diplex

en-verb

diplex (third-person singular simple present diplexes, present participle diplexing, simple past and past participle diplexed)

diplexes (present singular third-person)
diplexing (participle present)
diplexed (participle past)
diplexed (past)

(radio) To simulcast the same signal on two frequencies.

(radio) To combine two signals using two frequencies onto one cable.


sidestick

The sidesticks should be of the full length of the page, and abut against the headsticks on the outside of the form .

1841, William Savage, A Dictionary of the Art of Printing, page 330:

Neither the sidestick nor the footstick should project beyond the other, as it will prevent the quoins from passing, and in unlocking will give a great deal of trouble.

1863, H. Morgan, A Dictionary of Terms Used in Printing, page 53:

In using common footsticks and sidesticks, however, the broad part of the sidestick would be at the top left-hand corner of the left side section of the forme, and the broad part of the footstick at the lower right-hand corner.

1884, John Southward, Practical Printing: A Handbook of the Art of Typography, page 138:

(printing, historical) A sloped or beveled piece of wood or metal placed against the side of a page that is being typeset, and locked in place by quoins.


tablework

(printing, historical) Typesetting of tabular matter.


press proof

(printing, historical) The last proof for correction before sending to press.

(printing, historical) A proof taken on a press, especially to show impression, margins, colour, etc.


mindlock

(fantasy, science fiction) A magic spell or technology that restricts a person's ability to think freely.


graveyard slot

From graveyard + slot, from the analogy of death to absence, see also dead air, dead silence/dead silent.

(television, radio) A time period, especially very late at night, during which the audience is very small compared to other times of the day.


dayparting

(television, radio) The practice of dividing the broadcast day into several dayparts.


daypart

Prime time is the daypart with the most viewers.

(television, radio) A part of the day in which a type of radio or television program apropos for that time period is aired.

műsoridő

part of the day in which a type of radio or television program is aired


daypart

daypart (third-person singular simple present dayparts, present participle dayparting, simple past and past participle dayparted)

dayparts (present singular third-person)
dayparting (participle present)
dayparted (participle past)
dayparted (past)

Much like TV and radio, programming on the Station will be dayparted. Mornings will contain more music news, afternoons will have a heavy promotional focus on Streamland's and SonicNet's Addicted to Noise Web sites, and nights will focus on live entertainment.

1998 March 14, Ed Christman, “Trans World Earnings Set Record in '97”, in Billboard, volume 110, number 11, page 111:

A lot of Top 40 stations were heavily dayparted, so softer stuff only got played in the daytime, or harder stuff only got played at night.

2005 June 2, Florence Henderson Had A Mullet [username], “Re: Billboard top 100 of 1983”, in alt.culture.us.1980s (Usenet):

(television, radio, transitive) To divide the broadcasting day of (a station) into periods airing different types of material.

Like most R&B stations, rap is dayparted after 6 p.m. but shunned between the hours of 9 p.m. and midnight, when the station runs its quiet storm show.

1994 June 25, Phyllis Stark, “Community Involvement Sends WCKX To Top”, in Billboard, volume 106, number 26, page 106:

WMGI's new format, of which I heard a mere 20 minutes last night around 8, seemed to be brighter and much more uptempo. I imagine they've got the youngest stuff (i.e., the rap) dayparted into evenings only, and are being much less adventurous mornings.

1995 January 4, Jim Grey, “Terre Haute Radio News 1-1-95”, in rec.radio.broadcasting (Usenet):

(television, radio, transitive) To assign (material) to such a period.


CTCSS

(radio) Initialism of continuous tone-coded squelch system.


roll-to-roll processing
roll-to-roll processing#English

(printing) Abbreviation of roll-to-roll processing.

reel-to-reel processing
reel-to-reel processing#English

(printing) Abbreviation of reel-to-reel processing.


warmedy

It preserves the blue-collar setting of The Flintstones, and the family constellations are similar, but the "warmedy" Flintstone world is turned on its ear.

2004, John Alberti, Leaving Springfield: The Simpsons and the Possibility of Oppositional Culture, →ISBN, page 144:

Another popular “warmedy” (warm family comedy) of the late 1980s was Family Ties, which starred Michael J. Fox as the eldest sibling in a close-knit family.

2005, James T. Patterson, Restless Giant: The United States from Watergate to Bush v. Gore, →ISBN, page 220:

The "capitalization, dematerialization, and idealization" of this "warmedy" (an awkward term used by Budd, Steinman, and other critics to denote a "comedy overlaid with empathetic audience identification") extended even to the lives and celebrity status of the actors who played the show's universally loathed or much-loved characters...

2008, David Scott Diffrient, M*A*S*H, →ISBN, page 3:

(television) A warm-hearted comedy targeted at a family audience.


hyperchess

(science fiction) A multidimensional form of the game of chess.


press revise

(printing, historical) A proof for final revision.


typograph

(printing, historical) A machine for setting type or for casting lines of type and setting them.


doppel

A clipping of doppelganger; however, the words are not synonyms.

(science fiction) An identical copy of a person (such as a clone, virtual reality representation, etc.).


two-line brevier

(printing, UK, dated) A size of type between English and great primer, standardized as 16-point.


Garamond

Claude Garamont
Garamond
Garamond (typography)

From Garamondus, the Latin form of the name of Claude Garamont.

Caslon or Garamond or Baskerville is shouted as the compositors search for as many cases of these types as can be found.

2010, Andrea Levy, The Long Song, Tinder Press (2017), page 381:

(typography) A family of serif fonts derived from the work of Claude Garamont.

(German printing, dated) Synonym of Long Primer.


double bourgeois

(uncommon, printing, dated) Synonym of great primer.


double great primer

(printing, US, dated) The size of type between double English and meridian, standardized as 36-point.


two-line pica

(printing, UK, historical) A large size of type, standardized as 24-point.


two-line great primer

two-line double pica
two-line double pica

(printing, UK, dated) The size of type between two-line English and two-line double pica, standardized as 36-point.


two-line double pica

two-line great primer
two-line great primer

(printing, UK, dated) The size of type between two-line great primer and canon, standardized as 44-point.


double small pica

(printing, dated) A large size of type, standardized as (UK) 21- or (US) 22-point.


double pica

(printing, dated) A large size of type, standardized as (UK) 22- or (US) 24-point.


nonpareille

(printing): From French nonpareille and German Nonpareille (“6-point type”).

(printing, French and German contexts, dated) Synonym of nonpareil


two-line English

(printing, UK, dated) The size of type between two-line pica and two-line great primer, standardized as 28-point.


double English

(printing, US, dated) The size of type between double pica and double great primer, standardized as 28-point.


small text

(printing, dated) A small size of type, in French and Italian printing, usually conflated with brevier but technically treated as 7½ Didot points.


ushioni

Borrowed from Japanese 牛鬼 (うしおに, ushioni).

(Japanese folklore) An ox ogre or demon; an evil ox spirit.


exodos

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἔξοδος (éxodos, “a departure”). Doublet of exodus.

bor

1994, Carlo Ferdinando Russo (author and translator), Aristophanes: An Author for the Stage, [1962, Aristofane autore di teatro], page 173,
The exodos requires three actors, one for the Athenian (thirty iambic trimeters), one for his companion (five iambic trimeters) and one for the Spartan Singer (three iambic trimeters and around forty lyrical lines).

Then scenes alternate with choral songs, till the final exodos ("going-out") of the actors and chorus.

2003, Francis Blessington, The Bacchae; Euripides: The Frogs; Aristophanes, page xix:

Every Greek drama ends with an exodos. It is obligatory that the stage be left empty. It is left by the actors and the chorus.

2006, Olga Freidenberg, Image and Concept, page 271:

Non-speaking Characters
Hermione in prologue and exodos, Pylades in exodos, Electra in exodos, Helen in exodos

2013, Cecelia Eaton Luschnig, editor, The Orestes Plays, page 140:

In this respect, the parodoi and the exodoi of Old Comedy may operate as typical literary sphragis-like pieces; see details in Hordern (2002) 228-9; Calame (2004a); on the exodoi of Aristophanes as signature pieces see Calame (2004b) 182-3.

2013, Sophia Papaioannou, “Chapter One: The Innovator's Poetic Self-Representation”, in Sophia Papaioannou, editor, Terence and Interpretation, footnote, page 27:

(drama, Ancient Greek drama) A final scene or departure in a play, especially a tragedy.


antimutant

en-adj

antimutant (comparative more antimutant, superlative most antimutant)

more antimutant (comparative)
most antimutant (superlative)


groundwave

(radio) A signal that propagates along the surface of the Earth.

fala przyziemna

signal propagating along the earth surface


anticathartic

anticathartic (comparative more anticathartic, superlative most anticathartic)

more anticathartic (comparative)
most anticathartic (superlative)

(literature) In no way causing or inducing catharsis.


holoviewer

(science fiction) A device that can project a holographic image to an observer.


night hag

(folklore) a demon that gives rise to sleep paralysis


autocook

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Jack picked up two lunch kits from the counter and tossed them into the autocook.

2014, Collin R. Skocik, Voyage into the Unknown 6: The Mind Machine, page 231:

With a flick of a needle-like finger he activated the autocook and selected "random" from the menu. He wanted to be surprised, and with over one thousand meals stored in its internal memory there was always a good chance […]

2018, Neil Davies, A World Of Assassins, page 119:

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


lay tracks

en-verb

lay tracks (third-person singular simple present lays tracks, present participle laying tracks, simple past and past participle laid tracks)

lays tracks (present singular third-person)
laying tracks (participle present)
laid tracks (participle past)
laid tracks (past)

There is plenty of scope for skill in laying tracks so that the mixing is easy.

1947, Ken Cameron, Sound and the Documentary Film, page 82:

In terms of economic utility, it ranks right up there with ultrafast lenses, since laying tracks is the second most time-consuming activity in film production (and the Steadicam eliminates the need for them).

2013, James Monaco, How To Read a Film: Technology: Image & Sound:

(film) To arrange soundtracks in their correct sequence and position relative to the image.


Altairian

en-adj

Altairian (comparative more Altairian, superlative most Altairian)

more Altairian (comparative)
most Altairian (superlative)

The book is a guide book, a travel book. […] It is of course that invaluable companion for all those who want to see the marvels of the known Universe for less than thirty Altairian dollars a day—The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

1980 October, Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, London: Pan Books, →ISBN:

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


Altairian

(science fiction) A native or inhabitant of Altair.


Afropunk

Coordinate term: Afrofuturism

There’s a lot going on in this novel, but Thompson expertly juggles all his disparate elements – alien encounter, cyberpunk-biopunk-Afropunk thriller, zombie-shocker, an off-kilter love story and an atmospheric portrait of a futuristic Nigeria.

2018 October 4, Adam Roberts, “Rosewater by Tade Thompson review – a stellar SF debut”, in The Guardian:

(science fiction) Afrocentric science fiction.


noble savage

First appeared in John Dryden's heroic play The Conquest of Granada (1672), where it was used by the son of a Christian prince, believing himself a Spanish Muslim, in reference to himself.

