TO UNVEIL =
1 [transitive] to show or tell people about a new product or plan for THE FIRST TIME [= to reveal]:
2 [transitive] to remove the cover from something, especially as part of a formal ceremony.
- Steve Jobs' yacht Venus unveiled in Aalsmeer, The Netherlands
- The European Space Agency has unveiled plans to "take 3D printing into the metal age" by building parts for jets, spacecraft and fusion projects. [BBC News].
- Carlo Ancelotti was unveiled as the new Real Madrid coach
- A device officially described as the world's first ethically sourced smartphone was unveiled in London this week.
- The statue was unveiled by the Queen.
TO DISCLOSE (formal) =
1 [transitive] to make something publicly known, especially after it has been kept SECRET [= to reveal]:
2 [transitive] to show something by removing the thing that covers it [= reveal]
- Apple refuses to disclose carbon emissions data.
- An inventor has two choices: do not seek patent protection for the invention and try to keep all information as a trade secret or seek patent protection in which case the invention must be fully disclosed.
- To send emails to undisclosed recipients.
TO UNRAVEL =
1 [transitive] to understand or explain something that is MYSTERIOUS or COMPLICATED [= to solve]:
2 [intransitive and transitive] if you unravel threads, string etc, or if they unravel, they stop being twisted together.
- Detectives are still trying to unravel the mystery surrounding his death.
- Unravelling regular expressions step-by-step.
- Researchers unravel the developmental origins of immune disease. They have discovered that during pregnancy, important immune cells in the mother and developing baby are highly synchronised through hormones.
- University of Calgary researchers unravel immunity secret. They discovered that blood platelets act as security guards for specialized cells in the liver that trap the majority of bacteria in the bloodstream: when bacteria is found, the platelets join together and form a seal to prevent it from spreading.
- Researchers unravel mysteries about mercury in fish. They found out the level of mercury in fish varies depending on the depth at which the fish feed in the ocean.
TO UNTANGLE =
[transitive] to make something confused and perplexing less complicated: [= to clear up]:
- RxJS is the JavaScript API that allows to untangle your asynchronous code
Thursday, October 3, 2013
Saturday, May 11, 2013
to sketch vs to mock up
TO MOCK UP (phrasal verb) = to make a full-size model of something so that it looks real
• How to mock up a web site in Photoshop
TO SKETCH [intransitive and transitive] = to make a simple and quick drawing that does not show much detail [= to draft, to outline, to rough smt out]
• how to sketch a running horse• Sketching People - How to Sketch Faces
SKETCH (noun) = a preliminary quickly executed drawing or painting giving the essential features without the details
- There are three modes in which people use the UML: sketch, blueprint and programming language [Martin Fowler]
Sunday, April 14, 2013
How To Express Cause Effect Relationship
This post is about which verbs to use to say 'making something happen' in English.
TO CAUSE [transitive] = to make something happen, especially something bad.
• What is causing deforestation? Deforestation is caused by humans and natural changes on earth.
• China’s air pollution is causing millions of premature deaths and an expat exodus
• Scientists have empirical evidence that increased CO2 is causing an enhanced greenhouse effect.
• The recent rash of Java vulnerabilities is causing me to lose faith in Oracle products.
• The stroke scare caused him to change eating habits
TO LEAD TO [intransitive and transitive] = to cause something to happen or cause someone to do something
• The release of the book "Uncle Tom's Cabin" was one of the events that led to Civil War in North America
• Involvement of junior employees in decision making process leads to better performance [Applied Psychology].
• Genetically modified corn is leading to insect resistance.
• The ban on hunting is leading to an increase in weak and diseased foxes
• British tourist describes rape attempt that led her to jump out hotel window
TO RESULT IN something = (phrasal verb) to make something happen
• The accident resulted in the deaths of two passengers.
• Excess eating and sedentary lifestyle may results in plaque to occur and lead to blocked arteries later in the life.
• Comparisons of a number to a boolean, a number to a string, or a string to a boolean are not allowed in XPath 3.0: they result in a type error.
TO BRING ABOUT = (phrasal verb) to make something happen
• Scientists believe that the discovery of a new energy source, like cold fusion, may bring about a post-scarcity society [Richard Long].
TO TRIGGER = to make something happen very quickly, especially a series of events:
• A scent, a taste, a film can trigger a memory [How to trigger a memory]
• The same HTML code can trigger different constructs on multiple browsers.
• How to trigger a button click event in JavaScript [StackOverflow]
TO GIVE RISE TO (formal) to be the reason why something happens [= to originate; produce; cause]
• Semantic ambiguity is one of the linguistic phenomena that may give rise to misunderstanding or failure in communication
• In the Chen ER data model mapping guidelines, nouns appearing in the database requirements tend to give rise to entity type names and the verbs tend to indicate names of relationship types. Attribute names generally arise from additional nouns that describe the nouns corresponding to entity types.
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TO CAUSE [transitive] = to make something happen, especially something bad.
• What is causing deforestation? Deforestation is caused by humans and natural changes on earth.
• China’s air pollution is causing millions of premature deaths and an expat exodus
• Scientists have empirical evidence that increased CO2 is causing an enhanced greenhouse effect.
• The recent rash of Java vulnerabilities is causing me to lose faith in Oracle products.
• The stroke scare caused him to change eating habits
TO LEAD TO [intransitive and transitive] = to cause something to happen or cause someone to do something
• The release of the book "Uncle Tom's Cabin" was one of the events that led to Civil War in North America
• Involvement of junior employees in decision making process leads to better performance [Applied Psychology].
• Genetically modified corn is leading to insect resistance.
• The ban on hunting is leading to an increase in weak and diseased foxes
• British tourist describes rape attempt that led her to jump out hotel window
TO RESULT IN something = (phrasal verb) to make something happen
• The accident resulted in the deaths of two passengers.
• Excess eating and sedentary lifestyle may results in plaque to occur and lead to blocked arteries later in the life.
• Comparisons of a number to a boolean, a number to a string, or a string to a boolean are not allowed in XPath 3.0: they result in a type error.
TO BRING ABOUT = (phrasal verb) to make something happen
• Scientists believe that the discovery of a new energy source, like cold fusion, may bring about a post-scarcity society [Richard Long].
TO TRIGGER = to make something happen very quickly, especially a series of events:
• A scent, a taste, a film can trigger a memory [How to trigger a memory]
• The same HTML code can trigger different constructs on multiple browsers.
• How to trigger a button click event in JavaScript [StackOverflow]
TO GIVE RISE TO (formal) to be the reason why something happens [= to originate; produce; cause]
• Semantic ambiguity is one of the linguistic phenomena that may give rise to misunderstanding or failure in communication
• In the Chen ER data model mapping guidelines, nouns appearing in the database requirements tend to give rise to entity type names and the verbs tend to indicate names of relationship types. Attribute names generally arise from additional nouns that describe the nouns corresponding to entity types.
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