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Wiktionary:Grease pit/2006/December

I've been away for a while, but has something changed with ? It's outputting in a different font from before, which is fine, but it seems to have trouble displaying some accented characters, e.g. . Widsith 11:19, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

 * I acted on a request from a sysop from another Wiktionary (pl.wikt:, I think it was) who had a much nicer layout for IPA on their Wiktionary. I doubt the extra 10% is the problem, more likely my change (no, I don't see what the problem is, offhand) at: .  Perhaps I was too bold, with what looked like a tried and true fix?  --Connel MacKenzie 22:43, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

 * Well, if I'm not the only person now seeing boxes where there used to be characters, it would probably be better to revert whatever font changes you made, at least temporarily. The size is fine, obviously.  Widsith 16:07, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

 * Are you not? Well, rollback done, +10% kept.  --Connel MacKenzie 22:04, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

 * Ah – that's better! Thanks.  Widsith 10:27, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

three questions about cattag
I have three related questions on tag and category names, which to avoid confusion I'm going to ask in three separate subsections. Hopefully this won't make things more confusing. —scs 00:20, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

tag names vs. cat names
How much of an implicit requirement is it that the tag name be the same as the category name? How bad an idea is it if they're different?

(This comes up because I started creating a template and a Category:Railroading, then discovered that we already have Category:Rail transportation.  But I think "(Rail transportation)" is a bit on the long and ugly side for a tag, so for the moment I've got  displaying as "(railroading)" but categorizing to Category:Rail transportation.  More on this question below.)

—scs 00:20, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

 * It's easy enough to handle on the technical side. Your concerns seem reasonable: on the one hand length, on the other hand identity. I guess the only question is, do the two terms refer to exactly the same thing? I can certainly see cases where that's true. You wouldn't label apple pie with U.S. no matter how American it may be, since by that context tag people mean that style of English. So there are some cases where it's not a problem, at least. And so I should probably update to deal with those cases more smoothly. DAVilla 00:36, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

 * And on the other hand, perhaps I should rename Category:Rail transportation to Category:Railroading.

 * It's intriguing that you consider it "easy enough to handle on the technical side" to "deal with those cases more smoothly", although doing so could introduce some new foibles and quirks... (What did you have in mind?) —scs 00:47, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

discrepancy when tag and cat names don't match
Template talk:cattag says, "If the name of a category differs from the name of the label, include the category explicitly". This makes sense, and it works.

But, when a sense definition should have two or more tags at once, the recommended thing to do (as far as I know) is to invoke explicitly:

 *

But that means that if either tag is different from its category, the caller has to remember to explicitly categorize the article. And this is a nuisance, negating the benefit of linking category and tag using higher-level templates like, and is likely to lead to lots of incompletely-categorized articles, because the explicit category link is too easy to forget in this case.

So I think I may have answered my first question: this seems to be a reason why having tag name different from category name is a bad idea. But see below.

—scs 00:33, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

 * No, that's poorly worded. Include the category in the label template explicitly. DAVilla 00:38, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

 * I understand that. But when a sense should have two labels, one can't use the "convenience" label templates, right? —scs 00:44, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

 * one uses cattag, and it works correctly, see below; and having the label name used in the source redirect to the "standard" name and category is fine, also see below Robert Ullmann 09:53, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

 * In other words (for anyone else reading this): I was wrong, and one can use the "convenience" label template names in calls. —scs 14:55, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

magic non-matching names?
At points sense 1 we find the invocation:

 *

This somehow expands to

 * (Rail transportation, UK)

And the article is placed into both Category:Rail transportation and Category:UK. What magic is this? How does that parameter "british" get translated into "UK", for both tagging and categorizing purposes? Is there a secret mapping table somewhere? —scs 00:42, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

 * Cattag calls the individual templates, doing the right formatting magic. So a label template with a differently named category works exactly as it should. So in this case, cattag finds no label template "Rail transportation", so simply categorizes it. Then it does find Template:british, which it calls, which redirects to Template:UK which does the right thing. (And this is why label templates have to invoke so they will work either way.) Robert Ullmann 09:53, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

 * Aha. Thanks.  I was beginning to suspect that.  Part of the problem was that I'd missed the existence of Template:british, and part of the problem was that I couldn't imagine that (say) Template:mathematics could call Template:cattag to do its work, while Template:cattag turned right around and called Template:mathematics to do its work, without it being a horrendous infinite loop.  (But perhaps that's another reason why label templates must actually invoke Template:cattag/equate instead.) —scs 14:31, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

Different sortkey needed in template-provided category tag
Currently Template:slang is categorizing itself in Category:Slang under the asterisk (*) header, which sorts after the slang entries starting with an apostrophe ('). I'd like to change this so it sorts under a space character, as I have done with slang (see the category for what I mean: slang appears first in the Entries list, above such actual slang entries as  ' cause). I'm not sure how to best accomplish this (i.e., getting Template:slang to appear directly under slang) since the category tag is provided by the (extremely complex) Template:cattag/equate. Can someone help who knows more about complicated template parsing? - dcljr 16:36, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

 * Just add another category call (in noinclude tags), sort key overrides the first. Done. Robert Ullmann 10:01, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

 * Might wanna talk to Connel and DAVilla, too, because that categorizing under * is no accident, it's something DAVilla did explicitly (and at some cost), at Connel's request. (See User talk:DAVilla.)  If it's not a good idea after all, the right thing to do is probably to undo it, not override it. —scs 14:49, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

 * I think the idea was just to make it appear first, not that there is anything special about *. It is a good idea, just doesn't work in the instant category. Maybe we should made cattag use a space? Robert Ullmann 14:55, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

 * My concerns are 1) having the template that is primarily used to fill the category, appear at the top or very close to the top of the category. 2) Consistency.  A whole mess of templates use "*" as the identifier - if a "better" character sorts sooner, so much the better.  But I don't think a space will pass from template to template consistently.  Doesn't "!" sort before "*" and "'"?  Is anyone willing to go through all the templates in the template namespace to convert them all?  --Connel MacKenzie 10:08, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

 * The asterisk does have the advantage that it is fairly clear what is going on; space is a little too "magic" I think. (and * also kinda sorta means "special" which is a good thing ;-). For a few cats (like slang) we can just tweak it as we did; don't think there is any problem here. Robert Ullmann 10:27, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

Automated Usage
Strangely, the internet seems like a pretty difficult to place to reliably find example usage sentences usage for words. Wiktionary is good for this but it is hardly comprehensive yet. Might it not be reasonable to write a bot like the City/State rambot which fills in such sentences from Google/Microsoft book searches? They typically return whole sentences in computer-readable form and I'd expect it would generally be judged as fair use (single sentence is a small part of a book). There might need to be some sort of disapproval system too where it would go dig for a better fit. Any opinions?Thadk 07:39, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

 * That's an interesting idea. The problem is that picking good example sentences is hard, even for people.  (Many of our existing example sentences are pretty terrible.)  You don't just want any random sentence that happens to use the word; you want it to be a truly realistic and demonstrative usage, and ideally you want it to help suggest the meaning of the word as well.

 * Something I've been meaning to do (and I commend the idea to others who are interested in improving Wiktionary's example sentences) is to be on the lookout for good sentences whenever I'm reading something. Finding a sentence, and going off and adding it to the entry for whatever word it's a good example of, is easy.  (Starting with a word you want an example sentence for, on the other hand, and trying to find or construct a good one, is much more difficult.) —scs 14:17, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

 * Hippietrail (partially?) automated the collection of usenet "citations" for the citations page, but for some reason never did the same for http://www.google.com/search?q=site:gutenberg.org+... His process created /Citations subpages in the main namespace that were initially disliked.  I personally enjoy finding a citations tab lit up, these days.  (There's a Wiktionary preference for adding the [Citations] tab.)
 * I like the separation of the sub-page, specifically so that possibly relevant citations can be sifted through faster. But obviously, the results of those searches is far too verbose, most of the time.  --Connel MacKenzie 10:15, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

 * I think it would be fine to partly automate collecting more citations, adding them to the subpage under some kind of sub-head that identifies the automated collector? But it is going to be very hard to collect decent ones with any automation. Question: do we have real subpages in NS:0? Last I looked, they were just pages that happened to have a / in the title.

 * On scs's point: recall that a very large number of the OED citations were collected that way: reading books and picking out good citations for the words that appeared, not going out to look for the words. See The Professor and the Madman about William Chester Minor ... Robert Ullmann 10:39, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

Lost it again...

 * Note: this needs to move to WT:GP. --Connel MacKenzie 17:39, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

(Moved here from the Beer parlour)

Sorry, I've asked this before, but I can't find the page to edit to amend the pull-down menus at the bottom of the page when you are editing. It used to be Mediawiki:Copyrights, I think, but that's not right. Thanks. — Paul G 16:04, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

 * Ah, I see it's moved to MediaWiki:Edittools. — Paul G 16:10, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

 * Hm, I've just added characters with ogoneks to the Latin/Roman section, a raised tilde for nasalised vowels to the IPA section, and a new section for Latvian/Lithuanian characters. Only the first of these is showing up. Anyone know what's wrong and how to fix it? — Paul G 16:23, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

 * I added it to MediaWiki:Monobook.js. --Connel MacKenzie 16:39, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

 * Thanks, Connel. The characters with ogoneks are there for me when I edit, but I still don't see the tilde in the IPA section or the new Latvian/Lithuanian menu option. I've tried reloading the page, logging out and back in, closing and reopening my browser and clearing the cache, all to no avail. Strangely, they are there if I edit MediaWiki:EditTools. — 193.203.81.129 17:29, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

 * Oops, I wasn't logged back in... I can see the Latvian/Lithuanian menu now, but still no tilde in IPA. Maybe it expects a preceding letter and doesn't appear if there isn't one. — Paul G 17:32, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

 * Yes, combining diacritics require a preceding letter. See for example how I did the acute accent for Cyrillic vowels under Cyrillic. —Stephen 07:18, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

 * Sorry to be pedantic, but I don't see a tilde here. So I don't understand what it is you are saying is missing.  --Connel MacKenzie 17:38, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

 * Connel, the tilde is there when you edit the page, but does not appear in the displayed page. That's why you (and I) don't see it. It makes me think that it expects a leading character or else it won't be displayed. (Ah, I've just seen Stephen's comment above - let's see if I can sort something out.) — Paul G 09:36, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

Could we have an English section that includes æ, é, ï, ñ, ü, and their capitals as well as all the AHD symbols, and duplicate a lot of the symbols from Misc. into different language sections? DAVilla 10:36, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

