to make a connection

TO ASSOCIATE =
1 [transitive] to connect or bring into relation, as thought, feeling, memory, etc.

associate somebody/something with something
• A JavaScript property associates a key with a value.
• I don't associate cycling with winning, I associate it with terrible things that have happened to me and people close to me. [Marco Pantani].
• I don't associate sex with love and emotion. I love hookups.
• The attribute scope associates data cells and header cells: <th scope="col|row">.

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TO BIND /baɪnd/ bound bound /baʊnd/ [transitive] written = to form a strong emotional or economic connection between two people, countries etc [= unite]

• Carbon monoxide is lethal because hemoglobin binds carbon monoxide inhibiting your ability to distribute oxygen throughout your body.
• JavaScript unary operators have higher precedence over binary ones and bind tightly.
• A C++/Java class is a way to bind data and associated functions together.

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TO BOND /bɒnd/ =
1 if two things bond with each other, they become firmly fixed together, especially after they have been joined with glue.

• What is gluten? All flours contain two important proteins: glutenin and gliadin, in presence of water this two small protein chains bond together, this forms an elastic network of proteins called gluten which has ability to trap air like a ballon. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDEcvSc2UKA]

2 to form a close emotional connection with someone. When two people are bonding, they are getting closer by sharing time, feelings, experiences, or trust.

• When you say two people are bonding and falling in love, it usually means: they are developing emotional closeness.

• Bonding does not always mean love. People can bond as friends, family members, teammates or coworkers.

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TO TIE = to make a tie, bond, or connection.

• Services tie well to Ajax and Web 2: our Ajax web page can call as many services as it requires to get the job done. [SOA for Idiots]

to glare vs to stare vs to glance vs to glimpse

TO GLARE /glɛər/ [intransitive] = to look angrily at someone for a long time.

• “You have to learn how to cook!” My father in law tells me every time we sit down at the table. “I know how to cook. I don’t like it. He likes it. He can do it.” I gesture to my Italian husband. This inspires the dad to roll his eyes and glare at me for the rest of the meal.

Baby Glaring at Mother

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TO STARE /stɛər/ [intransitive] = to look at something or someone for a long time without moving your eyes, for example because you are surprised, angry, or bored. [= to gaze]

• I try to motivate my husband to help her mother more, but he just stares blankly at me, grunts, makes weird hand gestures I can’t understand and stays attached to the couch.
• When we had dinner at Ciro's, it took a long while to get the waitresses attention as they seemed to be staring off into space the majority of the time.
• Does everyone stare this way at you? I only look this way at you. [Police]
• Is it proper to stare at a pretty girl?

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TO GAZE /ɡeɪz/ [intransitive] = to look at someone or something for a long time, giving it all your attention.

• I was sitting at the window above the left wing, gazing into the waning crescent moon, when we heard the sound of an explosion from the engine underneath.

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TO GLANCE /glæns/ [intransitive] = to quickly look at someone or something.

• Even if you have experience with a variety of programming languages, normal Perl may seem quite odd at first glance because its syntax is very compact and its semantics thick.

A woman glancing over her shoulder

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GLIMPSE (noun) =
1) a quick look at someone or something that does not allow you to see them clearly.
2) a short experience of something that helps you begin to understand it

• NASA has given the world another glimpse of its revolutionary flying saucer technology for future Mars missions.
• To have few glimpses of subject matter read the first chapter of the book by Jeffrey E. F. Friedl.

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TO PEEK /pik/ [intransitive] = to look quickly at something, or to look at something from behind something else, especially something that you are not supposed to see. [= peep, or peer]

• Carefully he peeked through the glass window in the door.
• Top Ten Newcomers for 2012: A peek at what's to come
• Let's take a peek at the generated source code by clicking the Source tab.
• Event capturing provides an opportunity to peek at events before they are delivered to their target.

to express position

TO PRECEDE OR TO FOLLOW = to come before or after something

• An assertion is a test on the characters following or preceding the current matching point

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TO LOCATE = to find the exact position of something

• We cannot locate the hotel with GPS even typing the address.
• Assisting a consumer in locating a product within a retail store.
• Locating information within extended hypermedia .

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TO PLACE = to put something somewhere, especially with care [= put]:

• Always place the code that require the most processing power last in relational operations.
• You can place a single event handler on the containing element instead of on all its childred.

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TO ARRANGE = to put a group of things in a particular order or position.

• Tips for arranging living room furniture.
• How to arrange flowers in a vase.
• In Microsoft Windows you can arrange the desktop icons by name, size, type and latest modified date.
• A FlowPanel arranges components in a directional flow.

