CHARACTERISTIC /ˌkærəktəˈrɪstɪk/ noun [countable] = a quality or feature of something or someone that is typical of them and easy to recognize
characteristic of
• One of the most fundamental characteristics of a programming language is the set of types it supports.
• The way that variables work is another fundamental characteristic of any programming language.
• We found the nine common characteristics of all the world's long-lived people.
FEATURE /ˈfiːtʃə/ noun [countable] = a part of something that you notice because it seems important, interesting, or typical
• Samsung to include wireless charging as standard feature in newest phone
• Features common to all rooms: queen sized beds, balcony, Overhead fans, Heating, Small refrigerator, ecc
• In the early days of the Web, browsers added features like the ability to open, move, and resize windows and to script the browser’s status line.
FLAVOR /ˈfleɪvər/ noun = a quality or feature that makes something have a particular style or character.
• There are many options and flavors to the SELECT statement in SQL, so we will introduce its features gradually.
• A story with regional flavour.
FACILITY (noun) plural facilities = a special feature that simplifies work or help an activity. [= a convenience]
to have/lack facilities for doing something
• In ECMAScript, each function call has its own execution context. Whenever code execution flows into a function, the function’s context is pushed onto a context stack. After the function has finished executing, the stack is popped, returning control to the previously executing context. This facility controls execution flow throughout an ECMAScript program.
• SQL has facilities for defining views on the database, for specifying security and authorization, for defining integrity constraints, and for specifying transaction controls.
TO CHARACTERIZE = to describe the qualities of someone or something in a particular [=portray]
characterize somebody as (being) something
• The construction of the purchase order schema may be characterized as elements containing subelements, and the deepest subelements contain character data.
Sunday, November 11, 2018
Saturday, August 25, 2018
to scatter vs to sprinkle vs to spread to sprawl
TO SCATTER = [intransitive, transitive] if someone scatters a lot of things, or if they scatter, they are thrown or dropped over a wide area in an irregular way [=to distribute]
scatter (something) over/around/across etc something
• Scatter the onions over the fish.
• The flowers fell and scattered on the ground.
• Mac devices' glossy LED panels scatter reflective light.
• Files are accessed by file name, but actual data is stored in physical sectors scattered around a disk.
TO SPRINKLE = [transitive] to scatter small drops of liquid or small pieces of something [=to scatter].
sprinkle something with something
• Sprinkle asparagus with Parmesan cheese, sea salt, and garlic powder.
sprinkle something on/over something
• Sprinkle sugar over a cake.
• Sprinkle olive oil over salad to enhance its taste.
• A sprinkler is a piece of equipment used for scattering water on grass or soil.
TO SPREAD = [intransitive, transitive] if something spreads or is spread, it becomes larger or moves so that it affects more people or a larger area [=to stretch]
Examples with intransitive use [= to extend to, to expand to]
• Parkinson’s may begin in gut and spread to the brain via the vagus nerve.
Examples with transitive use [= to propagate]
• The terrorists hope to spread the poison gas through the entire subway station.
TO SPRAWL /sprɔːl/ = [intransitive, transitive] to lie or sit with your arms or legs stretched out in a ungraceful way [=to spread]
scatter (something) over/around/across etc something
• Scatter the onions over the fish.
• The flowers fell and scattered on the ground.
• Mac devices' glossy LED panels scatter reflective light.
• Files are accessed by file name, but actual data is stored in physical sectors scattered around a disk.
TO SPRINKLE = [transitive] to scatter small drops of liquid or small pieces of something [=to scatter].
sprinkle something with something
• Sprinkle asparagus with Parmesan cheese, sea salt, and garlic powder.
sprinkle something on/over something
• Sprinkle sugar over a cake.
• Sprinkle olive oil over salad to enhance its taste.
• A sprinkler is a piece of equipment used for scattering water on grass or soil.
TO SPREAD = [intransitive, transitive] if something spreads or is spread, it becomes larger or moves so that it affects more people or a larger area [=to stretch]
Examples with intransitive use [= to extend to, to expand to]
• Parkinson’s may begin in gut and spread to the brain via the vagus nerve.
Examples with transitive use [= to propagate]
• The terrorists hope to spread the poison gas through the entire subway station.
TO SPRAWL /sprɔːl/ = [intransitive, transitive] to lie or sit with your arms or legs stretched out in a ungraceful way [=to spread]
Monday, December 18, 2017
How to express composition
TO CONSIST OF /kənˈsɪst/ (phrasal verb) = to be formed from two or more things or people:
• A CSS rule consists of a selector and a declaration block.
• The state of Hawaii consists of eight main islands.
• The state of an object consists of the values of its instance variables.
• Pattern matching consists of finding a section of text that is described (matched) by a regular expression.
TO MAKE UP SMT. = to combine together to form something [= constitute, compose]
• 7 to 14 troops make up a squad, 3 to 4 squads make up a platoon.
TO BE MADE UP OF = to be formed from
• Java EE applications are made up of components.
• A URL is made up of the domain name followed by the path to that page or image.
