jockless

Then CBS fired them outright this summer as part of a national purge. The station now features a bland, jockless eighties-heavy playlist.

2006, Chicago, volume 55, numbers 10-12, page 30:

Unfortunately, there is now a trend for large station conglomerates to run “jockless” stations—music preprogrammed and run by computer with only a single person providing station-imaging announcements.

2006, Marjorie Eberts, Careers for Culture Lovers & Other Artsy Types, page 85:

When a station voice-tracks or employs a jukebox format like Jack or Bob or John or any of the dozen or so jockless formats now popular in the industry, it strips the one thing that radio has over the alternative digital formats... it strips away the personality.

2014, John Allen HEndricks, Keith's Radio Station: Broadcast, Satellite, and Internet:

(radio) Without a live disc jockey or host.


mutantkind

"Dr. Bocklin believes he's discovered what amounts to an on/off switch for human mutation, and current events lead me to believe that his discovery will have the direst consequences for mutantkind."

1997, Eluki Bes Shahar, Smoke and Mirrors, →ISBN:

With the members of their race slowly dying out and no new mutants being born, mutantkind was on the brink of extinction.

2011, Mike Carey, Craig Kyle, Chris Yost, X-Men: Second Coming, Marvel Entertainment, →ISBN:

After all, doesn't Magneto just want to protect mutantkind, and isn't Ra's Al Ghul just trying to save the planet? Lex Luthor is just a frustrated humanist, and if he troubles himself to remember the names of his janitor's kids, he can't be all bad, [...]

2011, Ben Dyer, Supervillains and Philosophy: Sometimes, Evil is its Own Reward, →ISBN:

(chiefly fiction) Mutants, collectively; the race of mutants.


shipgirl

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(Japanese fiction) A female fictional humanoid character featuring design elements of a ship, such as anchors, naval guns or torpedo tubes; usually a namesake moe anthropomorphization of a real life warship.

艦娘 /舰娘

female character with ship characteristics


dialogue tag

Not every paragraph of dialogue needs to have a dialogue tag attached to it.

Sometimes inexperienced writers will discover the useful tool of tacking on detail to a dialog tag with a present participal or adverbial phrase: "It's too late," she said, closing the door.

2000, Tom Romano, Blending Genre, Altering Style: Writing Multigenre Papers, →ISBN, page 63:

A dialogue tag has to indicate sound

2004, Leslie Wainger, Writing a Romance Novel For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons:

An alternative style forsakes italics altogether and assigns a dialogue tag: This is going nowhere, he thought.

2011, Deborah Halverson, Writing Young Adult Fiction For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons:

A line of dialogue followed by a dialogue tag looks like this: “Nothing suits me better than a fried egg on toast early in the morning,” Billy said.

2015, Kris James with Laura E. Koons and Stefanie Spangler Buswell, Beyond the Style Manual: Bundle #1, Red Adept Publishing:

(narratology, authorship) A sentence part that attributes a piece of written dialogue to its speaker. (e.g. In "Get out of here," he said, "he said" is a dialogue tag.)


topbill

en-verb

topbill (third-person singular simple present topbills, present participle topbilling, simple past and past participle topbilled)

topbills (present singular third-person)
topbilling (participle present)
topbilled (participle past)
topbilled (past)

Before she leaves for Spain in August, she will topbill a show with other classical singers entitled Best […]

(transitive) To star in; to be the leading actor or actress in (a series, etc.).

Michael Dudikoff is top-billed as the professional hitman who trains him.

2015, Clive Davies, Spinegrinder: The Movies Most Critics Won’t Write About:


dematerializer

(science fiction) A device that dematerializes things.


A-story

(authorship) The main plot in a story, especially a television show.


radioplay

(authorship) A script for a story to be produced as a radio show, such as a radio drama.


self-edit

self-edit (third-person singular simple present self-edits, present participle self-editing, simple past and past participle self-edited)

self-edits (present singular third-person)
self-editing (participle present)
self-edited (participle past)
self-edited (past)

(authorship) To edit one's own writing while it is being written.


narrative hook

(authorship) A highly exciting opening to a book intended to peak a reader's interest.


overspace

overspace (third-person singular simple present overspaces, present participle overspacing, simple past and past participle overspaced)

overspaces (present singular third-person)
overspacing (participle present)
overspaced (participle past)
overspaced (past)

(transitive, typography) To separate with too much space; to set too far apart.


expository lump

en-noun

expository lump (plural expository lumps)

(authorship) A portion of a story that contains an excessive amount of exposition.


page-one rewrite

page-one rewrite (plural page-one rewrites)

(authorship) A complete rewrite from the beginning, most commonly of a screenplay.


camera shot

(cinematography) Any technique to film images at particular angles, distances, etc, such as close-up or long shot.


book tour

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(authorship) A series of public events performed by authors in order to promote a newly-released book, including book signings, media appearances, etc.


content mill

Coordinate term: paper mill

The crux of the hostile narrative was that Demand Media was a “content mill.” An article in Wired magazine actually triggered the drama by comparing Demand Media's system to Henry Ford's production line for cars in the early twentieth century.

2011, Peter Guber, Tell to Win, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 72:

Think of the content mill as a modern-day literary sweatshop—writers hunkering down at hot keyboards, plowing away at 3,000 word articles for, literally, pennies. Content mills were born because someone figured out that by targeting popular search result terms, they could commission an army of crappy posts catering to these terms and dominate Google's results.

2015, Zachary Petit, The Essential Guide to Freelance Writing, Penguin, →ISBN:

One night in early 2019, Magana and Alvarado went to a party at a gaudy, largely unfurnished Los Angeles mansion, the sort of place rented by packs of influencers to use as content mills.

2023 October 19, Brendan I. Koerner, “Watch This Guy Work, and You’ll Finally Understand the TikTok Era”, in Wired, →ISSN:

(Internet, authorship) Synonym of content farm


earn out

en-verb

earn out (third-person singular simple present earns out, present participle earning out, simple past and past participle earned out or earnt out)

earns out (present singular third-person)
earning out (participle present)
earned out (participle past)
earned out (past)
earnt out (participle past)
earnt out (past)

Until the total of advances in that contract has been earned out by royalties from any or all books in that contract, the author will not receive additional royalties.

2014, Richard Curtis, Mastering the Business of Writing:

(authorship) To make more money from a book than it cost to run an advertising campaign for it; to make enough in royalties to cover the advance a book received.


pishtaco

From a Quechua language term meaning "cut the throat of, cut up".

They are often told that the pishtaco is going to carry them off if they do not behave. Thus, they are taught to fear the mestizo and white man at an early age. The pishtaco also maintains conformity among adults. Individualism is not a norm ...

However, the pishtaco is not an Andean Minotaur. It is, rather, an indigenous Andean folk symbol of Spanish, and later criollo, colonialist oppression. Pishtacos are represented as white foreigners, ...

1997, Milos Kokotovic, Confronting Postmodernism:

For this part of the operation, the pishtaco is said to import specialized equipment from the United States, Germany, or Japan.

2005, Don Kulick, Anne Meneley, Fat, →ISBN:

This explains why the first pishtaco figures in the legend were priests and soldiers. As the power structure changed, so did the pishtaco figure. In later versions of the story he rode a horse and wore leather chaps like a rancher, ...

2008, Jennifer McLagan, Fat, →ISBN, page 217:

(mythology, folklore) A mythical white male demon in South American folklore, who steals and eats the bodyfat of indigenous South Americans, or cuts up their flesh to convert it into food.


splice edit

(film) An edit in which lengths of film are cut and then spliced together.


jumpgate

Einstein-Rosen bridge
Einstein-Rosen bridge

(science fiction) A fictional device able to create an Einstein-Rosen bridge portal (or wormhole), allowing fast travel between two points in space.


Spenserian stanza

en-noun

Spenserian stanza (plural Spenserian stanzas)

Invented by English poet Edmund Spenser (1552/53–1599) for his epic poem The Faerie Queene (1590–96).

(poetry) A strophe of eight decasyllabic lines and an alexandrine, having three rhymes: the first and third; the second, fourth, fifth, and seventh; and the sixth, eighth, and ninth.


shaggy God story

shaggy God story (plural shaggy God stories)

A pun on shaggy dog story, incorporating God. Coined by writer and critic Brian W. Aldiss in a pseudonymous column in the October 1965 issue of New Worlds.

A typical shaggy God story might feature a pair of astronauts landing on a lush and virgin world; the story ends with their names being revealed as Adam and Eve.

(science fiction) A style of science fiction story that attempts to explain biblical concepts with science fiction tropes.


sleepy sand

(fiction) The sand or dust that the Sandman throws in people's eyes.


elegiac pentameter

(poetry) A poetic metre of six dactylic feet, the third and sixth shortened to a single long syllable.


yes and

en-verb

yes and (third-person singular simple present yes ands, present participle yes anding, simple past and past participle yes anded)

yes ands (present singular third-person)
yes anding (participle present)
yes anded (participle past)
yes anded (past)

From a well-known rule in improv acting, wherein improvised lines must (figuratively) be answered with yes and... in order to continue the scene.

If Lord Buckley made standup courageous, then Lenny Bruce “yes anded” that and ushered in standup for a new age

2011, Margaret Hicks, Chicago Comedy: A Fairly Serious History:

(acting) To go along with what is offered, especially in a performative context, and to accept and expand upon it; to go with the flow; to take it in stride.


colorburst

(television) A generated video signal used to keep the chrominance subcarrier synchronized in a color television signal.


marsiya

From Persian مرثیه (marsiye), from Arabic مَرْثِيَة (marṯiya).

(poetry) An elegiac poem written to commemorate the martyrdom and valour of Hussain ibn Ali and his comrades of the Karbala'.


Fiddler's Green

From 19th-century English maritime folklore.

Sam Tyler: Where to now?
Gene Hunt: Fiddler's Green.
Sam Tyler: I hope that's the name of a pub.

2007 March 6, Julie Rutterford, Life on Mars, Season 2, Episode 3:

(nautical, folklore) A legendary afterlife for retired sailors, where there is perpetual mirth, fiddle music, and dancing.


free-hanging

(editing, typography; said of headings or list items) Not run in; on a separate line (or multiple separate lines) defined by hard returns.


wetdown

Water trucks needed for wetdowns are used often. Camera cranes and scissor lifts used to lift a camera and one or more operators high above the ground are also frequently requested.

1990, Michael Horwin, Careers in Film and Video Production, page 70:

That confidence will buy you a lot of good will when you ask them all for finishing funds because you blew your production budget on a Luma crane and a wetdown for Hollywood Boulevard.

2016, Dan Mirvish, The Cheerful Subversive's Guide to Independent Filmmaking, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page 38:

(film) The application of water to objects and surfaces on a film set, for example when shooting a rainy scene during dry weather.


subfeed

(television) A customised or selected part of a video feed.


kionedon

From Ancient Greek κιονηδόν (kionēdón), from κίων (kíōn, “pillar”) + -ηδον (-ēdon, “adverbial suffix”).

