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- We have 1-h TL FM. Along the same lines we could also have 10-h TL FM, 100-h TL FM, and 1,000-h TL FM / 1000-h TL FM. (Seemingly only attested with these numbers).
- 5D chess - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - verb, after the game 5D Chess with Multiverse Time Travel; past tense 5D chessed or 5D chess'd
- I am interested in seeing a fuller coverage of plate tectonics and submarine features like plates themselves (Philippine Sea Plate, Scotia Plate), oil fields (Chengbei, I have no list of these), trenches (Manila Trench, Mariana Trench), ridges (Mid-Atlantic Ridge, East Pacific Rise), and similar (James Shoal, Darwin Mounds) etc. This kind of work will be mostly based in academic literature. I hope to see a more adequate system of categories developed. To show you how woefully inadequate Wiktionary is at this time (2022), I just today created Mid-Atlantic Ridge and dumped it into Category:Oceanography and Category:Places. See List of submarine topographical features, List of reefs --Geographyinitiative (talk) 21:35, 24 June 2022 (UTC)
- You're so dramatic, Joggy! There's a perfectly decent project for these... Wikipedia Demonicallt (talk) 00:48, 1 February 2024 (UTC)
- And Wiktionary. CitationsFreak (talk) 17:27, 1 February 2024 (UTC)
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- alkylimide - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library linked from polyalkylimide
- adcluster - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- alloformation - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- antiverse - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- argumentum ad illegalum - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - also argumentum ad penalum, ad scelestum, ad carcerum, and ad criminalum, a logical falacy that says that if something is illegal it means it is immoral and or anti-ethical no matter what.
- argumentum ad legalum - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - also argumentum ad codexum, ad constitutium, ad iutistium, and ad lexum a logical fallacy that says if something is legal it means it is moral and or ethical no matter what.
- Ardiaei - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library (noun pl.) and Ardiaean - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library (adj.) of an Illyrian tribe, Ἀρδιαῖοι (Ardiaîoi), w:Ardiaei
- akohekohe bird
- alauahio bird
- amaui birdie
- apapane birdie
- attack rate
- as a matter of facts - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - common mistake for as a matter of fact - millions of Google hits
- as suppose to, as supposed to - surprisingly common eggcorns for as opposed to
- a fronte
- automated driving system: proposed definition: the hardware and software that can (legally) perform the entire driving tasks of a motor vehicle in its specific usage domain.
- Citation page: https://en.wiktionary.orghttps://dictious.com/en/Citations:automated_driving_system Citations:automated_driving_system
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- I suspect that is barnacles (perhaps genus Balanus or family Balanidae) rather than sea urchins. OED includes a short quote at acorn from 1755: "Sea Acorns, Balani." Cnilep (talk) 03:55, 6 March 2024 (UTC)
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- leaflute - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - Citations:leaflute
- leave to appeal - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- legal absolutism - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - the idea that the laws are absolute and that the Executive, the Legislative and the Judicial are absolute and can do whatever they want. A good example are liberal democracy supporters who defend elected governments and the supposed "will of majority" at all costs. Like defending Javier Milei, Tarcisio de Freitas, Lula da Silva, Zelensky, Netanyahu, Trump, and Biden at the same time.
- legal relativism - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - also legal particularism or legal contigency theory, it states the law is relative and that everything depends regarding the law and the three powers. Mainly if it is about the three powers on liberal democracy.
- leiomano - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - shark-toothed club used by various Polynesian cultures.
