Who invented the first drone? Drones: According to theOxford English Dictionary,a drone is simply defined as an aircraft or missile that has no pilot and remote-controlled. Some drones are able to navigate auto
The question of what qualifies as a “fossil” remains open. The Oxford dictionary definesfossilsas “the remains or impressions of a plant or animal embedded in rock and preserved in petrified form”. But this definition doesn’t encompass the broader use of the word. Eggshells or coprolites ...
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The vehicle used to transport the stolen gold from Toronto’s Pearson airport. Photo by Peel Regional Police Article content They quote dictionaries — Oxford Concise, Merriam-Webster, Cambridge, and Black’s Law Dictionary — as well as case law and agreements going back to the 1950s, with ...
Samuel Johnson was an English writer who made lasting contributions as a poet,playwright,critic,and lexicographer.The Oxford Dictionary calls him"arguably the most distinguished man of letters in English history".塞缪尔·约翰逊是英国诗人、剧作家、文学评论家和词典编纂者,为英国文学的发展做出了不可磨灭...
The rise of digital research tools, from the electronic Oxford English Dictionary to portals that allow us to search tens of thousands of Early Modern books, means that anyone with an internet connection can repeat, and better, the searches made by the OED's original army of readers in the ...
The word ‘Brexit’ was coined by EURACTIV, according to the latest edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, way back in 2012, in a blog post by Peter Wilding.
If any of these bring a groan or three, the folks at Oxford University Press might say we have only ourselves to blame. As Oxford’s head of online dictionaries told TIME, “The dictionary reflects the way the language has changed over the last few years […] We run the big...
John also tells us we must “carry out His commands” immediately informing us that “His commands are not burdensome (1 John 5: 2, 3, NIV).” (By the way, burdensome is defined as “undesirably restrictive” and “taxing” by the Oxford Dictionary.) ...
" The latest Chinglish buzz phrase, having swept through Chi-nese cyberspace and society, has now made a landing overseas, entering the US web-based Urban Dictionary.According to the entry put forward by "gingerdesu","You can you p" which means "If you can do it, go ahead and do i...