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Talk:axe

Removing the US category on the alternate spelling. Definitely not US-only. For instance,

 * The Notch on the Ax: A Story by William Makepeace Thackeray
 * Sir Nigel by Arthur Conan Doyle

RFC discussion: September–December 2015
Sense: (finance) A directional position or interest, by a dealer in a financial market – if one wishes to unload stock, one is “axed to sell” or “has an axe”.[1] Derived from “have an axe to grind”, which is also used.

Note that the definition includes some etymology and derived terms, but is a little vague on the actual definition. DCDuring TALK 17:21, 17 September 2015 (UTC)
 * I've make it shorter and a little more concise, with two examples to make it clearer how it's used in relation to financial markets. Page already mentions "axe to grind" as a derived term, so that was removed. Reference stayed, because it really does help explain the usage further. I'm not a regular contributor, so I'm sorry if it's a little out of order but I think I got it all right. 2601:602:8601:4A00:B9D5:E880:DCC3:A631 16:47, 24 December 2015 (UTC)

RFV discussion: December 2020
Tagged by Schläsinger X yesterday, not listed:
 * “Wycliffe Bible is Middle English”

Sense:
 * 1395, John Wycliffe, trans. Bible, 1 Corinthis 14:35:
 * But if thei wolen ony thing lerne, at home axe thei her hosebondis; for it is foule thing to a womman to speke in chirche.
 * 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Luke IIi:
 * And the people axed hym, sayinge: What shall we do then.
 * And the people axed hym, sayinge: What shall we do then.

J3133 (talk) 09:13, 1 December 2020 (UTC)

 * This is silly; I axed him has many, many examples of just that one phrase. It may need reform, but it clearly exists and everything but the labels is unarguable.--Prosfilaes (talk) 07:11, 2 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Those could be interpreted as examples of, not ; we'll need non-past forms to properly verify this. Hazarasp (parlement · werkis) 09:59, 2 December 2020 (UTC)

I've added more cites and changed the Tyndale one to something unambiguous; this should be cited now. Hazarasp (parlement · werkis) 10:42, 2 December 2020 (UTC)
 * The current presentation suggests that there is a connection or continuity between the early English usage and the modern AAVE usage. Is there? Mihia (talk) 00:41, 8 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Not necessarily in written use, but definitely in spoken use. Hazarasp (parlement · werkis) 01:29, 8 December 2020 (UTC)

RFV-passed Kiwima (talk) 22:18, 15 December 2020 (UTC)

title: Talk:axe


text:
aide-mémoire

Etymology
.

Pronunciation

 * (or as French, below)

Noun

 * 1) A  aid; a  or, especially a book or document serving this purpose.
 * 2)  A document circulated in a meeting or summit for discussion purposes.
 * 1)  A document circulated in a meeting or summit for discussion purposes.

Translations

 * Finnish: muistin tuki; ; muistilappu
 * Spanish: pro memoria

 * Finnish:, keskustelumuistio

 * Latin:
 * Portuguese:

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * , memory-aid, crib

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

title: aide-mémoire


text:
Gwener

Etymology
From, from. Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Proper noun

 * 1) Friday
 * 2)  Venus (planet)
 * 3) Venus (Roman goddess)
 * 1) Venus (Roman goddess)

Etymology
From, from. Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Proper noun

 * 1)   (planet)
 * 2) Venus (Roman goddess)

title: Gwener


text: sea-weed

title: sea-weed


text: sea-weeds

title: sea-weeds


text: seaweeds

title: seaweeds


text:
Jeux olympiques

Proper noun

 * 1)  Olympic Games

Synonyms

 * ,, , abbreviation

title: Jeux olympiques


title: ou3


text: waws

title: waws


text: antennae

title: antennae


text:
intelligente

Adjective

 * 1) intelligent, clever, bright, smart

title: intelligente


text: сталкеры

title: сталкеры


text: hooses

title: hooses


text:
flitting

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * : the motion of something that flits.
 * 1)  The act of moving from one residence to another; moving house.
 * 1)  The act of moving from one residence to another; moving house.
 * 1)  The act of moving from one residence to another; moving house.
 * 1)  The act of moving from one residence to another; moving house.

Adjective

 * 1) Brief, likely to be of short duration.

title: flitting


text:
administratively

Adverb

 * 1) In an administrative manner, or for purposes of administration.
 * The country is divided administratively into 12 districts.

Translations

 * Catalan:
 * Danish: administrativt
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: administre
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Italian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: administrativt
 * Nynorsk: administrativt
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: administrativamente
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:

title: administratively


text:
admonishment

Noun

 * 1) The act of admonishing; a reprimand or rebuke.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * German: ,
 * Japanese:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, , , ,

title: admonishment


text:
adorableness

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) The state or quality of being adorable.

Translations

 * Esperanto: ĉarmegeco
 * French:
 * Portuguese: adorabilidade

title: adorableness


text:
adulatory

Etymology
From.

Adjective

 * 1) Exhibiting adulation; overly flattering.

Translations

 * French:
 * Polish: pochlebczy
 * Portuguese:, adulatório, adulante

title: adulatory


text:
adulterant

Noun

 * 1) That which adulterates, or reduces the purity of something.

Synonyms

 * cut, mix

Translations

 * French:
 * German: Alkoholpanscher
 * Portuguese: adulterante
 * Spanish:

title: adulterant


text:
pesi

Verb

 * 1)  to weigh, to measure the weight of
 * Mi pesis la pomojn, kaj ili pezis du pfundojn.
 * I weighed the apples, and they weighed two pounds.

Noun

 * 1)  thigh

Etymology
From.

Adverb

 * 1) fish

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) cat

title: pesi


text:
advantageously

Adverb

 * 1) In a manner which provides an advantage; in an advantageous manner.

Translations

 * Catalan:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Georgian: ხელსაყრელად
 * German:
 * Italian:, ,
 * Norman: avantageusement
 * Polish: awantażownie ,
 * Portuguese: vantajosamente
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: пробитачно
 * Roman:
 * Spanish: ventajosamente
 * Telugu: సప్రయోజనముగా

title: advantageously


text:
adventuresome

Adjective

 * 1) Characterised or marked by adventure.
 * 2) Prone to, or willing to undertake, adventures; daring or bold.
 * 1) Prone to, or willing to undertake, adventures; daring or bold.

Translations

 * Finnish: seikkailunhaluinen
 * Portuguese:

title: adventuresome


text:
adventurousness

Noun

 * 1) The quality of being adventurous.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish: seikkailunhaluisuus
 * German: Abenteuerlichkeit
 * Polish: awanturnictwo,
 * Turkish:, , maceraperestlik

title: adventurousness


text:
adverbially

Adverb

 * As, or in the manner of, an adverb.

Translations

 * Catalan:
 * Finnish: adverbiaalisesti, adverbisesti
 * Galician: adverbialmente
 * Italian:
 * Polish: adwerbalnie, przyczasownikowo , adwerbialnie , przysłówkowo
 * Portuguese: adverbialmente
 * Spanish: adverbialmente

title: adverbially


text:
adverseness

Noun

 * 1) The state or quality of being adverse, or opposed.

title: adverseness


text:
advisably

Adverb

 * 1) Wisely, in an advisable manner.

Translations

 * Portuguese: aconselhavelmente

title: advisably


text:
advisedly

Adverb

 * 1) With intentionality, and deliberately, usually also with a connotation of due consideration and wise choosing.

Translations

 * Dutch:
 * French:
 * Italian:, , a ragion veduta, con cognizione di causa

title: advisedly


text: atheisms

title: atheisms


text:
Talk:integrity

What is the adjective form of this word? If something/someone has integrity they are ... what?

 * There doesn't seem to be one. You'll just have to use something based on a synonym - honest for example. SemperBlotto 16:31, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

 * that would be 'integer'. may not be used as such in english, but i know in dutch integer can be used as the adjective of integrity, just as integrity can be used as the noun of integer. is there really this seperation in english between the two?--lygophile08:21, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

 * I think the usual English adjective is ethical. English integer is only a noun, meaning whole number. There is the adjective integral, but that’s a little different from integrity. —Stephen 20:31, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

 * I have heard the word 'integrous' used, but despite looking (hence finding this page) have not found a reference to validate it. (Del, 22 Feb 08)

 * Yes there is one... There are quite a few. But they are not commonly used in the English language. German speakers occasionally say: "Er ist eine integre Person" - "He is an integre person". Same thing in french I believe. You can also find it on merriam-webster. Dunno if that is a reliable enough source for you. Quote: "rare or obsolete integrity adjectives: integre; integrious; integritive; and integrous ... we recommend sticking to the phrasing with integrity." http://www.merriam-webster.com/cgi-bin/wftwarch.pl?110906 91.8.246.44

Please help with the numbering of number 6. It keeps appearing as 1.

Derived terms

 * integrous (rare: approximately 1‱ frequency in usage)
 * Really? I strongly contest the inclusion of the parenthetical statement; who in the world could have come up with such a statistic without counting every time the word 'integrous' appears in the place of 'integrity'? If the fact is from analysis of Gutenburg texts, there should be a citation, otherwise it looks as though some member of the public has managed to convince himself that such an amateurish and hearsay estimate deserves note in an otherwise reputable dictionary. Furthermore, the sentence itself makes no sense: 'one-per-ten-thousand frequency' means nothing. I'd change it, but the page is protected. 79.71.106.253 23:03, 21 December 2009 (UTC)
 * I think that the 'one-per-ten-thousand' bit is saying that the word appears once in every ten thousand words spoken/written. Although this figure needs citation or further explanation, I would not assume it was calculated by hearsay or in an amateurish way (In fact, statistical studies nearly always makes use of sample populations instead of studying the entire population of whatever they are studying, because it's usually quite a daunting task to include everyone). Many linguists specialize in word frequency statistics, and their methods are far from amateur. And I think it would be very rare to see 'integrous' "in place of" 'integrity', as you say, because they are not the same part of speech and a native speaker would never place them in the same syntactic context. The calculation only pertains to the frequency of 'integrous' in general in the corpus of spoken or written language.

"Integrous" is used by Dr. David R. Hawkins in his book, Truth vs. Falsehood, page 379, in the section entitled "Identification and Characteristics of Spiritual Truth, Integrous Teachers, and Teachings". There is no problem understanding his meaning of "teachers with integrity".

Order of meanings
I think the meaning "steadfast adherence to a strict moral or ethical code" is abstract and must have appeared relatively late. It should not be the first in the list. --Providus (talk) 14:56, 7 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Feel free to move the senses, but consider that the abstract sense is more common than the literal sense. — Ungoliant (falai) 15:10, 7 June 2017 (UTC)

title: Talk:integrity


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User talk:Sakuralover26

That page (Naruto Weapons List) would probably be better suited on Wikipedia, where it very well may have come from. Please do not readd it here, or any other deleted content for that matter. - TheDaveRoss 16:25, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

title: User talk:Sakuralover26


text: pantheisms

title: pantheisms


text: deisms

title: deisms


text: pandeisms

title: pandeisms


text: Category:ru:Colors

title: Category:ru:Colors


text:
monotheisms

Noun

 * 1) * Thus there developed in the midst of the polytheism in what we provincially call the ancient world two chief monotheisms, one religious and the other metaphysical. Shailer Mathews, The Growth of the Idea of God (1931) p. 116.
 * 1) * Thus there developed in the midst of the polytheism in what we provincially call the ancient world two chief monotheisms, one religious and the other metaphysical. Shailer Mathews, The Growth of the Idea of God (1931) p. 116.

title: monotheisms


text:
photocoagulation

Noun

 * 1)  A surgical procedure in which a tumour, or diseased retinal tissue, is destroyed by using a laser.

title: photocoagulation


text:
aipple

Etymology
From, from , from , from.