 * That is what "Latin/Roman" is for - it is meant to cover all symbols based on the Latin alphabet, including English. I don't know why English would need its own section. (For that matter, I don't know why French, etc, have their own sections - isn't everything already under "Latin/Roman"? Or are these intended to make finding the symbols for a particular language easier?) If you let me know what other AHD symbols need to be added, I can add them. There is superscript KH (representing the final sound in Scottish loch). That can easily be typed as KH, but it could still be added for convenience. — Paul G 15:27, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

 * The French question is getting more at my point. Are we dividing by language or script or what? I can see some funny languages like Vietnamese, even though it's based on the Latin characters, really needing their own heading, but Hawaiian? Romaji? What's the difference there? I see two schools of thought on how to divide these: first, put everything a contributor would need under one heading. That would mean the duplication of many characters, as now, which is fine, and hopefully the duplication of many of the annoying "Misc." characters too. Hence my request to move AHD into an English section along with some of Connel's least favourite ;-) characters. Another option is to make it as compact as possible, a short list that can be easily referenced. Separating IPA characters falls into that category, and I think that's a fine idea too, but there can't be too many exceptions like that because a mixture of the two approaches would be quite cumbersome. That is, I'm not really cool with the way this is heading, and thank goodness the numbers are small now.
 * Another question: How useful are those buttons at top, really? Especially with the included text, it's more cumbersome to use than to just type, so it's really only targeted at newbies I think, and what newbie is going to need to know how to use <nowiki> anyways? I suggest we think about what's most useful there, that is, what we either use most (if anything, a double  or tripple ' in isolation would be enough) or what we most often forget how to do, e.g. the format for an IPA pronunciation or an audio file as our whenever-current standards dictate, not just some useless [[Media:Example.ogg]] text. DAVilla 17:11, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

 * Um, how did I end up the maintainer of Hippietrail's baby? And what are my least favorite characters?  Oh, you mean the general notion of the English language - how it never contains diacritics?  Sheesh.  I'm not making this stuff up...you know perfectly well my over reactions are directly counter to the abuses of people proposing that borrowed terms are English, when in fact, English normalizes its borrowings into the Roman alphabet?  <shrug>

 * The buttons atop the edit box I find useful; Hippietrail has lobbied against them as "poor user interface" for years now. In WT:PREFS, I've added a search/replace button that is occasionally invaluable, as well as some others that I use a lot - and several that I use rarely or not at all.  The MediaWiki default buttons are very difficult to override - I would recommend avoiding that route.  Instead, going only part way by adding buttons to the secondary toolbar (which by default contains nothing, and appears simply as more buttons to the right of the default toolbar.)  Perhaps I could refine WT:PREFS to allow individual choices of which/what buttons to display there.  Would that make it more extensible?  --Connel MacKenzie 08:33, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

Template "auto" protection
The Special:Statistics show the job queue, which triggers a null edit on all pages that include a template by transclusion, whenever that template is edited.

There was a proposal a while back for protecting widely used templates. This was either forgotten or considered to be too unimportant.

I'd like to suggest that any template used by inclusion/transclusion (whatever term you want to use for it) more than 99 times be sysop-only protected. I find them from the XML dump - someone else may have a more up-to-date method of identifying them. Does 100 sound like a reasonable cutoff?

--Connel MacKenzie 19:04, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

 * The numbers should speak for themselves. I'm guessing there are a few templates that are used on as many as half the English pages, a number that have a range on the scale you're talking of, and who knows how many templates that are hardly included at all, hopefully most of them redirects if there are a bucketload. Maybe there's a pretty clear delineation. What are the kinds of templates that you'd want a regular contributor to edit, and the kinds of templates you'd only want a systop to edit? The supertemplates fall into the latter category for sure, but also some well-known templates like . I would hope that the magic number is higher than 100 because I could see a user creating an inflection template, for instance, and then 100 pages that use the template, unassisted, and thereby automatically locking themselves out of editing it. Why not base the magic number on something concrete?
 * You didn't ask, but if you wanted to make a distinction between regular editors and new or unregistered editors, there is a natural lower-bound based on templates that are "in-use" but don't actually exist. You wouldn't want a user to create a template that has a mistake, and then find that they are immediately unable to fix it. Right now such red-link templates are low in number and stats, but may grow as a result of, possibly even reaching the hundred mark. Just a heads-up, nothing to worry about for a while. But hey, no harm in looking ahead, right? DAVilla 17:15, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

Template:context

 * Moved here from WT:BP --Connel MacKenzie 05:06, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

The context template is ready to roll out. This is intended to replace cattag, which I will delicately redirect. The new template accomplishes language discrimination, selective categorization, and some nifty features with modifiers. It was marginally simpler before those additions but definitely more complex now, although in my opinion still more transparent and simpler to use. The documentation is already up and much more extensive than before. Any questions? DAVilla 21:46, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

 * Yes: Is there a way to make redlinks for brand new categories show? Are you going to create instructions on how to create brand new context tag template tags?  (The  thing never ceased giving me difficulty...and never did get documented, did it?)  Creating new context tags properly is a fairly rare task, but needs to be simplified from the 'cattag' scheme.  (I made it sortof work a couple times, but it was frustrating, to say the least.)

 * Also: since the documentation for the new template is lengthy (THANK YOU!) perhaps some redirects from the Help: and/or Wiktionary: namespace are in order? Or a brief summary somewhere?  Are you planning on going all-out with documenting this version, once stable and accepted?  --Connel MacKenzie 05:33, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

 * There's already some documentation on how to use <tt>context</tt> within a label template, but I think a separate page would be much more helpful. Any suggestions on location?
 * As far as going all-out on documentation, string functions would simplify this several fold, so I'm still reluctant to document the code. However, the naming I've switched over to (lang=, context/tag, context/cat) makes more sense. Thus the label templates themselves won't need to change, and any documentation on use can be fully fleshed out. DAVilla 19:49, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

 * This is the best thing I've seen here in a while! It makes labelling entires in general easier, never mind foreign langauge ones. I'm going to start depreciating old language specific label templates such as and use context instead (I made a lot of them myself anyway!). I've also fixed a lot of the other label templates I've created and some others that seemed to be collecting dust in category:Label templates - so that they are now in line with the new  template.--Williamsayers79 16:27, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Perhaps. I'm not 100% certain we should jump in right away, but I agree this looks promising.  --Connel MacKenzie 17:07, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

 * I, obviously the clueless one when it comes to these super-templates, added the new <I>context</I> template to the new Russian word "пас," and the word was added to the volleyball category instead of (I guess non-existent) Category: Russian volleyball or Category: ru:Volleyball (too bad the standard around here is to use that second option with the language code instead of the language's name). So, did I mess something up, or did it not work only because the Russian category isn't built? — V-ball 16:57, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
 * I really, really, really, really, really wish there were an easy way to tell "context" to show me the category redlink! --Connel MacKenzie 17:07, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
 * I'm working on this now. Because categories are named explicitly with context, whereas with cattag it was a kind of let's just look and see, I think this will be a reality very shortly. DAVilla 18:19, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
 * You did it correctly. This appears to be a bug. I'll have to look into it. It's just that we're in the transition from cattag to context. I'll smooth this over now. DAVilla 18:42, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

So much for "delicately". Since context is backwards compatible, but cattag isn't "forward-compatible", I've gone ahead and redirected ahead of ironing out any problems. I guess a note on context that it was in its final stages of development would have been wise. Oh well, no harm done. DAVilla 18:24, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

 * Erm, move to WT:GP? It shouldn't be announced and redirected while kinks are being worked out.  --Connel MacKenzie 18:28, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

 * I'm not going to try to unanounce it, which is why I went ahead and redirected when I saw it being used. There are a few kinks perhaps, but no bugs that I've found, fortunately. DAVilla 18:42, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

 * Interesting to watch the effect this is having on the job queue (displayed at Special:Statistics.) --Connel MacKenzie 18:31, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Things have been settled down for a while now. I just made a very minor addition to Template:context/modifier and saw the job queue shoot up to nearly two thousand. Not too smart I guess. Lots of work to determine the change affected maybe one page. DAVilla 20:33, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

 * I'm seeing bugs on entries using "<tt> </tt>" at the moment...you're fixing this, right?  --Connel MacKenzie 18:49, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Or rolling it back? --Connel MacKenzie 18:56, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the heads up. This should have been a result of the change I made at Template:cattag/equate. Unfortunately it would have been very difficult to simulate the transition without actually doing it, and this was a problem I didn't forsee. I've been unable to fix it cleanly, so I've rolled back that change, and I've also put in some other measures to try to prevent from showing as a language. DAVilla 19:16, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Thank you for being so responsive. I'll chill out for a while while you fiddle with it.  (I still think this should be moved to WT:GP though.)  --Connel MacKenzie 19:25, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
 * (GP if you wish.) The current version seems stable and I'm not going to make any more changes for now. (I'll test your red-linking off-line.) V-ball's problem above can be resolved by rewriting all of the label templates. I'm not going to try to do this through software again because a large job queue makes it difficult to see the effects of any changes. DAVilla 19:32, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

 * One more comment before moving this section to Grease pit:
 * I just edited absent. The "Templates used on this page" list is pretty daunting.  I assume that's because it is a work in progress.  The massive chaining of templates will be "subst:" consolidated when this is stable, right?  --Connel MacKenzie 04:51, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

Any updates? --Connel MacKenzie 22:41, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
 * I've been making tweaks that I think should be innocuous, and without fail someone will message me within a few minutes that something doesn't look right (twice now not counting you), and then I'll have to go clean up after myself. Fortunately this keeps me from doing anything rash.
 * Right now everything in Category:Label templates is being converted to use {context}. There's absolutely no rush though.
 * I would still like to move the description on how to make label templates (and I could add a lot more) to a new location. It is referenced by some of the error-catching code. DAVilla 00:48, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

 * Sounds pretty reasonable. I would really like to see a full Help: page on creating the context templates, if it can't be significantly simplified.  To me, a specific context template should either be a redirect, or a backup "independant label" thing for when it is called without "cattag"/"context".  Does that match your general approach?  --Connel MacKenzie 17:55, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Yes, precisely, except that the independent labels have to use specific code so that they will work with context as well as independently. I am thinking of keeping Category:Label templates as a place to dump new label templates that are not formatted this way, if it really is too much trouble, so that they can later be converted by someone more knowledgeable. On the other hand context will take any arguments, whether the template exists or not, so is there really a need for that? DAVilla 19:19, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

 * In terms of learning curve, yes, I think the shorter tags will always be useful. :-(     So I don't think a mass-conversion to context/cattag will fly.  But I've been surprised before.  --Connel MacKenzie 07:33, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

 * I'm not sure what you mean here. I'm not proposing eliminating the redirects. I'm just saying that <tt> (label) </tt> doesn't cut it as a label template, or even, since these wouldn't be compatible with certain uses of . Not too long ago I thought we were using cattag almost exclusively, so the conversion is really from that to context. DAVilla 19:03, 25 December 2006 (UTC)

 * What happened to the check for the category of <tt> </tt>?  --Connel MacKenzie 01:59, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

 * Hmm... I had stripped a lot of that out thinking categories would be more explicit now. You could have spot-corrected the problem by creating the label template, but I guess using that as a general solution is asking too much. For when the template doesn't exist, the check is back in, as per the documentation. Where wasn't it checking that it should have, and is it fixed now? DAVilla 19:03, 25 December 2006 (UTC)

 * If most of the bugs are now worked out, then it would be very helpful to have examples for various cases of use in the documentation, specifically for those where the category and tag do not match. For instance, how would one ensure that azure is tagged (heraldry) but categorized in "Category:Heraldic tincture"?  --EncycloPetey 07:28, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

 * Those are extremely rare cases. See Template:star for an example. DAVilla 17:35, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

Template:stroke order
I discovered commons:Category:CJK_stroke_order and made a small template to link to their images. The intent is to capture the most common case in a simple-to-use way. I stuck an example of it on 手. Does using this template on a large scale seem like a good idea?

