palatal hook

In the Zographensis one finds pьřěaxǫ (John 6:52). Here the liquid is marked with the palatal hook.

1962, Revue Canadienne des Slavistes, V, page 60:

Kalnyn′ states […] that in the best manuscripts […] the instances of marking of palatal l and n in general exceeds those of failing to do so; moreover, the marking of non-palatal consonants with a palatal hook is rare.

1968, Robert Magidoff et al., editors, Studies in Slavic Linguistics and Poetics, in Honor of Boris O. Unbegaun, page 42:

In Czech, [the háček] is actually a variant of the palatal hook, which can take the form of caron or apostrophe.

2004, Robert Bringhurst, The Elements of Typographic Style, 3rd edition, page 304:

l-caron/l-palatal hook

2009, Theodore Rosendorf, The Typographic Desk Reference, page 130:

(typography, rare) = háček (when it takes the form of a prime)

(typography, pre-1989 IPA) A hamiform diacritic ⟨◌̡⟩ formerly used to mark consonantal palatalisation; superseded by the superscript jay ⟨◌ʲ⟩.


Archilochian

en-adj

Archilochian (comparative more Archilochian, superlative most Archilochian)

more Archilochian (comparative)
most Archilochian (superlative)

Archilochian meter

(poetry) Of or pertaining to the Ancient Greek satirical poet Archilochus and his style.

greater Archilochian

a verse consisting of four dactyls and three trochees

lesser Archilochian

a verse comprising two dactyls and a length


dactylar

(poetry) Pertaining to dactyl; dactylic.


minionette

From minion + -ette (“forming diminutives”).

(uncountable, US printing, typography, dated) A size of type between nonpareil and minion, standardized as 6½-point.


Asclepiad

First used by the Ancient Greek poet Asclepius.

(poetry) A choriambic verse consisting of four metrical feet: a spondee, two choriambi, and an iambus.


heptachord

From Ancient Greek ἑπτάχορδος (heptákhordos, “seven-stringed”), from ἑπτά (heptá, “seven”) + χορδή (khordḗ, “chord”). Compare French heptacorde.

der

(poetry) A composition sung to the sound of seven chords or tones.


sextain

From Latin sextus (“sixth”), from sex (“six”). Compare Italian sestina. Doublet of sestina.

(poetry) A stanza of six lines; a sestine or sestina.


angle quote

(typography, informal) Any particular quotation mark consisting of a pair of straight lines radiating from a common point separated at an angle anywhere between 60°–150°, be it single or double.

A Korean quotation mark; e.g., 〈, 〉, 《, 》.


choriambus

en-noun

choriambus (plural choriambuses or choriambi)

choriambuses (plural)
choriambi (plural)

From Latin choriambus, from Ancient Greek. Equivalent to choreus + iambus.

(poetry) A metrical foot consisting of four syllables, of which the first and last are long, and the others short; a choreus, or trochee, united with an iambus.


tambaran

(folklore) A demon or spirit, among certain peoples of Papua New Guinea.


black knight

(fiction) A villain or evil character who masks their identity and that of their liege by not displaying heraldry.


telerecording

telerecording (countable and uncountable, plural telerecordings)

(television, UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) A recording of a television broadcast made while it is being transmitted, especially by filming the picture from a monitor screen; the process of making such a recording.


figure space

(typography) In fonts whose digits are of uniform width, a space of non-variable width: ⊣ ⊢ equal to the width of a digit.


letterboard

(printing, historical) A board on which matter in type is placed for storage or manipulation.


ideographic space

ideographic space (plural ideographic spaces)

(typography, in fonts whose ideographs are of uniform width) A space of non-variable width, equal to the width of an ideograph, used in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and other languages that use Siniform ideographs.


method acting

(acting) An acting technique in which the actor fully immerses themselves into the character they are playing.


tiebar

(typography) Synonym of tie (“the symbol ⁀”)


mammaloid

(science fiction) A mammalian humanoid creature.


R-rated

From R + rated. The R-rating (short for restricted) is part of the rating scale used by the U.S. film rating authority Motion Picture Association (MPA) or similar rating scales used by authorities in some other countries.

(film) Of a motion picture, having an "R rating" from one more motion picture rating authorities, typically meaning it is suitable only for adults.

In movie terms, it suggests Paul Verhoeven in Robocop/Starship Troopers mode, an R-rated bloodbath where the grim spectacle of children murdering each other on television is bread-and-circuses for the age of reality TV, enforced by a totalitarian regime to keep the masses at bay.

2012 March 22, Scott Tobias, “The Hunger Games”, in AV Club:

(US, film) Of a motion picture, having an "R rating" from the Motion Picture Association (MPA), meaning it is suitable only for adults.


twinner

The twinner of Jack's ailing mother, a faded movie actress named Lily Cavanaugh (who was billed in her time as the “Queen of the B Movies”), […]

2016, John C. Tibbetts, The Gothic Worlds of Peter Straub, McFarland, →ISBN, page 149:

Everyone, that is, except for Jack; his twinner, Jason, died as a baby and has become something of a mythical character in the alternate world, […]

2020, Debbie Olson, Children and Childhood in the Works of Stephen King, Lexington Books, →ISBN, page 185:

(fiction, uncommon) One who is identical, is similar, or is a counterpart, to another person.


correption

correption (countable and uncountable, plural correptions)

From Latin correptio (“seizure”), from corripere (“to seize”).


corypheus

corypheus (plural corypheuses or coryphei)

From Latin coryphaeus, from Ancient Greek κορυφαῖος (koruphaîos, “leader”), from κορυφή (koruphḗ, “head”).

uder

In this work Homer and Virgil already appear beside Cicero and Plato as doctrinal authorities. The four corypheuses are infallible; any contradiction between them is wholly out of the question.

1953, Ernst Robert Curtius, European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages, page 443:

(drama, historical) The conductor or leader of the dramatic chorus in Ancient Greece.


dochmius

From Latin dochmius, from Ancient Greek δόχμιος (dókhmios, “oblique; dochmius”).

bor

Yet there is good reason to doubt the existence of any such; —good reason to think, that dochmiuses belong to the triple rhythm

1843, William O'Brien, The Ancient Rhythmical Art Recovered, page 6:

This chorus, which consists almost entirely of dochmii, is so corrupt as to present various problems of an almost insoluble character, although portions of it have yielded to the brilliant emendatory efforts of Hermann.

1910, R. J. Walker, Anti Mias: An Essay in Isometry, page 228:

Every dochmius is catalectic, representing an original phrase of nine primary times.

1912, John Williams White, The Verse of Greek Comedy, page 296:

(poetry) A metrical foot of five syllables used in Greek tragedy for highly anguished scenes. The metrical pattern is typically: short-long-long-short-long.


makegood

(television, radio, advertising) A rerun of an advertisement to make up for previous cancellation or error by the broadcaster.


homoioptoton

From Ancient Greek ὁμοιóπτωτον (homoióptōton, “in a like case”).

der

(rhetoric, poetry) A rhetorical figure in which the several parts of a sentence end with the same case, or inflection generally.


stasimon

From Ancient Greek στάσιμον (stásimon, “stationary”); compare stasis.

uder

the lively measures of the Hyporcheme which holds the place of THIRD STASIMON ( V ) speak for themselves

1883, Richard Claverhouse Jebb, Sophocles: The Plays and Fragments:

1950, Amy Marjorie Dale, Stasimon and Hyporcheme, Eranos, XLVIII, pages 14-20, reprinted in 1969, Collected Papers of A. M. Dale, Volume 2, page 34,
In the Parados the chorus is 'coming on', and has to move on to and across the orchestra to take its place in the middle; in all the stasima, however active and lively the dance, its evolutions are performed from that middle position (a choro tenente stationes suas, as Hermann said in 1844), and do no involve processional movement.

It is interesting to consider the treatment of the stasima in relation to their context. Especially remarkable is the way in which the first stasimon (224 ff.), a hymn to Apollo praying for the success of Dolon's enterprise, is largely composed of sentiments repeated, with many verbal echoes, from the preceding dialogue[…].

1964, William Ritchie, The Authenticity of the Rhesus of Euripides, page 338:

The first stasimon sings of the wonders of man, which culminates in man's city-building and his ethical community.[…]Episodes can be interpreted in the light of the choral stasima.

2013, Jonathan N. Badger, Sophocles and the Politics of Tragedy: Cities and Transcendence, page 78:

(drama, Ancient Greek drama) A song of the chorus during a tragedy, continued without the interruption of dialogue or anapaestics.


sexposition

Blend of sex + exposition, coined in 2011 by Myles McNutt to describe the numerous scenes in the fantasy TV series Game of Thrones in which characters talk while they have sex with prostitutes or watch them having sex.

There were similar grumbles about season GAME OF THRONES eps, but it always had the Dinklage turning in reportedly great performances--including a redefinition of, ahem, "SLAPschtick"--and its infamous sexposition[…]

2012, Ken from Chicago, “HBO's "Luck" has few viewers”, in rec.arts.tv (Usenet):

(film) (The practice of providing) exposition against a backdrop of sex or nudity.


counterprove

en-verb

counterprove (third-person singular simple present counterproves, present participle counterproving, simple past and past participle counterproved)

counterproves (present singular third-person)
counterproving (participle present)
counterproved (participle past)
counterproved (past)

(printing, transitive) To take a counterproof of.


asteroidian

But you remained conservative, A changeless asteroidian.

1932, California Poets: An Anthology of 244 Contemporaries, page 706:

Whatever else can be said about the world inhabited by Lesabéndio and his fellow asteroidians, this much is certain: their proper names derive from the first sounds they emit, not from a procedure of designation akin to the establishment of technical terms, and the laws governing the waxing and waning of their bodies are unlike those under which the bodies on the surface of the earth fall.

2011, Peter Fenves, The Messianic Reduction: Walter Benjamin and the Shape of Time, page 230:

What gags Flora is that Rod blew the Saturnienne to protect the asteroidians against North American culture , even though that cut him off from one wife, one concubine, and one son.

2014, E. Hoffmann Price, Operation Longlife, page 157:

(science fiction) One who is from or lives on an asteroid.


molossus

From Latin molossus, from Ancient Greek μολοσσός (molossós), properly "belonging to the Molossians", a people in the eastern part of Epirus.

(poetry) A metrical foot of three long syllables.


iguanoid

Because rumor has it, that they are three times as ugly, meaner, greedier and war mongering than the Earthlings, could ever be. Yes, if you can believe it, they are even worse than the Iguanoids.

2013, R. J. Denardo, The Captain's Propensity: The Andromeda Incident II, page 179:

Iguanoids stand three foot five to five five and use their long tail for balance.

2021, Craig Campobasso, The Extraterrestrial Species Almanac, page 231:

The Chameleons, another species connected to the Iguanoids, are characterized as a colorful race of reptilians that serve as watchers or guards for the Draco Reptilians, informing them of the political events taking place around the galaxy.

2023, Malik Bade, The Matrix & The Forbidden Knowledge - Extraterrestrial Edition, page 161:

(science fiction) A type of reptilian (reptilian alien)


tripody

From tri + -pody, from Ancient Greek τρι- (tri-, “three”) and πούς, ποδός (poús, podós, “foot”).

(poetry) Three metrical feet taken together, or included in one measure.


atompunk

In fact, there was a fair amount of stuff around in the 60s and 70s that can only be explained as cross-dimensional leakage from an Atompunk universe.