(historical, calligraphy, of writing) in a vertical manner, as on a pillar (kion); in vertical lines from top to bottom.


kionedon

(historical, calligraphy, of writing) Written in a vertical manner, as on a pillar (kion)


kionedon

(historical, calligraphy, of writing) Writing that is vertical, as on a pillar (kion)


latrinal

en-adj

latrinal (not generally comparable, comparative more latrinal, superlative most latrinal)

more latrinal (comparative)
most latrinal (superlative)

As for the verbal humour, it is normally pornographic; but it achieves the latrinal.

1914, Charles Mills Gayley, Representative English Comedies: The Later Contemporaries of Shakespeare: Fletcher and Others, page xxiii:

Ieva Reklaityke’s work in Kalamazoo on sewers unclogged my mind, Martha Bayless’s latrinal insights were pleasantly pungent, and Kevin J. Wanner guided me to Eyrbyggja Saga.

2015, Susan Signe Morrison, The Literature of Waste, acknowledgements:

(literature, humor) Related to defecation or other taboo body functions, scatological.


toposophy

artificial intelligence
artificial intelligence

(science fiction) A fictional science dealing with the theoretical problems and possibilities of attempts to extend and amplify one's mental potential, i.e. via technology, whether by humans, artificial intelligence or extraterrestrials.


cropmark

The new paths are automatically selected; if you want to remove the guides, press Delete. Set Cropmarks adds standard cropmarks to your artwork.

1992, David A. Holzgang, The Adobe illustrator 3.2: designer's guide, Sybex Incorporated:

(printing) Any of the marks placed at the corners of a form to indicate where the page is to be trimmed.


otherdimensional

(science fiction) From or in another dimension (another plane or parallel universe).


orthographic neighbour

en-noun

orthographic neighbour (plural orthographic neighbours)

For example, given the word 'cat', the words 'bat', 'fat', 'mat', 'cab', etc. are considered orthographic neighbors.

n.d. Wisconsin Medical College, "MCWord: An Orthographic Wordform Database" (Definitions)

To go even further, the issue concerning the influence of the emotional characteristics of orthographic neighbours has never been investigated directly to our knowledge.

2010 Pamela Gobin and Stéphanie Mathey, "The influence of emotional orthographic neighbourhood in visual word recognition," Current psychology letters [Online], Vol. 26, Issue 1, 2010 | 2010, Online since 07 October 2010, connection on 30 September 2016. URL : http://cpl.revues.org/4984

(orthography) A word that differs from another word of the same length by only one letter.


orthographic neighborhood

orthographic neighborhood (plural orthographic neighborhoods)

In summary, the present experiments have shown that addition and deletion neighbors form part of a word’s orthographic neighborhood.

2009, Colin J. Davis, “Re(de)fining the Orthographic Neighborhood: The Role of Addition and Deletion Neighbors in Lexical Decision and Reading”, in Journal of Experimental Psychology, Human Perception and Performance, 35(5): 1550-1570:

(orthography) The set of words that can be formed by changing one letter while maintaining letter positions.


panthan

Three Sikhs with three mules attempt to take it to them down the causeway scourged by the Chinese fire. First a mule drops, but the tall, gaunt-featured, turbaned panthans stride on. Then a turban goes down; then another turban; and the third ...

1900, Archibald Clavering Gunter, Tangled Flags: A Novel, page 223:

I asked each man his name and his past experience; there were, among the twenty-three, eleven panthans and twelve assassins; and they had fought all over the world. Seven of the panthans were from Helium, ...

1941, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Llana of Gathol and John Carter of Mars:


transparisteel

Blend of transparent + steel. Apparently coined by Brian Daley in 1979.

His gaze went to Hirken, who stood gloating behind invulnerable transparisteel.

1979, Brian Daley, Han Solo at Stars’ End:

Ignoring the familiar discomfort, he padded barefoot across the thick white carpet toward the heavy curtains that lined the richly appointed bedroom’s wide transparisteel window.

2007, Andy Mangels, Michael A. Martin, Star Trek: Enterprise: The Good That Men Do:

The cockpit was located underneath the body, a down slanted oval of transparisteel.

(uncountable, science fiction) a fictional hard transparent metal used instead of glass in windows


fenodyree

(folklore) A little hairy sprite in the folklore of the Isle of Man.


rye wolf

(European folklore) An evil creature of German folklore lurking in the rye-fields.


Gubbins

(folklore) A half-savage race said to live in Devonshire, described by the pastoral poet William Browne, among others.


bridge bunny

(television, science fiction, slang) An attractive female character who serves on the bridge of a spaceship on a science-fiction television show, as eye candy.


push-in

The smaller frame means that Hill uses a lot of tight one-shots, mixed in with more expressive images like an endless sea of skaters fleeing from cops or a slow push-in on Stevie and Ian having an uncomfortable conversation while playing video games on their couch.

15 October 2018, Jesse Hassenger, AV Club Jonah Hill makes his auspicious if uneven filmmaking debut with a Mid90s nostalgia triphttps://web.archive.org/web/20181015200214/https://film.avclub.com/jonah-hill-makes-his-auspicious-if-uneven-filmmaking-de-1829744755

(cinematography) Alternative form of push in


handman

From hand + man, modelled after handmaiden, etc. For the printing sense, see by hand.

The handman reads copy and assembles type by hand, including straight composition, tables and display.

1918, The Industrial Education Survey of the City of New York, page 44:

(printing) One who assembles printing type by hand.


metric-compatible

en-adj

metric-compatible (comparative more metric-compatible, superlative most metric-compatible)

more metric-compatible (comparative)
most metric-compatible (superlative)

(typography, computing) Of a font, having identical metrics as another font, enabling it to serve as a substitute for another font without affecting document layout.


BBT

(television) Initialism of Big Bang Theory, a US sitcom first aired in 2007.


xenolinguist

(linguistics, science fiction) One who studies the languages spoken by extraterrestrials.


Betteridge's law

/ˈbɛtɹɪd͡ʒɪz ˌlɔː/

/ˈbɛtɹɪd͡ʒəz ˌlɔ/

/ˈbɛtɹɪd͡ʒəz ˌlɑ/

Named after British technology journalist Ian Betteridge who wrote about the phenomenon in a February 2009 online article, although the general concept is older.

No, no, hell no. The true answer is that there is no one answer; that what works best is a dynamic combination of solitary, pair, and group work, depending on the context, using your best judgement. Paired programming definitely has its place. (Betteridge’s Law strikes again!) In some cases that place may even be “much of most days.” But insisting on 100 percent pairing is mindless dogma, and like all mindless dogma, ultimately counterproductive.

2012 March 3, Jon Evans, “Pair Programming Considered Harmful?”, in TechCrunch, archived from the original on 2017-07-15:

Conforming to Betteridge’s law of headlines, the answer is no – or at least, not yet.

2014 February 6, James Temple, “Will Google Translate Let Us Talk to Aliens and Dolphins?: Google’s Peter Norvig Says, Umm, No”, in Recode, archived from the original on 2018-11-12:

And from the National Journal: “When U.S. Steps Back, Will Russia and China Control the Internet?” As Betteridge’s Law of Headlines suggests, the answer is no.

2014 March 25, Jonathan Zittrain, “No, Barack Obama isn’t Handing Control of the Internet over to China: The Misguided Freakout over ICANN”, in The New Republic, archived from the original on 2014-03-30:

An earlier and slightly mysterious version of Betteridge's law applies to the rarefied world of particle physics. Hinchliffe's Rule – the mystery lies in who Hinchliffe is or was – states that any scientific paper or website posting whose title ends with a question mark is to be answered with a 'no' or, at best, 'probably not'.

2015, Philip Gooden, “Arts”, in Skyscrapers, Hemlines and the Eddie Murphy Rule: Life’s Hidden Laws, Rules and Theories, London, New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury Academic, →ISBN, page 86:

Andrew Marr believes that a headline with a question mark at the end is 'often a scare story, or an attempt to elevate some run-of-the-mill piece of reporting into a national controversy and, preferably, a national panic.' (Marr 2005: 253). His advice to readers is – 'If the headline asks a question, try answering "no"' (loc. cit.). This motto has since been parlayed into a 'law' – Betteridge's Law, named for Ian Betteridge after he wrote a piece for Technovia questioning the validity of a news item published under a headline that ended in a question mark[…].

2016, Tim Holmes, “How to Create Great News Headlines”, in Subediting and Production for Journalists: Print, Digitial, Social (Media Skills), 2nd edition, Abingdon, Oxon., New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 88:

For the avoidance of doubt, and with a nod to Betteridge’s law, it is not true that the reason prostate cancer research receives half as much funding as breast cancer, despite a higher mortality rate, is because of bias against men.

2018 February 5, Ally Fogg, “This is the real reason more men are dying of prostate cancer”, in The Guardian, London, archived from the original on 2018-06-12:

(journalism) An adage stating that any headline ending in a question mark can be correctly answered by the word "no".


dinosauroid

Blend of dinosaur + humanoid, coined by American-Canadian paleontologist Dale Russell in 1982.

coin

(science fiction) A hypothetical descendant of troodontid dinosaurs with human-like intelligence and physiology.


misscan

en-verb

misscan (third-person singular simple present misscans, present participle misscanning, simple past and past participle misscanned)

misscans (present singular third-person)
misscanning (participle present)
misscanned (participle past)
misscanned (past)


somnetic

en-adjective

somnetic (comparative more somnetic, superlative most somnetic)

more somnetic (comparative)
most somnetic (superlative)

Before I could get him a somnetic inducer, he was out cold on the floor.

2008, Terri Osborne, That Sleep of Death: Slings and Arrows #4:

(science fiction, rare) Pertaining to sleep.


Hartlepool monkey

(folklore) A monkey, the only survivor of a French ship that foundered near Hartlepool during the Napoleonic Wars, that was supposedly tried and hanged as a spy.


dialytika

(orthography and typography) A diaeresis or trema in the Greek alphabet


channel drift

(television) The gradual shift of a television network away from its original programming in order to target a broader or more profitable audience.


sourcerer

He has an opposite belief when it comes to "sourcerers," a category in which he puts the Kissingers, the Haigs, and the Weinbergers -- people whose goal, as Mr. Smyser sees it, is to use the press, and ultimately the public, as a means to an end.

1983, Abraham Henry Raskin, Who Said That?:

Media whistleblowers cannot be summarily characterized either as "sources" or "sourcerers".

1992, Hastings communications and entertainment law journal, page 396:

Neither the government litigators nor the evil sourcerers could count on prevailing on any particular set of facts.

1997, Louis S. Freeman, Tax Strategies for Corporate Acquisitions, Dispositions, Spin-offs, Joint Ventures and Other Strategic Alliances, Financings, Reorganizations and Restructurings, Volumes 3-4:

All effective sourcerers are part news detective.

2003, Sharyl Attkisson, Don Rodney Vaughan, Writing Right for Broadcast and Internet News, →ISBN, page 100:

(informal, journalism) A source that massages information they provide to the press to fit their agenda


type designer

(typography) A person who designs typefaces as a profession.


nanoreplicator

(science fiction) A nanobot capable of replicating itself or other objects.


typometer

(typography, printing) A ruler traditionally used in the graphic arts to inspect the measures of typographic materials.


