Word Of The Day....

placate


[pley-keyt, plak-eyt]

verb (used with object), placated,placating.

1.

to appease or pacify, especially byconcessions or conciliatory gestures:

to placate an outraged citizenry.

Examples for placateExpand

They will opt to placate or to challenge a questioner. Attempts to placate them with a share buyback and special dividends failed.

Rage Against The Machine - Know Your Enemy (Feat. Maynard): http://youtu.be/R2K2hSB4fEU

 

con·fla·gra·tion
\ˌkän-flə-ˈgrā-shən\noun

: a large destructive fire

: a war or conflict

Full Definition

1

:fire; especially :a large disastrous fire

2

:conflict, war

Examples

The treaty is the latest attempt to resolve the ten-year conflagration<the historic tavern burned to the ground in a horrible conflagration

 

sorry, i wasn't aware we were supposed to define it as well. you are of course correct. and just as a guess, have access to that 25 volume oxford dictionary.

 

octothorpe
noun oc·to·thorpe \ˈäk-tə-ˌthȯrp, -tō-\

Definition of OCTOTHORPE

: the symbol #

 

di·en·ceph·a·lon (dī′ĕn-sĕf′ə-lŏn′, -lən)

n.

The posterior part of the forebrain that connects the midbrain with the cerebral hemispheres, encloses the third ventricle, and contains the thalamus and hypothalamus. Also called between brain, interbrain.

 

what does : and # mean?

 

#

tic tac toe...?

 

a thorp with 8 somethings. like a tetrazini should have four zini's. which makes me think a zini must mean cheese, since that seems to something there might be four of in it.

then there's terra miso. that sounds like it ought to mean earth soup. earth soy soup. instead of like this desert confection thing.

rank, which is a rank illusion, humans attempt to make real by implied threat of force.

 

it means '#'...it's called an octothorpe.

what # actually means depends on where it's used.

 

Is that the thing that goes in front of a number? Other than that, I don't use that symbol, so I don't know what it means. and never will.

 

Blurb

a short summary that praises something...

 

because I cannot find them on the internet to read their definitions, so who should I ask, and have an answer I can understand....? my quote above read a little too harsh once I read it back...to myself....just frustration s of being in the dark sometimes....

 

pend

[pend]

verb (used without object)

1. to remain undecided or unsettled

2. to hang.

3. obsolete to depend

also see:
append.

 

on·o·mat·o·poe·ia


/ˌänəˌmadəˈpēə,ˌänəˌmädəˈpēə/


noun

noun: onomatopoeia





the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named (e.g., cuckoo, sizzle ).


•

the use of onomatopoeia for rhetorical effect.

 

palindrome
noun pal·in·drome \ˈpa-lən-ˌdrōm\

: a word, phrase, or number that reads the same backward or forward

ex. racecar

racecar also contains the substring "ace', backwards and forwards offset the same number of characters from the beginning and the end respectively. also, in either direction, the end of the "ace" substring marks the beginning of an identical but reversed string "eca" which when reversed spells "ace".

 

rats live on no evil star

 

ser·en·dip·i·ty


/ˌserənˈdipədē/


noun

noun: serendipity; plural noun: serendipities





the occurrence and development of events by chance in a happy or beneficial way.

"a fortunate stroke of serendipity"




synonyms:

(happy) chance, (happy) accident, fluke; More


luck, good luck, good fortune, fortuity, providence;

happy coincidence

"the consequence of serendipity is sometimes a brilliant discovery"

 

dis·sem·i·nate
\di-ˈse-mə-ˌnāt\verb

: to cause (something, such as information) to go to many people

Full Definition

dis·sem·i·nat·ed dis·sem·i·nat·ing

transitive verb

1

:to spread abroad as though sowing seed <disseminate ideas>

2

:to disperse throughout

— dis·sem·i·na·tion \-ˌse-mə-ˈnā-shən\ noun

— dis·sem·i·na·tor \-ˈse-mə-ˌnā-tər\ noun

Examples

The Internet allows us to disseminate information faster.

The findings were widely disseminated.

 

at•ten•u•a•tion (əˌtɛn yuˈeɪ ʃən)

n.

1. the act of attenuating or the state of being attenuated.

2. the process by which a virus, bacterium, etc., changes under laboratory conditions to become harmless or less virulent.

[1585–95; (< Middle French) < Latin]


1. Decrease in intensity of a signal, beam, or wave as a result of absorption of energy and of scattering out of the path of a detector, but not including the reduction due to geometric spreading, i.e., the inverse square of distance effect.
2. In mine warfare, the reduction in intensity of an influence as distance from the source increases.
3. In camouflage and concealment, the process of making an object or surface less conspicuous by reducing its contrast to the surroundings and/or background. Also called tone down.

 

and here is the opposite of your word....

ex·ac·er·bate


/iɡˈzasərˌbāt/


verb

verb: exacerbate; 3rd person present: exacerbates; past tense: exacerbated; past participle: exacerbated; gerund or present participle: exacerbating





make (a problem, bad situation, or negative feeling) worse.

"the forest fire was exacerbated by the lack of rain"




synonyms:

aggravate, worsen, inflame, compound; More


intensify, increase, heighten, magnify, add to, amplify, augment;

informaladd fuel to the fire/flames

"each party blames the other for exacerbating the problem"





antonyms:

reduce