• Images appearing on computer screens are made up of tiny squares called pixels, with a resolution of 72 pixels per inch. Images in print materials are made up of tiny circles called dots, usually printed at a resolution of 300 dots per inch.
TO BE COMPOSED OF = to be formed from a number of substances, parts, or people [= consist of]
• Water is composed of hydrogen and oxygen.
• In a RGB color space, a color is composed of three color components: red, green, and blue.
TO COMPRISE /kəmˈpraɪz/ (formal) = to consist of; be composed of:
• An XML Schema is an XML document containing a formal description of what comprises a valid XML document.
• Pop star Beyoncé bought a stake in WTRMLN WTR: a drink which comprises just watermelon and lemon.
• The house comprises two bedrooms, a kitchen and a living room.
• The book comprises a series of war poems.
TO BE COMPRISED OF
• The CyanogenMod community is comprised of unpaid volunteers and enthusiasts from around the world.
• XML Schema list types are comprised of sequences of atomic types.
• A CSS rule consists of a selector and a declaration block.
• The state of Hawaii consists of eight main islands.
• The state of an object consists of the values of its instance variables.
• Pattern matching consists of finding a section of text that is described (matched) by a regular expression.
TO MAKE UP SMT. = to combine together to form something [= constitute, compose]
• 7 to 14 troops make up a squad, 3 to 4 squads make up a platoon.
TO BE MADE UP OF = to be formed from
• Java EE applications are made up of components.
• A URL is made up of the domain name followed by the path to that page or image.
• Images appearing on computer screens are made up of tiny squares called pixels, with a resolution of 72 pixels per inch. Images in print materials are made up of tiny circles called dots, usually printed at a resolution of 300 dots per inch.
TO BE COMPOSED OF = to be formed from a number of substances, parts, or people [= consist of]
• Water is composed of hydrogen and oxygen.
• In a RGB color space, a color is composed of three color components: red, green, and blue.
TO COMPRISE /kəmˈpraɪz/ (formal) = to consist of; be composed of:
• An XML Schema is an XML document containing a formal description of what comprises a valid XML document.
• Pop star Beyoncé bought a stake in WTRMLN WTR: a drink which comprises just watermelon and lemon.
• The house comprises two bedrooms, a kitchen and a living room.
• The book comprises a series of war poems.
TO BE COMPRISED OF
• The CyanogenMod community is comprised of unpaid volunteers and enthusiasts from around the world.
• XML Schema list types are comprised of sequences of atomic types.
Tuesday, September 5, 2017
notch vs knot vs knob
NOTCH /nɒtʃ/ (noun) [countable]
1 a level on a scale that measures something, for example quality or achievement
The PWM flicker on dell XPS FHD screen is only present on the very lowest brightness setting, if you increase it up a single notch it goes away.
Our company is searching for top-notch developers
KNOT /nɒt/ (noun) [countable] = a part where one or more pieces of string, rope, cloth etc have been tied or twisted together
Are you any good at tying knots? No, but I can untie them.
KNOB /nɒb/ (noun) [countable] = a round handle or thing that you turn to open a door, turn on a television etc
I turned the knob and the door opened.
I adjusted the volume knob.
1 a level on a scale that measures something, for example quality or achievement
KNOT /nɒt/ (noun) [countable] = a part where one or more pieces of string, rope, cloth etc have been tied or twisted together
KNOB /nɒb/ (noun) [countable] = a round handle or thing that you turn to open a door, turn on a television etc
Thursday, July 13, 2017
English Homophones
| sound | word 1 | word 2 | word 3 |
|---|---|---|---|
| /yʊər/ | your | you're | |
| /ðɛər/ | they're | there (adv.) | |
| /kloʊz/ | close (verb) | clothes (noun) | |
| /eɪt/ | ate (verb) | eight (noun) | |
| /hɪər/ | hear (verb) | here (adv) | |
| /dɪər/ | dear (adj.) | deer (noun) | |
| /baɪ/ | buy (verb) | bye (noun) | by (prep.) |
| /ˈflaʊ ər/ | flour (noun) | flower (noun) | |
| /aʊər/ | hour (noun) | our (adj.) |
Tuesday, May 30, 2017
Collocations with take
- to take place = to happen, especially after being planned or arranged - Real learning takes place through experience
- to take action = to start doing something
- to take an exam = when students take an exam, test, or quiz, they are tested to demonstrate knowledge
- take responsibility for (doing) something
- to take for granted = to expect something to be available all the time and forget that you are lucky to have it - I had taken the power and flexibility of Perl regular expressions for granted until I entered a world without them with Pascal.
- to take an approach to/in smt = to select the direction from where you want to start solving a problem - Take a scientific approach to Your Teaching
- take sth into account = to consider or remember something when judging a situation - When consumers need a service, price is not the only consideration to be taken into account.
- All learning takes place through the use of English which makes English language a core subject
- I wish you didn't take me for granted.
- This paper takes a different approach in that it uses the tools of network analysis and graph theory to represent the characteristics of world trade.