Maid Marian

(European folklore) The love interest of the legendary outlaw Robin Hood; originally a shepherdess figure associated with May Day.


riddinite

(science fiction) A particular building material found in the Star Trek universe.


westernish

en-adj

westernish (comparative more westernish, superlative most westernish)

more westernish (comparative)
most westernish (superlative)

It was a westernish film, but with robots instead of cowboys.

(informal, film) Characteristic of the western genre of action films.


iris shot

(film) The use of an expanding or contracting black circle to open or close a cinematic scene.


-vac

(obsolete, marketing, science fiction, computing, mid-20th century) Used in the naming of computer systems and computer models, due to the use of vacuum tubes as the functional elements of computers of the time.


Gambrinus

The source of the legend of Gambrinus is uncertain and perhaps based on a mythical Germanic king Gambrivius. The etymology is unknown, but many explanations exist:
* a corruption of Jean Primus, John I, Duke of Brabant (1252–1294)
* Middle High German gambra (“germination of grain”)
* cambier, name given to brewers in the north of France in the Middle Ages

m+

(folklore) A legendary European culture hero celebrated as an icon of beer, brewing, joviality, and joie de vivre.


height to paper

en-noun

height to paper (plural heights to paper)

(printing) In typefounding, the length of a type from its face to its foot.


flycraft

The flycraft was coasting toward the enemy killer biomachines when suddenly chance dealt Andora a soft blow in the form of a collision with a piece of space junk that glowed softly as it was repelled by the cloak and shield.

"They don't have to follow on land. There are flycraft and matboats in Peace City that will search us out."

2015, original 1978, Brian W. Aldiss, Enemies of the System:

Against the blackboard surface of the sky, flycrafts whizzed by, leaving crisscrossing trails of radiance that slowly dissipated, soon replaced by others.

2018, Bill Campbell, Francesco Verso, Future Fiction: New Dimensions in International Science Fiction:

(science fiction) A machine, device, or vessel that is capable of flight


church text

(printing, historical) A tall, thin form of black-letter print.


biolet

(poetry) A six-line poem whose rhyme scheme is ABbaBA.


letterfounder

(printing, historical) One who founds or casts letters or types.


full service

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WXYZ used to offer full service to listeners in the region, until it was bought out by a conglomerate and converted to become all corporate country and commercials, all the time.

(radio) A radio format having a mix of music with locally produced programming and segments focusing on local issues.


werebeing

(folklore) Any shapeshifting creature, such as a werewolf or werebear.


sheepsfoot

(printing, historical) A printer's tool with a claw at one end for prizing up forms.


dateliner

The telegraph editor can use the undated as the top of the weather story and tack as many dateliners as he cares on the bottom, with the best coming first.

1946, Robert Miller Neal, Editing the Small City Daily, page 224:

A second Punta del Este dateliner, by Juan de Onis, quoted Secretary of State Dean Rusk giving the official U. S. view, which had already been reported extensively by Kenworthy and Szuie.

1958, Publication - Issues 1-134, page 93:

Pr. (6/13) carries TASS dateliner from Damascus citing new aggression by Israel along Syrian -Israeli front, and states that Israeli forces began move into Syrian territory as UN observers arrived in El Quneitra region.

1964, Radio Liberty Research Paper - Issues 2-33:

(journalism) An article that is published under a dateline.


GAN

GAN (countable and uncountable, plural GANs)

During that week of squall in March of that year Hem would talk till dawn about which son of a bitch who could spell cat was going to write the G.A.N.

1973, Philip Roth, The Great American Novel, Random House, published 2010, →ISBN, page 38:

Great American Novel
w:Great American Novel

(literature) Initialism of Great American Novel.


oozlum bird

(humorous, folklore) A fictional bird said to fly backwards or in circles.


Kuleshov effect

Kuleshov effect (plural Kuleshov effects)

Demonstrated by Soviet film-maker Lev Kuleshov in the 1910s and 1920s.

(film) A mental phenomenon by which viewers derive more meaning from the interaction of two sequential shots than from a single shot in isolation.


orbital defense platform

orbital defense platform (plural orbital defense platforms)

(science fiction) A satellite or space station, found in many different works of science fiction, meant to defend a planet against attack from space.


generation ship

generation ship (plural generation ships)

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(science fiction, space flight) A type of interstellar spaceship, where generations of humans live and die aboard during the journey through interstellar space, as the journey between stars would take generations.


brachy

Mostly clippings of various scientific terms prefixed with brachy- (short), from the Ancient Greek βραχύ (brakhú).

(orthography, printing) A breve, as applied to Ancient Greek <˘>.


wild line

(television) A line of dialogue recorded outside of the normal recording session, sometimes to replace a line that was delivered poorly.


wild track

(television) A soundtrack that is not synchronized with the visuals and may be inserted at any point, such as the background sounds of a city or jungle.


whiparound

(television) The technique of panning around a number of people on a panel, newsdesk, etc. by way of introduction.


nanofactory

(science fiction) A molecular assembler that uses nanomachines


whip pan

(film) A type of pan shot in which the camera pans so quickly that the picture blurs into indistinct streaks, commonly used as a transition.


enjamb

en-verb

enjamb (third-person singular simple present enjambs, present participle enjambing, simple past and past participle enjambed)

enjambs (present singular third-person)
enjambing (participle present)
enjambed (participle past)
enjambed (past)

(poetry) To carry a sentence over to the next line without a pause.


earthist

He moved forward, determinedly trampling on people's feet. "Make way for an earthist," he called out in a polite but ringing tone.

1967, Maggi Lidchi, Maggi Lidchi-Grassi, Earthman, page 10:

We cannot protect the planet Mars against our enemies from the Earth if we permit these Earthists to flourish in our midst.

1970 -, William Whyte Watt, An American rhetoric, page 282:

(science fiction) An advocate for people who live on earth, as opposed to those on other planets.


type-high

a type-high woodcut

(printing) Of the standard height of a line of type.


spring-heeled Jack

en-noun

spring-heeled Jack (plural spring-heeled Jacks)

And he rattled, thumped, brandished his thunderbox, yelled, shouted, raved, roared, stamped, and danced corrobory like any black fellow; and then he touched a spring in the thunderbox, and out popped turnip-ghosts and magic-lanthorns and pasteboard bogies and spring-heeled Jacks and sallaballas […]

1863, Charles Kingsley, The Water Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby:

Servant-girls who have just received their year's wages at Christmas will frequently profess themselves afraid to go home after dusk, because “there are so many o' these Spring-heeled Jacks about.”

1887, English Dialect Society, Publications, volume 21, number 53, page 367:

London and Edinburgh had their spring-heeled jacks long before they appeared in Lasswade in Johnny's time. As long ago as 1837 a real, flesh-and-blood ghost in the shape of a spring-heeled jack was caught by a London policeman […]

1953, John B. Cairns, Bright and early: a bookseller's memories of Edinburgh and Lasswade:

(historical, folklore) A terrifying man of bizarre appearance and able to make extraordinary leaps, the subject of English folklore of the Victorian era.


serpentine verse

serpentine verse (countable and uncountable, plural serpentine verses)

(poetry) A form of verse constructed so as to begin and end with the same word.


space herpes

Ice Pirates “A ‘Star Wars’ rip-off with S&M scenes, twelfth-rate jokes, and ‘space herpes’”

1985, “1984 entertainment: Movies to see and shun”, in Michiganensian, volume 89, page 60:

Oh! Did we mention that there are families aboard the Enterprise? Yeah, it turns out there are. Because Starfleet did this study and realized that Space Herpes - also known as Kirk's Syndrome - spreads considerably slower if its officers have their spouses and children onboard their ship.

2009 September 17, Wil Wheaton, quotee, “Wil Wheaton's ‘Memories of the Futurecast’ Engages us With Awesome”, in Wired:

“Space herpes got your tongue, boy?” The man came to a stop in front of him. ¶ For some reason the idea of a mutated venereal disease frightened him more than the idea this man could mug him or worse.

2010, P. I. Barrington, Gail Delaney, J. Morgan, Borealis I:

(science fiction, ufology, fandom slang, slang) A generic disease found in space, especially one transmissible by sexual encounters.

shingles

skin condition from reactivated VZV herpesvirus in later life


upcut

en-verb

upcut (third-person singular simple present upcuts, present participle upcutting, simple past and past participle upcut)

upcuts (present singular third-person)
upcutting (participle present)
upcut (participle past)
upcut (past)

(television, radio) To cut (audio or video) too short, so that a small portion is lost or overlaps the adjoining item.


upcut

(television, radio) A cutting too short, so that a small portion is lost or overlaps the adjoining item.


typometry

(printing, historical) Printing maps or drawings with moveable type.

(typography) The measurement of typefaces in typographic units.


eye in the sky

(journalism) A reporter who rides in a helicopter in order to gauge levels of road traffic.


keming

Coined by various sources in the early 1990s as an intentional misspelling of kerning by combining the r and n into an m, as an example of improper kerning due to the increasing growth of desktop publishing.

When done correctly, kerning helps to improve the readability of text by adding or removing space between two letters. Bad kerning, also known as keming, leads to misreadings, and in the worst cases, incredibly bad (but humorous) misunderstandings.

2018 April 20, jkohorst, “FR E SH A VOCA DO^([sic])”, in Writing for Designers^([dead link]):

(typography, humorous) Improper kerning.


running W

He became one of the industry's top horsemen, specializing in Running Ws, pit falls, and cable jerk-offs.

2014, Gene Scott Freese, Hollywood Stunt Performers, 1910s-1970s:

(film, historical) A dangerous stunt used to trip a horse by means of a tripwire.


idiot girl

(television, slang) A woman employed to hold up the "idiot boards" used to prompt the presenters.


ennage

On the Linofilm the 'ennage' per hour falls sharply with the number of grid changes, particularly if you are setting mathematics. Will the same thing apply on the Linotron?

1965, Institute of Printing, Report of Proceedings, page 230:

(printing) The number of ens involved in a typesetting job.


iceberg theory

An allusion to the greater part of an iceberg being hidden below the water.

(literature) A minimalist literary approach used by Ernest Hemingway, according to which the writer should omit as much as possible, leaving the reader to infer it.


linecasting

(printing) The use of a linecaster to cast entire lines of type in metal slugs.


inherited audience

en-noun

inherited audience (plural inherited audiences)

(radio, television) The section of a broadcast's audience who had no specific intention of viewing or listening, but who continued doing so after the immediately preceding broadcast.


soft news

"Segment 3" established the daily presence of a five-minute back-of-the-book feature on network newscasts. Although previously the TV networks had usually featured soft news at the end of their evening news, on some days the soft-news feature did not make it on the air because of the judged newsworthiness of the hard news.

1999, Bartholomew H. Sparrow, Uncertain Guardians: The News Media as a Political Institution, page 97:

"We have to cover the hard news always, but we have to cover the soft news to meet demand," said Monique Villa, the managing director of Reuters Media, the division that contains its picture and news wires.

2006 June 1, Stephen Brook, quoting Monique Villa, “Reuters moves into lifestyle journalism”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(journalism) Broadcast news mainly intended to entertain rather than to inform.


chromakeyer

(television) A device for producing chromakey effects.


PSRA

presunrise authorization
presunrise authorization#English

(broadcasting) Initialism of presunrise authorization.


key light

Age lines were drawn on McCarthy's face in red makeup, and when key lights with red filters were used, the lines were not visible.

