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Verb: sublime (third-person singular simple present sublimes, present participle subliming, simple past and past participle sublimed)
  1. (chemistry, physics) To sublimate.
  2. To raise on high.
  3. E. P. Whipple
  4. A soul sublimed by an idea above the region of vanity and conceit.
  5. To exalt; to heighten; to improve; to purify.
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Adjective: sublime (comparative sublimer, superlative sublimest)
  1. Noble and majestic.
  2. De Quincey
  3. the sublime Julian leader
  4. Impressive and awe-inspiring...
Noun: sports
  1. plural of sport
Verb: sports
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of sport
  2. sports (third-person singular simple present sportses, present participle sportsing, simple past and past participle sportsed)
  3. To participate in sports; typically used by a person with little interest in the subject to derisively elide details of the activity in question.
  4. "But I have a feeling that in many senses the American consumer is getting over-sportsed." (Broadcasting, 1981 published by Broadcasting Publications, p. 84)
  5. "And so sports they did! They put on their very own athletic shorts and jerseys and headed down to the field. There, they met other people similarly attired, who also desired to sports with them. And so they sportsed." (What It Tastes Like to Be Sane by Sean Ahern, 2011, self-published through Lulu.com, p. 140)
  6. [said of the 2014 FIFA...
 
 
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1:44 AM
> ‘What are ye for?’ he shouted. ‘T’ maister’s down i’ t’ fowld. Go round by th’ end o’ t’ laith, if ye went to spake to him.’
(from Wuthering Heights)
Now, there's a piece of unfamiliar English!
 
@Færd Which part?
 
I guess if I understood fowld and laith then the rest would be no mystery.
 
Right!
Those require Googling.
 
@Cerberus I'm sure there's a host of annotations for this book to be found online.
Please don't bother if it's not familiar to you firsthand.
It's interesting that the author trusted that her readership wouldn't have particular difficulty decoding this language.
She continues:
> ‘Is there nobody inside to open the door?’ I hallooed, responsively.
‘There’s nobbut t’ missis; and shoo’ll not oppen ‘t an ye mak’ yer flaysome dins till neeght.’
‘Why? Cannot you tell her whom I am, eh, Joseph?’
‘Nor-ne me! I’ll hae no hend wi’t,’ muttered the head, vanishing.
 
2:02 AM
@Færd Oh, no doubt.
But looking up a word requires naught but a double-click.
 
Non-standard dialects are not all so accessibly documented.
 
True.
 
@Færd I can't see how anyone but a truly fluent speaker could get through that.
You have to hear it in your head.
You can't use the words to think of what those words mean.
Thus the peril of eye-dialect writing.
Heck, I don't know what it all means. :)
 
Ah. Is it decipherable to you?
 
Mostly, yes.
 
2:10 AM
OR do you mean a fluent speaker of the dialect?
Hmm.
 
I meant a fluent speaker of English. Janus and Cerberus and Reg count, but not many others here.
> There's nobody but the missus....
I have no idea what dialect that is.
 
I got that much. :)
 
And she'll not open it if you make your ...
Dunno what "flasome dins" are.
The last is likely "till night" not "till nought"
 
Yeah.
 
"Nor-ne" is weird.
> I'll have no hand with it
 
2:13 AM
The key words remain obscure.
 
if you make your ____ some dinner?
 
@tchrist Yes, but it's not that difficult. Except for the words that you truly don't know, such as fowld (I thought fold or fould meant herd, not pen, so I had to look it up).
@tchrist A din as in a ruckus, surely you know that word.
 
Sure.
But most people don't know that "an" is an old way of saying "if".
 
And flaysome I just guesses was some bad adjective.
No need to know its exact meaning.
 
It's now restricted to a few rural dialects.
 
2:16 AM
@tchrist I didn't find that one hard to guess, but I don't remember why.
Perhaps because of Greek an, which can be a contraction or ei an, "if".
Or just the context.
 
playsome?
 
I rather think something to do with flay?
Which can refer to bad things...
As in, fearsome.
 
Dialect word.
 
Yes.
That's not hard.
But the words Faerd mentioned are.
@CowperKettle ...and today's word is: gigantomachy.
 
Battle of the Titans Giants?
 
2:20 AM
Indeed.
Against their juniors.
 
@Færd Are you reading Brontë?
 
I think the Pergamene depiction is famous.
 
@tchrist Yes, for a chapter and a couple pages.
I've just started.
 