If so, could someone instill some useful template magic in it? Particularly adding optional parameters for image size and exactly which image to use (there are some characters with different stroke order in Japan and China).

Cynewulf 07:50, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

 * Partly done, see, alt type for the Japanese stroke order soon (minutes? ;-) Robert Ullmann 18:03, 25 December 2006 (UTC)

Problem with template {third-person singular of}
There seems to be a problem with the {third-person singular of} template; if you provide a usage example below, it starts a new numeric list. See the example in wells and compare to wells. --Jeffqyzt 20:48, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

 * Did someone fix this? 'Cause I don't see any problem. --EncycloPetey 07:18, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

 * Not in relation to this bug report, yes, I routinely annihilate extraneous <CR>s in templates, as I find them.  seems to have been one such case.  I have not systematically reviewed this class of template, so there may be more similar errors floating around.  --Connel MacKenzie 01:53, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

 * Wouldn't it be easier to just rely on {form of}? Simpler templates make it less likely to introduce errors. DAVilla 02:26, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

 * Very few (if any?) of the original templates have been converted to use yet.  If you could convert them (since you are the one that understands the subtlties of it, the best) I'd appreciate it.  --Connel MacKenzie 16:23, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

Number in brackets in Special:Recent changes
OK, I give in - what is this new number (+nn) in the recent changes listing? SemperBlotto 22:38, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
 * It's a new feature of Mediawiki, it shows the size in bytes of the change that was made. --Versageek 22:46, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

Special:ExpandTemplates
WOW! How long has this been available? --Connel MacKenzie 05:00, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
 * It even works on the really complicated templates, showing all the comments if you uncheck that option. Finally, a way to debug a live template without altering the output! Not that we would EVER need to debug templates live, that is. Our work is always without exception bug-free! :-P DAVilla 18:33, 25 December 2006 (UTC)

 * Yes, I certainly have a long history myself, of goofing up templates. I can't wait until there is an XML dump version that has templates iterated to completion.  (Man, what a pain that is, trying to parse wiki-templates offline!)  --Connel MacKenzie 07:46, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

Translation Project
I brought this topic up at the Beer parlour, and Connel Makenzie said i should discuss it in here.

The original discussion can be seen Here.

My idea is to basically organize the a translation project, into individual languages, with specific organized tasks.

My example page I've worked on a tad can be found Here. Currently at the stage its at it still needs to made more attractive, as well as be translated into spanish too.

Please give me some input on what you all think of this idea, it would be very helpful.

Bearingbreaker92 01:38, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

 * Where would you like to receieve input? I'd make that a link on the project page, even if it will simply be the talk page.  I can (and do) help a bit with Spanish, but I'm working more heavily on Latin words and tidying the category structure of languages. --EncycloPetey 07:15, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

Leave input on here, the page that I linked to isnt really an official page or anything set in stone. Everything that is on there is subject to change, or move, so it would be safer to have it on here.

Bearingbreaker92 04:23, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

 * We kinda sorta don't want to have a long discussion of details here; I have a pageful of comments ;-). We do have a small number of projects, a few ongoing, with semi-standard names: I've taken the liberty of moving your page to Project - Spanish ... that gives it a discussion page at Wiktionary Talk:Project - Spanish. (we can always refine this later) Robert Ullmann 04:45, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

 * (which is not to cut off any discussion anyone wishes to continue here ;-) Robert Ullmann 04:45, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

Trusted Users
I think that it would be good if we had a status of Trusted user. One who, although not a Sysop has a reasonably long history of making good contributions. His edits would be automatically marked as patrolled, relieving us of one more mindless task. If it could be implemented, we would probably have to implement some sort of voting system - so would it be more trouble than it is worth? SemperBlotto

 * Do you use WT:PREFS? Connel built a 'whitelist' into the patrolling enhancements... --Versageek 10:08, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

 * Actually, I'd prefer to move away from my method, towards the allocation of a new class of trusted users. There are plenty of bugs in my Whitelist thing ( e.g. User:16@r ah ha!  URL encoded, of course!) and it is currently dependent on a sysop being around, with the whitelisting turned on, viewing 49 most recent edits, to refresh every couple minutes.  It is a kludge atop a hack atop a work-around.  So exploring other possibilities is a Good Thing.  --Connel MacKenzie 16:20, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

 * (1) Trusted users would include some anonymous IP addresses. This would not apply to dynamic ones and would only be held while the address is consistently used, or otherwise there would have to be occasional review.
 * (2) Trusted users need not be voted in, providing the criteria are strong enough to determine that the user makes good contributions rather than long-term shady ones. Maybe it would be enough to have a period where a notice of eligibility was given after marking patrolled edits, and status granted automatically unless there were objections. DAVilla 16:33, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

 * Thanks for reminding me: currently very (VERY) few other sysops have (rarely) edited the whitelist. So it amounts mainly to a list of editors that I have happened to notice making lots of good edits.  Certainly the community as a whole shouldn't condone *my* opinion involuntarily.  Having people voted into the "trusted users pool" (perhaps from three other trusted users or sysops, or something) would be a much more Wiki-way to approach it all.  --Connel MacKenzie 16:38, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

 * I don't like the idea of trusting anonymous IP addresses. Sometimes these are shared by good and bad users, and we need to look at each edit. I would be quite happy for a single Sysop to be trusted to set and unset the flag (as long as the change gets flagged openly). Though would we want the user himself to know that he was trusted? SemperBlotto 16:47, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

 * They already do, by merit of their edits appearing as patrolled or not patrolled. (Log out and check - non-sysops still have the "hide patrolled edits" button.)
 * Of greater concern is that I have not been diligent about checking the dynamic nature of IPs currently in my whitelist. I've tried, but I certainly have not been systematic about it.
 * --Connel MacKenzie 16:53, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

 * For IP addresses, perhaps it would make sense to trust them for up to thirty days at a time (depending on the ISP information available)? Actually, there are some IPs that are static.

 * Perhaps I should revisit additional JS enhancements (mark all contribs by this user/IP as patrolled; mark all edits to this page as patrolled; mark all edits to a page as patrolled if a sysop has since edited it.) I also should look at making it compatible with the MW built-in RC enhancements, instead of "simple mode only" as it is now.  --Connel MacKenzie 20:19, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

Rollover problem?
I notice that neither the WT:COW nor the WT:TOW rolled over this morning to the new week. Is this a result of having the New Year on a Monday, or is something broken? --EncycloPetey 12:29, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

 * Is WMF using the wrong boundary for the start of the week? Sunday 23:59:59 instead of 00:00:01?  I guess we'll know in a little less than two hours.  --Connel MacKenzie 22:12, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

 * rolls over on Monday UTC (or server localtime for some of the european- or other language wikis where default local time is set differently). As far as I know this is correct (eg ISO week date) though there might be multiple ways of counting week numbers (as there are multiple local preferences for when "the new week" starts in lay terms, Monday or Sunday etc). --Brion 23:18, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

 * Indeed, we are now on week one, having skipped "Week 53" entirely (which, I guess was supposed to appear for one full day.) --Connel MacKenzie 00:11, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

Special:Wantedpages
At the top reads: The following data is cached, and was last updated 23:18, November 30, 2006.

Chatting in #wikimedia-tech, the refresh has been disabled, pending the purchase of more DB servers. Time for {shudder} a fundraiser? --Connel MacKenzie 06:00, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

 * Ahhh, what blissful irony. --Connel MacKenzie 09:36, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

Tooltips for standard headings
Archived at Grease_pit_archive/2006/October#Tooltips_for_standard_headings

If I'm in the wrong place, please forgive me. It is not made plain where I should continue/restart this thread. Looking at the original discussion, I'm not sure if this shouldn't be a Bug Report.

I use Opera 8.5 in Windows 98. On any word definition page, when my pointer hovers immediately above or below a section heading, anywhere across the page, I get a completely pointless tool-tip:

 * L2 heading and TOC: "Title:The language this term belongs to"
 * L3 and deeper: "Title:  is not a standard Wiktionary heading"
 * L4 ("Synonyms" only): "Title:'undefined' is not a standard Wiktionary heading"

While this... "feature"?... appears to be harmless, it is ^*%(* annoying. Is there any way to disable it in the Wiktionary preferences?  Or even better, just not have it at all: I do not believe it will achieve the stated object of helping newbies, who should be encouraged to print and USE an editing cheat-sheet; and all it does for experienced users -- OK, me -- is annoy.  Gordon | Talk, 06:18, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

 * The same thing happens using Safari on a MacBook. There should be a defined list of standard headers at various levels someone, but it doesn't seem to be working right.  --EncycloPetey 15:10, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

title: Wiktionary:Grease pit/2006/December


text:
Anopla

Etymology
, from

Hyponyms

 * , - orders

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

title: Anopla


text:
Nemertea

Etymology
, from.

Proper noun

 * 1) Marine worms, including the ribbon worms, bootlace worms, or proboscis worms

Synonyms

 * ; ; - phylum

Hypernyms

 * - superkingdom; Animalia - kingdom; Bilateria - subkingdom; Protostomia - infrakingdom; - superphylum

Hyponyms

 * ,, - classes

Derived terms

 * nemertide

title: Nemertea


text:
Anoplura

Etymology
From and. This refers to the lack of cerci.

title: Anoplura


text:
anorthoclase

Noun

 * 1)  Any of a group of feldspars being mixed sodium and potassium aluminosilicates.