It seemed hardly possible that by such comparatively small mouthfuls he could keep up the vitality diffused through so broad, baronial, and superb a person. But, doubtless, this noble savage fed strong and drank deep of the abounding element of air; and through his dilated nostrils snuffed in the sublime life of the worlds.

1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 34, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 167:

The Isángú, or Ingwánba, the craving felt after a short abstinence from animal food, does not spare the white traveller more than it does his dark guides; and, though the moral courage of the former may resist the "gastronomic practice" of breaking fast upon a fat young slave, one does not expect so much from the untutored appetite of the noble savage.

1876, Richard F[rancis] Burton, Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo. […], part I (The Gaboon River and Gorilla Land), London: Sampson Low, Marston, Low, and Searle, […], →OCLC:

It is written that the noble savage must never express surprise in the presence of the white.

1911, J[ames] M[atthew] Barrie, “The Children are Carried Off”, in Peter and Wendy, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, pages 179–180:

This is like one of those Red-skin stories where the noble savages carry off a girl and the honest backwoodsman with his incomparable knowledge follows the track and reads the signs of her fate in a footprint here, a broken twig there, a trinket dropped by the way.

1914, Joseph Conrad, Chance, London: Methuen, →OCLC, page 283:

(literature) A stock character embodying the concept of an idealized indigene or outsider who has not been corrupted by civilization and therefore symbolizes humanity's innate goodness.


shotacon

en-noun

shotacon (usually uncountable, plural shotacons)

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From Japanese ショタコン (shotakon). By surface analysis, shota + -con (“abnormal sexual attraction”).

surf

The term shota-con is a variant of the term loli-con for "Lolita complex" comics, a genre of porn comics for men featuring young girls. Shota is a common Japanese boy's name, thus shota-con indicates porn comics featuring young boys.

2004 Deborah Shamoon, "Porn Studies", page 101

Lolicon or Lolicom is a contraction of "Lolita Complex," an unhealthy interest in underage girls exemplified by the Lolita Anime. Its rarer male variant is Shotacon.
Shotacon is a contraction of “Shotaro Complex,” or an unhealthy obsession with little boys. It is said to derive from the boyish good looks of Shotaro Kaneda, the protagonist of GIGANTOR

2006 Jonathan Clements, Helen McCarthy A Guide to Japanese Animation Since 1917 page 31

(uncountable, anime) A sexual complex where an adult is attracted to young, typically prepubescent boys, or the fictional depictions thereof.

(countable, anime) An individual with such a fixation.

(uncountable, anime) Erotic or suggestive art, manga, anime, or other media featuring underage boys.


shounen ai

(slang, anime, manga) A narrative or visual work featuring a romance or sexual relationship between two or more males.


shoujo ai

Two connected etymologies. Either interpreted as a loan translation of Japanese 少女愛 (shōjo ai), or a specialized neologism created in analogy to shounen ai (少年愛; shōnen ai) using Japanese vocabulary.

(neologism, anime, manga) Anime and manga that explore emotional, but largely platonic, homoerotic relationships between women.


school life

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(anime, manga) A genre which has the majority of the storyline taking place in a school.


Apatovian

Apatow + -ian, with 'w' hardened to 'v'; compare Shavian.

Segel, who may not have a third or fourth gear, plays Peter Bretter, a recognizable Apatovian hero: he thinks obsessively about sex, and at the same time he's an instinctively moral man.

2008, David Denby, “Overripe, Undernourished”, in The New Yorker:

Go for a comedy, and you end up with Apatovian beta males whose emotions are largely tied up in the diminishing value of their comic-book collections.

2011, David Fear, “You've Got Male”, in Spin:

Yet without the Apatovian arc of its predecessor, it also feels a bit like a regression—especially given its typical sequel strategy of undoing the hard work of the previous film.

2015, A.A. Dowd, The AV Club, Ted 2 gets filthier but less charming:

(film) In the style of filmmaker Judd Apatow.


TIJ

(printing) Initialism of thermal inkjet.


CIJ

continuous inkjet
continuous inkjet#English

(printing) Initialism of continuous inkjet.


hellbox

(printing, historical) A receptacle where cast metal sorts were thrown after printing.


arsic

(poetry) Of the elevation of the voice in pronouncing the syllables of a word, usually the part of the word or phrase upon which the stress or accent falls.

(poetry) Of the part of the metrical foot upon which such an elevation falls.


computerette

One tiny cassette holds 8000 2000-mile routes, any of which can be exposed at will. It is not hard to imagine the ACD — and its associated computerette — becoming a splended "optional extra" in the vacationer's family car.

1968, Popular Mechanics, volume 129, number 3, page 115:

Highly robotic for her time, Baby Luna came with her moon landing module, crashball, computerette, star maps, space suit, dragon robe and other clothes.

2011, Fred Holmes, Heroes of the Transition, page 8:

My bijou computerette had no truck with floppy disks, so an Internet café would not suffice.

2012, Miranda Innes, Getting to Manana, page 175:

What I should really do, of course, is use a Personal Digital Assistant; one of those tiny hand-held computerette thingies […]

(rare, chiefly science fiction) A small computer.


misregister

/mɪsˈɹɛd͡ʒɪstə(ɹ)/

There are several kinds of misregister including what appellant characterizes as “mechanical” misregister and “degrouping” misregister […] Both types of tubes exhibited serious misregister problems […]

1964, United States. Patent Office, Decisions of the Commissioner of Patents and of the United States Courts in Patent and Trademark Cases, page 490:

(television) Undesirable displacement of the electron beam from the centre of a phosphor dot.


self-publish

en-verb

self-publish (third-person singular simple present self-publishes, present participle self-publishing, simple past and past participle self-published)

self-publishes (present singular third-person)
self-publishing (participle present)
self-published (participle past)
self-published (past)

(authorship) To publish a work independently, without the assistance of a publishing company.


trad-pub

traditional publisher
traditional publisher

(authorship) A work that has been published through a third-party publishing company, or a traditional publisher.


trad-pub

trad-pub (third-person singular simple present trad-pubs, present participle trad-pubbing, simple past and past participle trad-pubbed)

trad-pubs (present singular third-person)
trad-pubbing (participle present)
trad-pubbed (participle past)
trad-pubbed (past)

(authorship, informal) To publish a work via a third-party publishing company, or traditional publisher.


meganekko

Borrowed from Japanese 眼鏡っ娘 (meganekko), from 眼鏡 (megane, “glasses”) + 娘 (ko, “girl”).

Oh... Then I've have to find somebody who's be willing to get me a less-than-full-body shot of her, like the ones I have of five other meganekko who wear pince-nez: […]

2004 November 29, Rob Kelk, “Re: Anime genres? (was Re: Anime that every fan should watch?)”, in rec.arts.anime.misc (Usenet):

Anyway, so far, really, my favourite character is Yuki. Bonus points when we find out in the second episode she's a meganekko.

2006 May 2, The Eternal Lost Lurker [username], “Just started Haruhi...”, in rec.arts.anime.misc (Usenet):

Airheaded and delectably gauche, Miyuki stands out as a classic incarnation of the meganekko— namely, as noted, the moe type whose charm derives largely from the wearing of glasses—while also appearing to have a soothing effect on those around her by virtue of her sheer presence.

2012, Dani Cavallaro, Kyoto Animation: A Critical Study and Filmography, McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 126:

(anime, manga) A female fictional character whose charm or attractiveness derives largely from wearing glasses.


dojikko

From Japanese ドジっ娘 (dojikko), from ドジ (doji, “clumsy”) + 娘 (ko, “girl”).

She's been known to make everyone's favorite dojikko look downright sultry...

2008 August 9, afedakendragon [username], “Re: Aria question”, in rec.arts.anime.misc (Usenet):

Ichigo, 13, is just an ordinary dojikko while her younger sister Natsume wins at a piano competition.

2009 October 20, Manbow Papa [username], “My ratings to 2009 Autumn TV anime shows”, in rec.arts.anime.misc (Usenet):

The difference is, while the klutz's mishaps are interpreted as funny, the dojikko's mishaps are interpreted as cute.

2014, Kaiya Kokoro, Starting Out: Complete Anime Lifestyle Guide, SunCloud Design (2014), unnumbered page

(Japanese media) A female fictional character who is extremely clumsy, especially in a charming or cute way.


cambion

From Late Latin cambio (“I exchange”). Doublet of change.

(folklore) The half-demon offspring of either an incubus and a female human or a succubus and a male human.


overcomposed

en-adj

overcomposed (comparative more overcomposed, superlative most overcomposed)

more overcomposed (comparative)
most overcomposed (superlative)

Mr. Berlinger added that there is a risk in documentaries that are overcomposed.

2015 June 26, Ben Kenigsberg, “Documentary Filmmakers Talk About Manipulation in Their Work”, in New York Times:

(film) Having undergone too much composition or arrangement; excessively posed, to the point of seeming artificial.


bokashi

(printing) A technique in Japanese woodblock printing that achieves a variation in lightness and darkness of a single colour by means of ink applied by hand in gradations, rather than uniformly.


tomhan

(Scotland, folklore) A magical fairy mound.


MCU

(television) Initialism of medium close-up.


lavatorium

en-noun

lavatorium (plural lavatoriums or lavatoria)

Borrowed from Late Latin lavātōrium. Doublet of lavatory.

After that, Probono fades into obscurity, save for a reference in the third volume of Caesar’s Gallic Suits pertaining to an inscription engraved on a wall in a public lavatorium which, freely translated, means “Probono gives it away-call MXC-IIVD.”

1985, S. Sponte [pseudonym; David J. Millstein], “To Wit: Pro Bono Publico, and how he grew”, in The Pennsylvania Lawyer, volume 7, Harrisburg, Pa.: Pennsylvania Bar Association, page 38, columns 2–3:

They say that because he’s missing so much of his liver, he can’t digest his food like normal people and hasn’t been to the lavatorium in years. They say he’s gonna blow like a volcano.

2008, Carolyn Hennesy, “Newly ‘Maid’”, in Pandora Gets Jealous, New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury U.S.A. Children’s Books, →ISBN, page 18:

He barely made it to the lavatorium, throwing up again and again.

2010, Kate Quinn, chapter 11, in Mistress of Rome, London: Headline Review, →ISBN, page 164:

Do you need the lavatorium, Hilarious? I need to go.

2014, Jeanne Willis, “Julius Teaser: The World’s Worst Prankster”, in Hysterical Historicals (TreeTops Chucklers), Oxford, Oxon: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 37:

“The heating is back on, but we’ve got a big problem with the lavatorium,” Bumptius explained. “The toilet drains are still blocked with frozen poo.[…]”

2015, Shoo Rayner, Stinkius Maximus (Roman Brit; 3), London: Hodder & Stoughton, →ISBN:

(rare, historical fiction) An ancient Roman lavatory.


hungarumlaut

The "regular umlaut" with the dieresis dots originated from a form with two vertical or slanted strokes (not unlike the "hungarumlaut" speaking in typographical terms).