2015, Don Presnell, Marty McGee, A Critical History of Television's The Twilight Zone, 1959-1964, page 57:

(photography, film, television) The most important light, used to highlight the form and dimension of the subject.


kill fee

(journalism) The reduced fee paid to a writer whose commissioned work does not get published.


Ben Day

Named after illustrator and printer Benjamin Henry Day Jr.

the Ben Day process; Ben Day dots

(printing, attributive) A printing and photoengraving technique dating from the late 19th century, involving coloured dots or some other simple repeating pattern, spaced or overlapping, to produce more complex mixed colours.


douzeper

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

From Middle English dosse per, dousse-per (“one of Charlemagne’s twelve peers or paladins; one of the twelve great peers of France at later times; a famous knight or noble”) [and other forms], treated as a singular form of dosse pers, dousse pers [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman, Middle French douse pers, douze pers [and other forms], and Old French douze pers, doze pers, duze pers (“Charlemagne’s twelve peers; twelve great peers of France at later times”) [and other forms] (also in the singular forms doze per, duze per, and in Anglo-Norman and Middle French written with a Roman numeral as XII pers), from doze, douze (“twelve”) (modern French douze) + pers (plural of per (“peer”); modern French pair). Doze is derived from Latin duodecim (“twelve”), from duo (“two”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ (“two”)) + decem (“ten”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *déḱm̥ (“ten”)); per is derived from Latin pār (“equal; like”).

ref

From Marion Florence Lansing (1910) “The Battle of Ronceval”, in Page, Esquire, and Knight: A Book of Chivalry (The Open Road Library of Juvenile Literature), Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Ginn and Company, →OCLC, section I (Of the Council of Charlemagne), page 104.

nb...

(Late Middle English) doseper, (Middle English) dose-per, dosi-per, dosse-per, dous-per, doþþeper, doze-per, dozepiere, dozze-per, duche-per, duge-per, duse-per, dus-per, dusse per, duze-per, duzsi-per, duzze-per, (Early Middle English) duzeper

dosiperes, dosipers, dosiperus, dosseperes, dosseperez, dosze-peres, dosȝe perys, douseperes, dousepers, douspiers, douspyers, dousse pers, doussepyers, doussypers, dousȝepeeris, douȝ piers, dozepeers, dozepers, doȝze pers, doþþeperen, doþþe peres, doþþepers, ducheperes, duchepers, dugeperes, dugepers, duȝperis, duseperis, dusperes, duspers, dusseperes, dussepers, dusse-pers, dussiperes, dusze pers, duzepers, duze pers, duzsipiers, duzze peers, duzze peres

Also kynge Charlemayne kynge of Fraunce / With his dyssypers Rowland and Olyuer / With all the resydue of his alyaunce / That in all armes so noble were / On goddys ennemyes brake many a spere / Causynge them to flee to theyr grete vylony / Hardynes was cause that they had vyctory

[1504?], Stephyn Hawys [i.e., Stephen Hawes], chapter VII, in […] The Example of Vertu, [London]: [Wynkyn de Worde], →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-05-06, signature cc.vi, verso:

Also King Charlemagne, king of France / With his douzepers Roland and Oliver / With all the residue of his alliance / That in all arms so noble were / On God’s enemies broke many a spear / Causing them to flee to their great villany / Hardiness was cause that they had victory

[T]hou art one of the Douze peers already, and fate has forestalled our intended promotion. Yet rise up, sweet Sir Oliver Thatchpate, Knight of the honourable order of the Pumpkin—Rise up, in the name of Nonsense, and begone about thine own concerns, in the devil’s name.

1828 May 15, [Walter Scott], chapter IV, in Chronicles of the Canongate. Second Series. […] (The Fair Maid of Perth), volume II, Edinburgh: […] [Ballantyne and Co.] for Cadell and Co.; London: Simpkin and Marshall, →OCLC, page 127:

Ferumbras, despising Oliver’s youthful appearance, tries to frighten him[…]; asks him to describe Charles [i.e., Charlemagne] and the douzeperes[…]; and enquires his name[…]. Oliver declaring himself to be a poor knight, Ferumbras derides him, and bids him return and send Roland, or another of the douzeperes[…].

1879, “Sketch of the Story of ‘Sir Ferumbras’”, in Sidney J[ohn Hervon] Herrtage, editor, Sir Ferumbras. Edited from the Unique Paper Ms. about 1380 A.D. in the Bodleian Library (Ashmole Ms. 33) (The English Charlemagne Romances; part I; Extra Series; XXXIV), London: Published for the Early English Text Society, by Trübner & Co., […], →OCLC, page xxix:

Cortine, Corteyne, or Cortayn was the name given to the sword of Ogier, one of the celebrated Douzeperes of Charlemagne.

1883, [Robert Hunter], “*cūr-têin, *cūr-tā′-na”, in The Encyclopædic Dictionary: A New and Original Work of Reference to All the Words in the English Language, […], volume II, part II, London, Paris: Cassell, Petter, Galpin, & Co. […], →OCLC, page 625, column 1:

The knights of the Round Table and the douzepers were closely associated by virtue of the juxtaposition of Arthur and Charlemagne in the Nine Worthies.

1962, “Notes”, in D[erek] A[lbert] Pearsall, editor, The Floure and the Leafe and The Assembly of Ladies (Old and Middle English Texts Series), Manchester: Manchester University Press, published 1980, →ISBN, page 149:

Roland defiantly accepts the post of danger; the douzepers and other knights join him. Ganelon leads the van of the army as it starts again toward France. The Saracens prepare for battle.

1967, J[onathan] Burke Seyers, editor, A Manual of the Writings in Middle English, 1050–1500. […], New Haven, Conn.: Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, →OCLC, page 95:

[In The Song of Roland] Ganelon makes his self-interest more obvious by nominating himself to command the van, yet Roland accepts the charge eagerly without mentioning his stepfather, fear of whose treason is so widespread that no other douzeper will volunteer for the mission.

1987, W[illiam] R[aymond] J[ohnston] Barron, “The Matter of France”, in David Carroll, Michael Wheeler, editors, English Medieval Romance (Longman Literature in English Series), Harlow, Essex: Longman, →ISBN, page 90:

(historical fiction) One of the legendary “twelve peers” or renowned warriors of Charlemagne, the Emperor of the Romans from 800 to 814.

doze per

one of the twelve peers or renowned warriors of Charlemagne — see also paladin


two-line

two-line nonpareil or pica

(printing) Having a depth of body equal to double that of the size specified.


benday

en-verb

benday (third-person singular simple present bendays, present participle bendaying, simple past and past participle bendayed)

bendays (present singular third-person)
bendaying (participle present)
bendayed (participle past)
bendayed (past)

The artist then proceeds to work on the dyed print, performing any ruling, bendaying, lettering or whatever art work is necessary.

1937, Joseph Stephen Mertle, Harry Keusch, Photolithography & Offset Printing: A Reference Manual of Modern Procedure, page 184:

(printing, archaic) To use the Ben Day printing and photoengraving technique.


disaster film

(film) A film (movie) whose main plot device is a natural or man-made disaster.


insetter

(printing) A device for inserting pre-printed color segments into a monochrome publication.


tint block

(printing, historical) A surface prepared for printing a background.


rhyme letter

(poetry) The repeated letter or letter sequence in alliteration.


multicam

(videography, Internet slang) A video of one event created using footage of different cameras.


voiceunder

But even though English soundtracks are left intact— as sort of exotic voiceunders — the situation is dreary for the average American news junkie.

1984, Edith Terry, The executive guide to China, →ISBN, page 297:

The commercials have a "voiceunder" reciting the words of Ralph Waldo Emerson.

1988, Adweek: Western advertising news - Volume 38, Issues 16-30, page 85:

Underneath, something else is moving. A stream running beneath the ice. A voiceover. Or, I guess, a voiceunder.

2017, Matthew Goodwin, Frederick Aldama, Latin@ Rising An Anthology of Latin@ Science Fiction and Fantasy, →ISBN:

(cinematography) An audio track spoken or sung in the background.


deep background

(US, journalism) The status of information acquired from a source that may be used, but without either naming or directly quoting the source.


nouveau roman

Unadapted borrowing from French nouveau roman (literally “new novel”); coined by Émile Henriot in the newspaper Le Monde on May 22, 1957.

ubor

(literature) A type of 1950s French novel that diverged from classical literary genres; antinovel.


small capitals

Small capitals in an example identify the word receiving the nuclear accent of the clause, or (in most cases) an extra heavy contrastive accent.
[“Bill was the one who wrote this note.” — “No.] Pete wrote it.”

2006, Renaat Declerck, Susan Reed, Bert Cappelle, “The Grammar of the English Verb Phrase”, in The Grammar of the English Tense System, volume 1, →ISBN, page 6:


caudation

From the Medieval Latin caudātus, from the Classical Latin cauda (“tail”).

To make it a bit easier to follow, each added letter is underlined, and insertions/hydrations/ caudations are parenthesized.

1978, Word Ways: The Journal of Recreational Linguistics - Volumes 11-12:

As with the voice, this physicality is natural and flexible, a background of four-beat lines, grouped into four five-line stanzas (a central section flanked by anacrusis and caudation) with occasional moves to five- or six- beat lines, and occasional catalexis ("unrealized"/"silent" beats), always at stanzaic ends.

1996, Language and Literature - Volume 21, page 102:

(writing) A section appended to the end of a word, line, or poem.

There is no adequate reporting system in use that can afford to treat words otherwise than as Hamlet's mother treated her heart, "cleave them in twain and fling away the basser half;" but in script the "baser half" in variably the final portion, and we get in the sentences of the curt style a jumble of inchoate nouns, paraplegic verbs and amputated adjectives, truncated of their tails and dependent each for its re-caudation on the accurate re-cordation (ahem !) of an equally deficient context.

1893, The National Stenographer - Volume 4, page 210:

But besides these examples there are two other ways of expanding the sonnet; by doubling and by caudation.

1956, Louis Lavater, The Sonnet in Australasia, a Survey and Selection:

In it, aided by diagrams and equations, you can learn of caudation and lateral expansion, doubling and interlacing.


tabloid talk show

en-noun

tabloid talk show (plural tabloid talk shows)

(television) A talk show dealing with sensational topics like those found in a tabloid newspaper.


phlebotinum

(science fiction) A fictional material used by authors to develop a plot requiring a material with properties not possessed by any real material.


Tristanian

2001, Bonnie Wheeler, Fiona Tolhurst (editors), On Arthurian Women: Essays in Memory of Maureen Fries, Scriptorium Press, page 274,
With this assumption, that Tintagel haunted Hardy from 1870 to 1923, it becomes possible to suggest that not only was his Tristanian work infused with his life-long themes, but that Tristanian themes may have subtly influenced his earlier works as well.

