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Talk:the man

Any takers? Bad title? Meaning too restricted (you're the man!) ? SemperBlotto 08:32, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

The definition is too restricted, and should mean working for any sort of big impersonal employer, as in "working for the man". In that sense it could be considered wide-spread and has been around for a long time. I think you're the man might deserve its own entry?.--Dmol 08:42, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure of that. There is one web site with some rabid fans that persist in reentering YTMND which clearly is not used outside of that context of that one website and some ancillary blogs.  Many would say that it isn't dictionary material even if it were used widely.  The purpose of their reentering it, apparently was promotional.
 * On the other hand, the entry for the man should exist here, perhaps capitalized, as a clearly widespread use to refer to any impersonal government or corporate entity, figuratively.
 * --Connel MacKenzie 17:27, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

Agree, the definition is too restricted, but it's used in several phrases. The man gets you down. Clearly widespread? DAVilla 08:56, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

Definitely means much more than just the government. In fact, I don't remember hearing it used to mean that specificaly. It's also used as an abbreviation for 'the best man for the job':
 * If you want your widgets fettled, he's the man.

and 'the top man in the field'
 * For black holes, Stephen Hawking's the man.

also, of course 'your man' is used in those instances. Moglex 11:21, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

 * Ah yes. That (separate) meaning is also common.  --Connel MacKenzie 17:27, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

RFV passed for refined def. Clearly widespread use. DAVilla 16:21, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

Capitalization
The term is often used as a proper noun and in context, should be capitalized as such. Each first letter gets capitalized. In the first definition, the powers that be, the term is a proper noun, like God or Canada and it should always be capitalized. In the second definition, the man for the job, it should not receive special capitalization despite its very important nature. As in, "You are the man." Here, bold letters or italics suffice, but not capitalization. It may be appropriate to have a seperate article for the first definition where the first letters are capitalized. Heyzeuss 09:39, 20 November 2009 (UTC)

 * We'd need some evidence that it was capitalized in the majority of its uses. DCDuring TALK 00:47, 29 November 2009 (UTC)

completely different usage by P.G.Wodehouse
(I've also just posted this at the Tea Room)

Legendary humorous British writer P.G. Wodehouse (and no doubt others of his era, not necessarily fiction-writers) occasionally used "the man" immediately before a proper name to show that the character in question was an object of suspicion. For example,

"The point I am trying to make," I said, "is that the boy Glossop is the father of the man Glossop. In other words, each loathsome fault and blemish that led the boy Glossop to be frowned upon by his fellows is present in the man Glossop, and causes him--I am speaking now of the man Glossop--to be a hissing and a byword at places hike the Drones, where a certain standard of decency is demanded from the inmates."

There's another instance (I can't remember which of his books at the moment) where the character in question is wanted by the police. I strongly suspect that in those days, "the man Smith" as a phrase would have been used by the police, but unfortunately I don't know of any documentation of this (not having access to such things except what's on the web) so if anyone else is aware of this usage and can help that would be wonderful.--Philologia Sæculārēs (talk) 02:11, 20 September 2017 (UTC)

title: Talk:the man


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連体形

Etymology
Compound of.

Noun

 * 1)  the attributive form; an inflectional category

license: Creative Commons - Attribution Share-Alike - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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syntax highlighting

Noun

 * 1)  Highlighting of source code with color, boldfacing, etc. to indicate its syntactic structure.

Translations

 * Finnish: syntaksin korostus, syntaksikorostus, koodin korostus
 * French:
 * German: Sytax-Highlighting, Syntaxhervorhebung

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仮定形

Noun

 * 1)  a verbal inflectional category; the conditional form. Evolved from the 已然形 (realis form).

Usage notes
This is the -e stem of godan verbs. Not to be confused with the.

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命令形

Noun

 * 1)  the imperative form; an inflectional category

title: 命令形


text:
Talk:quick match

Instructions
Pulled from the page. If this is a quotation it should be cited and shortened. As an example sentence it's not really relevant to use.

 * To make cotton Quickmatch; take of Cotton One Pound Twelve Ounces, of Salt Petre One Pound Eight Ounces, of Spirits of Wine Two Pints, of Water Three Pints, and of Mealed Powder Ten Pounds. The Cotton is to consist of Two Three or Four Strands according to the size wanted and is to be wound into Balls.

DAVilla 16:28, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

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عبري

Etymology
From. Related to the root.

Adjective

 * 1) Hebrew, Hebraic
 * 2) Hebrew (language)

Noun

 * 1) a Hebrew
 * 2)  the Hebrew language

title: عبري


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自動詞

Noun

 * 1)  intransitive verb

Etymology
Compound of.

Noun

 * 1)  intransitive verb

Usage notes
The terms and  are somewhat misleading in reference to Japanese. The English terms are generally used to refer to the syntax or structure of a sentence, and whether the verb in the sentence is followed by an object. The Japanese terms refer to the semantics or meaning of the verb, and whether the action of that verb is happening to or upon something else. The Japanese term literally means “self-acting word”, and  literally means “other-acting word”, in reference to this semantic consideration.

For instance, in English, the verb ate in the simple sentence “I ate” would be considered an intransitive verb, because it is not followed by an object.

However, in the corresponding Japanese, the verb in the simple sentence 私は食べた. (“Watashi wa tabeta.”) would not be considered a 自動詞 (jidōshi), but would instead be considered a, as the underlying semantics or meaning of the verb conceptually require an object: when one eats, one eats something, even if left unstated.