2003 July 12, Andreas Höfeld, “Re: middle age font”, in comp.fonts (Usenet):

For example, the small o with tilde, õ, has been displayed instead of o with the double acute accent (also known as the Hungarumlaut), ő, which is a different character.

2014, Leslie Sikos, Web Standards: Mastering HTML5, CSS3, and XML, page 48:

Many accents are specific to certain languages; the double acute, for instance, is used solely in Hungarian and is sometimes referred to as the Hungarumlaut.

2017, Gavin Ambrose, The Visual Dictionary of Pre-press and Production, page 19:

(typography, very rare) The double acute accent (˝), a rare diacritical mark made up of two acute accents, chiefly used in the Hungarian language.


throneworld

From throne + world; compare throneroom.

The descent to Coruscant's surface was uneventful, but Dr. Gast, seeing the former Imperial throneworld for the first time in years, was thrilled by every moment, […]

1999, Aaron Allston, Solo Command, →ISBN, page 336:

This is the homeworld, the Mistress Planet, the land that the traitor-god chose; this is Braxi, the planet that the Braxaná claimed, the throneworld of Zatar.

2001, C. S. Friedman, In Conquest Born, →ISBN:

Following orders from Starfleet, the Enterprise is en route to Pai, throneworld of the insular and enigmatic Dragon Empire.

2012, Kij Johnson, Dragon's Honor, →ISBN:

Han and Leia Solo, along with Han's friends Shug and Salla, made a daring rescue attempt, infiltrating the Emperor's throneworld and spiriting away Luke and Artoo.

2014, Tom Veitch, Star Wars: Dark Empire Trilogy, →ISBN:

Lo and behold, the Skrull throneworld was summarily destroyed by the planet-eating Galactus, and Veranke assumed the throne by right of succession.

2015, Dan Casey, 100 Things Avengers Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die, →ISBN:

(science fiction) The planet which serves as the seat of an interplanetary empire's government.


werecrocodile

Werecrocodile legends are quire common wherever crocodiles are found.

2000, Rosalyn Greene, The Magic of Shapeshifting, Red Wheel/Weiser, →ISBN, page 77:

As though responding to some unseen signal, one of the submerged werecrocodiles reared up in a spray of water and transformed into its human shape

2005, Kameron Franklin, Maiden of Pain: The Priests, Wizards of the Coast, →ISBN:

The werecrocodile laughed at him, the feral grin of a predator displaying nightmarish fangs.

2012, Ilona Andrews, “Retribution Clause”, in P. N. Elrod, editor, Hex Appeal, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 32:

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


werejaguar

The rain god appears as a werejaguar, part human, part snarling beast.

A pottery figure of a Mexican god who was thought to assume the shapes of many animals. Here he is shown as a werejaguar.

1973, Nancy Garden, Werewolves, Lippincott (1973), page 115 (image caption)

Before your eyes, the shaman has transformed himself into a werejaguar!

2008, Buried Treasures: Young Explorers' Guide, QA International, →ISBN, page 33:

(fiction, mythology) A shapeshifter who can assume the form of a jaguar.


first reader

(education, publishing) A book for children who are learning to read, usually consisting of pictures and some basic words or phrases.


full point

(UK, typography) full stop, period (British printers' term)


sapphistry

From sapphist + -ry, perhaps modelled on the word sophistry.

Jane Marcus illustrates how Woolf embeds "seductive sapphistry" in her works.

1993, Janet Doubler Ward, JoAnna Stephens Mink, Communication and Women's Friendships:

(literature) A seductive style supposed to be associated with women writing for a female audience.


said-bookism

From The Said Book + -ism; coined by James Blish, writing under the pen name William Atheling Jr., after The Said Book, the title of a booklet for aspiring writers listing countless alternatives to the word “said” in writing dialogue.

Jim Blish once dedicated a book to me. He introduced me to the music of Charles Ives, to the taste of Vander Flip, to the urgency of avoiding the said-bookism, to the concept of the watershed, to the pleasures of Indo-Ceylonese food.

1980, Harlan Ellison, Shatterday, Houghton Mifflin, Dedication

(authorship, rare) A verb (such as "explained", "shouted", or "uttered") used to indicate dialogue when writing fiction, chosen so as to avoid using the word "said".

(authorship, uncountable) The studious avoidance, in writing dialogue, of the word "said".


opinion piece

(journalism) An article in which the author expresses his or her personal opinion on a given subject.


werebeaver

(fiction) A shapeshifter who can change between beaver and human form.


werepuma

(fiction) A shapeshifter who can change between puma and human form.


werepanther

(fiction) A shapeshifter who can change between panther and human form.

panthère-garou

shapeshifter who can assume the shape of a panther


rejection slip

The rejection slip was so tactfully worded that he felt kindly toward the editor.

1909, Jack London, chapter 11, in Martin Eden:

The editor . . . returned the manuscript with a rejection slip. Anthony sent it off elsewhere and began another story.

1922, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, (please specify |book=1, 2, or 3):

I told my writers . . . by the end of the term they'd have to bring in either a rejection slip or a check from a publisher.

2002 April 14, Frank McCourt, “Reflections on Creative Writing Class”, in New York Times, retrieved 2015-08-18:

(publishing) A standardized message notifying an author that his or her work has not been accepted for publication, ordinarily printed on a small piece of paper and attached to the returned manuscript.


psyker

(science fiction) a person who uses psychic powers.


letterspacing

letterspacing (usually uncountable, plural letterspacings)

Coordinate term: kerning

(typography) The amount of space between adjacent text characters.


cityside

Now he is a cityside reporter being shifted from beat to beat, learning the ropes, learning Chicago, upward bound.

1988 July 22, Michael Miner, “A Doc and His Sox; Hotshot, Potshots: The Sun-Times Grooms a Star”, in Chicago Reader:


stage combat

(film, theater) The art of arranging, designing or performing sequences of simulated fighting, especially in theatrical productions.


fight choreography

(film, theater) The art of arranging and designing sequences of staged combats, such as for use in theatre or film productions.


biomechanoid

I always thought that that original ship, which I call the Croissant, was a battleship, holding these biomechanoid creatures that were all about destruction.

2015 September 23, Ben Child, “Ridley Scott plans three more Prometheus films before Alien”, in The Guardian:

(science fiction) A robot in the form of an animal.


upmaking

upmaking (usually uncountable, plural upmakings)

(printing, historical) The arrangement of lines into columns or pages.


PLF

(film) Initialism of premium large format (large-format screens similar to IMAX)


precolor

They also bring to mind stylish movie sets in precolor Hollywood; Fred and Ginger or a phalanx of Busby Berkeley dancers could easily drift among their mirrored, ethereal forms.

2009 June 19, The New York Times, “Art in Review”, in New York Times:

(film) Before the advent of color film, and thus presented in black and white.


Mako Mori test

Named after the character Mako Mori from the 2013 film Pacific Rim by a Tumblr user known as "Chaila", who thought that the older Bechdel test was sometimes insufficient for measuring the representation of women in films.

But what stood out most to me was how the film [Gravity] proves we need The Mako Mori Test.

2013, Ryan Syrek, "She Needed Her Space", The Reader, Volume 20, Number 35, 10 October 2013 - 16 October 2013, page 22

It [Run Lola Run] does pass the Mako Mori test though, because Lola is motivated by her boyfriend's safety, her actions do not always impact his story arc.

2015, Lani Gerbi, "The Bechdel Sword in the Stone", On Dit (Adelaide University), Volume 83, Issue 7, 15 July 2015, page 19

Below is just one take, and uses the established Bechdel and Mako Mori tests to assess whether a work is feminist/representative.

2015 August 17, Charlotte Hann, “Feminist Fandom”, in Salient, volume 78, number 19, Victoria University of Wellington, page 30:

(literature, critical theory) A feminist test for evaluating works of fiction by whether they have (i) at least one female character (ii) who has her own narrative arc (iii) which does not exist to support the narrative arc of a male character.


file video

(media) A segment recorded on videotape, used in a longer film or newscast, that pertains to the current subject matter but that has been selected from a media organization's existing video library.


file film

file film (countable and uncountable, plural file films)

(media) A brief motion picture, used in a longer film or newscast, that pertains to the current subject matter but that has been selected from a media organization's existing film library.


Sinbad

Borrowed from Arabic سِنْدِبَاد (sindibād), from Middle Persian (compare Persian سندباد (sendbâd)), possibly borrowed from Sanskrit सिद्धपथ (siddhapatha, “path of the Blessed”).
According to folk etymology, from سند (send) + باد (bâd), whence also the Arabic هِنْدِبَاد (hindibād).

der

(fiction) A fictional sailor, the hero of a story-cycle of Middle Eastern origin, who encountered monsters and magic while travelling the seas east of Africa and south of Asia.


starry eyes

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(chiefly anime and manga) Eyes with exaggerated starry highlights, with an expression of wonder or delight.


bumper music

(broadcasting) short clips of signature or theme music used to buffer transitions between programming elements of the radio broadcast


mono-verse

It may be mentioned, in this connection, that while the melodies in GrameGeya and the Aranyaka are based on mono-verses those in the Uha and Rahasya are elaborated generally on tfcas, triple Tcas, from the Uttara Arcika of the Samaveda.

1973, प्रतिहारसूत्रम्:

In many places trcas are divided into ekarcas, hymns of mono-verses; maybe this MS follows a different version of SV.

2002, Harvard Oriental Series - Volume 2; Volume 58:

However, the notes would remain unchanged and thus perceived as a mono-verse, a verset or a stanza (not only for a poet, but also for a prose writer), leaving enough possibilities for mutual creation with a recipient.

2014 September, N Naumenko, “The Short Story Through the Prism of Literary Mastery”, in Comparative Literature:

(literature) A poem or song consisting of a single verse.


asslicky

en-adj

asslicky (comparative more asslicky, superlative most asslicky)

more asslicky (comparative)
most asslicky (superlative)

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(pornography, LGBTQ) Of, pertaining to, or performing ass licking.


culteranismo

(literature) A literary style during the Baroque period of Spain, characterized by a very ornamental, ostentatious vocabulary and a message that is complicated by a sea of metaphors and complex syntactical order.


shota

en-noun

shota (usually uncountable, plural shotas)

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From Japanese ショタ (shota) or a clipping of shotacon.

(uncountable, anime) Hentai anime or manga, or other Japanese-inspired erotic art featuring young, usually prepubescent boys.

(countable, anime) A fictional young boy character, especially one featured in such material. Typically drawn with exaggerated or stylised cute features.


BSG

Battlestar Galactica
w:Battlestar Galactica

(science fiction) Initialism of Battlestar Galactica, an American science fiction media franchise.


hit piece

Coordinate term: puff piece

And respectable media institutions do have their standards, but there is something insidious—and very human—at work in the preparation of a hit piece: the media's desire to believe in the evil of their targets.

2013, Eric Dezenhall, John Weber, Damage Control […] , Easton Studio Press, →ISBN, page 126:

“This isn't a profile, my dear sister-in-law, it's a hit piece.” “A hit piece?” Buck unfolded his copy of the Spectator and began looking for Anne's byline. “It's on page three,” Pearce told him helpfully.

