wereowl

1993, Patricia Kindl, Owl in Love, Graphia (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), →ISBN, page 42.
The garden of a wereowl at midnight makes a perilous salad bar.

There was a wereowl at school who was always complaining that the lights were too bright. Of course, if I'd been a wereowl, I wouldn't have needed to be here.

2017, Emily Martha Sorensen, Trials of a Teenage Werevulture, Emily Martha Sorensen:

(fiction) A shapeshifter who can assume the form of an owl.


were-elephant

(fiction) A shapeshifter who can assume the form of an elephant.


Japanime

en-noun

Japanime (countable and uncountable, plural Japanimes)

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Blend of Japan (“the country”) + anime (“an animated work”)

blend

(anime, dated) Synonym of anime; Japanese animated cartoons.


menk

Borrowed from Mansi (compare Northern Mansi менкв (menkv)).

This figure is called menk in Ob-Ugrian folklore and ritual.

1996, Anthropology & Archeology of Eurasia, page 79:

Although doors were jammed shut, the menk burst in with huge birch masks covered with hair made of hay.

1999, Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer, The Tenacity of Ethnicity: A Siberian Saga in Global Perspective:

A new documentary, “Russian Yeti: The Killer Lives” airing June 1 on the Discovery Channel explores the remote possibility that a “menk” — the Russian^([sic – meaning Mansi]) word for Yeti — may have been responsible.

2014, “Mysterious Deaths Of College Students Blamed On ‘Russian Yeti’”, in Huffington Post:

(Russia, cryptozoology, folklore) An animal described by the Mansi as a "forest giant", with anatomical features similar to a yeti, said to live in the area of Khantia-Mansia, Russia.


werehuman

Zelf said, “I am a werehuman.” She sobbed as though there could be no greater shame on the face of the earth than this. Zev scratched his head. “A werehuman? What on earth is that?” Zelf took off the cowl that covered her face. The beautiful elfin face of a human female looked back at Zev, [...]. The only part of her that remained wolfish were her two furry ears. [...] Zelf said: "I turn into this monster very month - every time the moon hides his face I lose my wolfish loveliness and become this - […]"

2014, Robert Denethon, Steam Submarine Cryptoloup, Submarine Media Pty Ltd:

Just in case Lady Luck had not ignored her enough already, she was later on attacked by a vampire. […] As a wolf, she was bright. As a werehuman, her boosted IQ was rather low. So, yes, actually, Diz was not even a werewolf, and I probably […]

2014, W. Freedreamer Tinkanesh, Tales for the 21st Century, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 17:

"Bob is a werehuman," he explained. "Most of the time he's a cocker spaniel. But when the moon is full he turns into something sort of like a human being. It's very frightening for him." Bob whined in agreement.

2015, Bruce Coville, The Monsters of Morley Manor: A Madcap Adventure, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN:

(fiction) A shapeshifter, generally non-human (especially a wolf), who can assume the form of a human.


were-elf

While the Vamwelf were vampire were-elves, tall and slender.

2015, Horace S. Mallette, Hunters of Satan’s Monsters: Rise of the Rolling Calf, →ISBN:

2012, Candace Jane Kringle, North Pole High: A Rebel Without a Claus, elfpublished books
Maybe his elf hormones and human hormones had gotten all mixed up, turning him into a were-elf or something.

Out inside the works of some neurotic Bavarian cuckoo clock of a village, were-elves streaking in out of the forests at night to leave subversive handbills at door and window ...

2012, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow, Penguin, →ISBN:

I destroyed all the / argillaceous menticidepires, menticidethropes, / wereelves, / weresprites, werebrownies, […]

2012, Jason Hurlburt, Beasts of Prey, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN:

(fiction, fantasy, rare) A shapeshifter who can assume the form of an elf.


alternative fact

en-noun

alternative fact (plural alternative facts)

This term gained prominence after it was used by Kellyanne Conway in January 2017 and widely repeated in the US media.

They are creating their own facts, but one need not be in Government to create alternative facts.

2017 February 25, R. E. Guyson Mayers, “A GUY"S VIEW: Season of discontent”, in Barbados Advocate:

According to Donald Trump we live in an era of "fake news" where his "alternative facts" should be swallowed whole, and without scrutiny.

2017 March 3, “Private Sydney: Celebrities quick to present their own 'alternative facts'”, in The Sydney Morning Herald:

Prime ministers have not been immune to spreading alternative facts.

2017 March 3, Chantal Hébert, “It's not just Donald Trump who shifts the truth, Canada's politicians have been using alternative facts for years”, in Toronto Star:

― Secretary: Now, I did not mislead you. That was merely an alternative fact.

2017 May 30, Moe! Ninja Girls, Japan: NTT Solmare, iOS, Android, scene: Season 6, Chapter 6:

2018 March 26, “Association of Herpes Viral Infections, Antiherpetic Therapy, and Dementia: Real or Alternative Fact?”, in Neurotherapeutics, volume 15, →DOI, pages 415–416:

(politics, media) Something presented as a fact for reasons of political expediency; a fiction, a falsehood, a lie.


xenologer

(science fiction) Synonym of xenologist.


xenologist

(science fiction) Someone whose field of study is xenology.

xénologiste

someone whose field of study is xenology


Algeresque

(literature) in the style of author Horatio Alger, typically of poor boys earning riches through wealthy benefactors.


spacedive

(fiction) A skydive from outer space, usually an orbital drop or direct insertion from beyond orbit, complete with (re-)entry heating.


hyperfield

It would take a phenomenally advanced technology to create that; but then, as we've all suddenly been granted superhuman powers, quantum hyperfield theory is the least of our problems.

2002 -, Peter F. Hamilton -, Misspent Youth:

The hyperfield itself could not be moved and remained there on the lava field suspended in the suds of the continuum at the exact point where the arc had entered the inertial frame of the Earth. Unless the titanohematite brain returned to that precise point where the connectionto 5-space waited, the hyperfield would weaken and in a few days smear away in the expansion of the universe.

2014, A.A. Attanasio, Arc of the Dream: Radix Tetrad, →ISBN:

The land was originally seeded for Prima Matra by those we call the 'Timewalkers' in conjunction with High Devas mythologically depicted as Unicorns. When the implosion occurred, the 'seed' material was heated, not only to very high levels, but in a contained hyperfield, which is created by two or more dimensions touching.

2015, Joyce Strahn, From Here to Ascension, →ISBN:

(science fiction) One of various fictional fields in which special physical properties are supported.


microformal

Other microformal characteristics also mark these traditional, oral tales, such as the absence of the necessary enjambment — the basic element is the line or the hemistich, as also in the romancero -- and what Parry calls the thrift of formulaic art ("each position in the verse tends to allow one way rather than many ways of saying any one thing" if we are speaking of a single bard), a quality also found in Hesiod.

1993, Claudio Guillén, The challenge of comparative literature - Volume 42, page 174:

Shakespeare's microformal analysis is the commensurate response to a world of forms emerging into and out of relation.

2010, Michael Carl Schoenfeldt, Michael Schoenfeldt, A Companion to Shakespeare's Sonnets, →ISBN, page 254:

Each of these pieces deals with the microformal elements of the text in ways that underpin my larger, structural argument about the imaginative effect of the text.

2015, Evelyn Reynolds, “Beowulf's Poetics of Absorption: Narrative Syntax and the Illusion of Stability in the Fight with Grendel's Mother”, in Essays in Medieval Studies, volume 31:

(literature, poetry) Pertaining to the characteristics and patterns of lines or phrases, as opposed to the structure of the entire work.


maqta

(poetry) The last couplet of a ghazal, typically incorporating the poet's pen name in a creative way.


black lady

(Philippines, folklore) A ghost of a lady in black mourning clothes.


silent h

Examples include the silent h in ghost (to match Dutch gheest, which later became geest), aghast, ghastly and gherkin.

2019, Carson Stewart, History of the English Language, page 178:

(orthography) A letter ⟨h⟩ that is written but not pronounced.


spacedrive

(astronautics slang, science fiction) A non-Newtonian propulsion system (a drive that propels while violating the Newtonian law requiring an equal and opposite reaction to an action); a reactionless drive (a drive which does not use propellant).

impossible drive

A drive violating physics, such as Newton's Laws


off stone

From the time when type was set manually on a stone slab. When the stone was finally cleared, the print run could begin.

Sunday's first edition is off stone early on Saturday evening.

(journalism, typography) A newspaper's edition is ready to start printing.


wereman

“He's a wereman, my dear George; a wolf that becomes a man during the day.”

1962, Arthur Calder-Marshall, The Scarlet Boy:

The story concerns itself rather with a wereman, a wolf cursed with transformation into a man. A nude man is found in the wolf's cage of the zoo, with no knowledge of how he came there. He is taken to a hospital for examination, […]

1966, Drake Douglas, Horror!, New York: Macmillan:

“I'm a wereman, not a monkey.” “Oi! Robbins! I saw that!” They turned to see an elderly man striding across the courtyard, his face blanketed in a thick grey beard and moustache.

2012, Tom Becker, Darkside 5: Blackjack, Scholastic UK, →ISBN:

“The hat turned him into a wereman.” “Most dangerous werebeast of all. So it's said.”

2012, Graham Edwards, Dead Wolf in a Hat, 40K, →ISBN:

“Many vampires came, with a wereman in charge. They set fire to the house. Anna grabbed what she could, and Rip teleported her to safety. Levi fought the wereman, but he lost.” Her voice faltered.

2013, Tara Fox Hall, Immortal Confessions, A Promise Me Origins Tale, →ISBN, page 156:

(fiction) A shapeshifter, generally non-human (especially a wolf), who can assume the form of a man.


intergen

(slang, pornography) Intergenerational; featuring participants whose ages differ greatly.


'vator

(chiefly science fiction) Abbreviation of elevator.


LIA

(military fiction) Initialism of lost in action.


LIA

(military fiction) Initialism of lost-in-action.


Orion drive

en:Orion drive
en:Project Orion (nuclear propulsion)

From Orion + drive, since it originated from Project Orion, a U.S. government study from the 1950s.

(astronautics, science fiction) A theoretical means to propel spacecraft through space, by detonating nuclear bombs behind the spaceship and riding the nuclear explosions that push against the rear mounted pusher plate.


batchim

(orthography) The final consonant (or consonant cluster) at the end of a Korean syllable.


tightbeam

“Do I have those tightbeams yet?” “We're acknowledged and pending, sir,” Chen said. “They know we want to talk.”

2013, James S. A. Corey, Abaddon's Gate:

(science fiction) A focused beam of energy (such as a laser) that contains and transmits information.


Earth day

(science fiction) A day in Earth time; the period it takes planet Earth to revolve once; a period of 24 hours.


Earthboy

(usually science fiction) A young male inhabitant of Earth.


left-justified

(typography) Of text, laid out so that the left ends of lines are vertically aligned, leaving the right ends unaligned.


right-justified

(typography) Of text, laid out so that the right ends of lines are vertically aligned, leaving the left ends unaligned.


nature faker

(literature, derogatory) A nature writer who misrepresents animals as having thoughts and feelings similar to those of humans.


telecop

OK gossip mongrels, see what you can make of these bits of scurrilous gleaning.
#1- Which young telecop isn't re-signing further series options?

