Wiktionary:Requested entries (English)

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Have an entry request? Add it to the list – but please:

  • Consider creating a citations page with your evidence that the word exists instead of simply listing it here
  • Think twice before adding long lists of words as they may be ignored.
  • If possible provide context, usage, field of relevance, etc.
  • Check the Wiktionary:Criteria for inclusion if you are unsure if it belongs in the dictionary.
  • If the entry already exists, but seems incomplete or incorrect, do not add it here; add a request template to the entry itself to ask someone to fix the problem, e.g. {{rfp}} or {{rfe}} for pronunciation or etymology respectively.
    — Note also that such requests, like the information requested, belong on the base form of a word, not on inflected forms.

Please remove entries from this list once they have been written (i.e. the link is “live”, shown in blue, and has a section for the correct language)

There are a few things you can do to help:

  • For inflected languages, if you see inflected forms (plurals, past tenses, superlatives, etc.) indicate the base form (singular, infinitive, absolute, etc.) of the requested term and the type of inflection used in the request.
  • For words in languages that don’t use Latin script but are listed here only in their romanized form, please add the correct form in the native script.
  • Don’t delete words just because you don’t know them – it may be that they are used only in certain contexts or are archaic or obsolete.
  • Don’t simply replace words with what you believe is the correct form. The form here may be rare or regional. Instead add the standard form and comment that the requested form seems to be an error in your experience.

Requested-entry pages for other languages: Category:Requested entries.

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@Equinox, is there a case to implement (ideally to be done automatically by computer wizardry) redirects for variants like "off his own bat", "off her own bat", "off their own bat", "off your own bat", "off my own bat", "off our own bat". (Is that enough?) Otherwise searchers (presumably like the original correspondent) may fail to find the existing entry. Or would that open up a can of worms, with requests to extend to "off our own bats", "off thine own bat", etc.? —DIV (1.145.231.64 07:02, 7 January 2024 (UTC))[reply]
Why do you want it? It's been dictionary convention (standard practice) for centuries, to use "one's" or "someone's". Of course if we use every pronoun (especially in 21st century, with its explosion of new pronouns) that's going to be a big confusing waste). Equinox ◑ 07:09, 7 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Not to say that I want it per se. But I think I already explained the rationale: some people (like, presumably, the OP) look up the exact phrase that they've come across — in this case, "off his own bat" — and can't find it. So then WT hasn't helped them and/or they think the phrase should be added to WT. And currently WT doesn't help much to 'educate' them on how they are 'supposed' to be searching, nor does WT offer an obvious connection to the existing entry.
Yes, I agree it's been a long-standing convention in print dictionaries to include only the "one's" form. However, print dictionaries wouldn't have had the facility (that I am envisaging) to automatically generate all of the important variants with virtually no extra cost, in each case just creating a redirection (no need for any maintenance of separate definitions). In my imagination this could be perhaps done with a template, where the 'parent' entry would be created like, say, "off {{person|one's}} own bat". Vaguely like how the plural template works (except that all of that output is presented in situ.) I admit that I may not be across every new English pronoun, but perhaps if they're all appropriately tagged, so then the automated script would just create redirects for all pronouns with the relevant tag. Doesn't really seems especially confusing nor a big waste. Could be I'm overlooking something (besides glossing over the technical implementation of the magical script)?
Alternatively, if the search results could be a bit more 'intelligent', then this would be much less of an issue. For instance,
  • try searching for off his own bat — you get a wall of noise ...a search box (the user will think, "but I just did a search!"), remarks about other search engines ("but I want to look it up in Wiktionary"), a suggestion to create the missing page, some mysterious stuff about "templates" ("Hmmm. "Why did he cross the road?" — how is that relevant?"), and then the top-20 search results that starts off with a Vietnamese entry and nowhere contains off one's own bat as a link (indeed not even in the top-100 search results) albeit that if you already know what to look for and squint hard enough you'll eventually see incidental occurrences under bat, own, and of one's own accord; and
  • click through on off his own bat — there is a bland statement that "Wiktionary does not yet have an entry for off his own bat." and no hint that the relevant 'parent' entry already exists.
—DIV
P.S. A few decades ago we could have said it's been convention for centuries that dictionaries must be printed/written out. Some conventions change as circumstances change.
(1.145.231.64 01:16, 8 January 2024 (UTC))[reply]
NOTE: existing entry for one up is messed up, using hyphenated examples that belong at one-up. —DIV. (1.145.231.64 07:05, 7 January 2024 (UTC))[reply]