2014, Karen Young, Belle Pointe, Harlequin, →ISBN:

She seemed so exacting and the magazine itself so impossibly glamorous to my college-kid sensibility, and did I really want to do a hit piece on an actor? […] And so the plan was set in motion: I would meet the actor Judd Nelson, find him appalling, and write about how awful hanging out with him had been.

2019, Bret Easton Ellis, White, Pan Macmillan, →ISBN:

(journalism) A published article or post aiming to sway public opinion, especially by presenting false or biased information in a way that appears objective and truthful.


heptapody

From hepta- + -pody, from Ancient Greek ἑπτά (heptá, “seven”) and πούς, ποδός (poús, podós, “foot”).

(poetry) A measure or series consisting of seven feet.


bottle episode

/ˈbɒtəl ˈɛpɪsəʊd/

Said to be from the term “ship-in-a-bottle episode”, the nickname given by the cast and crew of the television series Star Trek (originally broadcast 1966–1969) to an episode set entirely on board the starship USS Enterprise.

That's pretty much what a "bottle" episode is; one that uses minimal sets, guest stars, effects, etc, and/or uses lots of clips from past episodes, in order to make a much cheaper episode.

1996 February 12, Janet A. Dornhoff, “What are they filming now?”, in alt.tv.forever-knight (Usenet), message-ID <4fno37$t28@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>:

One of Wright's great strengths as a screenwriter and producer is his ability to design bottle episodes—shows filmed with the goal of saving money—and turn them into riveting, compelling dramas where the viewer forgets that they are watching a bottle show.

1998, Cinefantastique, volume 30, Oak Park, Ill.: Frederick S. Clarke, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 82:

Even though they are moving, for large stretches 'Spiral' is a bottle episode.

2004, Roz Kaveney, “Writing the Vampire Slayer: Interviews with Jane Espenson and Steven S. DeKnight”, in Roz Kaveney, editor, Reading the Vampire Slayer: The New, Updated, Unofficial Guide to Buffy and Angel, 2nd revised and expanded edition, New York, N.Y.: Tauris Parke Paperbacks, I.B. Tauris, →ISBN, page 125:

By the 2000s, the airwaves seemed full of shows not just making reference to other pop culture "images," but wholly based on pop culture. [...] Community regularly turned episodes into extended homages to M*A*S*H, Doctor Who, and Christmas Claymation specials. In "Cooperative Calligraphy," the show presents a "bottle episode," during which Abed repeatedly reminds everyone they are in a "bottle episode," pointing out each characteristic of such episodes as it occurs.

2018, M. King Adkins, “‘These are Their Stories’: Postmodern Spaces”, in Television Storyworlds as Virtual Space, Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 122:

(originally US, television) An episode of a television series designed to be inexpensive and restricted in its use of sets, effects, cast members, etc.


holochess

(science fiction) The game of chess played with holograms rather than physical pieces.


copytaker

He solved the problem of his word blindness by dictating his stories and columns to the copytakers that all newspapers once relied on (and who, as he correctly notes, would tend to undermine the favourite paragraphs of wordsmith reporters with the weary words: “Is there much more of this?”)

2015 November 15, Tim Adams, “Pour Me: A Life by AA Gill review – from drunk to doyen of Fleet Street”, in The Observer:

(journalism, historical) A person employed to type up news stories telephoned in by reporters.


triniscope

Originally the proprietary name for a system developed by RCA. See tri- (“three”), and -scope.

(television, historical) An early color television system using three separate video tubes with colored phosphors producing the primary colors, combining the images through dichroic mirrors onto a screen for viewing.


long i

(palaeography, epigraphy) a tall variant of the letter i, ⟨ꟾ⟩, used in all-capital Latin inscriptions and manuscripts in classical antiquity and the Early Middle Ages for a long vowel /iː/. (Other long vowels were marked with apices.)


flopover

flopover (countable and uncountable, plural flopovers)

Now you have mirror-clear TV without picture flopover, jitter, tear!

1956, LIFE, volume 41, number 11, page 41:

(television) A form of television signal distortion where the displayed image appears to scroll vertically rather than remaining still.


vox nihili

From Latin vōx (“voice”) + nihilī (“of nothing”). See also vox populi.

(typography) A spelling or textual error.


cryoprison

(science fiction) A prison whose inmates are cryogenically frozen for the duration of their sentences.


Sol VIII

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

(poetic, science fiction) The planet Neptune.


Sol VII

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

(poetic, science fiction) The planet Uranus.


Sol VI

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

(poetic, science fiction) The planet Saturn.


varitype

From a former trade name, VariTyper, presumably from variable and typer.

(printing, historical) A kind of advanced typewriter that could use various different typefaces.


varitype

en-verb

varitype (third-person singular simple present varitypes, present participle varityping, simple past and past participle varityped)

varitypes (present singular third-person)
varityping (participle present)
varityped (participle past)
varityped (past)

(printing, historical) To prepare printed material using a machine of this kind.


Catullan

en-adj

Catullan (comparative more Catullan, superlative most Catullan)

more Catullan (comparative)
most Catullan (superlative)

He does so chiefly by employing graphic language (especially related to passive homosexual acts) which calls into sexual question the virility of the Catullan persona.

1996, Christopher John Nappa, The man and the mask : persona, character, and technique in the poems of Catullus:

(poetry) Of or relating to the ancient poet Catullus.


conapt

Coined by Philip K. Dick from condominium + apartment.

The taxi let him off on the roof field of his conapt building; he descended by moving ramp and arrived at his own door.

I could sense there was no one else in the conapt.

The fact that she had begged him not to leave the conapt just now, expressing fear for his life with the Inquisitors at large, had likely contributed to those thoughts.

2011, Michael Reaves, Patterns of Force:

(science fiction) A condominium apartment.


lip flap

en-noun

lip flap (countable and uncountable, plural lip flaps)

(film) A failure in audio-video synchronization, so that an actor's lips move but no sound is heard.

[…] pick it up earlier or later where there is no lip-flap. But if you must take it there, then you must precede it with another shot of the same speaker at a different angle, hopefully closer.

1972, Filmmakers Newsletter, volume 5, number 7, part 12, page 46:

“So when we translate,” Lam was saying, “it's all about what we call lip flaps. Like, how many times does mouth move? We match translation more to mouth than to what words really mean.

2009, Shawn Klomparens, Two Years, No Rain, page 49:

For the dubbed version, we would start with this translated script and then work to create a new script, which would closely match the lip flaps and intonations of the character onscreen

2010, Josef Steiff, Tristan D. Tamplin, Anime and Philosophy: Wide Eyed Wonder:

(film) A movement of an actor's lips, which is to be matched as closely as possible in a dubbed version of the film.


hexapody

hexapody (countable and uncountable, plural hexapodies)

From hexa- + -pody, from Ancient Greek ἑξα- (hexa-, “six”) and πούς, ποδός (poús, podós, “foot”).

(poetry, countable) A verse or measure of six metrical feet.


kidcom

(informal, television) A sitcom designed for children.


letterspace

(typography) A space as wide as a single text character.


pattern budget

The main order of business will be to discuss how to meet the requirements of the script that are beyond the pattern budget, which is the cost of a typical episode. The pattern will dictate what the usual demands are […]

2013, Bethany Rooney, Mary Lou Belli, Directors Tell the Story: Master the Craft of Television and Film Directing, →ISBN, page 68:

(television) The cost of producing a typical episode of a television series.


tone meeting

The final aspect to completing your preparation [as a director] is the tone meeting with the showrunner. (...) Generally, the two of you go through the script, scene by scene (...).

2013, Bethany Rooney, Mary Lou Belli, Directors Tell the Story: Master the Craft of Television and Film Directing, →ISBN, page 73:

These particular meetings are called tone meetings and require the showrunner meet with every new director hired. The idea is to go over what the episode will look like and how it will fit in with the rest of the season.

2016 January 5, Julia Alexander, “Former Walking Dead showrunner slams AMC in new testimony”, in Polygon:

(television) A meeting between the showrunner of a television series and the director to discuss an episode that is to be produced.


writers' room

The showrunner ist the ringmaster for the writers' room—the final authority. There is some form of a whiteboard on the walls of the room, where the plots for future episodes are outlined.

2013, Bethany Rooney, Mary Lou Belli, Directors Tell the Story: Master the Craft of Television and Film Directing, →ISBN, page 66:

(television) The room in which the showrunner and the writers of a television series collaborate on the plot and develop the script.


typeholder

(printing, historical) A container for type.


televiewer

(science fiction) A device for viewing things remotely, along the lines of a television.


superregeneration

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(radio) The superregenerative technique.


eraser dust

The handwritten, chalkboard type is called eraser dust.

2004, Maria Nerius, Digital Scrapbooking, →ISBN, page 75:

He is also known for designing dozens of graphic fonts during the early 1990s such as Dragonwick, Dupuy, Eraser Dust, Pixie Font, Polo Semi-Script, Rabbit Bars, and Hosting, to name only a few.

2011, James Michael Floyd, Composers in the Classroom, →ISBN, page 238:

The moment Kelly noel saw the eraser dust font at Dafont.com, she knew it would be perfect for a page about her sons playing with chalk on the driveway.

2011, Scrapbook Tips & Techniques - Book 2, →ISBN, page 80:

(computing, typography) A font that simulates wide hand-drawn letters with a slightly mottled appearance and irregular edges.


shortform

a shortform article; a shortform news broadcast

(journalism, broadcasting) Relatively short and punchy, lacking detail or in-depth analysis.


longform

a longform article; a longform news broadcast

(journalism, broadcasting) Longer and more detailed than is normal.


digislate

I have us make maps of our territory on digislates we found in a waterlogged cellar at the bottom of a ravine, […]

I used to borrow one of the inventory digislates with general network access, then slip up here to research.

(science fiction) A computer resembling a slate or tablet.

A DigiSlate is a clapperboard with the ingenious addition of a digital timecode display (hours : minutes : seconds : frames).

2003, Chris Jones, Guerilla Film Makers Movie Blueprint, page 318:

A DigiSlate can be set to display either SMPTE or internal (real time) time code.

2010, Richard W. Kroon, A/V A to Z: An Encyclopedic Dictionary of Media, Entertainment and Other Audiovisual Terms, page 207:

(film) A clapperboard with a digital display.


newstalk

"The most obvious and basic expansion of media talk has come with the general boom in newstalk and news magazine programs on both radio and TV."

2014, Peter Gibian, Mass Culture and Everyday Life:

(broadcasting) A television or radio programme in which host conversation with guests or audience members is mixed with news programming.


editio princeps

editio princeps (plural editiones principes)

From New Latin ēditiō prīnceps (“first edition”), 1800s.

bor

A caller interrupted me yesterday, a most persistent fellow and a dangerous one to the purse of the tyro collector of Americana, though not to me. He was a man of some pretence to classic education, and superficially versed in lore of title, date, and editio princeps.

