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To be unable to describe or talk about. in a word In short; in summary: In a word, the situation is serious. in so many words 1. In precisely those words; exactly: hinted at impending indictments but did not say it in so many words. 2. Speaking candidly and straightforwardly: In...
v. [描述] represent in a picture or sculpture; portray in words; describe Here, we can see how the author to depict Beatle John Lennon as a drug-crazed neurotic. Show examples and contexts deplete v. [耗盡,減少] decrease fullness of; use up or empty out We must wait until we deplet...
THE WORD“demure” is old—it describes the sort of modest lady Victorians esteemed—but it is freshly fashionable. There are some 800,000 posts on TikTok with the tag #demure. Youngsters today are using the word with lashings of irony, invoking it to describe everything from Saturn to sun...
Its unstoppable influence and power led to a general disillusionment with the utopian ideals the tech industry pedaled about connecting in a digital democracy. We’ve been through a lot over the past ten years. But we made it! And we lacked no ingenuity in the words we used to describe ...
"Craptacular" was used by Bart to describe the supposedly defective Christmas lights that Homer purchased in "Miracle on Evergreen Terrace". It is one of the more frequently used made-up words from The Simpsons, and, like a few others, was in use before The Simpsons popularized it. Currentl...
But it is her talent for capturing a fleeting moment, for describing an elusive feeling in words, that has led some critics to describe her as "enchanted." OTHER ARTISTS, recognizing this, have paid her the tribute of recording her songs - artists like Dave Van Ronk, Judy Collins, Tom ...
As for those cutie little goats SOED cannot describe them:* goatish adjective goatlike; spec. lecherous: E16. * goatlike adjective resembling or characteristic of a goat L16. * goatling noun a young goat, spec. between twelve months and two years old L19. I guess they are under twelve ...
“defining deviancy down,” to describe a process in which we change the meaning of moral to fit what we are doing anyway. I wish to add a third voice to the mix, that of the late historian Arnold Toynbee, who would find our recent history no mystery at all: We are witnessing the ...
October 30—the day to buy Halloween treats and prepare your vampire, witch, pirate, or another costume. It’s also the day of a staggering historic event that few people today think or even know about: The day in 1938 when the evening radio broadcast of“War of the Worlds”caused Americ...