User:CopperKettle

My main pages are at the Russian and English Wikis: w:ru:Участник:CopperKettle and w:en:User:CopperKettle. At Wikisource: s:User:CopperKettle. At Stack Exchange: CopperKettle. At Multitran: CopperKettle. At Lang-8: CopperKettle On Socratic: CopperKettle

My name is Артём. Born on the 8th of May, 1978.

Useful links

 * Russian transliteration
 * Template:rfv-sense
 * Semantic relations
 * Template:en-noun
 * Classification of olde words

Nips and tucks

 * Nouns as adjectives discussion (a chance pun)

Translation terminology

 * Лингво. Правовые и бизнес-термины ("скорая помощь")
 * Pearls of V-zdom, MT
 * Юр. Англ. Перев. форум
 * Drafting Contracts - free online book. Ch. 6.1 "Certain Funny Phrases"
 * Классификация запасов - MT, kudos to 10-4

Translation literature

 * discussion at MT

Grammar

 * Grammar of Errors
 * Extraposition

Etymology

 * Appendix:List of Proto-Indo-European roots

Definite and indefinite

 * перед словом область wordreference

Started:

 * 1) Flieringa ring
 * 2) B-drinker
 * 3) bitzer - a mongrel dog (Australian)
 * 4) home and hosed - australian phrase, from "A Cry in the Dark" (1988 movie); see "home and dry"
 * 5) buff out - from "Planes, trains and automobiles", a comedy
 * 6) stick by - from "The Life of Emile Zola", 1938 movie
 * 7) pip to the post - from "Evil", a 2003 movie
 * 8) that's wassup - from "Inside Man" by Spike Lee
 * 9) carrying-on, from "The Last Picture Show" (1971)
 * 10) branch water, from "Gettysburg", 1993
 * 11) capital goods
 * 12) jive-ass - from "Hot Tub Time Machine" (2010)
 * 13) arseholed - "Withnail and I", 1987
 * 14) down bubble - "Run Silent Run Deep" 1958 - /29.07.2012
 * 15) TBT = Target Bearing Transmitter, ditto, 1958
 * 16) masked facies - "The Savages" 2007
 * 17) low on the totem pole - "Martian Child" 2007
 * 18) dinged-up - "The Right Stuff" 1983
 * 19) to ding up - do., 1983
 * 20) pudknocker - do.
 * 21) articular facet - reading the "sternum" at wiki
 * 22) cross dowel - как по-русски?
 * 23) hold cheap - "From the Dark Tower" by Countee Cullen
 * 24) milling cutter, 5aug12
 * 25) empire waist - "Miller's Crossing" (1990): schmatte -> quotation search
 * 26) lay odds
 * 27) kerfing - prompted by a chat with DCDuring
 * 28) jointer plane - фуганок
 * 29) locus poenitentiae - "The Paper Chase" (1973) - 12 08 2012
 * 30) knight of the post - From Hudibras (1663)
 * 31) moving violation
 * 32) Seville orange - "Much Ado About Nothing" (1599) - 21 09 2012
 * 33) rabato - do., 24 09 2012
 * 34) root and branch - 27 09 2012
 * 35) wit-cracker - Much Ado - 28 09 2012
 * 36) tirocinium - through looking for quotations for "giddy" - 28 09 2012
 * 37) turn the scale - W S Maugham, "The Moon and Sixpence" - 06 10 2012
 * 38) cocopan - was listening to "Awaye!" at ABC Radio, heard "opencast mining" -> Wikipedia: "Big Hole" article - a caption for an image. 06 10 2012
 * 39) PRMS
 * 40) cut a figure - WSMaugh. - 11 10 2012
 * 41) a Roland for an Oliver - do., - 13 10 2012
 * 42) environmental audit - 13 10 2012
 * 43) sans gêne - 14 10 2012
 * 44) take in bad part - 14 10 2012
 * 45) antiscalant - 17 10 2012
 * 46) stump speech - The Economist - 17 10 2012
 * 47) Mother Hubbard - MS ch 49 - 18 10 2012
 * 48) fall to one's lot - MS ch 50 - 18 10 2012
 * 49) natural wastage - 20 10 2012
 * 50) there is reason in the roasting of eggs - 21 10 2012
 * 51) proving ground - 25 10 2012
 * 52) caubeen - 28 10 2012
 * 53) heave in sight - 31 10 2012
 * 54) bargaining chip - 02 11 2012 - the Economist
 * 55) off-gassing - 02 11 2012 - reading Silicate mineral paint
 * 56) shot through with - 02 11 2012
 * 57) residual power‎ - 11 11 2012
 * 58) call time (on smth) - 27 11 2012, from a malapropism in Telemachus, Friend
 * 59) wig block - 29 11 2012, Moby Dick
 * 60) pitch upon - 29 11 2012, Moby Dick
 * 61) to the end of the chapter - 02 12 2012, do.
 * 62) unrecking - 05 12 2012, MD ch 36
 * 63) hand over hand - 05 12 2012, MD ch 40
 * 64) money mule - 10 12 2012, news
 * 65) move the needle - 22 12 2012, news
 * 66) make fast - 30 12 2012, J Conrad
 * 67) stemhead - 30 12 2012, do.
 * 68) twopenny-halfpenny - 30 12 2012, do.
 * 69) bear in upon - 30 12 2012, do.
 * 70) blow upon - 07 01 2013, "Oliver!" (1968)
 * 71) up a gum tree - 08 01 2013, do.
 * 72) maintopman - 08 01 2013, Billy Budd (1962)
 * 73) rodbuster - 12 01 2013, reading w:Rebar
 * 74) handsome is as handsome does - listening to "David Copperfield"
 * 75) rabbit on - 01 02 2013, "The Castle" (1997)
 * 76) slug it out - 06 02 2013, BBC Radio, report on Syrian war
 * 77) take a flyer - 06 02 2013, O. Henry, Man About Town
 * 78) straw in the wind - 11 02 2013, BBC Radio, discussion of Pope's resignation
 * 79) come to time - 15 02 2013, O Henry, Hygeia at the Solito
 * 80) cry up - 20 02 2013, Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer
 * 81) make shift - 21 02 2013, do.
 * 82) rallying point - 05 03 2013, Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes
 * 83) slur over - 29 03 2013, Sons and Lovers
 * 84) rip along - 31 03 2013, do.
 * 85) lerky - 02 04 2013, do.
 * 86) on the club - 06 04 2013, do.; DCDuring
 * 87) gilliver - 06 04 2013, do.
 * 88) by a long chalk - 06 04 2013, do.; ch 6
 * 89) milk churn - 06 04 2013, do.; ch. 7
 * 90) in high feather - 07 04 2013, do.
 * 91) roisterously - 08 04 2013, do.
 * 92) scrattle \ scrattling - 09 04 2013, do.
 * 93) palletizer - 24 04 2013, news on a BASF factory
 * 94) netback - 27 04 2013, oilpatch learning curve
 * 95) univocity - 17 05 2013, combing the web for clinical trials jargon
 * 96) superplasticizer - 20 05 2013, translating a news abt. a synthanol plant
 * 97) postdeterminer - 10 06 2013, Quirk's Comprehensive Grammar, 1985
 * 98) regurge - 04 07 2013, Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night, 1870
 * 99) romp home - 17 08 2013, from a news report
 * 100) antichresis - 21 08 2013, legal learning curve (collateral, pledges etc.)
 * 101) on a kick - 27 09 2013, reading the news
 * 102) turn up trumps - 06 10 2013, forums
 * 103) spieler - 12 10 2013, Tiger Bay (1959)
 * 104) peptize - 24 10 2013, Petrochemistry: aslphaltenes and resins
 * 105) pound a beat - 27 10 2013, Cape Fear (1962)
 * 106) hoonish - 11 12 2013, Leunig at ABC Radio
 * 107) in the same breath - 13 02 2014, BBC: Mathematics: Why the brain sees maths as beauty
 * 108) supplementive clause - 22 02 2014, grammar readings
 * 109) have legs - 16 03 2014, BBC, Tweets from Crimea
 * 110) scotobiology - 14 06 2014, reading abt. genetic linkage etc.
 * 111) vitrector - 18 07 2014, reading on vitrectomy
 * 112) out of gear - 24 07 2014, Dickens's "Hard Times", ch 11
 * 113) hastilude - 29 08 2014, via passage of arms in a Father Brown story by Ch.
 * 114) passage of arms - 29 08 2014, Chesterton, "The Man With Two Beards"
 * 115) Pandean pipes - 30 08 2014, William Henley, "Notes on the Firth" (1875)
 * 116) immunoproteasome - 26 09 2014, reading Science Daily
 * 117) back answer - 04 10 2014, William Henley, "Bus Driver" (1901)