2001 October 31, Simon Bradshaw, “Re: Steampunk Recommendations?”, in rec.arts.sf.written (Usenet), message-ID <memo.20011031191447.43761C@sjbradshaw.compulink.co.uk>:

Perfect "atompunk" feel – reactors with nervous engineers and analog controls.

2002 June 10, Mike Simone, “Re: Land Battleships”, in rec.arts.sf.science, rec.games.design (Usenet), message-ID <152bbdf6.0206101038.72e312be@posting.google.com>:

For the Legion, we're looking at 20th century futures rather than 19th. Analogies with steampunk might be "dieselpunk", "atompunk", or "rocketpunk" – but any Legion of Super-Heroes worthy of the name seems to be as far from the "punk" aspect as it's possible to get.

2004 March 6, Michael S. Schiffer, “Re: Earth-2 Legion Synopsis”, in rec.arts.comics.dc.lsh (Usenet), message-ID <Xns94A49BD7E514mss2mediaonenet@130.133.1.4>:

According to a mailing list from the Netherlands, Atompunk is devoted to the cultural period (mostly of the United States) of between 1945 to 1965. While the moniker hasn't become a part of our country's vernacular yet (though I'm sure some of you already started using it ages ago), it sounds just annoyingly catchy enough to warrant a New York Times trend piece in about eight years.

2012 April 8, Elaine Chow, “Space Age Fetishism Getting Silly New Moniker: Atompunk”, in Gizmodo, archived from the original on 2016-08-28:

Atompunk covers the pre-digital period of 1945–1965, including mid-century Modernism, the Atomic Age and Space Age. Throw Roger Thornhill's suits in this basket, and everything ever worn on Mad Men. This takes us right up to the mid '60s, when the fictional worlds of yesterday abut the real worlds you grew up in.

2012, William J. Thompson, “Time Travel”, in Dress Like a Grownup!: A Complete Tutorial for the Average Guy, 2nd edition, volume 1, [Morrisville, N.C.]: Lulu.com, →ISBN, part 2 (Advanced Theory), page 55:

You keep imagining someone 20 years from now reading The Peripheral the way that we read Neuromancer today, perplexed at the now-unfathomable ubiquity of cassettes and modems. We laugh at the past or mine it for influence – think of steampunk, atompunk, dieselpunk, and the million other microgenres based on the incongruity of old societies and future tech – but someday, the future is going to do the same to us.

2014 October 27, Adi Robertson, “William Gibson’s ‘The Peripheral’: Looking Back at the Future: A Smart, Nuanced Twist on Time Travel”, in The Verge, archived from the original on 2017-05-05:

Additionally, while [Sebastian] Faulks aspires to write as [Ian] Fleming, he takes care to increase the serving of action, in fact including some interesting bits of atompunk—a nuclear-powered ekranoplan, Vulcan bombers.

2015, Nader Elhefnawy, The Forgotten James Bond, [s.l.]: [s.n.]:

(science fiction) A subgenre of speculative fiction, based on the society and technology of the Atomic Age (c. 1945–1969).


TOTP

(television) Initialism of Top of the Pops (“British TV show”).


supersaga

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(literature) A literary work composed of a number of discrete narratives.


hypospray

(chiefly science fiction) A kind of jet injector.


pseudogothic

en-adj

pseudogothic (comparative more pseudogothic, superlative most pseudogothic)

more pseudogothic (comparative)
most pseudogothic (superlative)

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Obviously, the style of romantic pseudogothic architecture was not invented by Isabel - the building at Puławy was preceded by several similar creations abroad and in Poland.

1980, Marek Rostworowski, The National Museum in Cracow, the Czartoryski Collection:

Even a regular reader of the most dreadful pseudogothic periodicals must have felt a frisson of horror.

1997, Jan Bondeson, A Cabinet of Medical Curiosities, page 97:

The pseudogothic trappings that disfigure the first two cantos of Childe Harold are absent in Childe Harold III and IV, which we may discuss here as a unit even though the last canto was completed two years later in Italy.

2004, Harold Bloom, English Romantic Poetry, page 295:


dossil

From Middle English, from Old French dosil (“spigot”), from Late Latin ducīculus, diminutive from Latin dux (“guide”). See duct, duke.

(printing) A roll of cloth for wiping off the face of a copperplate, leaving the ink in the engraved lines.


Neogothic

Neogothic (comparative more Neogothic, superlative most Neogothic)

more Neogothic (comparative)
most Neogothic (superlative)

The travelling engineer Frencesco Senweignoter designed the church at Falzes (1851) and also the front of the mausoleaum for Archduke Reiner in the principal church in Bolzano. The latter is a pleasing and correct example of the Neogothic style.

1979, Sandro Gattei, Sandro Pirovano, Robert Mainardi, Trentino Alto Adige, page 464:

The earlier periods, the original and ideas-phases of German Neogothic, have been well written up in English; now Lewis's work fills an important gap in English-language works on the later period; indeed, so far, there is no comparable work in German either.

1992, Newsletter - Issues 47-65, page 90:

The Neogothic Revival style of the early 1900s sought to tame the excesses of the flamboyant High Victorian Gothic by turning to English Gothic architecture for inspiration.

1993, East Central Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission, City of Berlin intensive architectural/historical survey: final report:

His interest in architecture was always strongly linked to his sense of responsibility for the care and preservation of the built environment. In 1973 he published an article on Early Neogothic in Finland.

1995, Icon to Cartoon: A Tribute to Sixten Ringbom, page 22:

Toward the end of the nineteenth century, he made a series of designs in the Neogothic idiom of Martorell.

2000, Juan Bassegoda Nonell, Antonio Gaudi: Master Architect:

(architecture, literature) Alternative form of neogothic


BSkyB

British Sky Broadcasting
w:British Sky Broadcasting

(media, broadcasting, television, historical) Abbreviation of British Sky Broadcasting, a former telecommunications company.


hillman

A farmer on whose ground there was a little hill, resolved not to let it lie idle, and began at one end to plough it up. The hill-man, who lived in it, came to him and asked him how he dared to plough on the roof of his house.

1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 186:

(folklore) A supernatural being, such as a dwarf, that lives beneath a hill.


Eastie

(UK, informal, television) EastEnders, a long-running British soap opera set in the East End of London.


nekomimi

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From Japanese 猫耳 (nekomimi), from 猫 (neko, “cat”) + 耳 (mimi, “ear”).

Thank you, Galen - I was pretty sure that she wasn't really a nekomimi, but this gives me some proof.

2005 February 17, Rob Kelk, “Re: DiGi Charat without her hat”, in rec.arts.anime.misc (Usenet):

(chiefly Japanese fiction, by extension) A fictional character who has cat ears on an otherwise human body, and possibly other feline characteristics such as a tail.


catperson

I haven't seen one of my earliest acquaintances in the game, a catperson berserker named Silverkat, since Ugeta was just a lowbie.

2012, Timothy Rowlands, Video Game Worlds: Working at Play in the Culture of, EverQuest, Left Coast Press, →ISBN, page 69:

(fiction) An anthropomorphic feline, or a person who has characteristics of a cat on an otherwise human body, such as cat ears and a cat tail.

katmens

anthropomorphic feline, or person with characteristics of a cat


blue screen

A compound of blue + screen, from the historical film-making technique of using blue backgrounds.

(film) The filmmaking technique of shooting foreground action against an evenly-lit monochromatic background for the purpose of removing the background from the scene and replacing it with a different image or scene.

(film) The visual effect resulting from this technique as well as the colored screen itself, especially blue.


epode

From Ancient Greek ἐπῳδός (epōidós); see epi-, ode.

(poetry) The after song; the part of a lyric ode which follows the strophe and antistrophe.

(poetry) A kind of lyric poem, invented by Archilochus, in which a longer verse is followed by a shorter one.


pocketphone

(dated or science fiction) A telephone that fits in one's pocket; a mobile phone.


ESPN

Perlman devised a format inspired by the seminal mockumentary Spinal Tap, where the spot started with an ESPN announcer speaking to camera in a serious, straight voice, framing the story as “real” documentary.

2010, Douglas Holt, Douglas Cameron, Cultural Strategy: Using Innovative Ideologies to Build Breakthrough Brands, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 345:

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(media, US) Initialism of Entertainment and Sports Programming Network.


B-story

In the B-story, Bart goes from metaphorically crying wolf to literally crying wolf when a timber wolf escapes from Krusty’s studio after getting freaked by loud noises. The wild beast ultimately menaces Bart in his schoolroom before Groundskeeper Willie strips down and saves the day by defeating the wolf in combat.

2012 May 20, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Marge Gets A Job” (season 4, episode 7; originally aired 11/05/1992)”, in The Onion AV Club:

(authorship) A subplot that appears in a screenplay or script for a movie or television show; a subplot that concerns the side-characters or less important aspects of a television show.


atmo

(science fiction) atmosphere (of a planet)


raisonneur

(literature) A person in a play or book embodying an author's viewpoint.


plasmatic

From Ancient Greek πλάσμα (plásma, “anything formed or molded”) (genitive πλάσματος (plásmatos)) + -ic.

uder

This dual function should be no surprise, for, as Eisenstein argues of animated films featuring plasmatic metamorphosis It's natural to expect that such a strong tendency of the trransformation of stable forms into forms of mobility could not be confined solely to means of form: this tendency exceeds the boundaries of form and extends to subject and theme.

2015, Cynthia Lucia, Roy Grundmann, Art Simon, American Film History: Selected Readings, 1960 to the Present, page 364:

From these points, we can construct a model for analysing how animation's 'plasmatic' capacity to shape and mould both existing and future (better or darker) worlds might be applied across deep ecological, posthuman and social-ecological perspectives:

2015, John Parham, Green Media and Popular Culture: An Introduction:

Plasmatic characters are most radically in evidence in the early cartoon shorts of Disney, but even in the relatively realist feature films, plasmatic moments and characters still occur, and may be significant when they do.

2017, Kevin J. Donnelly, Contemporary Musical Film:

The first of these is plasmatic in an obvious way; it suggests a delight in the impossible power of an ocean wave becoming something else.

2019, Ryan Pierson, Figure and Force in Animation Aesthetics, page 35:

(film, more specifically) Involving the transformation from one form to another; metamorphic.


Glyconian

Named after Glycon, an Ancient Greek poet, said to have written in this form.

(poetry) A kind of verse in Ancient Greek and Latin poetry, consisting of a spondee, a choriambus, and a pyrrhic.


castworthy

en-adj

castworthy (comparative castworthier or more castworthy, superlative castworthiest or most castworthy)

castworthier (comparative)
more castworthy (comparative)
castworthiest (superlative)
most castworthy (superlative)

As had Wilfrid Lawson and it is pleasant to record that, after The Devil's General, he was once again considered castworthy and went on to play several other roles.

1987, Vivienne Knight, Trevor Howard: a gentleman and a player: the authorized biography:

That's what we're promoting here, the more he's in the casts, the more castworthy he is.

2001, Gardner Dozois, The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighteenth Annual Collection:

(film, theater, entertainment) Worthy or fit for being part of a cast or of being cast.