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@TheguyinterestedinstuffIG. This is just something people write about, not a set phrase that people use to convey a specific meaning: any substance will become a plasma if you heat it enough, so you can refer to the "plasma state" of anything (e.g., I can imagine an energy weapon turning you into "the plasma state of the person known as TheguyinterestedinstuffIG"- though I wouldn't actually want that to happen).
You can also refer to "water in its plasma state", "water that's become a plasma", "plasma produced from H2O".
What's more, a temperature of 100+ degrees Celsius isn't enough, by itself, to induce water to become a plasma: at a pressure of one atmosphere, that induces water to become a gas (steam). Finally, I'm no physicist, but I wonder if water is still water in a plasma state. After all, a plasma is a mass of ions, which would suggest there are no chemical bonds between the atoms and that the plasma is just a mixture of hydrogen and oxygen ions produced from water in its solid, liquid or gaseous states.
At any rate, Please read and understand WT:CFI so you don't waste your time (not to mention your credibility) and ours by asking us to create dictionary entries for things that don't belong in a dictionary. Chuck Entz (talk) 00:41, 7 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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  • reexplicate - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library — verb to mean repeating an explication (explanation). I'm not completely sure this qualifies as an entry, but there are definitely a scattering of instances where it's been used, based on brief online searching. Obviously there could also be various derivatives too, like reexplication. (Potentially could show up hyphenated too, or even with diaeresis, due to the double e.)

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Definitely could occur in mathematics. But in that case we would likely have to include also ith, mth etc. — not to mention Nth, βth etc. — because there's no restriction on which pronumeral may be used as an index (for enumeration) in mathematics. (Personally I would apply superscript for clarity, but no doubt you will find some instances without that formatting.) To see whether it qualifies for English I think you need stronger evidence. —DIV (1.145.231.64 07:13, 7 January 2024 (UTC))[reply]
I'm being a bit cruel but the requester was really a clueless child. Yes, we can have the ath, bth, qth element of a series. The only reason "nth" is special is that it gets used in everyday language: "this is the nth time I've told you". Equinox ◑ 07:16, 7 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Specialized jargon or slang

Military

There are dictionaries of military slang which can confirm these, but at least one genuine use should be identified before a term is created.

Textiles

These were originally added under the appropriate letters, but require similar specialized knowledge or research.

  • bull denim - a 3x1 twill weave piece dyed fabric, made from coarse yarns. Weights can vary from 9 ozs/sq yard up to the standard 14 ozs/sq yard. Bull Denim is essentially a denim without indigo
  • CC - Comments Client
  • Classic CO- Dutch: ontwerp van een doorlopend dessin
  • COJ - carry over jeans
  • Ea - Elasthane
  • loop tag - a bartack which is 'loose' in the middle
  • moustache - abrasion of lines to imitate pre-worn garment (a.k.a Whiskers)
  • open end spinning - a technology for creating yarn without using a spindle. This system is much less labour intensive and faster than ring spinning
  • P.I. or P:I: - Proforma Invoice
  • proto - sample before SMS to see the effect and reaction to fabrics artworks and treatments
  • R.E. or RE - Raw Essentials
  • Single Jersey or single jersey - Single knit fabrics and jersey knits are light to medium weight fabrics with flat vertical ribs on the right side and dominant horizontal lines on the wrong side. Fabric stretches from 20 to 25% across the grain.
  • SW- Sweat
  • TC - textile color
  • TP - textile paper
  • whiskers- abrasion of lines to imitate pre-worn garment (a.k.a Moustache)

Pet bird abbreviations

Should be citable from Usenet.

See [2] for the list. (Was going to copy it here verbatim with links, but decided not to, since that might be a copyright violation.)

References and notes

This section is meant to assist in the production of definitions by providing supporting citations. Wherever possible, please keep supporting evidence with the entries it is meant to be supporting.


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