silverfox Posted October 3, 2009 Author Share Posted October 3, 2009 I think you've misread this ????. I've given examples of both noun and transitive verb. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/7991-learned-a-new-word-today/page/3/#findComment-254871 Share on other sites More sharing options...
???? Posted October 3, 2009 Share Posted October 3, 2009 Apologies - will teach me to read the whole post before commenting...maybe ;-) Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/7991-learned-a-new-word-today/page/3/#findComment-254965 Share on other sites More sharing options...
silverfox Posted October 11, 2009 Author Share Posted October 11, 2009 futz (Pronunciation fuhts) As in "Futzing with the stratosphere? VerbInfinitive to futz verb - (used without object) to pass time in idleness (usually fol. by around). To be frivolous and waste time. To experiment by trial and error Verb phrase - futz with or around with, to handle or deal with, esp. idly, reluctantly, or as a time-consuming task: I spent all day futzing with those file folders. (third-person singular simple present futzes, present participle futzing, simple past and past participle futzed) noun - a fool; simpleton. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/7991-learned-a-new-word-today/page/3/#findComment-257604 Share on other sites More sharing options...
silverfox Posted November 3, 2009 Author Share Posted November 3, 2009 YottaAs in:"Mr Chiscolm sued Bank of America in Manhattan's federal court ... for "$1,784 billion trillion", in a complaint that boiled down to poor customer service". The actual number, 1,784 billion trillion, is equal to 1.784 multiplied by 10 to the 24th power, or 1,784 followed by 21 zeroes.Using the International System of Units, this number is called a Yotta. International System of Units Kilo (K) = 3 zeroesMega (M) = 6 zeroesGiga (G) = 9 zeroesTera (T) = 12 zeroesPeta (P) = 15 zeroesExa (E) = 18 zeroesZetta (Z) = 21 zeroesYotta (Y) = 24 zeroes Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/7991-learned-a-new-word-today/page/3/#findComment-259217 Share on other sites More sharing options...
silverfox Posted November 4, 2009 Author Share Posted November 4, 2009 GoogolplexFollowing on from Yotta, above, the word Googolplex came up on last night's Horizon programme about blackholes.As in: "In a separate article, Page shows that the number of states in a black hole with a mass roughly equivalent to the Andromeda Galaxy is in the range of a googolplex."A googol is a number equal to 10 to the power of 100 (ie, a 1 with 100 zeros following it). Written out explicitly, 10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000. A googolplex is the number 10 raised to the power of a googol of zeros.1 googolplex=10 to the power of 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 One googol is also presumed to be greater than the number of hydrogen atoms in the observable universe. Carl Sagan estimated that writing a googolplex in numerals (i.e., "10,000,000,000...") would be physically impossible, since doing so would require more space than the known universe occupies.Yet, much larger still is Graham's Number perhaps the largest natural number mathematicians actually ever talk about.(Edited as the posted page didn't reproduce the raised power symbols properly) Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/7991-learned-a-new-word-today/page/3/#findComment-259508 Share on other sites More sharing options...
steveo Posted November 10, 2009 Share Posted November 10, 2009 Palimpsest is a good one isn't it?OK delete thatPalimpsest is good isn't it? Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/7991-learned-a-new-word-today/page/3/#findComment-261625 Share on other sites More sharing options...
silverfox Posted January 1, 2010 Author Share Posted January 1, 2010 Paraskavedekatriaphobia Nounparaskavedekatriaphobia Fear of Friday the 13th. Etymology From Friday + thirteen + -phobia Derived words ?paraskavedekatriaphobic andPolydactylBeing born with additional digits (fingers/toes) Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/7991-learned-a-new-word-today/page/3/#findComment-280939 Share on other sites More sharing options...
silverfox Posted February 18, 2010 Author Share Posted February 18, 2010 Actually I didn't learn a new word today. Can anyone help as there's alot of people on the web confused over this one?spuripeopleous Appears in today's Daily Mail in an article about the government wasting money on climate change propaganda. It's been coined by Matthew Sinclair, the TaxPayers? Alliance research director, who is quoted as saying:?Despite a fortune having been spent on these projects, the fund has failed even on its own spuripeopleous terms. It is infuriating for taxpayers to see their money squandered on attempts to scare and indoctrinate the public.? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1251881/Ministers-lavished-9m-climate-change-stunts--public-opinion-left-cold-global-warming-propaganda.html Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/7991-learned-a-new-word-today/page/3/#findComment-298094 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huguenot Posted February 18, 2010 Share Posted February 18, 2010 I'm guessing the correspondent was using a laptop with a track pad.As he hit the spacebar after the word spurious in order to insertt 'people' he inadvertently tapped the trackpad with his thumb, thus moving the insertion point to wherever the cursor was hovering - in this case over the middle of spurious.I'm guessing he was using a content management system (CMS) for the Mail website that was accessed through a browser. Because he chose Internet Explorer, there was no spell-check to correct his error.Thus 'spuripeopleous' could be defined as "an inputting error from a short-sighted right-winger". Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/7991-learned-a-new-word-today/page/3/#findComment-298193 Share on other sites More sharing options...
