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insight
insight
/ˈɪnsaɪt/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A sight or view of the interior of anything; a deep inspection or view; introspection; frequently used with into.
- Power of acute observation and deduction
- Knowledge (usually derived from consumer understanding) that a company applies in order to make a product or brand perform better and be more appealing to customers
- Intuitive apprehension of the inner nature of a thing or things; intuition.
- An extended understanding of a subject resulting from identification of relationships and behaviors within a model, context, or scenario.
- An individual’s awareness of the nature and severity of one’s mental illness.
Synonyms: discernment, penetration, perception.
cái nhìn thấu suốt
stubborn
stubborn
/ˈstʌbɚn/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- Stubbornness.
- A disease of citrus trees characterized by stunted growth and misshapen fruit, caused by Spiroplasma citri.
2. Adjective
- Refusing to move or to change one’s opinion; obstinate; firmly resisting; persistent in doing something.
- Of materials: physically stiff and inflexible; not easily melted or worked.
Synonyms: adamant, contrary, disobedient, headstrong, insubordinate, obdurate, obstinate, rebellious, undisciplined, unyielding, wayward, willful, enduring, perseverant, persistent.
bướng bỉnh
dedication
dedication
/ˌdɛdɪˈkeɪʃən/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- The act of dedicating or the state of being dedicated.
- A note addressed to a patron or friend, prefixed to a work of art as a token of respect, esteem, or affection.
- A ceremony marking an official completion or opening.
- The deliberate or negligent surrender of all rights to property.
Synonyms: devotion, diligence, consecration.
sự cống hiến
abundance
abundance
/əˈbn̩.dn̩s/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A large quantity; many.
- An overflowing fullness or ample sufficiency; profusion; copious supply; superfluity; plentifulness.
- Wealth; affluence; plentiful amount of resources.
- Frequency, amount, ratio of something within a given environment or sample.
- A bid to take nine or more tricks in solo whist.
Synonyms: copiousness, exuberance, overflow, plenteousness, plenty, heap, load, affluence, riches, wealth.
sự phong phú
incidence
incidence
Meaning:
1. Noun
- The act of something happening; occurrence.
- The extent or the relative frequency of something happening.
- The manner of falling; bearing or onus, as of a tax that falls unequally.
- The striking of radiation or a projectile upon a surface.
- A measure of the rate of new occurrence of a given medical condition in a population within a specified period of time.
- The falling of a point on a line, or a line on a plane.
tỷ lệ
cohesive
cohesive
/koʊˈhiː.sɪv/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A substance that provides cohesion
- A device used to establish cohesion within a text
2. Adjective
- Having cohesion.
kết dính
groundbreaking
groundbreaking
/ˈɡɹaʊndbɹeɪkɪŋ/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A ceremony to mark the beginning of construction.
- The point at which construction begins.
2. Adjective
- Innovative; new, different; doing something that has never been done before.
đột phá
unsuspecting
unsuspecting
Meaning:
1. Adjective
- Not suspecting; without any suspicion.
không nghi ngờ
fake
fake
/feɪk/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- Something which is not genuine, or is presented fraudulently.
- A trick; a swindle.
- A move meant to deceive an opposing player, used for gaining advantage for example when dribbling an opponent.
Synonyms: deke, feint.
2. Verb
- To cheat; to swindle; to steal; to rob.
- To modify fraudulently, so as to make an object appear better or other than it really is
- To make a counterfeit, to counterfeit, to forge, to falsify.
- To make a false display of, to affect, to feign, to simulate.
Synonyms: pass off, pose, adulterate.
3. Adjective
- Not real; false, fraudulent.
- (of people) Insincere.
Antonyms: authentic, genuine.
giả mạo
sophisticate
sophisticate
[səˈfɪstɪkeɪt]
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A worldly-wise person.
2. Verb
- To make less natural or innocent.
- To practice sophistry; change the meaning of, or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive.
- To alter and make impure, as with the intention to deceive.
- To make more complex or refined.
3. Adjective
- Adulterated; not pure; not genuine.
ôn hòa
jurisdiction
jurisdiction
/d͡ʒɝɪsˈdɪkʃən/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- The power, right, or authority to interpret and apply the law.
- The power or right to exercise authority.
- The power or right to perform some action as part of applying the law.
- The authority of a sovereign power to govern or legislate.