ASCIIfy

en-verb

ASCIIfy (third-person singular simple present ASCIIfies, present participle ASCIIfying, simple past and past participle ASCIIfied)

ASCIIfies (present singular third-person)
ASCIIfying (participle present)
ASCIIfied (participle past)
ASCIIfied (past)

(orthography) To reduce extended Latin text to characters of the ASCII character set.


sea monk

[…] three sea monks being found in 1530, 1546 and 1549. In fact the first sea monk was not a sea monk at all, having been found in the Rhine. The second one was found near Copenhagen with a black head and the clothes of a monk and the final one was found near Hafnia (Copenhagen), tonsured like a monk. […] Nonetheless walruses remain a possible explanation for the occurence of sea monks prior to 1546.

2005, Steenstrupia, volume 29, pages 40-45:

Sea monks had failed to assert themselves into the popular imagination the way mermaids had. They lacked a certain appeal. The few pictorial depictions stuck a tonsured human head on a fish body, scaly fins and tail forming the monk's ...

2019, Holly MacArthur, Tin House 80: 20th Anniversary Edition:

(folklore) A sea creature in European folklore (in the 16th century), a sort of fish that resembled (and was sometimes robed or tonsured like) a European monk.


dish antenna

en-noun

dish antenna (plural dish antennae or dish antennas)

dish antennae (plural)
dish antennas (plural)


horn antenna

horn antenna (plural horn antennae or horn antennas)

horn antennae (plural)
horn antennas (plural)

(radio) A microwave antenna consisting of an open waveguide of increasing size towards the aperture


Pleiadean

(science fiction, ufology) An alien being from the Pleiades.


chaotics

As I see it, chaotics represents more of a general outlook, a set of ideas describing the world, including literary texts, in ways used in a number of different disciplines.

1999, Hans C. Werner, Literary texts as nonlinear patterns:

The very process of discovering chaotics and overturning established views of science and systems chimes with the emphasis in literature of the day on uncertainty and indeterminacy, free play of the signifier, and rewritings of various sorts.

2000, Gordon Slethaug, Beautiful Chaos, page xii:

(literature) A branch of literary and cultural studies based on chaos theory and the inherent structure of apparently chaotic systems.


commlink

A great aurora spread across the heavens, and the Thukker infantrymen lost all hope as their commlinks went dead and the TACNET dropped offline. In that moment, each man understood that they were doomed.

2008, Tony Gonzales, Eve: The Empyrean Age:

Sheppard removed his commlink unit and attempted to access the engineering duty officer to report the occurrence.

(science fiction) A communications device.


vidphone

1989, Ron Goulart (ghostwriting for William Shatner), TekWar
The vidphone screen remained blank. “You're looking good, Jake, looking very good all things considered.” “Wish I could say the same for you, Wiz. Why the blackout?” “Reasons, I got my reasons,” came the whispering voice […]


eyephone

One system in the works in this country would have us wearing "eyephones," a helmet-like apparatus with a small TV screen […] With the eyephones, each eye will receive only one field, but filters will adjust the picture.

1979, Science digest: Volume 86, Issue 2:

Further along on the "naturalness of use" continuum are today's working VR projects where users are tethered by devices such as eyephones and datagloves.

1993, Diane M. Gayeski, Multimedia for Learning: Development, Application, Evaluation, page 82:

State-of-the-art eyephones (head mounted visual displays) are not considered to be suitable for providing a realistic or natural visual environment.

1997, Dafydd Gibbon, Roger Moore, Richard Winski, Spoken Language Characterisation, page 185:

The key element in this group of technologies is 'automatic head position tracking', which allows the wearer of an eyephone to scan a computer-generated landscape in a quasi-natural way.

1998, Richard Gough, Ric Allsopp, Claire MacDonald, On Tourism, page 12:

He locked the door, put the CLOSED sign up, and went into the back room where he found the boy still seated, cross-legged, as he'd left him, his face hidden by the massive old eyephones cabled to the open notebook in his lap.

1999, William Gibson, All Tomorrow's Parties:

“That apparatus you see on his head is an eyephone. Inside it are tiny video screens that are transmitting to its wearer images of an opponent on the other end […]

2008, Thomas Quealy, Is That You?, page 87:

(sometimes science fiction) A device that allows the wearer to watch video material as if immersed in the world being shown.


news crawl

news crawl (usually uncountable, plural news crawls)

(broadcasting) A line of text of latest news that moves across the lower part of a television screen.


v. a.

(epigraphy, obsolete) Acting in place of; from Latin vices agens.


bandspread

(radio) A form of tuning control (especially on old shortwave radios) that spread all the stations of a particular band over the full extent of the dial.


Abgesang

/ˈɑp.ɡəˌzɑŋ/

Borrowed from German Abgesang; ab- (“down, from”) + Gesang (“song”).

(prosody, poetry, usually capitalized) Repetition of the same word or phrases for emphasis; epistrophe, especially the concluding section.


maximum usable frequency

maximum usable frequency (plural maximum usable frequencies)

(radio) The highest frequency that allows radio waves to be reflected off the ionosphere.


above the line

(film) Who guide and influence the creative direction, process, and voice of a given narrative in a film, such as the screenwriter, producer, director, and actors.

(television) Of expenses: paid per project to creative personnel such as writers and actors.


tracking shot

A long, late-night tracking shot from one end of the Neon Boot bar to another actually tracks along the surface of the bar itself—and when there is a drunk passed out on the bar, the camera simply lifts up and flies over him, then continues on its route.

1984 October 12, Janet Maslin, “Blood Simple, A black-comic romp”, in New York Times, retrieved 2012-07-09:

In a long tracking shot at the start of the film, a feral cat prowls this wasteland until it is felled by a slow-motion arrow.

2010 January 25, Richard Corliss, “American Savior: Denzel Washington in Book of Eli”, in Time:

The lead-up to the battle was wonderfully done, starting with the long tracking shot that followed Sam and then Tyrion as they nervously took up their places for the fight.

2019 April 28, Alex McLevy, “Game Of Thrones Suffers the Fog of War in the Battle against the Dead (Newbies)”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 2021-05-31:

(cinematography, film) A continuously recorded segment containing no edits, in which the camera is moved (often mounted on a dolly rolling on tracks) so as to sweep through an extensive area or to follow the physical movement of characters or events.

pla seqüència

a continuously recorded segment containing no edits


wanderstar

From wander + star, probably a calque of German Wandelstern (“planet”). Compare the historic term wandering star, like the German term ultimately a calque from Ancient Greek.

He had thumbed about in Chants of a Wander-Star last night in bed and wondered about the career of that marginal versifier — born out of his proper time and now remembered by Ackley in an era even less proper.

1994, Ellen Datlow, Terri Windling, The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror:

A thin scythe of moon was rising, near the white wanderstar of dawn or dusk.

He passed gulls, terns, cormorants as if they were standing still. Now and then a wander-star crossed the heavens: one of the metal eyes the ancients hung over Alifros to spy on their enemies.

2009, Robert V. S. Redick, The Red Wolf Conspiracy:

(science fiction, fantasy) A wandering star or other similar heavenly body; a comet; meteor; planet.


newsplan

From a former trademark, “The Newsplan Discounts for Continuity”, owned by Newspaper Advertising Bureau, Inc. From news + plan.

(newspapers) A methodology used by newspapers to determine the discounted cost of ad copy.


two-hander

In May 2011, Chéreau came to the Young Vic theatre in London to direct I Am the Wind, a 70-minute two-hander written by the Norwegian Jon Fosse, which Michael Billington in the Guardian found "hypnotic", admiring the production's "visual bravura".

2013 October 8, Ronald Bergan, “Patrice Chéreau obituary”, in The Guardian:

With a screenplay by Carax and Ron and Russell Mael of Sparks (who also wrote the music and lyrics), the film is largely a two-hander about a famous couple and their talented daughter — the title character.

(theater, film) A play, film, or television programme with only two main characters.


gobo

Uncertain; possibly from go-b(etween) (“intermediary, middleman”) + -o (suffix forming informal terms).

suffix

At the other extreme, with limitless budgets all they have to do is dream up amazing lighting rigs to be constructed and operated by the huge team of gaffers and sparks, with their generators, discharge lights, flags, gobos and brutes.

1999, Des Lyver, Graham Swainson, Basics of Video Lighting, page 103:

(film, photography, television) A screen (often in disc form) placed between a light and an illuminated actor or object in order to diffuse the glare.

filtro

screen placed between a light and an illuminated actor or object in order to diffuse the glare


antifilm

(film) A film that deliberately avoids or subverts the usual characteristics of films.

antyfilm

a film that deliberately avoids or subverts the usual characteristics of films


continuation line

en-noun

continuation line (plural continuation lines)

(publishing) A word or phrase that appears at the end of an initial portion of a text, and indicates the location of the next portion or rest of the content; for example, "continued on page 9".


Vril

Coined by British statesman and author Edward Bulwer-Lytton in the 1871 science fiction novel The Coming Race, later titled Vril, apparently as a clipping of virile.

coined

These subterranean philosophers assert that by one operation of vril, which Faraday would perhaps call ‘atmospheric magnetism,’ they can influence the variations of temperature—in plain words, the weather; […]

1871, Edward Bulwer-Lytton (published anonymously), The Coming Race, Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, page 47:

It devoted its time to the study of vril, and taught that the secret of vril could be divined by contemplating the structure of an apple sliced in half.

2003, John Michael Greer, The New Encyclopedia of the Occult, Llewellyn Publications, page 506:

I have written a second book, Vrilology, which explores the historic background of the Life Force, which we refer to as Vril, and another simple book explaining just what Vril is and how it can help people improve their lives, filling them with happiness, joy and prosperity.

2010, Robert Blumetti, Vril: The Life Force of the Gods, iUniverse, page 7:

(science fiction, mysticism) A controllable form of energy.


underscan

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-underscan.wav

(television) The situation where a video image does not fill the entire screen but is surrounded by a border (originally caused by manufacturing variations).


zoo format

(radio) A radio programme format with several presenters chatting informally among themselves.


high frequency

en-noun

high frequency (countable and uncountable, plural high frequencies)

(radio) The frequency area from 3 MHz through 30 MHz, commonly used for radio broadcasting.


body line

body line (countable and uncountable, plural body lines)

(typography) The mean line; the level of the top of the main lower-case letters (without ascenders).


overskies

(science fiction) interplanetary, intergalactic.


overskies

(science fiction) Between planets (in the same or different system).


Caxton

(printing) A kind of printing-type in imitation of William Caxton's.


cursèd

en-adj

cursèd (comparative more cursèd, superlative most cursèd)

more cursèd (comparative)
most cursèd (superlative)

(poetry) Alternative form of cursed; used to specify a disyllabic pronunciation


timebase

(television, electronics) A time period used as a base measurement or frequency.


skyship

(science fiction) A vehicle that flies through the sky.


hexameron

From Ancient Greek ἑξαήμερον (hexaḗmeron, “six-day”).

der

(literature) A treatise or sermon concerning the biblical creation story.


redskirt

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-redskirt.wav

From red + skirt. Patterned after redshirt, which derived from the tendency for male security officers, who wore red shirts, to die on episodes of Star Trek: The Original Series. Female crew members wore minidresses, but only one red-uniformed female character was killed during the series' run, in the episode "By Any Other Name."

Wasn't there that episode where the aliens turned everyone into little blocks of styrofoam, and one of the aliens turned a redskirt and a redshirt into cubes and crumbled one of them? And then Scotty got really drunk. I seem to recall that the redskirt bought it that time.