1998 July 6, peeby, “**BLIND ITEM FUN**”, in aus.tv (Usenet):

The brain scooping has been occuring^([sic]) in situ. The evidence cited by the FBI woman was that that it happened in that room. When hiro finds' Isaac in the future, there's blood and stuff around him. By comparison, the telecop was drugged and taken to a laboratory where he received some not terribly invasive monitoring. Completely different modus operandi.

2006 October 18, William George Ferguson, “Re: 1st Season Heroes - Collision - 5 star poll - SPOILERS AHOY !”, in rec.arts.tv (Usenet):

As portrayed by the marvelous actor Michael Kitchen in the British series “Foyle’s War,” he is sometimes so reserved – not eerily quiet or threateningly quiet, just quiet – that he actually appears to be thinking, something few American telecops are likely to be accused of.

2009 September 25, Mike Hale, “Smarts and Stiff Upper Lip in Times of War and Murder”, in The New York Times:

(informal, television) A police officer (especially a detective) as portrayed on television.


hanging indentation

hanging indentation (plural hanging indentations)

(typography) An indentation that indents the rest of the text while leaving the first line in place.


tear-cat

Fie upon't, mere fustian; I had rather hear two good bawdy jests then a whole play of such tear-cat thunder-claps.

1606, John Day, The Isle of Gulls, in White, Thomas, editor, The Old English Drama, volume 4, published 1830, Induction, page 15:

I am cal'd by those that have seen my valour, Tear-Cat.

1611, Thomas Middleton, Thomas Dekker, The Roaring Girl, act 5, scene 1:


weredwarf

(fiction, rare) A shapeshifter who can assume the form of a dwarf.


weretroll

“This is ingenious,” I told the weretroll. “I'm amazed!”

2008, A. Bradbury, Tablets of Immortality, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN:

“Here,” said The Grunt, “have the boogies back. I'm gonna be the weretroll! You can have the bottle of snot back too.”

2010, tracey Corderoy, The Grunt and the Grouch: Beastly Feast, Capstone, published 2012, →ISBN, page 48:

(fiction, rare) A shapeshifter who can assume the form of a troll.


robotess

(science fiction, dated) A robot designated female; a gynoid.


B roll

B roll (usually uncountable, plural B rolls)

The Bleeding Edge isn’t an audacious or essayistic piece of filmmaking; it’s overstretched with talking-head interviews, montages of corporate videos, and creepy B-roll shots of hospital equipment.

2018 July 26, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, “A documentary muckraker takes on the tech sector of health in The Bleeding Edge”, in The Onion AV Club, archived from the original on 2018-07-29:

(television, film) Supplemental or alternative footage intercut with the main shot, used, for example, to indicate simultaneous action or flashbacks.


bodyjack

en-verb

bodyjack (third-person singular simple present bodyjacks, present participle bodyjacking, simple past and past participle bodyjacked)

bodyjacks (present singular third-person)
bodyjacking (participle present)
bodyjacked (participle past)
bodyjacked (past)

My accent may be Brooklyn, not the BBC, pal, but I still got a brain in my head. We've been bodyjacked. Some kind of mind-switch—yours to our bodies, ours ta yours. No offense but this ain't exactly the first time we've been cut loose in that particular neighborhood.

1998 November 14, Chris Claremont, “The First The Final? Fire!”, in Fantastic Four, volume 3, number 11, page 17:

This sounds like a spinoff of "The Boys From Brazil"—until about page 70, when D.T. reveals that he's actually a devil who'd bodyjacked an SS officer.

2007 January 15, “The Devil Wears Swastikas”, in Newsweek, page 66:

I'm not a big fan, however, of the daleks stealing the Cyberman's bodyjacking schtick, and I thought the hybrid looked embarrassingly silly.

2007 April 22, Scott Bennie, “Re: Daleks In Manhattan”, in rec.arts.drwho (Usenet), retrieved 2017-03-31, message-ID <1177302553.825978.79940@n59g2000hsh.googlegroups.com>:

Then I did something that astonished both of us: I took control of our body. […] What are you doing? demanded Seymour. Where are you going? This is my body. Give it back! […] I've been bodyjacked! accused Seymour.

2014, Bruce Coville, Aliens Stole My Body, →ISBN, page 24:

(science fiction) To forcibly seize control of someone's body, sometimes by replacing or exchanging minds.


teep

He was conscious that the Directorate's teep Corps was close by; he didn't particularly want his intimate thoughts in the hands of eighty bored telepaths.

What are you doing, bringing a teep here when we're ready to move?

1997 June 9, Straczynski, Joseph Michael, “The Face of the Enemy”, in Babylon 5, season 4, episode 17, spoken by Number One (Marjorie Monaghan):

She didn't need to be a teep to know what he was thinking.

2011, Nate Kenyon, StarCraft: Ghost—Spectres, →ISBN, page 16:


teep

en-adj

teep (comparative more teep, superlative most teep)

more teep (comparative)
most teep (superlative)

He broke off, because one of the QCA men was bringing out a teep rod, a receptor that would pick up and record his thoughts for police inspection.

1969, Philip K. Dick, Galactic Pot-Healer:

(science fiction) Relating to telepathy.


teep

en-verb

teep (third-person singular simple present teeps, present participle teeping, simple past and past participle teeped)

teeps (present singular third-person)
teeping (participle present)
teeped (participle past)
teeped (past)

Irritated, Benteley answered, "You're being teeped while you stand here. Verrick has them planted all over the place."

Heads up everyone. Mantis is teeping into our poor tired brains.

2008 August 14, Dan Abnett, Andy Lanning, “Legacy”, in Guardians of the Galaxy, volume 2, number 2, page 18:


predatory journal

en-noun

predatory journal (plural predatory journals)

(publishing) A publishing outlet that poses as a reputable academic journal, but will publish anything submitted for a fee.


EFP

EFP (countable and uncountable, plural EFPs)

(broadcasting, uncountable) Initialism of electronic field production.


setting rule

(printing, historical) Synonym of composing rule


Maycomb

Bryan K. Fair (University of Alabama) published Using Parrots to Kill Mockingbirds: Yet Another Racial Prosecution and Wrongful Conviction in Maycomb, 45 Alabama Law Review 403 (1994);

1989, Association of American Law Schools. Section on Minority Groups, Newsletter, page lxii:

In the excerpt from Snapple's novels given here, the sequence of spaces juxtaposes middle-class ladies condemning the squalid lives of Africans, to the squalid lives of White trash in Maycomb, to the condemning values of Mr. Daley about his hillbillies, to Calpurnia's option that "Yo're no better than others." to the disgrace of Indians in the Gallup Rodeo

1999, Scott Lloyd DeWitt, Kip Strasma, Contexts, Intertexts, and Hypertexts, →ISBN, page 86:

In his essay on the Maycomb model, Elias claims that the ubiquitous desire for the aggrandizement of one's own group in relation to the deprecation of other groups is based on fear, the fear of enslavement, of exploitation or physical extinction, and that the ensuing rivalries among groups are not just byproducts but rather a basic structural feature of human figurations.

2011, Christa Buschendorf, Astrid Franke, Civilizing and Decivilizing Processes, →ISBN, page 244:

(fiction) The fictional small Alabama town that serves as the setting of Harper Lee's 1960 novel To Kill A Mockingbird, as well as the 1962 film of the same name that is based on this novel.


artificial stupidity

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From the analogy with artificial intelligence.

artificial intelligence
artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence
artificial intelligence#English

(humorous, artificial intelligence, computing, science fiction) Artificial intelligence that is not well developed.


artificially intelligent

en-adj

artificially intelligent (comparative more artificially intelligent, superlative most artificially intelligent)

more artificially intelligent (comparative)
most artificially intelligent (superlative)

artificial intelligence
artificial intelligence#English

(artificial intelligence, computing, science fiction) Possessing artificial intelligence.


kuudere

Borrowed from Japanese クーデレ (kūdere), a portmanteau of クール (kūru, “calm”), from English cool, and デレデレ (dere-dere, “in a lovey-dovey, infatuated, or lovestruck manner”, adverb).

True, she wasn't very expressive—or anyway, I didn't feel like I saw a lot of emotion from her—but if I thought of her as a kuudere, or one of those “weird girl” types, that could actually be seen as a positive.

2018, Ichiro Sakaki, translated by Kevin Steinbach, Outbreak Company, volume 5, unnumbered page:

The cool and tough exterior she displays makes for a good kuudere, and the blue eyes and silver hair already sets her up for the role in the Clannad series.

2018, "Moogle", "Cool As Rain", Otakuzine Anime Magazine, Issue #121, page 40

Her words were as cool as ever, but there was a hint of embarrassment in her voice. Could she be one of those “kuuderes” I'd heard so much abou

2021, Rifujin na Magonote, Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation, Volume 11, unnumbered page:

(chiefly Japanese fiction) A calm, aloof, reserved fictional character (usually a girl) who has a hidden soft side, especially for a love interest.


lekythion

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ληκύθιον (lēkúthion, “small oil-flask”), in reference to a passage in Aristophanes' comedy The Frogs.

bor

(poetry) In classical Greek and Latin poetry, a metric pattern defined by a sequence of seven alternating long and short syllables at the end of a verse.


continuity announcer

en-noun

continuity announcer (plural continuity announcers)

(television) A television presenter, usually an unseen voice, who identifies the broadcaster and the upcoming programmes.


Transformer

/tɹɑːnsˈfɔːmə/

From transformer (something that transforms).

“It's like a Transformer today,” Stamm said. “It appears as one thing, then becomes another.”

2015, Steve Berry, The Patriot Threat: A Novel, page 304:

A Transformer may be both a robot and a plane, or a robot and a car, but not both simultaneously.

2014, Barbara Brownie, Transforming Type: New Directions in Kinetic Typography, page 95:

Halloween? I dressed up as a Transformer. I dressed up as a Power Ranger. I was one of the Chipmunks for God's sake.

(fiction) In the Transformers franchise, any of the alien humanoid robots that can mechanically alter their appearance, or "transform", into a vehicle, creature, or (rarely) a tool.


xenotech

You can parade the Navy and the Union Earth Colonies around in front of congress and parliament and the Chinese president, but at the end of the day it's xenotechnology that keeps us in the black. It's xenotech that keeps us from getting ...

2006, Marco Palmieri, Star Trek: The Original Series: Constellations Anthology:

(rare, informal, science fiction) Clipping of xenotechnology.


xenogeography

He found the relaxed atmosphere fresh and exciting and actually began to excel in many areas of flight systems, propulsion, and even xenogeography.

2009, Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman, Nightsword: A Starshield Novel:

“Like a lot of kids, I wanted to be an exploration spacer, so I got my Blevel certificate in xenogeography. Once I actually met some of them, though, I couldn't see being stuck on a ship with a bunch of arrogant wankers for years at a time.

2016, Carol Van Natta, Pico's Crush: Central Galactic Concordance, Book 3:

(rare, science fiction) The study of exoplanet geography.


xenophysics

Stormchases had always had an interest in xenophysics. He felt his wings furl with shock as he realised that the object might show that heatpattern if it had warmed its belly with friction as it entered the atmosphere, but the upper part were still ...

2012, Jonathan Strahan, Hannu Rajaniemi, Pat Cadigan, Edge of Infinity:

Xenophysics, especially at this level, were not his strong suit. But you didn't go about busting artefact smugglers for a decade without learning something.

