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placebo
placebo
/pləˈsi.boʊ/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A dummy medicine containing no active ingredients; an inert treatment.
- The vespers sung in the office for the dead.
giả dược
innovation
innovation
/ˌɪnəˈveɪʃən/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- The act of innovating; the introduction of something new, in customs, rites, etc.
- A change effected by innovating; a change in customs
- Something new, and contrary to established customs, manners, or rites.
- A newly formed shoot, or the annually produced addition to the stems of many mosses.
sự đổi mới
proceeding
proceeding
/pɹəˈsiːdɪŋ/
Meaning:
1. Verb
- To move, pass, or go forward or onward; to advance; to carry on
- To pass from one point, topic, or stage, to another.
- To come from; to have as its source or origin.
- To go on in an orderly or regulated manner; to begin and carry on a series of acts or measures; to act methodically
- To be transacted; to take place; to occur.
- (of a rule) To be applicable or effective; to be valid.
- To begin and carry on a legal process.
- To take an academic degree.
Synonyms: forthgo, progress.
Antonyms: recede, regress.
2. Noun
- The act of one who proceeds, or who prosecutes a design or transaction
- An event or happening; something that happens
- (always in plural) A published collection of papers presented at an academic conference, or representing the acts of a learned society.
- Progress or movement from one thing to another.
- A measure or step taken in a course of business; a transaction
- Any legal action, especially one that is not a lawsuit.
Synonyms: measure, procedure, step.
tiến hành
rodent
rodent
/ˈɹəʊdənt/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A mammal of the order Rodentia, characterized by long incisors that grow continuously and are worn down by gnawing.
- (bulletin board system slang, leet) A person lacking in maturity, social skills, technical competence or intelligence; lamer.
Synonyms: gnawer.
2. Adjective
- Gnawing; biting; corroding; applied to a destructive variety of cancer or ulcer.
gặm nhấm
hypothesis
hypothesis
/haɪˈpɑː.θə.sɪs/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- Used loosely, a tentative conjecture explaining an observation, phenomenon or scientific problem that can be tested by further observation, investigation and/or experimentation. As a scientific term of art, see the attached quotation. Compare to theory, and quotation given there.
- (general) An assumption taken to be true for the purpose of argument or investigation.
- (grammar) The antecedent of a conditional statement.
Synonyms: educated guess, guess, supposition, theory, thesis.
Giả thuyết
copyright
copyright
/ˈkɑpiˌɹaɪt/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- The right by law to be the entity which determines who may publish, copy and distribute a piece of writing, music, picture or other work of authorship.
- Such an exclusive right as it pertains to one or more specific works.
2. Verb
- To obtain or secure a copyright for some literary or other artistic work.
Bản quyền
sensor
sensor
/ˈsɛn.sɚ/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A device or organ that detects certain external stimuli and responds in a distinctive manner.
cảm biến
cane
cane
[kʰeɪn]
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A plant with simple stems, like bamboo or sugar cane, or the stem thereof
- The stem of such a plant adapted for use as a tool
- A rod-shaped tool or device, somewhat like a cane
- Split rattan, as used in wickerwork, basketry and the like
- A local European measure of length; the canna.
2. Verb
- To strike or beat with a cane or similar implement
- To destroy; to comprehensively defeat
- To do something well, in a competent fashion
- To produce extreme pain
- To make or furnish with cane or rattan.
cây gậy
perceive
perceive
/pɚˈsiv/
Meaning:
1. Verb
- To become aware of, through the physical senses or by thinking; to see; to understand.
Synonyms: ken.
nhận thức
guideline
guideline
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A non-specific rule or principle that provides direction to action or behaviour.
- A plan or explanation to guide one in setting standards or determining a course of action.
- A light line, used in lettering, to help align the text.
Synonyms: rule of thumb, rule of thumb.
Hướng dẫn
predominant
predominant
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A subdominant.
2. Adjective
- Common or widespread; prevalent.
- Significant or important; dominant.
chiếm ưu thế
ingredient
ingredient
/ɪnˈɡɹiːdi.ənt/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- One of the substances present in a mixture, especially food.
nguyên liệu
emerald
emerald
/ˈɛm(ə)ɹəld/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- Any of various green gemstones, especially a green transparent form of beryl, highly valued as a precious stone.
- Emerald green, a colour.