2007 February 10, Marc Goodman, “Re: Response to Steven Pinker's 'The Mystery of Consciousness'”, in alt.religion.kibology (Usenet):

(fiction, fandom slang, rare) An unimportant or expendable female character, especially one introduced only to be killed in order to underscore the peril faced by important characters.


monopody

(poetry) A measure of a single metrical foot.

(poetry, rare) A line comprising one such measure.


helijet

Tomiko waited less than an hour, then flew with Harfex to the area where Osden had reported himself the night before. But as the helijet hovered over the sea of purplish leaves, illimitable, impenetrable, she felt a panic despair.

1972, Ursula K. Le Guin, Vaster Than Empires and More Slow:

Suddenly there was a glare of fight and the sound of an explosion from one of the other helijets, the one carrying Blare Oblomot. Heshke gasped with shock, and saw the flaring skeleton of the jet plummeting earthward in the darkness.

2001, Barrington J. Bayley, Collision with Chronos, page 20:

The two men heard a sound from above, and looked up to see three police helijets hovering overhead.

2002, Moss Tosney, The Ten Percent Man, page 572:

(science fiction) A flying vehicle resembling a helicopter and/or a jet.


BD-J

(media) Initialism of Blu-ray Disc Java.


dog

en-noun

dog (countable and uncountable, plural dogs)

Australian Kriol: dog

Bislama: dog

Gullah: dog

Sranan Tongo: dagu

Tok Pisin: dok

Torres Strait Creole: dog

desc

→ American Sign Language: Kop@Inside-PalmForward 1o@Inside

→ Dutch: dog

→ Esperanto: dogo

Ido: dogo

→ French: dogue

→ German: Dogge

→ Italian: dogo

→ English: dogo

→ Portuguese: dogue

→ Russian: дог (dog)

→ Spanish: dogo

→ Volapük: dog, doeg

Inherited from Middle English dogge (akin to Scots dug), from Old English dogga, docga, of uncertain origin.
The original meaning seems to have been a common dog, as opposed to a well-bred one, or something like 'cur', and perhaps later came to be used for stocky dogs. Possibly a pet-form diminutive with suffix -ga (compare frocga (“frog”), *picga (“pig”)), appended to a base *dog-, *doc- of unclear origin and meaning. One possibility is Old English dox (“dark, swarthy”) (compare frocga from frox). Another proposal is that it derives from Proto-West Germanic *dugan (“to be suitable”), the origin of Old English dugan (“to be good, worthy, useful”), English dow, Dutch deugen, German taugen. The theory goes that it could have been an epithet for dogs, commonly used by children, meaning "good/useful animal". Another is that it is related to *docce (“stock, muscle”), from Proto-West Germanic *dokkā (“round mass, ball, muscle, doll”), whence English dock (“stumpy tail”).
In 14th-century England, hound (from Old English hund) was the general word for all domestic canines, and dog referred to a subtype resembling the modern mastiff and bulldog. By the 16th century, dog had become the general word, and hound had begun to refer only to breeds used for hunting. In the 16th century, the word dog was adopted by several continental European languages as their word for mastiff.
Despite similarities in forms and meaning, not related to Mbabaram dog.

hond

morally reprehensible person — see also scoundrel

it is easy to find a stick to beat a dog

on the Internet nobody knows you're a dog

the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

Blue was released, and as Redford had predicted, it was a dog.

1969, Ski, volume 34, number 4, page 121:

"When The Alamo was coming out, the word of mouth on it was that it was a dog," Chase said.

2012, Ronald L. Davis, Duke: The Life and Image of John Wayne:

(informal) Something that performs poorly.

(film) A flop; a film that performs poorly at the box office.


bulldog edition

en-noun

bulldog edition (plural bulldog editions)

Uncertain. One popular theory is that competition mainly drove the term; publishers "fought like bulldogs" to "get out editions that would catch the mails going out of town." Another theory suggests that it comes from the nautical term dogwatch (“evening shift”), as printers had to work late in the evening to put out an early edition for the morning paper. Numerous other theories have been proposed.

The Detroit Mirror, morning tabloid, which has been under the same ownership as The Chicago Tribune and The New York Daily News, suspended publication with its early bulldog edition today.

1932 August 5, “The Detroit Mirror, a Tabloid, Suspends”, in New York Times, retrieved 2012-09-14:

In journalism, a "bulldog edition" is an edition of a daily newspaper printed early for transportation to distant points.

1970 June 10, “Today in History”, in Owosso Argus-Press, Michigan, USA, retrieved 2012-09-14, page 23:

Larry Holmes marched into view at 20 minutes before the hour of 11 a.m. . . . The guys with the cameras could snap away, and everybody would have a story for the 6 O'Clock News or the bulldog edition.

1980 October 2, Bruce Keidan, “Ali-Holmes strike out before bout”, in Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, retrieved 2012-09-14, page 9:

He took us on evening walks. […] On the way home, he'd stop at the corner next to the subway stop, get the bulldog edition of the Inquirer and chat with the guy selling the papers.

2008 April 10, Chris Matthews, “Philly Politicos Kick it Old-School”, in Time:

(chiefly US, newspapers, publishing) The earliest edition of a periodical publication, especially a daily newspaper.


jazz poetry

(poetry, jazz) A form of poetry of the 1920s employing jazz-like rhythm or a feeling of improvisation.


holoprojection

(science fiction) A holographic projection.


holovid

/ˈhɒləʊˌvɪd/

4 March, 1973, Harlan Ellison, "The Day I Died"
I was on a publicity tour for the book, fresh from a talk show over holovid.

He motioned at the holovid, still running in the corner.

2003, Liz Moore, Noble Savage, page 200:

He took her over to the holovid projector and she watched the holovids taken by pilots flying along the length of the ship.

2008, Helgard de Barros, The Second Skin, page 164:

(science fiction) A holographic projection of a series of images, like a video recording.


holoprojector

“I like to keep an eye on my investments. Including an eye that not everyone knows about, which doesn’t show up unless it’s absolutely necessary.” Garson’s holo crossed the room to stand next to a counter. “I mean, I am an eccentric genius, after all.”
“So you can project yourself throughout this ship? Anywhere?”
“Not everywhere, but I’ve got holo projectors in most places. Paid for them myself.”

2017 November, N. K. Jemisin, Mac Walters, chapter 15, in Mass Effect Andromeda: Initiation, 1st edition (Science Fiction), Titan Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 284–285:

(science fiction) A holographic projector.


base station

Coordinate term: mobile station

(radio) A radio transceiver permanently or semipermanently installed in a fixed location on land, typically used to communicate with mobile stations and/or other base stations


FRS

Family Radio Service
w:Family Radio Service

(radio) Initialism of Family Radio Service.


slasher movie

Two girls, watching a slasher movie about a psycho in an Edvard Munch Scream mask who calls girls at home and then stabs them to death, get a call from a psycho who shows up in a Scream mask and stabs them to death.

2011 April 15, Richard Corliss, “Movies: Scream 4 — The Ultimate Shriekquel”, in Time:

(film) A horror movie which depicts gory, murderous violence, often including scenes of torture.


pre-viewed

Linda Harris of Reston, Va., found a way to cut what it costs to buy videos. "Purchase pre-viewed movies from a video store," she recommends. Harris said she saves as much as half the cost of a new video. For example, she bought a pre-viewed movie, Dinosaur, for $6.99. The original cost $19.99.

2001 July 30, Michelle Singletary, “A Penny Saved Is... Well, It's A Penny Saved”, in South Florida Sun-Sentinel:

(euphemistic, of a VHS cassette, DVD, etc.) Previously viewed; used.


irising

Irising is frequently used instead of the fade to indicate the completion of a scene sequence and the beginning of a new series of scenes.

1920, Frances Taylor Patterson, chapter 4, in Cinema Craftsmanship: A Book for Photoplaywrights, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Howe, page 120:

Throughout the film [The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari] circular patterns are symbolic of chaos. Where irising began and ended a happy carnival sequence, an underlying feeling of chaos was created.

1976, Allan Casebier, Film Appreciation, New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Part 1, p. 22:

The screen is black at first, till a brightly lit hole opens in it and an all-black silhouette stands at what we see, in a moment, is a doorway. This is the wide-screen equivalent of irising in Ford’s silent films.

1998, Garry Wills, chapter 20, in John Wayne’s America, New York: Simon & Schuster, page 254:


tentpole movie

An allusion to the manner in which a supporting tentpole holds up the structure of a tent.

United Artists hasn't prospered in recent years, so a box office hit from its tentpole movie franchise is essential.

1995 August 11, Steve Persall, “Critic's Notebook: Previews whet our cinematic appetites”, in St. Petersburg Times, page 6:

Just coincidentally, it also provides the opportunity for the sorts of extravagant computerized effects that create tentpole movie attractions these days.

2005 December 3, Todd McCarthy, “The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe”, in Variety, retrieved 2012-09-28:

The tentpole movie is an attraction popular and exploitable enough to prop up the entire moviegoing tent for several weeks or even months.

2007 May 25, “The 1997 Summer Movie Review”, in Washington Times, retrieved 2012-09-28:

“We've never seen a high-profile film—a film of this budget, a tentpole movie with this box office potential—leak in any form this early,” he said.

2009 April 1, Brian Stelter, “Piracy Puts Film Online One Month Before Open”, in New York Times, retrieved 2012-09-28:

Variety is reporting that del Toro will direct the flick with Watson cast as its titular Beauty. . . . So we’re thinking big tentpole movie versus introverted indie.

2012 February 14, “Guillermo del Toro to direct Emma Watson in “Beauty and the Beast””, in IFC, retrieved 2012-09-28:

(US, idiomatic, film) A major motion picture which is expensive to produce but expected to generate significant revenue for its studio and investors.


dodecameter

/ˌdəʊdɛˈkæmɪtə(ɹ)/

(poetry) A complex line that consists of twelve metric feet.


64mo (usually uncountable, plural 64mos)

39. Reed, C. A., H. F. Harvey, & R. I. Brasher. WESTERN BIRD GUIDE: Birds of the Rockies & West to the Pacific. 286 pgs with index. Color prints throughout. Red fabricoid, with chipped cardboard slipcase. Oblong 64mo. NY: Doubleday, Doran, 1937. Very good condition, with fair case. $21.50 [115273]

2000 April 29, Acorn Books, “FS: 2nd Miscellany of 25 NEW ARRIVALS, Sat., April 29, 2000.”, in rec.arts.books.marketplace (Usenet):

(paper, printing) A size of paper or book: 1.87"-2.5" x 2.5"-3.125".


sight gag

Dragged suddenly before a formal dinner honoring the women's dean of Toledo University, he wowed his audience with a sight gag—he kissed the guest of honor.

1947 October 31, Gene Handsaker, “Hollywood Sights and Sounds: Bob Hope”, in Prescott Evening Courier, retrieved 2012-10-01, page 2:

In the good old ricky-tick days when movie directors wore riding breeches, a favorite cinematic sight gag was to reverse the film, which suddenly sent the actors waddling backwards through doors that closed behind them, putting their hats on instead of taking them off, and shoveling food out of their mouths instead of in.

1969 June 28, “Cinema: Happy End”, in Time:

In the opening sight gag, a guy in leisure wear shows up at his office only to find everyone in S&M clothes.

2005 March 10, Virginia Heffernan, “TV Review: The Hollow Men—Four Well-Groomed Britons, Trying Hard to Be Naughty Boys”, in New York Times, retrieved 2012-10-01:

As he uttered these words, a PowerPoint image of Dr. Möller's face morphed into that of a smiling Pope Benedict. The sight gag had the psychiatrists roaring.