- The limits or territory within which authority may be exercised.
Synonyms: oyer and terminer, soc and sac, power.
quyền tài phán
chronicle
chronicle
/ˈkɹɒnɪkəl/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A written account of events and when they happened, ordered by time.
Synonyms: annals, archives, chronicon, diary, history, journal, narration, prehistory, recital, record, recountal, register, report, story, version.
2. Verb
- To record in or as in a chronicle.
Synonyms: record.
Biên niên sử
intricate
intricate
/ˈɪn.tɹɪ.kət/
Meaning:
1. Adjective
- Having a great deal of fine detail or complexity.
phức tạp
hinge
hinge
/ˈhɪndʒ/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A jointed or flexible device that allows the pivoting of a door etc.
- A naturally occurring joint resembling such hardware in form or action, as in the shell of a bivalve.
- A stamp hinge, a folded and gummed paper rectangle for affixing postage stamps in an album.
- A principle, or a point in time, on which subsequent reasonings or events depend.
- The median of the upper or lower half of a batch, sample, or probability distribution.
- One of the four cardinal points, east, west, north, or south.
Synonyms: har, quartile.
2. Verb
- To attach by, or equip with a hinge.
- (with on or upon) To depend on something.
- The breaking off of the distal end of a knapped stone flake whose presumed course across the face of the stone core was truncated prematurely, leaving not a feathered distal end but instead the scar of a nearly perpendicular break.
- To bend.
bản lề
aspiration
aspiration
/ˌæspəˈɹeɪʃən/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- The act of aspiring or ardently desiring; an ardent wish or desire, chiefly after what is elevated or spiritual (with common adjunct adpositions being to and of).
Khát vọng
divert
divert
/daɪˈvɝt/
Meaning:
1. Verb
- To turn aside from a course.
- To distract.
- To entertain or amuse (by diverting the attention)
- To turn aside; to digress.
Synonyms: offlead.
chuyển hướng
laborious
laborious
/ləˈbɔːɹiəs/
Meaning:
1. Adjective
- Requiring much physical effort; toilsome.
- Mentally difficult; painstaking.
- Industrious.
Synonyms: painstaking, toilsome, worksome.
siêng năng
distracted
distracted
Meaning:
1. Verb
- To divert the attention of.
- To make crazy or insane; to drive to distraction.
2. Adjective
- Having one’s attention diverted; preoccupied
- Distraught
mất tập trung
misperceive
misperceive
Meaning:
1. Verb
- To perceive erroneously.
sai lầm
innovator
innovator
Meaning:
1. Noun
- Someone who innovates; a creator of new ideas.
- An early adopter.
nhà đổi mới
seemingly
seemingly
/ˈsiːmɪŋli/
Meaning:
1. Adverb
- As it appears; apparently.
- In a seemly manner; decorously; with propriety.
Synonyms: at first blush, ostensibly, prima facie, becomingly, proprietously.
dường như
verse
verse
/ˈvɝs/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A poetic form with regular meter and a fixed rhyme scheme.
- Poetic form in general.
- One of several similar units of a song, consisting of several lines, generally rhymed.
- A small section of the Jewish or Christian Bible.
- A portion of an anthem to be performed by a single voice to each part.
Synonyms: poetry, stanza.
2. Verb
- To compose verses.
- To tell in verse, or poetry.
- To educate about, to teach about.
thơ
prospective
prospective
/pɹəˈspɛktɪv/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- The scene before or around, in time or in space; view; prospect.
- A perspective glass.
- (often plural) A prospective (potential) member, student, employee, date, partner, etc.
2. Adjective
- Likely or expected to happen or become.
- Anticipated in the near or far future.
- Of or relating to a prospect; furnishing a prospect.
- Looking forward in time; acting with foresight.
- (of research) A study that starts with the present situation and follows participants into the future
- (grammar) Indicating grammatically an activity about to begin.
tiềm năng
slide show
slide show
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A presentation of a series of photographic slides, usually with a spoken or recorded explanation.
- Any sequence of images, shown one after the other (not simultaneously).
Slide Show
inoculate
inoculate
/ɪˈnɑːkjuleɪt/
Meaning:
1. Verb
- To introduce an antigenic substance or vaccine into something (e.g. the body) or someone, such as to produce immunity to a specific disease.