Noun

 * 1) apple

title: aipple


text:
photocoagulator

Noun

 * 1)  An instrument containing a laser, or a xenon flash lamp, which is used in photocoagulation.

title: photocoagulator


text:
aigrette

Etymology
Borrowed from. .

Noun

 * 1) A feather or plume, or feather-shaped item, used as an adornment or ornament.
 * 2)  The lesser white heron.
 * 3) The feathery crown of some seeds (such as the dandelion).
 * 1)  The lesser white heron.
 * 2) The feathery crown of some seeds (such as the dandelion).
 * 1)  The lesser white heron.
 * 2) The feathery crown of some seeds (such as the dandelion).
 * 1)  The lesser white heron.
 * 2) The feathery crown of some seeds (such as the dandelion).
 * 1) The feathery crown of some seeds (such as the dandelion).
 * 1) The feathery crown of some seeds (such as the dandelion).

Etymology
From, diminutive of.

Noun

 * 1) egret (Any of various wading birds of the genera  or Ardea)
 * 2)  pappus, thistledown
 * 3)  crest (plumage)
 * 4) feather (atop a hat)
 * 1) feather (atop a hat)

title: aigrette


text:
aimlessness

Noun

 * 1) The state or quality of being aimless, or without purpose or direction.

Translations

 * Czech: bezcílnost
 * Esperanto: senceleco
 * Greek:
 * Ancient Greek: εἰκαιότης
 * Irish: fánaíocht
 * Polish: ,
 * Russian:
 * Turkish:

title: aimlessness


text:
xenon flash lamp

Noun

 * 1) A lamp that produces a very short, but very intense, flash of white light; used in photography and in photocoagulation

Translations

 * Hungarian:

title: xenon flash lamp


text:
airiness

Noun

 * 1) The quality of being airy.
 * 2) The quality of being light in quality or manner.
 * 3) insubstantiality

title: airiness


text:
insubstantiality

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) The state or quality of being insubstantial.

Translations

 * Irish: diomaibhse, míthathag
 * Italian:
 * Spanish:

title: insubstantiality


text:
airplay

Noun

 * 1) The playing of a particular song, band or genre on the radio, or the frequency with which it is played.

Translations

 * Maori: tukurangi

Etymology
Borrowed from.

title: airplay


text: Category:hy:Fruits

title: Category:hy:Fruits


text: Category:hy:Vegetables

title: Category:hy:Vegetables


text: Category:hy:Foods

title: Category:hy:Foods


text: fallacies

title: fallacies


text: deciphered

title: deciphered


text: pillaging

title: pillaging


text: factories

title: factories


text:
simmering

Noun

 * 1) The act of something that simmers.

title: simmering


text:
User talk:DannyAnno~enwiktionary

The Latin for seventy is septuaginta

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text:
momenta

Adjective

 * 1) momentary, instantaneous

title: momenta


text:
bluejay

Etymology
From.

title: bluejay


text: bluejays

title: bluejays


text:
lum

Etymology 1
Borrowed from, Early ; further etymology uncertain, possibly from (compare 🇨🇬), from ,  ultimately from. The word is possibly also related to 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) A chimney; also, the top part of a chimney.
 * 2)  A ventilating chimney over the shaft of a mine.
 * 1)  A ventilating chimney over the shaft of a mine.
 * 1)  A ventilating chimney over the shaft of a mine.
 * 1)  A ventilating chimney over the shaft of a mine.
 * 1)  A ventilating chimney over the shaft of a mine.
 * 1)  A ventilating chimney over the shaft of a mine.
 * 1)  A ventilating chimney over the shaft of a mine.
 * 1)  A ventilating chimney over the shaft of a mine.

Etymology 2

 * perhaps related to 🇨🇬 (compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬).

Noun

 * 1)  A grove or wood; also, a woody valley.

Etymology 3
en.

Noun

 * 1)  A deep pool, especially one in a riverbed.

Etymology
From, from. Cognate to 🇨🇬, and ultimately a.

Adjective

 * 1) happy, lucky

Noun

 * 1)  light

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) snow

Etymology
From, from.

Adjective

 * 1) warm

Etymology
From, from , from , derived from the root.

Noun

 * 1) light
 * 2) light source, such as a lamp or bulb

Etymology

 * perhaps compare obsolete Welsh.

Noun

 * 1) chimney

title: lum


text: blue jays

title: blue jays


text:
নমস্কার

Etymology
.

title: নমস্কার


text:
wifes

Usage notes

 * The standard plural is.

title: wifes


text:
plendanto

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) complainant
 * 1) complainant

title: plendanto


text: Glesca

title: Glesca


text:
squirrel away

Etymology
Suggesting the way that squirrels hide nuts in a cache.

Verb

 * 1)  To stash or hide; to hoard, collect, save, or accumulate; to create a reserve, stash, or hoard of some supply.
 * He had bits of string, cans of nails and lots of other useful tidbits squirreled away throughout his garage.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:amass or Thesaurus:accumulate

Translations

 * Finnish:
 * Polish:

title: squirrel away


text:
-ant-

Etymology
The a vowel of present-tense -as plus the nt of the active present participle.

Suffix

 * 1)  -anto One who does the action of the root
 * Example:
 * (See usage note at -isto)
 * 1)  -anta The active present participle
 * Example:
 * 1)  -ante The active present adverbial participle
 * Example:

Usage notes

 * See usage notes at.

Etymology
Borrowed from, from , , , , , and. With the initial a indicating present tense from.

title: -ant-


text:
deĉevaliĝi

Etymology
From.

Verb

 * 1)  to dismount

title: deĉevaliĝi


text:
senpage

Etymology
From.

Adverb

 * 1) for free, gratis

title: senpage


text:
anarĥiisto

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) anarchist

title: anarĥiisto


text:
anarĥio

Noun

 * 1) anarchy

title: anarĥio


text:
iwara

Noun

 * 1) track, trail
 * 2) path, road
 * 3) route, way

title: iwara


text:
konfisko

Etymology
From Esperanto, noun form of konfiski.

Noun

 * 1) confiscation

Noun

 * 1) confiscation, seizure

title: konfisko


text:
AIM

Proper noun

 * , a NASA satellite.
 * , the secondary stock market of the ; formerly an
 * , a NASA satellite.
 * , the secondary stock market of the ; formerly an
 * , the secondary stock market of the ; formerly an

title: AIM


text:
kutju

Adverb

 * 1) one
 * 2) alone

title: kutju


text:
konfiski

Etymology
Borrowed from, /, , ultimately from.

Verb

 * 1) to confiscate

title: konfiski


text:
kutjara

Numeral

 * 1)  two

title: kutjara


text:
maṉkurpa

Numeral

 * 1)  three

title: maṉkurpa


text:
tjara

Etymology
From, from.

Noun

 * 1) tar

Etymology
From,.

Noun

 * 1) tar

Adjective

 * 1) some
 * 2) a few

title: tjara


text:
tjuta

Noun

 * 1) bloodwood

Etymology
From, from , from. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Verb

 * 1) to make a piercing, high-pitched sound; to howl, to screech, to wail, to cry, etc.

Usage notes
For a howling wolf, is more idiomatic.

title: tjuta


text:
ninu

Noun

 * 1) bilby

Etymology 1
From

Preposition

 * 1) inside, within
 * 2) among
 * 1) among

Usage notes

 * used when no movement is implied, when movement is implied is used.

Verb

 * 1) to have or possess space inside

title: ninu


text:
palya

Noun

 * 1) shrub or tree species of the subfamily

Noun

 * 1) vegetable

Adjective

 * 1) good, okay
 * 2) correct, proper

Etymology
, ultimately from.

Noun

 * 1) failure; breakdown

title: palya


text:
User talk:Connel MacKenzie/archive-2006-09

 * If you are here at the top of the page, you are lost. Go here instead.

WP link on WT:RFV
I was just about to delete the link to WP:AFD at the top of WT:RFV as some kind of strange vandalism, until I noticed that you're the one who put it there. Did you have a reason in mind? —scs 23:54, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

 * Of course...it is in place (with a handful or two others) for inter-project cooperation. We get most of our visitors here from there.  Of those visitors passing through, who normally find themselves comfortable in any wiki environment, it is kindof pointless to aggravate them by not having the expected shortcuts.  And that much nicer, if they actually go to the correct, corresponding place here.  --Connel MacKenzie 02:04, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

 * I still don't understand why someone at Wiktionary's requests for verification would need a quick link to Wikipedia's requests for deletion, but if you say so... —scs 13:21, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

 * I completely misunderstood your question. You are talking about the  link in section 0 of WT:RFV?  I didn't find a particularly good place for that - but the intent was to find entries that are marked for deletion on Wikipedia (when someone comes along claiming that something must be a word, since Wikipedia has it - cleverly omitting the fact that Wikipedia hasn't deleted it yet.)  Yes, remove it if you think it is just too goofy.  --Connel MacKenzie 16:24, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

Spanish inflection templates
There are various Spanish templates that you be helpful on pages like jugador. See http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:Spanish_inflection_templates. Good luck!

 * Thank you very much - but I don't speak Spanish. So I'm only doing the simple changes that are required to make the ==Spanish== required headings recognizable (i.e. removing blanks at end of lines!) and other minor obvious things.  I hope that someone (like you?) can make them better.  --Connel MacKenzie 23:50, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

IRCery
Your IRC logs must be more extensive then mine, the most incriminating thing I've found was the fact that I told FN that my Email addr was "fake@dontspamme.com". 68.39.174.238 16:36, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

 * Well, I'd e-mail you the logs...if you had an account that I could click on "E-mail this user"... --Connel MacKenzie 16:44, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

 * Just let me know a distinctive phrase that was used during the conversation or in the background and I'll search my logfile directory; I may already have it. 68.39.174.238 16:48, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

 * Whoever said that was a noxious troll and impersonator. I've NEVER created an account on Wiktionary with intent to contribute with it, and for that matter have probably never created an account on Wiktionary at all. 68.39.174.238 23:21, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

"Nihili"
I believe the correct spelling is nihil. And, may I ask (since no one else seems to care) why you are blocking those addresses? The word you used seems to imply worthlessness, but I'm not sure if you understand it. . .--Hurray MH 09:11, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

MacKenzieBot
. Cheers, — Vildricianus 11:21, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Thank you. --Connel MacKenzie 18:52, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

artifical
You made a weird assertion here. I don't think it is any kind of Americanism, just a popular misspelling. artificial is most certainly the correct word, also in AmE. — Vildricianus 11:48, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

 * Argh. --Connel MacKenzie 13:55, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

User talk:24.147.125.48
This is me, I've redirected the page. See Synonym!  Cheers! // Fra nkB 23:49, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

RU around? // Fra nkB 03:57, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

Mediawiki:Recentchangestext
Um, "Insclusion" ? Robert Ullmann 04:55, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

?
Was the "thank you" you left on my talk page meant for me, or someone else? —scs 19:28, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

 * Ah. Thanks for the pointers, but I would never use a template to welcome someone, anyway.
 * (And at any rate, mine wasn't a welcome; he'd already been welcomed, so to speak.) —scs 20:23, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

Curly apostrophe
Please note that on en.wikt:, the ASCII apostrophe "'" is the only character we use in headwords.

