READING - Advanced 1000 Flashcards
hamstring
hamstring
/ˈhæmstɹɪŋ/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- One of the great tendons situated in each side of the ham, or space back of the knee, and connected with the muscles of the back of the thigh.
- The biceps femoris, semimembranosus, and semitendinosus muscles.
Synonyms: hams.
2. Verb
- To lame or disable by cutting the tendons of the ham or knee; to hough.
- To cripple; to incapacitate; to disable.
Synonyms: cripple, disable, incapacitate, hock, hough, hox.
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inclusion
inclusion
/ɪnˈkluːʒən/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- An addition or annex to a group, set, or total.
- The act of including, i.e. adding or annexing, (something) to a group, set, or total.
- Anything foreign that is included in a material,
- Any material that is trapped inside a mineral during its formation, as a defect in a precious stone.
- A nuclear or cytoplasmic aggregate of stainable substances.
- An object completely inside a tissue, such as epidermal inclusion cyst, a cyst in the epidermis.
- A mapping where the domain is a subset of the image.
- Restriction; limitation.
Antonyms: exclusion.
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dominant
dominant
/ˈdɑmənənt/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- The fifth major tone of a musical scale (five major steps above the note in question); thus G is the dominant of C, A of D, and so on.
- The triad built on the dominant tone.
- A gene that is dominant.
- A species or organism that is dominant.
- (BDSM) The dominating partner in sadomasochistic sexual activity.
Synonyms: dominator.
2. Adjective
- Ruling; governing; prevailing
- Predominant, common, prevalent, of greatest importance.
- Designating the follicle which will survive atresia and permit ovulation.
Synonyms: prevalent, imposing.
Antonyms: defiant, obedient, rebellious, submissive.
trội
heritable
heritable
/ˈhɛɹɪtəbl̩/
Meaning:
1. Adjective
- That can legally be inherited.
- Genetically transmissible from parent to offspring; hereditary.
Synonyms: inheritable.
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legitimate
legitimate
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A person born to a legally married couple.
Antonyms: bastard, illegitimate.
2. Verb
- To make legitimate, lawful, or valid; especially, to put in the position or state of a legitimate person before the law, by legal means.
Synonyms: legitimize.
3. Adjective
- In accordance with the law or established legal forms and requirements.
- Conforming to known principles, or established or accepted rules or standards; valid.
- Authentic, real, genuine.
- Lawfully begotten, i.e., born to a legally married couple.
- Relating to hereditary rights.
Synonyms: lawful, legal, rightful.
Antonyms: false, illegitimate, illegitimate, illegitimate.
hợp pháp
optimal
optimal
/ˈɑptɪməl/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- The best of its kind
2. Adjective
- The best, most favourable or desirable, especially under some restriction.
- Describing a search algorithm that always returns the best result.
Synonyms: best, ideal, optimum.
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naturalist
naturalist
Meaning:
1. Noun
- (except as merged with later senses) A natural philosopher; a scientist.
- A person who believes in or advocates the tenets of philosophical or methodological naturalism.
- An expert in natural history or the study of plants and animals.
- A creative artist who attempts to faithfully represent nature; an adherent of artistic naturalism.
tự nhiên
connotation
connotation
/ˌkɑnəˈteɪʃən/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A meaning of a word or phrase that is suggested or implied, as opposed to a denotation, or literal meaning. A characteristic of words or phrases, or of the contexts that words and phrases are used in.
- The attribute or aggregate of attributes connoted by a term, contrasted with denotation.
Synonyms: intension.
Antonyms: denotation.
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geothermal
geothermal
Meaning:
1. Adjective
- Pertaining to heat energy extracted from reservoirs in the earth’s interior
địa nhiệt
technological
technological
Meaning:
1. Adjective
- Of, relating to, or involving technology, especially modern scientific technology.
công nghệ
counterfactual
counterfactual
/ˌkaʊn.tə(ɹ)ˈfæk.tʃu.əl/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A claim, hypothesis, or other belief that is contrary to the facts.
- A hypothetical state of the world, used to assess the impact of an action.
- A conditional statement in which the conditional clause is false, as “If I had arrived on time . . .”.
2. Adjective
- Contrary to the facts; untrue.