This semantic focus is the underlying mechanism by which verbs in sentences like 私は食べた. (Watashi wa tabeta. - “I ate.”) are still considered even when there is no stated object (because the fundamental meaning of the verb implies action by the subject upon something else), and verbs in sentences like 道を歩く. (Michi o aruku. - “[I] walk the street.”) are still considered even when there is an explicit object marked with the object or accusative particle  (because the fundamental meaning of the verb only implies action by the subject itself in a way that does not affect the noun marked by ).

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他動詞

Noun

 * 1)  transitive verb

Etymology
Compound of.

Noun

 * 1)  transitive verb

Usage notes
The terms and  are somewhat misleading in reference to Japanese. The English terms are generally used to refer to the syntax or structure of a sentence, and whether the verb in the sentence is followed by an object. The Japanese terms refer to the semantics or meaning of the verb, and whether the action of that verb is happening to or upon something else. The Japanese term literally means “self-acting word”, and  literally means “other-acting word”, in reference to this semantic consideration.

For instance, in English, the verb ate in the simple sentence “I ate” would be considered an intransitive verb, because it is not followed by an object.

However, in the corresponding Japanese, the verb in the simple sentence 私は食べた. (“Watashi wa tabeta.”) would not be considered a 自動詞 (jidōshi), but would instead be considered a, as the underlying semantics or meaning of the verb conceptually require an object: when one eats, one eats something, even if left unstated.

This semantic focus is the underlying mechanism by which verbs in sentences like 私は食べた. (Watashi wa tabeta. - “I ate.”) are still considered even when there is no stated object (because the fundamental meaning of the verb implies action by the subject upon something else), and verbs in sentences like 道を歩く. (Michi o aruku. - “[I] walk the street.”) are still considered even when there is an explicit object marked with the object or accusative particle  (because the fundamental meaning of the verb only implies action by the subject itself in a way that does not affect the noun marked by ).

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freethinking

Noun

 * 1) The principles of a freethinker; free thought

Translations

 * Belarusian: свабодамы́снасць, вальнаду́мства
 * French:
 * Hungarian:
 * Polish:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish: librepensamiento
 * Ukrainian: вільноду́мство

title: freethinking


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text: fundy

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astrobiology

Noun

 * 1)  The study of life anywhere in the universe, including Earth.

Related terms

 * astrovirology

Translations

 * Bulgarian: астробиоло́гия
 * Catalan: astrobiologia
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 太空生物學
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: astrobioloxía
 * Georgian: ასტრობიოლოგია
 * German:
 * Greek: astroviología
 * Hungarian:
 * Irish: réalt-bhitheolaíocht
 * Italian:
 * Khmer: តារាជីវសាស្ត្រ
 * Persian:
 * Polish:, egzobiologia
 * Portuguese: astrobiologia
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:, астробиологија
 * Tagalog: talahaynayan
 * Turkish:
 * Vietnamese: sinh học vũ trụ

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tenant farmer

Noun

 * 1) A person who farms land rented from a landlord.

Translations

 * Arabic: إِرِّيس
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Dutch: landpachter
 * Esperanto: farmisto
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: Landpächter
 * Greek: ,
 * Irish: tionónta
 * Italian:, fittavolo
 * Macedonian: исполичар
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: leilending
 * Spanish:

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bjuda

Noun

 * 1) whiteness

Etymology
From, from , from , from.

Verb

 * 1) to offer, to give as a gift
 * 2)  to offer (a specified thing), to give (a specified thing) as a gift
 * 3) to invite
 * 4)  to invite (to something specified)
 * 5)  to bid (e.g. within an auction or similar)
 * 6)  to utter a wish for the benefit of someone
 * 7)   to order, to command; to issue a decree
 * 1) to invite
 * 2)  to invite (to something specified)
 * 3)  to bid (e.g. within an auction or similar)
 * 4)  to utter a wish for the benefit of someone
 * 5)   to order, to command; to issue a decree
 * 1)  to bid (e.g. within an auction or similar)
 * 2)  to utter a wish for the benefit of someone
 * 3)   to order, to command; to issue a decree
 * 1)  to utter a wish for the benefit of someone
 * 2)   to order, to command; to issue a decree
 * 1)   to order, to command; to issue a decree
 * 1)   to order, to command; to issue a decree

Usage notes

 * Except for above, the general notion is that the direct object specifies to whom something is being offered, with ' (or ' in the case of inviting) specifying what is being offered. Either or both may be omitted. Valid follow-up questions to "Jag bjuder" include "Vem?" and "På vad?"
 * Related terms like are particle verbs and get the stress on the particle . In bjuda på, the stress is on bjuda.
 * In this verb was eventually displaced by the Low German loan.

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text: Category:ja:Complex analysis

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free thought

Noun

 * 1) The principles of a freethinker; freethinking

title: free thought


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複素数

Noun

 * 1) a complex number

title: 複素数


text:
虚部

Noun

 * 1) imaginary part

title: 虚部


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order of magnitude

Noun

 * 1)  The class of scale or magnitude of any amount, where each class contains values of a fixed ratio (most often 10) to the class preceding it.
 * 2) * 2011, Enrico Fermi, Wikisource (translator), Concerning a Contradiction between the Electrodynamic and Relativistic Theory of Electromagnetic Mass, 1922, Enrico Fermi, Über einen Widerspruch zwischen der elektrodynamischen und relativistischen Theorie der elektromagnetischen Masse, Physikalische Zeitschrift, v 23, pp 340-344,
 * However, we notice that although this contraction is of order of magnitude $$v^{2}:c^{2}$$, it changes the most important terms of electromagnetic mass, i.e, the rest mass.