silverfox Posted February 18, 2010 Author Share Posted February 18, 2010 Yep, it must be a mistake. Worrying though that the subeditors didn't spot it. Whatever happened to journalistic standards? Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/7991-learned-a-new-word-today/page/3/#findComment-298201 Share on other sites More sharing options...
silverfox Posted February 22, 2010 Author Share Posted February 22, 2010 Lycra-loutNoun.A derogatory term applied to the estimated 20% of cyclists who flout the highway code.Word coined on BBC London News this lunchtime. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/7991-learned-a-new-word-today/page/3/#findComment-299705 Share on other sites More sharing options...
silverfox Posted February 23, 2010 Author Share Posted February 23, 2010 Homo interneticusNounPossibly the next evolved state of 'generation web' homo sapiens, who, having grown up with the internet's instant connections and access to information, may be undergoing changes to identity and the way they think. Cited by Dr. Aleks Krotoski, academic and journalist, in The Virual Revolution Part 4, Homo interneticus? (BBC2) Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/7991-learned-a-new-word-today/page/3/#findComment-300014 Share on other sites More sharing options...
silverfox Posted May 4, 2010 Author Share Posted May 4, 2010 Zettabyte The size of the ?digital universe? will swell so rapidly this year that a new unit ? the zettabyte ? has been invented to measure it. Zettabytes overtake petabytes as the largest unit of digital measurement.Humanity?s total digital output currently stands at 8,000,000 petabytes ? which each represent a million gigabytes ? but is expected to pass 1.2 zettabytes this year. One zettabyte is equal to one million petabytes, or 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 individual bytes. The current size of the world?s digital content is equivalent to all the information that could be stored on 75bn Apple iPads, or the amount that would be generated by everyone in the world posting messages on the microblogging site Twitter constantly for a century. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/7675214/Zettabytes-overtake-petabytes-as-largest-unit-of-digital-measurement.html Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/7991-learned-a-new-word-today/page/3/#findComment-320716 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huguenot Posted May 17, 2010 Share Posted May 17, 2010 Petrichor (Thanks to ruffers)from Greek petros "stone" + ichor the fluid that flows in the veins of the gods in Greek mythology) is the name of the scent of rain on dry earth.The term was coined in 1964 by two Australian researchers, Bear and Thomas, for an article in the journal Nature. In the article, the authors describe how the smell derives from an oil exuded by certain plants during dry periods, whereupon it is absorbed by clay-based soils and rocks. During rain, the oil is released into the air along with another compound, geosmin, producing the distinctive scent. In a follow-up paper, Bear and Thomas (1965) showed that the oil retards seed germination and early plant growth. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/7991-learned-a-new-word-today/page/3/#findComment-324357 Share on other sites More sharing options...
silverfox Posted May 17, 2010 Author Share Posted May 17, 2010 hellion Pronunciation: \ˈhel-yən\ NounA troublesome, disorderly, rowdy, or mischievous person, especially a child. A trouble maker. Etymology: 19th Century American, probably from dialect, alteration (influenced by hell) of hallion scamp/rogue Quoted by hoser today on the, Re: Dulwich park distance? thread in the General ED issues/gossip section Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/7991-learned-a-new-word-today/page/3/#findComment-324415 Share on other sites More sharing options...
katie1997 Posted May 17, 2010 Share Posted May 17, 2010 You can get a 'word of the day' emailed to you from dictionary.com (sorry if done before) Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/7991-learned-a-new-word-today/page/3/#findComment-324633 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peckhamgatecrasher Posted May 30, 2010 Share Posted May 30, 2010 Narthexnoun1.in early Christian churches, a porch or portico at the west end for penitents and others not admitted to the church itself2.any church vestibule leading to the naveOrigin: LL(Ec) < LGr(Ec) narth?x < Gr, giant fennel: from a fancied resemblance of the porch to the hollow stemWebster's New World College Dictionary Copyright ? 2010 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc. nar?thex (n?rˈthĕksˌ)noun1.A portico or lobby of an early Christian or Byzantine church or basilica, originally separated from the nave by a railing or screen.2.An entrance hall leading to the nave of a church. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/7991-learned-a-new-word-today/page/3/#findComment-328450 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loz Posted June 1, 2010 Share Posted June 1, 2010 silverfox Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------> Zettabyte > > The size of the ?digital universe? will swell so> rapidly this year that a new unit ? the zettabyte> ? has been invented to measure it. > > Zettabytes overtake petabytes as the largest unit> of digital measurement.Zettabyte hasn't recently been invented (it dates from the 90's), exabyte slips in between petabyte and zettabyte and zettabyte is not the largest unit of digital measurement. Digital measurements are SI units and so follow their naming standard. The list is kilobyte, megabyte, gigabyte, terabyte, petabyte, exabyte, zettabyte and yottabyte. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/7991-learned-a-new-word-today/page/3/#findComment-328672 Share on other sites More sharing options...
