If you place or put pressure on someone, you urge them to do something. Renewed pressure will be placed on the Government this week. He may have put pressure on her to agree. 3. adverts If you place or put an advert in a newspaper, you pay for the advert to be printed in the new...
See also:put,someone,to,up put up 1.Erect, build; also, lift to a higher position. For example,They put up three new houses on our street, orShe looks more grownup when she puts up her hair in a bun. [c. 1600] 2.Preserve, can, as inShe put up countless jars of jam. [Earl...
15. to astound or surprise someone 16. give someone a piece of one's mind to criticize or censure (someone) frankly or vehemently 17. in two minds of two minds undecided; wavering: he was in two minds about marriage. 18. make up one's mind to decide (something or to do something...
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When Android 6.0 Marshmallow launches, probably in September, users it will support simple, non-explicit queries in a wider range of apps. Someone looking at a restaurant on Yelp will be able to ask "How far is it from here?" and Google Now will figure out that 'it' refers to the loc...
If you pump divide and conquer and hate and racism and gender conflict 24/7, the collective will pick up on that. Energy is contagious. We can feel that when we walk into a room, enter a club, or are near someone unhappy or hostile. It also emanates from the collective, our screens...
Microsoft has more than a billion Windows customers in the world today, and we want browsing the web – one of the most common things they do on Windows PCs – to be a great experience.The IE9 experience starts from what people use regularly fo...
years.Possibly even more alarming than that was the case of Daniel McCormack.Even though he was found standing at the en suite bathroom of his victim's home at 5.30am while brandishing a screwdriver, he was in effect let off scot-free with a suspended sentence when the case came to ...
At this point, I’m realizing why there are few definitive recipes out there for curing pork, as there are basically three ingredients: pork, salt, and cool temperatures. Feel free to crack another beer, cause this ain’t no soufflé. After salting, I placed the leg on a cooling rack,...
And then — because this is what we do — I wrote a report card for it. Alirio also (ver generously) said I could feel free to cut songs from it, so I cut a handful. But I only cut them if I felt strongly that they didn’t fit with the playlist goal of being CV-19 based....