Although Brugger had already expressed this idea, it was because of Bedier's work that academics began to see Tristanian poems as unified literary works with a coherent narrative thread from the lovers' first meeting to their inevitable death:

2008, Isabel DiVanna, Reconstructing the Middle Ages, Cambridge Scholars, page 157:

(literature) Of or pertaining to Sir Tristan, legendary Arthurian knight and tragic hero of the mediaeval romance Tristan and Iseult.


evolutionaries

(science fiction) A group of more evolved sentient beings.


cut-in

Inasmuch as leaders and cut-ins use up film a foot to a word, they should be resorted to only when absolutely necessary. For the producer has sufficient expense in his company and plant, without adding to it in film for cut-ins and leaders.

1916, Carl Charlton, How to Write Photoplays, page 23:

(film) A section of film inserted into another sequence.


xaser

If we could produce a 'Xaser', could we also produce an image of a crystal structure?

1970, Henry Lipson, Crystals and X-rays, page 190:

Perhaps some day there will be an x-ray system — a xaser — although it will probably self-destruct on each operation.

1978, Laser Focus, volume 14, numbers 7-12, page 57:


meat shot

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

(pornography, slang) A close-up of the genitalia of one or more performers.


phasecal

(radio astronomy, attributive) A system that injects a frequency comb signal in order to disambiguate phase in multiple basebands downconverted from the input signal.


scooplet

There it was. A minor little news scooplet that I let slip out in front of a phalanx of hungry New York media people. I hinted at the truth: If Tom Coughlin had not remained as head coach of the Giants, I might still be in a Giants uniform.

2008, Tiki Barber, Tiki: My Life in the Game and Beyond, page 14:

Thus, a steady run of small, intimate scooplets interspersed with the occasional meaty piece had kept him afloat for the past few years.

2009, Peter Burden, News of the World?: Fake Sheikhs and Royal Trappings:

(journalism) A minor scoop or exclusive.


cognitive estrangement

Coined by Yugoslav-born academic, writer and critic Darko Suvin in his 1979 book Metamorphoses of Science Fiction.

In his book Metamorphoses of Science Fiction (1979), Suvin introduced a number of ideas that remain central in sf criticism: cognitive estrangement, the novum and sf's genetic link with utopia. In the notion of cognitive estrangement, Suvin conflate two distinct, but related, ideas of estrangement from earlier literary theory: ostranenie (de-familiarization) from the Russian Formalists, and Berthold Brecht's Verfremdungseffekt (alienation effect).[…]Even more influential in sf theory than cognitive estrangement is Suvin's concept of the novum.

2003, Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr., “7: Marxist theory and science fiction”, in Edward James, Farah Mendlesohn, editors, The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction, Cambridge University Press, page 118:

Cognitive estrangement can therefore be seen as defining the textual effects of such work: the text faces its audience with something that will not fit into the existing patterns of verisimilitude, yet is being asserted and explored as fact.

2005, Jan Johnson-Smith, American Science Fiction TV: Star Trek, Stargate and Beyond, I.B. Tauris, page 26:

Darko Suvin, the eminent theorist of science fiction, defined science fiction as a literature of cognitive estrangement, a genre in which the reader enters an imaginative world different or estranged from his or her empirical world, but different in a way that obeys rational causation or scientific law: thus, it is estranged cognitively.

2011, Roger Luckhurst, “1: In the Zone: Topologies of Genre Weirdness”, in Sara Wasson, Emily Alder, editors, Gothic Science Fiction 1980-2010, Liverpool University Press, page 21:

(literature, narratology) A narrative logic, characteristic of science fiction, whereby devices used in the story are afforded plausibility by their being placed in the context of the fictional setting, which is envisioned to be scientifically consistent.

spoznajnog očuđenja

narrative logic characteristic of science fiction


berestology

/ˌbɛɹəsˈtɒləd͡ʒi/

/ˌbɛɹəsˈtɑləd͡ʒi/

Borrowed from Russian берестоло́гия (berestológija) from береста́ (berestá, “birchbark”) + -ло́гия (-lógija, suffix indicating the study of a particular subject).

bor

берестоло́гия

affix

Using certain inscriptions found in the area, the documents pertaining to the affairs of one of the hereditary ruling dynasties of Novgorod, he constructed an entire detective story, entertaining the reader and acquainting him with many questions of the new science of berestology.

1966, The Current Digest of the Soviet Press, volume XVIII, number 19, Columbus, Oh.: American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 23:

A relatively new field of research in Old Russian linguistics is berestology, the study of the numerous birchbark documents from Novgorod and other medieval Russian towns. In the Netherlands, two scholars have recently published articles on berestology and related issues: [...]

1996 March, Jos Schaeken, “The Present State of Russian Studies in the Netherlands”, in R[oger] Comtet, A. G. F. van Holk, W[erner] Lehfeldt, editors, Russian Linguistics: International Journal for the Study of Russian and Other Slavic Languages, volume 20, number 1, Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, →DOI, →ISSN, →JSTOR, →OCLC, section 3.2 (Old Russian), page 135:

This is an unusual book in several aspects. Firstly, it presents a synthesis of current knowledge about the written heritage of early Rus in many fields, palaeography (in its restricted meaning, concentrating on what the author calls "parchment literacy", p. 22), berestology (I may be forgiven for coining this term to designate the study of birch-bark documents), diplomatics, numismatics, and sphragistics, not to forget occasional forays into the history of art and archeology proper.

2004 October, Roland Marti, “Franklin, S[imon]: Writing, Society and Culture in Early Rus, c. 950–1300, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2002, XVI + 325 pp., 14 pl. [book review]”, in R[oger] Comtet, W[erner] Lehfeldt, Jos Schaeken, editors, Russian Linguistics: International Journal for the Study of Russian and Other Slavic Languages, volume 28, number 3, Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, →DOI, →ISSN, →JSTOR, →OCLC, page 433:

A telling example of the fruitful interaction between berestology and epigraphy is N1000, which was already cited at the beginning of this paper. The name of one of the senders of the letter, Kyas, appears to be of Turkic rather than Slavic origin [...].

2017 August, Jos Schaeken, “Comments on Birchbark Documents Found in the Twenty-first Century”, in Russian Linguistics: International Journal for the Study of Russian and Other Slavic Languages, volume 41, Dordrecht: Springer, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2018-07-30, section 2.4 (Berestology Meets Epigraphy), page 132:

The abovementioned research marks the start of a new research area in berestology. The most tangible result is that more accurate interpretations of individual texts have been given, thanks to the discovery of (hidden) communicative heterogeneity.

2018, Simeon Dekker, “The Background: Communicatively Heterogeneous Letters”, in Old Russian Birchbark Letters: A Pragmatic Approach (Studies in Slavic and General Linguistics; 42), Leiden, Boston, Mass.: Brill Rodopi, →ISBN, →ISSN, section 2.7 (Discussion), page 27:

In Russia, the study of birchbark letters is sometimes known informally as berestologija (‘berestology’), derived from the word beresta ‘birchbark’. For many years, ‘berestology’ has been an interdisciplinary research venture that engages archaeologists, philologists, linguists, and historians.

2018, Jos Schaeken, “Preface”, in Voices on Birchbark: Everyday Communication in Medieval Russia (Studies in Slavic and General Linguistics; 43), Leiden, Boston, Mass.: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page XII:

(palaeography) The scientific study of birchbark manuscripts.


subchanneled

(radio, electronics, zoology) Divided into subchannels.


Jovial

/ˈd͡ʒəʊ.vɪ.əl/

(chiefly science fiction) An inhabitant of the planet Jupiter; a Jovian.


stoichedon

From Ancient Greek στοιχηδόν (stoikhēdón), from στοῖχος (stoîkhos, “row”) + -ηδον (-ēdon, “in the manner of”).

(historical, calligraphy) An epigraphical form in which the letters are arranged as rows and columns within a grid arrangement.


kickwriting

From kick + writing. Coined by Jack Kerouac in a letter to Neal Cassady, describing Cassady's writing style.

You must and will go on at all costs including comfort & health & kicks; but keep it kickwriting at all costs too, that is, write only what kicks you and keeps you overtime awake from sheer mad joy.

1996, Jack Kerouac, Ann Charters, Selected letters, 1940-1956, →ISBN, page 242:

A rapid typist, Kerouac hit on the idea of typing nonstop to get the 'kickwriting' momentum he wanted.

2011, Ann Charters, On the Road (Introduction), →ISBN:

... many experimental contemporaries—an unplotted, visionary, kickwriting syntax.

2011, Zahn Pesh, Cat-Cup Clones: A Fictional Memoir, →ISBN, page v:

Only by using his free-flow style of “kickwriting” did Kerouac believe he could capture the vibrancy of the man that inspired the book, his friend Neal Cassady.

2012, Nick Tasler, The Impulse Factor: Why Some of Us Play it Safe and Others Risk it All, →ISBN:

To master this "kickwriting" style, Kerouac taped together 12-foot-long pieces of drawing paper, creating a continuous roll for his typewriter.

2016 September 16, Celia San Miguel, “22 Literary Tattoos That Book Lovers Will Appreciate”, in The Stir:

(literature) A frenzied, first-person style of writing.


back-door pilot

en-noun

back-door pilot (plural back-door pilots)

(film, television) A film, miniseries, or episode that serves as a proof of concept for a new full television series, but may be broadcast on its own even if the full series does not come to fruition.


DIT

DIT (countable and uncountable, plural DITs)

In 2022, nearly every movie and TV show has a dedicated DIT who works with the cinematographer and the director to figure out what an image might look like after it’s been run through a series of digital filters.

2022 January 10, Emily VanDerWerff, “Colors: Where did they go? An investigation.”, in Vox:

digital imaging technician
w:digital imaging technician

(film) Initialism of digital imaging technician.


nouvelle vague

/nuːˌvɛl ˈvɑːɡ/

Unadapted borrowing from French nouvelle vague (literally “new wave”).

ubor

Coordinate term: cinéma du look

The light of the nouvelle vague—the “new wave” in French cinema that crested in the early sixties—was special.

2000, Gilberto Perez, The Material Ghost, JHU Press, →ISBN, page 336:

Perhaps the great connection between the American film noir and the French nouvelle vague is best thought of in terms of the philosophical implications of life and death as seen in the disruptions and resumed continuity of the French narratives, which never forsake their graceful ritual.

2002, Andrew Dickos, Street with No Name, University Press of Kentucky, →ISBN, page 222:

(film) An influential French film movement of the 1950s and 1960s which experimented radically in editing, visual style and narrative


microdrama

en-noun

microdrama (countable and uncountable, plural microdramas)

...he also attempts to show how editing causes audience "identification" with the image and allows for the subtler "microdrama" of realism; and leaving editing aside, he sees the expressive possibilities in the "panorama" or long-take, shots — all of which goes well beyond the "make-it-strange" aesthetics of the Russians.

1997, James John Griffith, Adaptations as Imitations: Films from Novels, page 19:

What becomes visible at close range is the rapid to-and-fro motion that occurs within a single situation, the microdrama of the moment. The closeup enables the action, the story to develop a deeper dimension.

2010, Béla Balázs, Erica Carter, Béla Balázs: Early Film Theory: Visible Man and The Spirit of Film, →ISBN:

Hypotheses H1: Audience viewing of the microdrama [up-close camera perspective] format will induce higher levels of identification with the candidate than the televised town meeting or political spot formats.