Or what do you call a re-imagining, but in sculpture?
 
@Cerberus Do you know what pergamino means?
 
2:23 AM
No? Parchment?
 
Just so.
 
> In most European tales giants appear as cruel and stupid, given to cannibalism, and often one-eyed. Heroes who killed them often did so more by wit than by strength. Although kindly giants occur (e.g., Rübezahl, who lived in the Bohemian forest), most were feared and hated; but marriages between their daughters and the hero were possible.
 
2:38 AM
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Q: Noun to describe a person who doesn't want to be liked back

guest7608There is a very specific word that describes someone who likes, in terms of love, someone and they will stop liking the person if the person likes them back. They do not want the other person to like them back.

 
3:16 AM
@Cerberus giganatophilia
 
Quite so.
 
Oh. Bohemians. Pretty predictable
Böhmen
und Möhren
und Rüben
It's called King Wenceslas Salad
 
How you know these things!
 
I don't know. I never went to culinary school
You pick it up on the streets
ew
OK..important question. Is it 'kyew lih nary; or is it 'koo lih nary' or is it 'kuh lih nary'?
I mean, the answer is of course 'Yes'
but what does the CIA say?
They should know
Juilia Child was a spy.
Or rather her husband said he was, and while he was 'at work' she went to French cooking school as a 'student' and history was made.
Along with many soufflés
 
3:35 AM
'How do I start a sentence with a date?' As i understand it, some people call this the definition of marriage. :-P — mcalex 14 hours ago
 
lol
@CowperKettle Sentence as in punishment? :)
 
4:22 AM
@Mitch Charles Harrington Elster says 'kuh lih nary' is now usual, but kyew lih nary is "pure, natural, and precise" and 'koo lih nary' is "beastly", lol.
In theory, jugular "should" be pronounced "joogular" for similar reasons, but I think that pronunciation is almost entirely dead now among speakers of American or British English.
There was an article that mentioned this pronunciation ("The News & Observer 11/23/1929"), but I can't find it up anywhere on the web now except for this one page that is cached. search for "jugular" on the following page to find it pasttimes1.rssing.com/chan-7076902/all_p3.html
"Truculent" is also often pronounced with the vowel of "truck" for some reason. Maybe influence from "succulent"
 
 
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Q: Is there a noun for "someone who has access"?

user3198085I'm building a data model for a computer program, and I'm in need a word for "someone who has access". The information will be provided as an answer to the question: "Who has access to the data within your company?". My initial thought was to go with something along the lines of "internal data ...

 
 
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Q: What's an expression for when someone inadvertently reveals information when they hear something called out?

dtgqIn a group of individuals where we're looking for one specific person, you could call out something to bait them into revealing themselves, because only that person would know to react. It may also be inadvertent. For example: Bob calls his friend John "Hey fatass!" in public, and Alice turns to...

 
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Q: What do I call a specialist who performs necropsy of a sacrificed animal during a clinical study?

CowperKettleI'm translating a text where a description of a clinical study is given in which animals are subjected to necropsy. One of the sentences goes like this: If they consider it necessary, the autopsist may take pictures of macroscopic changes reflecting the damage left by the drug. But is it r...

 
10:47 AM
They started thinking more, therefore there were more of them. — Graham 24 hours ago
I LOL'd
 
11:06 AM
Today is the coldest day of this winter. Starting from tomorrow it will edge higher and higher.
 
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Q: Phrase / expression/ word for a smell that stimulates an emotion

CatsaI am looking for a word (in any language) for a smell that stimulates an emotion or brings back memories. For instance, when I smell cinnamon, I get a happy feeling - and it reminds me of Christmas. I am aware of terms such as olfactory, nostalgia, redolent and Proustian (which is more relate...

 
11:52 AM
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Q: What is the word for a clock going before real time

loading...The word I'm looking for would be used for a clock being the wrong time by a specific time. For example people set their clocks to be five minutes too fast so that they won't be late. What is this called? Example sentence: You're here early! Yeah, my clock is [this word].

 
 
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3:59 PM
@KitZ.Fox Ok, If possible, can you add two things for me? One, who protected it, and two, whether or not it is tagged pejorative-language (which tchrist created) or either of its 2 synonyms? Also when those changes are made, could you clone that query but make it for closed questions since tchrist got his ♦, rather than locked questions? I am sorry to ask you to do additional work, but I'm no good at SQL, and I'm sensing no one will take my case seriously until I prove it with numbers (though I know what the numbers will say) — Dan Bron 17 hours ago
@tchrist I'm mostly just linking to that because it raises an interesting point I might not have noticed otherwise: That you created the tag. If you do not mind sharing it, what was your motivation for it when you did that?
 