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LEADING - TRAILING - IN-BETWEEN = coming in the front part - in the back part - in the middle of something

• How to remove the leading and trailing white spaces from a string.
• You can find unwanted blanks everywhere: Leading, Trailing, In-Between.

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THE BEGINNING OR THE END OF SOMETHING

• The multiline option changes the interpretation of the ^ and $ elements so that they match the beginning and end of a line, instead of the beginning and end of the input string.
• At the beginning of the chapter we mentioned that ...

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AHEAD OR BEHIND = a short distance in front or at the back of someone or something:

• Look-ahead and look-behind, collectively called "look-around", are zero-length assertions just like the start and end of line, and start and end of word anchors.
• He kept his gaze fixed on the car ahead.

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INTERMEDIATE /ˌɪn tərˈmi di ɪt/ = (adj) being, situated between two points, stages, things, persons, etc.:

• It takes a lot of time to go from English intermediate level to upper level.

to refer to vs to relate vs to reference

TO REFER TO SB/SMT (phrasal verb) /rɪˈfɜr/ =

1. to mention or speak about someone or something [= to cite, to indicate, to specify].

• She didn't once refer to her son.
• We agreed never to refer to the matter again.
• Even if when she was asked she declined to say, everyone knew whom she was referring to.
• Pliny the Younger referred to Christians in Asia Minor, but he didn't refer to Jesus.
• When you refer to someone's looks, you are referring to how beautiful or ugly they are, especially how beautiful they are.
• In the CSS box model each box has a content area and optional surrounding padding, border, and margin areas. The following box model diagram shows how these areas relate and the terminology used to refer to pieces of margin, border, and padding.
• A JavaScript object is a collection of properties, we refer to the value of a property using the dot notation.

 refer to somebody/something as [= to call]
• Valentino Rossi likes to be referred to as 'The Doctor'.
• The trend today is to refer to marine algae used as food as sea vegetables.
• The directory where the eclipse IDE saves all its files is referred to as workspace
• The process of converting a video into another format is sometimes referred to as "encoding" the video.

 refer to somebody/something by
• The hospital now refers to patients by name, not number.
• Bradley Manning, the U.S. soldier sentenced to 35 years in military prison, said he is female and wants to live as a woman named Chelsea. "I request that starting today you refer to me by my new name and use the feminine pronoun." [Reuters]

2. If a writing or information refers to someone or something, it is about that person or thing [= to be about, to concern, to apply to].
• The figures refer to trade in bananas.
• Resolution refers to the number of dots a screen shows per inch.
• AJAX refers to a set of techniques including the use of JavaScript, CSS, and asynchronous HTTP
requests.
• Traditionally, the term 'form' has referred to a printed document that contains spaces for you to fill in information. HTML borrows the concept of a form to refer to different elements that allow you to collect information from visitors to your site.

3. to look at a book, map, piece of paper etc for information. [= to seek information, to consult]
• This book is not aimed at beginners. Those readers should instead refer to books such as Beginning JavaScript and Professional JavaScript for Web Developers.

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TO RELATE /rɪˈleɪt/ = [intransitive] if two things relate, they are connected in some way [= to have relation, to link, to associate].

• JavaScript should not be confused with Java. They are not related, the only commonality between the two is in their name.
• In 1964 a physicist by the name of Peter Higgs proposed that there was an energy field that permeated the entire universe, this energy field is now called the Higgs field. The energy field that Higgs proposed would interact with subatomic particles and give them a mass. The very massive particles would interact a lot with the field while massless particles would not interact at all. In the press you don't hear about the Higgs' field but about the Higgs' Boson: how these two thing relate? The Higgs's Boson is the smallest bit of Higgs field.   [http://physicsforme.com/]
• Having determined the content of your site, you can group the information into related chunks and create a site map. That site map shows each of the pages of your site, how they relate to each other, and what needs to appear on them.
• How are sex and love related for you ?

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TO REFERENCE = [transitive] (written) to mention another book, article etc that contains information connected with the subject you are writing about [= to mention another book].

• When you are referencing a piece of work such as a book, film or research paper, the HTML <cite> element can be used to indicate where the citation is from.
• In this chapter, we begin working with a simpler version of the sample application. Then, in subsequent chapters, we will reference more complete versions of the sample application.
• The book does not reference anything written in the last 10 years.

to disclose vs to unveil vs to unravel

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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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

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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

Horse Head Schetch

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]

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

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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

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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.

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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].

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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]

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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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