Difference between revisions of "Lexical Adventures"

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• Untriaged: (Definition, Computing) An Untriaged bug is a bug that a has not been investigated or and approved. It comes from the word Triage. Triage is a process of prioritizing patients based on the severity of their condition so as to treat as many as possible when resources are insufficient for all to be treated immediately. This term comes from the French verb trier, meaning to sort, sift or select.
• Comestible: (Definition) Something that can be eaten as food: meat, cheese, and other comestibles.
• Poison Centre: Paracetamol is the most common drugs which people in the UK overdose on (often in conjunction with alcohol). This makes up over 40% of poisoning cases in the UK.
• Scrumtrilescent: a word that conveys the existence of something that cannot be expressed; the indescribable. it was made up by Will Ferrell's character on SNL to describe utter perfection that, ironically, is too perfect to describe.
• Colophon: in publishing, in most cases it is a description of the text typography, often entitled A note about the type / A brief description usually located at the end of a book, describing production notes relevant to the edition / A printer's mark or logotype. The term "colophon" derives from the Late Latin colophon, from the Greek κολοφων (meaning "summit", "top", or "finishing"); when ancient scribes recorded information on clay tablets and would add this colophon of catch phrases or random facts about the scribe or numbers so that the tablets could be identified as being in the same set. not to be confused with Colophon, an ancient city in Asia Minor, though.
• Idiolect: An idiolect is a variety of a language unique to an individual. It is manifested by patterns of word selection, vocabulary and word lexicon, grammar, or words, phrases, idioms, or pronunciations that are unique to that individual. Used by forensic experts to determine if someone really said/wrote something. [shld read more about june and jennifer gibbons]
• cf.: cf. is an abbreviation for the Latin-derived (but also modern English) word confer, meaning "compare" or "consult". It is mainly used in common and statute law contexts as well as in academic writing
• Bunting: Strips of cloth or material usually in the colors of the national flag, used especially as drapery or streamers for festive decoration
• BOGOF: "Buy one, get one free" is a common form of sales promotion. While rarely presented to customers in acronym form, this marketing technique is universally known in the marketing industry by the acronym BOGOF.
• Peloton: The peloton (from French, literally meaning little ball or platoon and also related to the English word pellet), field, bunch or pack is the large main group in a road bicycle race. Riders in a group save energy by riding close (drafting or slipstreaming) near (particularly behind) other riders. The reduction in drag is dramatic; in the middle of a well-developed group it can be as much as 40%
• Which vs That: which can refer to a thing, that also refers to a thing but its for when its a specific one, eg: a cat which eats my food must die VS the cat that ate my food has died