Alba's+Glossary


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> **2** //obsolete,// //intransitive verb// **1** **:** to seek to grasp and hold **2** **:** to operate an automobile clutch. EXAMPLE: W hen you meet a person, you clutch people's hand.
 * **Advertisement:** a notice, such as a poster or a paid announcement in the print, broad cast or electronic media, designed to attract public attention or patronage. EXAMPLE: When you drive your car, you can see a lot of advertisements on the road.
 * **Argues**:**1** **:** to give reasons for or against something **2** **:** to contend or disagree in words //transitive verb// **1** **:** to give evidence of **2** **:** to consider the pros and cons of **3** **:** to prove or try to prove by giving reasons **4** **:** to persuade by giving reasons. EXAMPLE: I argued in my presentation about the country's problems.
 * **Atelier**: an artist's or designer's studio or workroom. EXAMPLE: The architect's space for work is call atelier.
 * **Blame**: **1** **:** to find fault with **2 a** **:** to hold responsible **b** **:** to place responsibility for. EXAMPLE: I blame myself becuse of what happen there.
 * **Brief**: short in duration, extent, or length. EXAMPLE: The teacher said that we have to write a brief report book.
 * **Building Information Modeling (BIM)**: is the process of generating and managing building data during its life cycle. Typically it uses three-dimensional, real-time, dynamic building modeling software to increase productivity in building design and construction. The process produces the Building Information Model (also abbreviated BIM), which encompasses building geometry, spatial relationships, geographic information, and quantities and properties of building components. EXAMPLE: BIM is a great computer program for architects and urban planners.
 * **Clutch:** //transitive// verb **1** **:** to grasp or hold with or as if with the hand or claws usually strongly, tightly, or suddenly
 * **Computer-aided design (CAD)**: is the use of computer technology for the design of objects, real or virtual. CAD often involves more than just shapes. As in the manual drafting of technical and engieenering drawing, the output of CAD often must convey also symbolic information such as materials, processes, dimensions, and tolerances, according to application-specific conventions.CAD may be used to design curves and figures in two dimensional ("2D") space; or curves, surfaces, or solids in three dimensional ("3D") objects. EXAMPLE: Cad is a useful program were you can design on line.
 * **Digest**:**1** **:** a summation or condensation of a body of information: as **a** **:** a systematic compilation of legal rules, statutes, or decisions **b** **:** a periodical devoted to condensed versions of previously published articles **2** **:** a product of digestion. EXAMPLE: If an animal is to digest cellulose, it must enter into an alliance with such an organism.
 * **Dreg**: **1** **:** sediment contained in a liquid or precipitated from it **:** lees —usually used in plural **2** **:** the most undesirable part —usually used in plural **3** **:** the last remaining part **:** vestige —usually used in plural. EXAMPLE: C riminals are the dregs of society.
 * **Earn**: **1 a** **:** to receive as return for effort and especially for work done or services rendered **b** **:** to bring in by way of return **2 a** **:** to come to be duly worthy of or entitled or suited to **b** **:** to make worthy of or obtain for . EXAMPLE: I earned that money by selling multiple products in the mall.
 * **Embassy**: **1** **:** a body of diplomatic representatives; //specifically// **:** one headed by an ambassador **2 a** **:** the function or position of an ambassador **b** **:** a mission abroad undertaken officially especially by an ambassador. EXAMPLE: Our embassy take care of people who need help when they are outside the country.
 * **Flake**: **1** **:** a small loose mass or bit **2** **:** a thin flattened piece or layer **3** //slang// . EXAMPLE: In winter many snowflakes fall from the sky, them are shaped somewhat like a star.

> **3** **:** a means or place of going out **:** exit, outlet **4** **:** offspring, progeny **5 a** **:** a final outcome that usually constitutes a solution (as of a problem) or resolution (as of a difficulty) **b** //obsolete// **:** a final conclusion or decision about something arrived at after consideration **c** //archaic// **:** termination, end **6 a** **:** a matter that is in dispute between two or more parties //b// //(1)// **:** a vital or unsettled matter //(2)// **:** concern, problem **7** **:** a discharge (as of blood) from the body**8 a** **:** something coming forth from a specified source **b** //obsolete// **:** deed **9 a** **:** the act of publishing or officially giving out or making available  **b** **:** the thing or the whole quantity of things given out at one time. EXAMPLE: Where is the latest issue of my favorite magazine? > **2 a** **:** characterized by slowness, sluggishness, or lack of energy **b** **:** moderate in some quality; //especially// **:** moderately warm **c** **:** blowing or flowing at low speed **3 a** **:** not tight or taut **b** **:** lacking in usual or normal firmness and steadiness **:** weak **4** **:** wanting in activity **:** dull **5** **:** lacking in completeness, finish, or perfection. EXAMPLE: We were flying out first thing, which left no slack for the rescue mission.