- Any hummingbird in the genera Chlorostilbon and Elvira; and some in the genus Amazilia
- A size of type between nonpareil and minion, standardized as 6½-point.
Synonyms: smaragd, minionette.
2. Verb
- To ornament with, or as if with, emeralds; to make green.
3. Adjective
- Of a rich green colour.
Ngọc lục bảo
indigenous
indigenous
/ɪnˈdɪdʒənəs/
Meaning:
1. Adjective
- Born or originating in, native to a land or region, especially before an intrusion.
- Innate, inborn.
Synonyms: connatural, natural, aboriginal, autochthonous, local.
bản địa
moth
moth
/mɔθ/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A usually nocturnal insect of the order Lepidoptera, distinguished from butterflies by feather-like antennae.
- Anything that gradually and silently eats, consumes, or wastes any other thing.
Synonyms: lep.
2. Verb
- To hunt for moths.
Bướm đêm
utilise
utilise
Meaning:
1. Verb
- To make use of; to use.
- To make useful; to find a practical use for.
- To make best use of; to use to its fullest extent, potential, or ability.
- To make do with; to use in manner different from that originally intended
Synonyms: employ, exploit, use.
Sử dụng
arena
arena
/əˈɹiːnə/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- An enclosed area, often outdoor, for the presentation of sporting events (sports arena) or other spectacular events; earthen area, often oval, specifically for rodeos (North America) or circular area for bullfights (especially Hispanic America).
- The building housing such an area; specifically, a very large, often round building, often topped with a dome, designated for indoor sporting or other major events, such as concerts.
- The sand-covered centre of an amphitheatre where contests were held in Ancient Rome.
- A realm in which events take place; an area of interest, study, behaviour, etc.
Đấu trường
archaeologist
archaeologist
Meaning:
1. Noun
- Someone who studies or practises archaeology.
Nhà khảo cổ học
implementation
implementation
Meaning:
1. Noun
- The process of moving an idea from concept to reality. In business, engineering and other fields, implementation refers to the building process rather than the design process.
- A result of implementing something; a finished product, system or device.
thực hiện
profile
profile
/ˈpɹoʊfaɪl/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- The outermost shape, view, or edge of an object.
- The shape, view, or shadow of a person’s head from the side; a side view.
- A summary or collection of information, especially about a person
- A specific space or field in which users can provide various types of personal information in software or Internet systems.
- Reputation.
- The amount by which something protrudes.
- Prominence; noticeability.
- A smoothed (e.g., troweled or brushed) vertical surface of an excavation showing evidence of at least one feature or diagnostic specimen; the graphic recording of such as by sketching, photographing, etc.
- Character; totality of related characteristics; signature; status (especially in scientific, technical, or military uses).
- A section of any member, made at right angles with its main lines, showing the exact shape of mouldings etc.
- A drawing exhibiting a vertical section of the ground along a surveyed line, or graded work, as of a railway, showing elevations, depressions, grades, etc.
- An exemption from certain types of duties due to injury or disability.
Antonyms: portrait.
2. Verb
- To create a summary or collection of information about (a person, etc.).
- To act based on such a summary, especially one that is a stereotype; to engage in profiling.
- To draw in profile or outline.
- To give a definite form by chiselling, milling, etc.
- To measure the performance of various parts of (a program) so as to locate bottlenecks.
hồ sơ
peacekeeping
peacekeeping
/ˈpiːskiːpɪŋ/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- The act of preserving peace, specifically between hostile groups or states, especially by a sanctioned military force.
- (as a noun modifier) (for example) a peacekeeping force.
gìn giữ hòa bình
medalist
medalist
/ˈmɛdəlɪst/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- One who has received a medal; one who has medalled.
- An engraver, designer or collector of medals.
huy chương
flexibility
flexibility
Meaning:
1. Noun
- The quality of being flexible; suppleness; pliability.
- The quality of having options.
linh hoạt
shrimp
shrimp
/ʃɹɪmp/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- Any of many swimming, often edible crustaceans, chiefly of the infraorder Caridea or the suborder Dendrobranchiata, with slender legs, long whiskers and a long abdomen.
- The flesh of such crustaceans.
- A small, puny or unimportant person.
Synonyms: prawn.
2. Verb
- To fish for shrimp.
- To contract; to shrink.
con tôm
therapy
therapy
/ˈθɛɹ.ə.pi/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- Attempted remediation of a health problem following a diagnosis, usually synonymous with treatment.