Translations

 * Arabic:
 * Armenian:
 * Catalan: ordre de magnitud
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Dutch: orde van grootte
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: suurusjärk
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hebrew: סדר גודל
 * Hungarian:
 * Irish: ord méadaíochta
 * Japanese:
 * Korean: 크기 정도(-程度), 크기 자릿수
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Polish: rząd wielkości
 * Portuguese: ordem de grandeza
 * Spanish: orden de magnitud
 * Swedish:
 * Tamil:
 * Thai: อันดับของขนาด
 * Turkish: büyüklük mertebesi
 * Ukrainian: порядок величини
 * Vietnamese: bậc độ lớn

title: order of magnitude


text:
実部

Noun

 * 1) real part

title: 実部


text:
concher

Noun

 * 1) A machine (rather like a rotating pestle and mortar) used to refine the flavour and texture of chocolate by warming and grinding.
 * 2) A person who operates such a machine.
 * 1) A person who operates such a machine.

Translations

 * French:
 * German: Conchiermaschine, ,

title: concher


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conching

Noun

 * 1) A process in the manufacture of chocolate in which the flavour and texture is refined by warming and grinding, either in a traditional concher or between rollers.

Translations

 * Portuguese: conchagem
 * Spanish: conchado

title: conching


text:
raakaöljy

Etymology
, likely a.

Noun

 * 1) crude oil

title: raakaöljy


text: OSE

title: OSE


text:
実数

Noun

 * 1) a real number

title: 実数


text:
cocoa butter

Noun

 * 1) The fat that is extracted from the cocoa bean to make chocolate; it has a relatively sharp melting point so does not feel greasy when eaten.

Translations

 * Arabic: زُبْدَة الْكَاكَاو
 * Catalan: mantega de cacau
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: კაკაოს კარაქი, კაკაო-კარაქი
 * German:
 * Greek: βούτυρο κακάο
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian: burro di cacao
 * Japanese: ココアバター
 * Kazakh: какао майы
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: kakaosmør
 * Nynorsk: kakaosmør
 * Portuguese: manteiga de cacau
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ма́сло кака́о
 * Spanish: manteca de cacao
 * Swedish: kakaosmör
 * Thai: เนยโกโก้
 * Turkish: kakao yağı
 * Yiddish: קאַקאַאָ־פֿעטס, קאַקאַאָ פּוטער

title: cocoa butter


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sorbent

Noun

 * 1)  A substance that can enable sorption.

Derived terms

 * desorbent
 * geosorbent

Translations

 * German: Sorptionsmittel

title: sorbent


text:
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"" in the WordReference Dictionnaire Français-Anglais, WordReference.com LLC, 2006.

title: Template:R:WordReference French-English


text:
-èdre

Etymology
.

Suffix

 * 1)  -hedron

Suffix

 * 1)  -hedral

title: -èdre


text:
jack-o'-lantern

Etymology
Originally, a night watchman who carried a lantern. (See Jack.)

Attested as a term for in English folklore in the 1660s, mostly in East Anglia but also in southwestern England. The sense of carved pumpkin in American English is attested in 1834.

Noun

 * 1) A carved pumpkin whose top and stem have been cut out and interior removed, leaving a hollow shell that is then decorated to represent a face, illuminated from within by a candle. It is a symbol of Halloween.
 * 2) A similar item made from a turnip
 * 3)  A will o' the wisp.

Synonyms

 * ,, , Joan the wad , hobby lantern, , peg-a-lantern , Will the Smith , Pinket , Will o' the Wikes , Jack-with-a-lantern

Translations

 * Arabic: قرعة مضيئة
 * Armenian: Դդմից լապտեր
 * Azerbaijani: cek fənəri
 * Basque: Jack Linterna, Jack-o'-lantern
 * Belarusian: свяцільня Джэка
 * Bulgarian: тиквеният фенер
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Danish: græskarhoved
 * Dutch: jack-o'-lantern
 * Estonian: kõrvitslatern
 * Finnish: kurpitsalyhty
 * French: citrouille d'Halloween,, Jack-o’-lantern, lanterne-citrouille
 * Georgian: მნათობი ჯეკი
 * German: Halloween-Kürbis, Jack mit der Laterne, Jack O’Lantern
 * Greek: τζακ ο' λάντερν
 * Hebrew: ג׳ק־או־לנטרן
 * Hungarian:
 * Irish: Seán na gealaí
 * Italian: zucca di Halloween, Jack-o'-lantern, Jack della lanterna, lanterna di zucca
 * Japanese:
 * Korean: 잭-오-랜턴, 호박등
 * Norman: balle-à-leunettes
 * Norwegian:
 * Nynorsk: Jack-o'-lantern
 * Polish: latarnia z dyni
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: Светильник Джек, фонарь из тыквы
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: Џек-о'-Лантерн
 * Spanish: calabaza de Halloween,
 * Thai: แจ็กโอแลนเทิร์น
 * Ukrainian: Ліхтар Джека, світи́льник Дже́ка
 * Welsh: jac lantar

title: jack-o'-lantern


text: jack-o'-lanterns

title: jack-o'-lanterns


text:
foo fighter

Etymology
From, either a nonce word or a corruption of the word , +.

