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transparent
transparent
/tɹæn(t)sˈpæɹənt/
Meaning:
1. Adjective
- (of a material or object) See-through, clear; having the property that light passes through it almost undisturbed, such that one can see through it clearly.
- (of a system or organization) Open, public; having the property that theories and practices are publicly visible, thereby reducing the chance of corruption.
- Obvious; readily apparent; easy to see or understand.
- Having the property of transparency, i.e. sufficiently accurate that the compressed result is perceptually indistinguishable from the uncompressed input.
- Not noticeable because it happens automatically or in the background; invisible.
Synonyms: apparent, clear, obvious, clear, crystalline, diaphanous, limpid, see-through.
Antonyms: obscure, opaque, opaque, nontransparent.
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absurd
absurd
/æbˈsɝd/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- An absurdity.
- (often preceded by the) The opposition between the human search for meaning in life and the inability to find any; the state or condition in which man exists in an irrational universe and his life has no meaning outside of his existence.
2. Adjective
- Contrary to reason or propriety; obviously and flatly opposed to manifest truth; inconsistent with the plain dictates of common sense; logically contradictory; nonsensical; ridiculous; silly.
- Inharmonious; dissonant.
- Having no rational or orderly relationship to people’s lives; meaningless; lacking order or value.
- Dealing with absurdism.
Synonyms: foolish, incongruous, inconsistent, irrational, ludicrous, preposterous, ridiculous.
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chaos
chaos
/ˈkeɪ.ɑs/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- The unordered state of matter in classical accounts of cosmogony.
- Any state of disorder; a confused or amorphous mixture or conglomeration.
- A behaviour of iterative non-linear systems in which arbitrarily small variations in initial conditions become magnified over time.
- One of the two metaphysical forces of the world in some fantasy settings, as opposed to law.
- A vast chasm or abyss.
- A given medium; a space in which something exists or lives; an environment.
Antonyms: cosmos, order.
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yawn
yawn
/jɔn/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- The action of yawning; opening the mouth widely and taking a long, rather deep breath, often because one is tired or bored.
- A particularly boring event.
2. Verb
- To open the mouth widely and take a long, rather deep breath, often because one is tired or bored, and sometimes accompanied by pandiculation.
- To say while yawning.
- To present a wide opening.
- To open the mouth, or to gape, through surprise or bewilderment.
- To be eager; to desire to swallow anything; to express desire by yawning.
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basement
basement
/ˈbeɪsmənt/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A floor of a building below ground level.
- A mass of igneous or metamorphic rock forming the foundation over which a platform of sedimentary rocks is laid.
- Last place in a sports conference standings.
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negotiate
negotiate
/nəˈɡoʊ.ʃi.eɪt/
Meaning:
1. Verb
- To confer with others in order to come to terms or reach an agreement.
- To arrange or settle something by mutual agreement.
- To succeed in coping with, or getting over something.
- To transfer to another person with all the rights of the original holder; to pass, as a bill.
- To transact business; to carry on trade.
- To intrigue; to scheme.
thương lượng
boast
boast
/boʊst/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A brag; ostentatious positive appraisal of oneself.
- Something that one brags about.
- A shot where the ball is driven off a side wall and then strikes the front wall.
2. Verb
- To brag; to talk loudly in praise of oneself.
- To speak of with pride, vanity, or exultation, with a view to self-commendation; to extol.
- To speak in exulting language of another; to glory; to exult.
- To play a boast shot.
- To possess something special.
Synonyms: brag.
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drain
drain
/dɹeɪn/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A conduit allowing liquid to flow out of an otherwise contained volume; a plughole (UK)
- An access point or conduit for rainwater that drains directly downstream in a (drainage) basin without going through sewers or water treatment in order to prevent or belay floods.
- Something consuming resources and providing nothing in return.
- An act of urination.
- One terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
- An outhole.
- A drink.
2. Verb
- To lose liquid.
- To flow gradually.
- To cause liquid to flow out of.
- To convert a perennially wet place into a dry one.
- To deplete of energy or resources.
- To draw off by degrees; to cause to flow gradually out or off; hence, to exhaust.
- To filter.
- To fall off the bottom of the playfield.
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workshop
workshop
/ˈwɝk.ʃɑp/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A room, especially one which is not particularly large, used for manufacturing or other light industrial work.
- A brief, intensive course of education for a small group, emphasizing interaction and practical problem solving.
- An academic conference.
2. Verb
- To help a playwright revise a draft of (a play) by rehearsing it with actors and critiquing the results.
- To work on or revise something, especially collaboratively, in a workshop.
- To improve through collaboration.
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utter
utter
/ˈʌtɚ/
Meaning:
1. Adjective
- Outer; furthest out, most remote.
- Outward.
- Absolute, unconditional, total, complete.
thốt ra
restriction
restriction
/ɹɪˈstɹɪkʃən/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- The act of restricting, or the state of being restricted.
- A regulation or limitation that restricts.