- Healing power or quality.
2. Verb
- To treat with a therapy.
- To undergo a therapy.
trị liệu
panel
panel
/ˈpænəl/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A (usually) rectangular section of a surface, or of a covering or of a wall, fence etc.
- A group of people gathered to judge, interview, discuss etc. as on a television or radio broadcast for example.
- An individual frame or drawing in a comic.
- A type of GUI widget, such as a control panel.
- A document containing the names of persons summoned as jurors by the sheriff; hence, more generally, the whole jury.
- A prisoner arraigned for trial at the bar of a criminal court.
- A piece of cloth serving as a saddle.
- A soft pad beneath a saddletree to prevent chafing.
- (joinery) A board having its edges inserted in the groove of a surrounding frame.
- One of the faces of a hewn stone.
- A slab or plank of wood used instead of a canvas for painting on.
- A heap of dressed ore.
- One of the districts divided by pillars of extra size, into which a mine is laid off in one system of extracting coal.
- A frame for carrying a mortar.
- A plain strip or band, as of velvet or plush, placed at intervals lengthwise on the skirt of a dress, for ornament.
- A portion of a framed structure between adjacent posts or struts, as in a bridge truss.
- A list of doctors who could provide limited free healthcare prior to the introduction of the NHS.
- A group of tests or assays, a battery.
2. Verb
- To fit with panels.
Bảng điều khiển
iceberg
iceberg
/ˈaɪsbɝɡ/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A huge mass of ocean-floating ice which has broken off a glacier or ice shelf
- An aloof person.
- (after an adjective) An impending disastrous event whose adverse effects are only beginning to show, in reference to one-tenth of the volume of an iceberg being visible above water.
ICEBERG
penetrate
penetrate
/ˈpɛnɪtɹeɪt/
Meaning:
1. Verb
- To enter into; to make way into the interior of; to pierce.
- To achieve understanding of, despite some obstacle; to comprehend; to understand.
- To affect profoundly through the senses or feelings; to move deeply.
- To infiltrate an enemy to gather intelligence.
- To insert the penis into an opening, such as a vagina or anus.
- To move a piece past the defending pieces of one’s opponent.
thâm nhập
neuron
neuron
/ˈn(j)uɹɑn/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A cell of the nervous system, which conducts nerve impulses; consisting of an axon and several dendrites. Neurons are connected by synapses.
- A nervure of an insect’s wing.
- An artificial neuron (mathematical function serving as an essential unit of an artificial neural network)
Synonyms: nerve cell, neurocyte.
tế bào thần kinh
delegate
delegate
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy
- A representative at a conference, etc.
- An appointed representative in some legislative bodies
- A type of variable storing a reference to a method with a particular signature, analogous to a function pointer
2. Verb
- To authorize someone to be a delegate
- To commit a task to someone, especially a subordinate
- (of a subdomain) to give away authority over a subdomain; to allow someone else to create sub-subdomains of a subdomain of one’s own
đại biểu
enhancement
enhancement
Meaning:
1. Noun
- Improvement.
- (radiology) The degree to which the image of a scan stands out as a bright area.
Antonyms: dehancement.
sự nâng cao
dioxide
dioxide
/daɪˈɒksaɪd/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- Any oxide containing two oxygen atoms in each molecule.
Dioxide
coral
coral
/ˈkɔɹəl/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A hard substance made of the limestone skeletons of marine polyps.
- A colony of marine polyps.
- A somewhat yellowish pink colour, the colour of red coral.
- The ovaries of a cooked lobster; so called from their colour.
- A piece of coral, usually fitted with small bells and other appurtenances, used by children as a plaything.
2. Adjective
- Made of coral.
- Having the yellowish pink colour of coral.
san hô
permanent
permanent
/ˈpɝmənənt/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A chemical hair treatment imparting or removing curliness, whose effects typically last for a period of weeks; a perm.
- Given an n \times n matrix a_{ij} \,, the sum over all permutations \pi \, of \prod_{i=1}^n{a_{i\pi(i)}}.
- (trading card games) A card whose effects persist beyond the turn on which it is played.
2. Verb
- To perm (the hair).
3. Adjective
- Without end, eternal.
- Lasting for an indefinitely long time.
Synonyms: durable, intransient, everlasting, neverending, unending.
Antonyms: impermanent, temporary.