Translations

 * Catalan: anortosa, anortòclasi
 * Finnish: anortoklaasi
 * Portuguese: anortoclase
 * Spanish: anortoclasa

title: anorthoclase


text:
molecola

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1)  molecule the smallest particle of a specific element or compound that retains the chemical properties of that element or compound

title: molecola


text:
molecolare

Etymology
From.

Adjective

 * 1) molecular

Adjective

 * 1) molecular

Related terms

 * molecole

title: molecolare


text:
molecolarità

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) molecularity

title: molecolarità


text:
infiammabile

Etymology
From. Compare 🇨🇬.

Adjective

 * 1) inflammable (UK), flammable (US)
 * 2) fiery, combustible

title: infiammabile


text:
infiammabilità

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) inflammability
 * 2) fieriness

title: infiammabilità


text:
infiammare

Etymology
From.

Verb

 * 1)  to set fire to something
 * 2)  to inflame or stir up or flush something

title: infiammare


text:
infiammato

Adjective

 * 1) burning, inflamed
 * 2) flaming

title: infiammato


text:
infiammatorio

Adjective

 * 1) inflammatory

title: infiammatorio


text:
infiammazione

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) inflammation

title: infiammazione


text:
stickpin

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1)  An ornamented pin used to secure a necktie's end flat against the shirt, a tie tack.

title: stickpin


text: stickpins

title: stickpins


text:
tie tack

Noun

 * 1) An ornamented pin used to secure a necktie's end flat against the shirt, a stickpin.

title: tie tack


text: tie tacks

title: tie tacks


text:
suffixation

Noun

 * 1) The process of adding a suffix to a word.

Translations

 * Finnish: jälkiliitteen lisääminen, suffiksaatio
 * French:
 * German: Suffigieren,, Suffixation
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Turkish: sonekleme
 * Welsh: olddodi

title: suffixation


text:
subtopic

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) A subject that forms part of a topic.

title: subtopic


text: subtopics

title: subtopics


text:
public speaking

Noun

 * 1) act of speaking to a group of people in a structured manner
 * 2) oratory art of public speaking

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Finnish: pitää puhe,
 * Georgian: სიტყვით გამოსვლა, მოხსენებით გამოსვლა, საჯარო გამოსვლა
 * Irish: óráidíocht, óráidíocht phoiblí
 * Malayalam:

title: public speaking


text:
bollire

Etymology
From, from.

Verb

 * 1)  to boil, to brew

title: bollire


text:
merimerkki

Noun

 * 1)  A general term for any kind of seamark or beacon as a nautical term.

title: merimerkki


text:
metropolia

Etymology
, from.

Noun

 * 1) metropolis
 * 2)  metropolis
 * 3)  metropolis

title: metropolia


text:
canceler

Noun

 * : Something that, or someone who cancels something; specifically an electronic device that cancels a signal.

title: canceler


text:
as per

Etymology
c. 1782. From +

Preposition

 * 1) Consistent, or in accordance, with; according to

Translations

 * Arabic: وَفْقًا لِـ
 * Egyptian Arabic: وفقا لـ
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Polish: zgodnie z
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Vietnamese:, ,

title: as per


text:
radiomajakka

Noun

 * 1) A radio beacon.

title: radiomajakka


text:
кое-кто

Pronoun

 * 1)  a certain someone (implies that one knows who it is, but is deliberately refraining from naming who)

Declension
* Note: Letter "г (g)" in endings "-ого" / "-его" for genitive singular masculine and neuter and accusative masculine singular animate is pronounced as /v/, not /g/.

title: кое-кто


text:
candidness

Noun

 * 1) The quality of being candid.

title: candidness


text:
borghese

Etymology
From <, or through. Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Adjective

 * 1) middle-class, bourgeois
 * 2) civilian

Noun

 * 1) middle-class person, bourgeois
 * 2) civilian

title: borghese


text:
maamerkki

Noun

 * 1) landmark recognizable natural or man-made feature used for navigation
 * 2) seamark elevated object on land which serves as a guide to mariners

title: maamerkki


text:
candler

Etymology 1
From, equivalent to.

Noun

 * 1) A person who makes candles; a chandler.

Noun

 * 1) A device for candling.

title: candler


text:
borghesia

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) middle classes
 * 2) bourgeoisie
 * 1) bourgeoisie

title: borghesia


text:
can-do

Adjective

 * 1)  confident and willing to get a job done.

title: can-do


text:
canebrake

Noun

 * 1)  A dense thicket of sugarcane, bamboo or similar plants.

title: canebrake


text:
bisognare

Etymology
From.

Verb

 * 1)  to be necessary, to have to, must, should, ought to

title: bisognare


text: candlers

title: candlers


text: canebrakes

title: canebrakes


text:
merkkituli

Noun

 * 1) beacon signal fire

title: merkkituli


text:
varoitin

Noun

 * 1) Any device that is designed to give a warning, a beacon or an alarm.

title: varoitin


text:
User talk:Karynhuntting

Belated welcome
I hope you find these links helpful.

Welcome!

Hello, and welcome to Wiktionary. Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:
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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wiktionarian! By the way, you can sign your name on Talk (discussion) and vote pages using four tildes, like this: ~, which automatically produces your name and the current date. If you have any questions, see the help pages, add a question to the beer parlour or ask me on my Talk page. Again, welcome! --Connel MacKenzie 23:56, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

Transitive verb
Hi! We don't use "transitive verb" and "intransitive verb" as headers (you may have seen them, because some people keep introducing them ;-). These should be tagged on the definition lines. See fructify and see how much easier it is. Robert Ullmann 01:49, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

title: User talk:Karynhuntting


text:
radio beacon

Noun

 * 1)  A beacon that emits radio wave signals to guide ships or aircraft or to indicate the position of a ship, aircraft, or other object, person, or vehicle.

Translations

 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Polish: radiolatarnia
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:

title: radio beacon


text: radio beacons

title: radio beacons


text:
poikittaispalkki

Noun

 * 1) A transverse beam.

title: poikittaispalkki


text:
monolinguisme

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) unilingualism, monolingualism, monoglottism

title: monolinguisme


text:
確か

Etymology
From. First attested in the  of 720.

Derived from the tashi- element seen in and  + adjective-forming suffix.

Adjective

 * 1)  certain, clear, without a doubt
 * 2)  secure, reliable, able to be trusted completely

Adverb

 * 1) if I remember correctly, in my memory, probably but not totally sure

Usage notes
Adverbial use without the particle is colloquial. The meaning for this usage implies a degree of doubt, and is different from the, sense of 確か that has no such implication.

title: 確か


text: ribbeboog

title: ribbeboog


text: gladde

title: gladde


text:
phonologie

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1)  phonology

title: phonologie


text:
by your leave

Prepositional phrase

 * 1) With your permission.

Noun

 * 1) Request for permission.
 * 2) * 1897, Shanghai Mercury, Shanghai by Night and Day: Illustrated by 23 Reproductions from Photographs. Vol. I.
 * The natives have gathered on the top of every grave mound near by and though many resent the riding over their fields without a so much as a 'By your leave'
 * 1) * 1946, Konstantin Trenev, In a Cossack Village, and Other Stories
 * He picked flowers without so much as a 'by your leave.'
 * 1) * 1986, Judith A. Jance, Trial by Fury
 * 'To a place you've broken into without so much as a by-your-leave, to say nothing of a search warrant?'
 * 'To a place you've broken into without so much as a by-your-leave, to say nothing of a search warrant?'

Usage notes

 * Very commonly found in the expression.

title: by your leave


text: lendewervel

title: lendewervel


text: by-your-leave

title: by-your-leave


text:
réfection

Etymology
, from.

Noun

 * 1) refection
 * 2)  refashioning, restoration, on the basis of its etymology, of a word which has undergone phonetic erosion through regular sound laws; the word resulting from that process

title: réfection


text:
كس

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1)  pussy
 * 2) * Ibn Nubātah al-Miṣri
 * "ar"

- يَقُولُ لِي مَنْ لَا دَرَى حَالَتِي / أَرَاكَ قَدْ غِبْتَ عَنِ ٱلْعِشْرَةِ / لَعَلَّ مَوْلَانَا بِكُسٍّ خَلَا / قُلْتُ نِعْمَ كُسِّ أُخْتِ مَا أَكْرَهُ

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1)  pussy, cunt

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1)  pussy

Usage notes

 * The phrases above are used as general terms of discontentment (like English fuck!), but they can also be insults (fuck you!) and should therefore be used with particular caution.

Etymology 1
From. Senses in other languages are vulgar. Dictionaries employ the neutral word vulva, but they may have been constrained by the standards of 19th century publishers.

Noun

 * 1) vulva

Etymology 2
From.

Noun

 * 1) person, individual

title: كس


text:
я не знаю

Phrase

 * 1) I don't know

Phrase

 * 1) I don’t know

title: я не знаю


text: Category:Welsh numerals

title: Category:Welsh numerals


text:
չեմ գիտեր

Phrase

 * 1)  I don't know

title: չեմ գիտեր


text:
gehoor

Noun

 * 1)   the ability to hear

Etymology
From, , , equivalent to. Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) hearing (faculty)
 * 2) audience, listeners
 * 1) audience, listeners
 * 1) audience, listeners

title: gehoor


text:
Category:Languages of Azerbaijan

lt:Kategorija:Azerbaidžano kalbos nds:Kategorie:Spraken vun Aserbaidschan pl:Kategoria:Języki Azerbejdżanu

title: Category:Languages of Azerbaijan


text:
darbar

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1) gathering

title: darbar


text:
User:Kiaa~enwiktionary

Kiaa

title: User:Kiaa~enwiktionary


text:
User talk:Kiaa~enwiktionary

Kiaa

Your account will be renamed
Hello,

The developer team at Wikimedia is making some changes to how accounts work, as part of our on-going efforts to provide new and better tools for our users like cross-wiki notifications. These changes will mean you have the same account name everywhere. This will let us give you new features that will help you edit and discuss better, and allow more flexible user permissions for tools. One of the side-effects of this is that user accounts will now have to be unique across all 900 Wikimedia wikis. See the announcement for more information.

Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called Kiaa. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Kiaa~enwiktionary that only you will have. If you like it, you don't have to do anything. If you do not like it, you can pick out a different name.

Your account will still work as before, and you will be credited for all your edits made so far, but you will have to use the new account name when you log in.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yours, Keegan Peterzell Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation 23:56, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed
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title: User talk:Kiaa~enwiktionary


text:
ルビー

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1) a

title: ルビー


text:
pluri-

Etymology
From, combining form of , from , from , from. Related to, (via Latin) and ,  (via PIE).