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Q: What could be called this property?

jckimFor example, like men and women, or Age≥60yrs and Age<60yrs, two groups are not overlapped but two groups consist the entire one. What can be expressed this property? eg., two groups with mutually exclusive property? or two groups with non-overlapping property?

 
@CowperKettle Impressive!
So what is life like, under -20 degrees?
Is it very much different from -5?
I remember one winter when it was around -17 or -20 at night, on a particular day. Which is very rare here.
I had to cycle to school when it was still dark, a 45-minute cycle.
But it actually didn't feel much different from a non-extreme cold winter day/night.
 
@sumelic "pure, natural, and precise"... I sense a pedant
@sumelic I'm not sure it should be expected to be universal. 'bluster' isn't pronounced 'blooster'
 
@Mitch Yay!
 
@Cerberus I know! Fellow travelers!
 
Indeed.
 
4:24 PM
@Cerberus That seems terribly unlikely for your part of the world.
never too warm, never too cold
 
Unlikely, or rare?
 
er... both?
from one comes the other?
 
It's normal for temperatures to drop to -5 at some point in winter.
 
but not for there to ever be much snow at all
 
@Mitch Yes, but one suggests disbelief, while the other does not.
 
4:25 PM
if any
right?
 
We had a snow storm a couple of weeks ago.
The amount of snow was not huge, but cycling became impossible.
Usually, we just cycle on snow and it's not a problem.
 
@Cerberus both suggest disbelief
 
But this time, it was just above freezing, so the snow became too icy.
 
OMG I can't tell the difference anymore!
between rare and unlikely
not between snowy and icy
that's pretty obvious
snow is snowy and ice is icy and that's about all there is to say there
 
Or just around freezing, probably: the pressure of people walking and cycling on the snow can make it melt a tiny bit when the temperature is slightly below 0.
 
4:27 PM
unless.
 
And then it refreezes immediately.
 
dammit
 
rare is a kind of pokemon. unlikely is the chance you'll get a rare pokemon
 
what is that stuff called when it's raining, but it comes down frozen, but it's not snow
sleet?
 
4:28 PM
but there's another one
 
good try but that's something else entirely
 
I think sleet is still half-wet?
 
? hail is frozen rain
 
Or it only freezes on impact?
 
4:29 PM
(but definitely is in the taxonomy of watery stuff falling from the sky)
frozen rain
 
I think we all know what hail looks like.
 
arg
 
This December.
@MattE.Эллен !
[!]
 
@Cerberus are they Dutch?
 
4:30 PM
sleet is like a slush puppy thrown from an aeroplane
 
@Mitch Yes. They were dressed up for some historical fair.
 
so crocs are the modern Dutch clogs?
@MattE.Эллен and hail is like a cat continuously hit with a baseball bat?
 
Indeed, crocs are clog-like.
 
and snow is like a kiss from a dead hedgehog?
is this Lemony Snicket giving a weather report?
 
Unfortunately, the number of people who still dress in traditional clothing in daily life is getting very rare. Only in a few highly religious villages, and only older people. Each village has its own dress!
 
4:32 PM
@Cerberus but also 'unlikely'?
 
We got up 15 cm of snow on a certain day in December.
@Mitch I don't think a number of people can be unlikely!
So we'd welcome climate change!
 
@Cerberus "Your sad devotion to that ancient religion has not helped you keep your crocs from being caught in escalators"
 
@Mitch not in my experience of cats or baseball bats, but YMMV
 
Look man, it's the second decade of the 21st century. And people still fall for that religion... stuff?
 
@Mitch Now, now.
 
4:35 PM
@Cerberus I don't think a number can be rare either
 
But, you're right: they're not religious in a fun way.
 
Unless it is 151
THat's pretty rare
except I just bumped it
sigh
 
But can a number be real?
 
OK let's not start that again
 
yes
that's why they're called real numbers
 
4:37 PM
@Cerberus No one likes unsolicited advice.
 
unless "real number" is some sort of mathematical idiom
 
Can they be imaginary?
 
I'm imagining a number right now
 
"Hey you're about to walk in front of a bu... nevermind"
 
@MattE.Эллен Hah I think you know that.
 
