Wiktionary:Requested entries (English)

See also: Missing entries (<180,000)

See also: w:Wikipedia:Typo Team/moss#For Wiktionary (missing words encountered on English Wikipedia)

See also: the Tea room, where you can post the definition of a word you’re trying to find, and hopefully someone will help you find it.

See also: Wiktionary:Requested entries (English)/diacritics and ligatures

• Old requests:
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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:

• Add glosses or brief definitions.
• Add the part of speech, preferably using a standardized template.
• If you know what a word means, consider creating the entry yourself instead of using this request page.

• 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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• We have 1-h TL FM. Along the same lines we could also have 10-h TL FM, 100-h TL FM, and 1,000-h TL FM / 1000-h TL FM. (Seemingly only attested with these numbers).
• 5D chess - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - verb, after the game 5D Chess with Multiverse Time Travel; past tense 5D chessed or 5D chess'd
• I am interested in seeing a fuller coverage of plate tectonics and submarine features like plates themselves (Philippine Sea Plate, Scotia Plate), oil fields (Chengbei, I have no list of these), trenches (Manila Trench, Mariana Trench), ridges (Mid-Atlantic Ridge, East Pacific Rise), and similar (James Shoal, Darwin Mounds) etc. This kind of work will be mostly based in academic literature. I hope to see a more adequate system of categories developed. To show you how woefully inadequate Wiktionary is at this time (2022), I just today created Mid-Atlantic Ridge and dumped it into Category:Oceanography and Category:Places. See List of submarine topographical features, List of reefs --Geographyinitiative (talk) 21:35, 24 June 2022 (UTC)

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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.

• bennied - RAF speak - used during tour of Falkland Islands. To have to remain in FI after date due to leave, usually due to replacement unavailability. (Cf. Benny sense of Falkland Islander.)
• gardening - RAF speak- sowing mines in water from a low height
• garnish; the military sense, related to camouflaging, see e.g. commons:Page:"Garnish Nets Correctly" - NARA - 514018.tif
• hang up or hang-up or hangup - RAF speak - Bomb failed to release.
• Trident Board (USN SEAL examination panel)
• vegetable - RAF speak acoustic or magnetic mines

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
  • elastane? —DIV (1.145.80.173 12:01, 25 July 2022 (UTC))
• 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 [1] 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.