Noun

 * 1) Any of various unidentified flying objects, as reported by Allied pilots during World War II.

title: foo fighter


text: foo fighters

title: foo fighters


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Category talk:Languages

Having two categories distinguished only by the singular and the plural of a noun is not a good idea (confusion source).
 * Category:Language
 * Category:Languages

RFM discussion: October 2016–November 2022
It would be nice to have a name that makes it more obvious that this is a topical category. How about Category:English linguistics, and for the larger languages subcategories like Category:English grammar, Category:English orthography, etc.? I’m open to suggestions, as some people don’t like including things relating to writing or standardised language under linguistics. Another issue is that the hub categories (without language codes) would follow the same format as non-topical categories, but I still think it’s clearer than just English.

And how about parent categories for language families, like Category:Germanic linguistics? — Ungoliant (falai) 20:34, 30 October 2016 (UTC)

 * per nom. - excarnateSojourner (talk | contrib) 22:57, 11 April 2022 (UTC)

 * Nah, it's fine. GreyishWorm (talk) 21:36, 16 November 2022 (UTC)

title: Category talk:Languages


text: 珠峰

title: 珠峰


text:
vårdkase

Etymology
. According to SO attested since 1656.

Noun

 * 1) A beacon; bonfire used for signaling; specifically about incoming land or sea invasions

title: vårdkase


text: Men in Black

title: Men in Black


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sorption

Etymology

 * representing.

Noun

 * 1)  Either of the processes of absorption and adsorption; sorbing.

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Estonian: sorptsioon
 * Finnish: sorptio
 * French:
 * German: Sorption
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: сорпција
 * Roman:

title: sorption


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text:
cardine

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1) hinge, pivot
 * 2) pintle
 * 3)  support, cornerstone

title: cardine


text:
výnos

Noun

 * 1) yield
 * 2) revenue

Noun

 * 1) edict

title: výnos


text:
Citations:etymology

 * 1583, Brian Melbancke, Philotimus, page 98:
 * Amonge all other Artes, forgett not the Mathematikes. for the Etymologie of their name, exhortes you to learne them.
 * 1590,, Rosalynde. Euphues golden legacie:
 * Other reasons more particular (right Honorable) chalenge in me a speciall affection to your L. as being a scholler with your two noble sonnes, Master Edmond Carew & M. Robert Carew, (two siens worthie of so honourable a tree, and a tree glorious in such honourable fruite) as also being scholler in the Vniuersitie vnder that learned and vertuous Knight Sir Edward Hobbie, when he was Batchelor in Arts, a ma[n] as well lettered as well borne, and after the Etymologie of his name soaring as high as the wings of knowledge can mount him, happie euerie way, & the more fortunate, as blessed in the honor of so vertuous a Ladie.
 * 1693,, The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis, page 26:
 * But in former times, the Name of Satire was given to Poems, which were compos’d of several sorts of Verses; such as were made by Ennius, and Pacuvius; more fully expressing the Etymology of the word Satire, from Satura, which we have observ’d —
 * 1705, ; anonymous, transl., Aristotle’s Art of Poetry, page 28:
 * The Etymology which the Dorians give, seems indeed more probable, than that of the Athenians; for how can Comodein, be made of the word Comazein.

title: Citations:etymology


text:
דעה

Noun

 * 1) opinion, point of view
 * 2) knowledge

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) opinion, knowledge, influence

title: דעה


text:
User talk:Beto805

What does it mean when some tells u "thanks for keeping me VIRTUAL COMPANY"!

title: User talk:Beto805


text:
usufructuary

Etymology
From, from + ; compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Adjective

 * 1)  Of or pertaining to a usufruct.

Translations

 * Catalan: usufructuari
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hungarian:, haszonélvezeti joggal rendelkező
 * Italian:
 * Portuguese: usufructuario

Noun

 * 1)  A person who holds property, or the use of assets, by usufruct; a fructuary.

Translations

 * Catalan: usufructuari
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Latin: ūsūfructuārius
 * Polish: prawowity właściciel
 * Portuguese: usufructuario
 * Spanish:

title: usufructuary


text:
medico di famiglia

Noun

 * 1) general practitioner, GP, family doctor

title: medico di famiglia


text:
Citations:he

 * 1971, Carol King and Gerry Goffin, “Smackwater Jack”, Tapestry, Ode Records
 * Smackwater Jack he bought a shotgun
 * July 18 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Dark Knight Rises
 * Though Bane’s sing-song voice gives his pronouncements a funny lilt, he doesn’t have any of the Joker’s deranged wit, and Nolan isn’t interested in undercutting his seriousness for the sake of a breezier entertainment.
 * July 18 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Dark Knight Rises
 * Though Bane’s sing-song voice gives his pronouncements a funny lilt, he doesn’t have any of the Joker’s deranged wit, and Nolan isn’t interested in undercutting his seriousness for the sake of a breezier entertainment.

title: Citations:he


text: medici

title: medici


text:
generale

Etymology
Derived from and.

Etymology
From.

Adjective

 * 1) general

Noun

 * 1)  general

Etymology
From, from , from.

Adjective

 * 1) common

title: generale


text: Bahá'ís

title: Bahá'ís


text:
Talk:sorption

How are we supposed to indicate that this word is only used in technical settings? Tag as "chemistry, biology" perhaps? Scientific? --Connel MacKenzie 19:46, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 1)  ? Kappa 20:04, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

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text:
Talk:single-handed

Surely the adverb would be single-handedly (He single-handedly crossed the Atlantic) although it does come across rather awkwardly ("He crossed the Atlantic single-handed" sounds better)
 * When the word the verb, the preferred adverb is singlehanded  --Backinstadiums (talk) 15:54, 15 July 2021 (UTC)

title: Talk:single-handed


text:
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RFV-Passed

title: Template:rfv-passed/logo


text: maintenances

title: maintenances


text:
rain pitchforks

Verb

 * 1)  to rain heavily.

title: rain pitchforks


text:
dissever

Etymology
From, from , , from , from +.

