In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.” So began the legendarium that dominated a genre, changed Western literature and the field of linguistics, created a tapestry of characters and mythology that endured four generations, built an anti-war ethos that endured a World War and a Cold War, and spawned a multibillion-dollar media franchise.

2017 September 22, Vann R. Newkirk II, “Why 'The Hobbit' Isn't Outdated in the Age of 'Game of Thrones'”, in The Atlantic:

(literature, in particular) The collected high fantasy writings of J. R. R. Tolkien relating to the fictional realm of Middle-earth and the universe in which it is set.


textura

(typography) A calligraphic form of black letter.


planetless

And I am not going to gamble half our resources on as crazy an effort as this, masterminded by a mouthful of planetless lunatics.

1961, Galaxy Magazine - Volume 20, Issues 1-6, page 163:

He cleared his throat and began the tale of the planetless boy, and Kate listened, drowsy, drifting.

1998, Dana Stabenow, Killing Grounds, →ISBN, page 222:

Umlari, others called them. Or spacefolk. Or those planetless freaks. Living in their great stations, orbiting unwanted stars, the People cared nothing for names.

2006, Marvin Kaye, Forbidden planets, →ISBN, page 269:

(science fiction) Having no home planet.


duplexed

(typography, of a font) Of consistent glyph width across weights.


ductor

From Latin ductor, agent noun of duco (“to lead”).

1883, Andrew Overend, "Inking apparatus for printing-machines", US patent US363760, filed 9 November 1883, issued 24 May 1887.
The combination, with a fountain-roller and an ink-cylinder, of a ductor movable between said roller and cylinder for delivering ink from one to the other...

Ink is transferred to the ink distribution rollers by a ductor roller.

2004, Daniel Gamota, Printed Organic and Molecular Electronics, Springer, published 2004, →ISBN:

(printing) A device, usually in the form of an oscillating roller, for transferring ink from a source to the ink train rollers in a controlled manner.


full disclosure

en-noun

full disclosure (usually uncountable, plural full disclosures)

(journalism) The disclosure of any connection between a reporter (or publisher) and the subject of an article that may bias the article.


fraktur

fraktur (countable and uncountable, plural frakturs)

1886 fractur, 1904 fraktur, from German Fraktur, from Latin frāctūra (“breaking”, noun), from frangere (“to break”), past participle fractus. Compare English fracture, fraction. Doublet of fracture.

(typography) A style of black letter type, used especially in German-speaking countries from the 16th century until World War II.


Fox

en-proper noun

Fox (countable and uncountable, plural Foxes or Foxs)

* (surname): From fox (“vulpine animal”)

I watched a great show on Fox last night.

(US, broadcasting, uncountable) Fox Broadcasting Company, a large television network from the USA.


stornello

en-noun

stornello (plural stornellos or stornelli)

(poetry) An Italian lyric poem or folk song.


TAS

(television, informal) Initialism of The Animated Show/Series. An animated cartoon TV show version of a media property.


parallel universe

parallel universe (plural parallel universes)

non-parallelizable universe

mathematically incompatible; without a common superordinate wave function

Subjectively we perceive this as a single, unpredictable or ‘random’ outcome, though from the multiverse point of view all the outcomes have actually happened. This parallel-universe multiplicity is the real reason for the unpredictability of the weather.

1998 [1997], David Deutsch, The Fabric of Reality, New York: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 202:

(sciences, science fiction, cosmology) A universe that exists separately alongside another universe, as part of a multiverse.


coronis

From the Latin corōnis, from the Ancient Greek κορωνίς (korōnís, “crasis coronis”, “editorial coronis”); cognate with the French coronis.

uder

(printing, publishing) A device, curved stroke, or flourish formed with a pen, coming at the end of a book or chapter; a colophon. For example: ⸎, ۞.


editioning

(printing, art) The process of making a small number of prints available, in order to make the print more lucrative.


howdunit

After half a century, the whodunit was joined by the howdunit, in which the emphasis swung from the identity of the murderer to the method by which the murder was committed.

1969, Ellery Queen, In the Queens' Parlor, and Other Leaves from the Editors' Notebook, page 72:

(literature, film) A type of detective story in which the focus is not on the person who committed the crime, but on the manner in which it was committed.


whydunit

Connery takes over the interrogation and in the process beats the man to death. This much we know almost from the beginning, so the film is less of a whodunit than a whydunit.

1985, Laurence Urdang, Walter W. Hunsinger, Nancy LaRoche, Picturesque expressions: a thematic dictionary, page 420:

(literature, film) A type of detective story in which the focus is not on the person who committed the crime, but on the motives for committing it.


Aristophanean

en-adj

Aristophanean (comparative more Aristophanean, superlative most Aristophanean)

more Aristophanean (comparative)
most Aristophanean (superlative)

(dramaturgy, poetry) Of or pertaining to Aristophanes, his plays or his poetry.


antiplay

Samuel Beckett wrote several absurdist antiplays.

(dramaturgy) A play (dramatical production) that deliberately avoids the typical conventions of the play, such as a coherent plot and resolution.

antipeça

a play that deliberately avoids the typical conventions


earcon

(computing, broadcasting) A brief, distinctive sound used to represent a specific item or event.


jackalope

Most jackalopes are furry and a foot or two tall; many are only heads, mounted on wood plaques; there are some six-footers, covered with fur…

1993, Jane Stern, Michael Stern, Way out west:

(folklore, mythology) A folkloric animal, a supposed cross between a jackrabbit and an antelope, goat, or deer, usually portrayed as a rabbit with antlers.


sexbot

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Jealous wives may destroy sexbot rivals and sue the manufacturer.

2000, Richard Rhodes, Visions of technology:

Another way that virtual entertainment might go is in the direction of the so-called sexbot. This would be a robotic device with artificial skin […]

2000, Joseph N Pelton, e-Sphere: the rise of the world-wide mind:

Having a sexbot had turned out to be more than Nosir had anticipated.

Given that people become addicted to all sorts of pleasures from slot machines to e-mail, sexbot addiction might be inevitable […]

2006, David N L Levy, Robots unlimited: life in a virtual age:

Then, we have sexbots, which are based on 1950 stereotypes about how a woman should behave: acquiescent, willing, always ready and patient in the home. How can that combo of 50s behaviour and porn-star looks be good for us as Homo sapiens?

2021 July 25, Claire Armitstead, quoting Jeanette Winterson, “Jeanette Winterson: ‘The male push is to discard the planet: all the boys are going off into space’”, in The Guardian:

(science fiction) A robot designed to have sexual intercourse with humans.


unbolded

(typography) Not bolded; not in a bold typeface.


false scent

(writing) A misleading expectation created by ambiguous writing


anastatic

anastatic (comparative more anastatic, superlative most anastatic)

more anastatic (comparative)
most anastatic (superlative)

(printing, historical) Of or relating to a printing process in which copies of drawings are printed from facsimiles produced in relief on zinc plates.


foreslash

From fore- + slash, a retronym, distinguishing slash from backslash; compare forward slash.

Yes, that is a combination of foreslashes and backslashes.

Don't confuse the backslash (\) with the foreslash (/).

...using transitions labelled by their input and output, separated by a foreslash, with x and y standing for any non-identical nucleotides...

1997, Sándor Suhai, Theoretical and computational methods in genome research:

The command set print rat off . switches off the special printing for _/_ so that rational numbers will be printed with spaces around the foreslash sign.

2007, Manuel Clavel, Francisco Durán, Steven Eker, Patrick Lincoln, Narciso Martí-Oliet, All About Maude - A High-Performance Logical Framework:

(typography, computing, rare) Synonym of slash ⟨/⟩.


Angry Young Man

en-noun

Angry Young Man (plural Angry Young Men)

Coined in reference to John Osborne's 1956 play Look Back in Anger.

(literature) Any of a group of mostly working-class and middle-class British playwrights and novelists who rose to prominence in the 1950s, their works being characterized by harshness, realism, and disillusionment with traditional norms.

Angry young men
John Osborne
Look Back in Anger

Angry Young Man

any of a group of British playwrights and novelists who rose to prominence in the 1950s


hypercatalexis

Coined in the late 1880s as a back-formation from hypercatalectic, from Latin hypercatalēcticus, from Ancient Greek ὑπερκαταληκτικός (huperkatalēktikós), from ὑπερ- (huper-, “over”) + καταληκτικός (katalēktikós, “incomplete”)

uder

ὑπερκαταληκτικός

(poetry) The addition of one or two syllables to the last foot of a verse


hypercatalectic

Recorded from circa 1700; from Latin hypercatalēcticus, from Ancient Greek ὑπερκατάληκτος (huperkatálēktos).

der

ὑπερκατάληκτος

(poetry) Which has an extra syllable added to the last dipody (foot of a verse).


biot

(science fiction) A robot composed of living components.


cpi

characters per inch
characters per inch#English

(graphic design, typography) The measure of a number of typeset font characterss per inch used or supported by a digital display device


dots per inch

My printer prints at 300 dots per inch.

(graphic design, typography) The measure of a number of pixels per inch used in a graphic or supported by a digital display device, used to specify type or image resolution.


feelie

From feel + -ie. In the video game sense, introduced by the game publisher Infocom in the 1980s.

Seven and a half hours of mild, unexhausting labour, and then the soma ration and games and unrestricted copulation and the feelies. What more can they ask for?

1932, Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, London: Chatto & Windus:

One of our brighter young Utopians, Aldous Huxley, predicts that the movies of the future will include “feelies” and “smellies.”

1941, Arthur Kissam Train, The Story of Everyday Things, Harper & Brothers, page 390:

TikTok’s endless talent show is so captivating that members of the intelligence community fear China could use the platform to spy on Americans or to disseminate propaganda—feelies as a weapon of war.