2014, Erik P. Bucy, R. Lance Holbert, Sourcebook for Political Communication Research, page 1317709349:

(cinematography) A filming style characterized by close-up camera work focusing on the reactions of a single character.


underverse

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With this insight they are able to understand this universe and the underverse. In the underverse, space and time are different due to the change in mass due to the feild generated to protect from the foreign opposite universe.

2014, Eric Thompson, The Slave, The Sword and the Stars, page 237:

(science fiction) An alternate universe located in some sense underneath the real one.


twenty-fours

(printing) A form of composed type or plates containing 24 leaves or 48 pages, properly arranged for printing and folding.

(printing) A book made up of sections of 24 pages.


short pull

(printing, obsolete) A light impression on a hand-press.


Mahjar

(literature) A literary movement started by Arabic-speaking writers who had emigrated to America from Ottoman-ruled Lebanon, Syria and Palestine at the turn of the 20th century.


Mahjari

en-adj

Mahjari (comparative more Mahjari, superlative most Mahjari)

more Mahjari (comparative)
most Mahjari (superlative)

(literature) Of or pertaining to the Mahjar.


MBC

Middle East Broadcasting Center
w:en:Middle East Broadcasting Center

Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation
w:en:Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation

(television) Initialism of Middle East Broadcasting Center, Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation.


retrogarde

From retro- + garde. Doublet of rearguard.

(art, literature) Descriptive of an art movement, particularly in Slovenia, that looks back to the past, as opposed to avant-garde.


Namerican

Namerican (comparative more Namerican, superlative most Namerican)

more Namerican (comparative)
most Namerican (superlative)

What right had a storeful of greasy Namerican merchants to such a truth?

1963, Kenneth Bulmer, The Wizard of Starship Poseidon:

In Juchipila power to the whole community of thirty thousand evaporated as the supraheavy grid buried alongside the little mountain cantina siphoned energy from the entire west-central portion of the Namerican national power net.

2009, Alan Dean Foster, Montezuma Strip, →ISBN:

They kept odd hours, hence the three pm 'mornings,' but all cities were twenty-four hour propositions, so they had no trouble keeping normal lives even though they lived on a Namerican time schedule in Europa.

2012, M. Darusha Wehm, The Beauty of Our Weapons, →ISBN, page 15:

(fantasy, science fiction) North American.


dumb quotes

(computing, typography, informal) straight quotes


type bar

(printing, historical) A line of type cast in one piece, as in a linotype or typograph.


airshift

Announcer respondents most frequently worked a daily four-hour airshift (M = 4.23, s = 1.28; Mo = 4) , as either a morning daypart announcer (n = 60) or as an afternoon daypart announcer (n = 34)

1988, Steven Owen Shields, Creativity, Climate, and Creative Control in the Work of American Music Radio Announcers, page 113:

Canty's daily hour-long airshift on WQMC does not involve control over any other WQMC programming nor any of the station's policies.

1992, FCC Record: A Comprehensive Compilation of Decisions, Reports, Public Notices and Other Documents of the Federal Communications Commission of the United States, volume 7, numbers 9-12, page 2577:

My first gig at KMPX was a six-hour airshift each night.

1997, Michael C. Keith, Voices in the Purple Haze: Underground Radio and the Sixties, page 100:

(radio broadcasting) A block of continuous broadcast time, often four or six hours.


beyonsense

Blend of beyond + nonsense, coined to translate Russian зáумь (záumʹ), from за- (za-, “trans-, beyond”) + ум (um, “mind, intellect”).


Meliboean

From the name of a shepherd in Virgil's first eclogue.


typescale

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(printing, historical) A measuring-rod for type.


handpress

(printing, historical) An early printing press operated by means of a handle that applied pressure on the form.


Shadean

(literature) A proponent of an interpretation of Vladimir Nabokov's 1962 novel Pale Fire according to which the character John Shade wrote not only the poem, but the commentary as well, having invented his own death and the character of Kinbote as a literary device.


white ball

Kohli says that his white-ball batting is essentially an extension of his Test batting.

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

Adil Rashid has put his ambitions for a Test return on hold and negotiated a new white-ball deal at Yorkshire after losing some of his appetite for the first-class game. ... “I’ve made the decision to just concentrate on white ball, something which makes me very happy and gives me the best chance of improving my cricket,” said Rashid.

2018 February 15, Ali Martin, Vithushan Ehantharajah, “Adil Rashid opts out of first-class cricket for 2018 season”, in The Guardian, London:

limited overs cricket
limited overs cricket

(cricket, journalism, metonymically) limited overs cricket, as distinct from first-class cricket


flashline

(journalism) An eye-catching phrase usually placed above a headline.


back-announce

en-verb

back-announce (third-person singular simple present back-announces, present participle back-announcing, simple past and past participle back-announced)

back-announces (present singular third-person)
back-announcing (participle present)
back-announced (participle past)
back-announced (past)

It helps after long interviews, to back-announce the interviewee and the subject.

1978, Barrie Redfern, Local radio, page 78:

You back-announce the music just played, making a few appropriate comments about the music or the performers.

1991, Stuart Wallace Hyde, Television and radio announcing, page 335:

Two further examples will illustrate the functions of cue material – that is, to obtain the listener's interest, provide context, explain background noise, clarify technicalities and to 'back-announce'.

2005, Robert McLeish, Radio Production, page 112:

Z100, the Top-40 station in freestyle epicenter New Yor City, would plug many holes in its playlists with freestyle tracks, usually neglecting to back-announce them so that to the non-clubgoer, the songs would only be identifiable by lyrics or synth sounds.

2012, Maura Johnston, The Season Came To An End:

(broadcasting) To briefly identify the music or story that has just aired.


back announce

A tertiary tone on the theme cart directly fires a sub-source cart loaded with a daily synchronized voice track, running the back announce over the theme.

1973, FM radio station operations handbook, page 140:

Often, there are no front or back announces on the AM either, so if the listener didn't know who did the song, we aren't about to tell them.

1986, Michael C. Keith, Joseph M. Krause, The Radio Station, page 243:

But the intro was easy compared to the back announce.

2010, Elisabeth Soep, Lissa Soep, Vivian Chavez, Drop that Knowledge: Youth Radio Stories, page 135:

(broadcasting) A brief statement or synopsis identifying a piece of music or story when it completes; outro.


subhed

(journalism) Alternative form of subhead


man bites dog

Shortened version of a phrase attributed to various 19th-century journalists: "When a dog bites a man, that is not news, because it happens so often. But if a man bites a dog, that is news."

(journalism) A situation that is worth reporting on because it is unusual or bizarre.


opinion show

(television) A program that offers news heavily mixed with opinion-based commentary.


trackout

en-noun

trackout (countable and uncountable, plural trackouts)

[…] the programme-devisers proceeded to obfuscate his words by visual gimmickry — laborious trackouts to accommodate superimposed graphics and slogans; stills and film cuts which were either banal or funny.

[…] Alfred Hitchcock's distorted-vision effect employing a trackout combined with a forward zoom in Vertigo (1958).

1977, John Aquino, Film in the Language Arts Class, page 14:

As the shot reaches its conclusion, it transforms itself, through a trackout, from a medium-shot into a long-shot, as if to emphasize further the already disconcerting mixture of intimacy and distance we feel in the scene.

2012, Steven Rybin, Terrence Malick and the Thought of Film, page 44:

(countable, film, television) A backward movement of the camera, showing a wider field.


cue-to-cue

(theater, music, film) Of a rehearsal: moving from one cue to the next, so that lighting etc. can be tested, without rehearsing scenes in their entirety.


soft reboot

(television, film, fiction) A reboot of a series etc. in which continuity is retained with the previous material.


downwell

en-adj

downwell (comparative more downwell, superlative most downwell)

more downwell (comparative)
most downwell (superlative)

"[...] spend the two weeks after Translator Dlique's funeral on her estate downwell.

2014, Ann Leckie, Ancillary Sword, →ISBN, page 175:

I bought some land downwell.

(science fiction) towards the nearest planet or other gravity well.


downwell

To be safe, we'll have to go downwell.

(science fiction) toward the nearest planet or other gravity well.


flying white

zh-l

飛白／飞白 (fēibái)

(Chinese calligraphy) A kind of calligraphic technique that involves applying a relatively dry brush at high speed to create dry, streaky strokes.


howl-round

(television) feedback (high-pitched howling noise caused by a loop between microphone and speaker)


top-slicing

(UK, television) A proposed system whereby part of the television licence fee would be used to fund the rollout of superfast broadband.


line gun

(science fiction) A beam weapon, that shoots a long-duration beam to burn through the target, like a laser cutter


Tele-snap

Trade name (Tele-snaps), from tele- + snap.

(television, historical) A still photograph of a television broadcast, taken and sold for commercial use in the days before video recording.


flag-waving

They eliminate picture rolls, tearing, flag waving, hue shift, skew error or color streaking.

1973, Signals, volume 28, numbers 1-11, page 109:

The picture may also show a horizontal jitter at the top left appearing as flag waving.

1999, A. M. Dhake, TV and Video Engineering, page 497:

(television) Undesirable horizontal skewing of frames in a video signal.


outcue

(radio, television) A cue indicating that a portion of broadcast material will shortly end.


lens louse

Not all the lens lice are in front of the camera. The old "front page" tradition still lingers in our business. There are enough bald-headed, cigar-smoking, visor-decked, hard-drinking city editors to keep the legend alive inside the newsroom.

1956, ABA Journal, volume 42, number 9, page 845:

Just lens lice for the society photographers.

(journalism, slang, derogatory) A person who tries to get into photographs for the sake of publicity.


pylon poet

After Stephen Spender's poem The Pylons.

(literature, historical, chiefly in the plural) Any of a group of British poets of the 1930s who wrote about new technological developments.


geocriticism

(literature) A form of literary criticism focusing on location and spaces.


NAFAL

(science fiction) Initialism of nearly as fast as light.


sweet savagery

sweet savage romance
sweet savage romance

(literature) The genre of sweet savage romance.


sync up

en-verb

sync up (third-person singular simple present syncs up, present participle syncing up or synching up, simple past and past participle synced up or synched up)

syncs up (present singular third-person)
syncing up (participle present)
synching up (participle present)
synced up (participle past)
synced up (past)
synched up (participle past)
synched up (past)

(television, transitive) To synchronize (footage) so that the audio and video components play together in correct alignment.


Irving the Explainer

(Canada, US, film, informal) Any character who serves to provide exposition, such as explaining how an elaborate murder was committed, sparing the writers from having to convey it indirectly.


step deal

(film) A scriptwriter's contract paid in installments as progress is made.


standards and practices

(US, television) The department at a television network that is responsible for the moral, ethical, and legal implications of what is broadcast.


crispener

(television) A circuit or device that modifies a video signal to make the picture look more crisp.


cross-trail

cross-trail (third-person singular simple present cross-trails, present participle cross-trailing, simple past and past participle cross-trailed)

cross-trails (present singular third-person)
cross-trailing (participle present)
cross-trailed (participle past)
cross-trailed (past)

BBC Two cross-trailed a new costume drama that was starting on BBC One that week.

(broadcasting) To broadcast a trailer on one channel or station advertising content that will appear on another.


stagger-through

Deverbal from stagger through, on the model of readthrough and walkthrough; so called because there may be mistakes, pauses for discussion, etc.