Verb

 * 1) To separate (two or more things); to split apart (something).
 * 2) To divide (something) into separate parts.
 * 1) To divide (something) into separate parts.
 * 1) To divide (something) into separate parts.
 * 1) To divide (something) into separate parts.
 * 1) To divide (something) into separate parts.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:

 * Bulgarian:

title: dissever


text:
clean-up

Etymology
.

title: clean-up


text:
particle theory

Noun

 * 1)  atomic theory

title: particle theory


text:
Template talk:process

How to archive the result on the page
It is not clear whether the text should be included within the template as text= as currently implemented by one template, or only as a header as with and maybe a  like <!--Do not edit the section above/below--> to avoid modifying the wrong areas, or even included subpages to make editing fairly difficult. DAVilla 20:41, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

RFDO discussion: December 2014–January 2015
Has never caught on, apparently. (I believe it was introduced in Grease pit/2007/April.) — Keφr 00:14, 21 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete. Renard Migrant (talk) 19:52, 3 January 2015 (UTC)

Deleted. — Keφr 20:20, 24 January 2015 (UTC)

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Template talk:fr-noun

Please
Why can't this be as flexible as ? Any attempt at something a bit more complex (e.g. word that can be countable or not) is impossible to obtain. It is also impossible to substitute in the singular. Circeus 07:09, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

 * Substituting in the singular is indeed possible — for example, is the same as  — but yeah, it's a pain. Part of the problem is that the template makes too many assumptions, e.g. that every noun has a plural, and then all of its parameter values work toward that assumption, e.g. by having a second argument of - mean that the plural is identical to the singular. Of course this could be changed, but that would break existing pages; or we could adopt another special character for indicating uncountability (or alternation between countability and uncountability), but then that would just make the template even harder to learn for those familiar with its analogues. Maybe after the next XML dump we can get a report of what entries are using what features of the existing template, and work from there? —Ruakh TALK 03:27, 20 July 2008 (UTC)

 * Actually, maybe it would be best to create and  (and ), and start migrating to them? Conceptually it makes sense to have a single template for both, but migration is a slow process, and I'd rather not have  or something in the meantime. :-P   —Ruakh TALK 03:31, 20 July 2008 (UTC)
 * I found out after the fact. (this is an old post). Currently, two features would be really nice additions: something to cover always plural words, and something to cover mass/mostly singular ones. Apparently there is already  for the latter, though. Also, something for epicene and/or ambiguous words (e.g. cantaloup, météorite, oasis, alvéole are in actual usage, of inconsistent gender). It's also not possible to cover the feminine form of a noun with it (though I would rather use  for that as well as for the plural, and use the definition line to link to the original). I think we should try to see just how best to cover all cases, and then alter the existing templates, what do you think? Circeus 04:01, 20 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I also think it would be nice to have the potential to not add anything, in case the contributing editor doesn't know it, as with me at galimatias. - Oreo Priest  talk 04:17, 20 July 2008 (UTC)
 * For the record, it turns out that "mf" for epicene nouns work (but confusingly classifies words into Category:French invariable nouns). Could we start by UPDATING THE DOCUMENTATION so we know what is and is not needed?? This is definitely one of the aspects I like less about wiktionary. Circeus 04:59, 20 July 2008 (UTC)

other gender plural?
Isn't there a way to indicate other gender plural? 70.51.8.110 05:15, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

 * Yup, use fplural=. (Not the best name, but it gets the job done.) —Ruakh TALK 03:29, 20 July 2008 (UTC)

 * Can someone add othergenderpl parameter? 76.66.195.159 11:37, 6 December 2008 (UTC)

Detailed documentation.
This template produces the following:

 * The current headword in bold.
 * A gender note — either, , or — if 1= is provided, and is one of m., m, <tt>f.</tt>, <tt>f</tt>, and <tt>mf</tt>.
 * Inside parentheses:
 * If <tt>type=plural</tt>:
 * The word undefined: in italics, followed by the singular form (<tt>sg=</tt> if provided, otherwise <tt>single=</tt> if provided, otherwise <tt>2=</tt> if provided, otherwise gibberish wikisyntax) linkified and in bold.
 * Otherwise:
 * The word undefined: in italics, followed by the plural form (<tt>pl=</tt> if provided, otherwise <tt>plural=</tt> if provided, otherwise the current headword if <tt>2=-</tt>, otherwise the current headword plus <tt>2=</tt> if the latter is provided, otherwise the current headword plus <s>) linkified and in bold.
 * If <tt>f=</tt>, <tt>fem=</tt>, <tt>othergender=</tt>, or <tt>3=</tt> is provided, in that precedence order, calling the overall value undefined::
 * A semicolon, followed by the word undefined: or undefined: in italics (whichever is the opposite of the above-described <tt>1=</tt> ), followed by othergender linkified and in bold.
 * If not <tt>type=plural</tt>:
 * A comma, followed by the word undefined: in italics, followed by othergender's plural form (<tt>fplural=</tt> if provided, otherwise the same calculation as above, except using othergender rather than the current headword ). ← It doesn't quite make sense to use the same calculation here as above, seeing as e.g. <tt>2=-</tt> for a masculine-only noun probably doesn't imply <tt>2=-</tt> for its feminine counterpart, but that's the current design. I'm guessing some copy-and-paste took place.
 * The category Category:French nouns (with no sort key).
 * The category Category:French nouns lacking gender (with no sort key) if <tt>1=</tt> is not provided or is empty, and the category Category:French masculine nouns, Category:French feminine nouns, or Category:French invariable nouns (all without sort key) if <tt>1=</tt> is <tt>m</tt>, <tt>f</tt>, or <tt>mf</tt>, respectively. ← Note that this logic does not cover all the possibilities one might expect. For example, <tt>1=m.</tt> produces the right gender note but doesn't add the gender category, and <tt>1=masculine</tt> fails to add any gender note but doesn't add the lacking-gender category. ← Also note that "invariable noun" is a misleading category name.
 * The categories Category:French noun forms and Category:French plurals (both without sort key) if <tt>type=plural</tt>.
 * The category Category:French plurals (without sort key) even if not <tt>type=plural</tt>, if the plural form (as calculated above) is equal to the current headword, except that a provided-but-empty <tt>2=</tt> will not cause this category to be added. ← I assume this last detail wasn't intentional.