1903, Mabel Osgood Wright, People of the Whirlpool:

The extract from the Missal of Constance, which was printed before the editio princeps […] does not contain the formulae for Advent, Sundays after Epiphany, Lent and the Sundays after Easter and Pentecost; […]

2004, Thomas Fisch, editor, Primary Readings on the Eucharist, Liturgical Press, →ISBN, footnote, page 34:

If the editio princeps was an attempt to create an authoritative version of the pontifical, such was not yet attainable.

2007, Terence Bailey, Alma Colk Santosuosso, editors, Music in Medieval Europe […] , Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., →ISBN, page 199:

(humanities, printing) The first printed edition of a work previously only published in manuscript form.

eerste druk

first printed edition of a work previously only published as manuscript


XAP

(publishing) Initialism of Extensible Authoring Publishing. (old name for XMP)


scratch-comma

(typography, historical) Alternative form of scratch comma.


slash-mark

(typography) Alternative form of slash mark.


shilling mark

A development of the long s ⟨ſ⟩, an abbreviation of Latin solidus, used to mark the amount of shillings in a sum. Formerly also the slash in all its uses, but this extended sense was taken on by the term solidus.

(UK, typography, historical) Synonym of slash ⟨/⟩ in its use to mark the amount of shillings in a sum or (obsolete) in all its uses.

slash in its use to mark the amount of shillings in a sum or


slash mark

Used to distinguish the typographic sense of slash from its other uses.

Initial inquiries among professional typists uncover names like slant, slant line, slash, and slash mark. Examination of typing instruction manuals discloses additional names such as diagonal and diagonal mark, and other sources provide the designation oblique.

1965, Dmitri A. Borgmann, Language on Vacation, page 240:


middot

From mid- + dot, possibly as a calque of its alternative name interpunct.


forward stroke

(UK, typography) Synonym of forward slash.


scratch comma

(typography, historical) Synonym of slash ⟨ / ⟩ in its former use as a form of comma.

slash in its former use as a form of comma


fraction slash

en-noun

fraction slash (plural fraction slashes)

(typography) The slash variant ⟨⁄⟩ used for expressing fractions.


computer core

(science fiction, computing) a computer processing center or central computer


memory core

Tali'Zorah nar Rayya: I tracked a patrol of geth to an uncharted world. I waited for one to become separated from its unit. Then I disabled it and removed its memory core.
Captain Anderson: I thought the geth fried their memory cores when they died. Some kind of defense mechanism.
Shepard: How did you manage to preserve the memory core?[…]
Tali'Zorah nar Rayya: According to the memory core, the Reapers were a hyper-advanced machine race that existed 50,000 years ago.

2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Citadel:

(science fiction, computing) A (semi-)permanent computer memory storage device that may be extracted, and may or may not be separate from the computer core.


newsnet

(science fiction) A news broadcasting network.


slant line

Used to distinguish the intended sense of slant.


diagonal mark

To distinguish the intended sense of diagonal.

(typography) Synonym of slash as the forward slash ⟨/⟩ and sometimes also its proscribed sense inclusive of the backslash ⟨\⟩.


oblique stroke

A clarification of the intended sense of oblique.

The oblique, short for oblique stroke or line, is written /, originally the French way of writing or printing a comma.

1953, Eric Partridge, You Have a Point There: A Guide to Punctuation and Its Allies, page 155:

They are normally in the form "Case 79/87", in which the two digits after the oblique stroke (slash) indicate the year.

2004, Trevor C. Hartley, European Union Law in a Global Context, page 18:


oblique dash

No punctuation has been inserted in the records of cases... The oblique dash in punctuation is freely used. Where it is used as a mere flourish in conjunction with other punctuation it has been ignored, where it terminates an entry the dash has been read as a full-stop, and where it occurs in the middle of an entry it has been read as a comma.

1934, E.E. Rich, The Staple Court Books of Bristol, page vi:

In (9.2) and in the following equations an oblique dash (/) before an index r denotes differentiation with respect to χᵣ.

1962, Giuseppe Grioli, Mathematical Theory of Elastic Equilibrium (Recent Results), page 132, n. 1

Where Moore's and Finzi's datings differ substantially, both are given, separated by an oblique dash, with Moore's first.

1985, Stephen Banfield, Sensibility and English Song, page 456:


oblique mark

The oblique mark ∖ above the letters implies that the notes must come in succession, the upper one first, as this mark ／ signifies a contrary succession.

1804, William Bingley, North Wales, volume II, page 338:

Any fraction may be made by typing the numerator, the oblique mark (/), and the denominator. The oblique mark is struck with the small finger of the right hand.

1941, Rupert Pitt Sorelle, Gregg Typing, page 266:

Your fourth finger on your right hand strikes semicolon (;) on the home row, reaches up slightly for p, and down to the bottom row slightly right for the oblique mark (/).

2003, Frank P. Donnelly, Touch N Type, page 20:

(typography, uncommon) Synonym of slash ⟨/⟩, sometimes (generally proscribed) inclusive of similar marks such as the backslash ⟨\⟩.


plain point

There be five manner of points and divisions most used among cunning men; the which if they be well used, make the sentence very light and easy to be understood, both to the reader and hearer: and they be these, virgil,—come,—parenthesis,—plain point,—interrogative.

(typography, obsolete) Synonym of full stop or period ⟨.⟩.


comma-point

Whoever introduced the several points, it seems that a full-point, a point called come, answering to our colon-point, a point called virgil answering to our comma-point, the parenthesis-points and interrogative-point, were used at the close of the fourteenth, or beginning of the fifteenth century.

1842, F. Francillon, An Essay on Punctuation, page 9:

(typography, obsolete) Synonym of comma ⟨,⟩.


colon-point

(typography, obsolete) Synonym of colon ⟨:⟩.


interrogative-point

(typography, obsolete) Synonym of question mark ⟨?⟩.


parenthesis-point

(typography, obsolete) Synonym of parenthesis.


virgil

An anglicization of French virgule, from Latin virgula.

There be five manner of points and divisions most used among cunning men; the which if they be well used, make the sentence very light and easy to be understood, both to the reader and hearer: and they be these, virgil,—come,—parenthesis,—plain point,—interrogative... it is a slender stroke leaning forward, betokening a little short rest, without any perfectness yet of sentence.

No points were used by the ancient printers, excepting the colon and the period; but, after some time, a short oblique stroke, called a virgil, was introduced, which answered to the modern comma.

1828, Richard Thomson, Illustrations of the History of Great Britain, Vol. II, page 145

Other Chaucerian manuscripts had the virgule (or virgil or oblique: /) at the middle of lines.

1990, John McDermott, Punctuation for Now, page 20:

(typography, UK, archaic) Synonym of slash ⟨/⟩.


fraction bar

The fraction bar is a kerned character, so unlike the solidus it will not push the numerals away a full em space.

2006, Gavin Ambrose et al., The Fundamentals of Typography, page 74:

(typography, mathematics) The line separating the numerator from the denominator, whether horizontal, oblique, or diagonal.

breukstreep

line separating numerator from denominator

diagonal mark

as a diagonal line regardless of kerning


subjunctivize

en-verb

subjunctivize (third-person singular simple present subjunctivizes, present participle subjunctivizing, simple past and past participle subjunctivized)

subjunctivizes (present singular third-person)
subjunctivizing (participle present)
subjunctivized (participle past)
subjunctivized (past)

(literature) To treat or discuss in a hypothetical way, as something that could conceivably be the case.


homeset

This carries b'ack face eight point heads in caps and lower case: since most papers today use this same style head for homeset short stories, the match is perfect.

1919, New York State College of Agriculture, The Service Sheet - Volumes 1-8, page 11:

If you use much plate matter, make your choice of homeset heads to match those on the plate matter.

1920, Cornell Extension Bulletin - Issues 41-70, page 29:

In the local newspaper office, the printer sprinkled the sheets with water to moisten them for the new impressions and with homeset type printed the rest of the paper.

2002, Charles Johanningsmeier, Fiction and the American Literary Marketplace, →ISBN, page 42:

(printing) The type used as a standard by a specific publisher.


long-form

(journalism) Alternative form of longform


retroscripting

(film, television) The technique of preparing a plot but leaving the actors to improvise their own dialogue.


cryobed

(science fiction) A bed-like unit in which a person can be cryogenically preserved.


standard definition

Coordinate term: high definition

high-definition television
high-definition television

(television) A system that uses a resolution that is not considered to be either high-definition television (720p, 1080i, 1080p, 1440p, 4K UHDTV, and 8K UHD) or enhanced-definition television (EDTV 480p).


French spacing

(typography) The archaic practice (though still current in French) of inserting a space around colons, semicolons, question marks and exclamation marks, and also two spaces between sentences.


shuttleport

(science fiction) A spaceport from which shuttles depart.


copulatress

(rare, science fiction) A female copulator.


local time

en-noun

local time (countable and uncountable, plural local times)


Earthport

(science fiction) A spaceport on the planet Earth.


double kill

en-verb

double kill (third-person singular simple present double kills, present participle double killing, simple past and past participle double killed)

double kills (present singular third-person)
double killing (participle present)
double killed (participle past)
double killed (past)

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

(fiction, transitive) To kill an already dead being, such as a ghost, a zombie, a skeleton, etc.


holobook

(science fiction) A holographic entertainment akin to a book.


holonovel

(science fiction) A holographic entertainment akin to a novel.


Dynamation

(film, historical) A stop-motion technique involving animated models integrated into live-action scenes.


nameplay

en-noun

nameplay (countable and uncountable, plural nameplays)

(literature) A play on words involving the name of a person or thing.


veetol

commute by veetol over a thousand miles

1975, John Brunner, “In the Beginning was the Herd”, in The Shockwave Rider, Harper & Row, page 88:

(chiefly science fiction) Alternative form of VTOL


succubitch

(fiction, rare, derogatory) A succubus who is a bitch (an irritating, disagreeable woman).


countertext

Alice Randall's novel "The Wind Done Gone" is a countertext to Margaret Mitchell's novel "Gone with the Wind".

(literature, social sciences) A text that opposes another, often by presenting similar events from a different perspective.


Ctrl-Alt-Delete

Key combination of Ctrl, Alt and Delete. In many computer systems, this interrupts or shuts down the system or some part of it or opens up a shut-down menu.

(science fiction, sometimes humorous) Said by a sentient machine to express the desire to kill or destroy something or someone.


Antarean

(science fiction) A native or inhabitant of Antares.


Antarian

(science fiction) Alternative form of Antarean


santilmo

(folklore) A floating flame or fire ball, similar to a will o' the wisp, that stalk or chase people at night, believed to be the ignited blood of a person who met a tragic death.


holotape

(science fiction) A tape used as a storage medium for holographic material.


holodisc

(science fiction) Alternative form of holodisk


practical effect

practical effect (plural practical effects)

(film) A special effect produced physically, without computer-generated imagery or other postproduction techniques.


hendecameter

(poetry, rare) A line of verse containing eleven metrical feet.


multifont

(computing, typography) Involving multiple fonts or typefaces.


logotypy

(typography) The use of logotypes or ligatures.


service journalism

(journalism) A type of media which is focused on providing advice or other consumer-oriented content.


unfooted

an unfooted schwa


upmaker

(printing) A person employed to make up galley proofs in page mode.