 * **Flog:** **1 a** **:** to beat with or as if with a rod or whip **b** **:** to criticize harshly **2** **:** to force or urge into action **3 a** //chiefly British// **:** to sell (as stolen goods) illegally **b** **:** to promote aggressively. EXAMPLE: This may have something to do with the fact that no-one likes getting up for 8 am Mass to flog tickets.
 * **Fright**: **1** **:** fear excited by sudden danger **:** alarm. **2** **:** something strange, ugly, or shocking. Example: That horror movie gave me quite a fright
 * **Harbor:** **1** **:** a place of security and comfort **2** **:** a part of a body of water protected and deep enough to furnish anchorage. EXAMPLE: We must get to the harbor before the ship arrives.
 * **Issue:** **1** //plural// **:** proceeds from a source of revenue (as an estate) **2** **:** the action of going, coming, or flowing out **:** egress, emergence
 * **Jeer**: to speak or cry out with derision or mockery. EXAMPLE: He led the jeer of the crowd with his taunts of that boy.
 * **Lay off**: **1** **:** a period of inactivity or idleness **2** **:** the act of laying off an employee or a workforce. EXAMPLE: I layed off from my job
 * **Loom**: a frame or machine for interlacing at right angles two or more sets of threads or yarns to form a cloth. EXAMPLE: the hand loom weavers formed the most important trade in the town with over 100 men plying the craft.
 * **Metaverse**: is a fictional virtual world, described in Neal Stephenson's 1992 science fiction novel //Snow Crash//, where humans, as avatars, interact with each other and software agents, in a three-dimensional space that uses the metaphor of the real world. The word //metaverse// is a portmanteau of the prefix "meta" (meaning "beyond") and "universe". EXAMPLE: Metaverse it's a great program and is use to clasificate other programs of virtual reallity.
 * **Muffle**: **1** **:** to wrap up so as to conceal or protect. **2** //obsolete// **3 a** **:** to wrap or pad with something to dull the sound **b** **:** to deaden the sound of **4** **:** keep down, suppress. EXAMPLE: The soft music is muffling her anger.
 * **Odd**: **1 a** **:** being without a corresponding mate //b// //(1)// **:** left over after others are paired or grouped //(2)// **:** separated from a set or series **2 a** **:** somewhat more than the indicated approximate quantity, extent, or degree —usually used in combination //b// //(1)// **:** left over as a remainder //(2)// **:** constituting a small amount **3 a** **:** being any of the integers (as −3, −1, +1, and +3) that are not divisible by two without leaving a remainder **b** **:** marked by an odd number of units **c** **:** being a function such that //f//   (−//x//) = −//f//   (//x//) where the sign is reversed but the absolute value remains the same if the sign of the independent variable is reversed **4 a** **:** not regular, expected, or planned **b** **:** encountered or experienced from time to time **5** **:** having an out-of-the-way location **6** **:** differing markedly from the usual or ordinary or accepted. EXAMPLE: T​here's a n odd group in that room.
 * **Psalm**: a sacred song or poem used in worship. EXAMPLE: The Bible is the holy book that contains several psalms to pray them to God.
 * **Pursue:** **1** **:** to follow in order to overtake, capture, kill, or defeat **2** **:** to find or employ measures to obtain or accomplish **3** **:** to proceed along **4 a** **:** to engage in **b** **:** to follow up or proceed with **5** **:** to continue to afflict. EXAMPLE: Our trainees, mostly from school, have gone on to pursue careers in the trades at the local building college.
 * **Pyre**: a combustible heap for burning a dead body as a funeral rite; //broadly// **:** a pile of material to be burned. EXAMPLE: A pyre of dead leaves fell down on the grass.
 * **Rack**: a wind-driven mass of high often broken clouds.EXAMPLE: He was racked with guilt and later said that he felt he should have been the target.
 * **Reel**: **1** **:** a revolvable device on which something flexible is wound: as **a** **:** a small windlass at the butt of a fishing rod for the line **b** //chiefly British// **:** a spool or bobbin for sewing thread **c** **:** a flanged spool for photographic film; //especially// **:** one for motion pictures **2** **:** a quantity of something wound on a reel. EXAMPLE: The reel seat is a screw winch fitting made of very strong carbon construction.
 * **Roundup**: //1 a// //(1)// **:** the act or process of collecting animals (as cattle) by riding around them and driving them in //(2)// **:** the cowboys and ranch personnel engaged in a cattle roundup **b** **:** a gathering in of scattered persons or things **2** **:** a summary of information. EXAMPLE: The roundup looks promising this year.