should only be used for pluralia tantum (or even better, never) as we have for that. Perhaps this feature predates, among its problems, it categorizes in French nouns, and we don't do that for plurals. So if kept, it we should remove the singular parameter that accompanies. Mglovesfun (talk) 11:20, 12 June 2010 (UTC)

fonts
Can someone figure out what's wrong at fonts ? TIA, --Jerome Potts 04:54, 22 September 2010 (UTC)
 * You needed to specify a second parameter, which is the singular noun. I am going to make that no longer compulsory... —Internoob (Disc•Cont) 22:45, 22 September 2010 (UTC)
 * This is a widely transcluded, protected template. In the future, please propose edits on the talk-page, and then wait a bit (at least a day) before making them, so that other editors have a chance to raise objections or concerns. —Ruakh TALK 23:46, 22 September 2010 (UTC)

fr-noun templates

 * The following discussion was originally posted at Grease pit

I'd like to make more like other noun template, in particular add a switch for  to allow "-" for uncountable, "?" for plural not known and "inv" for invariable. Currently we have three templates; fr-noun  and. The only real problem is that currently when 2=- (for example ) i sets the plural and the singular to be identical. So first job would be to change all instance when 2=- to pl=. Is it worth it? Well, probably, but it won't be easy. Best solution I can think of is something like  which would be a hidden cat, then deleted once it's cleared. Objections? Mglovesfun (talk) 17:45, 21 October 2010 (UTC)

 * Template talk:fr-noun gets a fair bit of traffic, so you should probably raise this there rather than here. But as a first step, I'd recommend going through a database dump and gathering data about how the template is currently used. —Ruakh TALK 19:07, 21 October 2010 (UTC)

moved to Template talk:fr-noun

 * Sounds like a good idea. < class="latinx" >Ƿidsiþ</> 14:36, 23 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Turning out to be tougher than I thought. For one reason, gâteaux uses . I've somehow broken the feminine form, too. Mglovesfun (talk) 07:30, 24 October 2010 (UTC)
 * The problem was that you tried to put the category inside . It should be fixed now. I'm not sure what the problem was with gâteau in particular. —Internoob (Disc•Cont) 03:03, 25 October 2010 (UTC)
 * I came here with the same topic in mind. I'll leave it for today (sunny, do not want to be inside all day) but tomorrow I shall start trying to unify the functions of fr-noun-inv and fr-noun-unc into this. Mglovesfun (talk) 10:43, 27 May 2013 (UTC)

plural parameter broken
Setting plural=- does not output 'uncountable' as advertised. Kaldari 02:15, 8 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Hmm, seems to work now. Kaldari 05:37, 8 June 2011 (UTC)

 * That would be because fixed it; see Template:fr-noun?action=history. —Ruakh TALK 19:28, 8 June 2011 (UTC)