The entry itself can use the "correct" apostrophe on the inflection line (and should) but article linking never works correctly when it is in the headword.

--Connel MacKenzie 15:58, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

 * I was not aware that it was never used in headwords, and I don't understand the reason: linking should not be a problem, if the redirection (ascii -> curly) is systematic. Is there some other reason I don't see? Lmaltier 16:12, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

 * Yes, the curly apostrophe doesn't work in "search." The Lucene search may have fixed this part-time, but the Lucene search is not always turned on (and is never up-to-date.)  See Beer parlour archive/July-September 05.  --Connel MacKenzie 16:37, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

 * Hmm... random observation - if there is a redirect, couldn't a person just search for the word with an ASCII apostrophe, and the search would find it; and redirect the person to the correct page? Or does the search function not include redirect pages in the results? Beobach972 01:52, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

 * Part of the problem is that there are five different searches. Go/Search when server load is low, Go/Search when server load is high and google search when performance is atrocious.  The Lucene search is a subset of the "search" functionality; I'm unclear what the circumstances are for that to be invoked.  --Connel MacKenzie 02:00, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

 * By "headword" do you mean the word in bold in the section under the part of speech, variously known here as the "headword section" or the "inflection line"? Or do you mean the "article title"? "Headword" is dictionary jargon. "Article title" is a wiki term. — Hippietrail 01:38, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Article title. --Connel MacKenzie 01:45, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

RE: Blankscreen
Thanks. The reboot seems to have solved the problem.

72.129.35.252 05:27, 10 September 2006 (UTC) NickW557 on Wikipedia English

Revisions
Recently I extended underwrite and undertake just to find you've replayed my changes. Regarding underwrite, it does have an intransitive form, so why not adding it? For the collocations, I believe they make a lot of sense for learners and disambiguate the words use in context. 09:07, 10 September 2006 (CET) Christian Kissig

Template:Babel-1
Sorry to modify your userpage in Wikipedia (several times). The template:Babel-1 is phasing out and may be removed in future (I'm not sure if it'd be removed, but currently it is a redirection).--Hello World! 14:51, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

air brake
Hello,

We don't use Wikipedia-style redirects here. (And you were missing a space before the   anyhow.)  On the English Wiktionary, [[air brake is supposed to have it's own (brief) entry.  --Connel MacKenzie 22:51, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

 * I see, thank you very much. I assume its entry should be something like "alternate spelling", but can you direct me to the proper page to learn about formating these kind of entries? - Trevor MacInnis 22:55, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

 * I don't think we have anything beyond Entry layout explained, off hand. I'll enter it now, so you can get the idea.  --Connel MacKenzie 23:01, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

Page protection
I think the Wikipedia page you asked about is w:Wikipedia:Requests for page protection. Thanks for protecting the Javascript.

Have you considered having an equivalent of w:Wikipedia:Requests for administrator attention or is Wiktionary talk:Administrators intended for such requests? --Hroðulf 10:24, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

 * Usually that kind of stuff went on this page :-). Most admin-related things are discussed on the Beer parlour, or noted at WT:VIP, but I'm not opposed to the idea of making such page. — Vildricianus 12:39, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

 * Well this is a smaller community. Perhaps the equivalent shortcuts should point to WT:BP for now?  --Connel MacKenzie 13:14, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

Pardon the stressed out reaction
In this nebulous digital wikiWorld one can sometimes get over involved; I'm usually on my guard against such, but going into last weekend snuck up on me. I've spent literally days hour on hour revamping the initial system, and like so many things, it just got to be a bit too much to hit a new frustration. So I took a few days off, least I continue the daze!  In anyevent, I was just dropping in to fix a typo I'd unearthed, and wasn't supposed to be wiki-ing anything today as well until sometime this evening... instead the whole day has been on Meta and the commons, with an email to Jimbo Wales for spice, as he finally got back to me on something relating to category interlinking... the direct ancester of the templates scheme, but one more important by far, as it's also interlingual, but needs system software upgrades, which is where Jimbo enters into it. I want him to kick it around with the rest of the board and the programmers that can answer the issues I haven't yet devined... or not knowing enough, can only present with a rough sketch of what needs to happen. So apologies.

Apologies on the email if you can't find that either. I saw my copy of it somewhere during the last two days, and early this evening at the latest (I'm at 3:48 EDST, Boston, MA area), I'll track it down again and resend. I just looked and came up empty, which means nothing first pass. My email filters are pretty complex, but at the moment, I'm rushed. TTFN // Fra nkB 19:49, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

 * Just checking in to say about the best laid plans of mice and Frank's... which is to say haven't had a chance to dig for the email, and the wife collared me for Honey-Do-this list stuff much of the evening, so I'm still trying to work my way back to Meta. Just dropping off an updated piece of documentation, so I thought I'd give you a status. I doubt now I'll get to it tonight... I hear my pillow calling pretty steadily! See what I can do tomarrow. TTFN // Fra nkB 04:30, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

Article creation templates
Thanks - much easier to find these things now! bd2412 T 03:03, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

bicker
Why did you revert my edit in bicker? Sergei 07:03, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

 * Because I made a mistake. I thought I saw a different spelling.  I've rolled back my mistake, to your correct version, now.  Thanks for pointing it out!  --Connel MacKenzie 07:11, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

re Thank you
So you didn't run a bot to filter out any trusting souls that had already voted for everyone then, before spamming us ;-)

Actually, that would only have removed about 5 of us, and the info you gave was useful too, so we might have felt left out if you had!

I followed the "trusting" approach myself, of reading the user pages, waiting until someone I trusted had voted for the person, and then copying them, even if I'd never heard of the person I was voting for. So it's always a relief to get some more positive info.

Well done for chasing anyway, and well done for topping the poll for the last few days -- I am obviously not the only one who values your energy in checking up on vandals! --Eng in ear 13:06, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

 * I started out with that, only wishing to individually thank each person that supported me. :-)  I am very happy to see progress being made!  --Connel MacKenzie 16:45, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

WF
With you as a CheckUser, WF is never going to be able to sneak back into Wiktionary! Whether or not that is a good thing is arguable. I know you're gonna rollback this message anyway, but nevermind. --86.134.15.80 00:10, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

 * See now, the range-block is not in effect, mainly so that you can register your vote against me on WT:C. :-)     Congratulations on gaining your "parole" status on WZ.  --Connel MacKenzie 01:01, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

 * Lol, you caught KEStock! That was impressive. WF is even noticed when (s)he tries to sneak in by feigning knowlege of the parasympathetic nervous system and phenolphthalein! Come on though, acetylcholine chloride being WF? Surely not! It disheartens WF. But still, WF finds it weird how no other promising new user has been mis-blocked as a suspected WF sock. I guess newcomers aren't as good at editting as WF. Sigh, there is no point in trying here anymore. WF'll see you around soon, but will not be around here much these days, (s)he has first "proper job" starting tomorrow, with a multinational computer firm. And in case you care, WF just got blocked on the French Wikipédia for the first time too, making a couple of silly edits after 3000 good ones (went for admin too, but that failed miserably). Keep on trucking Connel. --Wellinton 22:52, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

Verb or Verb form
I can understand why someone replaces the heading Verb with Verb Form. The principle states that every Verb should use the en-verb template. But the problem seems that there is NO en-verb variant for verb forms, it is limited to lemmas. The same holds for the en-noun template which can't be used for a Noun in the plural (e.g. abbeys). So, there are two basic options: you extend the templates, or you change the headings (Verb form for Verb, Noun form for Noun). In the Wiktionary guidelines I can't find a list of accepted Headings and their meanings. Although there is constant discussion on these matters: is traffic light (see its Talk page) a Noun or a Noun phrase or something else? Is Sunday a Noun or a Proper noun? And so on. It would be good that these questions were discussed (and solved) in a central place (and not in some unexpected corner). That could avoid discussions with people who do edits in good faith! - Jan, 16 September 2006

 * Hello. I agree.  The "standard" headings were discussed last year and agreed to by most (if not all?) of the contributors.  Heading standards were again discussed this year.  But those were pushed to WT:GP and somewhat out of the main spotlight.

 * As I tried to explain, my heavy-handed block was a result of my misunderstanding how the AWB bot functions. Of course I know he is not only a good faith contributor, but an excellent contributor.  I expect I will have some bad Karma to work off, for that one, for a while.  --Connel MacKenzie 05:47, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

WZ
WZ? SemperBlotto 07:06, 16 September 2006 (UTC)
 * http://wiktionaryz.org/ --Connel MacKenzie 07:08, 16 September 2006 (UTC)
 * More specifically, http://wiktionaryz.org/index.php?title=Special%3AListusers&group=wikidata&username=Dangherous --Connel MacKenzie 07:12, 16 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Do they know? SemperBlotto 07:14, 16 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Gerard does, if that's what you mean. --Connel MacKenzie 02:26, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

Importing from Wikipedia
Hi, I have some questions and a bit of info regarding transwikiing/importing to wikipedia, it's been suggested to me that you're a good person to discuss this with. First, the Move to Wiktionary template and categories on wikipedia have been renamed, the list of articles to be transwikied is now at Wikipedia:Category:Copy to Wiktionary. (There are about 500 articles in that category now, if you or someone else wants to get them) My questions are about the new Import procedure. As importing will now be replacing transwikiing, will the process be completed on the wikipedia side when Importing from wikipedia? The import function apparently doesn't do anything on the wikipedia side, but if the transwiki tag isn't removed from the wikipedia article, or if a notation isn't left on the wikipedia transwiki log, this will cause problems. I don't have a wiktionary account, I am Wikipedia:User:Xyzzyplugh.