- (by extension) To safeguard or protect something as if by inoculation.
- To add one substance to another; to spike.
- To graft by inserting buds.
- To introduce into the mind (used especially of harmful ideas or principles); to imbue; to implant.
tiêm chủng
partnership
partnership
Meaning:
1. Noun
- The state of being associated with a partner.
- An association of two or more people to conduct a business,
- The period when two specific batsmen are batting, from the fall of one wicket until the fall of the next; the number of runs scored during this period,
quan hệ đối tác
distract
distract
/dɪsˈtɹækt/
Meaning:
1. Verb
- To divert the attention of.
- To make crazy or insane; to drive to distraction.
2. Adjective
- Separated; drawn asunder.
- Insane; mad.
đánh lạc hướng
contender
contender
/kənˈtɛn.dɚ/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- Someone who competes with one or more other people.
- Someone who has a viable chance of winning a competition.
ứng cử viên
nanotube
nanotube
Meaning:
1. Noun
- Shortening of carbon nanotube; A carbon molecule, in the shape of a tube, having a fullerene structure and a diameter of about 1 or 2 nanometers.
- Any nanotech tubular structure with a characteristic diameter measured in a few nanometres, such as titanium nanotubes
Synonyms: buckytube, carbon nanotube.
Nanotube
inconsistent
inconsistent
/ˌɪnkənˈsɪstənt/
Meaning:
1. Adjective
- Not consistent:
Antonyms: consistent.
không nhất quán
vaccination
vaccination
/ˌvæk.sɪˈneɪ.ʃn̩/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- Inoculation with a vaccine, in order to protect from a particular disease or strain of disease.
tiêm chủng
disposable
disposable
/dɪsˈpoʊzəbl̩/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- Any object that is designed to be disposed of rather than refilled or repaired.
2. Adjective
- That can be disposed of.
- That is designed to be discarded rather than reused, refilled or repaired.
- Available to be used.
Synonyms: single-use, throwaway.
Antonyms: indisposable, non-disposable, nondisposable, undisposable.
dùng một lần
consecutive
consecutive
/kɒnsɛkjʊtɪv/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A sequence of notes or chords that results from repeated shifts in pitch of the same interval.
- A linguistic form that implies or describes an event that follows temporally from another.
- Consecutive interpretation.
2. Adjective
- Following, in succession, without interruption
- Having some logical sequence
Antonyms: nonconsecutive, simultaneously.
Liên tiếp
tranquility
tranquility
Meaning:
1. Noun
- The state of being tranquil
- The absence of disturbance; peacefulness
- The absence of stress; serenity
- The quality of calm such as that experienced in places with mainly natural features and activities, free from disturbance from manmade ones.
sự yên tĩnh
prosecution
prosecution
/ˌpɹɑ.səˈkju.ʃən/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- The act of prosecuting a scheme or endeavor.
- The institution of legal proceedings (particularly criminal) against a person.
- The prosecuting party.
truy tố
asset
asset
/ˈæsət/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- Something or someone of any value; any portion of one’s property or effects so considered.
- Any component, model, process or framework of value that can be leveraged or reused.
- An intelligence asset.
- (usually in the plural) The private parts; a woman’s breasts or buttocks, or a man’s genitalia.
Antonyms: liability.
tài sản
minimise
minimise
Meaning:
1. Verb
- To make (something) as small or as insignificant as possible.
- To remove (a window) from the main display area, collapsing it to an icon or caption.
- To treat (someone) slightingly.
giảm thiểu
ingrain
ingrain
Meaning:
1. Noun
- An ingrain fabric, such as a carpet.
2. Verb
- To dye with a fast or lasting colour.
- To make (something) deeply part of something else.
Synonyms: breed in the bone, embed, infix, instill, radicate.
3. Adjective
- Dyed with grain, or kermes.
- Dyed before manufacture; said of the material of a textile fabric; hence, in general, thoroughly inwrought; forming an essential part of the substance.
ăn chay
survivor
survivor
/sɚˈvaɪvɚ/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- One who survives, especially one who survives a traumatic experience.
- A person who is able to endure hardship.
- One who knew a specific decedent.
Synonyms: tough cookie, trooper.
người sống sót
saturate
saturate
/ˈsætʃəˌɹeɪt/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- Something saturated, especially a saturated fat.