2023 January 30, Megan Garber, “We’ve Lost the Plot”, in The Atlantic:

(science fiction, often in the plural) A proposed future entertainment, akin to a film/movie, where the audience can physically feel what happens to the characters.


ramscoop

(science fiction) A proposed space travel technology using enormous electromagnetic fields as a scoop to collect and compress hydrogen and trigger thermonuclear fusion, thus powering the vessel.


kiloyear

(geology, science fiction) Synonym of millennium: A period of one thousand years.


astrogate

en-verb

astrogate (third-person singular simple present astrogates, present participle astrogating, simple past and past participle astrogated)

astrogates (present singular third-person)
astrogating (participle present)
astrogated (participle past)
astrogated (past)

Sure, Mike was used to having many loads in trajectory at once—but had never had to astrogate more than one at a time. Now he had hundreds and had promised to deliver twenty-nine of them simultaneously to the exact second at twenty-nine pinpointed targets.

1966, Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, New York: Ace, published 2018, Book 3, Chapter 25:

(science fiction, transitive, intransitive) To astronavigate; to control and guide a spacecraft.


precog

Clipping of precognitive. Coined by American author Philip K. Dick in 1954, and popularized in his 1956 short story "The Minority Report".

coin

(science fiction) A precognitive person.

(science fiction) Clipping of precognition.


precog

en-adj

precog (comparative more precog, superlative most precog)

more precog (comparative)
most precog (superlative)

(science fiction) Clipping of precognitive.


computronium

Toffoli says he thinks of CAM-8 as "computronium" — a flexible "element" capable of mimicking all other elements and particles, real or imagined.

1990 February 17, I. Amato, “Computronium: the 'element' that imitates”, in Science News, volume 137, number 7, page 103:

The process of making computers on ever smaller scales, using physical degrees of freedom and the laws of physics in an ever more efficient manner, can be thought of as a refining process. In this process we are trying to refine and concentrate the computing power inherent in the laws of physics. You might ask, "Can we achieve 100% pure 'Computronium'?"

1992, Norman Margolus, “Fundamental Physical Constraints on the Computational Process”, in BC Crandall, James Lewis, editors, Nanotechnology: Research and Perspectives, The MIT Press, →ISBN, page 202:

They should be working on uploading and solving the nanoassembly conformational problem instead. Then we could turn all the available dumb matter into computronium and use it for processing our thoughts. Long-term, it's the only way to go.

2005, Charles Stross, Accelerando, Ace Books, Chapter 1, "Lobsters"

To this end, the AI might produce computronium (matter organized in a configuration that is optimal for computation) and use it to implement digital minds in states of euphoria.

2014, Nick Bostrom, Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies, Oxford University Press, page 140:

(science fiction, philosophy) A hypothetical material engineered to maximize its use as a computing substrate.


spacefarer

From space + farer. Compare spacefaring, seafarer.

(chiefly science fiction) a person who travels in space

зарапла́вец

a person who travels in space — see also astronaut


xenology

From xeno- + -logy. Coined prior to 1974 and later popularized by Robert Freitas.

(science fiction) The study of alien life.


chrononaut

From chrono- + -naut, modelled on astronaut and/or cosmonaut.

The honour of the final great mistake will go to David Powers, Scientist Chrononaut.

1972, Amazing Science Fiction Stories, volume 46, page 119:

The conventional view of time travel, however, has the ‘chrononauts’ travelling backwards and forwards in time. But in a more restricted sense we are all chrononauts, on a one-way fixed-speed journey into the future.

1999, John Guy Porter, Patrick Moore, Yearbook of Astronomy, page 146:

This tiny accident, because of the multiplicative effect of unforeseeable circumstances, results in an important alteration in the present time when the chrononauts return — the language is spoken differently and a different President of the United States has been elected.

2002, José Luis Sanz, Starring T. Rex!: Dinosaur Mythology and Popular Culture, page 62:

(science fiction, dated) A time-traveller.


sheetfed

(printing, of a press) Into which individual sheets of paper or paperboard are loaded.


Oprah

From Oprah Winfrey, a very influential talk show host, originally named Orpah after the Biblical figure, via metathesis.

He was on Oprah recently to talk about his new book.

(television, colloquial) The Oprah Winfrey Show, a popular long-running U.S. television talk show (1986–2011).


readthrough

(film, television, theater) An organized reading of the screenplay or script by all of the actors, prior to the actual performance.


supersoldier

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Kelly: Is it true we have a pod containing a baby krogan down in the cargo hold?
Shepard: Not a baby. He's a full-grown super soldier ready for combat.
Kelly: Please be careful if you decide to... err... birth him? His personality is completely unknown.

2010, BioWare, Mass Effect 2 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Normandy SR-2:

(science fiction) A soldier with remarkable strength, stamina, etc., especially if assisted by technology or genetics.


Sitwellian

Sitwellian (comparative more Sitwellian, superlative most Sitwellian)

more Sitwellian (comparative)
most Sitwellian (superlative)

(literature) Of or pertaining to the Sitwell literary family or any of its members.


interdimensional

By their own mysterious yardstick, extraterrestrials and interdimensionals choose the most unlikely individuals for close encounters of the third kind on up: for starters Gilliland, Whitley Strieber, Jim Moroney, Betty and Barney Hill.

2012, Richard Grossinger, Dark Pool of Light, Volume Three: The Crisis and Future of Consciousness:

(science fiction) A hypothetical being that can move between dimensions.


rip box

(computing, media) A high end computer used for "ripping" (decoding) DVDs and converting them into various formats, using ripping and encoding software.


JAV

(pornography) Acronym of Japanese adult video.


antidocumentary

Written by Sam Shepard and director-cinematographer Robert Frank, this 1968 antidocumentary emphasizes the relationship between Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky, and Peter's brother Julius[…].

1999 March 12, Lisa Alspector, “Me and My Brother”, in Chicago Reader:

(film) A documentary made in opposition to the normal standards of a documentary

antidocumentário

a documentary made in opposition to the normal standards of a documentary


achronological

Another reason was the apparently inspired pairing of screenwriter Dennis Potter and director Nicolas Roeg, two dark poets of psychic subtexts and achronological memory flashes.

1988 October 14, Jonathan Rosenbaum, “Muddled Americans”, in Chicago Reader:

The Time Traveler's Wife tracks the achronological course of their lifelong love affair.

2003 September 26, Martha Bayne, “Things Are Going Very Well for Audrey Niffenegger”, in Chicago Reader:

(chiefly literature, film) Not chronological; proceeding through time in a nonlinear fashion


antitheater

A.R.T. is a theater group, or rather an antitheater group.

1993 February 5, Bill Wyman, “Calendar”, in Chicago Reader:

(dramaturgy) Works of theater that go against theatrical conventions

antyteatr

works of theater that go against theatrical conventions


Gothicness

(architecture, literature) The state or condition of being Gothic.


neogothic

neogothic (comparative more neogothic, superlative most neogothic)

more neogothic (comparative)
most neogothic (superlative)

(architecture, literature) Alternative form of neo-Gothic


citizen journalism

(media) A form of independent reporting, often carried out by amateurs who are on the scene of an event, and is then disseminated by new media.

民間記者 /民间记者

reporting by amateurs on the scene of an event


ballade

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Borrowed from French ballade. Doublet of ballad.

(poetry) A poem of one or more triplets of seven- or eight-line stanzas, each ending with the same line as refrain, and usually an envoi; more generally, any poem in stanzas of equal length.


guideword

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Secondly, the teacher-librarian must know how to use books herself to find information — title page, table of contents, index, guidewords, etc.

1936, Wilson Bulletin for Librarians, page 18:

(publishing) A word that is printed at the top or bottom of the page in a reference work, in order to help readers find a specific entry.

otsikkohakusana

word printed at the top or bottom of the page in a reference work, in order to help readers find a specific entry


Unihan

(computing, typography) A character set, a subset of Unicode, that attempts to unify the regional and historical variants of Han characters by treating them as different glyphs representing the same grapheme.


linocut

/ˈlʌɪnəʊkʌt/

Still, this book's offbeat settings and strong, simple illustrations, in acrylic paint with pencil and rough-hewn linocut outlines, should help preschoolers — and parents — realize that when you bring some creativity to pet ownership, even a fish can be fun.

2009 June 14, Ann Hodgman, “A kid’s best friends: goldfish”, in The New York Times:

(art, printing) A type of woodcut in which a block of linoleum is used for the relief surface; the design cut into the block.


gengineered

genetically engineered
genetically engineered

(science fiction) genetically engineered


earthside

(science fiction) On or to the planet Earth.


slidewalk

(science fiction) A pavement/sidewalk that moves in the manner of a conveyor belt.


spacehand

From space + hand, analogous to deckhand.

(science fiction) A low-ranking member of the crew of a spaceship.


spacelegs

Very cautiously — it was more than a year since he had last been weightless and it would be some time before he regained his spacelegs — he hauled himself hand over hand through the airlock and into the large, circular chamber at the axis of the Space Station.

1968, Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey:

(science fiction) The ability to work confidently in space, or a zero-gravity environment.


overmind

(science fiction) The leading or controlling mind in a groupmind.


kinestasis

en-noun

kinestasis (countable and uncountable, plural kinestases)

I used the same kinestasis technique that Chuck Braverman had used in his American History in Two Minutes.

2001, Jesús Salvador Treviño, Eyewitness: a filmmaker's memoir of the Chicano Movement, Houston, Texas: Arte Público Press, →ISBN, page 206:

(film) A rapidly-moving montage technique set to music.

Charles Braverman had seen Art and felt that a kinestasis short might be a welcome addition to the Smothers Brothers' Comedy Hour.