2008 October, Paul Scott, “Was the Prozac revolution all in our heads?”, in Men's Health, volume 23, number 8, →ISSN, page 146:

(film, television, stage performance) A visually presented action or device which causes a humorous response without requiring any accompanying commentary or other speech.


flash cut

Peter Weir's The Cars That Ate Paris (1974), for example, begins with two brothers driving through the small town of Paris, Australia, only to suddenly encounter — via flash cut — a blinding white light in the road.

2004, David Scott Diffrient, “A Film is Being Beaten: Notes on the Shock Cut and the Material Violence of Horror”, in Horror Film, →ISBN, page 231:

Essential in music videos and common in flashbacks and dream sequences, the flash cut flickers many images across the screen over a period of a second or two. The effect passes quickly, but creates a visually intense moment.

2006, Chris Kenworthy, Digital Video Production Cookbook, →ISBN, page 79:

There is a flash cut, and suddenly he is in alien gear instead, inside the alien Sarcophagus. This is a visual attempt on the part of the production team to suggest that the energy wraith from a distant world is re-shaping existence and reality on the Liberator.

2006, John Kenneth Muir, A History and Critical Analysis of Blake's 7, the 1978-1981 British Television Space Adventure, →ISBN, page 121:

(cinematography) An fast cut, often as short as one frame, used to create a subliminal effect on the viewer.


Thuluth

(art, chiefly calligraphy) An Arabic script style.


FP

FP (countable and uncountable, plural FPs)


choliamb

Latin choliambus, from Ancient Greek χωλίαμβος (khōlíambos).


roger beep

(radio) A tone or tones added to the end of a radio transmission to indicate that the operator has concluded speaking. It is usually added automatically by a power mic or transceiver.


base radio

(radio) A wireless communications station installed at a fixed location and used to communicate as part of a two-way radio system or wireless telephone system.


choliambic

(poetry) Employing or relating to choliambs, or limping iambs.


handy talkie

(radio) a hand-held portable transceiver


citizens' band radio

citizens' band radio (countable and uncountable, plural citizens' band radios)

(radio) A publicly available system of short-distance radio communications, usable by individuals or businesses without a license.

(radio) A radio transceiver capable of operating on the band designated for this system.


radiogramophone

There was a bare wooden floor, and in one corner a large radiogramophone.

1952, Doris Lessing, Martha Quest, Panther, published 1974, page 195:

(radio, historical) A gramophone record player that incorporates a radio receiver.


VFX

Where is the main visual effects shot in that movie?? Hint: There are five VFX shots, four of them are modifications of the fire in the scene. One of them is something else, what is it?

1991 May 30, Marty Brenneis, “Backdraft”, in misc.emerg-services (Usenet), retrieved 2018-10-05, message-ID <9105301502.AA04808@snootles>:

Believe me, I *know* how much effects cost or don't. They can even be inexpensive with CGI -- we managed to turn out over 150 VFX shots for SUPER MARIO BROTHERS (script and editing: NOT MY FAULT) for about $4M. But the cost of the SETS still pushed it up into the $30-40M range. And on-set effects and construction costs were also behind the exorbitance of T2 (Visual Effects: ~$18M) and the "other" L.A.Hero (Total ~$130M).

1993 July 14, Kevin Bjorke, “Re: Live Action AKIRA (Was: Live Action Macross)”, in rec.arts.anime (Usenet), retrieved 2018-10-05, message-ID <1993Jul14.181330.17785@pixar.com>:

Digital re-composite: assuming Lucas saved all the original film shot in the making of the trilogy, it would be theoretically possible to digitize each element (footage of indivdual spacecraft, pyrotechnic shots, backgrounds) and reassemble the VFX seamlessly using the computer instead of the ever-twitchy optical printer that was the state of the art 10-15 years ago.

1994 October 28, Allen G. Newman, “How will they go (VFX revisions)?”, in rec.arts.sf.starwars (Usenet), retrieved 2018-10-05, message-ID <CyEnII.8w6@sunfish.usd.edu>:


VFX

en-verb

VFX (third-person singular simple present VFXs, present participle VFXing, simple past and past participle VFXed or VFX'd)

VFXs (present singular third-person)
VFXing (participle present)
VFXed (participle past)
VFXed (past)
VFX'd (participle past)
VFX'd (past)

When we were filming all the scenes in Charlie’s house, I had a huge scab. I think they VFX’d it out and that’s where most of the budget went.

2024 September 20, Sam Damshenas, quoting Joe Locke, “Joe Locke and Jenny Walser on Heartstopper’s darkest (and horniest) season yet”, in Gay Times:

(transitive, film) To create or manipulate (something) using visual effects techniques.


neverfade

2 beautiful doubleweight gloss enlargements. 8 guaranteed neverfade prints each roll 25c.

1940 November, Popular Mechanics, volume 74, number 5, page 626:

(photography, printing, dated) Never fading; permanent.


doubleweight

To reproduce right-of-way, speed-restriction, yard-limit, and other signs, photograph the original signs, and make prints, scale size, on doubleweight paper.

1958 December, Boys' Life, volume 48, number 12, page 8:

(photography, printing) Being or relating to a paper of twice the ordinary weight.


ODP

orbital defense platform
orbital defense platform#English

(science fiction) Initialism of orbital defense platform.


found footage

Shrewdly mixing found footage, historical record and dramatized re-creation, One Day in People's Poland is an intriguing curio.

2006 May 30, Joe Leydon, “One Day In People's Poland”, in Variety, retrieved 2012-10-16:

Austrian director Gustav Deutsch complicates this witty, deceptively simple formula with a wealth of found footage (material shot by others for other purposes) borrowed from film archives from around the world.

2009 December 1, Manohla Dargis, “Movie Review: Film ist a Girl & a Gun (2009)”, in New York Times, retrieved 2012-10-16:

(film) Misplaced, forgotten, archived, or privately-owned motion picture recordings which document past events and which are subsequently rediscovered and made available for public viewing.

Yes, they knew it was only a movie—one that, like The Blair Witch Project and Cloverfield and plenty others before it, used "found footage" to give a patina of realism to the fanciful events.

2009 October 10, Richard Corliss, “Paranormal Activity: A Horror Phenomenon”, in Time:

(film) A motion picture, or a segment of one, photographed in the style of an amateurish or unedited documentary.


penthemimeris

/ˌpɛnθɪˈmɪməɹɪs/

From Latin penthēmimeris, from Ancient Greek πενθημιμερής (penthēmimerḗs, “having five half-feet”): πέντε (pénte, “five”) + ἡμι- (hēmi-) + μέρος (méros, “part, metrical foot”).

der

πενθημιμερής

(poetry) A prosal group of two and a half feet.


prose poem

"He is the author of a very wild Mystery, or dramatic prose-poem, in which the Ocean, Mont-Blanc, and the Cathedral of Strassburg have parts to play."

1839, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, chapter 3, in Hyperion: A Romance:

Slayton made "Love Is All" the effort of his life. . . . It was a pure love-story, fine, elevated, romantic, passionate—a prose poem that set the divine blessing of love (I am transposing from the manuscript) high above all earthly gifts and honours.

1910, O. Henry, “A Sacrifice Hit”, in Whirligigs:

In form and spirit the book is unique, a simple romantic narrative transmuted by sheer glow of beauty into a prose poem.

1915, John Galsworthy, in Preface to Green Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest (1904) by W. H. Hudson

So if you ask Lasseter about car love, you get an impromptu prose poem. "Car love," he says, "is the sound of a throaty V-8 rumbling and revving, the acceleration throwing you back in the seat—especially when you get on a beautiful, winding road and the light's dappling through the trees."

2006 May 14, Richard Corliss, “Get Your Motor Running”, in Time:

(literature) A literary text written in the manner of prose—without the fixed lines, rhyme, and meter often characteristic of poetry—but nonetheless clearly possessing some of the distinctive attributes of poetry, such as lyrical language, evocation of feeling, vivid imagery, metaphor, and linguistic devices like assonance or alliteration.


3D printer

→ Japanese: 3Dプリンター (surīdī purintā)

→ Korean: 3D 프린터 (sseuridi peurinteo)

/ˈθɹiː ˈdiː ˈpɹɪntə(ɹ)/

/ˈθɹi ˈdi ˈpɹɪntɚ/

[ˈθɹi ˈdi ˈpɹɪɾ̃ɚ]

(printing) A device for making three-dimensional solid objects from a digital model.


antiverbal

en-adj

antiverbal (comparative more antiverbal, superlative most antiverbal)

more antiverbal (comparative)
most antiverbal (superlative)

Though in very different ways, Wolfe, Capote, Mailer, and Didion each define their subjects as somehow beyond words — antiverbal or nonverbal, threatening or sublime, overpowering and intense or private and intuitive […]

1987, Wayne (Chris) Anderson, Style as Argument: Contemporary American Nonfiction (page 5)

Othello, Horatio, and Brutus strike me as notable exemplars of laconicism, but in Hotspur's case Shakespeare creates an antiverbal bias that is not so much philosophical as it is bound up in gender stereotype.

1989, Ronald L. Dotterer, Shakespeare: Text, Subtext, and Context, page 206:

(literature, semiotics) Opposing or avoiding the use of speech or words.

antiverbal

opposing or avoiding the use of speech or words


PUT

en-noun

PUT (countable and uncountable, plural PUTs)

Coordinate term: PUR

(broadcasting) Initialism of person using television.


feature story

(journalism) A human-interest story or article that is not closely tied to a recent news event.


guard band

(radio) An unused part of the radio spectrum between bands, for the purpose of preventing interference.


deaf aid

(television, slang) A presenter's earpiece through which they receive instructions from the studio.


SWR

standing wave ratio
standing wave ratio#English

(radio) Initialism of standing wave ratio.


type face

(typography, printing) Alternative form of typeface


antenna switch

antenna switch (plural antenna switches)

(radio) A switch allows one to select which antenna to use with a transmitter, receiver, or transceiver


driven element

(radio) An element of an antenna that receives power directly from the transmitter.


dipole antenna

dipole antenna (plural dipole antennas or dipole antennae)

dipole antennas (plural)
dipole antennae (plural)

(radio) An antenna with a single, linear element, so energized that the RF current has a node only at each end.

dipoliantenni

antenna with single, linear element, so energized that the RF current has a node only at each end


parasitic element

parasitic element (plural parasitic elements)

(radio) An antenna element that receives and re-emits energy from the driven element, which has an effect on the performance of the antenna.


Yagi-Uda antenna

Yagi-Uda antenna (plural Yagi-Uda antennas)

Named after Japanese engineers Hidetsugu Yagi and Shintaro Uda.

(radio) A type of directional antenna with one driven element and one or more parasitic elements; a directional radio or TV antenna consisting of two or more dipoles in the same plane with all dipoles parallel to each other.

Hidetsugu Yagi
Shintaro Uda
Yagi-Uda antenna


autopatch

(radio) A device that allows users to make telephone calls via a repeater


skybike

The creature was actually doing a neat job of demolition, using scissorlike claws to chop the sky-bike into small pieces.

1972, Arthur C. Clarke, Rendezvous With Rama:

(science fiction) A bicycle capable of levitation.


Balaam

The Biblical miracle of Balaam's ass speaking (Numbers 22:27-30); see talk out one's ass.