Missing span classes
Hi. Singular and plural have a class attribute to the span tag (respectively class="form-of plural-form-of lang-fr" and class="form-of plural-form-of lang-fr"). Can some admin add the same kind of classe to the feminine and feminine-plural forms? That would be class="form-of feminine-form-of lang-fr" and class="form-of feminine-plural-form-of lang-fr" respectively. The modification would allow the "accelerated creation" gadget to work properly for the two last forms. Thank you. BTW, can't this template be editable by established editors, like fr-adj? — Xavier, 17:09, 29 September 2013 (UTC)
 * I don't think the feminine/masculine equivalents of nouns can be created that way. We don't have princess defined as "feminine form of prince". 17:21, 29 September 2013 (UTC)
 * First of all, princesse is not given as the feminine of prince. Personally, as long as the word is given as a "f" parameter to fr-noun, which reads "feminine: xxx" in the masculine entry, I have nothing to object to a "feminine form of" in the feminine entry. If I get you correctly, the reason why thoses classes are missing is to keep red links from becoming green, so that users don't easily create "feminine form of" entries ?
 * I have a couple of options come to mind:
 * Why not let users create those entries the accelerated way, and let other users render them more politically correct? I think that a "feminine form of" entry is better than no entry at all.
 * Why not change the accelerated creation a feminine nouns so that the entry reads "female (masculine-word)" or "female equivalent of (masculine-word)", instead of "feminine form of (masculine-word)". Not sure the former is better than the latter but I can provide you with the corresponding code if you agree with this.
 * Any other option? — Xavier, 20:07, 29 September 2013 (UTC)
 * I'd suggest bringing this up on the BP. 20:13, 29 September 2013 (UTC)
 * We did used to have these, they've been dumped. I don't think we need a BP discussion to reinstate them so much as to confirm the validity of dumping them unilaterally in the first place. Mglovesfun (talk) 20:42, 29 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Oh, I see. I didn't even consider this was intentional. Can you point me to the discussion that led to this situation? Thanks. — Xavier, 20:58, 29 September 2013 (UTC)
 * That's my point; there hasn't been one! Mglovesfun (talk) 20:59, 29 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Now there is one :-) Anything to object to my options above? — Xavier, 21:03, 29 September 2013 (UTC)
 * My objection is that the gendered forms are separate lemmas, so to treat one as just a form of the other doesn't make sense. It's not like with adjectives, where the gender is determined by grammatical agreement. With nouns the distinction is semantic, so there is really no "feminine form". Rather there is one word used for male people and one for female people, and there is a distinction in meaning which warrants a lemma with a unique definition for each. 21:08, 29 September 2013 (UTC)
 * (unindent) I understand this, and I would not be discussing if there was no "f" parameter to this template. If a masculine noun can't have a "feminine form", then why this f parameter? My point is: as long as someone use that f parameter, that someone suggests that a feminine form exists and there is no reason to not accelerate its creation. WHat about option #2: "female equivalent of (word)", or a better formulation? — Xavier, 21:16, 29 September 2013 (UTC)
 * It also has an m= parameter, though. So we would also end up with masculine forms. It would become really messy. 21:21, 29 September 2013 (UTC)
 * I don't see any m= parameter. Anyway, I don't understand your answer wrt my question: if a feminine form is declared with the f= parameter, why not accelerate its creation? — Xavier, 21:37, 29 September 2013 (UTC)

neuter
In this edit a typo ('n' for 'm') was allowed by fr-noun, marking it as a neuter noun. It shouldn't allow neuter! Renard Migrant (talk) 20:41, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
 * ✅ --WikiTiki89 21:17, 29 September 2016 (UTC)

Uncountability

 * Would it be possible to replace "usually uncountable" (the current output of ) by "usually singular"? PUC – 15:02, 29 October 2023 (UTC)

title: Template talk:fr-noun


text: Appendix:Dravidian Swadesh lists

title: Appendix:Dravidian Swadesh lists


text:
hog-tie

Verb

 * 1)  To tie the feet of person or animal together; originally all four legs of a quadruped.
 * 2)  To render helpless.
 * 1)  To render helpless.

Translations

 * Dutch: ,
 * German: ,

Noun

 * 1) The act of tying the feet together in this way.

title: hog-tie


text:
control code

Noun

 * 1)  A numeric value or string of such values that triggers a specific command or action to occur, rather than displaying a text character.

title: control code


text: cartouches

title: cartouches


text:
Wiktionary:Request pages

Wiktionary > Requests

title: Wiktionary:Request pages


text:
unititular

Adjective

 * 1)  Owned by a single person or company.

title: unititular


text:
snörppi

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1)  leech line

title: snörppi


text:
Talk:pederast

In comparing pederast and pedophile: pederast (plural pederasts) As distinguished from pedophile
 * A man [adult male] who is engaged in an erotic relationship with an adolescent boy.
 * An adult who is sexually attracted primarily to prepubescent children.

there are some gaps that should be addressed. 1. A pederast is a man while a pedophile may be either (any?) gender. 2. A pederast victimizes only postpubescent males while a pedophile victimizes pre-pubescent children of either gender. 3. A pederast has an erotic relationship while a pedophile merely has an attraction.

So, what terms should be applied to: 1. a woman who an erotic relationship with a post-pubescent boy? 2. a woman who an erotic relationship with a post-pubescent girl? 3. a man who victimizes a pre-pubescent child?

title: Talk:pederast


text:
escape character

Noun

 * 1)  A single metacharacter, usually a control code, which in a sequence of characters signifies that what is to follow takes an alternative interpretation. The term escape sequence refers to the escape character and the subsequent character or characters so modified.

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 转义字符
 * Finnish: koodinvaihtomerkki, suojausmerkki
 * Greek: χαρακτήρας διαφυγής
 * Spanish: carácter de escape

title: escape character


text: lame ducks

title: lame ducks


text:
damned if one does and damned if one doesn't

Adjective

 * 1)  Of a situation where either choice results in a negative outcome.

Translations

 * Esperanto: tiel aĉe, kaj tiel malbone
 * Finnish: pulassa joka tapauksessa, kusessa joka tapauksessa
 * French: c'est un choix cornélien, quoi que je fasse, ce n'est jamais bon,, on est perdant dans tous les cas
 * Polish: i tak źle, i tak niedobrze
 * Portuguese: se correr o bicho pega, se ficar o bicho come
 * Russian: куда́ ни кинь, всю́ду клин
 * Spanish: palos porque bogas, palos porque no bogas
 * Tagalog: sala sa init, sala sa lamig
 * Turkish: aşağı tükürsen sakal, yukarı tükürsen bıyık


text: recommends

title: recommends


text:
suutari

Etymology 1
Borrowed from, from.

Noun

 * 1) shoemaker one who makes shoes
 * 2) cobbler one who repairs shoes
 * 3) cobbler's shoe repair shop

Etymology 2
Borrowed from, military slang for gunpowder charge, which does not explode, but only spews soot around.