And so I went there with the rehearsal pianists and we just did stagger-throughs, so that we could time it, so that we could know what was going on.

1998, Opera, volume 49, numbers 7-10, page 1036:

There may be a “stagger-through” in between, a run-through with occasional stops for critical discussions and changes.

2016, Don Harmon, Producing in Theater, page 45:

(music, television) The rehearsal of an entire show.


rip-and-reader

Suggesting the tearing off and reading of printed sheets from incoming news transmissions.

In between the all-news stations and the rip-and-readers are a substantial number of stations which sometimes have one or two newsmen and which try to do a respectable job with a limited budget.

1977, Ronald G. Hicks, A Survey of Mass Communication, page 145:

Leave the rip-and-readers to the tender mercies of the Associated Press. Major market radio and television stations are another matter entirely. Their news interests and requirements are similar to those of newspapers.

1987, Presstime, volume 9, numbers 1-6, page 15:

News director Griff Potter says he wants “a journalist, not a rip-and-reader. Someone who understands that highlights, runs, and errors are boring television.”

2012, Bradley Schultz, Sports Media: Reporting, Producing, and Planning, page 254:

(broadcasting, slang, derogatory) A newsreader or station that delivers the news in a formulaic, uninspired manner.


Unseelie

Borrowed from Scots unseely (“mischievous, evil-doing”), from Middle English unsely, from Old English unsǣliġ. Doublet of unsilly.

bor+

(fantasy, folklore) A malevolent or malicious fairy.


Unseelie

en-adj

Unseelie (comparative more Unseelie, superlative most Unseelie)

more Unseelie (comparative)
most Unseelie (superlative)

Unseelie wights

“That is not very Unseelie, and most definitely not very sluagh.”
“I cannot always choose how the magic will come.”
“It is wild magic, and it chooses its own way like water finding a cleft in a rock,” he said.

2008, Laurell K. Hamilton, Swallowing Darkness: A Novel, Ballantine Books, →ISBN:

“I am very Unseelie Tuatha Dé. Almost one hundred percent, in fact. Only a drop of Seelie to muddy the pool. Do you have a problem with that, Shining One?”

2010, Nalini Singh, Erin McCarthy, Jean Johnson, Lora Leigh, Linda Winstead Jones, Angela Knight, Anya Bast, Allyson James, Paranormal Holiday Anthology Trio, Penguin, →ISBN:

(fantasy, folklore) Of or pertaining to the unseelie; malevolent (as a fairy, etc).


Seelie

From Scots sely, seelie (“holy, good”), from Middle English seely, from Old English sǣliġ, gesǣlig. Doublet of silly.

Okay, so that sounded like the Seelie hated the Unseelie and vice versa. But not quite. There was something more here. I puzzled over it several moments. Did it mean the Seelie couldn't actually touch the Unseelie, and vice versa? I read on.

2008, Karen Marie Moning, Faefever: Fever Series, Delacorte Press, →ISBN:

We like the Seelie court and the humans lived, loved and laughed. As the war between the Seelie and the Unseelie escalated and the Seelie gained the upper hand we Unseelie were forced to hide in the shadows and fear for our lives.

2015, Selena Thana, Sidhe Megalomania: Tuath Dé - Tome 4, K. George, →ISBN:

(fantasy, folklore) A benevolent or beneficially-inclined fairy.


Seelie

Seelie (comparative more Seelie, superlative most Seelie)

more Seelie (comparative)
most Seelie (superlative)

“Like Sleeping Beauty, you mean,” I said. Henry nodded. His handsome face was very worried, and I didn't know him long enough to read him that well. “They came and saw the garden, and it was very Seelie, my lord. More than that, none.”

“Altruism is very Seelie.” “The sidhe were all Seelie once,” Shock said. “Either we resign ourselves to that part of our history or we go mad. I do not fight my impulses toward love and beauty the way my father does. But enough of that.”

2018, Mishell Baker, Impostor Syndrome, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:

(fantasy, folklore) Of or pertaining to the Seelie; benevolent (as a fairy, etc).


vidcall

Glad you called,” Ygara said, coming over to companionably grip Cora’s forearm as she stepped out of the airlock. “Just when I was starting to get bored with your little system. Welcome aboard! Come meet the team.”
Over the vidcall, Ygara had explained to Cora that she’d bought and refurbished a small surplus asari destroyer a few years back, with some of her earnings from three hundred years in the Daughters.

2017 November, N. K. Jemisin, Mac Walters, chapter 2, in Mass Effect Andromeda: Initiation, 1st edition (Science Fiction), Titan Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 39:


gaffer grip

From gaffer (“lighting electrician”) + grip.

(television) A clamp that can be attached to part of a set and used to hold lights.


topless radio

Similar to much of today's “adult talk” radio and TV, topless radio was a format in which audience members called in to discuss graphically sexual issues with hosts who tried to titillate the audience by teasing every explicit detail out of a caller.

2004, Christopher H. Sterling, editor, Encyclopedia of Radio, Routledge, →ISBN, page 2326:

(radio, dated) A radio talk show format, popular in the 1970s, focusing on intimate sexual discussion with callers.


Topic A

A check on Capitol Hill indicates that federal aid to education—not Laos—is Topic A among those who […]

1961, National Review, volume 10, page 263:

For the few days a story topic is Topic A, elite members of the subculture rush to shape its most widely accepted connotation.

1998, Douglas Gomery, Media in America: The Wilson Quarterly Reader, page 115:

[…] getting rid of Saddam Hussein was "Topic A" ten days after the inauguration — eight months before September 11.

2004, Kristina Börjesson, Into the Buzzsaw, page 81:

(journalism) The main topic of current interest.


Proxer

(science fiction) Inhabitant of the Proxima Centauri system.


Prox

Proxima Centauri
Proxima Centauri#English

(science fiction) Abbreviation of Proxima Centauri.

(science fiction) Some inhabited planet of the Proxima Centauri system.


four-waller

With their audience's desires carefully measured and films made to match those desires, four-wallers then saturated local television markets with advertisements for their movies […]

2009, Joshua Blu Buhs, Bigfoot: The Life and Times of a Legend, page 155:

(film, theater) A company that rents a cinema or theater under a four-wall arrangement.

The sets and corridors were all built with very low ceilings. They were four-wallers, so that meant lighting through grills or hiding lights or having in-shot lamps. I think the look of the film is due to the nature of the sets […]

1979, American Cinematographer, volume 60, page 768:

Now it is more common for studios to operate as 'four wallers', that is just the buildings with very limited supporting facilities and for all the personnel to be engaged by the production company.

2004, Robert Angell, Getting Into Films & Television, page 24:

(film, television) A studio consisting of buildings but little in the way of equipment.


clapper-loader

(film) A person employed to operate the clapperboard and to load film into the camera.


Lamartinian

Lamartinian (comparative more Lamartinian, superlative most Lamartinian)

more Lamartinian (comparative)
most Lamartinian (superlative)

Calqued from French lamartinien or from Lamartine + -ian; after Alphonse de Lamartine.

(literature, politics) Of or pertaining to Alphonse de Lamartine.

lamartinien

of or pertaining to Alphonse de Lamartine


grass hand

Some strong criticism was expressed at the present practice of taking on grass hands, and the inconvenience and unpleasantness resulting from it in various foundries.

1921, British and Colonial Printer and Stationer: And Newspaper Press:

A dispute has arisen on the "Referee" owing to some men holding full frames working as grass hands on Saturday afternoons.

(printing, archaic) An additional worker taken on at busy times.


dog station

Again, available evidence indicates that fewer than one percent of all radio and television properties are controlled by minority persons. […] Minority owners claim that only the so called "dog" stations are offered to them.

1978, United States. Federal Communications Commission. Minority Ownership Task Force, Minority Ownership in Broadcasting, page 9:

And, as you know, most of the black broadcasters and Mexican-American broadcasters and minority broadcasters in the United States have wound up with the dog stations in various markets, mainly daytimers. Very few of us are in the large markets […]

1979, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Subcommittee on Communications, The Communications Act of 1979: Hearings, page 339:

(television, radio) A minor television or radio station with little chance to succeed.


paranatural

From para- (“above, beyond; abnormal”) + natural (“of or relating to nature; as expected; reasonable”); compare paranormal, supernatural.

prefix

(science fiction, fantasy) A paranormal entity.


pay or play

(film, often attributive) A kind of contract ensuring that an actor, director, etc. is paid even if their work is ultimately not used.


continuous wave

en-noun

continuous wave (countable and uncountable, plural continuous waves)

(radio, historical, uncountable) An early method of radio transmission in which a sinusoidal carrier wave is switched on and off, and information is carried in the varying duration of the on and off periods.


hard light

This included a good six orvs a day in the HLHG (Hard Light Hologram) Simulation Room. This room could create an unlimited number of battle scenarios by way of quality hard light holograms; it was a key staple in Brigade training.

2005, C. C. Ekeke, Star Brigade: First Renaissance, page 155:

The Falcon formerly wore a pair of jet-powered glider wings that allowed him to fly at speeds up to 250 miles per hour. He now wears a pair of "hard light" wings that have increased his speed […]

2008, Scholastic Avengers Encyclopedia, Marvel Comics Group, →ISBN:

Abstract: Yeng is a Zontoan from planet Zing who volunteers to go on an intergalactic mission to a distant planet called Earth. Using a hard light drive, Yeng is able to project a solid hologram of himself, so that he appears as a stunningly handsome human […]

2009, Victor Kelleher, Spaceman Bill, in Fiction Gateway: Enriching the curriculum

I leaned against the wall and slid down into the ninety-degree corner between two hard light walls. I wrapped my arms around my knees as Sid's voice echoed.

2018, John Oddfellow / Caleb Rhodes, The Engine of a Million Plots, →ISBN, page 179:

"I think we should steal the orb and replace it with a hard light hologram so they won't even notice."

2018, Kay Hawkins, The Stars Are Calling, page 222:

(comics, science fiction) A solid, tangible hologram (projection of light), which can be used to construct structures such as walls or armor.


American comic book

American comic book (plural American comic books)

(comics) A thin serialized comic book format published in the United States, containing on average 32 pages.


forever chemical

forever chemical (plural forever chemicals)

From forever + chemical. From being a chemical compound which is highly unlikely to break down.

Forever chemicals have infiltrated water across 43 states nationwide, impacting the drinking supply of about 19 million Americans.

2019 June 7, Jamie Feldman, “Here's Everything We Know About The Forever Chemicals In Food”, in Huffington Post:

These are the Keith Richards of chemicals, known as forever chemicals because they can survive for years without really breaking down.

2020 January 23, Bruce Y. Lee, “Forever Chemicals In Your Drinking Water, It Is Worse Than Previously Thought”, in Forbes:

Some of the most commonly used PFAS chemicals, like PFOS and PFOA (perfluorooctanesulfonic acid and perfluorooctanoic acid) have long half-lives, earning them the moniker the forever chemical.

2020 January 24, Sarah Gibbens, “Toxic forever chemicals more common in tap water than thought, report says.”, in National Geographic:

They are called “forever chemicals” because they do not naturally break down and have been found to accumulate in humans.