I graduated top of my class in Xenophysics and have been pushing for missions ever since.' Mark found her story slightly embarrassing. In some ways, she'd had it harder than him.

(rare, science fiction) The study of extraterrestrial physics.


xenobotany

An oddly lucid part of his stunned mind registered that these were the first fruiting bodies he'd seen. But this was hardly the time for exercising one of the specialties that had got him onto the intercept ship, xenobotany.

2008, Eric Flint, Dave Freer, Slow Train to Arcturus:

Terrell quipped to the new tactical officer, “He also holds doctorates in archaeology and xenobotany. So, if you get the urge to debate him about fossils or flowers . . . don't.”

2012, David Mack, Star Trek: Vanguard: Storming Heaven:

(science fiction) The study of alien plants.


xenonatomy

Until yesterday, McCoy had been teaching a course in Xenoanatomy at the Starfleet medical school on Prima, parsecs away.

The argument was that decisions had to be made by someone who was not herself a specialist, so she wouldn't give preferential treatment to xenoanatomy or linguistics or whatever. Martian cuisine.

I took a course in xenoanatomy. We dissected a variety of human corpses.

“I didn't know you were all up on xenoanatomy.” “I'm not.” Ressk set the blade above the uppermost hole in the skull and began to draw the saw back and forth. It caught on the desiccated flesh, bucked, then bit into bone.

(science fiction) The study of alien anatomy.


xenochemistry

The engineering scale shows “simple copy” at the biological “system or structure” level down to “xenochemistry of engineered systems” at the “molecular level.”

2012, Norman M. Wereley, Janet M. Sater, Plants and Mechanical Motion: A Synthetic Approach to Nastic Materials and Structures:

(rare, science fiction) The study of extraterrestrial chemistry.


xenotechnology

xenotechnology (usually uncountable, plural xenotechnologies)

And the Yard would most likely become the very center of Starfleet's xenotechnology studies. “An intriguing proposal,” said Spock. Bishop pointed to the space station nearest them.

You can parade the Navy and the Union Earth Colonies around in front of congress and parliament and the Chinese president, but at the end of the day it's xenotechnology that keeps us in the black.

(chiefly science fiction) Alien, extraterrestrial technology.


xenomythology

/zɛnəmɪˈθɒləd͡ʒi/

KaFrahkan was no student of xenomythology, but his intelligence briefing on the Humans had told him the origin of the name, and he found it grimly appropriate as he watched the massive, heavily armored giants grinding into position.

2005, David Weber, Keith Laumer, Old Soldiers:

Did you know that my first degree was in xenomythology?' 'I did not. Please continue.' 'The volcryn story was among the Nor T'alush myths.

2008, George R.R. Martin, Dreamsongs: A RRetrospective:

(science fiction, rare) The study of myths and legends of alien species.


xenomedicine

There had been people studying xenomedicine in the same class as the two of them who turned out not to have been particularly well fitted for it. Well, he thought, better they should find out in training, rather than in practicing on a patient.

You seem to be the first person in the history of xenomedicine who's simply been bitten by a yagghorth instead of disassembled into component pieces.”

“I understand, Tobin. Being joined is a great responsibility.” Dax stared, flushing with panic. “You . . . you know?” “Don't look so surprised. I'm an expert in xenomedicine and I've been around the quadrant once or twice.

2015, Christopher L. Bennett, Rise of the Federation: Uncertain Logic:

(science fiction, rare) The study and practice of medicine involving alien species.


xenohistory

“He is a specialist in xenohistory and has recently written a paper on the Terran system and human social interactions.” “Doctor,” To'Jopeviq said, nodding his head. “Any initial thoughts?”

Xenohistory and sociology was her passion and it was rare that she was given a chance to explore it.

(science fiction, rare) The study of alien history.


xenopathology

/zɛnəpəˈθɒləd͡ʒi/

“I just completed my boards in theoretical xenopathology. You really should have been at the graduation party.

... being able to deal with battlefield injuries, were also expert in specific fields: xenopathology, bioweapons and battlestress analysis. And so it went. All carried laser carbines, grenades, missile launchers, mines—a whole panoply of death.

oo bad M'Benga is still attending that xenopathology conference on Samaritan Station, McCoy thought. We could use another MD at the moment.

2013, Greg Cox, Star Trek: The Original Series: The Weight of Worlds:

Of course she wouldn't, or Dr. Bonn, her redundancy. Xenopathology and emergency medicine are more practical.

2015, C. Gockel, Murphy's Star: A Story of First Contact:

(science fiction, rare) The study of the nature of disease and its causes, processes, development, and consequences among different sentient species of the galaxy.


xenosociology

/zɛnəˌsəʊʃiːˈɒləd͡ʒiː/

The almostvirgin xeno- prefix should be used to designate extraterrestrial entities [...], concepts and subdisciplines (for example, xeno-biology, xenosociology), and exo- reserved for life outside of but native to Earth.

2007, Jeff Prucher, Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction:

(science fiction, rare) The study of alien sociology.


sound film

(cinematography) A film with sound, as opposed to a silent film

խոսուն շարժապատկեր

a film with sound, as opposed to a silent film


xenopsychology

/zɛnəɛθsaɪˈkɑləd͡ʒi/

Dr. Robert A. Freitas, Jr. XENOPSYCHOLOGY So far we have very little direct knowledge of alien minds — but we have some fascinating bases for speculation.

1984, Analog Science Fact, Science Fiction:

Specializations in xenopsychology and -psychiatry, and longterm experience as CMO of the Enterprise— thus an acquaintance with what amounted to a gestalt life form, for that defined the multi-racial, multi-species environment aboard the ...

2000, Diane Duane, Peter Morwood, The Romulan Way: Rihannsu #2:

Galactics were doing little to wrap their minds around xenopsychology as it applied from them to humans. The Tong was already gradually increasing its business transactions directly with various Galactics.

2009, John Ringo, Julie Cochrane, Honor of the Clan:

My original area of interest was in xenopsychology, but I had never been able to get even an entrylevel post in either the public or private sphere. Thus, social work. And now, everything changed.

2013, Kate Elliott, The Price of Ransom:

(science fiction, rare) The study of alien psychology.


xenopsychiatry

Xenopsychiatry. Yvette Heloise Renaud. Xenopsychology. Harold Nelson Bennett. Xenosociology.

Specializations in xenopsychology and xenopsychiatry, and long-term experience as CMO of the Enterprise — thus an acquaintance with what amounted to a gestalt life form, for that defined the multi-racial, multi-species environment aboard the […]

[…] between that of parole adviser for Hawk, and Chief of Xenopsychiatry. There were others equally qualified for the xeno position, but I fear I rather pulled strings and emphasized the illegal and unethical treatment Hawk received […]

(science fiction, rare) The study of alien mental and behavioral health (psychiatry).


seascraper

"I'm going to build a seascraper. Those don't exist yet." Paul looked at me, totally amazed that I had uttered such a long sentence.

2013, Antonia Michaelis, The Secret Room:

Niki gestured for her AI to once again allow communications to come through from the outside world, something she'd turned off for the duration of her visits with the occupants of the seascraper.

2014, Colin Wright, Real Powers: Trilogy:

Soon the printer head is going to move so fast all you'll see is a blur. As that capability expands, we can create more ambitious projects, whether it's the FLIP or the seascraper." What does Chris mean by "seascraper"?

2017, Joe Quirk, Seasteading: How Floating Nations Will Restore the Environment, Enrich the Poor, Cure the Sick, and Liberate Humanity from Politicians:

(science fiction, architecture) A tall building that is built underwater; an underwater skyscraper.


astrotechnology

astrotechnology (usually uncountable, plural astrotechnologies)

/əˈstɹɑtɛkˈnɒləd͡ʒi/

Ford hunted excitedly through the technical specs of the ship, occasionally gasping with astonishment at what he read – clearly Galactic astrotechnology had moved ahead during the years of his exile.

2009, Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:

He observed using astrotechnology at his disposal to search out a civilization using updated technology.

2014, Darryl Gopaul, Escape from Jipadara: A Solar System of Three Planets with Sentient Life Forms:

Our scientist-kings and our brave new age of biotechnology (and then astrotechnology: the engineering of space) are the latest in giant steps that will take this Babel drive to a new level.

2016, Os Guinness, Impossible People: Christian Courage and the Struggle for the Soul of Civilization:

(science fiction, informal, rare) Space technology.

(science fiction) Synonym of xenotechnology


cloudscraper

Milord Lucyd's cloudscraper, the Villa de Reve: Traitor. Regim crouched behind the garden wall of the aetherist's cloudscraper and watched him approach.

1999, Lisa Mason, Pangaea: Imperium Without End:

Hogg turned to look at Daniel. "Lad," he said quietly, "I didn't try to wrap you in gauze, you know that. But I wouldn't have let you try to fly from the top of a cloudscraper pine either." "Now, it's not as bad as that, Hogg,"

The journey was soon over, as the car broke away from the main route, and turned towards the nearest cloudscraper.

2016, Alexander Lawes, Ring of Stones: Portal to Another World:

(chiefly science fiction) A very tall building; a skyscraper.


spacescraper

Spacescraper city on the outskirts of New York–five miles square with nine buildings, each exactly one mile from the next, each a mile square, three miles high, 1,000 stories, 1,000 people per floor, a million folk behind its walls, nine million ...

The ultimate game of belief is an unstoppable intonation. A word that spells the end of Jack and Susie. Twenty-eight missiles into a corporate spacescraper.

It showed the lights of a city at night, viewed from great height, as if the room were the penthouse suite of a spacescraper. A huge black bed dominated the far wall. It was only a foot off the floor. "Amazing!" Arakaki exclaimed.

2013, Michael McCloskey, The Trilisk Hunt::

The biggest one packed enough punch to blow through a spacescraper all the way to the basement.

2014, Michael McCloskey, The Trilisk Revolution::

(science fiction) A building that is tall enough to reach outer space.


earthscraper

/ˈɝθˌskɹeɪp.ɚ/

By Vox! We went down all right. Spacious rooms were here piled one upon another connected by wide staircases. This subterranean temple was rather like an inverted skyscraper, an earthscraper, perhaps.

2008, Alan Burt Akers, Gangs of Antares: Dray Prescot 45:

So then I dreamed up a subterranean skyscraper (or,if you will, an earthscraper) with various floors, each of them constituting a different infernal abode;

2014, Leopoldo Marechal, Adam Buenosayres: A Novel:

The earthscraper burst from the tunnel into daylight, sparks trailing. Elara turned hard against the wheel, corrected itstrajectory and spun one hundred and eighty degrees into a brigade of sentinels their weapons drawn.

(science fiction, architecture) A building that is built underground; a subterranean skyscraper.


freewrite

en-verb

freewrite (third-person singular simple present freewrites, present participle freewriting, simple past freewrote, past participle freewritten)

freewrites (present singular third-person)
freewriting (participle present)
freewrote (past)
freewritten (participle past)

(writing) To write continuously for a set period of time without regard to spelling, grammar, or topic.


freewrite

(writing) Something that is freewritten.


backwards time machine

en-noun

backwards time machine (plural backwards time machines)

(science fiction) A time machine that can only allow travel to the past, but cannot also allow travel to the future.


forward time machine

forward time machine (plural forward time machines)

(science fiction) A time machine that can only allow travel to the future, but cannot also allow travel to the past.


artificial superintelligence

artificial superintelligence (plural artificial superintelligences)

Coordinate term: AGI

(artificial intelligence, science fiction) Artificial intelligence that is far greater than any human intelligence.


genre film

genre film (countable and uncountable, plural genre films)

But the general characteristics of the genre set limits on the individual genre film, which renders it simpler for the audience to follow.