- life sign - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - science fiction concept? SOP? --Geographyinitiative (talk) 12:53, 16 April 2024 (UTC)
- lights are green - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library / the lights are green - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library — something to do with smoking marijuana, AFAIK. Other possible sense: the go-ahead/approval is given—DIV (1.145.19.119 10:42, 17 February 2024 (UTC))
- Literaturstreit - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library / literaturstreit - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library — In German, literally means a literary dispute. I think it needs to be a public, in-writing debate conducted over time in order to qualify? Thmazing (talk) 16:46, 6 May 2024 (UTC)
- living off the land - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - See . Heyandwhoa (talk) 23:06, 8 March 2024 (UTC)
- LOTL - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - See "living off the land" above. Heyandwhoa (talk) 23:06, 8 March 2024 (UTC)
- LRU - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - Stands for least recently used. Used in computer science to describe how a computer decides which data to keep in a cache (a section of memory that is limited in size but fast to access). See Wikipedia. — excarnateSojourner (ta·co) 16:05, 8 April 2024 (UTC)
- lucha libre - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - style of wrestling practised by luchadors; also called lucha - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- leafworker - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library (bird)
- longbill - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library (bird)
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- The citations do not give a consistent definition by my reading. Variously also 10000001000 = 106000 as well as 106005 (being "6006 digits or figures") or 10000001001 = 106006 (being "1001 periods"). —DIV (1.145.112.83 11:26, 17 April 2024 (UTC))
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- odedi - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library (bird)
- offensive lineman - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - American football position
- oleato - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - a coffee drink that incorporates olive oil
- Olivia Hill rule - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- oolert - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - English dialect word for an owl. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:29, 20 March 2024 (UTC)
- oont (new sense): a mole (particularly Talpa europaea) in several English-midlands dialects (Gloucestershire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, at least). Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:22, 20 March 2024 (UTC)
- orthoteny - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- oxy-hydrogen microscope - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - "The oxy-hydrogen microscope, which projected microscopic subjects onto a screen using limelight, magnifying lenses, and a magic lantern, entertained audiences from 1825 through the first decades of cinema. ... The oxy-hydrogen microscope combined technologies of the microscope (magnification), oxy-hydrogen lamp (illumination), and magic lantern (projection). With its powerful light, it enabled large public screenings, outstripping any similar technology." (); ;Midland Naturalist, 1:112. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:58, 5 February 2024 (UTC)
- oxylabes - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library (bird)
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- I suspect the missing sense is not specifically "Secondary Security Screening Selection", but more generally "a set of four" (quadruplet sense 1), in this case four Ss in the phrase. Alternatively, perhaps it started out that way but has subsequently become lexicalized with the more specific meaning. Cnilep (talk) 03:43, 7 May 2024 (UTC)
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- several times over - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library unSOP??? P. Sovjunk (talk) 01:40, 5 May 2024 (UTC)
- S/T - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library abbreviation of self-titled; sometimes used in place of the name of a self-titled album --96.230.234.108 04:29, 1 March 2024 (UTC)
- SAFE - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library Sexual Assault Forensic Examiner, an alternate name for a SANE
- salpornis - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library (bird)
- sericornis - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library (bird)
- serviceware - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library Thread on StackExchage; used for example on , see service + -ware, as in tableware. Can also refer to service software:
- shits in giggles - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - reasonably common eggcorn these days of shits and giggles
- shotgun statement - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- shrike-babbler - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library (bird)
- shrike-flycatcher - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library (bird)
- siva - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library (bird)
- skyan - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - sky blue + cyan
- sniff back - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- snipefly - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- solidosity - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library — complement of porosity; (noun) fraction of the volume of a multiphase material that is solid. —DIV
- soundshell - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library and/or sound shell - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - similar to bandshell - possibly predominantly Australia and New Zealand usage
- squart - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- squeap - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- stroganina - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- sulfacarbamide - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library — a chemical. —DIV
- sunbird-asity - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library (bird)
