(formal or literary) Verb Forms Phrasal Verbs [intransitive] alight (in/on/upon something) (of a bird or an insect) to land in or on something after flying to it A butterfly fluttered by and alighted on a rose. Several birds alighted on the branches of the tree. synonym land ...
synonym link connection between A and B Scientists have established a connection between cholesterol levels and heart disease. connection with something a direct/close/strong connection with something His resignation must have some connection with the recent scandal. connection to something Consumers are ...
Idioms call somebody's bluff to tell somebody to do what they are threatening to do, because you believe that they will not be cruel or brave enough to do it call something into play (FORMAL) to make use of somethingChess is a game that calls into play all your powers of concentration...
In this section we will introduce the concept of vulnerable students—considered a synonym of the concept students at risk for social exclusion—in the Norwegian context, within the discussion of dropout/completing upper secondary education in VET. We will also briefly explain the Norwegian definition...
Add type synonym Goal (for Symbolic ()), in order to simplify type signatures SBV now properly adds check-sat commands and other directives in debugging output. New examples: Data.SBV.Examples.Optimization.LinearOpt: Simple linear-optimization example. Data.SBV.Examples.Optimization.Production: Sched...
The term volume is often used as a synonym for the storage itself, but it is possible for a single disk to contain more than one volume or a volume to span more than one disk. File storage File storage is a solution to store data as files and present it to its final users as a ...
“Chic” is a borrowed adjective, but there is no English word to take the place of “elegant” which was destroyed utterly by the reporter or practical joker who said “elegant dresses,” and yet there is no synonym that will express the individuality of beautiful taste combined with ...
“We have learnt to accept the fact that kids will remain hooked on the mobile phone, of which SMS-ing is an integral part. We are devising ways to help them strike a balance between the formal language that they are expected to write in their answer scripts and the SMS language,” sa...
The thirteenth century poet Petrarch had mourned that his epoch was a dark age that interrupted Classical learning, and it was from him that the pejorative term Dark Age came to be a synonym for the Early Middle Ages. “Much was believ’d, but little understood,” said eighteenth century ...
Synonym: universal donor. See also (Latin script letters) letter; Aa, Bb, Cc, Dd, Ee, Ff, Gg, Hh, Ii, Jj, Kk, Ll, Mm, Nn, Oo, Pp, Qq, Rr, Ss, Tt, Uu, Vv, Ww, Xx, Yy, Zz Number O (upper case, lower case o) The ordinal number fifteenth, derived from this ...