Prefix

 * 1) several

Etymology
From.

Prefix

 * 1) ; multi-

title: pluri-


text:
חשוב

Etymology
From the verb, ultimately from the root.

Adjective

 * 1) important

Verb

 * , excessive spelling.

title: חשוב


text:
User:Shelf10

Mitch Matrtin is my name and i rock... this, is all you need to know

title: User:Shelf10


text:
silmukka

Noun

 * 1) loop length of thread, line or rope making an opening
 * 2) loop shape produced by a curve that bends around and crosses itself
 * 3)  loop programmed sequence of instructions
 * 4)  loop aircraft maneuver
 * 5)  becket loop made of rope or an eye made at the end of a rope
 * 6) mesh opening or space enclosed by the threads of a net
 * 7)  stitch
 * 8) eye fitting
 * 1) eye fitting

title: silmukka


text:
lenkki

Etymology
Borrowed from. Cognate with 🇨🇬. .

Noun

 * 1) chain link
 * 2) Any reasonably large loop or ring that is used for securing objects into it.
 * 3) loop metal fastener shaped as semicircle and fixed to a wall etc.
 * 4) Something that resembles a loop or a ring.
 * 5) An exercise in which some distance is covered as when running, bicycling, walking, skiing etc.
 * 6)  becket the U-shaped part of a shackle
 * 1) An exercise in which some distance is covered as when running, bicycling, walking, skiing etc.
 * 2)  becket the U-shaped part of a shackle
 * 1)  becket the U-shaped part of a shackle
 * 1)  becket the U-shaped part of a shackle
 * 1)  becket the U-shaped part of a shackle

Usage notes

 * A small loop may be called.

title: lenkki


text:
priki

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1)  brig

title: priki


text:
تلفون

Etymology 1
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1) telephone

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) telephone

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) telephone, phone
 * 2) phone call
 * 1) phone call

title: تلفون


text:
brigantiini

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1)  brigantine

title: brigantiini


text:
by your leaves

Noun

 * 1) *  April 1 1785,, The First Epistle to John Lapraik
 * But by your leaves, my learned foes / Ye're maybe wrang
 * But by your leaves, my learned foes / Ye're maybe wrang

title: by your leaves


text:
Talk:appetizer

there should be two entries here. "snack" is very different from "first course"

title: Talk:appetizer


text:
穴熊

Etymology
Compound of 🇰🇲.

Noun

 * 1) a badger
 * 2)  a shogi castle that locates the king at the corner of the board and fills all surrounding squares with defending pieces

title: 穴熊


text:
solmu

Etymology
From, derived form of , from. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) knot looping
 * 2) knot tangled clump
 * 3) knot maze-like pattern
 * 4) knot, deadlock difficult situation
 * 5) knot nautical unit of speed: nautical mile per hour
 * 6)  vertex
 * 7)  node computer attached to a network or cluster
 * 8)  node of a standard wave
 * 1)  node of a standard wave

title: solmu


text: branchiopods

title: branchiopods


text:
هاتف

Etymology
of the verb.

Noun

 * 1) shouting, calling loudly
 * 2) voice
 * 3) telephone
 * 4) loudspeaker
 * 5)  exclamations, shouts, cries, calls

title: هاتف


text:
birthday attack

Noun

 * 1)  A covert method of decryption exploiting the so-called birthday paradox.

title: birthday attack


text:
birthday problem

Noun

 * 1)  The mathematics problem that concerns the probability there exist two people in a random group who share a birthday.

Related terms

 * birthday paradox

Translations

 * Finnish: syntymäpäiväparadoksi
 * German:

title: birthday problem


text:
rainbow table

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1)  A table of surjective functions used to decrypt a text that was coded using a hash table.

Translations

 * Finnish: sateenkaaritaulukko, sateenkaaritaulu
 * German: Rainbow Table, Regenbogentabelle
 * Romanian:

title: rainbow table


text: ichnites

title: ichnites


text:
laivakorppu

Noun

 * 1)  hardtack, biscuit

title: laivakorppu


text: charnels

title: charnels


text:
initialed

Alternative forms

 * (British) initialled

title: initialed


text:
initialing

Alternative forms

 * (British) initialling

Noun

 * 1) The act of adding one's initials to a document rather than signing

Translations

 * Finnish:
 * Italian: parafatura

title: initialing


text: hogtie

title: hogtie


text:
shellacking

Etymology 1
From.

Etymology 2
From. Shellac is used in floor polish; compare, as in "the other boxer in the match polished the floor with me; I took quite a polishing".

Noun

 * 1) The act or process of coating with shellac.
 * 2)  A heavy defeat, drubbing, or beating; used particularly in sports and political contexts.
 * 3) * 1929 The Leatherneck, vol. 12 (December, 1929), p. 21:
 * Our baseball team got off to an indifferent start at the beginning of the season, but "Steve" Newman gave Gonzalo another shellacking that he won't forget for some time.
 * 1) * 1944 Frank Marshall Davis, "Defeats of the Home Front" (news article, February 23, 1944; reprinted in Writings of Frank Marshall Davis: A Voice of the Black Press, University Press of Mississippi, 2009, p. 126):
 * Unity and democracy are still taking a shellacking here on the home front, despite our successes in the Marshall Islands and in Italy.
 * 1) * 2010 Peter Baker, "What Does He Do Now?", The New York Times Magazine, October 17, 2010:
 * [C]learly Obama hopes that just as Clinton recovered from his party's midterm shellacking in 1994 to win re-election two years later, so can he.
 * 1) * 2010 Ben Shpigel, "Charmed Giants Take a Big First Step," The New York Times, October 28, 2010:
 * Bochy was speaking for the masses, who watched a supposed duel of Cy Young award winners evolve into a full-fledged shellacking.
 * 1) * 2010 November 4, Barack Obama, comments at a press conference, after his political party lost control of the House of Representatives in the mid-term elections:
 * Now, I'm not recommending for every future president that they take a shellacking like I took last night.
 * Bochy was speaking for the masses, who watched a supposed duel of Cy Young award winners evolve into a full-fledged shellacking.
 * 1) * 2010 November 4, Barack Obama, comments at a press conference, after his political party lost control of the House of Representatives in the mid-term elections:
 * Now, I'm not recommending for every future president that they take a shellacking like I took last night.

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Thesaurus talk:masturbate

Various
in the main wikipedia article on masturbation, there is an anecdote about how the surgeon general of the US got fired for saying that children should be told in school that masturbation was safe and normal, which lead to the humorous new phrase for masturbation, "firing the surgeon general."

I'd add it myself, but I can't seem to figure out how to edit the page. Someone more skilled than myself please do it.

i can't find the edit button either. i would also like to add "hand party" from borat. Another one because i can't find the button, wanksterbate/bation, not wangsterbate. Bashing off and Having a bash should be added "Pwn the noob" has absolutely NOTHING to do with masturbation. I can't believe how stupid you must be to put that in there, whoever did.

playing the pink oboe. teasing the purple headed gristle thistle

"spanking the skunk guts" is a good one

"shake hands with beef" is another one. "yanking the crank"

Don't forget "Jerkin' the gerkin".

For female masturbation: "playing clitty-pool"

I'm surprised "Fappping" isn't on the list.

There is also "Having alone-time/me-time"

"Fapping" really does need to be on this list, thats probably the most commonly used one on message boards now.

There is also "Punching The Clown" and "Drop The Kids At The Waterpark" for those in the shower.

Also "cracking one out" or "crack one/ crack one out"

"Mostly vulgar, taboo"
Mostly made up on the spot, more likely. Many of them just seem to be school kids finding an excuse to name a classmate for a laugh. Do you have any editorial standards or fact-checking at all here? Can I just put a few in with names of people I know - "Rubbing the Rosy", "Tossing my Tony"? Will they do? --82.112.135.142 20:22, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

Why is "Beat off" listed as primarily a UK term? It is certainly one of the commonest slang terms for masturbation in the States - probably number three after "Jerk/jack off". "Pocket pool" is also quite common in the U.S. Lastly, why is "skeet" said to be most common in Canada when, according to my personal experience and Wiktionary itself (http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/skeet), skeet meaning "masturbate" came from black America

Where the hell is the edit button for this page? I really REALLY think that autofellatio shouldn't be down there as a straight synonym for masturbation. I don't think that it's most people's idea of masturbation, which could lead to embarrassment if you were young and thought that was what most people were doing.

What? No "jill-off?"
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=jill-off

Cork slang
Additional popular terms for the act of fondling ones genitals: 'tugging your todger' 'choking the bishop' 'grooming the parrot' "breaking my neck" (british)

Ross O'Carrol Kelly (south side slang??)
Allied Irish Bank, Whelding the sheets,

Double-click
Just wanted to add in there "Double-click the mouse" for women.

box the bald headed champ
fapp have a session Climbing the greased pole Pump one out Spit up Download

Fap.
Should be added. It's the ubiquitous, international term used by English-speaking hax0rs and other areas of Internets culture.

Beat off
"Beat off" is NOT just a UK term.

Self Abuse, Self Pollution
These moralistic terms are probably more relevant to an encyclopedic article than the countless schoolyard-invented terms with which we could fill pages. 119.236.1.6 04:14, 26 September 2010 (UTC)
 * This is a dictionary, not an encyclopaedia, but I’ve added these terms just now as you’re right to say they should be here. Overlordnat1 (talk) 07:39, 30 August 2022 (UTC)

fap and frig
I suggest adding fap and frig to the page. Both have Wiktionary entries, so I think they're notable enough. --PaparazziPulse 03:04, 10 December 2010 (UTC)

This page needs some editing.
It's sexist and that is terrible. All the synonyms for masturbation with female anatomy, are under "hyponyms". Female masturbation is STILL masturbation, as the word means to stimulate oneself sexually, usually with one's hands. It's not a hyponym, it's a synonym! Please change it, so it's more inclusive and correct. 23dragons (talk) 23:05, 19 January 2014 (UTC)

title: Thesaurus talk:masturbate


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User:WrestlingManiac~enwiktionary

Hi This is WrestlingManiac. I Am mostly on Wikipedia

just look on my profile there to see more about me WrestlingManiac 22:31, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

title: User:WrestlingManiac~enwiktionary


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counterstrategy

Noun

 * 1) Any strategy designed to counter another, or to render something ineffective.
 * 2) * 2005 - Air & Space Power Journal fall 05
 * Any US counterstrategy will require a domestic, interagency, and multi-lateral approach to defend Taiwan's ability to resolve the conflict peacefully.

title: counterstrategy


text:
split an infinitive

Verb

 * 1)  To produce a split infinitive.

title: split an infinitive


text:
podprsenka

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) bra, brassiere

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) brassiere

title: podprsenka


text:
incrementalism

Noun

 * 1) Any method of achieving a goal by means of a series of gradual increments, or small steps.