- sungem - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library (bird)
- superword - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - It's a thing that relates to computing I'm pretty sure. | I can't work it out, but it's complementary to subword in a sense that we may lack: seems to relate to the encoding of (human language) words into numbers that are manipulated with finite-state machines. Equinox ◑ 14:19, 29 February 2024 (UTC) | see Citations:superword
- In computing a word (cf. Wikpedia entry) comprises a group of bits: commonly 32 bits on personal computers prior to (roughly) the year 2000, but these days more commonly 64 bits. In computing a superword seems to be either a grouping of bits larger than a word (e.g. the size of two words, or four words) on any given computer system, or else a word on an advanced computer system that is larger than a word on a more conventional computer system. However, the citations indicate usage occurs in other domains too. —DIV (1.145.112.83 09:51, 13 April 2024 (UTC))
- Szlonzok - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library, Szlonzokian - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library See Tomasz Kamusella. 2004. The Szlonzokian Ethnolect in the Context of German and Polish Nationalisms (pp. 19–39). Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism. No 1. London: Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism. doi: 10.1111/j.1754-9469.2004.tb00056.x The Szlonzoks and their Language: Between Germany, Poland and Szlonzokian Nationalism -- Comment: The historian Tomasz Kamusella has used the words Szlonzok = Upper Silesian, Slunzak = Teschen Silesian. They don't seem to have caught on beyond his own usage. Equinox ◑ 18:27, 4 March 2024 (UTC)
- shared ownership - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- skull session - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- shoot a line - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library and shoot someone a lineGreens slang
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- t-spin - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library (move in Tetris)
- Typen-Platten - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library (or "Typen Platten") - a kind of microscope slide with diatoms mounted in a grid (, , . Midland Naturalist, 1 p182) Originally German; marketed as "Möller's Typen-platten", after its inventor. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:31, 20 February 2024 (UTC)
- teretistris - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library (bird)
- thirst bait - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - probably a synonym of thirst trap
- thrush-tanager - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library (bird)
- torrent-lark - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library (bird)
- tyrant-manakin - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library (bird)
- tent-trailer - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- Timoric - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- tonic-clonic - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - clonicotonic
- trailer tent - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- through a glass darkly - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - From 1 Corinthians 13:12 (KJV). It's used as an adverb with verbs like "to see", "to peer", "to glimpse" etc. (e.g. "to see through a glass darkly"), usually to mean "to have a poor understanding". Attestable alternative forms: through the glass darkly, in a glass darkly, through the looking glass darkly, through a looking glass darkly. Wikipedia: through a glass darkly - Citations:through a glass darkly, Citations:through the glass darkly.
- tombstone teeth - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - does this just mean "bad" or "crooked teeth"?
- thique - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library song by Beyonce. It'll become a word proper soon P. Sovjunk (talk) 09:20, 29 April 2024 (UTC)
- towie - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library American contract bridge variant; Aussie slang for tow truck. —Korakys (talk) 08:59, 9 May 2024 (UTC)
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Military
There are dictionaries of military slang which can confirm these, but at least one genuine use should be identified before a term is created.
Textiles
These were originally added under the appropriate letters, but require similar specialized knowledge or research.
- bull denim - a 3x1 twill weave piece dyed fabric, made from coarse yarns. Weights can vary from 9 ozs/sq yard up to the standard 14 ozs/sq yard. Bull Denim is essentially a denim without indigo
- CC - Comments Client
- Classic CO- Dutch: ontwerp van een doorlopend dessin
- Ea - Elasthane
- loop tag - a bartack which is 'loose' in the middle
- moustache - abrasion of lines to imitate pre-worn garment (a.k.a Whiskers)
- open end spinning - a technology for creating yarn without using a spindle. This system is much less labour intensive and faster than ring spinning
- P.I. or P:I: - Proforma Invoice
- proto - sample before SMS to see the effect and reaction to fabrics artworks and treatments
- R.E. or RE - Raw Essentials
- Single Jersey or single jersey - Single knit fabrics and jersey knits are light to medium weight fabrics with flat vertical ribs on the right side and dominant horizontal lines on the wrong side. Fabric stretches from 20 to 25% across the grain.
- SW- Sweat
- whiskers- abrasion of lines to imitate pre-worn garment (a.k.a Moustache)
Abbreviations listed in the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
Abbreviated titles and designations
A.R.I.B.A. Associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects.
B.LL. Bachelor of Laws.
C.I.E. Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire.
C.M. Chirurgiae Magister, Master in Surgery.
C.M.G. Companion of St Michael and St George.
D.Lit., Litt. D. Doctor of Literature.
D.S.W. Doctor of Social Work.
Ebor. Eboracensis of York.2
F.F.P.S. Fellow of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons (Glasgow)
F.G.S. Fellow of the Geological Society.
F.K.Q.C.P.I. Fellow of King and Queen's College of Physicians in Ireland.
F.L.S. Fellow of the Linnaean Society.
F.P.S. Fellow of the Philological Society.