2. Verb
- To cause to become completely impregnated, or soaked (especially with a liquid).
- To fill to excess.
- To satisfy the affinity of; to cause a substance to become inert by chemical combination with all that it can hold.
- To render pure, or of a colour free from white light.
3. Adjective
- Saturated; wet.
- Very intense.
bão hòa
whopping
whopping
/ˈ(h)wɑpɪŋ/
Meaning:
1. Verb
- To throw or move (something) quickly, usually with an impact.
- To administer corporal punishment
2. Noun
- A beating.
Synonyms: thrashing, walloping, whupping.
3. Adjective
- Exceptionally great or large.
4. Adverb
- Exceedingly, extremely, very.
Synonyms: awfully, terribly.
Whopping
physiology
physiology
/ˌfɪziˈɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A branch of biology that deals with the functions and activities of life or of living matter (as organs, tissues, or cells) and of the physical and chemical phenomena involved.
- The study and description of natural objects; natural science.
Sinh lý học
disproportionate
disproportionate
Meaning:
1. Verb
- To undergo disproportionation
2. Adjective
- Not proportionate.
- Out of proportion.
không cân xứng
dispersal
dispersal
Meaning:
1. Noun
- The act or result of dispersing or scattering; dispersion.
- A dispersal prison.
phân tán
apt
apt
/æpt/
Meaning:
1. Adjective
- Suitable; appropriate; fit or fitted; suited.
- (of persons or things) Having a habitual tendency; habitually liable or likely; disposed towards.
- Ready; especially fitted or qualified (to do something); quick to learn.
Synonyms: appropriate, meet, suitable, disposed, inclined, liable, predisposed, tending towards, expert, fit, prompt, qualified, ready.
apt
therapeutic
therapeutic
/θɛɹəˈpjuːtɪk/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A therapeutic agent
2. Adjective
- Of, or relating to therapy.
- Having a positive effect on the body or mind.
Synonyms: curative, remedial, therapeutical.
trị liệu
eavesdrop
eavesdrop
/ˈivzˌdɹɑp/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- The dripping of rain from the eaves of a house
- The space around a house on which such water drips
- A concealed aperture through which an occupant of a building can surreptitiously listen to people talking at an entrance to the building
- The act of intentionally hearing a conversation not intended to be heard
Synonyms: eavesdrip.
2. Verb
- To hear a conversation one is not intended to hear; to listen in.
- To listen for another organism’s calls, so as to exploit them.
Synonyms: overhear.
nghe lén
habitable
habitable
/ˈhæbɪtəbəl/
Meaning:
1. Adjective
- Safe and comfortable, where humans, or other animals, can live; fit for habitation.
Synonyms: inhabitable.
Antonyms: unhabitable, uninhabitable.
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irritating
irritating
Meaning:
1. Verb
- To provoke impatience, anger, or displeasure in.
- To cause or induce displeasure or irritation.
- To induce pain in (all or part of a body or organism).
- To render null and void.
Synonyms: provoke, rile.
Antonyms: placate, please, soothe.
2. Adjective
- Causing irritation, annoyance or pain.
- Stimulating or exciting a response.
khó chịu
expertise
expertise
/ˌɛkspɚˈtiːs/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- Great skill or knowledge in a particular field or hobby.
- Advice, or opinion, of an expert.
chuyên môn
analyse
analyse
Meaning:
1. Verb
- To subject to analysis.
- To resolve (anything complex) into its elements.
- To separate into the constituent parts, for the purpose of an examination of each separately.
- To examine in such a manner as to ascertain the elements or nature of the thing examined; as, to analyze a fossil substance, to analyze a sentence or a word, or to analyze an action to ascertain its morality.
phân tích
symbolic
symbolic
Meaning:
1. Adjective
- Pertaining to a symbol.
- Implicitly representing or referring to another thing.
biểu tượng
hinder
hinder
/ˈhɪndɚ/
Meaning:
1. Verb
- To make difficult to accomplish; to act as an obstacle; to frustrate.
- To delay or impede; to keep back, to prevent.
- To cause harm.
Synonyms: bar, block, delay, hamper, impede, obstruct, restrain, stop, delay, frustrate, hamper, impede, obstruct, prevent, thwart.