 * I left several similar (misplaced?) questions myself on Wikipedia. Since I have automated the Special:Import function on this (the Wiktionary) side, would you (Wikipedia) like me to tag those entries with my bot, as they are imported?  If so, how should they be tagged?  Just replace the  template with some other template?
 * P.S. By 'automated' I mean that my script will pull a list from w:CAT:MtW (I guess I should update that) and import them all, as soon as I start the script. So far, I've only run it twice.
 * --Connel MacKenzie 02:25, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
 * There is no tag that can be added to the wikipedia article itself after transwikiing. There is, however, the Wikipedia:Template:Transwikied_to_Wiktionary template, which can be added to the wikipedia article's talk page.  However, in looking at it, I'm not sure it's accurate any longer since it provides links which won't be accurate if Import is used.  What really needs to be done, whether this template is added or not, is for the original transwiki tag to be removed from the article, and for a notation to be added to the wikipedia transwiki log, at Wikipedia:Wikipedia:Transwiki log/Articles moved from here/en.wiktionary.  Is it possible for your bot to do this?  I'm not sure how familiar with wikipedia you are, so I'll explain: If the transwiki tag (Move to Wiktionary/Copy to Wiktionary) isn't removed from the article, then it will stay in the category of articles to be moved, and no one will know it's been transwikied already.  If the tag is removed, but no notation is left in the transwiki log, this is a problem for a number of reasons.  The wikipedia article once transwikied should now be deleted, or expanded, rewritten, redirected, or whatever, but without the notation in a central location, the transwiki log, no one will be notified that this needs to be done.  And there's a chance then that the "move to wiktionary" tag will be put back on the article again since it will still be just a dictionary definiton. Wikipedia:User:Xyzzyplugh

 * Thank you. That is exactly the explanation I was looking for.  Adding to the Transwiki log was problematic to me, but I suppose if I just add a new section (with no section title) that will be sufficient?  I've just created w:User:CopyToWiktionaryBot that I'll request approval for when I figure out the method over there.  Removing the template from those articles is very straight-forward.  I'll experiment with the title-less section adding in a little bit.  --Connel MacKenzie 03:00, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
 * As long as the information is added to the transwiki log, that's the important thing, I don't think the section title really matters. Right now they're all just called "section break", but any title at all would be fine, someone could always change it later if they wanted differently named sections or bigger/smaller sections or whatever.  Wikipedia:User:Xyzzyplugh

 * OK, I just added that log entry for the ones I forgot about (but did import) on 12 August 2006. The ones before that, someone else had kindly added to the log/cleaned up.  I'll generate the logfile section entry as a single file with each run, then just paste the result over there.

 * My lingering question is about the tag removal. At what point is it ok to remove the  tag?  After the log entry is made, right?  --Connel MacKenzie 03:15, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

 * UGH! Man, it sure would help if w:Template:Move to Wiktionary were never subst:'d!  What a mess, to regex that whole thing!  --Connel MacKenzie 03:35, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

 * If you could rally your troops in support of w:Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/CopyToWiktionaryBot I'd appreciate it. --Connel MacKenzie 05:45, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

Two things: First, I've long been throwing things out of the transwikification queue, by simply removing the notice (or replacing it with ), if Wiktionary already has an article, on the grounds that (a) Wiktionary's home-grown articles are in my experience generally already better dictionary articles than anything that Wikipedia grows and (b) editors who want to improve Wiktionary can and should come and edit the existing article directly. Wiktionary is a wiki too, after all. Second, I made the transwiki logs simple for 'bots to deal with on all projects. All that a 'bot needs to do is append a single line to the end of the page, in a standard format across all projects. The section headings are for the benefits of humans editing the logs, and thus humans add them by hand where they think that they require them. Uncle G 11:13, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

Primetime
Any idea why the Primetime links are no longer listed on WP:LTA?
 * Well, based on this edit, it looks like the subpages were alllegedly converted to categories six weeks ago -- except there's no such category as promised. I left a note on the talk page asking what the hell is going on there. --Calton 13:54, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

parsing translations
In the bot policy in limbo thread, you mentioned
 * 5. translations from other language Wiktionaies should be imported
 * 6. translations from here should generate entries

I've been thinking about the possibility of doing something like that, too. But have you thought about it in detail? I'm thinking that our translations are going to be very tricky to mechanically parse, especially when there are several sections for distinct senses (as, of course, there are supposed to be). I'm wondering if there are suggestions we could make about the canonical formatting (and templatizing) of translations sections that would make mechanical parsing easier -- or if, perhaps, there are already sufficient well-estabilhed regularities that I just haven't noticed yet. —scs 15:53, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

 * When I mentioned that, it was needlessly, pointlessly inciteful. That topic is still a raw wound.  When I first proposed User:TheCheatBot, I figured I'd have it generate entries for all the various inflections and combinations of inflections.  To live up to its name, I figured I'd combine all my entry-generation tasks.  Seemed logical at the time.  But yes, I certainly did think about it in detail (it is much more complicated, than for, say, three senses of one English word.  You also have to pick up the translations from other English words that match...like my original proposal.)

 * The resulting flamewars were mind-boggling.

 * Translations, most of all, were the most downtrodden of all my proposals. Several people were insanely vocal in their opposition to my creating stubs from existing translation entries.  (I.e., if a translation is listed for three separate English words, generate that definition for whatever language, with those three definition lines.)  I never fully understood why their opposition was so vehement (which is precisely why they would oppose a resubmission of the same concept now, presumably.)  These same valued contributors don't seem to understand that this is a wiki - and that once a stub is entered, the expansion of the entry is easier.

 * The translations "issue" was simply the most demoralizing aspect of Wiktionary I have encountered, to date. (Way worse, than say, the ten months of dealing with the goatse vandal, or the wheel warring with Ec/Ncik.)  I do not wish to unearth the WT:BP archives on the topic, nor revive that conversation in any way.

 * --Connel MacKenzie 16:04, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

 * Well, without reopening the thorny political issues, let me say that
 * I was probably one of the ones arguing against bot-entered translations, but I've since pretty much changed my mind. But at any rate
 * I was here musing (and asking) only about the narrow technical question of whether our existing translations are feasibly mechanically parseable at all, not about any of the politically-laden questions about then using the mechanically-parsed data to drive any entry- or translation-entering bot processes here. —scs 16:28, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

 * OK then, (re-read original question.) OK, well, "properly" formatted translation sections are broken out into the different "glosses" and those glosses were what I was going to enter, each on a separate "#" line, for generated translation entries.  --Connel MacKenzie 16:37, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

Editing hint needed
Hi there. I am picking your brains as a well known manipulator of data. I want to add a list of ===Derived terms=== to function. By copy/pasting from a number of sources, I have created a simple text file of about 300 terms. Each term starts on a new line. Almost every term has a space character within it. Every one ends with a space character. I want to add * to the front of each term, and replace each trailing blank with. Is there an easy way to do that? I have all the standard Windows software (Word, Wordpad, Notepad) SemperBlotto 21:24, 18 September 2006 (UTC) OK. I figured it out. I just need to split it into columns tomorrow. SemperBlotto 22:02, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

 * Windows, eh? If you are in the mood for a small (safe) download, I recommend http://www.context.cx/ or http://www.textpad.com/.  Both have macro functions, making repetitive text editing much less painful.  (E.g. record a macro of the keystrokes you use to edit/format one line, move cursor to next line, stop recording, then play back your recording "multiple, until end of file.")  The first time you record a macro, it will take you a few minutes to figure out.  (Helps to have someone on skype or irc to walk you through it.)  Thereafter, you can reformat files like that in just a couple seconds.  (Essentially, about as long as it takes you to edit that first line to your satisfaction.)  *nix has many, many, many more tools for doing those sorts of manipulations (vi, emacs, sed, or shell language or programming language of your choice.)  Within each of those options, of course, there are dozens of ways to do a simple repetitive manipulation like that.  I shall forever wonder why Windows/MS discourages scripting of repetitive tasks...seems exactly like what computers were invented for, in the first place.  --Connel MacKenzie 00:40, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

 * Oh, I ran my offline top4^wiki routine to balance those columns. --Connel MacKenzie 01:07, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Well done. If I had been back on IBM mainframes I could also have done it with one command! SemperBlotto 07:03, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

 * Windows has little support for the scripting of repetitive tasks because the presumption is that users would rather do tasks repetitively than learn more-sophisticated techniques for automating them. (And there's unfortunately some evidence in favor of this presumption.)  The automatic insistence on automating a repetitive task, the fear and loathing of performing tedious tasks by hand, the love of learning, using, and/or building new tools for ever-more-conveniently automating ever more things -- these are all hallmarks of the programmer, the engineer, and the nurd.  (See also the "assumes that you are intelligent" paragraph in this screed.)

 * Semper, if you're inclined to explore automation like this, and if you go back far enough to have experience of IBM mainframes, how is it you've never used Unix or Linux? If you'd like to dip a big toe into the water without actually downloading and installing a distro or abandoning Windows, you should definitely give Cygwin a whirl.  It's a one-click download that gives you (among many other things) a Unix shell in a Windows window.  The first things I'd learn about would be cat, pipes, grep, diff, and sed. —scs 15:40, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
 * I've used Unix (administered Sybase on it at Tesco (for Home Shopping)) and didn't like it. Anyway, at my age I'm not really interested in learning much more and I've had decades of programming already (Fortran, Cobol, PL/1, Assembler, various flavours of SQL, C++ etc). Enough is enough! SemperBlotto 16:05, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

plural of
isn't wikifying the singular word anymore. Any idea why not? SemperBlotto 09:02, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Sorry. Figured it out - doesn't give red links! SemperBlotto 09:06, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

Can you please add wikisaurus link to idiot?
Please add to the top of the English section of idiot, which you sprotected. (I'm new. Someone added synonyms to dumbass on WP, which gave me the idea to come over here and add them.)

PS: It seems to me Wiktionary is sometimes notably slower than WP. Is that generally true, or does it vary widely? I may well be biased, in that I haven't been here long. TransUtopian 15:42, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

 * Even better, I'll unprotect it, so you can edit do it.

 * I've noticed that the en.wiktionary page serving is usually much faster than WP. The smaller DB size is undoubtedly the reason.  But the smaller user base means that we address certain types of problems slower - is that what you meant?  Well, welcome to Wiktionary.  Enjoy!  --Connel MacKenzie 17:24, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

 * Thanks! Done. I meant I was getting 30 second load times here on few but notable occasions. But then again, while today WP's been pretty fast, I've often gotten 30+ second load times there too the past few weeks, so it's probably just my perception or network traffic. I'll mention it on the Pump here if it gets systemic. TransUtopian 17:54, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

 * Well, indeed, today it does seem rather awful. http://www.nedworks.org/~mark/reqstats/reqstats-hourly.png  --Connel MacKenzie 18:04, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

 * Interesting. Is that your own personal stats/server, one owned by Wikimedia, or are they the same thing? I found out those weird names are various Wikimedia servers around the globe, but the graph measures thousands of requests per second. How do the number of requests/sec (clients -> server?) correlate to server response time? TransUtopian 20:42, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

 * While the "language random redirects" do run on my home server, nothing else does. Mark is WMF's newest employee and I have no clue where he has www.nedworks.org physically located.  I do not know where statistic are kept for "server response time" although I've heard rumors that those are collected somewhere too.  Server layout diagrams may be helpful too.

