TO FACE = if you face or are faced with a difficult situation, it is going to affect you and you must deal with it:
• When it comes to designing for the web, you are faced with the unique challenge that different users will have different sized screens.
• Spain's coach Vicente del Bosque faces tricky task to select Spain squad.
• The civic body faces uphill task to improve school infrastructure.
TO CONFRONT = if a problem, difficulty etc confronts you, it appears and needs to be dealt with:
• Useful suggestions for trying to confront a lying romantic partner or spouse.
be confronted with something
• Some people, when confronted with a problem, think “I know, I’ll use regular expressions.” Now they have two problems.
• How to predict customer choices, when they are confronted with multiple options for where to dine.
• Research has shown that when customers are confronted with pleasant actions, the result is high levels of customer satisfaction
Saturday, October 17, 2015
Saturday, July 4, 2015
to be in relation
TO BE LINKED = if two things are linked, they are related in some way:
• Police think the murders are linked.
be linked to/with something
• psychiatric disorders linked to a protein involved in the formation of long-term memories
• Some birth defects are linked to smoking during pregnancy.
• Economy and immigration linked to American dream
• The struggling national economy is linked to a decline in country's educational standing
be closely/directly/strongly etc linked
• China's economy is closely linked to Europe, America, Japan and Southeast Asia.
• American economy becomes increasingly linked to the Internet
TO BE RELATED /rɪˈleɪt/ = [intransitive] if two things relate, they are connected in some way [= to have relation, to link].
• 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 ?
TO BE TIED /taɪd/ = to be related to something and dependent on it.
to be tied to smt
• We know that social support is directly tied to better health.
TO INTERTWINE /ˌɪntəˈtwaɪn/ = to unite or be united by twisting or twining together [also intertwist]
to be intertwined = if two situations, ideas etc are intertwined, they are closely related to each other.
• BlackBerry’s fate is intertwined with its keyboard
• The database design methodologies and software engineering methodologies are intertwined since these activities are strongly related.
• The history of the Document Object Model is intertwined with the history of the "browser wars" between Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer
• Substance use can become intertwined with psychological functioning and lifestyle such that it becomes part of the fabric of the user's experience and essential to psychic stability. It can be said that each user develops a highly personal relationship to drugs that reflects this complex interaction.
• Molecules that are bound tightly to the receptor without activating it
RELATIONSHIP (noun) =
1. the way in which two people or two groups feel about each other and behave towards each other
to have a relationship to
• Dutch kids have a different relationship to the bicycle.
• Women have a different relationship to property than men do.
2. the way in which two or more things are connected and affect each other:
• In the DOM, relationships between the document node and all of the element nodes are described using the same terms as a family tree
RELATION (noun) = a connection between two or more things [= relationship]
to bear relation to = to be connected to
• Terrorism bears relation to religious dress
• International post-graduates in the USA offer students the chance to work for one year after their final examination: you are required to work in a field which bears relation to your area of study.
CROSS-CUTTING (adj.) = linking separate or independent parties or interests.
• A cross-cutting approach to developing and implementing disease prevention policies.
• Cross-cutting concerns, in software development, are aspects of a program that affect other concerns.
• Police think the murders are linked.
be linked to/with something
• psychiatric disorders linked to a protein involved in the formation of long-term memories
• Some birth defects are linked to smoking during pregnancy.
• Economy and immigration linked to American dream
• The struggling national economy is linked to a decline in country's educational standing
be closely/directly/strongly etc linked
• China's economy is closely linked to Europe, America, Japan and Southeast Asia.
• American economy becomes increasingly linked to the Internet
TO BE RELATED /rɪˈleɪt/ = [intransitive] if two things relate, they are connected in some way [= to have relation, to link].
• 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 ?
TO BE TIED /taɪd/ = to be related to something and dependent on it.
to be tied to smt
• We know that social support is directly tied to better health.
TO INTERTWINE /ˌɪntəˈtwaɪn/ = to unite or be united by twisting or twining together [also intertwist]
to be intertwined = if two situations, ideas etc are intertwined, they are closely related to each other.
• BlackBerry’s fate is intertwined with its keyboard
• The database design methodologies and software engineering methodologies are intertwined since these activities are strongly related.
• The history of the Document Object Model is intertwined with the history of the "browser wars" between Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer
• Substance use can become intertwined with psychological functioning and lifestyle such that it becomes part of the fabric of the user's experience and essential to psychic stability. It can be said that each user develops a highly personal relationship to drugs that reflects this complex interaction.
TO TE BOUND (written) = to be in connection
• Stored procedures are not bound tightly to table data structures• Molecules that are bound tightly to the receptor without activating it
RELATIONSHIP (noun) =
1. the way in which two people or two groups feel about each other and behave towards each other
to have a relationship to
• Dutch kids have a different relationship to the bicycle.
• Women have a different relationship to property than men do.
2. the way in which two or more things are connected and affect each other:
• In the DOM, relationships between the document node and all of the element nodes are described using the same terms as a family tree
RELATION (noun) = a connection between two or more things [= relationship]
to bear relation to = to be connected to
• Terrorism bears relation to religious dress
• International post-graduates in the USA offer students the chance to work for one year after their final examination: you are required to work in a field which bears relation to your area of study.
CROSS-CUTTING (adj.) = linking separate or independent parties or interests.
• A cross-cutting approach to developing and implementing disease prevention policies.
• Cross-cutting concerns, in software development, are aspects of a program that affect other concerns.
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:
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.
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]
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]
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">.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.
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.
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]
Saturday, November 15, 2014
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
• “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
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?
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.
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
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.
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.
Saturday, August 2, 2014
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
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 .
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.
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.
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.
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 ...
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.
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.
• An assertion is a test on the characters following or preceding the current matching point
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 .
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.
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.
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.
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 ...
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.
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.
Monday, March 24, 2014
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.
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 ?
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.
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.
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 ?
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.
Thursday, October 3, 2013
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.
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
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
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