1991, Marcia Landy, Imitations of Life: A Reader on Film & Television Melodrama, →ISBN, page 473:

Genre films may therefore contain a more accurate description and a more radical critique of the values of the society that produced them than can the serious film, which is so self-contemplative, so obsessed with its own aesthetic status, that it neglects its connection to the audience.

2004, Thomas Schatz, Hollywood: Formal-aesthetic dimensions: authorship, genre and stardom, →ISBN:

A similar response is elicited by the genre film, with Langford suggesting that the “combination of sameness and variety is the linchpin of the generic contract”.

2015, Liam Burke, The Comic Book Film Adaptation, →ISBN:

(countable, film) A film that was produced with the intent of fitting into a specific genre (such as science fiction, romantic comedy, horror, or film noir) with an existing audience.

While genre film tends to treat things as they are and avoids the trap of advocating them, exploitation film sensationalizes them.

1998, Monique Guillory, Richard Green, Soul: Black Power, Politics, and Pleasure, →ISBN, page 241:

While Dixon's views on the audience may not be to everybody's liking, it is hard not to agree with his assessment of genre film; science fiction film was most definitely entering a period of predictability.

2009, Lincoln Geraghty, American Science Fiction Film and Television, →ISBN:

Nevertheless, I offer a tentative description of the representation of “race” and “blacks” in genre film.

2003, Barry Keith Grant, Film Genre Reader III - Volume 3, →ISBN, page 472:

During the occupation, Johan directed many influential films with a high technical quality and pronounced sense of working in genre film, like the screwball comedy Mine Kære Koner (My Dear Wives, 1943) and the episodic Otte Akkorder (Eight Cords, 1944).

2012, John Sundholm, Historical Dictionary of Scandinavian Cinema, →ISBN, page 213:

(uncountable, film) All such films, collectively.


DEF

DEF (countable and uncountable, plural DEFs)

(broadcasting) Initialism of daily electronic feed.

(broadcasting) Initialism of delayed electronic feed.


Marvel

(fiction, literature, comics) Ellipsis of Marvel Comics.

(fiction, film, television) Ellipsis of Marvel Studios.


holocorder

Blend of holo- + recorder; compare camcorder.

(science fiction) A device for making holographic recordings.


retroflex hook

(typography) A hamiform diacritic ⟨◌̢⟩ used to mark consonantal retroflexion.


megajournal

Megajournals are defined as journals that are ‘designed to be much larger than a traditional journal by exercising low selectivity among accepted articles’, meaning that they do not reject articles for lack of novelty or significance as long as they are original and scientifically sound. In addition, they accept articles from more than one discipline, and they are Open Access, typically charging article processing charges (APCs).

2020, Christos Petrou, Guest Post – The Megajournal Lifecycle, in: The Scholarly Kitchen, May 7 2020

Earlier this year, I looked at the processing time of three megajournals and a prominent OA portfolio, sampling ~300 papers for each of them. Two of the megajournals took more than 200 days on average from submission to publication.

2020, Christos Petrou, Guest Post – MDPI’s Remarkable Growth, in: The Scholarly Kitchen, August 10 2020

(sciences, publishing) An online academic journal that focuses on publishing articles in large quantities and reduces the role of peer review in article acceptance.


internal monologue

internal monologue (plural internal monologues)

(literature) A representation of someone's thoughts as articulated.


timeship

(science fiction) A vehicle like a spaceship that travels through time.


acromonogrammatic

(poetry) Having each verse begin with the same letter as that with which the preceding verse ends.


Fomalhautian

(science fiction) Of or relating to the star Fomalhaut.


scavvy

(science fiction, slang) A scavenger; one who looks for discarded objects.


starrish

en-adj

starrish (comparative more starrish, superlative most starrish)

more starrish (comparative)
most starrish (superlative)

From Middle English sterrish, sterryssh, equivalent to star + -ish.


Stallone

en-proper noun

Stallone (countable and uncountable, plural Stallones)

First critic: […] By the way, did you hear about the new film Stallone is making? It's titled Rocky Balboa Enters a Nursing Home. Stallone plays an aging Rocky—false teeth, hearing aid, Depends.

2011, S. L. Varnado, Funny Side Up: Senior Citizen Scenarios, Bloomington, IN: iUniverse, page 115:

His dark hair was cut short, brushed forward, speckles of white adding texture, and I imagined he modelled himself on ERs George Clooney, although he looked more like Stallone—Stallone' gone wrong, if you can imagine that;[…]

2011 [2000], James Herbert, Others, Pan Macmillan:

George Cosmatos, the director of Rambo II and Cobra, has died from cancer aged 64. Apart from shooting Stallone vehicles, Cosmatos was best known for the 1993 western Tombstone, starring Kurt Russell and Val Kilmer.

2005 April 26, “In brief: Tombstone director George Cosmatos dies”, in The Guardian:

(film) used specifically of Sylvester Stallone (b. 1946), an American actor, director, screenwriter, and producer, known especially for his acting roles as boxer Rocky Balboa and soldier John Rambo.


IMAX

en-noun

IMAX (usually uncountable, plural IMAXes)

(uncountable, cinematography) A 70mm motion picture film format and set of cinema projection standards.


Deimosian

He paled in comparison to the eight foot tall Deimosian female.

2013 August 2, Nathan Skaggs, The Onslaught, →ISBN:

(chiefly science fiction) Of or relating to the moon Deimos.


Deimosian

I was taking Valerie's kid to the Central Park Zoo when the Phobosians and the Deimosians started uprooting the city's power cables.

2002, Peter Crowther, Mars Probes, →ISBN, page 221:

(science fiction) An inhabitant of Deimos.


protomatter

The No Damage option occurs when the computers are directed to control the protomatter environment from directly harming the user. This is because MegaCorps prefer their executives alive rather than dead.

1995, Elaine Hinman-Sweeney, Hardwear/Softwear: Take a Walk on the Cyber Side, West End Games, Incorporated, →ISBN:

No worlds, no stars, nothing but a raging sea of churning no-forms, the empty vessel of another universe eaten alive by protomatter, consumed and converted and fed upon until nothing else remained.

2009, James Swallow, Titan #6: Synthesis, →ISBN, page 375:

Pioneering work performed at the Vulcan Science Academy by Dr. Temok and at the Daystrom Institute by Dr. Glenn Hauman indicate that the instabilities in protomatter are the result of interactions between its subatomic constituents and a nine-dimensional 5/2 spin variant on the quark stragelet, which Temok and Hauman have agreed to dub a "changelet."

2012, John Vornholt, The Genesis Wave Book One: Star Trek The Next Generation, →ISBN:

Once quantum compression is achieved, if the singularity has excess collapse inertia it will continue to compress the protomatter until a singularity begins to form at the core, venting protomatter through the regional stellar orifices across the multiverse.

2016, Ralph Rotten, Memoirs of a Timelord:

(science fiction) An unstable substance that is powerful and dangerous.


rejuve

The spacers thought that he was just the only person lucky enough to be able to take an infinite number of rejuves.

1980, Jack L. Chalker, The Return of Nathan Brazil:

He was a true kid of only twenty-five years old, no rejuves yet.

2017, Travis S. Taylor, Kill Before Dying:

(science fiction) The process of making somebody young again.


G-rated

(US, film) Of a motion picture, suitable for a general audience, including children.


Phobosian

The Phobosians are encamped outside Grand Central Station, barely a block away.

2013, James Morrow, The Cat's Pyjamas, →ISBN:

After four days of thorough medical examinations, physicians from each species concluded a high level of mutualism could exist between the Phobosians and the Interspecies Coalition species.

2013, Nathan Skaggs, The Red Star Encounter: The Dream Seers, →ISBN:

Meanwhile, the female Phobosian who had introduced herself as Jay Jay led the passengers down a long, narrow ramp that was just wide enough for two people to walk side by side.

2015, E.M. Smith, The Shadow of Olympus, →ISBN, page 203:


Phobian

In walking he would raise the toes of his feet above the heads of the Phobians to a height of five hundred feet.

1892, Scientific American - Volume 67, page 112:

You know the answer already as to why the Phobians acquired the plague.

2006, Alex De Witt, The Phobian Project, →ISBN:

After conferring amongst themselves, the majority of the representative suspected that the Phobians were about to announce plans for another annexation of some economically troubled world.

2010, Lonnie Holman I, Ultimate Dichotomization, →ISBN, page 42:

(science fiction) An inhabitant of Phobos.


werecrab

1999 August 3, Pinky the Werecrab, "question..", alt.romath.
I am a werecrab.

He preached that the Great Spirit had created the Indians but not the whites, whom he hated as the spawn of “an enormous, foul werecrab, which had first crawled out of the sea in the vicinity of Boston, Massachusetts”; soon an apocalypse would come in which the whites and those Indians who followed their ways would be swept aside.

2014, Jeffrey N. Cox, Romanticism in the Shadow of War, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 20:

Apparently werecrabs did.

2015, Lisa Shearin, Con and Conjure, NLA Digital, →ISBN:

(fiction, rare) A shapeshifter who can assume the form of a crab.


RTK

Radio Television of Kosovo
w:Radio Television of Kosovo

(broadcasting) Initialism of Radio Television of Kosovo.


genre-savvy

en-adj

genre-savvy (comparative more genre-savvy, superlative most genre-savvy)

more genre-savvy (comparative)
most genre-savvy (superlative)

(literature) aware of the elements that are typically found in a particular genre; able to recognize and/or predict the tropes that come into play


mediamacro

Coined in 2014 by Simon Wren-Lewis. Compound of media + macro (“macroeconomics”).

Politicians who appeared to deviate from the new ‘mediamacro consensus’ of deficit fetishism suffered as a consequence.

2014 November 24, Simon Wren-Lewis, “Why We Need Our Fiscal Policy Instrument Back”, in Social Europe:

Mediamacro has a number of general features. It puts much more emphasis than conventional macroeconomics does on the financial markets, and on the views of participants in those markets. It prefers simple stories to more complex analysis. As part of this, it is fond of analogies between governments and individuals, even when those analogies are generally seen to be false by macroeconomists.

2015 February 19, Simon Wren-Lewis, “The Austerity Con”, in London Review of Books:

Simon Wren-Lewis has been on a lonely crusade against “mediamacro”, a narrative about the British economy that is untrue — or at the very least easily challenged and at odds with textbook economics — yet is stated in the news media not as a hypothesis but as a fact.

2015 May 4, Paul Krugman, “Mediamacro Crosses the Atlantic”, in New York Times:

2016, Felix R. FitzRoy, Elissaios Papyrakis, An Introduction to Climate Change Economics and Policy, Routledge (2nd revised ed., 1st ed. from 2009), →ISBN.
This has been particularly striking since 2010, when most left-of-centre parties such as Labour in the UK and the Social Democratic Party (SPD) in Germany have embraced the conservative-populist arguments for deficit reduction and austerity of the mainstream media, or ‘mediamacro’, which are rejected by almost all academic macroeconomists (at least in the UK and US, though not in Germany).