 * I have found that if a page is loading for more than 5-10 seconds, it is stuck. Pressing (esc) then ^R will then usually load the page instantly.  --Connel MacKenzie 20:49, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

 * Thanks for the explanation and diagrams. Especially the latter are more pretty colours and shapes than something I bring my head around, but I have an inkling. :) Thanks for reminding me about Ctrl+R to reload. I'd gotten attached to Opera's mouse gestures, but the "up-down" to reload has come to work less than half the time. TransUtopian 11:39, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

 * I never did "get it" with mouse gestures. The few times I did try it, it seemed very, very clever.  But how one remembers just what the gestures are seemed just too problematic.  Plus, I'm one of the keyboard holdout types.  Whenever possible, I will use a keyboard shortcut, instead of reaching over to the mouse.  Given a choice of memorizing gestures, vs. keystrokes, I'll choose keystrokes every time.  --Connel MacKenzie 17:03, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

I'm a keyboard guy too. It started when I became too lazy to clean my mouse. :) I still love and use the keyboard much of the time, including mouse keys, but I still use the mouse for some stuff, including a few Opera mouse gestures. The one I use most often is Go up one folder on a website (up-left), partly because I don't see a keyboard shortcut for it. TransUtopian 19:33, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

 * That is a good one. I don't use Opera enough.  When I do, it is usually on my laptop; gestures don't work so great on a mouse pad.  :-(  For that one, I usually just edit the location directly.  Sadly, since becoming a sysop, my ALT-D key has been usurped by the [delete page] button.  I haven't found a memorable key to remap that to, as they are pretty much all taken.  So, to get to the location, I...have to use the mouse!  Gah.  --Connel MacKenzie 20:58, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

Cheers for the welcome, especially the Beer Parlour link.

I only use a few gestures, though all except Reload work fine on the pad. What browser do you frequent? I know IE6 uses ALT-D to focus on the address bar, because a few sites don't work with my older Opera. (I could upgrade for free, but I never upgrade until compelled because little things are sometimes bloated, moved or removed. If Opera 9 has a "Go up all/to root folder" shortcut, I might upgrade. :)

A couple tricks I love:

Go back/forward (Z/X, Alt-Left/Right Arrow, Mouse: Hold right button & click left/hold left & click right). The latter methods sometimes work for cycling ahead through pages/images you haven't even visited yet, like in this West Wing recap.

Navigate through links: Shift-Up, Down, Left, or Right Arrow. If it bypasses a link, Ctrl-Up or Down. TransUtopian 14:14, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

 * I completely forgot until I did it automatically, that Ctrl-Backspace is Opera's Go up one folder. Weird how the mind forgets but the body remembers. TransUtopian 15:44, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

rfv: siting
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/siting lists it as a verb form. I've removed the rfv tag. RJFJR 13:13, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

Arguments in template.
Connel, how exactly does one put arguments in a template? Specifically, I'd like to set up Template:new en plural so that I can add a tag at the end to place irregular plurals in the right category (e.g., the placement would look like directory and would put the entry in Category:English irregular plurals ending in "-ies". bd2412 T 13:41, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Nice! Can you also make it default to Category:English plurals if no additional argument is made? bd2412 T 13:52, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Many thanks! bd2412 T 13:55, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

New complaint - the template now drops the following code in the article:   It doesn't show up, but is it necessary for it to be there for the argument to work? bd2412 T 02:38, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

 * Um, I didn't invent this kluge. Anyhow, yes, it does need to be there.  The process of saving the entry is the action that removes all traces of it.  If you are done doing that group of special cases, then perhaps it should be removed from the template, so it doesn't confuse newcomers.  --Connel MacKenzie 02:41, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

 * If you'd like to read up on the various bits of magic in use, see Magic words and ParserFunctions. Just keep in mind the massive negative reaction these things have so far received, before throwing too much in, here and there.  --Connel MacKenzie 02:48, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

FYI
Don't feel bad about "forgetting" -- it had never existed before. —scs 15:19, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

siting
your message:

Without even commenting on WT:RFV? What? The RFV tag is for navigation, to the right part of the discussion page.

Dictionary.com, m-w.com and especially the OED are all known to have errors. That's one reason we have. --Connel MacKenzie 13:21, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

 * Sorry, the yellow background made it hard for me to see that it was a link and I missed. RJFJR 17:45, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

Why create an account
Started it. - TheDaveRoss 06:34, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

 * It's beautiful. --Connel MacKenzie 06:39, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

The Catch-22 of Banning
I know I mentioned this in my e-mail, but I really didn't see anything in your response about it.

If an IP address is banned of a unregistered user, unless someone is clever enough to use a friends computer or a proxy site it is impossible for them to appeal a ban. You need an account to appeal an IP block. But, you can't create an account while your IP is blocked. It is a catch-22 situation.

I don't know if you have any capability of fixing this, but I thought mentioning it to you would be the best way to either get it fixed or find someone who can get it fixed. --The Resistance 21:35, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

 * That is why the "email this user" button should be turned on for all administrators, as it is for Connel. As you can see, it worked. - TheDaveRoss 21:38, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

 * Erm, not quite, TheD.

 * The only viable work-around I've seen so far, is for sysops to post their e-mail address on their User: and User talk: pages. I'm setting up a gmail account now, for precisely that purpose.  --Connel MacKenzie 21:43, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

 * Done. Mailto:SomeWiktAdmin@gmail.com.  --Connel MacKenzie 22:24, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

WT:VOTE
I'd appreciate it if you could try submitting (and/or resubmitting) some voting policy votes. I'm particularly interested in how easy or hard it is, to make a new nomination. I suspect that the choice of the six different buttons may be counter-intuitive. So, suggestions on how to simplify it are appreciated. Thanks in advance. --Connel MacKenzie 18:29, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

 * Sorry, this isn't interesting to me, so I suggest you find some other beta testers.

 * My first-glance reaction -- but this is just me, and may not apply to anyone else -- is that it's too complicated, and therefore offputting. Moreover, it's too complicated because of the attempt at automating it in an attempt to make it "simpler".

 * Me, I know how to add a new section to a discussion page, and if that's all a new vote should require, then that's all I want to do. Fancy subpage schemes involving transcluded templates and extra automation -- even if the templates and automation are supposed to make things simpler -- sometimes just make me throw up my hands and say "eh, never mind".

 * (Sorry for the unsupportive response, but I'm just calling 'em like I see 'em...) —scs 23:35, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

 * Thanks for the feedback. I'm sure I had the same initial response, the first time I saw the sub-page method used.  However, there are compelling reasons for using it for WT:VOTE.  The results of the various votes have longer-lasting importance.  If someone wishes to dispute an aspect of a particular vote, (perhaps to start a new one) the details of the previous vote need to be somewhere.  For nomination votes, the votes need to be on both pages.

 * The reasons I wanted you to try one, is many-fold. I know you are interested in solidifying policy issues.  That is what the page is for.  I wanted you to see the help-introductions (which you can't see unless you try one.)  You also expressed something about the lack of voting policy on that first vote.  But your comment was slightly too abstract for me to address.  etc.

 * Please do reconsider. I'd appreciate it if you took a look.  --Connel MacKenzie 01:12, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

milestones
I see two milestones have been missed. Almost certainly both Spanish verb forms via bot. SemperBlotto 10:51, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

Re: marking edits as patrolled
Thank you, but last I looked I wasn't a sysop ... I haven't been nominated; and it is some serious work (although the more responsible people share it the easier it is). Robert Ullmann 21:31, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

 * You're not? Ooops.  --Connel MacKenzie 22:21, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

Bot?
I've just been informed that if a definition has the plural of template on it and no text that is wikilinked, then the argument should be wikilinked. Something about avoiding the list of pages that don't have any links on them and that template being able to handle wikilinked arguments as optional. Is this something worth putting on your 'bots to do' list? (I think Isaw you were planning on doing a plural and third form bot). RJFJR 17:25, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

 * Thanks yes, I'm having User:TheCheatBot do that, as it is the bot that created the majority of those entries (therefore it was its responsibility to fix them.) I do not know how often I'll rerun that task.  The remaining entries are of sufficiently low volume that it may not be necessary.  --Connel MacKenzie 20:11, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

votes bug
It's late so can't be bothered to work out how to fix this myself. The oppose section in Votes suggests subst:support. :-) MGSpiller 00:11, 30 September 2006 (UTC)


text: zehi

title: zehi


text: ぜひ

title: ぜひ


text:
是非

Noun

 * 1) right and wrong
 * 2) dispute; quarrel; conflict
 * 3)  gossip
 * 1) dispute; quarrel; conflict
 * 2)  gossip
 * 1)  gossip

Synonyms

Verb

 * 1)  to praise and censure; to pass judgment on; to comment; to remark

Noun

 * 1) right and wrong

Adverb

 * 1) certainly, without fail, by all means
 * 2)  please

title: 是非


text:
kunga

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1) A kind of equid in ancient Mesopotamia.

title: kunga


text: zehitomo

title: zehitomo


text:
ぜひとも

Adverb

 * 1)  by all means (with the sense of not taking "no" for an answer)

title: ぜひとも


text:
是非とも

Adverb

 * 1) by all means (with the sense of not taking "no" for an answer)

title: 是非とも


text:
是非共

Adverb

 * 1) by all means (with the sense of not taking "no" for an answer)

title: 是非共


text: jìyì

title: jìyì


text:
subspecific epithet

Noun

 * 1)  The third word in the scientific name of a subspecies, following the name of the species, but only in names of bacteria, plants and fungi. It is not used in formal names of animals.

title: subspecific epithet


title: gui3


text:
suprageneric

Adjective

 * 1)  Pertaining to a taxon at a rank above that of genus.

title: suprageneric


text:
photosynthesize

Verb

 * 1) To synthesize carbohydrates from carbon dioxide and water using the energy of light by photosynthesis

Translations

 * Catalan: fotosintetitzar
 * Finnish:
 * Galician: fotosintetizar
 * Kannada: ದ್ಯುತಿಸಂಶ್ಲೇಷಿಸು
 * Welsh: photosyntheseiddio

title: photosynthesize


text:
Talk:firearm

Etymology
Firearm means "fire weapon" but uses the word "arm" which in english does not usually conveys the "eapon" meaning... How come?
 * Arms, armament and armed all pertain to weaponry also. I am not certain of the etymology of "firearm," but "arm" is closely related to "weapon". - TheDaveRoss 19:48, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

Note that the entry for "arm" (Sect. 1.4.1) defines the word as a noun meaning weapon.Terry Thorgaard (talk) 22:05, 20 May 2016 (UTC)

title: Talk:firearm


text:
photoxylography

Noun

 * 1) A process in which a photograph is printed on wood to use as a template for engraving

title: photoxylography


text:
photocompose

Verb

 * 1) To use photocomposition to prepare text for printing

title: photocompose


text:
photocomposition

Noun

 * 1) phototypesetting

title: photocomposition


text:
isochore

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) In general, a place or position with relevant parameters matching other places, as in having the same pressure, chemistry, population etc. Even within a single discipline the parameter might vary according to convenience e.g. in physics alone it might refer to velocity, volume, gravity, and many more. cf. contour, isopleth.
 * 2) * 1887 Anonymous: Engineering, Volume 43 April 29th page 406
 * The numerical results are given from which the authors deduce the relation for constant volume and additional reasons are given for believing acetic acid (whose vapour density at ordinary temperatures is abnormal) to be a mixture of C2H4O2 and C4H804, the former preponderating as the temperature rises. The authors ask the Society for a name to designate lines connecting pressure and temperature at constant volume, and for which they suggested “isochore”...
 * 1)  A line drawn on a graph showing the variation of the pressure of a constant volume of gas as it varies with temperature.
 * 2)  A contour showing points of equal vertical thickness of strata; equal to an isopach if strata are horizontal.
 * 3)  A sequence of DNA that has a reasonably constant proportion of pairs of guanine and cytosine bases, and is rich in genes.
 * 1)  A contour showing points of equal vertical thickness of strata; equal to an isopach if strata are horizontal.
 * 2)  A sequence of DNA that has a reasonably constant proportion of pairs of guanine and cytosine bases, and is rich in genes.
 * 1)  A sequence of DNA that has a reasonably constant proportion of pairs of guanine and cytosine bases, and is rich in genes.
 * 1)  A sequence of DNA that has a reasonably constant proportion of pairs of guanine and cytosine bases, and is rich in genes.
 * 1)  A sequence of DNA that has a reasonably constant proportion of pairs of guanine and cytosine bases, and is rich in genes.