silverfox Posted June 1, 2010 Author Share Posted June 1, 2010 Thank you for pointing out those mistakes Loz. I am guilty of taking a Telegraph headline writer's words on trust. I've just gone back and done a search and notice that The Telegraph re-wrote the original headline and subhead to make it accurate in the way you describe and that the link I provided above now takes you to the updated/corrected headline. The original headline and subhead: Zettabytes overtake petabytes as largest unit of digital ...May 4 2010 | Heidi Blake | Technology The size of the ?digital universe? will swell so rapidly this year that a new unit - the zettabyte - has been invented to measure it.Was rewritten to read:Digital universe to smash 'zettabyte' barrier for first time ...May 4 2010 | Heidi Blake | Technology The size of the ?digital universe? will swell so rapidly this year that it will pass the "zettabyte" barrier for the first time.See http://www.telegraph.co.uk/search/?queryText=zettabyte&type=recent&sort=date%3AD%3AS%3Ad1&site=default_collection more resultsI was also interested to read the names for the submultiples (-10) of SI units. You learn something new every day. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/7991-learned-a-new-word-today/page/3/#findComment-328702 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loz Posted June 1, 2010 Share Posted June 1, 2010 I learnt something as well - zetta and yotta are derived from 'septo' and 'octo' repectively, but mangled a little to make the symbol unique (S being used for other things like 'second' and O would get confused with zero).I always wondered why zetta and yotta weren't in easy-to-remember alphabetical order. Now I know! Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/7991-learned-a-new-word-today/page/3/#findComment-328705 Share on other sites More sharing options...
womanofdulwich Posted June 3, 2010 Share Posted June 3, 2010 Burtonisation. ( good one for a pub quiz).( brewers technique of chemically changing the water of say Bury st Edmunds to make it taste/ react like the water of Burton on Trent to make the beer that used to be made in Burton on Trent taste like it does ( even though made in Bury) Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/7991-learned-a-new-word-today/page/3/#findComment-329331 Share on other sites More sharing options...
silverfox Posted June 14, 2010 Author Share Posted June 14, 2010 Phlebotomistphle?bot?o?mist (flĭ-bŏt'ə-mĭst) noun 1.One who practices phlebotomy. 2.One who draws blood for analysis or transfusion. The American Heritage? Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition Copyright ? 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. Word referred to by penguin69 on the 'What is the latest on the new hospital in ED?' thread Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/7991-learned-a-new-word-today/page/3/#findComment-332188 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brendan Posted June 14, 2010 Share Posted June 14, 2010 Norkage Adjective Of or relating to a nork or norks(noun) VerbTo display norks (see also cleavage) Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/7991-learned-a-new-word-today/page/3/#findComment-332234 Share on other sites More sharing options...
silverfox Posted June 14, 2010 Author Share Posted June 14, 2010 0 words found. norkage does not appear in Merriam-Webster's Official SCRABBLE? Players Dictionary, 4th Edition.0 words found. norks does not appear in Merriam-Webster's Official SCRABBLE? Players Dictionary, 4th Edition. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/7991-learned-a-new-word-today/page/3/#findComment-332239 Share on other sites More sharing options...
HAL9000 Posted June 14, 2010 Share Posted June 14, 2010 CerumenMain Entry: ce?ru?men Pronunciation: \sə-ˈr?-mən\Function: noun Etymology: New Latin, irregular from Latin cera wax; akin to Greek k?ros waxDate: 1741: earwax? ce?ru?mi?nous \-mə-nəs\ adjectivecerumen. (2010). In Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary.Retrieved June 14, 2010, from http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cerumenWord refered to by ianr in thread: "Re: 32" Sony Bravia Brand New in box!" now "." (For Sale...) Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/7991-learned-a-new-word-today/page/3/#findComment-332325 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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