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- 1. fall over: Scottish, Northern Irish "excuse me if I don't cowp over with the shock of it all"
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Aug 9, 2020 · cowp (plural cowps) (Scotland, Ireland, slang) A filthy and disgusting place. (dialect) A reversal of fortune; An unexpected misfortune. Verb : cowp (third-person singular simple present cowps, present participle cowping, simple past and past participle cowped) To fall or tip over. As used in the email, the writer is referring to the Council ...
Jul 11, 2013 · 1. Grammatically, both by and as are acceptable in either of the examples given. But as mathematical statements, both examples have problems. In the first example, “The function f is defined by/as f=a+b+c ”, unless a, b, c all are previously-defined functions or constants, the arguments of f and its dependence on them is unclear, ie ...
I'm working through a book in which I'm to define words using their prefixes, suffixes, and roots, and I ran across "exigent." adjective \ˈek-sə-jənt\ : requiring immediate attention : needing to be dealt with immediately. In the books glossary, the parts are defined:
Dec 16, 2015 · The only way it makes sense to say "chock it up to X" is when "to" is used in the sense of "for the purpose of", e.g., "chock it up to prevent it moving". But that's clearly not the sense intended. And, in all of these senses, the word "up" is redundant: "chock it to prevent it moving" carries exactly the same meaning.
May 10, 2012 · In that case, "solution" is the noun form of "solve". There's no need to take a noun derived from a verb and then derive yet another verb from that noun. You say "We are working on solving the problem", NOT "We are working on solutioning the problem." If by "solution" you mean a solid mixed into a liquid, then the verb is "dissolve".
Autological word. A word is autological or homological if it describes itself. The common term for this is a backronym, a back-formation acronym. Also known as recursive acronym / metacronym/ recursive initialism, this is a fun way to coin names for new programming languages and such.
Aug 14, 2014 · A little further afield, some define the doctrine of gnosticism, and its members, the Gnostics, as subscribing to the: belief that freedom derives solely from knowledge. Note that Gnosticism is variously defined, and this description is not even the most popular or common. However, as @JasperLocke points out, the more generic. Gnosiophile
Oct 13, 2015 · 22. The Mmmm syllable can be several syllables, with many conventional meanings, like MMM-mmm or mmm-MMM, which can respectively be 'no' and 'yes' in many contexts. It's described phonetically as a syllabic voiced bilabial nasal continuant; in IPA it's [ṃ] (Unicode 1643; UTF8 E1 89 83; Latin small letter M with dot below).
Jan 5, 2016 · Dope is a rather new slang word that is used to define someone or something excellent, great, impressive. OED says that it is originally in African-American usage and chiefly among rap musicians and enthusiasts. However, you can hear it outside the rap realm nowadays. OED's first citation is from 1981: Yo, man, them boys is dope... This record ...
17. So the English class teacher is teaching IEEE referencing style, and we have something like this as an example: Chan [1] claims that... The teacher said: The referencing number is followed by the author's last name. Wait... I thought "A is followed by B" means B follows A, that means A comes first, B comes next.