Translations

 * Hungarian: izochor
 * Russian:

 * Greek:
 * Irish:
 * Italian:

title: isochore


text:
phototypesetting

Noun

 * 1) A printing process that generated columns of type on a scroll of photographic paper, using a phototypesetter

Translations

 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: valoladonta
 * Irish: fótachlóchuradóireacht
 * Italian: fotocomposizione
 * Spanish: fotocomposición

title: phototypesetting


text:
phototypesetter

Noun

 * 1) A machine used in phototypesetting.
 * 2) One who phototypesets for their work.
 * 1) One who phototypesets for their work.

Translations

 * Finnish: valoladontakone

 * Finnish: valolatoja

title: phototypesetter


text:
teksto

Etymology
From, perfect passive participle of.

Noun

 * 1) text
 * 2)  lyrics

Noun

 * 1) text

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1) text
 * 2) textbook
 * 1) textbook

title: teksto


text:
tre corde

Etymology
.

Adverb

 * 1)  Musical notation indicating that the player release the soft pedal of the piano. In many pianos, this results in the hammer striking three string rather than one as in.

title: tre corde


text:
una corda

Etymology
From.

Adverb

 * 1)  In piano music, the notation indicating that the player depresses the soft pedal, altering, and reducing the volume of the sound. In many pianos, this results in the hammer striking two strings rather than three as in .  Originally, it would have struck one string, but modern pianos have their strings too close together to achieve a true una corda - the movement of the hammers would result in also hitting the first string of the next note.

title: una corda


text:
smorzando

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Adverb

 * 1)  Fading away.

title: smorzando


text:
sforzando

Noun

 * 1)  A mark that indicates that a note is to be played with a strong initial attack.
 * 2)  A passage having this mark.

Adverb

 * 1)  Played in this style.

Adjective

 * 1)  Describing a passage having this mark.

Etymology
.

title: sforzando


text:
comodo

Etymology
Borrowed from. .

Adverb

 * 1)  Comfortable, that is, at moderate speed.

Etymology
.

Adjective

 * 1) convenient, handy
 * 2) easy, cushy
 * 3) comfortable, snug
 * 4) loose

title: comodo


text:
sackbut

Etymology
From, from +

Noun

 * 1)  A brass instrument from the Renaissance and Baroque Eras, and an ancestor of the modern trombone. It was derived from the medieval slide trumpet.

Translations

 * Catalan:
 * Dutch: baroktrombone
 * Esperanto: renesanctrombono, baroktrombono, sakbuto
 * French:, ,
 * German:, Barockposaune, Renaissanceposaune, Sackbut
 * Italian: sackbut
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: sackbut, barokktrombone
 * Nynorsk: sackbut, barokktrombone
 * Occitan: sacabota
 * Portuguese:
 * Spanish: sacabuche
 * Swedish: barocktrombon

title: sackbut


text:
brass instrument

Noun

 * 1) Any musical instrument whose tone is produced by vibration of the lips as the player blows into a mouthpiece (or tubular resonator).

Translations

 * Armenian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: žesťový nástroj
 * Faroese: blásturljóðføri, blásiljóðføri
 * Finnish: vaskisoitin
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: χάλκινα πνευστά
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: ,
 * Italian: strumento ad ancia
 * Japanese:
 * Macedonian: лимен дувачки инструме́нт
 * Maori: tāonga pūtētere
 * Polish:, instrument dęty blaszany
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ме́дный духово́й инструме́нт,
 * Slovene:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:

title: brass instrument


text:
capriccioso

Etymology
From. Cognate with.

Adverb

 * 1)  capriciously

Etymology
From.

Adjective

 * 1) capricious, whimsical, finicky, naughty, unpredictable

Etymology
.

title: capriccioso


text:
ashplant

Noun

 * 1) An ash sapling.
 * 2)  A walking stick.
 * 3) * 1969, Seamus Heaney, The Outlaw, line 20-21
 * "She'll do," said Kelly and tapped his ash-plant / Across her hindquarters.
 * 1) A stick kept for administering corporal punishment, a cane.
 * "She'll do," said Kelly and tapped his ash-plant / Across her hindquarters.
 * 1) A stick kept for administering corporal punishment, a cane.
 * 1) A stick kept for administering corporal punishment, a cane.

title: ashplant


title: User:61cygni


text:
ashramite

Noun

 * 1)  A person who stays at an ashram

Translations

 * Portuguese: ashramita

title: ashramite


text: polytheisms

title: polytheisms


text:
presorted

Adjective

 * 1)  that has been sorted by postcode prior to transfer to the postal delivery system

title: presorted


text:
presort

Verb

 * 1)  To sort in advance.
 * Mail is presorted by postcode prior to transfer into the postal delivery system.
 * Please presort your waste so that it can be recycled.
 * The algorithm runs faster if the data is presorted.

Translations

 * Dutch:
 * German:

title: presort


text:
hydromancy

Etymology
From or Late, from ; corresponding to.

Noun

 * 1) Divination by water or other liquid.

Translations

 * Finnish: hydromantia
 * French:
 * Middle French: hydromancie
 * Old French: hydromancie
 * Italian: idromanzia
 * Latin: hydromantīa
 * Middle English: hidromancy, idromance, idromancie, ydromance, ydromaunce

title: hydromancy


text:
removalist

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1)  One who advocates the removal of native populations from their land.
 * 2) One who removes (by profession).
 * 3) * 2008 August, Kimberly Turner, Buzz Kill, Atlanta, |%22removalists%22+-intitle:%22removalists%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=b8wHUJW4Oua4iQe51ZX9Aw&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false page 107,
 * At 7:30 am on a flawless April day, bee removalist Mike Sorensen is already in his truck, fending off phone calls.
 * 1)  A person or company who specialises in domestic removals, that is, the transportation of household contents when moving house.
 * 2) * 2005, Chris Cooper, Kym Weatherly (editor), Behind the Private Eye: Surveillance Tales & Techniques, self published, Australia, |%22removalists%22+-intitle:%22removalists%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=b8wHUJW4Oua4iQe51ZX9Aw&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22removalist%22|%22removalists%22%20-intitle%3A%22removalists%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false page 63,
 * It was nearly two hours before there was any further movement, but our wait was richly rewarded as the old Holden returned, together with a large removalist truck.
 * 1) * 2006, Allison Burnett, The House Beautiful: A Novel of High Ideals, Low Morals, and Lower Rent, Avalon Publishing, US, |%22removalists%22%20-intitle%3A%22removalists%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false page 96,
 * I had wanted to spend the previous night at Pip′s place, so that I could be there when the removalists arrived, but Pip nixed the plan, claiming that my presence would distract him from “pack-pack.”
 * 1) * 2011, James Adonis, Corporate Punishment: Smashing the Management Clichs for Leaders in a New World, John Wiley & Sons Australia, |%22removalists%22+-intitle:%22removalists%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=b8wHUJW4Oua4iQe51ZX9Aw&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22removalist%22|%22removalists%22%20-intitle%3A%22removalists%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false page 8,
 * She moved her furniture across without a whimper or a hint of worry. I, on the other hand, hired a removalist just to take my bed from one bedroom to the other.
 * 1) * 2011, Tim Bonyhady, Good Living Street, Allen & Unwin, Australia, |%22removalists%22+-intitle:%22removalists%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=b8wHUJW4Oua4iQe51ZX9Aw&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22removalist%22|%22removalists%22%20-intitle%3A%22removalists%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false page 1,
 * Nineteen thirty-eight was a good year to be a removalist in Vienna. As tens of thousands fled the city following the German annexation of Austria, the Nazis seized their businesses, requiring them to pay punitive departure taxes, prevented them from converting their remaining money into foreign currency and stole much of their art. The refudees were usually able to leave with their other household goods, however, because the Nazis were eager to maintain the pretence that Austria′s Jews were leaving voluntarily, and wanted other countries to take them. The result was a surge in demand for removalists in a city where it was common to rent the same apartment for life.
 * She moved her furniture across without a whimper or a hint of worry. I, on the other hand, hired a removalist just to take my bed from one bedroom to the other.
 * 1) * 2011, Tim Bonyhady, Good Living Street, Allen & Unwin, Australia, |%22removalists%22+-intitle:%22removalists%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=b8wHUJW4Oua4iQe51ZX9Aw&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22removalist%22|%22removalists%22%20-intitle%3A%22removalists%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false page 1,
 * Nineteen thirty-eight was a good year to be a removalist in Vienna. As tens of thousands fled the city following the German annexation of Austria, the Nazis seized their businesses, requiring them to pay punitive departure taxes, prevented them from converting their remaining money into foreign currency and stole much of their art. The refudees were usually able to leave with their other household goods, however, because the Nazis were eager to maintain the pretence that Austria′s Jews were leaving voluntarily, and wanted other countries to take them. The result was a surge in demand for removalists in a city where it was common to rent the same apartment for life.

title: removalist


text:
twincest

Etymology
or.

Noun

 * 1)  incestuous sexual relations between twins, or siblings who look very similar.

title: twincest


text: fishies

title: fishies


title: zha1


title: zha3


text: doggies

title: doggies


text: kitties

title: kitties


text:
kittie

Etymology
From.

title: kittie


text:
Talk:cuckoo

Cukoo
Isn't it also spelled "cukoo"?

title: Talk:cuckoo


text: ashramites

title: ashramites


text:
王子

Noun

 * 1) prince son of a monarch

Noun

 * 1) prince (son of a monarch)
 * 2) a subordinate Kumano shrine

title: 王子


text: おうじ

title: おうじ


text: ōji

title: ōji


text: wángzǐ

title: wángzǐ


text:
Վիքիբառարան

Proper noun

 * 1) Wiktionary

title: Վիքիբառարան


text:
թարգմանել

Etymology
.

Verb

 * 1) to translate

title: թարգմանել


text:
խոսել

Etymology
.

