- WHAT IS the meaning and origin of the expression "to go hammer and tongs at someone"?
- What is the difference between "misinformed" and "ill-informed"?
- Why do we refer to ordinary paper as "full scape" paper?
- How is the word "kudos" pronounced? Is it singular or plural?
- When you call a shop and want to know if it is open can you say, "Are you open"?
- WHAT IS the difference between "earmark" and "hallmark"?
- What is the meaning of the word "Sisyphean"?
- What is the meaning of "euthanasia"? How is the word pronounced?
- What is the meaning and origin of "flotsam and jetsam"?
- WHAT IS the meaning and origin of the expression "read between the lines"?
- Why is an important person called a "bigwig"?
- When you use B.C. and A.D., where should the numerals come? Before or after B.C. and A.D.?
- Which of the following is correct "He feels ill" or "He feels sick"? Can I say, "He is an ill person"?
- Wimp out, death warmed over, etc.
Know Your English - October 2003
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| Definition: | (verb) To link together or join (one) with another. |
| Synonyms: | complect, interconnect |
| Usage: | The policies, though distinct, are interlinked. |
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  Body FarmsBody farms are used in the field of forensic anthropology to help law enforcement officials, medical examiners, and crime scene investigators study human decomposition. The original body farm, the University of Tennessee Forensic Anthropology Facility, is simply a wooded area where bodies are exposed to the elements in different ways and left to decompose. These experiments help researchers understand how various conditions affect decomposition. How do body farms acquire their cadavers? More... Discuss |
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 NASA Announces Discovery of Ice Deposits on Mars (2002)Launched in April 2001, the Mars Odyssey spacecraft was sent by the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to look for evidence of water on Mars. A little over a year later, NASA announced that water had been detected there in the form of ice, suggesting the possibility of microbial life on the Red Planet. The Phoenix lander confirmed the presence of water in 2008. The presence of what element led NASA researchers to conclude that there was indeed water on Mars? More... Discuss |
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 Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz (1807)Agassiz was a Swiss-born naturalist and geologist. Noticing the presence of huge alpine boulders in areas of Switzerland where there are no glaciers, he hypothesized that glaciers had, at one time, been widespread in the area and had dragged the boulders there. This lent credence to his theory of a recent ice age. He was also a renowned teacher and did notable work with fossils. Agassiz was a lifelong opponent, on religious grounds, of what now-accepted scientific theory? More... Discuss |
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 The sky was clear—remarkably clear—and the twinkling of all the stars seemed to be but throbs of one body, timed by a common pulse.Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) Discuss |
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