Homo superior

/ˌhəʊməʊ suːˈpɪəɹi.ə(ɹ)/

From Latin homo superior (literally “superior human”), modeled after New Latin Homo sapiens (literally “wise human”). Coined by Olaf Stapledon in his 1935 novel Odd John: A Story Between Jest and Earnest.

der

Homo Superior faced the little mob of Homo Sapiens, and it was immediately evident that Homo Superior was indeed the better man.

Magneto: "The first phase of my plan shall be to show my power... to make Homo sapiens bow to Homo superior!"

1963 September 10, Stan Lee, “X-Men”, in The X-Men, volume 1, number 1, page 11:

You gotta make way¶ for the Homo Superior

1971, “Oh! You Pretty Things”, in Hunky Dory, performed by David Bowie:

(science fiction) The evolutionary step beyond Homo sapiens.


one shot

When composing a one shot, the subject should usually be centered in the frame.

1998, Jerry Martin, Active Video: A Teaching Tool for Every Classroom, →ISBN, page 19:

Close ups are often one shots, which means that close-up one shots often come at the high points of scenes.

2011, Dennis J. Packard, The Film Novelist: Writing a Screenplay and Short Novel in 15 Weeks, →ISBN, page 19:

(film) A camera shot that focuses on a single subject.


DCT

en-noun

DCT (countable and uncountable, plural DCTs)

digital component tape
digital component tape#English

(television) Abbreviation of digital component tape.


BOT

(broadcasting) Initialism of beginning of tape.


lakish

en-adj

lakish (comparative more lakish, superlative most lakish)

more lakish (comparative)
most lakish (superlative)

We have next ‘Playhouse Musings,’ by Mr Coleridge—a piece which is unquestionably Lakish—though we cannot say that we recognize in it any of the peculiar traits of that powerful and misdirected genius whose name it has borrowed.

1812 November, James, Horace Smith, “Rejected Addresses”, in The Edinburgh Review, page 445:

(literature) Characteristic of the Lake poets.


Wakanda

Created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby in 1966. Most likely influenced by Bantu-language names like Uganda and Rwanda.

(science fiction) A fictional wealthy country located somewhere in Africa that is the setting of several Marvel Comics arcs.


unitalicize

en-verb

unitalicize (third-person singular simple present unitalicizes, present participle unitalicizing, simple past and past participle unitalicized)

unitalicizes (present singular third-person)
unitalicizing (participle present)
unitalicized (participle past)
unitalicized (past)

He unitalicizes some italicized words, he changes 'woulds' to 'shoulds.'

(typography, transitive) To change (text) from an italic typeface to a non-italic typeface.


oldstyle

Books aimed at older and possibly vision impaired readers may have more difficulty with the generally lighter appearing transitional typefaces than they might with an oldstyle typeface.

2005, Pete Masterson, Book Design and Production: A Guide for Authors and Publishers:

A sentence set in an oldstyle serif and a similar-weight sans serif at the same point size will appear to be two different sizes.

2014, Timothy Samara, Design Elements, 2nd Edition:

(typography, often attributive) A traditional style of typeface designed to mimic the handwriting of scribes.


ultracondensed

(chiefly typography) Extremely condensed.


spot effect

(cinematography) A sound effect representing a single discrete event, such as breaking glass, as opposed to ongoing background sounds.


timequake

Or you can have a revisable universe with one timeline (see Hogan's Thrice Upon a Time or Milennium^([sic]) by (I think) Joe Haldeman for the general idea) and in which your actions can "rewrite" the past from that point on. Here, if you shoot your grandfather, you generate a "timequake" in which something ugly happens. Probably you disappear, but there may be other side-effects as the universe works it out, which is, I think, what you are reffering^([sic]) to as the "great expense".

1996 November 16, Mike Abernathy, “Re: faster than light travel”, in sci.physics.electromag (Usenet), message-ID <56la8t$5@sjx-ixn2.ix.netcom.com>:

Finding herself in the middle of a “timequake,” she discovers another world—an alternate universe. Will Mary find a way to return to the world she left?

2008, Deanna J. McDaniel, Gentle Reads: Great Books to Warm Hearts and Lift Spirits, Grades 5-9, ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 217:

(science fiction) A disturbance in the flow of time.


Alpha Centaurian

en-noun

Alpha Centaurian (plural Alpha Centaurians)

(science fiction) A native or inhabitant of Alpha Centauri.


Shatnerize

en-verb

Shatnerize (third-person singular simple present Shatnerizes, present participle Shatnerizing, simple past and past participle Shatnerized)

Shatnerizes (present singular third-person)
Shatnerizing (participle present)
Shatnerized (participle past)
Shatnerized (past)

From Shatner + -ize, after the Canadian actor, author, producer, and director William "Bill" Shatner.

(rare, slang, chiefly film) To intentionally produce something that is perceived as both bad and good.


science faction

Blend of science fiction + science fact.


Winesburg

Originally named Weinsberg in 1829, after the town in Germany. It was renamed to Winesburg by postal authorities in 1833 when a post office was opened there.
The fictional town came from the name of the actual Ohio town.

(fiction) The town, named after the Holmes County town of the same name, but otherwise based on Clyde, Ohio, that serves as the setting of the novel Winesburg, Ohio.


(journalism) Initialism of who, what, where, when, why (, how). (the facts of the matter)


telop

A genericization of the trademark TELOP; an acronym of television opaque projector.

A telop can be made simply by printing on a 4 × 5 cardboard, or by making a mat print from a 35mm negative.

1969, Herbert Zettl, Television Production Handbook, 2nd edition, Wadsworth Publishing, page 259:

(television) A text or image superimposed on a television screen.


chrismon

From Medieval Latin crismon (New Latin chrismus, chrismum, chrismos), of uncertain origin.
In the 18th century adopted in German as Chrismon or Chrismum, plural Chrismen. English in the 19th century.
The word was revived for a type of Christmas decoration in the mid 20th century, now with a popular etymology of its being a portmanteau of Christus + monogram.

The document usually begins with a verbal invocation (such as In Dei nomine, amen) or a chrismon (often Christ's monogram formed from the letters XP)

1970, Encyclopedia Britannica, volume 7, page 478:

(palaeography) A stylised siglum or character interpreted as an invocation of Christ in Merovingian and Carolingian documents.


neurotronic

(science fiction) Combining neural and electronic technologies.


stasis lock

Tec had already deepened the stasis in Uru's cage to keep him asleep, and now he put the ship in a stasis lock.

1976, J. O. Jeppson, Second Experiment, page 29:

I am speaking to the eight ships on the dessert on the planet Vood, which are now in energy stasis locks. I am representative of the Maitan Empire fleet, who have you under surveillance.

(machinery, especially science fiction) An induced state of suspension or inactivity.


ROT

(broadcasting) Initialism of record of transmission.


degression

en-noun

degression (countable and uncountable, plural degressions)

From Latin degressio, from degressus + -io (“forming abstract nouns from verbs”), past perfect participle of degredi (“to descend by steps”), from de- (“down”) + gradi (“to step, walk, go”).

The principle of degression... It may therefore be worth while to suggest four forms for the description of a book, showing by degressive changes what details may fairly be omitted in short descriptions.

1908, F. Madan in Transactions of the Bibliographical Society, number 9, page 53

(publishing) Degressive description, a system of varying descriptions of a book in accordance to its importance or available space.


felinoid

(science fiction) A member of a cat-like alien race.


reax

"Iraqi Reax to WikiLeaks"

2010 October 22, Elizabeth Heron, Stephen Farrell, “The War Logs: Newly Disclosed Iraq War Reports”, in The New York Times:

(journalism) Clipping of reaction or reactions.


chicksploitation

From chick + -sploitation (from exploitation film).

The chicksploitation image of Nobu Kitamura's Hysteric Glamour seems to have evolved from hazy stoner dreams of rock 'n' roll groupies.

2007, Tiffany Godoy, Style Deficit Disorder: Harajuku Street Fashion - Tokyo:

(film, rare) A genre of exploitation films starring attractive young women.


Three Laws of Robotics

Coined by American science fiction author Isaac Asimov in 1942, introduced in his short story "Runaround".

coin

(science fiction, robotics) A set of rules governing the behavior of robots.


future history

en-noun

future history (countable and uncountable, plural future histories)

(the speaker is a time traveller from the future) Well, lad, I would tell you more, but that's just future history that you must figure out on your own.

(uncountable, chiefly science fiction, often humorous) Future events perceived or analyzed chronologically, as compared to history.


Second Law of Robotics

Three Laws of Robotics
Three Laws of Robotics

First Law of Robotics
First Law of Robotics

(science fiction, robotics) One of the Three Laws of Robotics, requiring a robot to obey humans, unless it would conflict with the First Law of Robotics (which forbids a robot to harm a human).


Third Law of Robotics

(science fiction, robotics) One of the Three Laws of Robotics, requiring a robot to protect its own existence, as long as this does not conflict with the First Law (which forbids a robot to harm a human) or the Second Law (which requires robots to obey humans).


First Law of Robotics

(science fiction, robotics) One of the Three Laws of Robotics, forbidding a robot to harm a human, through either action or inaction.


private-use character

private-use character (plural private-use characters)

(typography) A character whose use is defined by private users and companies rather than defined by a standard such as Unicode, and which therefore has no universally accepted meaning.


anger balloon

(comics) A balloon with a jagged outline, containing words angrily screamed by a character.


preslug

en-verb

preslug (third-person singular simple present preslugs, present participle preslugging, simple past and past participle preslugged)

preslugs (present singular third-person)
preslugging (participle present)
preslugged (participle past)
preslugged (past)

I came to Virginia from Bloomington, Indiana, where I had gone in pursuit of a story we at the Tatler had preslugged "The Violence Teachers."

1995, James Lehrer, The Last Debate, →ISBN, page 56:

(journalism) To give a title, header, or catchline before writing the piece.


MSND

(literature, Shakespeare) initialism of A Midsummer Night's Dream.


salesbot

(science fiction) A robot designed to sell goods or services.


3D print

3D print (third-person singular simple present 3D prints, present participle 3D printing, simple past and past participle 3D printed)

3D prints (present singular third-person)
3D printing (participle present)
3D printed (participle past)
3D printed (past)

(printing, transitive) To use a 3D printer to make (a three-dimensional solid object) from a digital model.


Sol system

Alliance Officer: This is a galaxy-wide alert for all human territories. Fleet Admiral Steven Hackett has declared Threat Condition Saber One.
Alliance Officer: Enemy presence confirmed in Sol system. Earth under Reaper attack. I say again: Reaper attack is underway.
Alliance Officer: [Static.] ...further instructions to follow on coded channel Crimson Tacit.
Alliance Officer: May God save us. [Static.]