 * **Row**: //intransitive verb// **1** **:** to propel a boat by means of oars **2** **:** to move by or as if by the propulsion of oars//transitive verb// **1 a** **:** to propel with or as if with oars //b// //(1)// **:** to participate in (a rowing match) //(2)// **:** to compete against in rowing //(3)// **:** to pull (an oar) in a crew **2** **:** to transport in an oar-propelled boat . EXAMPLE: The lock is a row of cottages, with opposite an arm full of boats.
 * **Sear**: //intransitive verb// **:** to cause withering or drying//transitive verb// **1** **:** to make withered and dry **2 a** **:** to burn, scorch, mark, or injure with or as if with sudden application of intense heat **b** **:** to cook the surface of quickly with intense heat. EXAMPLE: T he steak is beginning to sear, it will soon be ready.
 * **Sin**: **1 a** **:** an offense against religious or moral law **b** **:** an action that is or is felt to be highly reprehensible  **c** **:** an often serious shortcoming**.** **2 a** **:** transgression of the law of God **b** **:** a vitiated state of human nature in which the self is estranged from God. EXAMPLE: When you do someting bad in your life, you commit sin in the name of G od.
 * **Slack**: **1** **:** not using due diligence, care, or dispatch **:** negligent
 * **Smite**: **1** **:** to strike sharply or heavily especially with the hand or an implement held in the hand **2 a** **:** to kill or severely injure by smiting **b** **:** to attack or afflict suddenly and injuriously **3** **:** to cause to strike **4** **:** to affect as if by striking **5** **:** captivate, take. EXAMPLE: T hose kids were smiting that dog with rocks.
 * **Snoop**: to look or pry, especially in a sneaking or meddlesome manner. EXAMPLE: Whilst its up there, you can have a good snoop around underneath.
 * **Sponsor**: **1** **:** one who presents a candidate for baptism or confirmation and undertakes responsibility for the person's religious education or spiritual welfare **2** **:** one who assumes responsibility for some other person or thing **3** **:** a person or an organization that pays for or plans and carries out a project or activity; //especially// **:** one that pays the cost of a radio or television program usually in return for advertising time during its course. EXAMPLE: T he magazine "Vanity" has many sponsors to promote products such as jewelry, makeup and accessories.
 * **Sustainable:** **1** **:** capable of being **2 a** **:** of, relating to, or being a method of harvesting or using a resource so that the resource is not depleted or permanently damaged **b** **:** of or relating to a lifestyle involving the use of sustainable methods . EXAMPLE: They will have brought about change in this community and delivered benefits that are sustainable into the future.
 * **Trial**: **1 a** **:** the action or process of trying or putting to the proof **b** **:** a preliminary contest (as in a sport) **2** **:** the formal examination before a competent tribunal of the matter in issue in a civil or criminal cause in order to determine such issue **3** **:** a test of faith, patience, or stamina through subjection to suffering or temptation; //broadly// **:** a source of vexation or annoyance **4 a** **:** a tryout or experiment to test quality, value, or usefulness **b** **:** one of a number of repetitions of an experiment **5** **:** attempt. EXAMPLE: The trial will be held tomorrow at nine o'clock, lawyers must be there at that time.
 * **Truce**: **1** **:** a suspension of fighting especially of considerable duration by agreement of opposing forces **2** **:** a respite especially from a disagreeable or painful state or action. EXAMPLE: The warriors on the battlefield made a truce to collect the fallen or dead.
 * **Twinge**: **1** //dialect// **:** pluck, tweak **2** **:** to affect with a sharp pain or pang//i, ntransitive verb// **:** to feel a sudden sharp local pain. EXAMPLE: A few days ago I felt a twinge in the stomach, as if a knife had pierced me.
 * **Welfare**:**1** **:** the state of doing well especially in respect to good fortune, happiness, well-being, or prosperity **2 a** **:** aid in the form of money or necessities for those in need **b** **:** an agency or program through which such aid is distributed EXAMPLE: In recent decades British governments have introduced some of the most stringent controls in the world to safeguard laboratory animal welfare.
 * **Wreck**: **1** **:** something cast up on the land by the sea especially after a shipwreck **2** **a:** the action of wrecking or fact or state of being wrecked **b** **:** a violent and destructive crash **3 a** **:** a hulk or the ruins of a wrecked ship **b** **:** the broken remains of something wrecked or otherwise ruined **c** **:** something disabled or in a state of ruin or dilapidation //also// **:** a person or animal of broken constitution, health, or spirits .EXAMPLE: The wreck of the ship was short before sinking.
 * **Wright**: a worker skilled in the manufacture especially of wooden objects —usually used in combination. EXAMPLE: A shipwright is a person who can do ship construction and repair.