A key element of mediamacro is the naive assumption that higher government borrowing is inherently dangerous and that lower borrowing is always praiseworthy.

2018 November 4, Ben Chu, “We need to learn that the real economic gamble is sometimes too little government borrowing – not too much”, in The Independent:

(politics, economics, media) A narrative or set of beliefs promulgated as factual by news media that distorts macroeconomic consensus, e.g. often presenting the (total) government deficit as a prime economic indicator and invoking analogies between governments and households on debt.


greenskin

(fantasy, fiction, roleplaying games) One of several distinct green-skinned creatures often grouped together, such as orcs, goblins and (sometimes) trolls.


xenogeology

/zɛnəd͡ʒiːɑləd͡ʒɪ/

(science fiction, rare) The science of extraterrestrial geology.


xenoscience

(science fiction, rare) The science of extraterrestrial life.


exocommunication

/ɛɡˈzɔːkʌˌmjunɪˈkeɪʃən/

(science fiction, rare) Communication with extraterrestrial species.


xenoengineering

/ˌzinoʊˌɛn.d͡ʒɪnˈɪəɹ.ɪŋ/

(science fiction, rare) Engineering of extraterrestrial species.


xenobacteriology

/zɛnəbækˌtɪəɹ.ɪˈɒləd͡ʒi/

(science fiction, rare) The science of studying extraterrestrial bacteria.


xenomicrobiology

(science fiction, rare) The science of studying extraterrestrial microorganisms.


xenocytology

(science fiction, rare) The study (cytology) of extraterrestrial cells.


xenomorphology

/zɛnəmɔɹˈfɑləd͡ʒi/

(science fiction, rare) The science or study of extraterrestrial biological structures.


xenoethics

(science fiction, rare) (The study or elaboration of) extraterrestrial ethics.


xenofiction

[...] escape from their threatened warren and establish a new home has become a classic of xenofiction, a subgenre of science fiction encompassing stories set among species or cultures dramatically different from humanity or human society.

2006, Christopher Harter, Anthony Tedeschi, Jodine Perkins, Places of the Imagination: A Celebration of Worlds, Islands, and Realms, Bloomington, Ind.: Lilly Library, →ISBN, page 64:

(science fiction, rare) Fictional stories about non-humans, especially extraterrestrials.

Raise your hand if you love xenofiction! There’s something about experiencing the world through non-human eyes that makes just about any plot more exciting to me.

2018 February 24, Lydia Schoch, “Saturday Seven: Non-Human Protagonists”, in lydiaschoch.com:

(science fiction, rare) Fiction written with a non-human point of view character.


astrozoology

/ˈæstɹəzəʊˈɒləd͡ʒi/

(rare, science fiction) The branch of xenology dealing with extraterrestrial animals.


astrohistory

/ˈæstɹəˈhɪstəɹi/

(rare, science fiction) The study of alien history.


xenoarchitecture

/zɛnəˈɑɹkəˌtɛkt͡ʃɚ/

(science fiction, rare) Extraterrestrial architecture.


astrogeography

/ˈæstɹəd͡ʒɪˈɒɡɹəfi/

(rare, science fiction) The study of exoplanet geography.


xenoencyclopedia

The competent reader gradually learns more and more about the genre's own grand-scale xenoencyclopedia in order to understand each new work's specific xenoencyclopedia...

2012, Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr., “Of Enigmas and Xenoencyclopedias”, in Science Fiction Studies, volume 39, number 3:

The (xeno)encyclopedia of the (science fiction) reader In L'empire du pseudo, Richard Saint-Gelais applies Umberto Eco's textual cooperation theory to the science fiction genre. He proposes to call “xenoencyclopedia” all the cognitive ...

2015, Maylis Rospide, Sandrine Sorlin, The Ethics and Poetics of Alterity: New Perspectives on Genre Literature:

They offer a supplement—or possibly a starting point—to the reader's “personal encyclopedia” (Eco 1985 [1979]) or, in this case, “xeno-encyclopedia” (Saint-Gelais 1999), which was constituted through previous Marvel readings and which these publications help to configure according to the publisher's...

2018, J.M. Méon, “Sons and Grandsons of Origins: Narrative Memory in Marvel Superhero Comics”, in Comics Memory:

(science fiction, rare) An encyclopedia of science fiction.


astrogeometry

(science fiction, rare) The study of geometry of the universe or stars.


astrophilosophy

(science fiction, rare) The study of alien philosophy.


thalassogen

(astronomy, science fiction) A substance capable of forming a planetary ocean.


Memory Alpha

As noted earlier, some researchers cite species as a significant factor in determining the value of Memory Alpha cards. If species affect the value of Memory Alpha cards, why does it fail to do so in this sample?

2012, Ortiz Zezzatti, Carlos Alberto Ochoa, Logistics Management and Optimization through Hybrid Artificial Intelligence:

Approaching Memory Alpha, which Looks Just Like it Did on the Original TV Series I thought I had this when I learned Memory Alpha still existed in this Trekverse.

Memory Alpha was to have been the pride of the Federation's scientific and educational delegations.

2013, Judith Reeves-Stevens, Star Trek: Signature Edition: Worlds in Collision:

In response, online fandoms have turned to the creation and maintenance of wikis to help sort through and organize the often overwhelming amount of detail in the source material. Memory Alpha, a Star Trek wiki, is one such fandom example.

2014, Marta González-Lloret, Lourdes Ortega, Technology-mediated TBLT: Researching Technology and Tasks:

(science fiction, Star Trek) An inhabited planetoid and the home for a Federation central library.


death slot

First the network bounced the series around the schedule like a beach ball, preempted it often, and then settled the show into the death slot […]

So they program shows exactly when TV networks don’t. They debut series on Fridays (considered “the death slot” in network TV) and over holidays.

2015 December 16, James Poniewozik, “Streaming TV Isn’t Just a New Way to Watch. It’s a New Genre.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:


tri-D

Photos of smaller versions of him — I guessed his children — lined the ultra-modern furniture; as I swept a hand over a cabinet, a couple of tri-Ds even came to life.

2016, Jamie Sawyer, Origins, New York, N.Y.: Orbit, →ISBN, page 245:

(science fiction) Synonym of tri-V (“a system capable of recording or displaying three-dimensional video”).


tri-D

They were still engaged in their mental game of tri-D chess, whispering moves back and forth when they assumed Captain Gold wasn't listening.

2007, Keith R. A. DeCandido, Star Trek: Corps of Engineers: Aftermath, page 452:


playworthy

playworthy (comparative more playworthy, superlative most playworthy)

more playworthy (comparative)
most playworthy (superlative)


demolecularize

en-verb

demolecularize (third-person singular simple present demolecularizes, present participle demolecularizing, simple past and past participle demolecularized)

demolecularizes (present singular third-person)
demolecularizing (participle present)
demolecularized (participle past)
demolecularized (past)

(science fiction, transitive) To disassemble the molecular structure of.


cagebelle

Having a deep background in basketball may be an advantage, but national cagebelle Bea Daez still feels the pressure as she joins the hosts of UAAP Unfront.

2015, Mei-Lin Lozada, Perlas cagebelle Bea Daez does the crossover, tries hand at UAAP hosting job:

(Philippines, sports journalism) A female basketball player; a female who plays basketball.


volleybelle

Now a part of the decorated DLSU Lady Spikers, this petite lass already showed glimpses of her skills as she, together with veteran volleybelle Charleen Cruz bagged home second honor merits in the recently concluded UAAP Beach Volleyball tournament...

2010, Green Gallery: Lady Spiker Amanda Villanueva:

(Philippines, sports journalism) A female volleyball player.


cabbit

(anime, manga) A fictional hybrid of a cat and a rabbit.


startword

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It was the translation of Ovid, Lucan, Seneca, and Virgil that gave English Elizabethan poetry the startword.

1875, THE CORHILL MAGAZINE , VOL XXXII, page 191:

The attraction of the French romances of chivalry for William Morris, of Tuscan painting for D.G. Rossetti, of the spirit of English Gothic architecture for Christina Rossetti, of the combination of all these with Greek and Elizabethan elements for Mr. Swinburne, were to be traced back to startwords given by the prophetic author of the Seven Lamps of Architecture.

1926, Richard Garnett, Edmund Gosse, English Literature: From the age of Johnson to the age of Tennyson:

(literature) The first appearance of a genre in print.


Craft Service

(film, television) Alternative letter-case form of craft service


craft service

Though the Craft Service Person works on set making food available to the crew and cast between meals, the Coordinator can be the one to hire this person.

1997, Debora Patz, Surviving Production: The Art of Production Management for Film and Television, page 35:

(film, television) The department that provides food to workers, especially between meals.

Usually featuring an assortment of hot and cold drinks, fresh fruit, vegetables, candy, and snacks, craft services helps keep everyone going during long production days.

2008, Jason Tomaric, The Power Filmmaking Kit, page 328:

But a day or two to hang out on a pal's set, eat craft service and bask in the schadenfreude of their best friend's production nightmares? Who wouldn't want to do that?

2016, Dan Mirvish, The Cheerful Subversive's Guide to Independent Filmmaking, pages 97–98:

(film, television) Food and drinks made available to workers during film or television production.

On "Deadwood" there is a Craft Service guy who cleans up after the horses. [...] Now that's not the same guy who makes your sandwiches, but still it's a Craft Service person who specializes in keeping the set clean.

2009, Paul Salamoff, On the Set: The Hidden Rules of Movie Making Etiquette, page sn:

(film, television) The department that provides miscellaneous general services on the set.


nasnas

(Islam, folklore) A monstrous creature related to the jinn, said to resemble the left or right half of a human being (with half a head, half a body, one arm and one leg).


heterotext

(literature) A text that is heterogeneous, for example in being composed of several different languages. and visual vs textual


alienish

en-adj

alienish (comparative more alienish, superlative most alienish)

more alienish (comparative)
most alienish (superlative)

The bruise on my cheek had ripened into an underlying violet with an alienish green tinge. My ear had a red cut nicked out of it. The hot curling iron burn on my neck was starting to scab but it looked like it might hang around a lifetime.

2007, Nancy Bush, Electric Blue, page 212:

(science fiction) Characteristic of an alien; alienlike


CPP

en-noun

CPP (countable and uncountable, plural CPPs)

(broadcasting) Initialism of cost per point.


match moving

(cinematography, computer graphics) A technique that allows the insertion of computer graphics into live-action footage with correct position, scale, orientation, and motion relative to the photographed objects in the shot.


vocabularyclept

From vocabulary + Ancient Greek κλέπτω (kléptō, “I steal”).

It seems reasonable that vocabularyclept poems should be signed first by the poet of combination and second by the poet of permutation, since combination necessarily precedes permutation.

1973, Howard W. Bergerson, Palindromes and Anagrams, page 22:

The second text is just a rearrangement by word of the first; it can be seen as a “vocabularyclept” text created from the first. Here's an even simpler vocabularyclept example: This movie was a great experience, and not disappointing. This movie was not a great experience, and disappointing.

2016, Nick Montfort, Exploratory Programming for the Arts and Humanities, page 200:

(poetry) Being a form of poem that is a rearrangement of the words of an existing work.


tenday

They're confident of having the main walls complete in just under ten tendays.