Verb

 * 1) to speak
 * 2) to talk
 * 1) to talk
 * 1) to talk
 * 1) to talk

title: խոսել


text:
քայլել

Etymology
.

Verb

 * 1) to walk; to step; to pace; to go

title: քայլել


text: spoken pauses

title: spoken pauses


title: yi2


title: you2


text: clubmosses

title: clubmosses


text:
whipper

Noun

 * 1) A person or thing that whips.
 * 2) A device that whips a substance, such as cream.

title: whipper


text: whippers

title: whippers


text: whips

title: whips


text:
snipper

Noun

 * 1) Agent noun of to snip; a person or thing that snips.
 * 2) A tool used for snipping.

Noun

 * 1) a shred, a snippet

title: snipper


text: snippers

title: snippers


text:
snipping

Noun

 * 1) The act by which something is snipped or cut.
 * 2) A piece cut off; a clipping.
 * 1) A piece cut off; a clipping.

title: snipping


text:
snips

Noun

 * 1) shears; hand tools used to cut sheet metal and other tough webs
 * 1) shears; hand tools used to cut sheet metal and other tough webs

title: snips


text:
snippy

Etymology
From. Compare 🇨🇬,, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Adjective

 * 1) fragmentary; snipped.
 * 2) irritable; impatient; short-tempered.
 * 3) stingy.

title: snippy


text: snipers

title: snipers


text: kangaroo rats

title: kangaroo rats


text:
分析

Verb

 * 1) to analyze; to review
 * 2) to parse
 * 3)  to separate; to divide
 * 1)  to separate; to divide

Noun

 * 1) analysis; review
 * 2) parsing
 * 1) parsing
 * 1) parsing
 * 1) parsing

Noun

 * 1)  analysis

Verb

 * 1) to analyze

title: 分析


text:
User talk:Strange Islander

Welcome
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title: User talk:Strange Islander


text: ZEV

title: ZEV


text: PZEV

title: PZEV


text: SULEV

title: SULEV


text:
HEV

Related terms

 * hepatitis A virus
 * hepatitis B virus
 * hepatitis C virus
 * hepatitis D virus
 * hepatitis F virus
 * hepatitis G virus

title: HEV


text:
PHEV

Translations

 * Finnish:, , , , , plug-in-hybridi,
 * Japanese: PHEV, プラグインハイブリッド自動車

title: PHEV


text:
Talk:buffalo

What goes wrong with buffalo.jpg?

 * This page is really quite a mess, -and on other wikti's too!- mostly because the word is so ill-defined as it can refer to (at least) three different animals and does so differently in every language... I think we need to start making an inventory of how it is used in various languages before you can make sense of it.

nl:Gebruiker:Jcwf

buffaloe
buffaloe as an alternative spelling? --Keene 18:24, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

Herds
The phrase "Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo" is grammatically correct, and rather cool. It means something like "The bisons (which are from the town of Buffalo), which the bisons from the town of Buffalo deceive, deceive the bisons from the town of Buffalo." --Keene 18:24, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

title: Talk:buffalo


text:
位数

Noun

 * 1)  a number of vertices in a graph; order

title: 位数


text:
サイズ

Etymology 1
From.

Noun

 * 1) size

Etymology 2
From.

Noun

 * 1) scythe

title: サイズ


text:
fembot

Etymology
. Coined by screenwriters Arthur Rowe and in the television series  (1976–1978), specifically in "Kill Oscar" (season 2, episode 5) first broadcast on October 27, 1976.

Noun

 * 1)  A robot in female form.
 * 2)  A female sexbot.
 * 3)  A docile, unthinking and conformist woman.
 * 1)  A female sexbot.
 * 2)  A docile, unthinking and conformist woman.
 * 1)  A female sexbot.
 * 2)  A docile, unthinking and conformist woman.

Translations

 * Esperanto: robotino
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Marathi: फेमबॉट

title: fembot


text:
次数

Noun

 * 1)  degree (of the power of a number, or a variable)
 * 2)  the number of edges that a vertex takes part in; degree

title: 次数


text:
入次数

Etymology
入(in) + 次数(degree)

Noun

 * 1)  indegree

title: 入次数


text:
出次数

Etymology
出 (out) + 次数 (degree)

Noun

 * 1)  outdegree

title: 出次数


text:
有向グラフ

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1)  directed graph

title: 有向グラフ


text:
グラフ

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) chart, graph

Derived terms

 * line chart, line graph
 * bar chart, bar graph
 * pie chart, circular graph
 * stacked bar chart, stacked bar graph

title: グラフ


text:
無向グラフ

Etymology
無(none) + 向(direction) + グラフ(graph)

Noun

 * 1)  undirected graph

title: 無向グラフ


text:
User:Cbrown1023

Hi. (Cbrown1023)
 * Special:Recentchanges
 * Special:Newpages

title: User:Cbrown1023


text:
User talk:Cbrown1023

Welcome
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title: User talk:Cbrown1023


text:
ノード

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) node

title: ノード


title: meng2


text:
chinkara

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * , a species of gazelle found in India, Pakistan and Iran

title: chinkara


text:
first-party

Adjective

 * 1) Of or relating to someone (a ) directly involved in a given, such as a buyer or seller.
 * 2) Of or relating to the plaintiff in a lawsuit.
 * 3)  Of products, created or published by the company responsible for the platform on which it is released (or its internal developers), as opposed to third-party.
 * a first-party video game; a first-party character; first-party hardware
 * a first-party video game; a first-party character; first-party hardware

title: first-party


text: resumés

title: resumés


text: postgrads

title: postgrads


text: filetyping

title: filetyping


text: correlatives

title: correlatives


text:
аек

Adjective

 * 1) waking, sober

title: аек


text:
агу

Noun

 * 1) poison

title: агу


text:
Talk:Brownie point

Etymology
From a system of merits and demerits for railroad employees devised in 1886 by Superintendant George R. Brown of the Fall Brook Railway in New York state which was widely adopted by many American railroads. (see "The Brown and Other Systems of Railway Discipline", by K.J. Norman Browne in the Railway Gazette (London) 1923.)

The etymology entered seems very dubious; does such a publication exist? --Connel MacKenzie 18:28, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

Brownie points is used by the Girl Scout Brownies, but the usage is apparently older than that and the railroad reference. I think the most likely source is the way you earned prizes in Kodak's Brownie Camera Club, starting in 1900; but I can't find any reference that uses the word "point"; I earned points circa 1972, but that could have been derived from some other source. And I never did get enough for a new film roll. Robert Ullmann 21:49, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

 * The work cited (The Browne and Other Systems of Railway Discipline) is used as a reference in an article in BUSINESS AND ECONOMIC HISTORY, Volume Twenty-eight, no. 2, Fall 1999 (see page 11 of the PDF). However, the article doesn't mention anything about Brownie points, and I so far haven't been able to find any transcript of the original work.  A search on "Brownie point" + "Railway Gazette" turns up 0 hits; a search on "Brownie Point" + "London" + "browne" + "railway" turns up less than 10.  One of the links in the latter search points to a site at etymologie.info, which, after a couple of clicks, manages to run to the American Heritage dictionary at Bartleby.com, which provides the etymology that the "railway discipline" one replaced.  On a hunch, I did a search on "Browne point" to see if the term had mutated from that (with people purposely pronouncing the final "e" in a sort of mocking tone).  I ended up filting out "Browne's" (there are a few "Browne's Points" out there, apparently) and "point out" (people named Browne apparently point things out occasionally) and got 85 results.  Although there apparently is a "Browne point" in Gaelic football, or, at least, some sport that the GAA is associated with, the only instance of a "Browne point" being used in the sense of "Brownie point" is here in 2004, which would look more like a typo than a linguistic precursor.  So, um, no support for this that I've found so far... --Dajagr 23:41, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

 * Found a reference to the cited etymology, although I'm not entirely sure how reliable the source in question is. --Dajagr 00:15, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

Taken from Wikipedia:Andrew massyn 20:04, 31 August 2006 (UTC) The OED reports its first appearance in print as 1963, though the origins of the phrase predate this. Its frequent appearance in newspapers in the 1950s date back to the earliest known usage in 1951, where a man in the Los Angeles Times speaks of earning favor with his wife in terms of brownie points."
 * "The Oxford English Dictionary conjectures that this expression could also have derived from U.S. military slang for sycophants, "brownnosers", while mentioning the less-likely but popular etymology that derives it from the awards system of the Brownies Girl Guides/Girl Scouts. "Brownie" itself in the sense of "brown-noser" was in use in the 1940s.

The best book on Brown is by a Browne (KJ Norman). Browne's The Brown and Other Systems of Railway Discipline, London, Railway Gazette, 1923, is a classic. ...

I have moved the definition to the talk page along with this discussion. Andrew massyn 05:42, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

Brownie Point = Brown Noser?
I always thought it was sort of a play on a brown-noser, or arse-kisser, earning their "brownie points"

Why are we back to the Girl Scout etymology?
Seems pretty clear that the term far antedates the Girl Scout Brownies, and that this is the consensus here. Should the entry be reverted? Or did I miss some further discussion/decision? Tmangray 22:03, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

 * I've put the most likely brownnose origin back, leaving the junior Girl Guide details as a likely influence. I don't think we need include all the other guesses.    D b f  i  r  s   21:45, 3 November 2014 (UTC)

title: Talk:Brownie point


text:
агым

Noun

 * 1) flow

title: агым


text:
агыш

Etymology
From. Alternative of,.

Noun

 * 1) tree

Noun

 * 1) flow, stream

title: агыш


text:
굽

Etymology
Of native Jeju origin. Cognate to 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) trunk, stump

Noun

 * 1) hoof (as of horses, cows, etc.)
 * 2) heel (as of shoes)
 * 3) foot (as of bowls)

Derived terms

 * : horse hoof, horseshoe
 * : heel

title: 굽


text:
адаш

Etymology
, compound of. (Modern 🇨🇬).

Noun

 * 1)  namesake person with the same name as another

Noun

 * 1) father
 * 2) older brother

Noun

 * 1) namesake

title: адаш


text:
адашу

Verb

 * 1) to go astray

title: адашу


text:
馬椅

Noun

 * 1)  stepladder

title: 馬椅


text: 马椅

title: 马椅


text: bé-í

title: bé-í


text:
адәм

Noun

 * 1) human

title: адәм


text: Category:Scientists

title: Category:Scientists


text:
айгыр

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) stallion

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) stallion

title: айгыр


text: passels

title: passels


text:
ай

Noun

 * 1)  yes

Etymology
From.

Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 , 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, etc.

Pronunciation

 * (one syllable)
 * (one syllable)
 * (one syllable)

Noun

 * 1) moon
 * 2) month
 * 1) month

Etymology
.

Interjection

 * 1) oh, ah;

Usage notes

 * May often be duplicated or triplicated or used many times.

Etymology
From.

Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 , 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, etc.

Noun

 * 1) moon

Adjective

 * 1) good

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) moon
 * 2) month
 * 1) month

Etymology
From. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, etc.

Noun

 * 1) moon
 * 2) month

Etymology
From, from. Cognates include 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬.