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 漸進主義
 * Dutch: incrementalisme
 * Finnish: inkrementalismi
 * German: Inkrementalismus

title: incrementalism


text:
昭和

Etymology
.

Proper noun

 * 1) Shōwa era of Japanese history

Adjective

 * 1)  of Showa-style; Japanese imperialistic; Japanese militaristic

Usage notes
Mainly use to describe or modify things happen in Greater China, Korea Peninsula or Japan, expressing a strong tone.

Etymology
→

Literally “glorious harmony”; from this passage in the :

Proper noun

 * 1) the Shōwa era, 1926-1989
 * 2) a placename, especially of a ward in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture
 * 1) a placename, especially of a ward in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture

Usage notes

 * Not to be confused with, the Shōwa era of 1312–1317; or with the Jōwa era of 834–848; the latter which may also be read as Shōwa.

title: 昭和


text:
平成

Verb

 * 1)  to plan everything well

Etymology 2
.

Proper noun

 * 1) Heisei era of Japanese history

Etymology
Literally "becoming peaceful" or "peace everywhere". Based on two passages, one from  and the other from :
 * in 🇨🇬,, and
 * in Japanese,
 * in Japanese,
 * in Japanese,

Proper noun

 * 1) the Heisei era, 1989-2019

title: 平成


text:
risico

Etymology
Borrowed from, variant of , whence and. Further origin uncertain. See 🇨🇬 for more.

title: risico


text:
counter strategy

Noun

 * 1) * 1985 - Automation of America’s offices
 * Sociotechnical systems developed as a counter strategy to the traditionally structured organization
 * Sociotechnical systems developed as a counter strategy to the traditionally structured organization

title: counter strategy


text: counter-strategy

title: counter-strategy


text: theotl

title: theotl


text: theopixqui

title: theopixqui


text:
Hemelvaart

Proper noun

 * 1) Ascension Day
 * 2) Christ’s ascension

title: Hemelvaart


text:
hemelvaart

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1)  ascension to Heaven

title: hemelvaart


text:
元年

Noun

 * 1)  first year of an imperial reign
 * 2)  first year

Noun

 * 1)  the first year of a calendar era, especially an East Asian imperial reign

Usage notes
The first year of an imperial era is strictly, not *. Later years are simply, , etc.

title: 元年


text:
黒色矮星

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1)  black dwarf

title: 黒色矮星


text: war-monger

title: war-monger


text:
schorsen

Etymology 1
From, from , from.

Verb

 * 1)  to suspend, delay (an event, proceeding) by inserting a pause
 * 2)  to suspend, temporarily depose / remove from office or from membership or enrolment in an organisation
 * 1)  to suspend, temporarily depose / remove from office or from membership or enrolment in an organisation
 * 1)  to suspend, temporarily depose / remove from office or from membership or enrolment in an organisation

Etymology 2
From.

Verb

 * 1)  To strip off bark

title: schorsen


title: User:Divad27182


text:
テクニック

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) technique

title: テクニック


text:
vestirse

Verb

 * 1) ; to dress (oneself)

title: vestirse


text:
基礎的

Adjective

 * 1) fundamental, basic

title: 基礎的


text:
talk shit

Etymology
Phrasal verb from +.

Verb

 * 1)  To untruthfully speak of another in a belittling, deprecative, slighting manner, either in person or in absentia.
 * 2)  To speak nonsense or to lie.
 * 1)  To speak nonsense or to lie.
 * 1)  To speak nonsense or to lie.

Usage notes

 * This is an idiomatic instance of a general construction consisting of talk with the topic area as object of the verb. One can talk baseball, talk philosophy, or talk shop.

Synonyms

 * , ; see also Thesaurus:defame

Translations

 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: puhua paskaa
 * French:
 * German: Scheiße erzählen
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kazakh:
 * Korean:
 * Lithuanian:
 * Macedonian:
 * Malay:
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: mânca căcat
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Latin:
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: buswa, yawyaw
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Vietnamese:

 * Finnish:
 * Russian:

title: talk shit


text:
aastak

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1)  a period of a year

Etymology
.

Noun
.

 * 1) year

title: aastak


text: きき

title: きき


text:
huiswerk

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) homework educational assignment to be done in one's own time

title: huiswerk


text: despedirse

title: despedirse


text:
nätäl'

Etymology
From. Cognate with Estonian.

Noun

 * 1) week

title: nätäl'


text:
latere

Noun

 * 1) side

title: latere


text:
päiv

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) sun
 * 2) day

Etymology
From, from.

Noun

 * 1) day

Etymology
From, from.

Noun

 * 1) day
 * 2) sun

title: päiv


text:
minot

Etymology
From Gallo-Romance root (compare, ) +.

Noun

 * 1)  kid, lad

title: minot


text: laatste

title: laatste


text:
sekond

Etymology
.

Adjective

 * 1) second

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1) second

title: sekond


text:
歓迎

Noun

 * 1) welcome
 * 2) acclaim, praise

Verb

 * 1) to welcome
 * 2) to acclaim, to praise
 * 1) to acclaim, to praise
 * 1) to acclaim, to praise

title: 歓迎


text:
User talk:Rie101

i'm BALLIN

title: User talk:Rie101


text:
User:Meggie Kirk

What???????????/ My dumb friend signed in as me!!! Don't beleive that!!!

title: User:Meggie Kirk


text:
ordelijk

Etymology
From.

Adjective

 * 1) neat, in order

title: ordelijk


text:
fatsoenlijk

Adjective

 * 1) decent

title: fatsoenlijk


text:
aantekening

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) note

title: aantekening


text:
ポリウレタン線

Etymology
Compound of.

Noun

 * 1) polyurethane-coated copper wire

title: ポリウレタン線


text:
esquiar

Etymology
From.

Verb

 * 1)  to ski

Etymology
From.

Verb

 * 1)  to ski

Etymology
From.

Verb

 * 1)  to ski

Etymology
From.

Verb

 * 1)  to ski

title: esquiar


text: maquillarse

title: maquillarse


text:
põrgu

Etymology
Cognate to 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬. Possibly a derivation of, ultimately from the name of the Baltic thunder god; Compare 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬. A Germanic origin is also possible, from, compare 🇨🇬. The Germanic root has possibly mixed with 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) hell

title: põrgu


text:
漫画家

Noun

 * 1) a cartoonist; a comics artist

title: 漫画家


text:
Talk:speeding

Surely a speeding ticket is in adjective use of "speeding", right? --Connel MacKenzie 03:20, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

 * It would be if the ticket was itself speeding. But not if it is a ticket given for the act of speeding. SemperBlotto 08:22, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

title: Talk:speeding


text:
漫画本

Etymology
From 漫画 (まんが, manga): (manga) + 本 (ほん, hon): (book)

Noun

 * 1) a comic book, a cartoon book

title: 漫画本


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Talk:by your leaves

Don't think this is actually a noun... Kappa 03:25, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
 * I would have thought that by your leave was an adverb. (OK, perhaps it's a noun in the "without so much as a" usage )SemperBlotto 08:25, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

title: Talk:by your leaves


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満期

Noun

 * 1) expiration (of the term); full-term

Derived terms

 * : due date

title: 満期


text:
満期日

Noun

 * 1) the due date
 * 2) the expiration date (of the term)

title: 満期日


text:
teñir

Etymology
, inherited from, from.

Verb

 * 1) to color, dye, stain
 * 2)  to dye one's hair

title: teñir


text:
満月

Etymology
From. Compare modern 🇨🇬 reading móa-ge̍h.

Noun

 * 1) full moon

title: 満月


text: Johnny-come-latelies

title: Johnny-come-latelies


text:
万華鏡

Etymology 1
From 🇰🇲.

Noun

 * 1) a kaleidoscope

Etymology 2
From 🇰🇲.

Noun

 * 1) a kaleidoscope

title: 万華鏡


text:
reñir

Etymology
, from.

Verb

 * 1) to scold
 * 2) to fight
 * 3) to quarrel
 * 1) to quarrel
 * 1) to quarrel

title: reñir


text:
ポリウレタン

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1) polyurethane

title: ポリウレタン


text:
Rhymes:English/æzmə

Pronunciation
-ăzmə, /-æzmə/, /-{zm@/

Two syllables

 * asthma

title: Rhymes:English/æzmə


text:
eat for two

Verb

 * 1)  To be pregnant

title: eat for two


text: neuer

title: neuer


text: Category:German adjective forms

title: Category:German adjective forms


text:
Wiktionary:Requested articles:English/Inverse Requests

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You can use this page to make an inverse dictionary request: when you want to say something and don't know the word for it, write its definition here and maybe, if you are lucky, someone will respond and help you find the word you want.

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If you know the word for any of these definitions, please help Wiktionary by posting it at Wiktionary:Requested_articles:English/Inverse_Requests/Answers and remove it from this page.