Vĩnh viễn
moveable
moveable
Meaning:
1. Noun
- Something which is movable; an article of wares or goods; a commodity; a piece of property not fixed, or not a part of real estate; generally, in the plural, goods; wares; furniture.
2. Adjective
- Capable of being moved, lifted, carried, drawn, turned, or conveyed, or in any way made to change place or posture; not fixed or stationary
- Changing from one time to another
Antonyms: immovable.
di chuyển
biomedical
biomedical
/ˌbaɪoʊˈmedɪkl/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A product of the biomedicine industry.
2. Adjective
- Of or pertaining to biomedicine.
y sinh
quantitative
quantitative
/ˈkwɑntɪˌteɪtɪv/
Meaning:
1. Adjective
- Of a measurement based on some quantity or number rather than on some quality
- Of a form of analysis that determines the amount of some element or compound in a sample
định lượng
segment
segment
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A length of some object.
- One of the parts into which any body naturally separates or is divided; a part divided or cut off; a section; a portion.
- A portion.
- A portion.
- A part of a broadcast program, devoted to a topic.
- An Ethernet bus.
- A region of memory or a fragment of an executable file designated to contain a particular part of a program.
- (travel) A portion of an itinerary: it may be a flight or train between two cities, or a car or hotel booked in a particular city.
- A bearing representing only one part of a rounded object.
Synonyms: circular segment, lith, line segment.
2. Verb
- To divide into segments or sections.
phân đoạn
herbicide
herbicide
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A substance used to kill plants.
Thuốc diệt cỏ
agrarian
agrarian
/əˈɡɹɛ(ə)ɹi.ən/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A person who advocates the political interests of working farmers
2. Adjective
- Of, or relating to, the ownership, tenure and cultivation of land.
- Agricultural or rural.
- Wild; said of plants growing in a cultivated field.
người nông nghiệp
maximise
maximise
Meaning:
1. Verb
- To make as large as possible
- To expand (a window) to fill the main display area
Antonyms: minimize.
tối đa hóa
arctic
arctic
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A warm waterproof overshoe.
- Any of various butterflies of the genus Oeneis.
2. Adjective
- (now only in compounds) Pertaining to the celestial north pole, or to the pole star.
- Pertaining to the northern polar region of the planet, characterised by extreme cold and an icy landscape.
- Extremely cold, snowy, or having other properties of extreme winter associated with the Arctic.
- Designed for use in very cold conditions.
Bắc Cực
cottonwood
cottonwood
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A tree from one of number of species of tree in the genus Populus (poplars), typically growing along watercourses, with fluffy catkins.
- Populus sect. Aigeiros, a taxonomic section of the poplar genus
- Cottonwood hibiscus (Talipariti tiliaceum, syn. Hibiscus tiliaceus), a flowering shrub or tree in the mallow family
Cottonwood
specialise
specialise
Meaning:
1. Verb
- To make distinct or separate, particularly:
- To become distinct or separate, particularly:
Antonyms: generalize.
chuyên môn
mammoth
mammoth
/ˈmæməθ/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- Any species of the extinct genus Mammuthus, of large, usually hairy, elephant-like mammals with long curved tusks and an inclined back, which became extinct with the last retreat of ice age glaciers during the late Pleistocene period, and are known from fossils, frozen carcasses, and Paleolithic cave paintings found in North America and Eurasia.
- A mastodon.
- Something very large of its kind.
2. Adjective
- Comparable to a mammoth in its size; very large, huge, gigantic.
Synonyms: colossal, enormous, gigantic, huge, titanic.
Mammoth
diabetes
diabetes
/ˌdaɪəˈbiːdiːz/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- Diabetes insipidus; any condition characterized by excessive or incontinent urine, now specifically as caused by impaired production of, or response to, the antidiuretic hormone vasopressin.
- Any of a group of metabolic diseases whereby a person (or other animal) has high blood sugar due to an inability to produce, or inability to metabolize, sufficient quantities of the hormone insulin.
- Any food or beverage with a high amount of sugar.
Synonyms: DM, diabeetus, diabetes mellitus.
bệnh tiểu đường
herbal
herbal
/ˈɝbəl/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A manual of herbs and their medical uses
- An herbal supplement
2. Adjective
- Made from or with herbs.
- Made from natural herbs specifically as opposed to from synthetic materials.
thảo dược
renewable
renewable
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A thing that is renewable; especially, a renewable source of energy.