Permic cognates include 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) male animal
 * 2) father, dad

Etymology
From. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, etc.

Noun

 * 1) moon
 * 2) month

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) moon
 * 2) month

Interjection

 * 1) ouch! (it hurts!)

Particle

 * 1)  maybe, or

Noun

 * 1) (English letter) I, i

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) moon

Etymology
From. Compare 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) moon
 * 2) month

Etymology
From. Compare 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) moon
 * 2) month

Etymology
Unknown.

Verb

 * 1)  to create

title: ай


text:
Talk:red cap

Although no definition at all is given, books.google shows "mythical creatures" encyclopedia entry. Does it exist in running text? --Connel MacKenzie T C 05:26, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

 * I put in two citations at redcap and the one Harry Potter citation here. All these instances, however, captitalize "Redcap" or "Red Cap"; I didn't look into any of the encylopedic texts, though.  There is a wikipedia entry on Redcap with a redirect from Red Cap.  Don't know where that source material comes from though. Jeffqyzt 15:19, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

Red Cap A rare member of the English class, these are characterized by having a large rose comb. They are one of the few breeds with red earlobes that lay white-shelled eggs. Content: Chicken Breeds and Varieties (A2880), John L. Skinner, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Redcap - A malevolent goblin easily distinguishable by their namesake red cap, fiery red eyes, claws and iron boots. They often appear as little old men, but can run very fast despite the boots. They reside in castles and watchtowers along the English-Scottish border, but will move their residence to avoid detection. They have sharp eagle’s talons which they use for weapons, but can easily be repelled simply by reading holy verse.

"Lord Foulis sat within his tower, And beside him old Red Cap sly; 'Now tell me thou sprite who art mickle of might, The death that I shall die.'" Minstrelsy of the Border

"Here is an ancient description of the dress of the fairies: 'They wear a red conical cap; a mantle of green cloth inlaid with wild flowers; green pantaloons, buttoned with bobs of silk, and silver shoon. They carry quivers of arrow-slough, and bows made of the ribs of a man buried where "three lairds" lands meet; their arrows are made of bog-reed tipped with white flints and dipped in the dew of hemlock; they ride on steeds whose hoofs would not "dash the dew from the cup of a harebell."'"-Anonymous. Preller assumes, quite as a matter of course, that the red-caps and other minor deities, or house-goblins of a frolicsome brownie character, belong rather to Teutonic and Celtic mythologies than to the Italian.

 * I personally think that the article should be moved to redcap. What is the consensus? moving discussion to August for decision in September. I have put in various cites on this page (above) for consolodation later, once a decision is made. Andrew massyn 08:28, 5 August 2006 (UTC) P.S. :Red Cap is also breed of poultry.

 * Main article at redcap with "alternate spelling" pointing back agrees with me just fine, as there doesn't seem to be a preponderance of usage in either direction. However, I think the Harry Potter reference (which splits it) is likely to produce more inquiries for the short term.  We should probably also add in red-cap while we're at it.  Jeffqyzt 01:21, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

title: Talk:red cap


text:
Talk:redcap

Although no definition at all is given, books.google shows "mythical creatures" encyclopedia entry. Does it exist in running text? --Connel MacKenzie T C 05:26, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

 * I put in two citations at redcap and the one Harry Potter citation here. All these instances, however, captitalize "Redcap" or "Red Cap"; I didn't look into any of the encylopedic texts, though.  There is a wikipedia entry on Redcap with a redirect from Red Cap.  Don't know where that source material comes from though. Jeffqyzt 15:19, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

Red Cap A rare member of the English class, these are characterized by having a large rose comb. They are one of the few breeds with red earlobes that lay white-shelled eggs. Content: Chicken Breeds and Varieties (A2880), John L. Skinner, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Redcap - A malevolent goblin easily distinguishable by their namesake red cap, fiery red eyes, claws and iron boots. They often appear as little old men, but can run very fast despite the boots. They reside in castles and watchtowers along the English-Scottish border, but will move their residence to avoid detection. They have sharp eagle’s talons which they use for weapons, but can easily be repelled simply by reading holy verse.

"Lord Foulis sat within his tower, And beside him old Red Cap sly; 'Now tell me thou sprite who art mickle of might, The death that I shall die.'" Minstrelsy of the Border

"Here is an ancient description of the dress of the fairies: 'They wear a red conical cap; a mantle of green cloth inlaid with wild flowers; green pantaloons, buttoned with bobs of silk, and silver shoon. They carry quivers of arrow-slough, and bows made of the ribs of a man buried where "three lairds" lands meet; their arrows are made of bog-reed tipped with white flints and dipped in the dew of hemlock; they ride on steeds whose hoofs would not "dash the dew from the cup of a harebell."'"-Anonymous. Preller assumes, quite as a matter of course, that the red-caps and other minor deities, or house-goblins of a frolicsome brownie character, belong rather to Teutonic and Celtic mythologies than to the Italian.

 * I personally think that the article should be moved to redcap. What is the consensus? moving discussion to August for decision in September. I have put in various cites on this page (above) for consolodation later, once a decision is made. Andrew massyn 08:28, 5 August 2006 (UTC) P.S. :Red Cap is also breed of poultry.

 * Main article at redcap with "alternate spelling" pointing back agrees with me just fine, as there doesn't seem to be a preponderance of usage in either direction. However, I think the Harry Potter reference (which splits it) is likely to produce more inquiries for the short term.  We should probably also add in red-cap while we're at it.  Jeffqyzt 01:21, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

title: Talk:redcap


text:
ак

Etymology
. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬.

Verb

 * 1)  sow
 * 2)  squander
 * 1)  squander

Etymology
From. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, etc.

Adjective

 * 1) white

Etymology
From. Cognate to 🇨🇬, etc.

Adjective

 * 1) white

Etymology
From. Cognate to 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, etc.

Adjective

 * 1) white

Etymology
From. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, etc.

Adjective

 * 1) white

Etymology
From. Related to 🇨🇬.

Adjective

 * 1) white

Etymology
From. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Adjective

 * 1) white

Noun

 * 1) white (colour)

Etymology
From.

Adjective

 * 1) white

title: ак


text: lo͘-lài-bà

title: lo͘-lài-bà


text:
акча

Etymology
From. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, etc.

Noun

 * 1) money, cash
 * 2) coin
 * 3) currency

Etymology
From *aqča, Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, etc.

Noun

 * 1) money

Noun

 * 1) money
 * 2) cash

title: акча


text:
алабуга

Etymology
Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) perch

Noun

 * 1) perch fish

title: алабуга


text: 摃槌仔

title: 摃槌仔


text: 扛槌仔

title: 扛槌仔


text: kòng-thûi-á

title: kòng-thûi-á


text:
bold-faced

Adjective

 * 1) Brazen, audacious or impudent.
 * 2) Printed in boldface.

Translations

 * Irish: aghaidh-dhána

title: bold-faced


text:
алабута

Etymology
From or similar.

Noun

 * 1) saltbush, orache,

Etymology
From or similar.

Noun

 * 1) goosefoot

title: алабута


text:
microtonal

Adjective

 * 1)  Of, relating to, or written using microtones.

title: microtonal


text:
microtone

Noun

 * 1)  Any interval smaller than a semitone

title: microtone


text: glissandi

title: glissandi


text:
polyphonically

Adverb

 * 1) In a polyphonic manner; using polyphony.

title: polyphonically


text:
sostenuto

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Adverb

 * 1)  played in a sustained manner beyond the note's normal value

Noun

 * 1) A note or passage marked to be sustained

Etymology
From.

Adjective

 * 1) fast, steady, high
 * 2) reserved, distant
 * 1) reserved, distant

Etymology
.

title: sostenuto


text:
edible dormouse

Noun

 * 1) A  or , especially when considered as a food.
 * 2)  An  or

Translations

 * Catalan: liró gris
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: gliro
 * Finnish:
 * French:, Loir gris
 * German:
 * Ido:
 * Italian:
 * Korean: 큰겨울잠쥐
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: sjusover, syvsover
 * Nynorsk: sjusovar
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: leirão cinzento
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish: lirón gris
 * Swedish:

title: edible dormouse


text:
Rhymes:English/ɛəɹiəm

Pronunciation
-ârēəm, /-ɛəriəm/, /-E@ri@m/

Three syllables

 * barium

Four syllables

 * aquarium
 * caldarium
 * collectarium
 * conarium
 * germarium
 * Fusarium
 * fusarium
 * herbarium
 * hymnarium
 * lactarium
 * lararium
 * lunarium
 * muscarium
 * nectarium
 * orarium
 * ossarium
 * ovarium
 * plenarium
 * precarium
 * puparium
 * ranarium
 * rhinarium
 * rosarium
 * sacrarium
 * samarium
 * scoparium
 * seaquarium
 * septarium
 * solarium
 * spacearium
 * spermarium
 * sudarium
 * terrarium
 * velarium
 * vivarium
 * zoarium

Five syllables

 * antiquarium
 * cinerarium
 * columbarium
 * cometarium
 * dolphinarium
 * formicarium
 * frigidarium
 * glaciarium
 * honorarium
 * insectarium
 * lactucarium
 * leprosarium
 * magnetarium
 * mesoarium
 * mesovarium
 * oceanarium (one pronunciation)
 * ophidarium
 * ossuarium
 * parovarium
 * planetarium
 * pollinarium
 * pulmonarium
 * reptilarium
 * salivarium
 * sanitarium
 * serpentarium
 * syllabarium
 * tepidarium
 * termitarium
 * unguentarium
 * vitellarium

Six syllables

 * armamentarium
 * avicularium
 * ens necessarium (one pronunciation)
 * evangeliarium
 * intercalarium
 * itinerarium
 * oceanarium (one pronunciation)
 * ophidiarium
 * phyogemmarium
 * polyzoarium
 * unum necessarium
 * vibracularium

title: Rhymes:English/ɛəɹiəm


text:
有向圖

Noun

 * 1)  directed graph

title: 有向圖


text: 有向图

title: 有向图


text: yǒuxiàngtú

title: yǒuxiàngtú


text:
left bracket

Noun

 * 1)  A left or open parenthesis ⟨(⟩.
 * 2)  A left or open square bracket ⟨[⟩.

Translations

 * Finnish: vasen hakasulje

title: left bracket


text:
right bracket

Noun

 * 1) The symbol ")".
 * 2) The right square bracket, "]".

Translations

 * Finnish: oikea hakasulje

title: right bracket


text:
maiming

Noun

 * 1) The act by which somebody is maimed.
 * 2) * 1824-1826,, History of the Protestant Reformation
 * They remember his subornings, menacings, bribings, cuttings, maimings, hangings, and burnings.

Translations

 * Greek:
 * Ancient Greek: πήρωσις

title: maiming


text:
ağ günlüğü

Noun

 * 1)  blog

title: ağ günlüğü


text:
馬六甲海峽

Proper noun

 * 1) Strait of Malacca

title: 馬六甲海峽


text: 马六甲海峡

title: 马六甲海峡


text: 麻省理工学院

title: 麻省理工学院