Friday, September 23, 2016
vocabulary about rules
TO OBEY = to do what someone in authority tells you to do, or what a law or rule says you must do
• “I find myself unable to continue helping a project that won’t obey its own community rules” [Jonathan Riddell]
• A database state that obeys the constraints defined in the integrity constraint IC set, is called a valid state
TO CONFORM TO / WITH [intransitive] [= to obey]
2 to obey a law, rule etc
• Phone is brand new, never used. Will have to open to insert the battery before shipping to conform with postage rules
• Software developers write HTML document that conforms to HTML specification by W3C.
TO ENFORCE /ɪnˈfɔːs/ [transitive] to make people obey a rule or law
• Governments make laws and the police enforce them.
• Digital Rights Management (DRM) is technology that enables online video and audio services to enforce that the content they provide is used in accordance with their requirements.
• XML document type definitions (DTD) can enforce basic structural rules on XML documents, XML schemas can enforce much more specific rules about the contents of elements and attributes than DTDs can.
TO COME INTO FORCE / BRING SOMETHING INTO FORCE = if a new law, rule, change etc comes or is brought into force, it starts to exist.
• Packs of 10 cigarettes will no longer be available for sale as part of EU rules that come into force from today.
TO VIOLATE /ˈvaɪəleɪt/ [transitive] = to disobey or do something against an official agreement, law, principle etc [= to break a law]
• WordPress’ code is open source, but it is published under the GNU Public License (GPL). Wix’s mobile app reused WordPress’ text editor but the Wix application is closed and proprietary. That violates both the spirit and the letter of the GNU Public License, which requires anything built with GPL-licensed code to be distributed with the same GPL license.
• SQL statements can violate an integrity constraint when they try to insert or update tuples.
TO INFRINGE /ɪnˈfrɪndʒ/ = [transitive] to do something that is against a law or someone’s legal rights [= to violate, to breach]
• I have received a threatening letter from the attorney of Mozilla Foundation saying that using the 'Mozilla' word inside the name of my software infringes their trademark rights.
TO RESPECT /rɪˈspɛkt/ (formal) = to not break a rule or law [= to obey]
• To respect this invariant, arrays length property have two special behaviours when setting elements and setting length property.
TO COMPLY WITH [intransitive] (formal) = to do what you have to do or are asked to do [= to obey]
• Please review our new EU user consent policy and ensure that you comply with this policy as soon as possible, and not later than 30th September 2015.
TO ADHERE TO [intransitive] (formal) = to conform to or follow rules exactly
• This article on xyz adheres to the naming conventions set forth at Wikipedia.
• A Maven POM in a project adheres to Maven’s assumed conventions.
• If an XML document adheres to a number of rules it is said well-formed.
• “I find myself unable to continue helping a project that won’t obey its own community rules” [Jonathan Riddell]
• A database state that obeys the constraints defined in the integrity constraint IC set, is called a valid state
TO CONFORM TO / WITH [intransitive] [= to obey]
2 to obey a law, rule etc
• Phone is brand new, never used. Will have to open to insert the battery before shipping to conform with postage rules
• Software developers write HTML document that conforms to HTML specification by W3C.
TO ENFORCE /ɪnˈfɔːs/ [transitive] to make people obey a rule or law
• Governments make laws and the police enforce them.
• Digital Rights Management (DRM) is technology that enables online video and audio services to enforce that the content they provide is used in accordance with their requirements.
• XML document type definitions (DTD) can enforce basic structural rules on XML documents, XML schemas can enforce much more specific rules about the contents of elements and attributes than DTDs can.
TO COME INTO FORCE / BRING SOMETHING INTO FORCE = if a new law, rule, change etc comes or is brought into force, it starts to exist.
• Packs of 10 cigarettes will no longer be available for sale as part of EU rules that come into force from today.
TO VIOLATE /ˈvaɪəleɪt/ [transitive] = to disobey or do something against an official agreement, law, principle etc [= to break a law]
• WordPress’ code is open source, but it is published under the GNU Public License (GPL). Wix’s mobile app reused WordPress’ text editor but the Wix application is closed and proprietary. That violates both the spirit and the letter of the GNU Public License, which requires anything built with GPL-licensed code to be distributed with the same GPL license.
• SQL statements can violate an integrity constraint when they try to insert or update tuples.
TO INFRINGE /ɪnˈfrɪndʒ/ = [transitive] to do something that is against a law or someone’s legal rights [= to violate, to breach]
• I have received a threatening letter from the attorney of Mozilla Foundation saying that using the 'Mozilla' word inside the name of my software infringes their trademark rights.
TO RESPECT /rɪˈspɛkt/ (formal) = to not break a rule or law [= to obey]
• To respect this invariant, arrays length property have two special behaviours when setting elements and setting length property.
TO COMPLY WITH [intransitive] (formal) = to do what you have to do or are asked to do [= to obey]
• Please review our new EU user consent policy and ensure that you comply with this policy as soon as possible, and not later than 30th September 2015.
TO ADHERE TO [intransitive] (formal) = to conform to or follow rules exactly
• This article on xyz adheres to the naming conventions set forth at Wikipedia.
• A Maven POM in a project adheres to Maven’s assumed conventions.
• If an XML document adheres to a number of rules it is said well-formed.
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