To start

 * User:CopperKettle/todo : a pigeonholed list

Phraseology

 * User:CopperKettle/phraseology - work;
 * User:CopperKettle/phraseology2 - collocation; journalese
 * User:CopperKettle/phraseology3 - literature;
 * User:CopperKettle/phraseology4 - bicycling
 * User:CopperKettle/phraseology5 - plastics and polymers
 * User:CopperKettle/phraseology6 - oil technology, pipelines
 * User:CopperKettle/quotes - literature
 * User:CopperKettle/quotes2 - business\work
 * User:CopperKettle/calques RuEn calques
 * User:CopperKettle/read - work-related
 * User:CopperKettle/headlinese - the art of compressed boilerplate
 * User:CopperKettle/frameworks - frameworks (translation)
 * User:CopperKettle/clarify
 * User:CopperKettle/idioms1
 * User:CopperKettle/idiosyncrasies - language-specific terms with no carbon-copy analogues

Web-tools

 * Google ngrams - word usage in literature by time

Find quotes, learn

 * stoppage - остановка предприятия ?
 * parlous
 * scriber, a marking awl

Desi-Pom relics

 * fillip - "give a fillip" widely used in Hindi sources but seems to have faded away from the British ones
 * clean chit, to give a clean chit
 * "to float a tender"
 * "cynosure of all eyes" - in Indian press; nice expression

Indian English

 * "past over one year", "last over one year" : "The committee finds that the post of chairman CPCB has been lying vacant for the last over one year and additional charge given to a senior officer of MoEF."
 * "do the needful"
 * hydel = hydroelectric

Technology-affected words

 * takeoff
 * bumper

Hard words

 * committee and commission
 * huckster - hackney - hack
 * dissemble - counterintuitive; not disassemble ("though pleased, dissembling, and a woman still")
 * factitious - not factual
 * secular trend - two meanings
 * limpid - too much like limp
 * redolence - quite unlike indolence
 * ingenuous - not ingenious
 * bashful - not bashing
 * inadvertently - not irreversibly
 * arrogate - not abrogate

Collocation
ru:User:CopperKettle
 * In demand with the consumer \\ not "by"
 * "Construction on the plant began in" (not only "of the plant" as in Russian)