(slang, archaic, journalism) A paragraph describing something wonderful, used to fill out a newspaper column.


euth

en-verb

euth (third-person singular simple present euths, present participle euthing, simple past and past participle euthed)

euths (present singular third-person)
euthing (participle present)
euthed (participle past)
euthed (past)

Thereafter the job of euthing was transferred to the chief medical officer, who it was felt would have less emotional involvement.

1973, Arthur C. Clarke, Rendezvous with Rama:


feature-length

(film) Having the length of a feature film, generally in the range of about 1½ to 3 hours.


subuniverse

(science fiction) A universe contained within another universe.


human interest

(journalism, chiefly attributive) A kind of journalism that discusses a person or people in an emotional way so as to arouse interest or sympathy.


brainwipe

brainwipe (third-person singular simple present brainwipes, present participle brainwiping, simple past and past participle brainwiped)

brainwipes (present singular third-person)
brainwiping (participle present)
brainwiped (participle past)
brainwiped (past)

(transitive, science fiction) To mindwipe.


Stark

* As a Scottish and English surname, from the adjective stark.
* As a Jewish, German, and Swedish surname, from stark (“strong”), related to the above. This surname also appears in Czech and Slovak as Štark.

(fiction) The language spoken in the Ender's Game series, which is nearly identical to American English.


kitchen sink

The noun is derived from kitchen + sink. Sense 2.1 (“miscellaneous item or miscellany”) is probably from everything but the kitchen sink.
The adjective is derived from the noun. Sense 1 (“of or pertaining to a realist style of painting characterized by scenes of dull or untidy domestic interiors of urban working-class people”) was coined by the British art critic David Sylvester (1924–2001) in a December 1954 article entitled “The Kitchen Sink”: see the quotation.
The verb is a back-formation from kitchen-sinking (noun), which is derived from the noun.

back-formation

(by extension, drama, fiction, film, television, originally derogatory) Of or pertaining to a mid-20th-century (especially 1950s–1960s) genre of drama, fiction, etc., in Britain depicting the harsh lives of working-class people; also, of or pertaining to a film, novel, play, etc., of this genre.

työväestön arkielämää käsittelevä

of or pertaining to a genre of drama, fiction, etc., depicting the harsh lives of working-class people; of or pertaining to a film, novel, play, etc., of this genre


parallel world

(science fiction, sciences) A reality or world that exists simultaneously with ours, but independent of it.


villancico

From Spanish villancico, from villano (“peasant”), from Medieval Latin vīllānus (“villager”).

The villancicos are strophic, but they tend not to extend to the many strophes of narration that were typical of the romance. A standard form for a villancico strophe is ABBA, in which the first A is called the estribillo (refrain), the Bs represent the statement of the music for the copla (stanza) twice (as copla and mudanza), and the return of the estribillo as the vuelta.

2014, James Haar, editor, European Music, 1520–1640, Boydell & Brewer, →ISBN, page 447:

(music, poetry) A traditional Spanish (or Portuguese) folk song with short stanzas and a refrain; now especially common as a Christmas carol.

gabon-kanta

traditional Spanish or Portuguese folk song


file photo

(media) A photograph that is representative of the subject of a news story, but that has been selected from a news organization's existing photo library.


sourstuff

From sour + stuff. Calque of German Sauerstoff (“oxygen”) and/or Dutch zuurstof (“oxygen”), both loose loan translations of French oxygène. See oxygen for more.

This is approximately the heat of exploding what the Germans call bang-gas (mixture of sourstuff and waterstuff), the result being liquid.

1887, The Electrical journal, volume 18, page 482:

For an outshow, the gang of water has two waterstuff unclefts bound to one sourstuff uncleft; the gang of rust has two iron and three sourstuff unclefts; [...]

Thus, everyday sourstuff has eight neitherbits with its eight firstbits, but there are also kinds with five, six, seven, nine, ten, and eleven neitherbits. A samestead is known by the tale of both kernel motes, so that we have sourstuff-13, sourstuff-14, and so on, with sourstuff-16 being by far the mostfound.

1997, Poul Anderson, All One Universe, →ISBN:

“Best you and your thane don your sourstuff masks now, Judge Scoglund,” Ankowaljuu said, returning to English so Park and Dunedin could not misunderstand him.

2013, Harry Turtledove & L. Sprague deCamp, Down in the Bottomlands: And Other Places, →ISBN:

(chemistry, nonstandard, science fiction, rare, puristic) Oxygen.


zombie strip

(comics) A newspaper or magazine strip cartoon that is continued by others following the retirement or death of its originator.


Oscarologist

Or maybe it was sheer irritation at the four solid months of feverish speculation from Oscarologists as to what they would do?

2013 January 11, Tom Shone, The Guardian:


NRAO

National Radio Astronomy Observatory
w:National Radio Astronomy Observatory

(astronomy, radio astronomy) Initialism of National Radio Astronomy Observatory.


parathesis

en-noun

parathesis (countable and uncountable, plural paratheses)

From Ancient Greek παράθεσις (paráthesis, “putting beside”).

uder

(printing) The matter contained within brackets.


telebooth

One point three parsecs from Earth a heartbeat was being monitored by an Amneshahn telebooth.

2005, J. E. Hoyes, The Empath of Amneshah, Book One: Turba, page 3:

We have telebooths that take us considerable distances in an instant.

2007, Charles Edward Harris, Suns of God, page 196:

(science fiction) A booth from which one can teleport to another location.


en-noun

16mo (usually uncountable, plural 16mos)


24mo (usually uncountable, plural 24mos)


starliner

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(science fiction) A large starship capable of transporting many passengers.


planography

(printing) A form of printing from a flat surface, as opposed to a raised or incised one.


Enders

(UK, informal, television) EastEnders, a long-running British soap opera set in the East End of London.


Metropolis

My city need a hero, so I treat it like Metropolis / And it's a few bad Lois Lanes I can't name

2012, “Higher”, in Detroit, performed by Big Sean:

(fiction) A fictional city appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics, best known as the home of Superman.


grimdark

/ˈɡɹɪmˌdɑɹk/

From grim (adjective) + dark (adjective), inspired by the tagline of the tabletop strategy game Warhammer 40,000 (its rulebook first published in September 1987): “In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only war.”

(literature) The literary genre of speculative fiction that is amoral, dystopian, or violent.


Stygian

Stygians – natives of Styx

1940, Edmond Hamilton, Calling Captain Future, page 55:

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


technopath

(parapsychology, science fiction) A person with techno-telepathic ability, capable of reading the electrical signals of devices, such as computers, around them.


cyberpath

Claire nodded, remembering that Micah was, in essence, a cyberpath. He could mentally convince electronics and machines to do pretty much whatever he wanted.

2015, Keith R. A. DeCandido, Heroes Reborn - Book 5: Save The Cheerleader, Destroy The World:

(parapsychology, science fiction) A person with techno-telepathic ability, capable of reading the electrical signals of electronic devices (such as computers) around them.


Priapean

(poetry) A kind of hexameter verse so constructed as to be divisible into two portions of three metrical feet each, generally having a trochee in the first and fourth feet and an amphimacer in the third; applied also to a regular hexameter verse when so constructed as to be divisible into two portions of three feet each.


classical language

classical language (plural classical languages)

(literature, linguistics) An ancient language that has an independent tradition that arose mostly on its own, and has a large and rich body of ancient literature.

古典語言 /古典语言

ancient language with a rich literary tradition


amoebaeum

Latin amoebaeus, from Ancient Greek ἀμοιβαῖος (amoibaîos, “alternate”).

uder

The third eclogue of Virgil is an amoebaeum.

(poetry) A poem in which people are represented speaking alternately.

amebeu

poem in which persons are represented as speaking alternately


telecommunicator

(science fiction) A telecommunication device of various kinds.


en-noun

18mo (usually uncountable, plural 18mos)

(printing) A book size octodecimo-sized pages.


thermokinesis

thermokinesis (countable and uncountable, plural thermokineses)

(fiction) The ability to manipulate the motion of molecules, slowing them down or speeding them up, thus changing temperature in the immediate vicinity with the power of one's mind. This is a wide spectrum ability than simply pyrokinesis or cryokinesis.


microkinesis

It features a fully coded Talent system including 'pathing, 'porting, merging, clairvoyance, clairaudience and microkinesis.

1998 October 10, Greg Kempe, “AD: [tinymush] TowerMUSH - AM's Tower and the Hive books”, in rec.games.mud.announce (Usenet):

In our telekinesis case, the psi. might pick up microkinesis or macrokinesis at a certain level.

2000 April 5, Kelly Ross Pederson, “Re: 3E psionics ideas?”, in rec.games.frp.dnd (Usenet):

[…], to arrange for him to be treated by a Guild medic who could repair the heart with microkinesis.

2014, Alexandra Hughes, Marked, Penguin Group, page 55:

(fiction) The ability to move objects and effect matter on a microscopic, molecular, atomic and subatomic level with the power of one's mind.


A-I

...the bishops also decided to break with the past and have the Legion recommend films in the A-I category...


A-II

For movies with a U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops rating of A-II, show only pre-selected scenes.

2009, Alan J. Talley, Christian Morality and Justice Catechist Guide:

(US, film) Rated for adults and adolescents only.


A-IV

...rated the film A-IV (for adults, with reservations)...

2008, Barry Keith Grant et al., American Cinema of the 1960s:


A-III

...and sent the Roman epic into theaters with an A-III rating...

2001, Leonard J. Leff, Jerold L. Simmons, The Dame in the Kimono:


little person

little person (plural little people or little persons)

little people (plural)
little persons (plural)

The little people then disappeared, and went each about their work or their pleasure.

1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 298:

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

1961, Muriel Saint Clare Byrne, Elizabethan Life in Town and Country, page 285:

(folklore, fantasy) A small magical humanoid creature, such as an elf, leprechaun, or fairy.


erom

(literature) A blend of erotica and romance.


godsdamn

"Thet!" he half-shouted, his voice deeper than one would expect coming from his frame. "Godsdamn it! You know the bloodmages are supposed to be notified [...]"

1994, Ed Stark, The fifth horseman, →ISBN, page 7:

“Godsdamn, Airell.” He pushed himself from the bench and began pacing.

2006, Cheyenne McCray, Seduced by Magic, →ISBN, page 55:

(vulgar, nonstandard, slang, fiction, fantasy) An expression of anger, surprise, or frustration.


godsdamn

Every godsdamn crevice and crack and water tank in the city would be a fucking encampment.

2004, China Mieville, The Scar, →ISBN, page 164:

(vulgar, nonstandard, slang, fiction, fantasy) Damned by gods; used as an intensifier.


anticinema

(film) Any form of cinema that defies cinematic conventions.

anticinema

any form of cinema that defies cinematic conventions


Kaguya

Borrowed from Japanese 赫映, かぐや (Kaguya).

(Japanese folklore) The protagonist of 赫映姫の物語 (Kaguya-hime no Monogatari, “The Tale of Princess Kaguya”), a mysterious girl from the moon, discovered as a baby inside the stalk of a glowing bamboo plant.

かぐや姫

Japanese folklore: mysterious girl from the moon


teensploitation

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From teen + -sploitation (from exploitation film). From 1980s.

We sat down to watch a teensploitation slasher flick.

With 1955's Blackboard Jungle—the first film to traffic heavily in youth rebellion and sex, the twin pillars of any teenager's existence—a brilliant, if obvious, new genre of film was born: teensploitation, movies about teenagers made for teenagers but watched by everybody.