- The mechanism by which a cell degrades foreign DNA material.
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engineering
engineering
/ˌen.dʒɪˈnɪə.ɹɪŋ/
Meaning:
1. Verb
- To design, construct or manage something as an engineer.
- To alter or construct something by means of genetic engineering.
- To plan or achieve some goal by contrivance or guile; to wangle or finagle.
- To control motion of substance; to change motion.
- To work as an engineer.
2. Noun
- The application of mathematics and the physical sciences to the needs of humanity and the development of technology.
- The area aboard a ship where the engine is located.
- Actions controling the motion, shape, and/or substance of any physical object(s).
- Designates office area of the professional engineering staff.
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despise
despise
/dɪˈspaɪz/
Meaning:
1. Verb
- To regard with contempt or scorn.
- To disregard or ignore.
Synonyms: contemn, disdain, scorn.
Antonyms: admire, cherish, honor, respect, treasure.
coi thường
mutual
mutual
/ˈmjuːt͡ʃuəl/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A mutual fund.
- A mutual organization.
- Either of a pair of people who follow each other’s social media accounts.
2. Adjective
- Having the same relationship, each to each other.
- Collective, done or held in common.
- Reciprocal.
- Possessed in common.
- (Relating to a company, insurance or financial institution) Owned by the members.
Synonyms: mutual, shared, reciprocative.
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incident
incident
/ˈɪn.sɪ.dənt/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- An event or occurrence.
- A (relatively minor) event that is incidental to, or related to others.
- An event that causes or may cause an interruption or a crisis, such as a workplace illness or a software error.
2. Adjective
- Arising as the result of an event, inherent.
- (of a stream of particles or radiation) Falling on or striking a surface.
- Coming or happening accidentally; not in the usual course of things; not in connection with the main design; not according to expectation; casual; fortuitous.
- Liable to happen; apt to occur; befalling; hence, naturally happening or appertaining.
- Dependent upon, or appertaining to, another thing, called the principal.
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transmission
transmission
/tɹænsˈmɪʃən/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- The act of transmitting, e.g. data or electric power.
- The fact of being transmitted.
- Something that is transmitted, such as a message, picture or a disease; the sending of such a thing.
- The passage of a nerve impulse across synapses.
- An assembly of gears through which power is transmitted from the engine to the driveshaft in a motor car / automobile; a gearbox.
- The right possessed by an heir or legatee of transmitting to his successor(s) any inheritance, legacy, right, or privilege, to which he is entitled, even if he should die without enjoying or exercising it.
- (medicine, biology) The passing of a communicable disease from an infected host individual or group to a conspecific individual or group.
Synonyms: gearbox, outsending.
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incline
incline
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A slope.
2. Verb
- To bend or move (something) out of a given plane or direction, often the horizontal or vertical.
- To slope.
- (chiefly in the passive) To tend to do or believe something, or move or be moved in a certain direction, away from a point of view, attitude, etc.
nghiêng
initial
initial
/ɪˈnɪʃəl/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- The first letter of a word or a name.
- In plural, the first letter of each word of a person’s full name considered as a unit.
- A distinguished initial letter of a chapter or section of a document.
- Onset, part of a syllable that precedes the syllable nucleus in phonetics and phonology.
Synonyms: drop cap, versal.
2. Verb
- To sign one’s initial(s), as an abbreviated signature.
3. Adjective
- Chronologically first, early; of or pertaining to the beginning, cause or origin.
- Spatially first, placed at the beginning, in the first position; especially said of the first letter of a word.
Synonyms: incipient, opening.
Antonyms: final.
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pillar
pillar
/ˈpɪlɚ/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A large post, often used as supporting architecture.
- Something resembling such a structure.
- An essential part of something that provides support.
- A portable ornamental column, formerly carried before a cardinal, as emblematic of his support to the church.
- The centre of the volta, ring, or manege ground, around which a horse turns.
Synonyms: column, sile.
2. Verb
- To provide with pillars or added strength as if from pillars.
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slope
slope
/sloʊp/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- An area of ground that tends evenly upward or downward.
- The degree to which a surface tends upward or downward.
- The ratio of the vertical and horizontal distances between two points on a line; zero if the line is horizontal, undefined if it is vertical.
- The slope of the line tangent to a curve at a given point.
- The angle a roof surface makes with the horizontal, expressed as a ratio of the units of vertical rise to the units of horizontal length (sometimes referred to as run).
- A person of Chinese or other East Asian descent.
Synonyms: bank, embankment, gradient, hill, incline, gradient, first derivative, gradient, Chinaman, Chink.
2. Verb
- To tend steadily upward or downward.
- To form with a slope; to give an oblique or slanting direction to; to incline or slant.
- (usually followed by a preposition) To try to move surreptitiously.
- To hold a rifle at a slope with forearm perpendicular to the body in front holding the butt, the rifle resting on the shoulder.
3. Adjective
- Sloping.
4. Adverb
- Slopingly
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