1970, David A. Sohn, Film: the creative eye, Dayton, Ohio: G. A. Pflaum, page 101:

(film) A film made with such a technique.


kemonomimi

From Japanese 獣(けもの)耳(みみ) (kemonomimi), from 獣(けもの) (kemono, “animal”) + 耳(みみ) (mimi, “ear”).

(Japanese fiction) A humanoid fictional character who possesses animal ears and/or tails.


Horatian

en-adj

Horatian (comparative more Horatian, superlative most Horatian)

more Horatian (comparative)
most Horatian (superlative)

There are three typical forms of ode: Horatian, Pindaric and irregular. Horatian odes follow the conventions of Horace, who deliberately imitated the Greek lyricists such as Alcaeus and Anacreon.

Satirical literature can commonly be categorised as Horatian, Juvenalian or Menippean. Horatian satire playfully criticizes some social vice through gentle, mild, and light-hearted humour.

Jonson was the most Horatian of the Elizabethans, both by nature and by study.

1894 May, E. H. Lewis, “The Influence of Horace in English Literature”, in The Quarterly Calendar, Vol. III, No. 1, University of Chicago Press, page 97:

Again nothing could be more Horatian than the high spirits of the introduction of the poem.

1963, C. O. Brink, Horace on Poetry, Volume 1: Prolegomena to the Literary Epistles, Cambridge University Press, page 135:

While these writers would have been familiar with both,^([the Horatian and Juvenalian styles of satire]) some were naturally "attracted to the abrasiveness of Juvenal rather than the suavity of Horace" while others found they were able to express whatever they wanted to express in more Horatian tones.

2022, Jennifer Ferriss-Hill, Roman Satire, BRILL, page 80:

(literature, poetry) Of or pertaining to the Roman poet Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus; 65–8 BCE) or to his works or style.

horatiusi

of or pertaining to the Roman poet Horace or to his works or style


Angries

The Angries are not in revolt against poverty or exploitation as such...

1966, Stanley Kauffmann, A world on film: criticism and comment:

The 'Angries' ridiculed this notion with cliched representations of effeminate artists and intellectuals...

2007, Christine Berberich, The image of the English gentleman in twentieth-century literature:


spinward

en-adv

spinward (comparative more spinward, superlative most spinward)

more spinward (comparative)
most spinward (superlative)

It was half-daylight; the shadow of the terminator was coming in from spinward like a black curtain.

1970 October, Larry Niven, Ringworld, New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, →ISBN:

Edna's language was peppered with the unfamiliar. You found your way around a spinning space habitat by going spinward or antispinward or axisward ...

2007, Arthur C. Clarke with Stephen Baxter, Firstborn [A Time Odyssey; 3], New York, N.Y.: Del Rey Books; Ballantine Books, →ISBN:

spinward adv. in or toward the direction that something (a space station, galaxy, etc.) is rotating. Also as adj.

2007, Jeff Prucher, editor, Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 215:

"[…] You would fall against the anti-spinward wall and slide down along that wall until you hit the floor ..." / "Whoa, whoa, whoa ..." Lars interrupted. "Anti-spinward? What in the world?" / "Moving in the same direction as the Station's direction of spin is considered spinward. Moving in the direction opposite the spin is considered anti-spinward. You sound like a boy asking what one does with his hands when the rollercoaster car leaves the track."

2015, Steven Burgauer, Skullcap, Bloomington, Ind.: iUniverse, →ISBN:

(often science fiction) In a rotating reference frame, along the direction of spin.


pack journalism

/ˈpæk ˈdʒɝnl̩ˌɪzəm/

Coined by the American journalist and writer Timothy Crouse (born 1947) in his book The Boys on the Bus (1973) about the activities of journalists during the 1972 United States presidential election: see the quotation.

The press likes to demonstrate its power by destroying lightweights, and pack journalism is never more doughty and complacent than when the pack has tacitly agreed that a candidate is a joke. As soon as a candidate shows his vulnerability by getting flustered, or by arguing when he shouldn't argue, the pack is delighted to treat him as the class clown.

1973, Timothy Crouse, The Boys on the Bus, New York, N.Y.: Random House, →ISBN; republished New York, N.Y.: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2003, →ISBN:

Problems of pack journalism [heading] […] I think the herd instinct expression is one that I would use, too. I frankly try deliberately to find out which way the herd is going and run the other way.

1973 May 23, “The Role of the News Media: An Interview with Howard K[ingsbury] Smith and Peter Lisagor [transcript]”, in United States of America Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the 93d Congress, First Session, volume 119, part 13, Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 16818, columns 2–3:

The composition of the Year of the Woman discourse and its trajectory during this thirteen-month "year" revealed nuance in the construction of women candidates as political subjects but also demonstrated the pack journalism practices that abounded during this time. The differences between local and national television and print news coverage were few and consisted specifically of patterns of gendered signifiers and discourse found within news coverage of Boxer, Braun, Feinstein, Murray, and Yeakel.

2002, Mary Douglas Vavrus, “Postfeminist Identities, Neoliberal Ideology, and Women of the Year”, in Postfeminist News: Political Women in Media Culture (SUNY Series in Communication Studies), Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, →ISBN, pages 84–85:

If talented business journalists care at all about the long-term portability of their skills in a shrinking media world, succumbing to pack journalism in the crowded general news category is no way out. It makes senior, expensive reporters expendable. That was not the direction I wanted my career to be heading.

2013, Ann Davis Vaughan, “The Gestation Period of a Llama (or Why I Quit the Wall Street Journal)”, in J. J. Hornblass, Michele Turk, Tom Vogel, editors, Ink Stained: Essays by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism Class of 1992, [s.l.]: Ink Stains Press, →ISBN, page 31:

(journalism, derogatory) A tendency of reporting to become homogeneous due to the reporters' habit of relying on one another for news tips, or being dependent on a single source for information.

Fred Thompson
Republican Party
The Boys on the Bus
Timothy Crouse


cywydd

(poetry) A Welsh verse form consisting of rhyming couplets written in cynghanedd.


frontlist

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


no-break space

non-breaking space
non-breaking space#English

(typography, word processing) Synonym of non-breaking space.


nondetective

The closest character to Dupin in Poe's nondetective fiction is Roderick Usher in "The Fall of the House of Usher," that gothic nightmare of decadence...

2000, David Lehman, The perfect murder: a study in detection:

(literature) Not involving a detective (as many mystery novels do).


cold open

The best way to find out how the series you're writing for uses teasers or cold opens is to get your hands on a script.

2004, James Mendrinos, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Comedy Writing:

(television) An opening segment shown before the opening credits.


Sol III

From Earth's position as the third planet from the Sun (Sol).

The alien lecturer describes the Terrans as a “newly emerged race from Sol III [Earth]” who are only just beginning to communicate with other species, but not very successfully, as the Aldebaran IV incident demonstrates.

2012 June, Dianne Newell, Victoria Lamont, Judith Merril: A Critical Study, McFarland & Company, page 86:

[…] enshrouded in bitterness and misery a man named Colin Marshack on an insignificant planet called Sol III, Earth, Terra, the world...

2014 April, Harlan Ellison, Paingod: And Other Delusions, Open Road Media, page 31:

At last the ship made its final approach to Sol III: Earth.

2016 October, Stephen Baxter, Destiny's Children: Coalescent, Exultant, Transcendent, Resplendent, Orion Publishing Group, page 50:

“VIRA, determine our current position and chart the fastest course to the next portal. We're going home to Earth!” “Current location: orbiting the moon of Sol III, also known as Earth.”

2017, Marc Baumgartner, Inheritance of Stars: New Worlds, tredition, page 388:

(chiefly science fiction) The planet Earth.


repro

en-noun

repro (countable and uncountable, plural repros)

This reproduction proof, commonly called the repro, is sent to the designer for pasting on to the mechanical.

1982, David Gates, Graphic Design Studio Procedures, page 124:

This will be a complete image of the advertisement, with all the elements correctly positioned and every word of copy printed and pasted down; such printed type (called 'repro') is obtained from a blockmaking and typesetting house by the typographer in exactly the same way that he will obtain the proof of a letterpress advertisement.

2013, W. A. Evans, Advertising Today and Tomorrow:

(printing) The proof prepared in offset printing, with all elements positioned on the page.


air pirate

(science fiction, fantasy) A pirate who travels by aircraft and targets other aircraft, analogously to the actions of a traditional seafaring pirate against ships.


palimbacchius

(poetry) A metrical foot composed of two long syllables and one short one.


autodestruction

(chiefly science fiction) A feature of a system whereby it destroys itself.


CLDR

(computing, typography) Initialism of Common Locale Data Repository: a project of the Unicode Consortium to provide locale data in the XML format for use in computer applications.


fabulation

fabulation (countable and uncountable, plural fabulations)

(literature) A style of modern fiction, similar to magical realism and postmodernism.


hammocked

(television) Scheduled between two other programmes, by hammocking.


patch up

en-verb

patch up (third-person singular simple present patches up, present participle patching up, simple past and past participle patched up)

patches up (present singular third-person)
patching up (participle present)
patched up (participle past)
patched up (past)


ECMA

(film) Acronym of European Carton Makers Association.

w:Engineering College Magazines Associated

(media) Acronym of Engineering College Magazines Associated.


shovelware

/ˈʃʌvəlwɛə(ɹ)/

The importance given to ‘original content’ for instance comes from the general notion that the online newscast is a new medium and therefore requires original content instead of supplying the user with mere copies of its print version (‘shovelware’). Though this may be a valid opinion, the underlying assumption – online newsmedia are just an arm of their respective print, television or radio bodies – can be criticized.