Inverse Dictionary Requests

 * 1) a duality or something that is at once two separate beings ex. cupid/eros
 * 2) an adverb which is identical in meaning to itself in non-adverbial form together with an appropriate preposition.  "quickly" = "with quickness", "thereabout" = "about there", "homeward" = "toward home"
 * 3) Music which combines gregorian chant with more modern music
 * 4) In old (for instance civil war era) photos, men often pose by sticking one hand in their coat, like they're scratching their chest. What's this called?
 * 5) to offer assistance when one knows it's already so late that the person will say "I'm almost done"; thereby shrewdly giving the false impression of being more helpful/caring than one really is
 * 6) a cat who lives in a public library
 * Are you looking for the name of a fictional cat who lived in a library? This looks like a joke request otherwise.
 * 1) a snake with a green belly, a sharp tail, and strips along its back
 * 2) *You can try asking at w:Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Amphibians and Reptiles or at w:WP:RD.—msh210 23:15, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
 * 3) a word that only has one meaning,defined and set.and is there any?
 * It is highly unlikely. Most words can be used figuratively, nouns can function as adjectives, etc. --Joe Webster 16:18, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
 * isn't it reason?
 * 1) multiple meaningful visions when come together or even overlap or intersect.
 * How about binocular parallax? :-P  --Joe Webster 02:58, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
 * 1) "syncronisity", does it apply on the time/place meet of natural phenomenas,such as an earthquick and rain,where the meaning is over our limits?
 * The correct spelling is synchronicity. Wikipedia's article on synchronicity might give you the answer you are looking for. — Paul G 16:08, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
 * 1) the best of what cannot be understood.
 * compromise? Your description isn't very clear. 86.131.94.4 18:51, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 1) words like language, sex can afford duality in its sense, how can we decide what can afford this duality?
 * 2) What is the single adjective that means "sexually precocious?" I've seen the term used when describing some child actresses.  I am not referring to the nouns lolita, minx or nymphet.
 * coquettish perhaps? Thryduulf 23:14, 14 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks, but I don't think that was it. Coquette, and its derivatives seem to apply to age-appropriate flirting, as to boys her own age.  The adjective I'm looking for is when a girl makes an appeal to adults, with an adult mindset.  --Joe Webster 23:17, 17 August 2007 (UTC)
 * I've forwarded this question to a mailing list about erotic literature that I read, the best suggestion so far is jailbait, although our entry for this marks it as a noun only. Thryduulf 20:31, 18 August 2007 (UTC)
 * The word I'm looking for is a 25-cent, franco/latin-based [I think] word. --Joe Webster 17:58, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
 * 1) What is it called when the fat starts to come apart from a paste (e.g., tahini) and sit atop (or beneath) it? The paste is said to ___ (intransitive verb).—msh210 20:55, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
 * separate is the word that first comes to my mind. Pastes, liquids, etc. that are formed of two (or more) components that need a third component to keep them together are emulsions, to make an emulsion is to emulsify. To convert an emulsion back to its ingredients is therefore to de-emulsify. Thryduulf 22:47, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Separate looks right (an example sentence in that entry is about sauces actually), and thanks, but somehow I don't think it's the word I was thinking of. the word I was seeking is less formal, more idiomatic, like break or fall or go (but not any of those). Anyone?—msh210 16:30, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
 * crack is what I'm thinking of (I'm pretty sure that's what you do to petroleum), but I can't find supporting evidence of it being used for sauces or the like. Thryduulf 22:34, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
 * 'Break can work for an emulsion. When you are making mayonaisse and don't stir enough, for instance, you break the emulsion. Scott Ritchie 20:42, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks.—msh210 18:51, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
 * 'Break can work for an emulsion. When you are making mayonaisse and don't stir enough, for instance, you break the emulsion. Scott Ritchie 20:43, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
 * 1) When something merits inclusion in an encyclopaedia it is encyclopaedic. What is the equivalent word for something that merits inclusion in a dictionary? Thryduulf 23:42, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Found the answer is the comparatively rare dictionaric. Thryduulf 20:31, 18 August 2007 (UTC)

 * 1) An adjective that describes itself. E.g., sesquipedelian is sesquipedelian.
 * self-referential is the term I'm familiar with, but there might be another. Thryduulf 22:34, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
 * autological is better, but not widely accepted as a word. 86.153.15.186 22:35, 1 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 1) Suspicious means causing or having suspicion; sexy means causing or having sexual desire; curious means causing or having curiosity; nauseous, for many people, means causing or having nausea. Is there a word for such adjectives? (Were they verbs they'd be called ergative verbs.)—msh210 23:11, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
 * References to Ergative adjectives and the Lexicalist Hypothesis (PDF) are responsible for most of the Google hits for "ergative adjectives" (I don't know the correct term, so I just took a guess at an obvious one!). My computer is in a sulk at the moment and refuses to load PDF files so I can't read it myself at the moment, but you might be interested. Other google web hits suggest that ergative adjectives are a valid class of adjectives in Georgian and possibly Arabic. Thryduulf 08:28, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks.—msh210 18:51, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

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Wiktionary:Requested articles:English/Inverse Requests/Answers

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Below are words which people posted in response to Wiktionary:Requested_articles:English/Inverse_Requests.

Inverse Dictionary Request Responses
Lyn Cala, accomplished contemporary musician, songwriter, pianist, vocalist from upstate New York.

January, 2007

 * 1) The little arms on a pair of eyeglasses, which one puts behind one's ears
 * Each is called a temple.
 * 1) (Adjective describing a language) Permits pronoun omission, like Spanish and Japanese
 * It depends on exactly what you mean. There's a null subject language which allows missing subjects (English allows this in some cases).  A pro-drop language is a language which allows the dropping of nouns where they can be "pragmatically inferred". The linguistic term for the practice of noun (including pronoun) dropping in general is null anaphora.  In linguistics an anaphora is an expression which refers to another.
 * Would an imperative sentence, like "Shut the door, please," where "you" is the omitted pronoun, be an example? Joe Webster 08:36, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Yes, this is an example of a null subject. Speed8ump from 207.235.66.3 19:58, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
 * 1) The little plastic things on many eyeglasses which rest on the wearer's nose
 * They are nose pads - this is also the word for the small leathery part of a cat's nose.
 * 1) (adjective) unnecessarily dramatic, for example if a movie plays epic awe-inspiring music while showing a mundane scene.
 * histrionic or melodramatic
 * Anticlimactic? Joe Webster 08:29, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
 * anticlimactic is said of an ending. The original request seems to be after a description of one (or many) intermediate sections. Speed8ump from 207.235.66.3 19:58, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
 * I'm pretty sure anticlimactic can apply to the end of a scene, as well, before it transitions to the next one. This is frequently seen in thrillers when there is a false scare like a bird that darts away after the playing of foreboding music.  Joe Webster 22:48, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Yes, but would you classify that as unnecessarilly dramatic? It's setting up a mood.  Plus, I don't think I call that anticlimactic...it isn't "disappointing or ironically insignificant", but maybe that's just me.
 * 1) The hard wax or waxlike substance which covers certain types of cheese.
 * rind
 * 1) The pretty patterns one sees when one looks at a chain link fence with another chain link fence some distance behind it
 * moiré

February, 2007

 * 1) A verb to describe the action of a bunch of people arranging their bodies so as to form a message or picture or some kind of image to those observing from above.
 * Choreograph? If you want a more specific protologism, demotaxy.  Joe Webster 08:19, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
 * 1) The sound, much like a "d" sound, which U.S. English speakers pronounce for the "t" in "water"
 * According to Wikipedia, that is an alveolar tap or flap. Joe Webster 08:58, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
 * 1) A syndrome/condition/disease(?) which causes people to become faint if they suffer a wound bigger than most everyday wounds but still not so big that faintness would be normal; such people often also become faint upon giving blood, having their eyes dilated, etc.
 * Hemophobia? Joe Webster 09:14, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
 * I don't think there is an exact word here, unless it is a medical phrase. The original request isn't just for an aversion to blood, but seems to be more general...an (unusually pronounced) aversion to pain maybe? Speed8ump from 207.235.66.3 19:58, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
 * A hemophilic.
 * 1) The crust which forms in the eyes during sleep.
 * See here. The most accepted noun is sleep (bonus: its already in the wiktionary), but my favorite is "Muco-purulent mattering in the punctum."
 * Another name for this is gum. — Paul G 16:38, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
 * The watery discharge called rheum dries to form sleep.
 * 1) a door which detects when someone is opening it, at which point it automatically starts opening itself, and then holds itself open for a short while before automatically closing itself
 * automatic door
 * Hmmm, I was hoping for a way to distinguish between the automatic sliding doors, common at grocery stores, vs. the automatic conventional doors, which are fairly new and have been popping up around college campuses. The latter are common as the doors to bathrooms.  They LOOK just like normal doors, but when you start to push one open, it detects this and starts opening itself...
 * A power-assist door? Joe Webster 21:05, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
 * A motion-sensing door.
 * 1) a toilet or urinal which uses a laser to (sometimes) automatically flush itself
 * automatic toilet
 * 1) the handle used to flush a toilet or urinal
 * toilet handle
 * 1) the verb to describe people spelling out letters with their bodies, for example, when cheerleaders do this
 * spell out
 * gesticulate? That isn't specifically to spell out, but it is expressing meaning through body posture...
 * 1) a device found in office environments, it has two metal "jaws" which are held open by a spring and which the user can forcefully shut.  Each jaw has two "teeth", so if one uses it to "bite" a piece of paper (like one uses a stapler), it will puncture two holes, but they will be messy ragged holes, so that's probably not its intended use.  It might be used to remove staples, but that's just a wild guess.    Each jaw is somewhere between one and one-and-a-half inches
 * staple remover
 * 1) a word which is not a borrow word in a given language, but which is nevertheless known to most speakers of that language.  Examples in English include "amigo", "sayonara", "hola", "adios", etc.
 * borrowed and as yet unattested as such
 * If it has the same meaning, the same spelling (phonetic is sufficient) and originated from a foreign language it is borrowed. It doesn't matter if most people don't know it is borrowed, or from where.
 * 1) a querty keyboard whose keys are partitioned into three disparate blocks, with different slants, supposedly to make it easier on the hands
 * ergonomic keyboard
 * 1) The distortion which afflicts sounds when heard underwater or through any other fluid
 * I believe that would be [sound] dampening, no pun intended. Joe Webster 01:53, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
 * 1) The practice, employed in the service industry, of secretly offering unadvertised deals which are a better value, so as to appeal to a more miserly demographic without simultaneously becoming less appealing to the public at large
 * Niche marketing. Joe Webster 02:04, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
 * A gray market.
 * 1) The practice of manufacturing an item, then purposefully crippling it and selling it at less than the uncrippled version, so as to reach a more miserly demographic without inadvertantly becoming one's own competition
 * Also niche marketing. Joe Webster 02:04, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
 * 1) A scientist who takes bribes to publish misleading info
 * A spin doctor, no pun intended. Joe Webster 02:15, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
 * 1) An extra sheet of glass or plastic which some people place over their computer monitors in hopes of making the monitors less harmful to their eyes (mostly no longer used, was mostly used in the days of bulkier, more primitive monitors)
 * A glare filter. Joe Webster 02:55, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
 * 1) Verbs which have almost the same meaning when used by a subject on an object, as when used by the object intransitively: eg. "he broke the window" --> "the window broke", "they healed the patient" --> "the patient healed"
 * Ergative verbs. —RuakhTALK 22:14, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
 * 1) a platform positioned at the side of a (usually short) flight of stairs, which can be activated, at which point it will ascend/descend the stairs. Used to allow handicapped people to pass the otherwise impassable stairs.
 * Stairlift. —RuakhTALK 22:14, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
 * 1) The part of the face between the upper lip and the nose; where one grows a moustache, but I want a word which works even for people who don't have a moustache.
 * I believe it is called the maxillary apron. Joe Webster 22:11, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
 * "maxillary apron" gets 1 hit; ditto for Google Scholar (where it's from the same source). No hits on Google Books. —RuakhTALK 22:16, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Various sources' definitions of philtrum suggest that that entire space is the upper lip (American Heritage, Merriam-Webster) or surface of the upper lip (Random House), with what you normally think of as the upper lip being called the border of the upper lip (Oxford English). Lip suggests ergotron, but this gets almost no hits on Google and does not seem to appear in any dictionary. —RuakhTALK 22:26, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
 * 1) The little lens-within-a-lens which characterizes: bifocals
 * Segment; see Bifocals. —RuakhTALK 22:14, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Hmm. That sense isn't in the segment entry, nor do I see it in my other dictionaries.  Looking at the history of Bifocals I don't think I trust the person who added that definition into the article (see here), so I changed it. Speed8ump from 207.235.66.3 23:23, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
 * 1) spaghetti with unusually thick noodles (as opposed to unusually thin noodles which is angel hair)
 * bigoli or linguine - see Appendix:Menus/Italian SemperBlotto 17:28, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
 * 1) A thin wheel on a computer mouse, between the buttons, which one can use to scroll things.
 * A mouse wheel or scroll wheel. --Joe Webster 04:11, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
 * 1) music which inspires hope/joy; usually has a somewhat ethereal quality and a somewhat epic scale; often used in movies when the tide is starting to turn in the good guys' favor after seeming hopelessness
 * Crescendo? Joe Webster 00:26, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
 * A crescendo is a rise in volume, or the instruction to musicians to increase volume. — Paul G 16:38, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 1) A song or music piece which is immediately catchy upon first listen, but which gets old relatively fast.
 * A jingle. These properties are more seen at the American Heritage entry.  --Joe Webster 09:11, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
 * 1) To vandalize a church
 * desecrate is probably what you want.
 * 1) A vast collection of all human knowdledge.
 * An encyclopedia. --Joe Webster 05:30, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
 * 1) Lines which indicate something is moving quickly, in a cartoon or picture.
 * Those would be speed lines. --Joe Webster 06:32, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
 * 1) Being a word smith.
 * A neologist --Joe Webster 23:08, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