4:37 PM
:D
 
@MattE.Эллен YOu don't want to know the number I'm thinking of right now
 
@Mitch Maybe you could add a full stop to that sentence.
 
And I mean it to sting
 
@Mitch the only stinging number I can think of is 0xBEE
 
@Cerberus You were saying?
@MattE.Эллен nice
 
4:38 PM
coughs
 
Please turn your head the other way and cough again
 
which head?
 
They keep moving I can't point at one at any one time
 
there was a recent Branson Reese cartoon about Cerberus' heads, but it's NSFW, so I'll not post it here
 
Thanks
Who is Branson Reese?
 
4:50 PM
@MattE.Эллен Oh, do post it!
Then I'll post Aethiopian traditional dress:
 
Haha.
Surely a dog's penis is a common sight in public places?
 
I think they're fairly well hidden. My thinking was just that I would be a bit embarrassed if someone saw me reading that in an office environment
 
@Cerberus He's smoking
This guy is flying
 
@MattE.Эллен Oh, well, a little bit of embarrassment is only wholsesome.
@Mitch Umm maybe you should look at his boob again!
@Mitch Also impressive!
 
4:57 PM
@MattE.Эллен ...to say nothing of the dog
 
says nothing of the dog
 
Good.
 
Thanks
To Say Nothing of the Dog: or, How We Found the Bishop's Bird Stump at Last is a 1997 comic science fiction novel by Connie Willis. It takes place in the same universe of time-traveling historians she explored in her story Fire Watch and novels Doomsday Book (1992) and Blackout/All Clear (2010). To Say Nothing of the Dog won both the Hugo and Locus Awards in 1999, and was nominated for the Nebula Award in 1998. == Title Source == The book's title is inspired by the subtitle of an 1889 classic work, as explained by the author in the dedication: "To Robert A. Heinlein, Who, in Have Space Suit—Will...
 
Ah!
 
It's basically P.G. Wodehouse with time travel
 
5:00 PM
Do you like time travel?
The most important question.
 
5:38 PM
 
@Cerberus Yeah it's fun. The costumes, the strange money. The travel itself can leave some people a little nauseous or woozy, but it doesn't seem to bother me.
 
and now I know what a bird stump is
 
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Q: Word for "almost comprehensive"

theforestecologistI'm looking for a word that means roughly "almost comprehensive" or "nearly comprehensive." The context: I've created an app that does a fairly complete suite of jobs (given its purpose), but clearly does not do all possible jobs that the app could do or that one might want it to do. In other ...

 
6:19 PM
@MattE.Эллен It's what's left after you stump a bird
Ршизб
 
6:36 PM
The most obvious "negation" of I am a teacher is I am not a teacher. But this is a question for English Language LearnersFumbleFingers 1 hour ago
@M.A.R. Thoughts?
 
7:09 PM
A large water supply pipe burst in a Yekaterinburg neighboorhood.
The water immediately froze into an ice-rink
Kids put on their ice skates and went skating
 
Fun!
 
@Tonepoet it seems like another question where you can't help the asker because you don't know what they really want
Yep, just like the sea of ELL questions
 
@M.A.R. Hmm, so I take it you wouldn't violently object to migration then?
 
Anyhow FF is already a better authority on ELL stuff
@Tonepoet I would just spontaneously combust
Knock yourself out
 
@M.A.R. Actually, I don't care where it is. I'm asking because I'm wondering just what use E.L.L. is to us. It's such a curiosity to me because as far as I have seen, it seems like both websites have adopted nearly identical standards.
 
7:18 PM
Not my impression
ELU has adopted grumpy ELL users' standards
So yeah, my impression,
But not my impression.
It's complicated
 
@M.A.R. Okay, thanks for your opinion/non-opinion. =P
 
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Q: Word for putting a Y between every X

J.LLet's say I have a series of things... XXX ...and I'm putting something else between each one: XYXYX Is there a verb for this? For example, between every workweek (X) there is a weekend (Y). Possible sentence: "Workweeks are _____ed with/by weekends." The closest word I came up with is inter...

 
8:30 PM
@Tonepoet I can't speak for ELL but most ELU standards are simply SE network wide standards. My guess is ELL has the same so you would expect a lot of overlap. For example the research requirement is not an ELL or ELU standard. It's network wide.
 
^^^^^^^^
Is this what we are come to?
 