1998 December 7, Mark Deuze, “The WebCommunicators: Issues in Research into Online Journalism and Journalists”, in First Monday: Peer-reviewed Journal on the Internet, volume 3, number 12, Chicago, Ill.: University Library, University of Chicago, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2017-02-22:

Perceived by some as a disparaging term, it is used to describe content moved wholesale from one communication medium to another with little or no alteration or adaptation for style, appearance or usability purposes. An example would be moving stories from print to the world wide web without taking advantage of the interactive and hypertext benefits of the online medium[…]. However, shovelware might not always be a bad thing, particularly for those who want to read an exact copy of the print edition of a newspaper […]

2005, Bob Franklin, Martin Hamer, Mark Hanna, Marie Kinsey, John E. Richardson, “Shovelware”, in Key Concepts in Journalism Studies, London: SAGE Publications, →ISBN, page 243:

Click onto it, however, and you will find a great deal of the content simply reproduces the news reports and features that appear in the printed newspaper – shovelware. […] [M]odified shovelware can also encompass shortened or otherwise amended pieces originally written for print. Such material may be augmented with 'rich' additions like comments, related blogs and suggested links to other stories, videos and podcasts.

2008, Tim Holmes, “Writing Online”, in Wynford Hicks, Sally Adams, Harriett Gilbert, and Tim Holmes, Writing for Journalists, 2nd edition, Abingdon, Oxon.; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, pages 134 and 135

Web-based or e-learning technologies may be some of the most misunderstood technologies. Early and continuing efforts to produce online courses have often resulted in shovelware products. That is, instructors transferred classroom materials such as PowerPoint presentations and handouts to the web in an effort to create a course[…]. Shovelware lacks the instructional strategies as well as the complete information needed to develop an adequate understanding.

2012, Gary R. Morrison, Gary J. Anglin, “An Analysis of Success and Failures: Focusing on Learner-Content Interactions for the Next Generation of Distance Learning”, in Leslie Moller, Jason B. Huett, editors, The Next Generation of Distance Education: Unconstrained Learning, New York, N.Y.: Springer, →DOI, →ISBN, page 240:

(media, slang) Traditional media content, such as printed news reports, republished hastily on the Internet without considering the needs and capabilities of that medium.


push in

(cinematography) A zoom in which the camera physically moves towards the subject


scriptment

Blend of script + treatment. Coined by filmmaker James Cameron, possibly during his early involvement in the development of the Spider-Man film series.

(cinematography) A written work by a movie or television screenwriter that combines elements of a script and treatment, especially the dialogue elements, which are formatted the same as in a screenplay.


PTHC

When a new site appears, it is blazoned through all the related groups with a headline like “msn goood pthc club!!!” — the acronym signifies “preteen hardcore.”

2003, Philip Jenkins, Beyond Tolerance: Child Pornography on the Internet, NYU Press, →ISBN, page 63:


timescape

From time + -scape, probably by analogy with landscape.

Back to the Future
DeLorean DMC-12
San Diego Comic-Con

timescape n. time conceived of, or perceived as, possessing multiple dimensions.

[2007, “timescape”, in Jeff Prucher, editor, Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 241:

My awareness extended beyond human memory and I drifted, lost in the crevices of the now visible Timescape. Then a point of light beckoned me and I strove for it. The light became the memory of my personality and I dove into it. I swirled in an ever-tightening spiral. I was all eight of my great-grand parents, I was both of my grandfathers and both of my grandmothers, I was my mother and my father and, finally, I was Jonathan Crowe again and I could now reflect upon what had been done to me.

2008 April 17, Jefferson R. Weekley, “The Pool of Blood”, in Red Earth, Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 214:

[Mark] Zuckerberg is pursued throughout the timescape by the litigious Winklevoss twins, who operate a time machine bought for them by their daddy. Zuckerberg must constantly leap to and fro throughout the centuries in order to duck summonses.

2011, Travis Harmon, Jonathan Shockley, “Introduction”, in Let There Be Facebook: Status Updates from God, Gaga, and Everyone in between, New York, N.Y.: Touchstone Books, →ISBN, page vii, footnote 2:

(science fiction) A multi-dimensional view of time, especially one in which time travel occurs.


moraic

moraic theory

(poetry, phonology) Of, pertaining to, or consisting of a mora or morae (a unit of syllable weight in poetry and linguistics).

moraico

of, pertaining to, or consisting of morae


funny papers

(comics) The section of a newspaper containing comic strips.


punctus

From Medieval Latin punctus (“punctuation mark”).

bor

In the sacerdotal prayers in col. a the punctuation is by punctus flexus, punctus elevatus and punctus.

1993, Malcolm Beckwith Parkes, Pause and Effect, Plates and Commentaries, page 197:

The most common item of punctuation was the punctus or point.

2011 July 22, Tadao Kudouchi, edited by Akio Oizumi and Jacek Fisiak, English Historical Linguistics and Philology in Japan, De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 172:

Curiously, the punctus versus was largely replaced with a punctus by ca.1100.

2015 August 31, “Medieval Manuscripts”, in Albrecht Classen, editor, Handbook of Medieval Culture, volume 2, De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 1015:

(palaeography) The basic dot (‧) used to end a sentence in medieval punctuation (ancestral to the full stop/period).


plot hole

Invited to collaborate with Hitch, Shaffer watched several of the director's previous films and noticed in North by Northwest a glaring plot hole; Cary Grant hides aboard a train that he has selected randomly yet, somehow, his pursuers lie in wait aboard the same train.

2012, Allan Brown, Inside the Wicker Man, Birlinn, →ISBN:

(authorship) A gap or inconsistency in a storyline that goes against the flow of logic established by the story's plot.


soundman

(cinematography) A technician who works with the sound recording and sound effects for films and television.


omake

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Borrowed from Japanese お負け (omake, “extra, bonus”).

In this omake, the characters are breaking the fourth wall to talk to the audience.

(anime) A special video feature that accompanies an anime, such as a collection of deleted scenes or outtakes.

(manga) Additional material to the main series added to the tankobon edition of a manga.


OEL

My Dead Girlfriend is one of the best OEL manga ever.

(attributive, of manga, anime, visual novels) Initialism of original English-language: Manga-, anime-style media originally published in English; (loosely, by extension) Any non-Japanese media which features a manga or anime style.


tentpole

His [James Rolfe's] reasoning dances around the simple fact that has set this innocuous-seeming movie apart from its fellow blockbusters this summer—that it’s a tentpole genre film starring women.

2016 May 18, David Sims, “The Outcry Against the All-Female ‘Ghostbusters’ Remake Gets Louder”, in The Atlantic:

(US, attributive, figurative, film, television, theater) A large-scale entertainment production that is a major source of revenue for its studio, television network, or investors.


tentpole

en-verb

tentpole (third-person singular simple present tentpoles, present participle tentpoling, simple past and past participle tentpoled)

tentpoles (present singular third-person)
tentpoling (participle present)
tentpoled (participle past)
tentpoled (past)

Coordinate term: hammock

(broadcasting) To schedule a popular programme between two newer or less popular ones in the hope that viewers will watch them.


rhopalic

en-adj

rhopalic (comparative more rhopalic, superlative most rhopalic)

more rhopalic (comparative)
most rhopalic (superlative)

From Latin rhopalicus, from Ancient Greek ῥόπαλον (rhópalon, “club, bat”).

der

Soapy fired off a rhopalic sentence, that is, one in which each word is one letter longer than the word that precedes it: "I am the only dummy player, perhaps, planning maneuvers calculated brilliantly, nevertheless outstandingly pachydermatous, notwithstanding unconstitutional unprofessionalism."

1986 October 26, Alan Truscott, “Talking About Behavior”, in The New York Times:

(poetry, rhetoric) Having each successive word longer by a letter or syllable.


smallcap

en-verb

smallcap (third-person singular simple present smallcaps, present participle smallcapping, simple past and past participle smallcapped)

smallcaps (present singular third-person)
smallcapping (participle present)
smallcapped (participle past)
smallcapped (past)

(computing, typography) To set in small caps.


overset

overset (third-person singular simple present oversets, present participle oversetting, simple past and past participle overset)

oversets (present singular third-person)
oversetting (participle present)
overset (participle past)
overset (past)

From Middle English oversetten (“to set over, upset”), from Old English ofersettan (“to set over, install, conquer, overcome”), from Proto-West Germanic *ubarsattjan (“to set or place over, install, establish”), equivalent to over- + set. Compare Saterland Frisian uursätte (“to cross over, translate”), West Frisian oersette (“to translate”), Dutch overzetten (“to ferry, transport, translate”), German übersetzen (“to cross over, translate”), Swedish översätta (“to translate”).

cog

(printing) to set (type or copy) in excess of what is needed; to set too much type for a given space.


rogues' gallery

en-noun

rogues' gallery (plural rogues' galleries)

From rogue + gallery. Popularized by American detectives Allan Pinkerton and Thomas F. Byrnes.

(fiction) The set of supervillains associated with a particular superhero or comic book title.


superdeformed

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(anime, manga) Alternative form of super deformed (“drawn in an exaggerated way, typically small and chubby, with stubby limbs and oversized heads”).


astrogation

If astrogation were that simple any sophomore could pilot a rocket ship […]

1958, Robert A. Heinlein, chapter 7, in Have Space Suit, Will Travel, New York: Del Rey:

(science fiction) Astronavigation (navigation through space).


showrun

en-verb

showrun (third-person singular simple present showruns, present participle showrunning, simple past showran, past participle showrun)

showruns (present singular third-person)
showrunning (participle present)
showran (past)
showrun (participle past)

But she dreams of having, and show-running, her own television program. In May, she’ll perform two nights as her character at Union Hall in Park Slope, Brooklyn — a neighborhood that character would probably struggle to find.