Antonyms: aid, assist, help, assist, expedite, facilitate, help.
cản trở
suspend
suspend
/səˈspɛnd/
Meaning:
1. Verb
- To halt something temporarily.
- To hold in an undetermined or undecided state.
- To discontinue or interrupt a function, task, position, or event.
- To hang freely; underhang.
- To bring a solid substance, usually in powder form, into suspension in a liquid.
- To make to depend.
- To debar, or cause to withdraw temporarily, from any privilege, from the execution of an office, from the enjoyment of income, etc.
- To support in a liquid, as an insoluble powder, by stirring, to facilitate chemical action.
- (travel) To remove the value of an unused coupon from an air ticket, typically so as to allow continuation of the next sectors’ travel.
Antonyms: resume.
đình chỉ
wander
wander
/ˈwɑndɚ/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- The act or instance of wandering.
- The situation where a value or signal etc. deviates from the correct or normal value.
2. Verb
- To move without purpose or specified destination; often in search of livelihood.
- To stray; stray from one’s course; err.
- To commit adultery.
- To go somewhere indirectly or at varying speeds; to move in a curved path.
- Of the mind, to lose focus or clarity of argument or attention.
Synonyms: cheat, drift, err, roam.
đi lang thang
passionate
passionate
/ˈpæʃənət/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A passionate individual.
2. Verb
- To fill with passion, or with another given emotion.
- To express with great emotion.
3. Adjective
- Given to strong feeling, sometimes romantic, sexual, or both.
- Fired with intense feeling.
- Suffering; sorrowful.
Synonyms: ardent, blazing, burning, dithyrambic, fervent, fervid, fiery, flaming, glowing, heated, hot-blooded, hotheaded, impassioned, perfervid, red-hot, scorching, torrid.
say đắm
parallel
parallel
/ˈpæɹəˌlɛl/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- One of a set of parallel lines.
- Direction conformable to that of another line.
- A line of latitude.
- An arrangement of electrical components such that a current flows along two or more paths; see in parallel.
- Something identical or similar in essential respects.
- A comparison made; elaborate tracing of similarity.
- One of a series of long trenches constructed before a besieged fortress, by the besieging force, as a cover for troops supporting the attacking batteries. They are roughly parallel to the line of outer defenses of the fortress.
- A character consisting of two parallel vertical lines, used in the text to direct attention to a similarly marked note in the margin or at the foot of a page.
Antonyms: perpendicular, skew.
2. Verb
- To construct or place something parallel to something else.
- Of a path etc: To be parallel to something else.
- Of a process etc: To be analogous to something else.
- To compare or liken something to something else.
- To make to conform to something else in character, motive, aim, etc.
- To equal; to match; to correspond to.
- To produce or adduce as a parallel.
3. Adjective
- Equally distant from one another at all points.
- Having the same overall direction; the comparison is indicated with “to”.
- (hyperbolic geometry, said of a pair of lines) Either not intersecting, or coinciding.
- Involving the processing of multiple tasks at the same time.
Antonyms: perpendicular, skew, serial.
4. Adverb
- With a parallel relationship.
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mimic
mimic
/ˈmɪm.ɪk/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A person who practices mimicry, or mime.
- An imitation.
2. Verb
- To imitate, especially in order to ridicule.
- To take on the appearance of another, for protection or camouflage.
3. Adjective
- Pertaining to mimicry; imitative.
- Mock, pretended.
- Imitative; characterized by resemblance to other forms; applied to crystals which by twinning resemble simple forms of a higher grade of symmetry.
bắt chước
reminder
reminder
Meaning:
1. Noun
- Someone or something that reminds.
- Writing that reminds of open payments.
lời nhắc nhở
progression
progression
Meaning:
1. Noun
- The act of moving from one thing to another.
- The act of moving forward or proceeding in a course; motion onward.
- A sequence obtained by adding or multiplying each term by a constant.
- Development, increase, evolution.
- Chord progression
- (exercise) The making an exercise more exerting by manipulating the details of its performance like loaded weight, range of motion, angle, speed.
Synonyms: sequence.
Antonyms: regress, retrogression.
sự tiến bộ
respiratory
respiratory
/ɹɪˈspaɪɹəˌtɔɹi/
Meaning:
1. Adjective
- Relating to respiration; breathing.
hô hấp
boundless
boundless
Meaning:
1. Adjective
- Without bounds, unbounded.
