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- 时间: 2014-7-16 17:43If you force material through an opening to give it form or shape, you are extruding the material. You can use a pasta maker to extrude the pasta dough in various shapes — from spaghetti to linguine to macaroni.
Extrude is from the Latin word extrudere, which itself can be broken into the roots ex-, meaning "out," and trudere, meaning "to thrust." In the noun form, the process is called extrusion. You can extrude all kinds of materials and products by forcing them through an opening, including cheese puffs, pasta, candy, plastic toys like the hula hoop, assorted pipes and hoses, and glass tubing.
DEFINITIONS OF: extrude
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v form or shape by forcing through an opening
“extrude steel”
Synonyms:
squeeze out
Type of:
create, make, produce
create or manufacture a man-made product
At its best, Twitter is next week's thinkpiece today: you're seeing the bulk data from which a conclusion could be extruded.
The GuardianJul 14, 2014
Tony Greene’s paintings look not so much painted as extruded.
Los Angeles TimesJun 26, 2014
Those will have been the emotions he lived with and, more or less, urgently needed to extrude.
The GuardianJun 25, 2014
And yet the workmanship is so seamless and precise that it almost seems as if this map has been extruded through some industrial process. -
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- 时间: 2014-7-17 16:32transitional
Sometimes people who have been laid off from their old jobs and haven’t been able to find new ones say they are in a transitional period. In other words, they are in the middle of a change.
The adjective transitional relates to things such as governments, office spaces, or aspects of one’s life that are in the process of changing. This is a temporary state, until a permanent solution is established, and the word is often used with a sense of hope. For example, when someone goes through a romantic breakup and is hoping to find someone new, she might also say she is in a transitional phase. A synonym for transitional is interim.
DEFINITIONS OF: transitional
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adj of or relating to or characterized by transition
“adolescence is a transitional stage between childhood and adulthood”
New York City Transitional Finance Authority, $675 million of future tax secured subordinate bonds.
New York TimesJul 12, 2014
The workers they hire are often as transitional as the neighborhoods, so they let the men stay in the houses until they’re rented.
New York TimesJul 10, 2014
The position of the sun in the sky was delicate, transitional; and the season was unmistakable.
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- 时间: 2014-7-17 17:00Quash means to put down, stop, extinguish, and it’s usually used to talk about ideas, feelings, or political movements. You wouldn’t quash a grape underfoot; you would squash it. But if you were a military dictator, you would quash a revolution.
Quash is an extreme word. It comes from the French word for smash, or shatter. If something is quashed it is completely suppressed, usually by something or someone very powerful or authoritative. If you wrote a poem and asked your favorite teacher to read it, and that teacher tore it to pieces, then your hopes were most likely quashed.
quash
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declare invalidv
2
put down by force or intimidationv
FULL DEFINITIONS OF: quash
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v declare invalid
Synonyms:
annul, avoid, invalidate, nullify, void
Antonyms:
formalise, formalize, validate
declare or make legally valid
Types:
break
invalidate by judicial action
stet
printing: cancel, as of a correction or deletion
Type of:
cancel, strike down
declare null and void; make ineffective
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v put down by force or intimidation
“The government quashes any attempt of an uprising”
Synonyms:
keep down, reduce, repress, subdue, subjugate
Type of:
crush, oppress, suppress
come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority
If Netanyahu thinks he can quash a new Palestinian uprising without forcing King Abdullah to repudiate Jordan’s peace treaty with Israel, he is mistaken.
The New YorkerJul 15, 2014
Although one assumes Bosh would have preferred to have James alongside him, this is an opportunity to quash his "sidekick's sidekick" reputation.
The GuardianJul 15, 2014
The overwhelming force used to quash that peaceful protest on the opening day was a clear sign that no quarter would be given.
BBCJul 15, 2014
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- 时间: 2014-7-17 17:07When you were little, heading out the door on a freezing cold day, your mom probably made an exhortation to put on your hat and zip your coat up all the way. An exhortation is a loud or enthusiastic urging.
Use an exhortation any time you really want to encourage someone to do something. It's a way of communicating that's persuasive and powerful — an exhortation might come from a government in the form of a speech encouraging people to get flu shots, or it might be a teacher urging his students to sit quietly. Whether it comes in the form of a warning or encouragement, an exhortation strongly advises people to take some particular action.
DEFINITIONS OF: exhortation
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n the act of exhorting; an earnest attempt at persuasion
Synonyms:
incitement
Types:
pep talk
a speech of exhortation attempting to instill enthusiasm and determination in a team or staff
Type of:
persuasion, suasion
the act of persuading (or attempting to persuade); communication intended to induce belief or action
n a communication intended to urge or persuade the recipients to take some action
Type of:
communicating, communication
the activity of communicating; the activity of conveying information
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In a way, Mr Putin’s messianic Russian nationalism, Mr Erdogan’s Islamism and Chinese leaders’ exhortations of sacrifice take the edge off the sleaze.
EconomistJul 9, 2014
He begins to see life as a ladder, as a permanent examination with some praise and some further exhortation at each stage.
Hunger of Memory
As one might expect, the "Fury" footage is marked by explosions, stern-faced soldiers, brotherly embraces and exhortations to carry out the mission at hand.
Los Angeles TimesJun 10, 2014
Sure, they were chanting, but their chants were inoffensive exhortations about believing and winning, rather than vicious denigrations of the opposing players’ mothers. -
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- 时间: 2014-7-18 15:42If you think everything happens for a reason and we have no control over our own futures, then you believe in predestination.
In religious terms, predestination is the belief that everything that happens has already been determined by God — He's got a master plan, and there's no deviating from it. It's kind of a depressing and extreme world view that doesn't leave much room for making personal choices. Predestination is related to the concept of omniscience — meaning God knows everything. If you're a strong believer in free will, then you'll probably hate the idea of predestination.
DEFINITIONS OF: predestination
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n previous determination as if by destiny or fate
Type of:
destiny, fate
an event (or a course of events) that will inevitably happen in the future
n (theology) being determined in advance; especially the doctrine (usually associated with Calvin) that God has foreordained every event throughout eternity (including the final salvation of mankind)
Synonyms:
foreordination, predetermination, preordination
Types:
election
the predestination of some individuals as objects of divine mercy (especially as conceived by Calvinists)
Type of:
theological doctrine
the doctrine of a religious group
Huss, in his deductions from the Wickliffite doctrines of predestination, had overthrown the very foundations of the hierarchical system.
Lea, Henry Charles
Yet this universal predestination in no degree interferes with the liberty of man.
Blaikie, William Garden
At this synod a heresy was brought forward by a few monks in regard to predestination.
Ogg, Frederic Austin
I had never talked with a Wesleyan before, and we used to have little debates about predestination, for I was then a strong Calvinist.
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