9:08 PM
@tchrist Thanks for bringing it up
 
These aren't questions. They're requests for a copyedit service.
Well, not that one. It's just a list-me-my-thesaurus request.
 
9:27 PM
Maybe we do need a special SE for SWRs.
Because there are enough people who like to ask and answer such questions, but the rest of us hate them.
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@MetaEd Not quite. It's true that Gen. Ref. was a network wide closure reason, but that was only between February of 2011 and June of 2013 (replaced with customizable close reason text), and it wasn't quite a requirement. Research could be provided to show that a question wasn't gen. ref., but if there wasn't a gen. ref. then the question wasn't supposed to be closed. Anime S.E. has nothing like it anymore.
 
A bit like ELL (except that I didn't hate ELL-like questions).
 
Exactly.
wordpuzzling.se
 
@Tonepoet This was also the consensus when Gen. Ref. was established as a close-reason on EL&U.
And I think it's a good consensus.
@tchrist That makes it sounds so...nice.
 
@Cerberus Yeah, I see you had the top voted answer to Google is Not General Reference. I saw some of WaiWai's posts too. However it seems that the community consensus is shifting towards the research requirement interpretation.
It's one of the main reasons why I'm curious about the relationship between E.L.L. and E.L.U. They complain that we treat them like a trash can when we send unresearched questions over to them, but I suspect we had different expectations out of the split. Right now, the relevant closure reason makes specific reference to E.L.L., as if it's an alternative to research, but E.L.L. has both an add the research, and a dictionary question closure reason.
 
9:34 PM
@Cerberus Point
 
@Tonepoet I'm not actually referring to the General Reference closereason. I'm referring to the research requirement.
 
@Tonepoet your dots are killing me
No they really do
I choke every time I see them
 
@Tonepoet I don't know. It could be only a handful of high-reps.
@Tonepoet I have seen some complaints from E.L.L. But what percentage of out migrations do those apply to? Is it possible that they accept most of our migrations?
 
@M.A.R. I don't really see why they should. It's a standard practice to punctuate abbreviations that way.
 
It is true that E.L.L. shouldn't be a trash can.
 
9:38 PM
@Tonepoet we had a nice discussion about this before I think
 
It's also possible that E.L.L. is getting old and grumpy like many other sites.
 
I sure hope so
 
Sorry, I almost forgot the dots.
 
Then I could get stuff done in its meta again
@Cerberus ʕノ•ᴥ•ʔノ ︵ ┻━┻
 
@M.A.R. Maybe.
 
9:40 PM
@Cerberus ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
 
Butt face?
 
@Cerberus no, just smiling
 
Oh, what's the difference anyway.
 
@Tonepoet mopping floors and washing them is also standard procedure. Doesn't mean people can't die by slipping on wet floor.
Plus, that's exactly what's wrong with it. It gives you an excuse to use them
@Cerberus not much, except butts look uglier when smiling
 
I think M.A.R. is very serious about this issue, so be careful, @Tonepoet. Especially considering his user name.
@M.A.R. I would submit that it probably depends.
 
9:46 PM
 
Ugh, I should turn on the VPN for images
you monster
 
Your Internet provider blocks all images?
Or only that particular domain?
 
Somewhere I have some custom CSS for chat that whittles all embedded images down to fairly small size.
 
@Cerberus those aren't dots. They're holy Persian zeroes
 
@M.A.R. Of course.
 
9:48 PM
@Cerberus the government censors everything
 
Zarathustra would be mortally offended should you drop them.
@M.A.R. But you don't know why this particular image was censored?
 
The closest thing to porn in I.stack.imgur is benzophenone
 
Can you visit this url?
That's where the image is hosted.
@M.A.R. Oh, I thought Imgur just held electrons.
 
@MetaEd Our "Please include the research..." closure reason still makes reference to commonly available resources, so the reading is ambiguous in and of itself without deference to the copious number of meta-posts about the subject. I think it was written up in 2014. Kit Z. Fox made a post about the new wording in 2014 if I recall correctly. It's hard to tell just what the rewording was originally supposed to do from that alone though. Something about clarification and close voting patterns.
 
@Cerberus imgur has always been blocked. Some time ago, their protocol changed so I.stack.imgur was affected as well
 
9:52 PM
@M.A.R. But it's not on Imgur, as I said.
 
Also, I don't think that was ever quite network-wide. It doesn't fit within the narrative of Are Some Questions too Simple and the War of The Closes.
 
Yeah.
 
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