1993, Vernor Vinge, A Fire Upon The Deep, page 284:


anticinematic

en-adj

anticinematic (comparative more anticinematic, superlative most anticinematic)

more anticinematic (comparative)
most anticinematic (superlative)


catboy

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

(Japanese fiction) A male fictional character who has a cat's ears, tail, or other feline characteristics on an otherwise humanoid body.


undirectable

undirectable (comparative more undirectable, superlative most undirectable)

more undirectable (comparative)
most undirectable (superlative)


holopod

As usual IT didn't turn up until the end of the lesson and Caitlin had to share Michaela's holopod as there wasn't a spare one available.

2010, Caroline Hunter, The Present Future, →ISBN, page 20:

Altman shielded the holopod in his hands, watched the image that appeared, rotating slowly between his palms.

The object appears to be a holopod. Preliminary data scans indicate that it contains nothing more than a holographic presentation.

“It'll be different, that's for sure,” said Addie looking around the celebration holopod.

2015, Louise Park, Three's a Crowd, →ISBN, page 9:

(science fiction) A pod-like device that projects and/or records holographic images.


wereorc

As a wereorc who is happily married to a weretroll, Sir Haggis, I must object to your continuing denigration of the race of trolls as some kind of Usenet vermin.

1999 January 21, Mad Molly Malone, WereOrc, “Troll Striptease 8”, in alt.horror.werewolves (Usenet):

(fiction, fantasy, rare) A shapeshifter who can assume the form of an orc.


duospace

(computing, typography) Of a typeface, having characters of only two widths, where the narrower width is typically half that of the wider width.


channel-hop

(television) The act of changing the channel on a television

(television) The act of a programme changing from one channel to another


vanity card

(television) A production logo briefly shown at the beginning or end of a show.


prostibot

(science fiction, slang) A sexbot hired out as a prostitute.


spondaical

(poetry) Having or relating to spondees.


MSNBC

An initialism from the names of its founders, Microsoft and the National Broadcasting Company, equivalent to MS + NBC.

“If you’re wondering how Jon Stewart’s bullshit bothsidesist return went over…” former MSNBC host Keith Olbermann posted to X, formerly Twitter. “The antisemite racist conspiracy nuts LOVED it.”

2024 February 13, Zachary Leeman, “Jon Stewart Angers Liberal Viewers By Criticizing Biden: ‘Racist Conspiracy Theory Nuts LOVED It!’”, in Mediaite:

(television) An American news-based television channel and website.


diwata

Borrowed from Cebuano diwata, from Proto-Visayan *diwata, from Malay dewata, from Sanskrit देवता (devatā, “god, deity”).

(mythology, folklore) In Filipino folklore, a spirit, usually a lesser god or goddess, believed to guard natural features such as forests.


charactonym

(literature) A name that is somehow descriptive of the character who bears it.


city desk

There were many human interest stories culled from the police-court news or from anything else that came to the city desk.

1940, Helen Hughes, News and the Human Interest Story, page 21:

(Canada, US, newspapers) The department or staff responsible for reporting and editing local news.

Many expected the then editor of the Daily Mirror, Piers Morgan, who had traded stock on the basis of his city desk's inside tips, to be fired, but he retained the support of the company, until eventually a bigger, ethical scandal involving faked pictures forced him from office.

2014, Ian Hargreaves, Journalism: A Very Short Introduction, page 87:

(British, newspapers) The department or staff responsible for reporting and editing financial and business news.


rougarou

From Cajun French rougarou (“werewolf”).

Like the European werewolf and loup-garou, the French Canadian rougarou also often appears in the form of a dog. Whoever neglects his Easter duties or goes unconfessed for seven years finds himself changed into a rougarou at night.

1961, Maria Leach, God Had a Dog: Folklore of the Dog:

“I told you, I'm not the rougarou. And if I say anything, the rougarou will kill me. I may be old, but I don't want to go that way.” “Selena, I'm going to hurt you worse than any rougarou.”

2016, Heather Graham, Blood on the Bayou: A Cafferty & Quinn Novella, Evil Eye Concepts, Incorporated, →ISBN:

“The rougarou—him's a big, bad wolf.” “Bad?” asked Lizabeth. “What do you mean?”

2016, Jonathan Maberry, The Orphan Army, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 78:

(folklore) A werewolf or werewolf-like creature said to inhabit swamps in Louisiana (and sometimes French Canadian) folklore.


Ivan Ivanovich

en-noun

Ivan Ivanovich (plural Ivan Ivanoviches or Ivan Ivanovichs)

Ivan Ivanoviches (plural)
Ivan Ivanovichs (plural)

/ɪˈvɑːn ɪˈvɑːnəvɪt͡ʃ/

Borrowed from Russian Ива́н Ива́нович (Iván Ivánovič, literally “John Johnson”).

bor

Ива́н Ива́нович

(fiction) Synonym of John Doe (an unknown person or body), giving a Russian flavour to fiction set in Russia, by using a Russian name in place of the English term.


isekai

Borrowed from Japanese 異世界 (isekai, literally “different world”).

bor+

It's not every day that an isekai author gets published out of the sea of isekai stories on there.

2017, Ryo Shirakome, DxS, Arifureta: From Commonplace to World's Strongest (volume 1)

(Japanese fiction) A genre of Japanese fiction involving everyday people transported to alternative fantasy or virtual worlds.


exoscience

(science fiction) Science concerning exoplanets and anything on them.


forceshield

(science fiction) A forcefield (invisible barrier).


Huainanzi

From the pinyin romanization of Mandarin 淮南子 (Huáinánzǐ, “Writings of the Masters South of the Huai River”), the usual Chinese name of the work, from its origin among the scholars at the court of Liu An, prince of Huainan.

zh-l

(Chinese literature) A 2nd-century bc record of Chinese mythology, legend, history, and thought.


cynocephalic

From cyno- + -cephalic; compare Ancient Greek κυνοκέφαλος (kunoképhalos).

cog

(fiction, history) Of or relating to dogheads, humanoid dog-headed monsters.


vigesimo-quarto

(printing) Formed of sheets folded so as to make twenty-four leaves.


Chaucerism

/ˈt͡ʃɔːsəɹɪzəm/

(literature) A word, phrase, etc. that is characteristic of Geoffrey Chaucer or his writings.


binology

(journalism, UK) the ethically questionable practice of searching through the dustbins of celebrities and other public figures to obtain information for use in tabloid newspapers


zipway

I never cared for zipways as a way to get around megastructures like this. I always thought that there was a reason God invented taxis.

He could only stay there, suspended halfway between the top of the wall and the zipway, and wish would all come out all right. He'd taken a gamble, and sometimes you lost gambles. He felt more than saw the flyers stop, and he dropped down the remaining meter and a half to the surface of the zipway.

2012, Connie Willis, Larry Correia, Mercedes Lackey, A Cosmic Christmas:

(science fiction) A high-speed elevator, corridor, or similar transit route.


macrokinesis

Parapsychologists, whose thinking is based on spiritualistic work, classify the ensemble of these interactions of spirit on matter with such terms as "macrokinesis" or "telekinesis."

2015, Jean Jacques Charbonier, 7 Reasons to Believe in the Afterlife: A Doctor Reviews the Case for Consciousness after Death:

(fiction, rare) The ability to move objects and affect matter at a large-scale level with the power of one's mind.


shadow mask

(television) A plate punched with tiny holes that separate the coloured phosphors in the layer behind the front glass of the screen. Three electron guns at the back of the screen sweep across the mask, with the beams only reaching the screen if they pass through the holes.


ink trap

(typography) A sharp recess in an inward corner, present in certain typefaces; when printed, ink fills them (as opposed to having normal corners, resulting in bleeding and loss of crispness).


down-table

(journalism) Working as a copy editor or assistant editor, subordinate to others.


Lukomorye

From Russian Лукомо́рье (Lukomórʹje, literally “the curve of the sea”).

bor

(folklore, Slavic mythology) A fictional land in Russian folklore.

Loukomorie

a fictional land in the Russian folklore


TRF

(radio) Initialism of tuned radio frequency.


in the can

(film, of a take) Having been shot and stored in a film can, or at the equivalent stage for a digital take.


galliambus

From Latin Galli + iambus. Used by the Galli, priests of the Phrygian goddess Cybele. The first element, Ancient Greek γάλλος (gállos), was said by Ovid to be named after a Phrygian river.

(poetry) A verse consisting of four Ionics a minore, with variations and substitutions.


lenvoy

The First parte of the Mirour on its first appearance, in 1574, included sixteen tragedies and ended with the tragedy of Nennius, after which a conclusion was made in a lenvoy of five stanzas.

1946 [1574], Lily B. Campbell, “Introduction”, in John Higgins, Thomas Blenerhasset, The Mirror for Magistrates, page 7:

Ladies! Lenvoy to you that have this prize; I reed ye hold your owne, if you be wise.

1815, Thomas Park, Heliconia: A Selection of English Poetry (1575-1604), page 134:

For at the end of Bk. II. there is a lenvoy, commencing "Rome, remember of thy foundation"; it is one of the best of Lydgate's remarkable lenvoys, rendered pompous and sonorous by the monotony of its rhyme-system, for it has only three rhymes in its 126 lines (133 in Tottel's)!

1898, Wilbraham Fitzjohn Trench, A Mirror for Magistrates: Its Origin and Influence, page 20:


fairy money

(folklore) Money given by the fairies, which later transforms into withered leaves or similar.


tankobon

Borrowed from Japanese 単行本(たんこうぼん) (tankōbon).

(manga) A standard Japanese book format most commonly encountered as the individual volumes of a manga series.


step on

en-verb

step on (third-person singular simple present steps on, present participle stepping on, simple past and past participle stepped on)

steps on (present singular third-person)
stepping on (participle present)
stepped on (participle past)
stepped on (past)

(radio communications, transitive) To interrupt, overpower, or override (another transmission on the same frequency) with one's own transmission.


pi font

(typography) Symbol or dingbat font; font that is composed of non-alphabetic characters.


piskie

The farmer slunk away unperceived, and went to bed, where he lay a long while awake, thinking in what way he could best shew his gratitude to the piskie for such an important Service.

1865, Popular Romances of the West of England:

The piskie was in the shape of a man — very dark, black-haired, and cross-eyed.

1906, J. Henry Harris, Cornish Saints & Sinners:

Glister was determined to prove the wizened piskie wrong, but its taunts were well founded.

(mythology, fantasy literature, fairy tales) Alternative form of pixie (supernatural being): A playful sprite or elflike or fairy-like creature.


grundylow

(UK, folklore, mythology) Alternative form of grindylow


grindylow

Possibly connected to Grendel, the monster from the epic Beowulf.

(UK, folklore, mythology) A folkloric creature, said to inhabit water and to grab children with its long sinewy arms and drown them.


conceptismo

(literature) A 16th- and 17th-century literary movement in Spain associated with Francisco de Quevedo and characterized by a rapid rhythm, directness, wordplay, and witty metaphors.


denet

denet (third-person singular simple present denets, present participle denetting, simple past and past participle denetted)

denets (present singular third-person)
denetting (participle present)
denetted (participle past)
denetted (past)

What prompted the demise of the agreement was the action of a number of publishers who 'denetted' the price of their books.

1993, Joseph Whittaker, Whitaker's Almanack, page 1142:

Recent changes in the retail situation now allow denetting of a book six months after publication rather than after a year.