[2021 May 13, Tom Perkins, “Study finds alarming levels of ‘forever chemicals’ in US mothers’ breast milk”, in The Guardian, retrieved 2021-05-13:

U.S. industrial conglomerate 3M Co (MMM.N) on Tuesday set a 2025 deadline to stop producing PFAS, the "forever chemicals" used in anything from cell phones to semiconductors that have been linked to cancers, heart problems and low birth weights.

2022 December 20, “3M to end 'forever chemicals' output at cost of up to $2.3 bln”, in Reuters:

polyfluoroalkyl substance
polyfluoroalkyl substance

(journalism, environmentalism, often in the plural) Synonym of PFAS (“perfluoroalkyl or polyfluoroalkyl substance”)


desert dolly

We packed it in on desert dollies for about a mile and used it down next to a lake where it was absolutely forbidden to have any motorized equipment. We couldn't have gotten the shot that we got with any other piece of equipment.

1980, American Cinematographer, volume 61, page 1128:

(film) A wheeled platform for moving heavy lamps over difficult terrain.


view from nowhere

view from nowhere (plural views from nowhere)

(media) A theory about the negative effects of neutrality in journalism whereby reporters create the impression that two parties are equally correct, even when the truths of their claims are mutually exclusive and verifiable by a diligent researcher.


Charlie bar

Adding texture to lights. Charlie bars (vertical bars, in this case made from tape on an open frame) and also some lace create texture in the scene.

2012, Blain Brown, Motion Picture and Video Lighting, page 56:

[…] traditionally these include things such as vertical Charlie bars — vertical wooden bars used to create shadows.

2013, Blain Brown, Cinematography: Theory and Practice, page 115:

Charlie bar A 1- to 6-inch wide by 3-foot long strip of wood with an attached pin used to create shadows on an object (thin long flags, gobos).

2013, Michael Uva, Sabrina Uva, Uva's Rigging Guide for Studio and Location, page 260:

(film, television) A vertical bar positioned in groups to break up the illumination from a light source.


unblooped

[…] and the track abounds in unblooped splices.

1951, Film Music, volumes 11-12, page 23:

An unblooped splice can cause a large signal spike, which blows out the voice coil.

1991, Tony Zaza, Mechanics of sound recording, page 372:


final order cutoff

final order cutoff (plural final order cutoffs)

(publishing, retailing) The latest date that retailers can submit their finalized orders before publishers set up their print runs. Orders submitted before this will be fulfilled as the publisher wills, orders submitted after this will be subject to availability.


Campbellian

en-adj

Campbellian (comparative more Campbellian, superlative most Campbellian)

more Campbellian (comparative)
most Campbellian (superlative)

In fact, among some readers the term "Campbellian science fiction" is virtually synonymous with "Golden Age", so manifestly more rigorous were the authors Campbell developed than the majority of pulp writers before them.

2003, Edward James, Farah Mendlesohn, The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction, page 99:

It traces the growth of homo gestalt with the uniting of six lovely outcasts of society who have psi powers and come together as a hive mind, thus creating a gestalt super-being. This concept was pure Campbellian, yet Campbell was critical of the story - possibly out of petulance for not having published it.

2005, Michael Ashley, Transformations: The History of the Science Fiction Magazine 1950 to 1970, Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, page 133:

(science fiction) In the fictive style promoted by American writer and editor John W. Campbell, wherein humanity triumphs over alien intelligences through innate superiority, often with superhuman abilities such as telekinesis, ESP, etc.


good-bad

en-adjective

good-bad (comparative more good-bad, superlative most good-bad)

more good-bad (comparative)
most good-bad (superlative)

1945, November 2. George Orwell, "Good Bad Books", Tribune, 2 November.
The existence of good bad literature--the fact that one can be amused or excited or even moved by a book that one's intellect simply refuses to take seriously--is a reminder that art is not the same thing as cerebration.

Touch of Evil is not a good movie, but it is a good bad movie, which is more fun than the mediocre or even the adequate.

2014, Sarah Nilsen, Projecting America, 1958, McFarland:

2015, July 6, David Fear et al, 25 Best Modern Exploitation Movies. Rolling Stone.
Is Showgirls good-bad or just bad-bad?

The Shoes of the Fisherman is a good-bad film that owes no duty to history or to what were then current affairs.

2019 November 29, Donald Clarke, “The Two Popes: one giant leap of faith”, in The Irish Times:

(film, literature) Enjoyably schlocky, poor in quality but nonetheless compelling.


warwagon

"You mean you won't come with us in the warwagon?" "You don't have a warwagon. You don't even have a pocket knife. You have light meters around your neck that would feed one of those guys and all his relatives for a year. I wouldn't go back in that barrio in a tank."

1980, Danny Lyon, The paper negative, Bleak Beauty Books, page 28:

When he went back inside the warwagon, the audio monitors were quivering with the ghostly echoes of automobile engines firing up and voices raised in excited exchanges. The video recorders clicked on a moment later.

2014, Don Pendleton, Savage Fire, Open Road Media, →ISBN:

Stiffly the old general climbed the steps to the upper deck of the warwagon, his knees having grown stiff in the chill air flowing over the deck. His suit of armour still felt too heavy on him, even though it was mostly decorative, splendidly so, […]

2015, Col Buchanan, The Black Dream, Pan Macmillan, →ISBN:

armored personnel carrier
armored personnel carrier

(fiction, uncommon) A combat vehicle similar to an armored personnel carrier.


capline

The letter t often falls short of both the capline and the line of ascent. The line of ascent is drawn above or on the capline and equals approximately one third the distance between the capline and baseline.

1998, Sandra M. Bryan, Illustrator Draftsman: Executionable practices, page 14:

(typography) The line through the tops of capital letters of a particular typeface.


beardline

The beardline is the line reached by descenders in letters like p and q.

1992, Robert Bringhurst, The Elements of Typographic Style, Hartley & Marks Publishers, →ISBN:

(typography) The line below the baseline where the descending letters, such as ⟨p⟩ or ⟨q⟩, sit.


movie jail

"They have this term in Hollywood, movie jail. When a director does this horrible movie that fails, he's in movie jail, where they're not letting him make another movie again."

2010, Alison Macor, Chainsaws, Slackers, and Spy Kids: Thirty Years of Filmmaking in Austin, Texas., University of Texas Press:

2016, June 10, "10 Actors Who Got Sent to Movie Jail", Screenrant.

2019, April 15, Gabe Worgaftik, AV Club.
"Movie jail is real. He's been there. He was excommunicated at Fox for a decade after turning down Speed 2 to go play Hamlet onstage in fucking Winnipeg."

(film, informal) A state of derailment of a career or limited opportunities to which a film industry professional is seemingly relegated, usually as a result of making an unsuccessful film.


terran

en-adj

terran (comparative more terran, superlative most terran)

more terran (comparative)
most terran (superlative)

[…] dinitrogen does not have properties that would be considered as suitable for life from a terran perspective (Table 7.2).

2008, Dirk Schulze-Makuch, Louis Neal Irwin, Life in the Universe: Expectations and Constraints, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 128:

As they approached the steps the Klee-shaes could hear a terran favorite over the great building's Public Address system—it was Neil Young warbling Keep On Rocking In The Free World, but a Fartian host, misunderstanding the moment, transferred the track to Mollify.

2008, Ron Sanders, Legerdemainia, →ISBN, page 71:

Like most “fish” native to Safehold, it has a very long, sinuous body but the head does resemble a terran hake or cod, with a hooked jaw.

2011, David Weber, How Firm a Foundation: A Novel in the Safehold Series (#5), Macmillan, →ISBN:

Annual Pack Includes:
Gift pack - SOL30000 a terran year (equivalent to SOL2500/month over the duration of the adoption).
Personalised certificate.
Stand-up photo-portrait (14.5 x 200m) of your soldier.

2013, Doug Strider, Space Danger - Space Marines' Graveyard, Douglas Strider, →ISBN:

Cal cut wide in his shoulder jets with a short burst and slid in to earth under a tree so like a terran cottonwood it was hard to tell the difference. The trees on windy hillsides on Lehaunan had been warped and strangely twisted […]

2013, Gordon R. Dickson, Naked to the Stars, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:

Hobbs' Street smelled odd, damp and sweet, but that wasn't due to the residents here but to an odd mutation of a terran honey fungus that had spread throughout the moon colony, running its mycelia through air vents, electrical ducting or […]

2014, Gardner Dozois, The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-First Annual Collection, St. Martin's Griffin, →ISBN:

The NASA engineer admiringly dubbed the complete project a “terran module,” comparing it favorably with the best thing yet developed in lunar modules. Bolan liked it, though he was a bit awed by the electronic capabilities of his new warwagon.

2014, Don Pendleton, New Orleans Knockout, Open Road Media, →ISBN:

(chiefly science fiction, uncommon) Alternative letter-case form of Terran (“of or from Earth; terrestrial”)


dead cat

Named for its resemblance to an actual dead cat.

"A camera operator needs batteries, lenses, cards, filters. A wardrobe supervisor has racks of costumes. A sound recorder carries a dead cat on a stick. But a director only needs his folder."

2012 August 16, Neil Oseman, Inside the Director's Folder:

2019, July 2. "Film 101: What Is a Boom Operator? Understanding the Job of a Boom Operator", Masterclass.com.
"The mic blimp is a wind-resistant cover that goes over the boom mic to reduce environmental background noise. It's commonly referred to as a "dead cat", because it's covered in fuzzy gray hair."

(cinematography, sound engineering) A furry coverlet placed over a microphone to muffle the sound of wind.


frame fuck

en-verb

frame fuck (third-person singular simple present frame fucks, present participle frame fucking, simple past and past participle frame fucked)

frame fucks (present singular third-person)
frame fucking (participle present)
frame fucked (participle past)
frame fucked (past)

The rig was so janky that I wound up frame fucking the entire shot.

According to Cartoon Network Atlanta circa spring of last year, the main reason would be that they would send an episode package overseas, and have it come back with no regards toward comic timing, and hence they'd have to take the finished product in post and do what they described as "frame fucking" in order to get the proper timing they wanted.

2003 November 18, EllisBB, “Re: Harvey Birdman Attorney at law - what happened?”, in rec.arts.animation (Usenet), retrieved 2020-04-03, message-ID <20031117211110.05888.00000483@mb-m13.aol.com>:

You can sit there for hours removing frames or putting frames back in. It’s frame fucking.

2010 January 28, Mickey Rapkin, “What Does a Film Editor Actually, You Know, DO?”, in GQ:

(film, animation, transitive, vulgar, slang) To make minute adjustments in editing, to nitpick.


psych-fi

We are interested in young adult, new adult, and middle grade sci-fi, psych-fi, paranormal, or urban fantasy […]

2015, Chuck Sambuchino, Children's Writer's & Illustrator's Market 2016:

Ballard is often mentioned in the context of Barney's work, especially his classic surrealist psych-fi novel Crash that was adapted by Cronenberg.

2018, Ashley Crawford, Religious Imaging in Millennialist America: Dark Gnosis, page 256:


retroprojection

en-noun

retroprojection (countable and uncountable, plural retroprojections)


short cross

(printing, historical) The short crossbar of a printer's chase.