Synonyms: bottomless, limitless, unbottomed, unbounded.
vô biên
spectacular
spectacular
/spɛkˈtæk.jə.lɚ/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A spectacular display.
- A pop-up (folded paper element) in material sent by postal mail.
2. Adjective
- Amazing or worthy of special notice.
- Related to, or having the character of, a spectacle or entertainment.
- Relating to spectacles, or glasses for the eyes.
hùng vĩ
discourse
discourse
/dɪsˈkɔː(ɹ)s/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- Verbal exchange, conversation.
- Expression in words, either speech or writing.
- A formal lengthy exposition of some subject, either spoken or written.
- Any rational expression, reason.
- An institutionalized way of thinking, a social boundary defining what can be said about a specific topic (after Michel Foucault).
- Dealing; transaction.
Synonyms: communication, expression, dissertation, lecture, study, treatise, ratiocination, conversation, debate, discussion, talk.
2. Verb
- To engage in discussion or conversation; to converse.
- To write or speak formally and at length.
- To debate.
- To exercise reason; to employ the mind in judging and inferring; to reason.
- To produce or emit (musical sounds).
Synonyms: converse, talk.
bài diễn văn
inadequate
inadequate
/ɪnˈædəkwɪt/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- An individual who is inadequate.
2. Adjective
- Not adequate; not fit for the purpose
Synonyms: deficient, insufficient.
không đầy đủ
automate
automate
/ˈɔtoʊˌmeɪt/
Meaning:
1. Verb
- To replace or enhance human labor with machines.
Synonyms: robotize.
Tự động hóa
consultant
consultant
/kənˈsʌltənt/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A person or party that is consulted
- A person whose occupation is to be consulted for their expertise, advice, or help in an area or specialty; a party whose business is to be similarly consulted
tư vấn
obsolete
obsolete
/ɑbsəˈliːt/
Meaning:
1. Adjective
- (of words, equipment, etc.) No longer in use; gone into disuse; disused or neglected (often by preference for something newer, which replaces the subject).
- Imperfectly developed; not very distinct.
Synonyms: abortive, obscure, rudimental, antiquated, deprecated, disused.
lỗi thời
confront
confront
/kɒnˈfɹɒnt/
Meaning:
1. Verb
- To stand or meet facing, especially in competition, hostility or defiance; to come face to face with
- To deal with.
- To something bring face to face with.
- To come up against; to encounter.
- To engage in confrontation.
- To set a thing side by side with; to compare.
- To put a thing facing to; to set in contrast to.
Synonyms: challenge, oppose.
Đối mặt
dominate
dominate
/ˈdɑːməˌneɪt/
Meaning:
1. 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.
2. Noun
- The late period of the Roman Empire, following the principate, during which the emperor’s rule became more explicitly autocratic and remaining vestiges of the Roman Republic were removed from the formal workings of government; the reign of any particular emperor during this period.
3. Verb
- To govern, rule or control by superior authority or power
- To exert an overwhelming guiding influence over something or someone
- To enjoy a commanding position in some field
- To overlook from a height.
Antonyms: obey, submit, obey, submit.
thống trị
algae
algae
/ˈæl.dʒi/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- Any of many aquatic photosynthetic organisms, including the seaweeds, whose size ranges from a single cell to giant kelps and whose biochemistry and forms are very diverse, some being eukaryotic.
2. Noun
- Algal organisms viewed collectively or as a mass; algal growth.
- A particular kind of algae.
tảo
illusion
illusion
[ɪˈluː.ʒən]
Meaning:
1. Noun
- Anything that seems to be something that it is not.
- A misapprehension; a belief in something that is in fact not true.
- A magician’s trick.
- The state of being deceived or misled.
Synonyms: misapprehension.
ảo tưởng
pathology
pathology
/pəˈθɒlədʒi/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- The branch of medicine concerned with the study of the nature of disease and its causes, processes, development, and consequences.
- The medical specialty that provides microscopy and other laboratory services (e.g., cytology, histology) to clinicians.
- Pathosis: any deviation from a healthy or normal structure or function; abnormality; illness or malformation.
Synonyms: abnormality, disease, illness, pathosis.
Bệnh lý
expenditure
expenditure
/ɛkˈspɛndɪt͡ʃɚ/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- Act of expending or paying out.
