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Re: Word of the Day
Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2014 4:37 pm
by Yarjka
chyron - television graphics that occupy the lower area of the screen
(due to the popularity of Chyron Corporation's Chiron I character generator, an early digital solution developed in the 1970s for rendering lower thirds)
Re: Word of the Day
Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2014 3:12 pm
by Katya
asterism - a pattern of stars recognized on Earth's night sky, which may form part of an official constellation, or be composed of stars from more than one
E.g., Orion's Belt is an asterism.
Re: Word of the Day
Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2014 4:00 pm
by Cindy
hibernaculum -- a shelter occupied during the winter by a dormant animal
During the winter, Indiana bats hibernate in caves or abandoned mines. In summer, bats use forested areas for roosting, foraging, and raising young. Males generally stay within ten miles of the hibernaculum. Females, on the other hand, establish maternity colonies farther away from the cave. Known maternity colonies have been found primarily in prairie areas of Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, and northern Missouri. Maternity colonies generally contain 100 or fewer adult female bats. Indiana bats use mostly dead and dying trees to roost. The most suitable roost trees are large and have flaking bark with space between the bark and the tree bole, cavities, hollow portions, or crevices where bats can roost. Both male and female Indiana bats return to the hibernaculum in the fall to mate and to prepare for winter hibernation.
Source:
Heartwood, Inc. v. U.S. Forest Serv., 380 F.3d 428, 435 (8th Cir. 2004).
Re: Word of the Day
Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2014 10:43 am
by Katya
Cindy wrote:Source: Heartwood, Inc. v. U.S. Forest Serv., 380 F.3d 428, 435 (8th Cir. 2004).
Light reading?
Re: Word of the Day
Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2014 11:39 am
by S.A.M.
Executrix - Someone who is responsible for executing, or following through, on an assigned task or duty. (female form of executor)
Re: Word of the Day
Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2014 10:10 am
by Katya
apologue - a moral fable, esp. one with animals as characters
Re: Word of the Day
Posted: Sun Apr 06, 2014 10:22 am
by Katya
calumny - the making of false and defamatory statements in order to damage someone's reputation; slander
Re: Word of the Day
Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2014 9:55 am
by Portia
imbricate: arrange (scales, sepals, plates, etc.) so that they overlap like roof tiles.
From this article on the
geography of beer consumption.
“In short, this exercise in mapping georeferenced social media about beer shows how tightly imbricated the material and digital worlds are in the twenty-first century.”
Re: Word of the Day
Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2014 10:30 am
by the anglophile
nescient: lacking knowledge; ignorant
I may or may not have learned this while reading a Buzzfeed article on irony...
Re: Word of the Day
Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2014 12:25 pm
by Yarjka
arthrous:
Of, pertaining to, or being the use of a term together with a grammatical article.
It came up during a discussion about The Gambia
Re: Word of the Day
Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2014 12:26 pm
by Katya
doughty: brave and persistent
Re: Word of the Day
Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2014 7:48 pm
by Yarjka
paronomastically
by means of a play on words, esp. a pun
Re: Word of the Day
Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2014 10:59 pm
by Yarjka
Adynaton
hyperbole that insinuates a complete impossibility (ie, "when pigs fly")
Re: Word of the Day
Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2014 9:26 am
by Portia
Yarjka wrote:arthrous:
Of, pertaining to, or being the use of a term together with a grammatical article.
It came up during a discussion about The Gambia
I spent a good deal of time last night reading about arthrousness (of band names, of freeways) on Language Log. Found one of my comments from over three years ago.
Re: Word of the Day
Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2014 1:53 pm
by Yarjka
irredentism (n.)
a member of a party in any country advocating the acquisition of some region included in another country by reason of cultural, historical, ethnic, racial, or other ties.
Came up in some discussions about Russia/Ukraine
Re: Word of the Day
Posted: Sun Apr 20, 2014 6:52 pm
by SmurfBlueSnuggie
Dissemble: conceal one's true motives, feelings, or beliefs.
Was trying to convince someone that I'm terrible at lying or hiding my emotions. I think he finally believed just how bad I am at dissembling.
Re: Word of the Day
Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2014 2:57 pm
by Portia
Mondegreen - misheard lyrics. My example is "I want to make it from the back of my broken van" (actually "I want a meaning from the back of my broken hand") from The Killers.
Soramimi - the related phenomenon of foreign lyrics sounding like a phrase in your native language. This used to happen to me all the time with ballet terms -- or randomly, the French pledge of allegiance* -- that I heard spoken well before seeing them written. (I still thought of them as French, but was off on the spelling/etymology.) I still remember how surprised I was that
tendu comes from the word for "to stretch" (think "extend"), not
tondu.
*zhapret sairmah defeedel eetay ...
Re: Word of the Day
Posted: Thu May 01, 2014 9:23 am
by Katya
epizootic
adjective: of, relating to, or denoting a disease that is temporarily prevalent and widespread in an animal population.
noun: an outbreak of an epizootic disease.
I find it interesting that the adjective and noun forms are the same.
Re: Word of the Day
Posted: Fri May 02, 2014 3:57 pm
by Katya
adit - a horizontal passage leading into a mine for the purposes of access or drainage
Re: Word of the Day
Posted: Fri May 02, 2014 5:03 pm
by Digit
Graphograph (OK, so it's not really a word...funny concept, though)
