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Thesaurus. A thesaurus ( pl.: thesauri or thesauruses ), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [ 1][ 2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower ...
Catoptrics. Light path of a Newtonian (catoptric) telescope. Catoptrics (from Greek: κατοπτρικός katoptrikós, "specular", [ 1] from Greek: κάτοπτρον katoptron "mirror" [ 2]) deals with the phenomena of reflected light and image-forming optical systems using mirrors. A catoptric system is also called a catopter ( catoptre ).
List of Generation Z slang. The following is a list of slang that is used or popularized by Generation Z (Gen Z), generally those born between the late 1990s and early 2010s in the Western world. Generation Z slang differs from slang of prior generations. [ 1][ 2] Ease of communication with the Internet facilitated the rapid proliferation of ...
Most slang names for marijuana and hashish date to the jazz era, when it was called gauge, jive, reefer. Weed is a commonly used slang term for drug cannabis.New slang names, like trees, came into use early in the twenty-first century.
Harry Langer/DeFodi Images via Getty. Raygun competes during the Breaking B-Girls Round Robin Group B battle against France's Syssy. Raygun — the breaker (a.k.a. breakdancer) ...
The expression is pre-dated by an anecdote in the 1875 Our Bishops and Deans by the Reverend F. Arnold, referenced in an issue of The Academy: A Weekly Review of Literature, Science, and Art: "Without pledging our credence, we could afford a grin to the story of the 'young Levite' who at a bishop's breakfast-table, was so 'umble as to decline the replacement of a bad egg by a good one with a ...
Nuzzo says sleeping in a recliner chair changes your posture and how your internal organs are supported, which can eventually impact digestion. Poor circulation to the abdominal area for a long ...
Synonym. A synonym is a word, morpheme, or phrase that means precisely or nearly the same as another word, morpheme, or phrase in a given language. [ 2] For example, in the English language, the words begin, start, commence, and initiate are all synonyms of one another: they are synonymous. The standard test for synonymy is substitution: one ...