2023 March 14, Alexandra Jacobs, “Your Annoying Roommate Is Slaying on TikTok”, in The New York Times:

(television, rare, transitive) To act as a showrunner for (a television show).


exophobic

en-adj

exophobic (comparative more exophobic, superlative most exophobic)

more exophobic (comparative)
most exophobic (superlative)

(literature) Relating to the book "Exophobic: Mind Matters" (ref at exophobe.com)


diplexer

(broadcasting) A passive device that implements frequency domain multiplexing.


crosshead

Other bits of furniture include [...] the crosshead, a short heading between paragraphs that breaks up a long piece.

2023 January 31, Elisabeth Ribbans, “The perils of using journalist jargon outside the newsroom”, in The Guardian:

(journalism) Large text, like a headline but typically drawn from the article, placed partway through the article to break it up visually.


Mimantean

From Ancient Greek Μῑμάντος (Mīmántos), genitive case of Μίμᾱς (Mímās), from earlier Μίμανς (Mímans).

I went back to the grind of reviewing that day's Cassini photographs. Imagine my shock when I noticed that Mimas, one of the inner moons of Saturn, had acquired a concave depression in it since the last fly-by! Of course, I immediately realized that the Mimanteans had constructed a fully armed and operational Death Star!

2010 February 19, Hulles, “Mimas!”, in sardonic postmodern humor:

(fiction) An inhabitant of the Saturnian moon Mimas


hoverchair

He touched the controller hanging from the belt around his waist. His hoverchair rose in the corner and glided over to him, positioning itself at his side.

2005, Gregory Bernard Banks, Phoenix Tales: Stories of Death and Life:

He built his first hoverchair all by himself out of scavenged parts when he was only eight! And ever since, he's continued to upgrade it.

(chiefly science fiction) A chair that levitates.


endcap

Coordinate term: frontcap

(television) A logo or visual sequence immediately following a programme, identifying the broadcaster or production company.


pull-focus

...this image of pure light forms (through a pull-focus) into an image of a snow-covered field, in the middle of which is a mother holding her two sons.

1989, R Bruce Elder, Image and Identity: Reflections on Canadian Film and Culture, page 384:

To set up a pull-focus shot, frame your shot so that the two subjects, at different distances from the camera, are in view.

2007, Gary Hudson et al., The Broadcast Journalism Handbook, page 212:

(film, television) A filming technique whereby the focal point is drawn towards the viewer; also a shot (as part of an edit) in which such a technique is used. Also used attributively.


in print

(of a book, film, etc., publishing) Available for purchase from the publisher.

available for purchase from the publisher

use painaa in the passive to mean "to be in print"


claviform

The adjective is derived from Latin clāvifōrmis (“club-shaped, claviform”), from Latin clāva (“a club”) (from Proto-Indo-European *kelh₂- (“to beat; to break”)) + -fōrmis (suffix meaning ‘having the form of’) (equivalent to -form, -iform). The English word is cognate with French claviforme.
The noun is probably derived from the adjective.

der

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The claviform comprises a vertical line with a bulge at one side; but unlike the buttocks on the stylized females, the bulge is usually on the middle or the upper half of the 'sign'! It has been suggested that the 'upper bulge' on a claviform instead represents breasts, but this is based on supposedly stylized statuettes from Dolni Vestonice and elsewhere, comprising a rod with two little lumps near the top, and thus on analogies with sites even further away in space and time from the claviforms.

1997, Paul G. Bahn, Jean Vertut, “What was Depicted?”, in Journey through the Ice Age, Berkeley, Los Angeles, Calif.: University of California Press, →ISBN, page 164, column 2:

In the early days of research, the images were often read very literally, and this was certainly taken to extremes – the classic example, of course, is the ‘signs’ in Ice Age cave art which the first researchers assumed to represent actual objects, and gave them names accordingly – for example, ‘claviforms’ were thought to be clubs, ‘tectiforms’ were thought to be roofs or huts, and so forth [...].

2006, Paul G. Bahn, “Myths and Meanings”, in Prehistoric Rock Art: Polemics and Progress […], Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, published 2010, →ISBN, page 32:

There is also a faded red painting of a claviform (a thick curved line with a raised bump or point in the middle) that looks awfully similar to those found at a few other sites in northern Spain. A claviform from Altamira was dated using the uranium-series technique and is at least 35,000 years old.

2016, Genevieve von Petzinger, “Signs across the Ages: The Many Styles of the Oldest Art”, in The First Signs: Unlocking the Mysteries of the World’s Oldest Symbols, New York, N.Y.: Atria Paperback, published March 2017, →ISBN, page 140:

In Niaux, claviforms played a special role in that respect because we also find them very far inside the cave near the end of the galleries. [...] The same structure is visible at the Salon Noir itself. There, a claviform and a parallel bar were made on the first panel to the right, at the entrance.

2018, Jean Clottes, “European Palaeolithic Rock Art and Spatial Structures”, in Bruno David, Ian J. McNiven, editors, The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology and Anthropology of Rock Art, Oxford, Oxfordshire, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, part II (Conceptual Approaches to Rock Art: Investigating Meaning), page 406:

(palaeography) An image or symbol which is club-shaped, that is, larger at the tip than at the base.


to be continued

(writing, television) Used at the end of an episode of a serial publication or program to indicate that the story continues in the next episode.


break the fourth wall

en-verb

break the fourth wall (third-person singular simple present breaks the fourth wall, present participle breaking the fourth wall, simple past broke the fourth wall, past participle broken the fourth wall)

breaks the fourth wall (present singular third-person)
breaking the fourth wall (participle present)
broke the fourth wall (past)
broken the fourth wall (participle past)

(idiomatic, fiction) To apparently communicate with reality directly, such as when characters of literature comment on the existence of a reader.

rompi la kvaran muron

direct communication with the viewer or reader


textuality

en-noun

textuality (countable and uncountable, plural textualities)

(literature, linguistics) The attributes that distinguish a text as an object of study.


column inch

... advertisements, $40 per column inch per year.

1877, Pettengill's newspaper directory and advertisers' hand-book for 1877, page 87:

One mass-circulation Sunday newspaper recently devoted several column inches to an unnecessary weekend working from Stratford to the Essex coast to provide empty stock for an up service that had ceased its high summer running the previous Saturday.

1959 November, “Talking of Trains: The anti-railway prejudice”, in Trains Illustrated, page 517:

Train operating companies get plenty of column inches in the tabloids, usually for negative reasons. Happily, Southeastern is worthy of praise for having made The Sun for something positive.

2024 February 21, Nick Brodrick, “Inclusion and development for all”, in RAIL, number 1003, page 62:

(printing) One inch of a printed column; a measure of space allocated.


bit player

(theater, film) An actor who has a minor role in a production.


overstrike

overstrike (countable and uncountable, plural overstrikes)

/ˈəʊvəstɹʌɪk/

/əʊvəˈstɹʌɪk/

(typography) The printing of one character over another, as - on top of L to produce Ł.


blow down

en-verb

blow down (third-person singular simple present blows down, present participle blowing down, simple past blew down, past participle blown down)

blows down (present singular third-person)
blowing down (participle present)
blew down (past)
blown down (participle past)


Razzie

A retarded sense of meta is achieved whenever Leto’s Chapman goes on about the phony theatrics of film actors, but it’s Lindsay Lohan, as über–Lennon fan Jude, who breaks your heart, looking convincingly horrified that she has three undeserved Razzies while Leto has none.

2008 March 25, Ed Gonzalez, “Chapter 27”, in Village Voice, retrieved 2020-11-16:

(film) A Golden Raspberry Award, an award given for poor performances in the film world.


sex comedy

Just as the screwball comedy had well-defined elements which the films in the group share, the sex comedy shares conventions of narrative and visual patterning, not only across the originating mid-1950s phase, but observable in later examples, up to the present day.

2007, Tamar Jeffers McDonald, Romantic Comedy: Boy Meets Girl Meets Genre, Wallflower Press, →ISBN, page 44:

(film) A genre of comedy film with sexual content or themes.


Gogolian

en-adj

Gogolian (comparative more Gogolian, superlative most Gogolian)

more Gogolian (comparative)
most Gogolian (superlative)

From Gogol + -ian, from Russian Го́голь (Gógolʹ) and Ukrainian Го́голь (Hóholʹ) from Ukrainian го́голь (hóholʹ, “common goldeneye, Bucephala clangula”), from Old East Slavic гоголь (gogolĭ) < Proto-Slavic *gogolĭ.

der

Tchernuishevski presented and criticised John Stuart Mill's “Political Economy,” the æsthetic criticism of the Gogolian period, the party quarrels in France during the Restoration, Lessing and his age, etc., treated with the same superiority subjects of widely different kinds, but had his principal interests centred on the solution of certain great social problems,—the arrangement of the relations between the sexes, the abolition of serfdom, the abrogation of all individual property in land for the good of the community.

1889, Georg Morris Cohen Brandes, Samuel C. Eastman transl., Impressions of Russia, New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, p 263

(literature) Of or relating to the Russian-Empire writer Nikolai Gogol (1809–1852) or his works.


decloak

en-verb

decloak (third-person singular simple present decloaks, present participle decloaking, simple past and past participle decloaked)

decloaks (present singular third-person)
decloaking (participle present)
decloaked (participle past)
decloaked (past)

(intransitive, science fiction) To become visible again by turning off a cloaking device


full-page

Taking a full-page advertisement in the New York Times, the New Haven counter-attacked with vigour.

1959 September, “Talking of Trains: Attack and counter-attack”, in Trains Illustrated, page 405:

(journalism, of a newspaper or magazine article) covering an entire page.


cloner

(science fiction) A device capable of duplicating physical objects.


Bruceploitation

From Bruce (“Bruce Lee”) + -sploitation.