1994, Cathy Stewart, The European Media Industry: Fragmentation and Convergence in Broadcasting and Publishing:

Yet the NBA is still in place, the PA has moved to prevent publishers from supplying BCA's club shops, and the threat from groups such as Costco has diminished. Even Hodder Headline's denetting initiative has not led to the kind of price war among booksellers that many feared.

1995, Indian Book Industry, volume 24, page 76:

In September the Publishers Association announced that it would defend the NBA and the following day Tim Helly Hutchinson — then CEO (chief executive officer) of Hodder Headline — announced that he was going to de-net their books on the day after Christmas.

2013, John B. Thompson, Merchants of Culture: The Publishing Business in the Twenty-First Century:

(transitive, publishing) To reduce the price of (a book) below its agreed-upon net value with the publisher.


neo-Gothic

Of the known styles that signal boxes referred to, neo-Gothic was a favourite - especially in the points of locking room windows, and particularly on the Great Northern Railway.

2021 October 20, Dr Joseph Brennan, “A key part of our diverse railway heritage”, in RAIL, number 942, page 54:

(architecture, literature) Of or relating to a more recent iteration of a Gothic style.

neogòtic

of or relating to iteration of Gothic style


Mantuanesque

en-adj

Mantuanesque (comparative more Mantuanesque, superlative most Mantuanesque)

more Mantuanesque (comparative)
most Mantuanesque (superlative)

From Mantuan + -esque, in reference to Baptista Mantuanus.

(literature) Of or relating to a style of pastoral vision with religious overtones of the "Good Shepherd", as opposed to the Arcadian pastoral vision of innocent rural bliss.


orthotypography

en-noun

orthotypography (countable and uncountable, plural orthotypographies)

(typography) The study of correct typography according to established usage.


exogalactic

(science fiction) Synonym of extragalactic (originating from outside the Milky Way galaxy)


cryo-freeze

en-verb

cryo-freeze (third-person singular simple present cryo-freezes, present participle cryo-freezing, simple past cryo-froze, past participle cryo-frozen)

cryo-freezes (present singular third-person)
cryo-freezing (participle present)
cryo-froze (past)
cryo-frozen (participle past)

Cirno: "I'll cryo-freeze you together with some English beef!"

2002, Team Shanghai Alice, Embodiment of Scarlet Devil:

This requires bulky machinery and other equipment that one person is unlikely to be able to maneuver. Furthermore, even if current technology could cryo-freeze an entire body, the process would take many hours. Dr. Stein made inquiries and found out that a specialist in the field of cryogenics had made a breakthrough just a few weeks before the murder that allowed him to safely freeze single organs, but not entire bodies.

2014, James Luce, The Star-Spangled Triangle, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 60:

(transitive, science fiction, fantasy) To freeze something cryogenically.


cryo-freeze

"Both the original injury and the cryo-freeze did him a lot of damage, some of it permanent. He was forced to take a medical discharge, which he — hm! — did not handle well. It's not my place to discuss those details.” “If he was injured badly enough to need cryo-freeze, he was dead!” she said, startled. “Technically, I suppose so. 'Alive' and 'dead' are not such neat categories as they used to be in the Time of Isolation.”

1999, Lois McMaster Bujold, Komarr, Baen Books, →ISBN:

"What are you going to do with her?" he asked. "Nothing, Dr. Sanders. You are." Sanders shook his head. "What do you mean?" - "We've got two new clients, Dr. Sanders, that need to be put into cryo-freeze..."

2011, Russell Davis, Touchless, Wildside Press LLC, →ISBN, page 154:

Oh I hate this, and she did it on purpose, I'm floating in mid grav feeling like I'm in cryo freeze like the old days. “Lasko you were never in cryo freeze, that has not been used since the star stream was discovered.” Good point, and it is kinda good for the back. “Just be careful of the...” Ow, the transition. “Sorry Lasko, but I told you to stay seated.” The tone in her voice tells me she kinda enjoyed that."

2017, J.W. Delorie, Esper Wars, AuthorHouse, →ISBN:

(science fiction) The state of being cryogenically frozen.


admag

The admag was unique to Britain, and there was a kind of backdoor bravado about them in the way every admag transmission cheekily bumped up the amount of advertising per clock hour.

1980, Jo Gable, The Tuppenny Punch and Judy Show: 25 Years of TV Commercials, page 74:

This particular admag focused on a married couple who ran a pub in the fictional village of Wembleham, and they would discuss the price and quality of various real consumer products with their customers.

2007, Rob Turnock, Television and Consumer Culture: Britain and the Transformation of Modernity, page 145:

[…] ABC operated under the same advertising structures as the BBC when it came to programme material – the parameters of which had been tested by the controversy surrounding the advertising magazine, or 'admag'.

2007, Su Holmes, "A friendly style of presentation which the BBC has always found elusive?", published in Re-viewing Television History: Critical Issues in Television Historiography, page 75

(UK, television, dated) A television programme in which actors advertise real products in a fictional setting.


wererabbit

(fiction) A shapeshifter who can assume the form of a rabbit.


werefrog

(fiction) A shapeshifter who can assume the form of a frog.


Red Shirt

This strong dilemma is also a fun one, and works particularly well against players who like to use the controversial "Red Shirt" tactic of sending down small away teams to attempt dilemmas.

1995, Decipher, Inc, Star Trek Next Generation Customizable Card Game, →ISBN:

This is a question about responsibility -- Did Michael send his partner (AKA Red Shirt) into the fire zone SPECIFICALLY to be killed? He was the one who suggested to Operations that they set up a rescue attempt -- TO FAIL.

1997 October 1, Judy Williams, “Verdict-Red Shirt”, in alt.fan.la-femme.nikita (Usenet):

Red Shirts are characters with only a little more personality than Random Grunts, but they are expendable, and you can expect them to get killed.

2009, David Perry, Rusel DeMaria, David Perry on Game Design: A Brainstorming Toolbox, page 242:

(fiction) Alternative form of redshirt (“expendable minor character”)


top billing

en-noun

top billing (usually uncountable, plural top billings)

She had top billing on the past three films.

(theater, film) The most prominent name on lists of cast and crew, or in advertising.


Centauran

Reincarnation makes them feel superior to you superior Centaurans.

1962, Wallace West, The Memory Bank, Airmont Books, page 44:

The peculiar thing about that war is that the Centaurans gave up.

1974, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, volume 46, Mercury Press, page 64:

The Alpha Centaurans are especially interested in the skies above them.

2006, Giles Sparrow, The Solar System: Exploring the Planets and Their Moons from Mercury to Pluto and Beyond, Thunder Bay Press, page 10:

(science fiction) A member of a fictional or hypothetical Centauran species, colony, civilization, etc.


turbolift

(science fiction) An elevator on a spacecraft.


offworld

From off- + world, by analogy with offshore.

She invested in an offworld mining company.


offworld

The would-be astronauts had not been offworld yet.

(chiefly science fiction) Away from Earth.


VOP

Voice of the People
w:Radio Voice of the People

(broadcasting) Initialism of Voice of the People, a Zimbabwe radio station.


MTS

multichannel television sound
multichannel television sound#English

(television) Initialism of multichannel television sound. (a standard for encoding additional audio channels within an NTSC signal)


camera rehearsal

camera rehearsal (plural camera rehearsals)

(cinematography) A filmed rehearsal of a televised scene


golden hour

(television) In Japanese television, the period between 7 and 9 pm, the equivalent of the American prime time.

Goodbye 'golden hours': As pressure mounts for ITV to set its house in order, Andrew Dickson explains the nature of its restrictive practices and what lies at stake if the unions refuse to make concessions.

1988, The Listener, volume 119, page 14:

'Golden hours' were introduced nationally in 1972, ostensibly to protect staff from having to work unsocial hours and to compensate them for 'grief' if required to do so. Formerly those working after midnight could claim three times the normal rate; […]

2016, Jeremy Potter, Independent Television in Britain, volume 4, page 23:

(television, in the plural) Hours worked outside of normal working hours, for which additional money is paid.


shotlist

The shotlist should be short — if you find yourself typing up more than one page per scene, you're not really getting the hang of it. Use common terminology whenever possible. From the shotlist, the DP can figure out, to some extent, how many lighting changes each scene will require.

2013, Arthur Vincie, Preparing for Takeoff: Preproduction for the Independent Filmmaker:

(film) A detailed list of all the shots required for a film.


microgoggles

With a long-suffering sigh, Cale pulled the microgoggles from his eyes and followed her up the ladder onto the roof.

2000, Kevin J. Anderson, Rebecca Moesta, Titan A.E.: A Novel. Cale's story, →ISBN, page 27:

So whether you are out conquering worlds or are just concerned about these tiny pests, make sure you're prepared with a pair of germ-spotting microgoggles.

2001, Invader Zim, "Germs" (season 1, episode 4a)

She reached into her own field kit for microgoggles, took a closer look.

2015, J. D. Robb, Obsession in Death, →ISBN, page 40:

(rare, science fiction) Goggles that help to see minuscule objects.


werealligator

A Mokolé does not change from human to animal along a fixed track of forms. Instead, during adolescence, the young werealligator dreams of the past of the reptile races, and shapes a form for herself from what she [dreams].

1994, Bill Bridges, Werewolf Players Guide, White Wolf Pub:

(fiction, fantasy) A shapeshifter who can assume the form of an alligator.


docucomedy

(film, television) A comedy presented as though it were a documentary.


triple-decker

(journalism) A headline that is three lines long.

Something with three levels or storeys.
A headline that is three lines long.


skycam

(chiefly science fiction) A camera mounted or flying in the sky, taking aerial pictures or video footage.


eyeline

They realise that trajectories, space expansion and crushing are different with different lenses, whether wide angle or telephoto, and that actors' eyelines will be altered.

2010, Birgit Bräuchler, John Postill, Theorising Media and Practice, page 319:

Jake: Really? Well, I still chose you.
Paula: Why? Because I happened to be in your eye line?

2015, Leslye Headland, Sleeping with Other People:

(cinematography, broadcasting) The direction in which an actor or presenter is looking.


redondilla

From Spanish redondilla. Doublet of rondelle.

(poetry) An early verse form in which the first and fourth and the second and third lines of the stanza generally rhymed.

(poetry) In later Spanish use, a verse of six and eight syllables in general, whether making perfect rhymes or assonances only.


ATWT

(television) Initialism of As the World Turns, an American television soap opera aired between 1956 and 2010.


seedship

(science fiction) A spaceship designed to convey colonists to another planet etc.


prefade

en-verb

prefade (third-person singular simple present prefades, present participle prefading, simple past and past participle prefaded)

prefades (present singular third-person)
prefading (participle present)
prefaded (participle past)
prefaded (past)

(broadcasting, transitive) To fade (an audio track) before it is broadcast, by listening in advance.


prefade

(broadcasting) An audio fade prepared before broadcast.


kilolight

(science fiction) a unit of velocity equal to one thousand times the velocity of light

I said slowly: “I must be making a megalight, or more, an hour. At this rate the journey will take about two weeks—” “Yes,” Lipsey said. “We think the Xeelee have a range of hyperdrive capabilities. The standard intragalactic version is limited to a kilolight an hour, ...

2016, Stephen Baxter, Xeelee Sequence, Hachette UK, →ISBN:

(science fiction) a unit of distance equal to one thousand light-years; a kilolight-year


miurus

From Ancient Greek μείουρος (meíouros), from μείων (meíōn, “curtailed, lesser”) + οὐρά (ourá, “tail”).