Noun

 * 1) dud unexploded piece of ammunition or fireworks

Etymology 3
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Noun

 * 1)  tench,

title: suutari


text:
quarrelling

Noun

 * 1) A heated argument.
 * Their constant quarrellings made them impossible to live with.

title: quarrelling


text: root beers

title: root beers


text:
Torne Valley Finnish

Etymology
After, the name of the river that separates Finland and Sweden in the north; compare 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬.

Proper noun

 * 1)  language spoken by some 40,000–70,000 people in Northern Sweden

Usage notes

 * See under Meänkieli.

title: Torne Valley Finnish


text:
Βαρναβᾶς

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Proper noun

 * 1) Barnabas

title: Βαρναβᾶς


text:
sell wolf tickets

Etymology
From /, from, from. Woof ticket/wolf ticket is attested since the 1960s.

Verb

 * 1)  To make threats or boasts, especially if empty and/or if made to intimidate someone.
 * 2) * 1974, Vernon E. Smith, The Jones Men, page 165, quoted in The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang (2008):
 * It's plenty people selling wolf tickets, you know.

Usage notes

 * Various words may be inserted into the expression; for example, in the Donald Hall quotation above, someone is said to have "sold a reporter a handful of wolf tickets".

title: sell wolf tickets


text:
Q fever

Etymology
From +, the causative agent being unknown at the time.

Noun

 * 1) An infectious disease, resembling influenza, caused by the bacterium  (previously classified as ).
 * 2) * 1995, M. Isaacson, M. J. Hale, Chapter 8: Infections Caused by Rickettsiae, W. Doerr, Tropical Pathology, page 275,
 * In the past it was believed that chronic Q fever was always the result of reactivation of a primary infection which persisted in latent form.
 * 1) * 2001, Todd Hatchette, Thomas J. Marrie, Q Fever, entry in R. W. Ashford, Encyclopedia of Arthropod-transmitted Infections of Man and Domesticated Animals, page 417,
 * Q fever (query fever) is a zoonosis with worldwide distribution. New Zealand is the only country free of the disease.

Translations

 * Arabic: حَمَى Q
 * Armenian: կու տենդ
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: Q熱, Q型流感
 * Czech: Q horečka
 * Dutch: Q-koorts
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: Q-Fieber
 * Hindi: क्यू बुखार
 * Hungarian: Q-láz
 * Italian: febbre Q
 * Japanese: Ｑ熱
 * Korean: 큐열(熱)
 * Portuguese: febre Q
 * Russian: Ку-лихора́дка
 * Spanish: fiebre Q
 * Vietnamese: bệnh sốt Q

title: Q fever


text:
atomic theory

Noun

 * 1)  The theory that all gross matter is composed of atoms.
 * 2)  Any of several theories that explain the structure of the atom, and of subatomic particles.

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:

title: atomic theory


text:
sucky

Etymology
From.

Adjective

 * 1)  Being something which sucks, which is unpleasant or inferior.
 * That comedian was pretty sucky on TV last night.
 * 1)  Tending to suck up or ingratiate oneself.
 * 1)  Tending to suck up or ingratiate oneself.

Noun

 * 1)  A pacifier.
 * 2)  A fellation, a blowjob.
 * 3)  A fellatrix, a blowjobber.
 * 1)  A fellatrix, a blowjobber.

title: sucky


text:
fastidioso

Etymology
.

Adjective

 * 1) annoying, tiresome, vexing
 * 2) irritable, touchy
 * 3) finicky, fussy, fastidious

Etymology
..

Adjective

 * 1) boring
 * 2) annoyed, irritated, grumpy
 * 1) annoyed, irritated, grumpy

Etymology
. Compare the inherited doublet.

Adjective

 * 1) annoying

title: fastidioso


text: imbrem

title: imbrem


text: coup-de-grace

title: coup-de-grace


text:
goblin shark

Etymology
, from +.

Noun

 * 1) A species of mackerel shark,, that has a long snout-like protrusion from its forehead and grows to 3.8 meters in length.

Translations

 * Belarusian: акула-дамавік, акула-насарог, скапанорынх
 * Bengali: গবলিন হাঙর
 * Bulgarian: акулите гоблини
 * Catalan: tauró follet
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 歐氏尖吻鮫, 歐氏劍吻鯊, 哥布林鯊
 * Czech: žralok šotek
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian: tonthai
 * Finnish: peikkohai
 * French:
 * Galician: quenlla fociñuda
 * German: Koboldhai, Nasenhai
 * Greek: καρχαρίας Γκόμπλιν, καρχαρίας καλικάντζαρος
 * Hungarian: koboldcápa
 * Kazakh: құбыжық акула
 * Korean: 마귀상어
 * Macedonian: ајкула-ѓавол
 * Malayalam: ഗോബ്ലിൻ ഷാർക്ക്
 * Navajo: łóóʼ hashkéhé bíchį́į́hnézí
 * Norwegian: nesehai
 * Polish: rekin chochlik
 * Portuguese: tubarão-duende, tubarão-demónio
 * Russian:, скапаноринх, митцекурина, акула-гоблин
 * Slovak: žralok končistočelý
 * Spanish: tiburón duende, tiburón trasgo
 * Swedish:
 * Thai: ปลาฉลามก็อบลิน

title: goblin shark


text:
Talk:Perthian

How about the colloquial 'Sandgroper'?

title: Talk:Perthian