2017, BioWare, Mass Effect: Andromeda (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Alliance S.O.S.:


crimance

I like the way Brant herself describes the book as crimance... a perfect genre description.

2003, Lucinda Brant, Deadly Engagement: A Georgian Historical Mystery:


mysterama

Owen Wilson is fantastic in this mysterama-crime flick.

1999, “The Minus Man (1999)”, in The Movie Crew:

This mysterama about two cops and a serial killer in a small Texan town would be a fantastic made-for-TV film but it's missing a feature-film story.

2012 February 27, “New In Movies This Week”, in My.McKinley.com:


thrillmance

/ˈθɹɪlˌmæns/

Psycho-logic, an eight minute Hitchcock-type part-thriller-part-love story (which we’ve dubbed ‘thrillmance’), tells the story of a young woman finding her ultimate fantasy at the new Hollywood Louboutin store, and sees the supreme shoe sire make a cameo appearance alongside Elisa Sednaoui.

2009 September 28, “Christian Louboutin, film director?”, in – My Fashion Life:

This film is a romance, suspense and thriller all rolled into one. A thrillmance!

2013 February 19, “Film Review – Safe Haven”, in 4 Manchester Women:

(informal, film, rare, neologism) romantic thriller


romaction

Let's combine the action and the romance and make a romaction story.

2008, 52:48 from the start, in Bedtime Stories:

One wag has already named the offspring of this shotgun wedding: romaction.

2010 July 6, “How movies became love, camera, action”, in The Sydney Morning Herald:

Like the “romaction” genre that fuses relationships and car crashes (think “Date Night” and “Knight and Day”), hard-R comedies like “The Hangover,” “Bad Teacher” and last year’s “Ted” appeal both to young women and their male companions, a “two-quadrant” win that made studio suits swoon.

2013 June 20, Ann Hornaday, “Why the rom-com is almost extinct”, in The Washington Post:

They reject his suggestion, asking instead to hear a story of action and romance. Skeeter then tells them a "romaction story" about Ancient Greece featuring Skeetacus, the inventor of the X Games.

2013, Amie A. Doughty, "Throw the book away": Reading versus Experience in Children's Fantasy:


dramystery

Fans of last season’s intricate plot twists certainly won’t be disappointed with the Season 2 opener of FX’s legal dramystery (yes, that’s what I said).

2009 January 5, Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, “DAMAGES Season 2 Review - FX”, in Collider:

Perhaps it won’t be long until we will hear that Witherspoon or Reynolds is doing a movie, and we’ll immediately think, “Probably another silent existentialistic docu-dramystery!”

2012 February 27, “Reese Witherspoon and Ryan Reynolds Team Up for Tim Burton’s ‘Big Eyes’”, in Hollywood.com:

For eight seasons Showtime brought us “Dexter” which—in its own way—defined a serial killer in a serial “dramystery.”

2013 August 14, “Death, Drugs & Drama”, in Ion Television Arizona:


transmotivation

en-noun

transmotivation (countable and uncountable, plural transmotivations)

From trans- + motivation, coined by the scholar Gérard Genette.

(literature) The process of revising a fictional character's motivations to correspond to his/her actions.


post-truth

/ˌpəʊst ˈtɹuːθ/

He is, he claims, post-God, post-reality, post-truth, post-meaning, post- history, post-world, post-Western […]

Victims or exiles should not repeat any longer what everybody already knows in the new 'post-truth' world order – that they are among numerous contemporary victims of war crimes and military violence […]

1995, Collegium Antropologicum, volume 19, page 20:

Clearly quite a lot of journalism is post-truth . . . More important, perhaps, is journalism's post-truth tendency . . . to make no propositions for which there is a possible 'true/false' response.

2001, John Beynon, Masculinities And Culture, →ISBN:

In the post-truth world, the people are saturated by a plurality of discourses that are struggling for the consent of the audience, the difference being that the explosion of messages that characterises modernity is no longer stamped with the 'authority' of their authors.

2001, Roy Ascott, Reframing consciousness: art, mind and technology, page 293:

In Christianity Today, columnist Charles Colson bemoaned our “post-truth society,” which produces liars such as Tawana Brawley, David Brock, and Stephen Ambrose.

2003, Craig Detweiler, Barry Taylor, A Matrix of Meanings (Engaging Culture): Finding God in Pop Culture, →ISBN, page 2003:

Avoiding a cacophony is a worthy objective, because Australia has managed to largely sidestep the post-truth hellscape the US has endured during the pandemic because politicians, by and large, have chosen to inhabit a universe of shared facts and common messages.

2021 February 2, Katharine Murphy, “Scott Morrison must heed the lesson of Donald Trump and slap down Craig Kelly”, in The Guardian:

(chiefly politics, media) Beyond or superseding the importance of truth; pertaining to an era or situation when truth is no longer significant, relevant, or expected; (usually derogatory) not caring about factual accuracy.


TV timeout

(Canada, US, sports television) A time-out taking place during a televised sports match where the game clock is stopped for a period of time to allow for TV commercials to air before the resumption of play. The delay is usually after a whistle or other stoppage of play occurs, and not an interference with gameplay in and of itself.


participant evolution

(usually science fiction) The use of technology in a way expected to change the course of human evolution.


vertical line

(computing, typography) The vertical bar; |.


break character

en-verb

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

breaks character (present singular third-person)
breaking character (participle present)
broke character (past)
broken character (participle past)

Once Lynne and I realized that Jim was going to approach the role of Kaufman in a “method acting,” Kaufmanesque kind of way—i.e., he would become Andy or Tony Clifton for the entire shoot, never breaking character […]

2014, Bob Zmuda, Lynne Margulies, Andy Kaufman: The Truth, Finally, BenBella Books, →ISBN, page 43:

(intransitive, acting) To fail to act as a certain character; to be or act out of character.


gooseberry season

en-noun

gooseberry season (plural gooseberry seasons)

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


tubeway

As usual, he relished the order and tidiness of the Complex; the sterile unscented air, the empty white tubeways, the featureless blocks and cubes that lined the outer walls.

The piezoelectric pedestrian tubeways depicted for Shanghai 2121 will provide all-weather pedestrian transportation citywide.

2016, Alan Marshall, Ecotopia 2121: A Vision for Our Future Green Utopia in 100 Cities:

(science fiction) A system of interlinked tubes serving as a transport network.


hintable

(typography) Having support for hinting.


twintail

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

From twin + tail. Sense 2 is a calque of Japanese ツインテール (tsuintēru).

(fandom slang, chiefly anime and manga) Either of a pair of unbraided tails worn on the sides of the head; an unbraided pigtail.

(in the plural) A hairstyle with a pair of twintails; unbraided pigtails.


Truchet point

Established by the French clergyman Sébastien Truchet.

(typography, historical) A former point size of 1/144 of a French inch or 1/1728 of the royal foot.


Fournier point

(typography, historical) A former point size of about 11/864 French inches or (by 1799) 345 µm.


Didot point

Established by François-Ambroise Didot in the 18th century.

(typography, historical) A former point size of 1/864 of the royal foot.


be a hundred years too early

head

be a hundred years too early (irregular; see conjugation of "be")

Calque of Japanese 百年早い (hyaku-nen hayai).

cal

Don't make me waste my time! You are a hundred years too early to be an opponent worthy of fighting me!

(idiomatic, anime and manga fandom slang) To be so immature and unprepared as to have no hope of achieving an accomplishment.


smoke proof

Progress was observed from time to time by holding the end of the punch in the sooty flame of a candle or lamp and by pressing it on slightly damp paper to make a smoke proof.

2009, James Mosley, edited by Michael F Suarez and Michael L Turner, The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, vol. V, Cambridge, published 2014, page 171:

(typography, now chiefly historical) A temporary print made from a thin coating of carbon deposited on the punch surface by a candle flame, used in evaluating the progress of the design of the punch.


(journalism) Initialism of five Ws: who, what, when, where, why, how (the facts of the matter).


robopocalypse

It's not about that, Dante. It's about surviving. Pre-emptive measures to make sure we don't even get close to a robopocalypse.

2014, Anissa Belkadi, Miniature Mausoleums, page 279:

(science fiction, technology) An apocalypse (ending of the world) caused chiefly by robots.


solrise

(rare, science fiction) The time of day when Sol, the sun in the Solar System, appears to rise over a planet's horizon.


weregoat

In the confusion, I manage to squeeze free between a mountain weregoat wrestling with a pygmy weremammoth and a Yoshi.

2015, Cynthia Leitich Smith, Feral Pride, Candlewick Press:

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


weremammoth

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


weredonkey

“Werehorse,” Gettyson said curtly. “There's no such things as weredonkeys.”

2011, Anthony Francis, “Blood Rock”, in The Skindancer Series, volume 2, Bell Bridge Books, →ISBN, page 36:

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


weregorilla

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


transcosmic

That shriek, and Noyes’s still-unbroken snore, are the last sounds I ever heard in that morbidity-choked farmhouse beneath the black-wooded crest of haunted mountain—that focus of transcosmic horror amidst the lonely green hills and curse-muttering brooks of a spectral rustic land.

1931, H. P. Lovecraft, chapter 8, in The Whisperer in Darkness:

(science fiction, religion) Across or beyond the cosmos.


green band

From the green color of the horizontal bar on the cinematic rating screen at the start of the show.


red band

From the red color of the horizontal bar on the cinematic rating screen at the start of the show.


TBBT

The Big Bang Theory
w:The Big Bang Theory

(television) Initialism of The Big Bang Theory, an American television sitcom.


Smallville

(fiction) A fictional small town, frequently representing a backwater place of origin, usually a rural farming community in the United States


HIMYM

How I Met Your Mother
w:How I Met Your Mother

(television) Initialism of How I Met Your Mother, a US sitcom first aired in 2005.


dayshield

From day + shield. Compare also Old English dæġsċeald (“dayshield, screen”) of identical formation.

cog

The lamps overhead were beginning to dim; in a few minutes, the dayshields would slide back, revealing the transparent canopy and allowing the remote suns to peer in—dispassionate observers hidden behind the veils of distance.

Caleb continued to hold his gaze until the familiar grating of the dayshields lowering diverted his attention back over to the terrace doors.

The shelter of the day-shield moved across the heavens; the wise Lord had covered over the path of the sun with a sail in such a way that men dwelling on earth could not detect the mast-ropes, […]

2013, Samantha Zacher, Rewriting the Old Testament in Anglo-Saxon Verse:

“They used it but they had better weapons. Sunblades, lightspears, dayshields, armour made from sungold. They picked up the knowledge from the Angels of the Sun when they warred against the Old Ones in the Dawn Ages of the World.”

(chiefly science fiction, fantasy) A protection from daylight; a screen


Times New Roman

(typography) A serif typeface. Notably a default Windows font.


MUFI

Medieval Unicode Font Initiative
w:Medieval Unicode Font Initiative

(typography) Initialism of Medieval Unicode Font Initiative.


bioplague

(science fiction) A biologically engineered plague.