(poetry) A dactylic hexameter with short penultimate syllable.


baccoo

(folklore) A mischievous little male spirit in Caribbean folklore.


churile

(Ghana, folklore) The ghost of a woman who dies in childbirth, said to prowl in the darkness giving mournful cries.


liftout

(typography) A quotation taken from the main text and given special visual treatment.


PJA

published journal article
published journal article

(jargon, scholarly publishing) published journal article, also known as publisher's version, version of record or VoR: the version of a paper as printed or digitally published in a journal by its publisher


oil opera

The oil operas pretty much do away with questions of social conscience. There are no moral values as such, only instrumental values which either work or don't work in advancing one to still greater heights of wealth and corporate power.

1992, Michael Parenti, “Affluent Class and Corporate Brass”, in Make-Believe Media, St. Martin’s Press, Inc., →ISBN, page 100:

(rare, television) An amoral drama focussing on corporate and domestic struggles, the lead character being a businessman (or businesswoman) fixated on pursuing a resource by any means necessary.


brainworm

She caught my expression, and added quickly, “Oh, but not bad brain worms. Good brain worms. They know most of the languages that are spoken across the worlds, and pretty soon you will too.”

2012, David Barr Kirtley, “The Ontological Factor”, in John Joseph Adams, editor, Other Worlds Than These, unnumbered page:

"Yes. And I'm going to get back to her. Nothing's going to stand in the way of that. Not two thousand years...not some overambitious species that think they're gods...not monsters or brain-worms or secret assassins."

2012, Mark Chadbourn, Jack of Ravens, unnumbered page:

This allows brain worms to animate their dead bodies, creating shambling warriors that fight for their queens.

2021, Jason Fry, Star Wars The Clone Wars Character Encyclopedia, page 111:

(science fiction) Any parasitic, worm-like species that inhabits the brain of another organism, typically altering its behaviour or giving it special abilities.


hagsploitation

All these aforementioned films confirm that the genre still has cinematic potential. Obviously, the emergence of this "new school" of hagsploitation does not collide with the underground popularity of the retro hag movies.

2014, Justyna Stępień, Redefining Kitsch and Camp in Literature and Culture, →ISBN, page 50:

This expressive, challenging and ambiguous over-production of the affectively, abundantly feminine is a characteristic of hagsploitation, which overlaps the seemingly barren and excluded with outright excess.

2017, Erin Harrington, Women, Monstrosity and Horror Film: Gynaehorror, →ISBN:

Crawford’s replacement in Sweet Charlotte was 48-year-old Olivia de Havilland, who had already been terrorised by home invaders in the surprisingly vicious Lady in a Cage (1964), though her career low point was probably being stung to death by killer bees in The Swarm (1978) as disaster movies replaced hagsploitation as the last refuge of the fading Hollywood star.

2018 January 18, Anne Billson, “'Hagsploitation': horror's obsession with older women returns”, in The Guardian:

(film) A subgenre of horror/thriller that features a formerly-glamorous older actress who plays an insane woman who terrorizes those around her.


AFRA

An upcoming problem to be thrashed out at a meeting of diskery reps and execs of the American Federation of Radio Artists (AFRA), is the degree of AFRA's jurisdictional claim over singers on records. AFRA has claimed the jurisdiction generally, and for some months has been having exploratory talks with diskeries.

1950 October 28, “Diskers, AFRA Puzzle Singer Jurisdictions”, in Billboard, page 13:

American Federation of Radio Artists
w:American Federation of Radio Artists

(historical, radio) Initialism of American Federation of Radio Artists.


quota quickie

(slang, film, historical) A typically low-cost, low-quality film commissioned to satisfy the quota requirements of the Cinematograph Films Act 1927.


cucoloris

Unknown; a connection with American film director George Cukor has been suggested. Compare also dialectal German Kokolores (“nonsense, silly display”).

(television, film) A device for casting shadows or silhouettes to produce patterned illumination.


microplanetoid

I mean, the Fomalhauters weren't having enough problems with the repairs to their exhaust duct—their StarGrazer'd taken a hit from a rogue microplanetoid—then this earthbound yo-yo tries to put a goddam drift netter up their tailpipe.

1998, Dana Stabenow, Killing Grounds, →ISBN, page 104:

The loose group of rocks, sand, random molecules, and microplanetoids known as the Hallelujah node was traveling in company around the Sun at a speed of eleven miles per second.

2009, Robert A. Heinlein, The Rolling Stones, →ISBN:

Around three hundred meters long and a little less than half as wide, the new shape was much smaller than the microplanetoid configuration.

2015, John Steiner, Flipspace:Astraeus Event, Missions 10-12, →ISBN, page 81:

(science fiction) An astronomical body smaller than a planetoid, such as an asteroid or planetesimal.


S&P

standards and practices
standards and practices#English

(US, television) Initialism of standards and practices.


underbreed

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Leaf felt degraded by that — hiring on, in effect, as an indentured underbreed — but what choice was there for him?

1973, Terry Carr, Richard A. Lupoff, Robert Silverberg, No Mind of Man: Three Original Novellas of Science Fiction, page 122:

I had an idea who it was but called the command post and demanded the names of the underbreeds who had last piloted the jet

1995, Alan Cockrell, Tail of the Storm: Flying Missions in the First Gulf War, →ISBN, page 49:

Hi is thinking about those strange advertisements they read in the tabloid to titillate themselves, and the present in which he exists seems suddenly like some weird science fiction movie of the future in which the world is organized in a strange manner with certain people as an underbreed in which they are manipulated by economics to sell their bodies to others who live in another sphere where the repression of their carnality is required as an imagined requisite for social order.

2013, Thomas E. Kennedy, Kerrigan in Copenhagen, →ISBN, page 119:

(chiefly science fiction) An inferior or subservient breed of people or sentient beings.


She is a 2.5D actress.

(theater, drama) Of, belonging or relating to 2.5D musicals, a type of modern Japanese musical theater production which adapts stories originally presented in a two-dimensional medium (anime, manga, or video games).


underperson

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For I felt sure these underpeople had taken it.

1895, Herbert George Wells, The Time Machine, page 118:

Life is no longer the long, easy ride the true men are accustomed to, and although life is not exactly fraught with peril, the true men learn of vulnerability and danger, things that the underpeople have long lived with.

2001, Karen L. Hellekson, The Science Fiction of Cordwainer Smith, →ISBN, page 69:

The Administrator sent me here on a crazy errand, killing an unknown underperson. I find out that the person is really a little girl. Then I find out that she is not an underperson, but a frightening old dead woman, still walking around alive.

2012, Gardner Dozois, A Day in the Life, →ISBN:

These underpeople were even less human than the androids, their very appearance making obvious their animal origins.

2015, A. Bertram Chandler, The Inheritors, →ISBN:

(science fiction) A member of a subhuman sentient species.


BBG

Donald Trump intends to nominate Michael Pack, a controversial ally of Steve Bannon, as the next head of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), according to a recent statement by the White House. […] BBG has sometimes been accused of being a propaganda outlet; perhaps because some of the networks it manages were set up for precisely that purpose.

2018 June 6, Arwa Mahdawi, “Michael Pack: the Bannon ally critics fear will become Trump's global propagandist”, in The Guardian:

Broadcasting Board of Governors
w:Broadcasting Board of Governors

(US, broadcasting) Initialism of Broadcasting Board of Governors.


mystery guest

Guess who will be our mystery guest this week.

On this show the celebrity guest came out dressed in a costume that hid his or her identity. Based on the costume the panel asked questions until they figured out the identity of the guest. The mystery guest in this sentence is dressed as Cap'n Andy, the captain in Jerome Kern's classic Show Boat, and the set was the deck of a paddle-wheel steamer.

2009, William Shatner, Up Till Now, Pan Macmillan, →ISBN, page 158:

(television) A guest star whose identity is kept secret.


voice wrap

For example, one radio bulletin may feature one central issue, like a state election, and will focus on that issue. The bulletin might contain only a few voice wraps but many grabs, leaving the focus firmly on the newsreader.

2008, Melissa Agnew, Here is the (Australian) News:

A voice-actuality report is constructed in the manner of a voice wrap, the editing and production structure explained in Chapter 5.

2015, Carl Hausman, Frank Messere, Philip Benoit, Modern Radio and Audio Production: Programming and Performance:

(radio) A spoken segment by a single narrator that surrounds other material.


scenarise

scenarise (third-person singular simple present scenarises, present participle scenarising, simple past and past participle scenarised)

scenarises (present singular third-person)
scenarising (participle present)
scenarised (participle past)
scenarised (past)

On the basis of an exceptionally interesting story, skilfully scenarised by Eliot Stannard, Frank Crane has built a photo-play in which humour, tragedy, and romance blend exquisitely.

1922, Motion Picture Studio - Volume 1, Issues 31-52, page 21:

Directed by Joseph de Grasse from a Harvey Gates story scenarised by Ida May Park (Mrs. de Grasse), Hell Morgan's Girl presented Chaney in the role of Sleter Noble, a tough but sexy politician gang leader of San Francisco's Barbary Coast.

1976, DeWitt Bodeen, From Hollywood: The Careers of 15 Great American Stars, page 212:

In fact, Spencer Williams was maligned by the studios, forcing the Pittsburgh Courier to express it's disapproval of such practices by stating, 'Spencer Williams is said to have lost a golden opportunity at Christie Studios by kicking too soon for screen credit for pictures he claims to have helped scenarise. He is said to have forgotten that we have to abide our time.'

1997, Film History - Volume 9, page 105:

(film, theater) To create the physical set and staging for a film or play.


toddlercon

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From toddler + -con (“abnormal sexual attraction”).

suf

(anime) Japanese-inspired erotic or suggestive art depicting very young children, of toddler age.


gigadeath

They'll have no reason to hit the datasphere now. There will be no gigadeaths.

2008, Ken MacLeod, Fractions: The First Half of The Fall Revolution, page 285:


stigmatypy

(printing, historical) A technique of printing with points, consisting of their arrangement in pictures.


extinction level event

en-noun

extinction level event (plural extinction level events)

(chiefly science fiction) Synonym of mass extinction


honey shot

(television) A shot of an attractive woman in the audience of a sporting event etc.


tear-mouth

You grow rich, do you, and purchase, you twopenny tear-mouth?

1601, Ben Jonson, Poetaster, act 3, scene 1:

How would you, or how do you think I should, relish being the object of such a letter as Kean wrote t'other day to a poor author, who, though a pedantic blockhead, had at least the right to be treated as a gentleman by a copper-laced two-penny tearmouth, rendered mad by conceit and success?

1819 April 14, Sir Walter Scott, [Letter to Robert Southey]:


dicatalectic

(poetry) doubly catalectic, at both the middle and the end of the verse


talkover

talkover (countable and uncountable, plural talkovers)

(film, radio, television, broadcasting) An instance of commentary or narration in a broadcast, film, piece of performed music, etc.


initial caps

(journalism, typography) A casing style similar to title case except that every word invariably begins with a capital letter.


makeup call

The director scheduled the makeup call for 30 minutes before the play started.

The model had to rush to get to her 8:30 makeup call.

(acting, modeling) A verbal or written request, or a scheduled time, for actors or models to be available for the application of cosmetics, hairstyling, etc. prior to a performance or photography session.