- Of or in comparison to a hypothetical state of the world.
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soar
soar
/sɔɹ/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- The act of soaring.
- An upward flight.
2. Verb
- To fly high with little effort, like a bird.
- To mount upward on wings, or as on wings.
- To remain aloft by means of a glider or other unpowered aircraft.
- To rise, especially rapidly or unusually high.
- To rise in thought, spirits, or imagination; to be exalted in mood.
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underway
underway
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A road, track, path, or street for going under another way or obstacle.
- An underground passage, tunnel.
- A voyage, especially underwater.
2. Adverb
- In motion, in progress; being done or carried out; on a journey.
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observational
observational
/ˌɑbzɚˈveɪʃənəl/
Meaning:
1. Adjective
- Relating to observation, especially scientific observation.
quan sát
severity
severity
/səˈvɛɹɨti/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- The state of being severe.
- The degree of something undesirable; badness or seriousness.
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encompass
encompass
/ɛnˈkʌm.pəs/
Meaning:
1. Verb
- To form a circle around; to encircle.
- To include within its scope; to circumscribe or go round so as to surround; to enclose; to contain.
- To include completely; to describe fully or comprehensively.
- To go around, especially, to circumnavigate.
Synonyms: comprehend, embrace.
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cumulative
cumulative
/ˈkjuːmjʊlətɪv/
Meaning:
1. Adjective
- Incorporating all current and previous data up to the present or at the time of measuring or collating
- That is formed by an accumulation of successive additions
- That tends to accumulate
- Having priority rights to receive a dividend that accrue until paid
tích lũy
temperate
temperate
/ˈtɛmpəɹət/
Meaning:
1. Verb
- To render temperate; to moderate
Synonyms: soften, temper.
2. Adjective
- Moderate; not excessive
- Moderate in the indulgence of the natural appetites or passions
- Proceeding from temperance.
- Living in an environment that is temperate, not extreme.
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constraint
constraint
/kənˈstɹeɪnt/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- Something that constrains; a restriction.
- An irresistible force or compulsion.
- The repression of one’s feelings.
- A condition that a solution to an optimization problem must satisfy.
- A linkage or other restriction that maintains database integrity.
ràng buộc
housekeep
housekeep
Meaning:
1. Noun
- The person in charge of a house; a housekeeper or innkeeper.
2. Verb
- To carry out the domestic duties of housekeeping.
- To perform the general tasks of housekeeping.
Housekeep
alley
alley
/ˈæ.li/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A narrow street or passageway, especially one through the middle of a block giving access to the rear of lots or buildings.
- The area between the outfielders.
- An establishment where bowling is played.
- An elongated wooden strip of floor along which a bowling ball is rolled.
- The extra area between the sidelines or tramlines on a tennis court that is used for doubles matches.
- A walk or passage in a garden or park, bordered by rows of trees or bushes.
- A passageway between rows of pews in a church.
- (perspective drawing) Any passage having the entrance represented as wider than the exit, so as to give the appearance of length.
- The space between two rows of compositors’ stands in a printing office.
Synonyms: alleyway, bowling alley, gap, lane.
hẻm
inheritance
inheritance
/ɪnˈhɛɹətəns/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- The passing of title to an estate upon death.
- That which a person is entitled to inherit, by law or testament.
- The act or mechanism of inheriting; the state of having inherited
- (genetic algorithms) The biological attributes passed hereditarily from ancestors to their offspring.
- The mechanism whereby parts of a superclass are available to instances of its subclass.
thừa kế
conception
conception
/kənˈsɛpʃən/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- The act of conceiving.
- The state of being conceived; the beginning.
- The fertilization of an ovum by a sperm to form a zygote.
- The start of pregnancy.
- The formation of a conceptus or an implanted embryo.
- The power or faculty of apprehending of forming an idea in the mind; the power of recalling a past sensation or perception; the ability to form mental abstractions.
- An image, idea, or notion formed in the mind; a concept, plan or design.
Antonyms: misconception.
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functionality
functionality
Meaning:
1. Noun
- The ability to perform a task or function; that set of functions that something is able or equipped to perform.
- In United States trademark law, the tendency of a product design to serve a function other than identification of the product, preventing that design from being protected as a trademark.
- The presence of a functional group.
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