ROS

en-noun

ROS (countable and uncountable, plural ROS or ROSs)

(broadcasting) Initialism of run of station.


Balaam basket

(slang, archaic, journalism) A receptacle for rejected articles.


SBC

Swiss Broadcasting Corporation
w:Swiss Broadcasting Corporation

(broadcasting) Initialism of Swiss Broadcasting Corporation; SRG SSR


energon

/ˈɛnəɹd͡ʒɒn/

At the natural next step the man is not there either, but has been replaced by his constituent electrons and, I suppose, some vitons, energons, and one personalitron.

1938, Quarterly Review: A Journal of University Perspectives:

But if almost all energy of a material photon is contained within the copulons between its energons rather than in the energons themselves, this means that it loses its structure: the energons are barely still anything more than hollow sacks […]

2007, Niels Vandamme, Tempest - the Transition, page 153:

(science fiction) A proposed form of energetic particle.


plasticrete

(science fiction) A durable construction material.


PMV

PMV (countable and uncountable, plural PMVs)

Coordinate term: AMV

(pornography) Initialism of porn music video. or pornographic music video; a fan-made video clipshow of pornography set to music.


below the line

(film) Who do not guide and influence the creative direction, process, and voice of a given narrative in a film, such as the boom operators, hair stylists, and location managers.

(television) Of expenses: paid for standard ongoing concerns such as insurance and technical equipment and crew.


microtypography

In the area of the typography, or to be more precise the microtypography – the details of how the signs and spaces relate – there was a chance to create something new.

2005 April 28, Mark Thomson, “Microtypography, Designing the new Collins dictionaries”, in Typotheque, retrieved 2016-11-26:

If you're not sure of how to use these, leave them until you have time to experiment; as your work becomes more refined, you will need to know how these microtypography defaults should be adjusted too. Do not use forced bold, italic, outline, […]

2011, Michael Harkins, Basics Typography 02: Using Type, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:

Microtypography has to do with the details; setting the right glyph, getting the appropriate kerning and tracking, and making stylistic choices such as when to use small-caps. Micro techniques have received a lot of attention recently, […]

2013, Smashing Magazine, Various Authors, Typography Best Practices, Smashing Magazine, →ISBN:

(typography) Typography on a word or character level.


tragic heroine

(drama) A heroine who suffers from a tragic flaw that eventually causes her downfall; a female tragic hero.


backtime

en-verb

backtime (third-person singular simple present backtimes, present participle backtiming, simple past and past participle backtimed)

backtimes (present singular third-person)
backtiming (participle present)
backtimed (participle past)
backtimed (past)

(broadcasting, transitive) To time an item according to the scheduled time of the item that will follow, cutting or padding it as necessary.


Scandi-noir

en-noun

Scandi-noir (countable and uncountable, plural Scandi-noirs)

(film, uncountable) Synonym of Nordic noir (“subgenre of film noir”).

Alternative forms: Scandi noir, Scandinoir

(film, countable) Synonym of Nordic noir (“film or show of this subgenre”).


gangsploitation

(film) A genre of exploitation films about criminal gangsters.


planetality

From planet + -ality from Latin planeta, planetes, from Ancient Greek πλανήτης (planḗtēs, “wanderer”).

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He shifted his record board into the crook of his arm as he came up and punched for a new entry. "Name?" he said. "Place of departure? Planetality?

1980, Gordon R. Dickson, In Iron Years, →ISBN, page 38:

By 'static' above in describing the Sun Signs I mean that from a mundane view point the interactions between are relatively fixed (in a temporal sense), as opposed to the planetality archtypes which are constantly moving and interacting in different ways.

1996 June 13, Nicholas Lee, “Inter-religion relations - TAO/GOD same/different”, in alt.astrology (Usenet):

He doubted if half a dozen Irwadians had mastered it, yet the Irwadi branch of Interstellar Transfer Service was made up of seventy-five hyper space pilots-of-divers planetalities.

(science fiction, rare) Membership of a particular planet or moon, by origin, birth, naturalization, ownership, allegiance or otherwise.


storyliner

(television) A person employed to write storylines.


soapumentary

(television) A reality show presenting people's lives in a sensationalistic manner across a number of episodes.


rocksploitation

(film) A genre of exploitation film that deals with the lives of rock musicians.


queersploitation

(film, rare) A genre of exploitation films dealing with queer or homosexual people.


superfight

Then back to a period of villain of the week, interrupting that with a superfight that created a new superheroine from an innocent bystander.

1998 August 2, Stephen B. Mann, “A long running superhero game”, in rec.games.frp.super-heroes (Usenet):

While seeking out Iron Man, she had her first superfight, little realizing her foe was the armored madman Dr. Doom, who was in the area on undisclosed business of his own.

2008, Scholastic Avengers Encyclopedia - Part 1, →ISBN:

It doesn't take the bad guys long to notice his efforts to save the humans below from the fallout of their superfight in the sky.

2013, Dan Margules, ScripTipps: Superman & Superman II:

(comics) A fight between a superhero and a supervillain.


imploder

Ship to ship actions once again became brutally short. Warhead designers quickly realized that they could change the compression pattern and sequence of the new gravitic imploders to somewhat shape the resulting release of radiation.

2011, David Weber, In Fire Forged: Worlds of Honor V:

(science fiction) A weapon or other device that causes implosion.


saturnian

en-adj

saturnian (comparative more saturnian, superlative most saturnian)

more saturnian (comparative)
most saturnian (superlative)


caseman

(typography, historical) A compositor; a typesetter.


tenson

Kolsen himself (op. cit., II, p. 16) remarks that it seems surprising that, at this early stage in a career which dated only from about 1165 (cf. Jeanroy, op. cit. II, p. 51, note 2), Giraut should address his interlocutor, Raimbaut, in the familiar second person in contrast with his much more formal manner a few years later in the tenson on trobar clus, placed by Pattison shortly before Christmas, 1170 (op. cit., p. 23). One may wonder why Giraut should write his part of the tenson with such deference to Raimbaut if they had met and written together as early as 1166.

1976, Peire Rogier, Derek E. T. Nicholson, The Poems of the Troubadour Peire Rogier, →ISBN, page 25:

Another type of medieval text that could highlight conflicting perspectives is the Provencal lyric form called the tenson. The tenson involves a dialogue between two voices that take turns discussing a subject, either in alternating stanzas or in two groups of stanzas that mirror each other in form. In most cases, the two halves of a tenson are attributed to different poets, who in effect engage in an exchange or debate that is then presented as a single work, creating a paradox of unity and difference, closure and inconclusiveness.

1998, Rosemarie Potz McGerr, Chaucer's Open Books: Resistance to Closure in Medieval Discourse, →ISBN:

In Gryll Grange, however, the tenson functions as the basis for the advancement of the plot (which is the production of an Aristophanic comedy) and characterises the continual debate between what is uttered (e.g the name Palestine Soup) and what is not uttered (the word-associational etymology that Dr. Opimian offers for the name).

2014, David Musgrave, Grotesque Anatomies: Menippean Satire since the Renaissance, →ISBN:

(poetry) A form of lyric poem used by troubadours in Provençal in which two voices present different sides of an argument, in alternate stanzas, lines, or groups of lines with identical structure.


nursebot

Small arms unwound from the nursebots and began to press nozzles and needles into Ramon's flesh.

2009, Peter F. Hamilton, Judas Unchained:

(science fiction) A robot that carries out nursing.


carnivalize

en-verb

carnivalize (third-person singular simple present carnivalizes, present participle carnivalizing, simple past and past participle carnivalized)

carnivalizes (present singular third-person)
carnivalizing (participle present)
carnivalized (participle past)
carnivalized (past)

From carnival + -ize, originating in translations of the writings of Russian critic Mikhail Bakhtin.

Gorenshtein carnivalizes Mother Russia herself and Ivanova carnivalizes love for Mother Russia.

1995, Ellen E. Berry, Genders 22: Postcommunism and the Body Politic, page 47:

The audience is then rapidly transported to the bizarre and excessively corporeal world of the forest people who, mostly misshapen, mute, and genetically deformed, nonetheless convey a tremendous vitality that carnivalizes classical form with formlessness.

1998, Helen Gilbert, Sightlines: race, gender, and nation in contemporary Australian theatre:

(transitive, literature) To subvert (mainstream assumptions or literary styles) through humour and chaos.


headstick

The sidesticks should be of the full length of the page, and abut against the headsticks on the outside of the form .

1841, William Savage, A Dictionary of the Art of Printing, page 330:

(printing, historical) A straight piece of furniture placed at the head of a form, between the chase and the type.


room tone

en-noun

room tone (countable and uncountable, plural room tones)

(film, sound engineering) The ambient sounds in a room or on a set.


anti-villain

As much the anti-hero initially as Thorpe is anti-villain, Tinley's function in the first volume is to expose to Catherine various modes of triviality and affectation.

1994, Alistair M. Duckworth, The Improvement of the Estate: A Study of Jane Austen's Novels, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, page 95:

The rise of the anti-hero as the protagonist of much of modern fiction was accompanied by the rise of what one might call the “anti-villain,” ironically understood as more interesting than his heroic counterpart.

2019, Martin Jay, “Sociology and the Heroism of Modern Life”, in Warren Breckman, Peter E. Gordon, editors, The Cambridge History of Modern European Thought: Volume II, The Twentieth Century, Cambridge University Press, page 19:

(fiction) A character who has or may have noble or honorable aims, but pursues them destructively.


Utopian

As unusual as these official games may appear, they constitute an integral part in teaching the machiavellian tactics which the Utopians proudly use in their foreign wars.

1998, Gerard B. Wegemer, Thomas More on Statesmanship:

(fiction) A person from Utopia, a fictional island possessing a seemingly perfect socio-politico-legal system from Thomas More’s 1516 treatise of the same name.


weredingo

“Weredingos are crazy anyway,” Christian said.

2006, Kathy Love, I Only Have Fangs for You, Kensington Publishing, page 239:

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


wereghost

Hey, A long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, (...) long, long after the final, final, final, final, final, final, final, final, final, and final subsubchronon's superending, there were no more blood, bone, bonemarrow, organisms, cells, brains, skulls, or any sign of life or organisms, so a wereghost beat the last werewhore to the last droplet of blood's Sabbathless, Sabbathlike smithers.

2012, J.D. Melville, Herstory. The Second Released Norma Shearer Novel, Xlibris, →ISBN, section 64:

"After he hauls you off to the station and leaves me alone in this forsaken neighborhood, some wereghost will come along and tear me to bits."

2012, Lauren Bjorkman, Miss Fortune Cookie, page 147:

I had thought our last meeting had gone well, or as well as it could have with me strapped to a table about to be killed by my homicidal were-ghost uncle.

2015, Andy Goldman, The Fifth House. The Only City Left. Book two:

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


wereelephant

(fiction) Alternative spelling of were-elephant.


wereboar

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


werehorse

“Werehorse,” Gettyson said curtly. “There's no such things as weredonkeys.”

2011, Anthony Francis, Blood Rock, Bell Bridge Books, →ISBN, page 36:

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