F.R.A.S. Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society.
F.R C.P. Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians.
F.R.C.P.E. Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
F.R.C.S. Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons.
F.R.G.S. Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society
F.R.H.S. Fellow of the Royal Horticultural Society
F.R.Hist.Soc. Fellow of the Royal Historical Society
F.R.I.B.A. Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects
F.R.S. Fellow of the w:Royal Society
F.R.S.A. Fellow of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce
F.R.S.E. Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
F.R.S.L. Fellow of the w:Royal Society of Literature
F.S.A. Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries
F.S.S. Fellow of the Statistical Society
F.Z.S. Fellow of the Zoological Society
G.C.B. Knight Grand Cross of the Bath
G.C.H. Knight Grand Cross of Hanover
G.C.I.E. Knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire
G.C.M.G. Knight Grand Cross of St Michael and St George
G.C.S.I. Knight Grand Commander of the Star of India
G.C.V.O. Knight Grand Commander of the Victorian Order
J.U.D. w:Juris utriusque Doctor, Doctor of Civil and Canon Law
K.C.M.G. Knight Commander of St Michael and St George
K.C.S.I. Knight Commander of the Star of India
K.C.V.O. Knight Commander of the Victorian Order
L.A.H. Licentiate of the Apothecaries' Hall
L.C.C. London County Council, or Councillor
L.C.J. Lord Chief Justice
L.L.A. w:Lady Literate in Arts
LL.B. Legum Baccalaureus, Bachelor of Laws
LL.D. Legum Doctor, Doctor of Laws
L.R.C.P. Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians
L.R.C.S. Licentiate of the Royal College of Surgeons
L.S.A. Licentiate of the Apothecaries' Society
M.Inst.C.E. Member of the Institute of Civil Engineers
M.R.C.P. Member of the Royal College of Physicians
M.R.C.S. Member of the Royal College of Surgeons
M.R.I.A. Member of the Royal Irish Academy
Mus.B. Bachelor of Music
Mus.D. Doctor of Music
M.V.O. Member of the Victorian Order
R. & I. Rex et Imperator
Reg. Prof. Regius Professor
R.M. Royal Marines, Resident Magistrate
S.S.C. Solicitor before the Supreme Courts of Scotland
S.T.L. Sacrae Theologiae Licentiatus, Licentiate of Sacred Theology
S.T.P. Sacrosanctae Theologiae Professor, Professor of Sacred Theology
V.G. Vicar-General
V.S. Veterinary Surgeon
W.S. Writer to the Signet Equivalent to Attorney
Abbreviations denoting moneys, weights, and measures
bar. barrel.
bus. bushel.
c. (or cub.) ft. &c. cubic foot,&c.
dr. drachm or dram.
na. nail.
po. pole.
q. quadrans, farthing.
ro. rood.
Miscellaneous abbreviations
A.E.I.O.U. Austriae est imperare orbi universo,5
or Alles Erdreich Ist Oesterreich Unterthan.
A.H. Anno Hegirae, In the year of the Hegira (the Islamic era).
C. or Cap. (Caput), Chapter.
Cr. Creditor.
curt. Current, the present month.
D.G. Dei gratia, By the grace of God.
Dr. Debtor.
fec. Fecit, He made (or did) it.
Fo. or Fol. Folio.
Inf. Infra, Below.
k.t.l. Greek kai ta loipa, Et caetera, and the rest.
L. or Lib. Liber, Book.
Lon. or Long. Longitude.
Mem. Memento, Remember, Memorandum.
O.S.B. Ordo Sancti Benedicti (Benedictines).
Q., Qu., or Qy. Query; Question.
q.d. Quasi dicat, As if he should say: as much as to say.
q.s. or quant. suff. Quantum sufficit, As much as is sufficient.
R. or @. Recipe, Take.
sp. Sine prole, Without offspring.
Pet bird abbreviations
Should be citable from Usenet.
See for the list. (Was going to copy it here verbatim with links, but decided not to, since that might be a copyright violation.)
References and notes
This section is meant to assist in the production of definitions by providing supporting citations. Wherever possible, please keep supporting evidence with the entries it is meant to be supporting.