(film, martial arts) a genre of exploitation film that exploits the legacy of Bruce Lee through copycats.


falling action

(literature, drama) The events of a drama after the climax (or crisis) but before the denouement (or resolution).


AMI

As Bezos describes it, AMI threatened to publish the photos if Bezos failed to make a public statement that he had “no knowledge or basis for suggesting that AMI’s coverage was politically motivated or influenced by political forces.”

2019 February 11, Quinta Jurecic, “A Turning Point for Sextortion”, in The Atlantic:

American Media Inc.
w:American Media Inc.

(publishing) Initialism of American Media Inc..


antiliterature

(literature) Written works that deliberately avoid the typical conventions of literature, such as antinovels, antiplays and antipoems.

antyliteratura

written works that deliberately avoid the typical conventions of literature


first contact

en-noun

first contact (usually uncountable, plural first contacts)

Humanity’s first contact with an alien race occurred in 2157. At that time, the Alliance allowed survey fleets to activate any dormant mass relays discovered, a practice considered dangerous and irresponsible by Council-aligned races. When a turian patrol discovered a human fleet attempting to activate a relay, they attacked. One human vessel survived, retreating to the colony of Shanxi.

2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: First Contact War Codex entry:

(science fiction) The first meeting between humans and extraterrestrials.


von Neumann machine

von Neumann machine (plural von Neumann machines)

For John von Neumann, Hungarian mathematician

(science fiction) Any machine that is capable of self-replication.


Sturm und Drang

/ˈʃtəɹm ʊnt ˈdɹaŋ/

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Borrowed from German Sturm und Drang with the same figurative meaning, from Sturm (“storm”) + und (“and”) + Drang (“pressure, stress; urge, impulse, longing”). The phrase is the title of the play Sturm und Drang (1776) by German dramatist Friedrich Maximilian von Klinger (1752–1831).
The fact that the phrase is often italicized suggests it has not been fully assimilated into English.

The best of the Stürmer und Dränger grew out of their Sturm und Drang, and it was necessary to indicate in what ways [Johann Gottfried] Herder and [Johann Wolfgang von] Goethe changed as they grew older. It should be stressed, however, that the very principles which forced them to burst the husk of the Sturm und Drang are in themselves a vital element within the Sturm und Drang.

1953, Roy Pascal, “Introduction”, in The German Sturm und Drang, Manchester: Manchester University Press, →OCLC, page xvi:

[Georg Wilhelm Friedrich] Hegel's further observation shows the route taken by those who survived their Sturm und Drang and went on to produce more: "Because the sickness is in the essence itself, its isolated manifestations can be repressed [zurückdrängen] and the superficial symptoms suppressed [dämpfen]."

1985, Larry Vaughan, The Historical Constellation of the Sturm und Drang (American University Studies, Series I (Germanic Languages and Literatures); 38), New York, N.Y.: Peter Lang, →ISBN, page 61:

[page 1100, column 1] The Sturm und Drang (storm and stress) was a literary movement that flourished in Germany in the 1770s and 1780s and represented the protest of a group of young university-educated men against the norms of polite society. […] [page 1101, columns 1 and 2] [T]he Sturm und Drang reflected the growth of modern individualism and the challenge that middle-class ideas of selfhood presented to so-called enlightened absolutism, that is to say, to political and cultural structures that sought legitimacy by assimilating elements of bureaucratic rationalism. […] The Sturm und Drang was nevertheless an important forerunner of Romanticism in its formal experimentalism, its enthusiasm for popular culture and the primitive, its acceptance of the power of unconscious, irrational forces, and above all its concern with individual experience.

2004, David Hill, “Sturm und Drang”, in Christopher John Murray, editor, Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era, 1760–1850, volumes 2 (L–Z, Index), New York, N.Y., London: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, →ISBN, pages 1100–1101:

It was precisely this reason, science and the eighteenth-century Enlightenment to account for genius in rational terms that allowed the non-rational thinkers who fueled the fires of the Sturm und Drang movement to vivify, and elaborate upon, the ancient Greek notion of genius as a numinous power associated with the Muses and the gods.

2006, Angus [James] Nicholls, Goethe's Concept of the Daemonic: After the Ancients, Rochester, N.Y.: Camden House Publishing, →ISBN, page 81:

The complex figure of Clavigo is therefore a variant on the Sturm and Drang theme of the enemy brothers, which forms the framework for a far older theme: that of Shakespeare's Hamlet who kills Ophelia's brother Valentin. Goethe's play is in fact modeled after Shakespeare's tragedy, and the last act is riddled with references to the cemetery scene from Hamlet. A theme dear to Sturm and Drang is also revisited: fratricide. The period during which Goethe wrote Clavigo was that in which the young Sturm and Drang poets all flocked around the figure of Goethe.

2014, Katalin Nun, Jon Stewart, editors, Kierkegaard's Literary Figures and Motifs: Tome I: Agamemnon to Guadalquivir (Kirkegaard Research: Sources, Reception and Resources; 16), Farnham, Surrey, Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate Publishing, →ISBN, page 105:

(literature, music, theater) A proto-Romantic movement in German literature and music which occurred from the late 1760s to the early 1780s, emphasizing individual subjectivity and the free expression of emotions.

狂飆突進運動 /狂飙突进运动

a proto-Romantic movement from the late 1760s to the early 1780s in German literature and music


worldbuilding

The purpose of worldbuilding isn't just to do a cool exercise, but to give a sense of place — and all of your thought experiments absolutely have to result in something vivid and alive.

2013 February 8, Charlie Jane Anders, “7 Deadly Sins of Worldbuilding”, in io9, archived from the original on 2016-11-25:

High fantasy of the George RR Martin kind hinges on world-building. When there really is a whole world to build, and not just a historical period or a particular country, world-building does not take a few paragraphs in a short story; it takes chapters.

2015 May 20, Natasha Pulley, “Fantasy cannot build its imaginary worlds in short fiction”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(fiction) The conception and description of a fictional world, often as the setting of a work of fiction, particularly in speculative fiction.

աշխարհկառուցում

act or process of building of a fictional world


full out

en-adj

full out (comparative more full out, superlative most full out)

more full out (comparative)
most full out (superlative)

(typography, not comparable) Extending across the full width of a page or column, without indentation.


Palace

(Philippines, journalism) Ellipsis of Malacañang Palace.


virgula

From Latin virgula (“twig; wand; scratch comma”), from virga (“branch; rod”) + -ulus (“-ule: forming diminutives”). As a dowsing rod, via virgula divina or divinatoria. Doublet of virgule.

der

A Point with a Virgula, call'd a Semicolon.

1728, Ephraim Chambers, “Point”, in Cyclopædia:

The full stop or, instead, a virgula, i.e. a short slanting strike (/) is used... to mark the end of a sentence or of a portion of a sentence followed by a pause.

1934, Robert C. Priebsch et al., chapter X, in The German Language, volume II, page 380:

(typography, rare) Synonym of virgule: a punctuation mark.


tk

Abbreviation of to come. C is replaced with K because -tk- occurs much less often in English than -tc-, making it easier to search for in a text.

(journalism) A placeholder used before publication for information that is not yet available but will be filled in before publication.


arsis

en-noun

arsis (countable and uncountable, plural arses)

From Ancient Greek ἄρσις (ársis, “lifting”), from αἴρω (aírō, “I lift”).

it comes to pass that the arsis may effect some change in the order of which it is itself the commencement

1830, Johann Gottfried Jacob Hermann, Hermann's Elements of the Doctrine of Metres:

(poetry) The stronger part of a metrical foot: the part containing the long (heavy) syllable in quantitative meter, or the stressed syllable in a qualitative meter.


roboid

A roboid waiter, human-like but running on hidden casters, paused with a tray of drinks.

1974, Michael Moorcock, The shores of death:

The terrifying thing about all of this is that we now have a distinct possibility that a hive of aliens with their attendant purely biomechanical roboids the Greys, from another part of our universe, are intercepting and intervening in the affairs of our species.

It is their challenge, with the help of Tania, a roboid, to adapt the siblings to their new environment.

2009, Arnold J. Inzko, The Siblings' Legacy:


AJA

(television) Initialism of Al Jazeera Arabic.


nonbolded

The nonbolded text is the expected response from our e-mail server.

2009, James Turnbull, Peter Lieverdink, Dennis Matotek, Pro Linux System Administration:


ZWJ

(computing, typography) Acronym of zero-width joiner.


ZWNJ

(computing, typography) Initialism of zero-width non-joiner (“non-printing character used to avoid ligatures”).

zero-width non-joiner

neobʺjedinjájuščij símvol nulevój širiný

необъединя́ющий си́мвол нулево́й ширины́


biomonitor

(science fiction) A device that displays a readout of a person's vital signs.


FFF

fused filament fabrication
w:fused filament fabrication

(printing) Initialism of fused filament fabrication.


power suit

The crew chief was wearing a bulky exoskeleton power suit that enabled her to manipulate components weighing over a tonne […]

2007, Herbert S. Watson, DK-37, the Flight of Prometheus:

(science fiction) A powered exoskeleton.


autochef

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Obediently, the autochef prepares each selection. But father knows that the House Brain, while presently silenced, never forgets and will be sure to prescribe an exhausting workout.

1984, Edward Cornish, Habitats tomorrow: homes and communities in an exciting new era:

Dinner was an elegant five-course meal whipped up on the spur of the moment by the autochef, and afterward Shelly's parents wanted her to watch vids with them.

1999, John Gregory Betancourt, Johnny Zed:

Cupboards, washers, cooking equipment; I stopped myself from adding consoles, autochefs and other basics to the list. This was Earth.

2002, Keith Brooke, Keepers of the Peace:

(science fiction) A machine that prepares and dispenses meals.