1999 February, Bill Sienkiewicz, “Forever Young”, in SPIN, SPIN Media, page 64:

1999, Edmond Grant, The Motion Picture Guide: 1999 Annual (The Films of 1998), CineBooks, page vii,
Adrian Lyne's LOLITA was more notable for the terror it struck in controversy-shy American distributors than for its content, reducing taboo subject matter to a teensploitation film with a literary pedigree.

The influence of Rebel Without a Cause is difficult to underestimate.^([sic]) Despite what appeared to be just another entry in the burgeoning teensploitation trend, the film distinguished itself for a variety of reasons.

2005, Rob McInnes, Timothy Shary, Teen Movies: American Youth on Screen, Columbia University Press (Wallflower), page 21:

(film) A genre of exploitation films, starring teenage actors with teen-oriented plots involving drugs, sex, alcohol or crime.


robochef

These robochefs in the better apartment buildings really knew how to broil a sirloin.

1968, William R. Burkett, Sleeping Planet, page 163:

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


antiromance

Congreve articulates here for the English a distinction already implicit in such antiromances as Don Quixote (1605), Charles Sorel's Berger extravagant (1627-28), or Paul Scarron's novels[…]

1990, Julie Stone Peters, Congreve, the Drama, and the Printed Word, page 114:

(literature) A novel or other work that rejects the conventions of the romance form.


Crowley

(fantasy fiction) The name of a demon, found in several different works of fiction by several different authors. Named in reference to Aleister Crowley, a famous 19th-century occultist.


red ball

* ("high-profile high-priority" sense) From a routing system on the Santa Fe Railroad in the early 1900s. Fast freight trains which were to receive priority routing were marked with placards depicting a red disc, and were called "red ball" trains.

Or are the red-ball and white-ball games diverging to the extent that it is possible to envisage a future where they are, to all intents and purposes, different sports?

2017 January 28, Jonathan Liew, “To cling together or drift apart? Red and white-ball cricket facing a divided future”, in The Daily Telegraph, London:

limited overs cricket
limited overs cricket

(cricket, journalism, metonymically, uncountable) first-class cricket, as distinct from limited overs cricket (or "white ball")


astroship

The astroships — as we have named the future space vehicles — will be much more comfortable than the Apollo cabins.

1969, Illustrated weekly of Pakistan, page 75:

But we'd need to coordinate our efforts with another astroship.

1999, Joseph Neil Schulman, Brad Linaweaver, Profile in Silver: And Other Screenwritings, page 472:

If these are astroships from someplace besides our specific, physical universe, maybe they come from a place where our laws of physics do not apply, where there is no such thing as velocity/momentum.

2007, Kelly D. Bell, Visitors: A New Look at UFOs:

(science fiction) A spaceship; a starship.


Sol II

From its position as the second planet out from the Sun (Sol).

(poetic, science fiction) An alternate name for the planet Venus.


Sol I

From its position as the first planet out from the Sun (Sol).

(poetic, science fiction) The planet Mercury.


Sol V

From its position as the fifth planet out from the Sun (Sol).

(poetic, science fiction) An alternate name for the planet Jupiter.


Sol IV

From its position as the fourth planet out from the Sun (Sol).

(poetic, science fiction) The planet Mars.


Chauceresque

en-adj

Chauceresque (comparative more Chauceresque, superlative most Chauceresque)

more Chauceresque (comparative)
most Chauceresque (superlative)

/ˌtʃɔːsəˈɹɛsk/

/ˌt͡ʃɔsəˈɹɛsk/

a shocking word of Chauceresque earthiness

2011, Melvin J. Lasky, Media Warfare: The Americanization of Language, volume 3, page 35:

Thrust together in a small vehicle for hours, or even days, they would have no choice but to get to know each other and the result might be a Chauceresque exchange of stories.

2011, Mike Paterson, Inside Dickens' London, page 125:

(literature) Reminiscent of the style of Geoffrey Chaucer (circa 1343–1400), major English poet of the Middle Ages.


Parnassianism

The leading poets of Parnassianism, like Machado, were utterly respectable and middle classs, good family men; many were bureaucrats, and they were proud that they had freed poets from "the obligation to wear their hair long" (Bilac, in Broca, 1960:7). Symbolism was enormously influential in almost every other Western culture; it never had a chance in Brazil, in a literary world dominated by Parnassianism and its disciples.

1983, David T. Haberly, Three Sad Races: Racial Identity and National Consciousness in Brazilian Literature, Cambridge University Press, page 100:

The autonomy of art, the distaste for the bourgeois world, the heightening of artifice, the affinity for sculpture and architecture, the use of exotic imagery in an objective way— all these are general elements of Parnassianism that seem to have found their way into Salammbô.

1995, David Weir, Decadence and the Making of Modernism, University of Massachusetts Press, page 36:

Positioned between the rise of Parnassianism and Symbolism in the last two decades of the nineteenth century and the drastic innovations of Modernism in 1911, the period from 1900 to 1911 brought no dramatic changes of direction to Brazilian poetry.

1996, Marta Peixoto, “11: Brazilian Poetry from 1900 to 1912”, in Roberto Gonzalez Echevarría, Enrique Pupo-Walker, editors, The Cambridge History of Latin American Literature, Volume 3, Cambridge University Press, page 233:

(literature) A French literary style which began during the positivist period of the 19th century.


Parnassian

Parnassian (comparative more Parnassian, superlative most Parnassian)

more Parnassian (comparative)
most Parnassian (superlative)

From Parnassus, from Latin Parnassus, from Ancient Greek Παρνασσός (Parnassós).

[…] at last, — this is the point to be marked, - they can see things in this Parnassian way and describe them in this Parnassian tongue, without further effort of inspiration.

1864, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Poems and prose, Penguin Books, published 1954, page 157:

But in Parnassian pieces you feel that if you were the poet you could have gone on as he has done, you see yourself doing it, only with the difference that if you actually try you find you cannot write his Parnassian.

1864, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Poems and prose, Penguin Books, published 1954, page 158:

'Behold', 'dream a dream', 'mingle': these here have something of the plangent tremulousness which comes when Tennyson is writing 'Parnassian' verse.

1989, Christopher Bruce Ricks, Tennyson, →ISBN, page 212:

One might be tempted to read this conjoining of exoticism and sensuality as a Parnassian exercise, until one reads the rest of the poem: […]

c. 2002, Émile J. Talbot, Reading Nelligan, McGill-Queen's University Press, →ISBN, page 166:

(poetry, from Gerard Manley Hopkins' writings) Describing a style of poetry or language which can only be created by poets, but not in the language of inspiration.

The Parnassian theory of art is mere imbecility.

1895, Degeneration, New York: D. Appleton and Company, translation of Entartung by Max Simon Nordau, page 270:

(literature, historical) Of or relating to the Parnassianism movement of French poetry in the years 1850 to 1900, whose adherents rejected Romanticism and instead favored classicism with its formal structure and emotional detachment.


sparklies

Once the C/NR of the incoming satellite signal reaches +2 or more dB above the threshold rating of the receiver, the last few stray sparklies disappear and the video appears to be totally clear.

1993, Mark Long, Jeffrey Keating, The world of satellite TV, page 179:

One of the most common troubles with a satellite home unit is sparklies, as shown in Fig. 4.8.

1999, Eugene Trundle, Newnes TV and Video Engineer's Pocket Book, page 96:

(television) A kind of interference pattern on analogue satellite television, caused by a signal that is either too weak or too strong.


JDT

(journalism, medicine) Initialism of Journal of Dermatological Treatment.


biopath

One biopath revealed masked tuberculosis with 14 of 46 patients, while another biopath only revealed this problem in 1 of 12.

1996, Sarah Cant, Ursula Sharma, Complementary and Alternative Medicines: Knowledge in Practice, page 123:

Biopaths like this one were low-rated telepaths whose powers lay in speaking to bodies rather than minds.

2017, K. Hippolite, The Rocket Girl's Tale, unnumbered page:

However, all telepathic biopaths were open to the committee members, who closed their eyes to listen to the sing-song voice of their first alien on planet Orthus.

2019, Darryl Gopaul, Encyclopedia Library, unnumbered page:

(parapsychology, science fiction) A person with the telepathic ability to manipulate the physiology (e.g. heart rate, breathing or brainwaves) and voluntary motor functions of other people or organisms.


Vegan

Tommy looked deflated. He stepped back slightly, shaking his head. "Never saw such a resemblance. Are you a Vegan?" "No," Bart lied flatly. "Aldebaran. David Briscoe."

1963, Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Colors of Space:

(science fiction) Someone from the vicinity of the star Vega.


ringworld

From ring + world, introduced by Larry Niven in the novel Ringworld (1970).

(science fiction) An artificial megastructure in space, consisting of a rotating ring encircling a star and having an inhabitable inner surface with gravity produced through centripetal force.


astroengineering

(science fiction) The construction of megastructures in space by technologically advanced beings.


Betelgeusian

(astronomy, science fiction) Relating to the star Betelgeuse or to inhabitants of the Betelgeuse system.


Betelgeusian

(science fiction) An inhabitant of the Betelgeuse system.


Betelgeusian

(science fiction) The language spoken by Betelgeusians.


mimiamb

From mimiambus, possibly from French mimiambe, from Ancient Greek μιμιάμβους (mimiámbous, “mime-iamb”), from μῖμος (mîmos, “actor, imitator”) + ἴαμβος (íambos, “iamb”).

der

Its discovery, after a sleep of some five centuries and a half, will be as great a surprise to meteorologists as a new classical text, such as the ‘Mimiambs’ of Herondas, to Greek scholars.

1891 November 28, The Athenæum, number 3344, London: J. Lection, →OCLC, page 726:

For example, the school scene in the third mimiamb, the outburst of fierce jealousy on the part of Bitinna in Herondas and that of the Oxyrhynchus μοιχευτρία, the obscene conversation in the sixth mimiamb, and the tales of adultery committed by women which, according to Aristocles, formed the chief subject of the poems recited by the λυσιῳδοί.

1917, Ph[ilippe] E[rnest] Legrand, translated by James Loeb, The New Greek Comedy, London: W. Heinemann; New York, N.Y.: G.P. Putnam's Sons, →OCLC, page 524:

Matius's mimiambs have not survived complete, but the extant remains may not be unrepresentative of his general style of writing.

2014, Costas Panayotakis, “Hellenistic Mime and Its Reception in Rome”, in Michael Fontaine, Adele C. Scafuro, editors, The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Comedy, Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 387:

(literature, Ancient Greece, rare) A short humorous dramatic scene in verse.


top and tail

en-verb

top and tail (third-person singular simple present tops and tails or top and tails, present participle topping and tailing or top and tailing, simple past and past participle topped and tailed or top and tailed)

tops and tails (present singular third-person)
top and tails (present singular third-person)
topping and tailing (participle present)
top and tailing (participle present)
topped and tailed (participle past)
topped and tailed (past)
top and tailed (participle past)
top and tailed (past)

They are retrieved when needed, topped and tailed ready for use, and stored on the newsroom system […]

2002, Carole Fleming, The Radio Handbook, page 128:

“Roger—a lovely man, great DJ, and huge Bruce fan—got the interview for [London's] Capital Radio,” rock journalist Patrick Humphries told me. “He liked the Springsteen book I'd done so I transcribed the tape and topped and tailed it. […]

2013, Jeff Burger, Springsteen on Springsteen:

(transitive, broadcasting) To set the limits of (an audio tape recording, a digital video file, etc.) by adding physical markers or by trimming unwanted portions.


antiliterary

en-adj

antiliterary (comparative more antiliterary, superlative most antiliterary)

more antiliterary (comparative)
most antiliterary (superlative)

(literature) Relating to antiliterature; defying the conventions of literature.


smash cut

(film, television) An abrupt cut from one scene to another without a transition.