- The amount expended; expense; outlay.
Synonyms: charge, cost, disbursement, expense, outlay, payment.
chi tiêu
reckon
reckon
/ˈɹɛkən/
Meaning:
1. Verb
- To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate.
- To count as in a number, rank, or series; to estimate by rank or quality; to place by estimation; to account; to esteem; to repute.
- To charge, attribute, or adjudge to one, as having a certain quality or value.
- To conclude, as by an enumeration and balancing of chances; hence, to think; to suppose; – followed by an objective clause
- To reckon with something or somebody or not, i.e to reckon without something or somebody: to take into account, deal with, consider or not, i.e. to misjudge, ignore, not take into account, not deal with, not consider or fail to consider; e.g. reckon without one’s host
- To make an enumeration or computation; to engage in numbering or computing.
- To come to an accounting; to draw up or settle accounts; to examine and strike the balance of debt and credit; to adjust relations of desert or penalty.
Synonyms: account, calculate, compute, enumerate, esteem, estimate, number, repute, value.
tính toán
visually
visually
Meaning:
1. Adverb
- By means of sight.
trực quan
metaphor
metaphor
/ˈme.tə.fɚ/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- The use of a word or phrase to refer to something that it is not, invoking a direct similarity between the word or phrase used and the thing described (but in the case of English without the words like or as, since use of those words would imply a simile); the word or phrase used in this way; an implied comparison.
- The use of an everyday object or concept to represent an underlying facet of the computer and thus aid users in performing tasks.
2. Verb
- To use a metaphor.
- To describe by means of a metaphor.
ẩn dụ
shimmery
shimmery
Meaning:
1. Adjective
- Appearing to shimmer, glistening.
lung linh
utterance
utterance
/ˈʌtəɹəns/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- An act of uttering.
- Something spoken.
- The ability to speak.
- A manner of speaking.
- A sale made by offering to the public.
- An act of putting in circulation.
cách nói
stimulus
stimulus
/ˈstɪm.jə.ləs/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- Any external phenomenon that has an influence on a system, by triggering or modifying an internal phenomenon.
- Something external that elicits or influences a physiological or psychological activity or response.
- Anything effectively impinging upon any of the sensory apparatuses of a living organism, including physical phenomena both internal and external to the body.
- Anything that induces a person to take action.
Synonyms: impetus, impulse, spur, influence.
kích thích
delve
delve
/dɛlv/
Meaning:
1. Verb
- To dig the ground, especially with a shovel.
- To search thoroughly and carefully for information, research, dig into, penetrate, fathom, trace out
- To dig, to excavate.
Synonyms: dig, investigate, research.
đào sâu
smartphone
smartphone
/ˈsmɑɹtfoʊn/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A mobile phone with more advanced features and greater computing capacity than a featurephone.
Điện thoại thông minh
expressive
expressive
/ɪkˈspɹɛsɪv/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- Any word or phrase that expresses (that the speaker, writer, or signer has) a certain attitude toward or information about the referent.
- (more narrowly) A word or phrase, belonging to a distinct word class or having distinct morphosyntactic properties, with semantic symbolism (for example, an onomatopoeia), variously considered either a synonym, a hypernym or a hyponym of ideophone.
2. Adjective
- Effectively conveying thought or feeling.
Antonyms: inexpressive, unexpressive.
biểu cảm
authentic
authentic
/ɒ.ˈθɛn.tɪk/
Meaning:
1. Adjective
- Of the same origin as claimed; genuine.
- Conforming to reality and therefore worthy of trust, reliance, or belief.
- (of a Gregorian mode) Having the final as the lowest note of the mode.
- Authoritative
Synonyms: credible, reliable, trustworthy, unfaked, bona fide, bonafide, genuine, real, unfaked.
Antonyms: fake, ingenuine, phony.
thật
unrivalled
unrivalled
Meaning:
1. Adjective
- Having no rival; better than any possible competitor
vô song
weird
weird
/ˈwiɚd/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- Fate; destiny; luck.
- A prediction.
- A spell or charm.
- That which comes to pass; a fact.
- (in the plural) The Fates (personified).
Synonyms: Norns, kismet, lot, orlay, wyrd, fortune, luck, foretale, foretelling, prognostication, cantrip, enchantment, incantation.
2. Verb
- To destine; doom; change by witchcraft or sorcery.