Rodina

From romanization of Russian ро́дина (ródina, literally “homeland”).


meat puppet

In a reversal of McLuhan, "man" becomes the extension of the nanotechnological, a meat puppet run by molecular machines.

I am just not that meat puppet that you have been dealing with on the 'outside. ' He was a second rate bureaucrat working out of some obscure Washington office. His body served me well, as others have for generations.

1995, David F. Gray, The Shepherd's Man, page 340:

Torture those hairless apes with heat-seeking anal probes, turn bystanders into meat-puppet disguises, or abduct humans and lay their office buildings to waste.

2009, The Official Xbox Magazine - Issues 92-95, page 73:

“Well, I'll tell you something. You are not getting your hands on my monster, my greatest creation to date. You will not be using him as your meat puppet.” “You think I'd want this wretched homunculus for a body?” “I right here.” “Oh, no, you have me all wrong. You see, the divine human vessel I wish to inhabit is your own.” “Huh?” “ I beg your pardon?” “Oh, come on, son, you've had your turn. Be a good boy and let your daddy inhabit your flesh.”

2024 November 11, Jake Bender & Zach Dunn, “Laszlo's Father” (22:09 from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows, season 6, episode 6, spoken by Laszlo Cravensworth (Matt Berry):

(science fiction) A body that is controlled by someone or something else.


autodestruct

en-verb

autodestruct (third-person singular simple present autodestructs, present participle autodestructing, simple past and past participle autodestructed)

autodestructs (present singular third-person)
autodestructing (participle present)
autodestructed (participle past)
autodestructed (past)

(intransitive, chiefly science fiction) To destroy itself by design (as of a mechanical system).


autodestruct

They won't take any prisoners! Activate the autodestruct!

(chiefly science fiction) A feature of a system whereby it destroys itself.


horror story

The film is based on a horror story by Edgar Allan Poe.

(fiction) A fictional narrative of distressing events.


Künstlerroman

en-noun

Künstlerroman (plural Künstlerromane or Künstlerromans)

Künstlerromane (plural)
Künstlerromans (plural)

/ˈkʊnstləɹəʊˌmɑːn/

(literature) A novel whose central character is an artist of any kind, and which shows his or her development from childhood to maturity.


Skynet

From the Terminator film series, the first of which, The Terminator, premiered in 1984.

In the first two films, Skynet is a colossal piece of hardware, a single unit which contains an artificial intelligence designed to run the US nuclear weapons system, a doomsday computer that becomes aware and destroys humanity. […] It was only through some very fancy footwork that Terminator 2: Judgment Day managed to make it remotely plausible that Skynet had sent a second machine to a later date. Since Skynet is presumably aware of its own origins, this makes the first film marginally less plausible.

2005, Roz Kaveney, “Creation as Product: The Paradox of Franchises”, in From Alien to the Matrix: Reading Science Fiction Film, London: I.B. Tauris, →ISBN, page 125:

Maybe I watched too many Mazinger shows or read too many Yoko Tsuno BDs as a kid and, surely, I think the best way to end […] humanity would be to migrate SkyNet to Windows Vista, but somehow I thought it would be fun.

2012, Cristina Urdiales, “Foreword”, in Collaborative Assistive Robot for Mobility Enhancement (CARMEN): The Bare Necessities: Assisted Wheelchair Navigation and beyond (Intelligent Systems Reference Library; 27), Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, →DOI, →ISBN, →ISSN:

With the more convoluted Terminator Salvation, the seductive power of the skin job gives way to a constant maze of false seeming, centered on the relationship between John Connor and the part-cyborg Marcus Wright during the post-apocalyptic human fight against Skynet and its various killing machines.

2016, J. P. Telotte, “The Persistence of the Robot”, in Sean Redmond, Leon Marvell, editors, Endangered Science Fiction Film (AFI Film Series), New York, N.Y., Abingdon, Oxon.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 254:

Calpurnia, the Good Sister, the artificial intelligence created by Zephyr Bain, had achieved consciousness and self-awareness. She knew of her existence. She had crossed the line from the predictable and anticipated inevitable model of machine consciousness. However, it should have stopped there. The Skynet model from the Terminator movies didn't really work, because true consciousness was a by-product of chemistry and physical constitution.

2017 April, Jonathan Maberry, chapter 128, in Dogs of War: A Joe Ledger Novel, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 518:

artificial intelligence
artificial intelligence

(science fiction) A distributed artificial intelligence system that is aware of the physical world and acts autonomously through cyborgs and computer control systems.


curly quote

(typography) A shaped opening or closing quotation mark, as distinguished from a straight quote. In English: “ ”. In some other languages: ” ”, „ ” or „ “.


straight quote

(typography) A vertical quotation mark, ", as distinguished from a curly quote.

írógép-idézőjel

a vertical quotation mark, ", as distinguished from a curly quote


sublight

(science fiction) Alternative spelling of sub-light


crossfade

(film, television) A fade in which the picture of one video track is diminished as that of another is brightened.


crossfade

en-verb

crossfade (third-person singular simple present crossfades, present participle crossfading, simple past and past participle crossfaded)

crossfades (present singular third-person)
crossfading (participle present)
crossfaded (participle past)
crossfaded (past)

(film, television, transitive, intransitive) To diminish the picture of one video track while raising that of another, so that they blend together.


Arielian

(literature) Of or relating to the Popean character Ariel.


Umbrielian

(literature) Of or relating to the Popean character Umbriel.


Oberonian

(literature) Of or relating to the Shakespearean character Oberon.


Ganymedean

/ˌɡænəmɪˈdiː.ən/

(science fiction, demonym) An inhabitant of Ganymede (a moon of Jupiter).


Enceladan

(science fiction, demonym) An inhabitant of Enceladus (a moon of Saturn).


Mirandan

(literature) Of or relating to the Shakespearean character Miranda.


Charonian

/kəˈɹoʊnɪən/

/ʃəˈɹoʊnɪən/

From Charon + -ian, or from the alternative Latin oblique stem Charōnis.

The Charonians were proud of their frozen hell. Styxville was like Plutopolis, only less so.

1990, Donald Moffitt, A Gathering of Stars:

(science fiction) An inhabitant of Charon (a moon of Pluto).

Charonian staircase

a flight of steps from under the stage in ancient Greek theatre; used by arrivals from Hades.


double-struck

(typography, of a character or font) Formed in a blackboard bold typeface, in which certain lines of the character are doubled


spanishing

(printing, manufacturing) A printing process in which an ink is deposited on the bottoms and sides of depressions formed in a material, usually plastic


spanish

spanish (third-person singular simple present spanishes, present participle spanishing, simple past and past participle spanished)

spanishes (present singular third-person)
spanishing (participle present)
spanished (participle past)
spanished (past)

Such papers have been print-embossed or spanished to obtain special effects.

1969, Robert H. Mosher, Dale Stroble Davis, Industrial and Specialty Papers: Applications, page 180:

(printing) To subject to spanishing, a printing process in which an ink is deposited on the bottoms and sides of depressions formed in a plastic material


farspeak

farspeak (third-person singular simple present farspeaks, present participle farspeaking, simple past farspoke, past participle farspoken)

farspeaks (present singular third-person)
farspeaking (participle present)
farspoke (past)
farspoken (participle past)

Then the conversation turned to a vexatious old topic: Denis's continuing futile attempts to farspeak other telepaths.

1987, Julian May, Intervention, page 169:

Talia longed for Kyril's ability to Farspeak; even at this distance she would have been able to get some kind of warning back to the Heralds near the Border.

1988, Mercedes Lackey, Arrow's Fall, page 178:

"Go on back to the City, child," she said, very calmly, "and when you are close enough, farspeak the Council".

1991, Margaret Ball, Flameweaver, page 23:

Unless," he added, leaning forward, lowering his hand to the railing, "you would care to farspeak Chiara and have the King settle this himself?"

She tried to farspeak them but couldn't catch enough magic even for that.

2007, Gail Dayton, The Eternal Rose, page 391:

(science fiction, fantasy) To engage in long-distance communication by magic or telepathy.


farspeak

Alerted by the powerful farspeak of the watching prairiecat, Whitetip, as soon as the Ganiks began filing down the path from the shelf, Bili had all three hundred and twelve of his male and female warriors standing to arms...

1982, Robert Adams, The Witch Goddess, page 185:

(science fiction, fantasy) The use of magic or telepathy to communicate over long distances.


sports final

(journalism) the edition of a newspaper that includes the last version of the sports results to be published for the day (or time block); frequently this is the last edition for the newspaper for the day (or time block)


scoutcraft

en-noun

scoutcraft (plural scoutcrafts or scoutcraft)

scoutcrafts (plural)
scoutcraft (plural)

Enemy scoutcraft, extreme range.

1994, Debra Doyle, James D. Macdonald, By Honor Betray'd:

In August 1954 a Venusian scoutcraft allegedly flew Adamski around the moon, showing him extraterrestrial cities and hangars as well as forests, lakes, and rivers.

1999, Jerome Clark, Unexplained!: Strange Sightings, Incredible Occurrences & Puzzling Physical Phenomena, Visible Ink Press, page 7:

He flies around the Galaxy all alone in just a little tiny scoutcraft?

2001, Douglas Kendall, Battle of Infinity City, page 298:

In the ensuing years it had never come to that, yet every scoutcraft was equipped with a self-destruct mechanism, and every commander was prepared at all times to activate it.

2006, Margaret Wander Bonanno, Strangers From The Sky, Pocket Books, page 32:

The nearer they closed in; tiny scoutcrafts could be seen continuingly migrating to and from them.

