【小题2】根据短文第五段OK can be spelled as: okay or O.K, but people read these three in the same way.可知,OK这个词的写法不同,但是读音是一样的。故这里应填pronunciation,意为“发音”。【小题3】根据这一项后面的内容可知,这里介绍的是OK这个单词表达的意义,故这里填meanings,意为“意思”。【...
Vidkun is no foreign invader: it’s a purely Norse name, sometimes spelled Vidkunn (double n). It comes from Old Norse víðr‘widely’ + kunnr‘known’ – in other words, ‘famous’. Leave a comment Posted in word tasting notes Tagged quisling, word tasting notes fly-blown, ...
Spelled like, or containing: A unique tool. Find all words spelling like or containing a set of characters. Example: "spelled with out", or "containing out" will give you words that have the spelling of "out", such as about, youth, without, shout Length: how long of a word? five ...
Stephen Hawking, in his book A Brief History of Time, lays out three different ways that humanity perceives time. The first is psychological–we perceive that time moves from past to future, because we remember the past but have no knowledge of the future. The second is thermodynamic (or ...
When you know the root of a word, you can often predict how it will be spelled, even if you’ve never seen the word before. For example, knowing the root “spect” (meaning look) can help you spell words like inspect, spectator, and perspective correctly. Recognizing common root ...
Faeroes Islands, which is actually a Danish name, and which can probably be spelled several ways in English. D.A.W. venqax February 3, 2014 at 10:07 pm Excellent topic, Maeve. The AE digraph’s 2 most common origins are in the spellings of Greco-Latin words and to represent the Ol...
“Chichi” is Spanish slang for breast (typically the word is used in its plural form, “chichis” to refer to breasts); so “a little chi chi out” refers to the modest baring of the breast. “Chocho” (more commonly spelled “chocha”) is Spanish slang for vagina; thus “not my...
A newly playable seven-letter word spelled with four different vowels like BORICUA (pronounced \boh-REE-kwah) is a valuable asset to find on your rack. VERBING Definition: to use as a verb Changes in playability of words for Scrabble are often direct results of how the dictionary treats ...
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By scientific convention, units of measure that are named after people are always written in lower case when the unit name is spelled out in full, but with an upper case initial when abbreviated. So the unit of power is the watt (not Watt), abbreviated W; the unit of energy is the jo...