- To warn solemnly; adjure.
3. Adjective
- Having an unusually strange character or behaviour.
- Deviating from the normal; bizarre.
- Of or pertaining to the Fates.
- Connected with fate or destiny; able to influence fate.
- Of or pertaining to witches or witchcraft; supernatural; unearthly; suggestive of witches, witchcraft, or unearthliness; wild; uncanny.
- Having supernatural or preternatural power.
Synonyms: bizarre, fremd, odd, out of the ordinary, strange, eerie, spooky, uncanny, fateful, odd, oddball, peculiar, strange, whacko.
kỳ quặc
electorate
electorate
/ɪˈlɛktəɹət/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- The dominion of an Elector in the Holy Roman Empire.
- The collective people of a country, state, or electoral district who are entitled to vote.
- The geographic area encompassing an electoral district.
Synonyms: constituency, constituency, district, division, electoral district, riding, seat, ward.
bầu cử
symbolise
symbolise
Meaning:
1. Verb
- To be symbolic of; to represent.
- To use symbols; to represent ideas symbolically.
- To resemble each other in qualities or properties; to correspond; to harmonize.
- To hold the same faith; to agree.
tượng trưng
imbalance
imbalance
Meaning:
1. Noun
- The property of not being in balance.
mất cân bằng
novelty
novelty
/ˈnɑvəlti/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- The state of being new or novel; newness.
- A new product; an innovation.
- A small mass-produced trinket.
- In novelty theory, newness, density of complexification, and dynamic change as opposed to static habituation.
mới lạ
overemphasize
overemphasize
Meaning:
1. Verb
- To place too much emphasis on; to overstate the importance of.
quá mức
shareholder
shareholder
Meaning:
1. Noun
- One who owns shares of stock in a corporation.
Cổ đông
engagement
engagement
/ɪnˈɡeɪd͡ʒ.mənt/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- An appointment, especially to speak or perform.
- Connection or attachment.
- (by extension, about human emotional state) The feeling of being compelled, drawn in, connected to what is happening, interested in what will happen next.
- The period of time when marriage is planned or promised.
- In any situation of conflict, an actual instance of active hostilities.
- The point at which the fencers are close enough to join blades, or to make an effective attack during an encounter.
Synonyms: action, commitment.
Antonyms: apathy, disengagement.
hôn ước
hone
hone
/hoʊn/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A sharpening stone composed of extra-fine grit used for removing the burr or curl from the blade of a razor or some other edge tool.
- A machine tool used in the manufacture of precision bores.
2. Verb
- To sharpen with a hone; to whet.
- To use a hone to produce a precision bore.
- To refine or master (a skill).
- To make more acute, intense, or effective.
trau dồi
geospatial
geospatial
Meaning:
1. Adjective
- Of or pertaining to a geographic location, especially data.
- Describing the combination of spatial software and geographic data.
không gian địa lý
slither
slither
/ˈslɪð.ə(ɹ)/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A limestone rubble.
- (see usage notes) A sliver.
2. Verb
- To move about smoothly and from side to side.
- To slide
3. Adjective
- Slithery; slippery
trượt
mechanism
mechanism
/ˈmɛkənɪzm/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- (within a machine or machinery) Any mechanical means for the conversion or control of motion, or the transmission or control of power.
- Any combination of cams, gears, links, belts, chains and logical mechanical elements.
- A group of entities, such as objects, that interact together.
- A mental, physical or chemical process.
- Any process of, or system designed to manage useful energy conversion.
- The theory that all natural phenomena can be explained by physical causes.
cơ chế
diagnose
diagnose
/daɪəɡˈnoʊs/
Meaning:
1. Verb
- To determine which disease is causing a sick person’s signs and symptoms; to find the diagnosis.
- (by extension) To determine the cause of a problem.
chẩn đoán
provoke
provoke
/pɹəˈvoʊk/
Meaning:
1. Verb
- To cause someone to become annoyed or angry.
- To bring about a reaction.
- To appeal.
Synonyms: bring about, discompose, egg on, engender, evoke, grill, incite, induce, inflame, instigate, invoke, rouse, set off, stir up, whip up.
khiêu khích
instinctual
instinctual
Meaning:
1. Adjective
- Of, relating to, or derived from instinct.
Synonyms: instinctive.
bản năng