March, 2007

 * 1) A single verb equivalent to "to do exercises" (textbook exercises, not physical ones). A friend asked about this because there is such a verb in Spanish but we can't think of one in English.
 * To drill, study? --Joe Webster 04:56, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
 * 1) A vast collection of all human knowledge
 * Wikipedia ;) - actually, in the Wikipedia article there is some discussion of the concept which may include the word you seek.
 * Another related term, which isn't quite exactly what is asked for but might help, is hivemind. (Signed, Language Lover)
 * 1) the lines or wrinkles which temporarily appear beside a person's eyes when (s)he smiles widely or laughs
 * crinkles, I think, or crow's feet
 * "Crow's feet" has negative connotations; there is also the euphemistic laughter lines. — Paul G 16:41, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Everything I have found about laugh[ter] lines places them in the vicinity of the mouth. --Joe Webster 08:51, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 1) A minor set back
 * A hiccup. --Joe Webster 03:38, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Also hitch and snag. — Paul G 16:41, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 1) A miniature pencil, usually about 2 inches long, commonly found in public libraries
 * I've heard of them being referred to as a stub. --Joe Webster 03:42, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Whoah, thanks.. thanks!!  I looked up "pencil stub" on books.google.com and images.google.com and it looks like you SLAMMED the nail right on the head :-)  Thanks a ton!  I have created the new entry, pencil stub, I hope everyone enjoys it! :-D    (Signed Language Lover)
 * Also try golf pencil, named after the same pencils being used to keep score in (miniature) golf games. Scott Ritchie 20:56, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 1) In a story, a character who is a self-proclaimed rival of the protagonist, but only as comic relief, not as a serious antagonist. often such a "rival" ends up inadvertently helping the protagonist, even when trying to do the opposite.  another common theme is that the protagonist forgives the "rival" every time and constantly tries to befriend them, futilely.
 * A foil4 comes to mind. --Joe Webster 08:47, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 1) A male midwife
 * I've seen man-midwife, the genderless birth attendant and the punchline delivery boy. --Joe Webster 21:09, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 1) a person who cuts themselves and often says "no one understands me!"
 * that would be cutter (sense 8)
 * also a self harmer, or possibly an Emo (colloquial)
 * 1) A tool used to scrape ice off a car's windows/windshield. It has a handle and a broad thin blade...
 * squeegee
 * Try ice scraper. --Joe Webster 01:42, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 1) the crud which accumulates in the space under the keys of a keyboard
 * keyboard plaque, however this usage is uncommon to my knowledge, but google searches do turn up a few results Scott Ritchie 20:54, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

April, 2007

 * 1) a work of art that is original but imitates to a large degree the style of other famous works of art
 * [Artist's name]-esque or [art movement4]-esque. --Joe Webster 04:17, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
 * 1) the phenomenon when wind blows through grass and the sun is shining on it at the right angle, making it look like ripples of light are flowing through the grass
 * That sounds like a shimmer to me. --Joe Webster 17:28, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
 * To wintle.
 * 1) what can we call the change of seasons?
 * They are equinoxes and solstices. --Joe Webster 02:43, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Equinoxes and solstices are the times when the seasons (where there are seasons) change, rather than the changes themselves.
 * 1) A circular stool with wheels on it, sometimes found in libraries to help kids reach things that are placed too high.
 * A kickstool.
 * 1) is there a word describing time and space together?
 * There is spacetime, but be warned that it might make you sound like a physicist. But if you're careful, you could get away with it without sounding like a physicist. Language Lover 00:07, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
 * If you are looking for an adjective to describe space and time taken together, then this is spatiotemporal (or spatio-temporal). — Paul G 16:07, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
 * 1) what is the difference between cross cultural, and bicultural?
 * I think if something is cross cultural, that means it arises in many cultures, or possibly even ALL cultures (for example, love is cross cultural). Bicultural specifically means it arises in two cultures. Language Lover 00:07, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
 * 1) what can we call it when we see the thing happen infront of our eyes but we can do nothing?
 * that's kind of a hard one. if you can't do anything because of terror, you might use the idiom, scared stiff.  similarly there is like a deer in the headlights, but this usually implies the thing is something "coming at you" (you watch like a deer in the headlights as your boss approaches to fire you from your job, for example).  there are also plenty of things you can say which are combinations of multiwords, like "helpless to prevent it from happening", "paralyzed and unable to help", and so on.  I wonder if there is a single word for this?? :) Language Lover 00:12, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Other phrases are "like a rabbit caught in headlights" and "paralysed by fear". If you mean "we see something happen we can do nothing about it", then that could simply be "unable to help" or "helpless". — Paul G 16:07, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
 * A quandary or dilemma.
 * 1) As seen thru a shadowy screen or scrim.
 * Gauzy, perhaps, or hazy. If you mean the stripy effect that you see when two pieces of loosely woven fabric are moved over one another, this is called a moiré pattern. — Paul G 16:07, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

 * 1) the grime/dirt which tends to accumulate under fingernails through the course of working
 * Well there really isn't a word that describes that specifically but the name for the skin under the fingernail is "quick". So maybe you could make up your own word! Perhaps quick scum!

May, 2007

 * 1) The phenomenon which causes very thin black lines to seem green or some other color due to the physical limits of a computer monitor
 * Possibly moiré, though it describes the effect rather than the cause and might not be precisely what you mean. 86.131.94.4 18:49, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

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コーヒー

Etymology
Borrowing from, also influenced by 🇨🇬,   ultimately from. .

Noun

 * 1) coffee

Usage notes
The spelling of is much more common generally, but  is found relatively frequently on signs for restaurants and on some menus.

title: コーヒー


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title: thruway


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Talk:parking lot

This had been hard redirected to car park. This is just wrong.

 * car park isn't the primary entry here any more than parking lot would be.
 * A car park can be a parking garage or other parking structure. A parking lot is an open lot (I won't swear a garage never gets called a parking lot, but if so, it's nowhere near as common as the analogous case with car park.
 * parking lot carries the idiomatic sense about stop and go traffic. I've no idea whether car park is used that way or not.

In short, it's not a given that the two terms carry the same senses, and in fact they don't. -dmh 05:00, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

title: Talk:parking lot


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teadma

Etymology
From, probably derived from (modern Estonian ). In this case the verb seems to have originally meant ’to know the way’. Cognates include 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬; 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

The standard language stem tead- originates from dialects, where the long vowel has diphthongized, which results in this word instead of the expected *teedma. Alternatively, the strong grade stem results from analogy with verb forms formed from weak grade (mostly present tense, *teedät > *teeat > "you know").

Verb

 * 1)  to know to have information, knowledge about something, to be aware of something
 * 2)  to know to be acquainted or familiar with

title: teadma


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tundma

Etymology
From, from , from which also Finnish and Hungarian.

Verb

 * 1) to feel
 * 2) to know

Etymology
From, from.

Verb

 * 1) to know
 * 2) to feel

title: tundma


text:
pilus

Etymology
Borrowed from. .

Noun

 * 1) A hair.
 * 2)  A hairlike appendage found on the cell surface of many bacteria.
 * 3)  A bacterial protein that has several biochemical functions

Noun

 * 1)  bacterial appendage

Etymology 1
. Older sources reconstruct, with , , as cognates,  but this is no longer accepted.

Noun

 * 1)  A hair.
 * 2)  An insignificant amount; iota; least amount
 * 1)  An insignificant amount; iota; least amount

Descendants

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 * Ibero-Romance:
 * Borrowings:
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Etymology 2
From.

Noun

 * 1) A maniple of the triāriī; a reserve company of veteran soldiers.

title: pilus


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delantal

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) apron

title: delantal


text:
tirante

Noun

 * 1) tie rod, brace
 * 2) tie beam, guy-wire, guy rope
 * 3) cam, slider, slide zip sliding cam

Adjective

 * 1) tense, tight

Noun

 * 1) strap
 * 2) suspender, brace

title: tirante


text:
tonta

Etymology
.

Noun

 * : female fool; female idiot

title: tonta


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料理屋

Noun

 * 1) a restaurant

title: 料理屋


text:
rondeau

Etymology
From, from. .

Noun

 * 1)  A fixed form of verse based on two rhyme sounds and consisting usually of 13 lines in three stanzas with the opening words of the first line of the first stanza used as an independent refrain after the second and third stanzas.
 * 2) A monophonic song with a two-part refrain.
 * 1) A monophonic song with a two-part refrain.
 * 1) A monophonic song with a two-part refrain.

Translations

 * Finnish: rondeau
 * German: Rondeau
 * Marathi: राँडो
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Tagalog: dalithunig

 * Bulgarian: рондо
 * Finnish: rondeau
 * Marathi: राँडो
 * Russian:

Etymology
From, diminutive of.

Noun

 * 1)  rondo
 * 1)  rondo

Noun

 * 1)  rondeau

title: rondeau