EDL

(broadcasting) Initialism of edit decision list.


rhyme royal

en-noun

rhyme royal (countable and uncountable, plural rhymes royal)

This term was reportedly first used in the mid-1800s.

Perhaps the most engaging of the Rowley poems are "An Excelente Balade of Charitie," written in the rhyme royal; and "The Bristowe Tragedie," in the common ballad stanza.

1898, Henry Augustin Beers, chapter 10, in 18th Century: A History of English Romanticism:

(uncountable, poetry) A form of English verse consisting of seven-line stanzas of iambic pentameter having a rhyme scheme of ababbcc, first represented in English in works by Geoffrey Chaucer (c.1343-1400).

Chaucer for years before the Prologue to LGW had been writing heroic couplets at the close of each of his rhymes royal.

1938 Jan, H. S. V. Jones, “Brief Mention”, in The Journal of English and Germanic Philology, volume 37, number 1, page 126:

(countable, poetry) A single stanza of this form.


ballstock

(printing, historical) The handle of a printer's ball.


starbase

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(science fiction) A base (for trading, military operations, etc.) located in space, among the stars.


Great Successor

(media) an often-translated epithet for Kim Jong-un.


slugthrower

He had been pulling the trigger of his slugthrower all this time, but now the firing pin clicked at last upon an empty firing chamber.

1965 December, Gordon R. Dickson, “Warrior”, in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, volume 76, →ISSN, page 71:

Each had a holstered sidearm: slugthrower, not stunner.

1978, Poul Anderson, The Avatar, New York: Berkley, →ISBN, →OL, page 162:

From the confident manner with which she held her long-barreled slugthrower, Mirina guessed that some of the medals were for marksmanship.

1996, Jody Lynn Nye, The Ship Errant, Baen, →ISBN, →OL, page 65:

(science fiction) A firearm that fires bullets.


Eldar

→ Russian: Эльда́р (Elʹdár)

Coined by J. R. R. Tolkien as Quenya Eldar, plural of Elda.

(science fiction) An elflike race of aliens from Warhammer 40,000, now known as Aeldari.

Эльда́р

magical humanoids from Tolkien's writings


bat'leth

From Klingon betleH, short for batlh'etlh (“sword of honor”).

It is a bat'leth. It belonged to my father... It has been in our family for ten generations.

1990 November 5, “Reunion”, in Star Trek: The Next Generation, season 4, episode 7, spoken by Worf (Michael Dorn):

The U.K. is looking to clean up its streets with a knife amnesty program, so you can imagine their surprise when a Klingon, er, excuse me, a Klingon fan, turned in a replica Bat’leth over the weekend.

2008 August 25, Jack Loftus, “U.K. Knife Amnesty Program Turns Up Klingon Bat’leth, No Sign of Worf”, in Gizmodo Australia, archived from the original on 2016-03-04:

Officers searched the area but didn't find the robber or the weapon, which was described as a "bat'leth."

2009 February 4, Kieran Nicholson, “Klingon sword used in two Colorado Springs heists”, in Denver Post:

Howard: Why did you bring that?
Sheldon: No weapon strikes more fear into a man's heart than a Klingon bat'leth.
Leonard: OK, let's get clear on something. We just gonna tell this guy to transfer all your stuff back into your account and then be on our way. No one's bat'lething anybody.

2011 March 31, “The Zarnecki Incursion” (15:59), in The Big Bang Theory, season 4, episode 19, spoken by Howard Wolowitz, Sheldon Cooper, and Leonard Hofstadter (Simon Helberg, Jim Parsons, and Johnny Galecki):

(science fiction) A double-ended curved blade weapon with spiked protrusions, controlled by grips along its back, used by Klingons in Star Trek.


capsule review

(chiefly journalism) A short critique, ranging anywhere from a single sentence to a few hundred words in length, of an artistic work.


selfcest

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And this is where selfcest comes in. For those unfamiliar with Adventure Time, it has two series: the main, phallogocentric one, Adventure Time, and another spin-off version, Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake, in which gender-flipped versions of the original characters are presented. Marceline spawns Marshall Lee, Jake turns into Cake, Finn becomes Fionna, Princess Bubblegum is chewed up and spat out as Prince Gumball… you get the picture. Enter Fanfiction, which causes them to hook up. Creepy, yes.

2013, Boo Patrick, "Selfcest", Manifesto (University of New South Wales College of Fine Arts), April 2013, page 8

Several Loki fans shared their horror over the idea of Loki and Sylvie getting together, as it would be an example of selfcest.

2021 July 2, Sabrina Barr, “Loki fans defend Marvel series over ‘queerbaiting’ claims as director says God of Mischief’s bisexuality won’t be explored further”, in Metro, UK:

'"The Time Traveler's Wife” having selfcest was not on my 2022 bingo card,' another [Twitter] user commented.

2022 May 25, Erica Tempesta, “'Selfcest was not on my 2022 bingo card': The Time Traveler's Wife baffles viewers with 'wild' and 'disturbing' oral sex scene between the HBO show's protagonist and HIMSELF”, in The Daily Mail:

(fandom slang, fiction) Sexual activity with an alternate version of oneself, such as a clone, duplicate, alter ego, or a version of oneself from a different time or alternate universe.


Menippean

en-adj

Menippean (comparative more Menippean, superlative most Menippean)

more Menippean (comparative)
most Menippean (superlative)

Without a doubt, the most unusual, the most conspicuous, and the most Menippean feature of the curious verbal landscape of Finnegans Wake is the ten 'thunderclaps.'

1997, Eric McLuhan, The Role of Thunder in Finnegans Wake, University of Toronto Press, page x:

The most Menippean of these were written by John Harington of Kelston, who was first banished from court for his 1596 Metamorphosis of Ajax (a satire against the Earl of Leicester and a pun on 'a jakes,' the first flushing toilet in Britain, of Harington's own design), followed by An anatomie of the metamorphosed Ajax, and Ulysses upon Ajax.

2011, Mark Somos, Secularisation and the Leiden Circle, BRILL, page 249:

Salman Rushdie's new work of 2017, his novel The Golden House, is not just a Menippean satire; it is a novel about Menippean satire.

2019, Amy L. Friedman, Postcolonial Satire: Indian Fiction and the Reimagining of Menippean Satire, Rowman & Littlefield (Lexington Books), page 128:

However plausible such arguments, I should like respectfully to disagree. My position is closer to that of Dustin Griffin in his recent book—that the ludic is inherent in satire, especially the more menippean kind.

2021, J. Douglas Canfield, Tricksters and Estates, University Press of Kentucky, unnumbered page:

(literature) Of or relating to a form of satire, usually in prose, which has a length and structure similar to a novel and is characterized by attacking mental attitudes instead of specific individuals.


spacedock

(science fiction) A place where spacecraft can dock.


sidebearing

(typography) The margin of empty space around a glyph in a font, measured from the glyph contour's leftmost, rightmost, topmost and bottommost points to the sides of its bounding box


Conehead

(fiction) One of a fictional race of humanoid aliens with conical skulls.


dodoitsu

(poetry) A specific form of Japanese poem without rhyme, having lines of 7-7-7-5 morae.


dolly zoom

(film) A camera effect that appears to undermine normal visual perception, achieved by using the setting of a zoom lens to adjust the field of view while the camera dollies towards or away from the subject in such a way as to keep the subject the same size in the frame throughout.


punchcutting

(typography) The craft of cutting letter punches in steel from which matrices were made in copper for type founding in the letterpress era.


punchcutter

Early punch-cutters appeared to have forged their own steel blanks, and the manner in which they finished their punches can often identify their work.

2009, James Mosley, edited by Michael F Suarez and Michael L Turner, The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, vol. V, Cambridge, published 2014, page 170:

(typography) Someone who carries out punchcutting; a person who makes punches for type founders.


Amalthean

/æməlˈθiːən/

(science fiction) A native or inhabitant of Amalthea.


cybersurgeon

(science fiction) A robot that performs the duties of a surgeon.


robodoc

Other than the most exceptional transplants, all operations were performed by cybersurgeons. These were robodocs, ArtAn nets hooked up to precision machines. They were exact and fast and dexterous.

2005, Alan Robbins, A Small Box of Chaos, page 64:

Sheppard observed several crew begin installing some of the robodocs in the medbay who would act as triage and initial aid to any wounded crew members or space marines.

(science fiction) A robot that performs the duties of a doctor or surgeon.


typecutter

(printing, historical) A person who cuts the die used in traditional printing.


electrovore

/ɪˈlɛktɹəvɔː(ɹ)/

In Cosmos, Carl Sagan speculates on the existence of extraterrestrial civilisations, which he characterises pretentiously by means of hypothetical summaries such as: "cryogen supercooled electrovores with neutron crystal dense packing and modular starminers ..."

1984 November 8, Peter Forbes, “The silicon solution”, in New Scientist:

! WE DO NOT CONSUME EARTH FOOD. WE ARE ELECTROVORES. IF YOU
! HAVE A SURGE PROTECTOR WE WOULD BE MOST OBLIGED.

1998 October 30, Rollin Thomas, “New Borg Graduate Student.”, in talk.bizarre (Usenet):

There were, Gregory knew, AIs residing within implants in dolphin brains now designed to bridge the linguistic barriers between the species, but those translations had only proven that dolphin brains were as alien to humans as the group minds of the abyssal electrovores inhabiting the under-ice ocean of Enceladus.

2013, Ian Douglas, Deep Space: Star Carrier, HarperCollins, →ISBN:

(science fiction) An organism or entity which feeds on electricity.


spieler

From German Spieler (“player, gambler”) or from spiel.

(Canada, US, broadcasting, informal) A radio or television announcer.


warp drive

(physics, science fiction) A technological device that warps spacetime to enable movement through space in a non-Newtonian manner.

(science fiction) An engine that allows a vessel to travel faster-than-light by manipulating spacetime to bypass Einstein's restrictive light barrier.


soft science fiction

After hard science fiction, attributed to Peter Nicholls.

(science fiction) A subgenre of science fiction that focuses on the nature of its speculative societies or that employs pseudoscience.


kharja

Borrowed from Arabic خَرْجَة (ḵarja, literally “final”).

bor+

(poetry) The final refrain of a muwashshah.


hard science fiction

Coined by American critic P. Schuyler Miller in 1957.

coin

(science fiction) A subgenre of science fiction that focuses on technical detail and scientific accuracy.


hooktop

(typography) Having a hook-like element at the top, as in some phonetic symbols such as Ɓ ("hooktop B").


workscreen

(rare, sometimes science fiction) A computer display that one can work at.


splatstick

(film, comedy, horror, gore) A genre of film which blends slapstick style comedy with splatfest blood and gore splatter filled horror.


Kinbotean

(literature) A proponent of an interpretation of Vladimir Nabokov's 1962 novel Pale Fire according to which the ostensible author John Shade is in fact an invention of the character Charles Kinbote.