2013, Chris J. Berry, The Celestial Window, page 137:

(rare, science fiction, ufology) A spacecraft used for scouting.


very high frequency

(broadcasting, radio, television) The frequency area from 30 MHz through 300 MHz, commonly used for radio and TV broadcasting.


starport

(science fiction) A port for interstellar craft.


sporadic E

(radio) A meteorological phenomenon where radio waves above a certain frequency are reflected in the atmospheric E region, allowing these radio waves to be received in distances up to 1,200 miles.


unemboldened

Text that has not been modified since the last revision is unemboldened.

Text that reverts from a boldened state to its original setting is unemboldened.


media outlet

(media) A publication or broadcast program that provides news and feature stories to the public through various distribution channels, including newspapers, magazines, radio, television, and web sites.


imouto

A character-for-character romanisation of the Hiragana form of Japanese いもうと (imōto).

::laughs:: it's ok. Josh only tolerates it becuase ^([sic]) I'm his imouto and am only joking.

1999 January 10, Animeg3282, “Recent flow of posters from AFSM to AGFF and vice versa...”, in alt.games.final-fantasy (Usenet):

The mirror was going to take you, just like it - like it almost took Mom, and Dad, and imouto. I couldn't let it take you... I love you, onee-san. Please, can you ever forgive me?

1999 July 13, Vctr113062, “[TK3 fanfic] "Phoenix" Ch. 19, 2/4”, in alt.games.video.sony-playstation (Usenet):

Second, why do all the girls correspond so well to accepted anime character archetypes? (We have at the least, Triela the tsundere, Claes the incho, Rico the bokke, Angelica as the sick girl, and Henrietta the imouto.)

2007 February 1, Abraham Evangelista, “10 Year Retrospective - My Least Favorites”, in rec.arts.anime.misc (Usenet):

I have to say I didn't have trouble with the cannon fodder, although the imouto is *extremely* annoying and needs a good spanking. She's too old to be acting like a brat.

2011 January 30, Captain Nerd, “Jan '11 New Anime series - my thoughts thru 3 eps”, in rec.arts.anim.misc (Usenet):

I mean, an utilitarian analysis, knowing in hindsight that little imoutos are the best thing that can happen to any anime lover, would clearly have revealed that her constantly kicking my balls when we were small enough to share a bath tub was not to be mistaken for ill intent, and that her nagging about my bicycle riding style when I carried her on the back seat was just natural

2015 September 20, pataphor, “Bantu versus Baby5: A critique of utilitarianism”, in alt.angst (Usenet):


tailpiece

Coordinate term: headpiece

(printing) An ornamental design at the end of a chapter or page.

кінці́вка

(printing) ornamental design at the end of a chapter or page


sicilicus

From the Latin sicilicus, the diminutive form of sicilis (“sickle”), so named because of its falciformity.

It is stated by grammarians that a sicilicus or laterally inverted Ⅽ, Ↄ, was placed above a consonant which was to be regarded as a doubled letter.

1925, Sir John Edwin Sandys, A Companion to Latin Studies, 3rd edition, Cambridge University Press, page 743:

(Old Latin typography) A diacritic, resembling a 180°-rotated ‘C’ (i.e., being similar in appearance to ⟨ ᵓ ⟩), written atop a consonant to mark gemination, superseded in Classical Latin by doubling the letter representing the geminated consonant.


imagism

imagism (usually uncountable, plural imagisms)

/ˈɪmɪd͡ʒɪzəm/

(poetry) A form of poetry utilising precise imagery and clear language.


outworld

Shepard, it's been two years since you had a job. Isn't it time you rectified that?
Exciting opportunities await Alliance citizens like you on the outworld colonies.

2010, BioWare, Mass Effect 2 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-10-31, PC, scene: Citadel Zakera Level 27 Advertisement:

(science fiction, often attributive) A planet that is remote from the homeworld of a civilization.


playout

playout (countable and uncountable, plural playouts)

(broadcasting) The transmission of radio or television channels from the broadcaster into the networks that deliver them to the audience.


catchline

(printing) A temporary note at the top of a page or galley proof to identify it.


contrasty

en-adj

contrasty (comparative more contrasty, superlative most contrasty)

more contrasty (comparative)
most contrasty (superlative)

The WFM display above shows a very contrasty picture with clipped whites and blacks.

2004, John Jackman, Lighting for Digital Video and Television, page 25:

(photography, television) Having great contrast between light and dark areas (of a subject or photograph).


deleatur

Borrowed from Latin deleatur (“it is deleted; it is destroyed”).

bor

[…] having been ironically reprimanded for inventing ingenuous errors, [he] will have to allow the errors of others to pass, when what he is tempted to do, and rightly so, is to fill the margins of the page with a flurry of indignant deleaturs […]

2011, José Saramago, History of the Siege Of Lisbon, page 32:

(printing) dele (“mark signifying deletion”)


biobed

(science fiction, chiefly Star Trek) A bed equipped with biofeedback sensors for medical diagnosis.


silly season

Possibly from an article in the 13 July 1861 edition of the London weekly newspaper The Saturday Review (see quotation).

"Constant readers" of the Times […] must have been often amused by watching the change which yearly comes over the great journal during the months of autumn. When Parliament is no longer sitting and the gay world is no longer gathered together in London, something very different is supposed to do for the remnant of the public from what is needed in the politer portions of the year. […] In the dead of autumn, when the second and third rate hands are on, we sink from nonsense written with a purpose to nonsense written because the writer must write either nonsense or nothing. We have, however, observed this year very strong symptoms of the Silly Season of 1861 setting in a month or two before its time.

1861 July 13, “The silly season”, in The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science, and Art, volume 12, number 298, London: Published at the office, Southampton Street, Strand, →OCLC, page 37, column 2:

The amount of space at the disposal of newspapers, and the want of something to talk about and write about, produced that mild autumnal effect known as the silly season, which sets in when there is a lull in politics, and a dearth of news.

1876 May 23, “Dunedin”, in Bruce Herald, volume IX, number 805, Tokomairiro, N.Z.: Joseph Mackay, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2017-05-26, page 6:

The Sasquatch has long since become the clown who is the life of the party, whom nobody ever takes seriously; the godsend of newspaper cartoonists in the silly season when politicians are on vacation.

1959 April 4, Stephen Franklin, “The trail of the Sasquatch”, in Ottawa Citizen Weekend Magazine, volume 9, number 14, Ottawa, Ont.: R. W. Southam, →OCLC, page 3:

The Brits call it the "silly season." In Germany the media call it the Sommerloch, literally "the summer hole." What they are referring to is the fact that when politicians and businesspeople close up shop and go away for the major European summer holidays, the number of serious news stories tends to diminish—meaning desperate hacks need to find something else to fill the hole.

2009 August 13, “News in the silly season: Flying rabbits, violent cows and drowning hedgehogs”, in Spiegel Online, archived from the original on 2016-05-13:

(idiomatic, journalism) A period, usually during the summertime, when news media tend to place increased emphasis on reporting light-hearted, offbeat, or bizarre stories.

okurková sezóna

period when news media tend to place increased emphasis on reporting bizarre stories


nonnetwork

(chiefly television) Not of or pertaining to a network.


Steadicam

Steadicam, a revolutionary camera stabilizing device, was not shown, but CP did screen a sample film shot with a Steadicam.

1975, Filmmakers Newsletter, volume 9, page 46:

Tilman Büttner, the director of photography who operated the steadicam used to shoot the film, has turned the camera into one of its main characters, a contemporary film maker trapped in a journey through Russian history, with Mr Sokurov himself speaking its part.

2002 September 19, The Economist, volume 364, page 82:

(film) A stabilizing camera mount for hand-held film or video shooting; a camera mounted thus.


fourteener

He writes in well filled fourteeners, with individual words used not only vitally to convey the sense but also as a kind of metrical polyfilla.

1984, Gerardus Antonius Maria Janssens, Flor Aarts, Studies in Seventeenth-century English Literature, History and Bibliography:

(poetry) A (usually iambic) line of fourteen syllables.


QSL card

(radio) A postcard confirming a successful reception of a radio signal on amateur radio, usually sent via the QSL bureau.


intermediate frequency

en-noun

intermediate frequency (plural intermediate frequencies)

(radio) A frequency to which a carrier frequency is shifted as an intermediate step in transmission or reception; generally associated with superheterodyne receivers.


vidscreen

“The homeopape conjectures were correct,” Felix Blau, boss of the police agency, was saying on the vidscreen.

1965, Philip K. Dick, “The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch”, in Four Novels of the 1960s, Library of America, published 2007, page 246:

The vidscreen was on in the shop, but all it did was preach about the wonders of colonial life and tell how paradise could be found by emigrating to the smaller planets of the Althosian system.


jump cut

Jump cuts used to be considered unacceptable mistakes. Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless (1960) was the first time jumpcutting was used extensively in a narrative film.

2002, Michael Wohl, Editing Techniques with Final Cut Pro, Peachpit Press, →ISBN, page 57:

(film) A cinematographic edit in which a single continuous sequential shot of a subject is broken into two parts, with a piece of footage being removed in order to render the effect of jumping forward in time.

coupe sèche

A cinematographic edit in which the view of a subject jumps forward in time


planetfall

From planet + fall, by analogy with landfall.

“Listen up, grunts. We'll be making planetfall in T-minus three minutes. You'll be joining the war against the Scourge, an alien race of soulless, ruthless automatons.”

2024 August 12, Joe Saunders, “The Battle of Zab 9” (1:00 from the start), in Solar Opposites, season 5, episode 9, spoken by Screaming Grunt (Nick Reczynski):

(science fiction) The arrival of a spacecraft on the surface of a planet.


PUR

PUR (countable and uncountable, plural PURs)

Coordinate term: PUT

(broadcasting) Initialism of person using radio.