- A renewable resource.
2. Adjective
- Able to be renewed; capable of renewal.
- (of a resource) Sustainable; able to be regrown or renewed; having an ongoing or continuous source of supply; not finite.
Antonyms: non-renewable.
tái tạo
extinction
extinction
/ɪkˈstɪŋkʃ(ə)n/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- The action of making or becoming extinct; annihilation.
- The absorption or scattering of electromagnetic radiation emitted by astronomical objects by intervening dust and gas before it reaches the observer.
- The inability to perceive multiple stimuli simultaneously
sự tuyệt chủng
submissive
submissive
/səbˈmɪsɪv/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- (BDSM) One who submits to a dominant partner in sexual practices.
- One who submits.
2. Adjective
- Meekly obedient or passive.
Synonyms: biddable, docile, meek, obedient, slavish, subservient, timid.
Antonyms: defiant, rebellious, dominant, domineering.
phục tùng
editorial
editorial
/ˌɛdɪˈtɔɹiəl/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- An article in a publication giving the opinion of its editors on a given topic or current event.
- A similar commentary on radio or television.
2. Adjective
- Of or relating to an editor, editing or an editorial.
- Appropriate for high fashion magazines.
biên tập
architect
architect
/ˈɑɹkɪtɛkt/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A professional who designs buildings or other structures, or who prepares plans and superintends construction.
- A person who plans, devises or contrives the achievement of a desired result.
- A title given to architects. Usually capitalized or abbreviated as Arch./Ar. before the person’s name.
2. Verb
- To design, plan, or orchestrate.
kiến trúc sư
voter
voter
/ˈvoʊtɚ/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- Someone who votes.
cử tri
seminar
seminar
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A class held for advanced studies in which students meet regularly to discuss original research, under the guidance of a professor.
- A meeting held for the exchange of useful information by members of a common business community.
Hội thảo
paraphrase
paraphrase
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A restatement of a text in different words, often to clarify meaning.
- One of a certain number of Scripture passages turned into verse for use in the service of praise.
2. Verb
- To restate something as, or to compose a paraphrase.
diễn giải
mortality
mortality
/mɔɹˈtælɪti/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- The state or quality of being mortal.
- The number of deaths.
- Death.
- Mortals collectively.
Synonyms: humanity, humankind, mankind.
tỷ lệ tử vong
isolation
isolation
/ˌaɪsəˈleɪʃən/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- The state of being isolated, detached, or separated.
- The state of being away from other people.
- The act of isolating.
- (of a country) The state of not having diplomatic relations with other countries (either with most or all other countries, or with specified other countries).
- The obtaining of an element from one of its compounds, or of a compound from a mixture
- The separation of a patient, suffering from a contagious disease, from contact with others (compare: quarantine)
- A database property that determines when and how changes made in one transaction are visible to other concurrent transactions.
sự cách ly
cosmic
cosmic
/ˈkɒz.mɪk/
Meaning:
1. Adjective
- Of or from or pertaining to the cosmos or universe.
- Characteristic of the cosmos or universe; inconceivably great; vast.
- Rising or setting with the sun; not acronycal.
vũ trụ
hue
hue
/hju/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A color, or shade of color; tint; dye.
- The characteristic related to the light frequency that appears in the color, for instance red, yellow, green, cyan, blue or magenta.
- A character; aspect.
- Form; appearance; guise.
màu sắc
intrigue
intrigue
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A complicated or clandestine plot or scheme intended to effect some purpose by secret artifice; conspiracy; stratagem.
- The plot of a play, poem or romance; the series of complications in which a writer involves their imaginary characters.
- Clandestine intercourse between persons; illicit intimacy; a liaison or affair.
2. Verb
- To conceive or carry out a secret plan intended to harm; to form a plot or scheme.
- To arouse the interest of; to fascinate.
- To have clandestine or illicit intercourse.
- To fill with artifice and duplicity; to complicate.
âm mưu
elite
elite
/eɪˈliːt/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A special group or social class of people which have a superior intellectual, social or economic status as, the elite of society.
- Someone who is among the best at a certain task.
2. Adjective
- Of high birth or social position; aristocratic or patrician.
- Representing the choicest or most select of a group.
ưu tú
indicator
indicator
/ˈɪn.dɪ.ˌkeɪ.tə(ɹ)/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A pointer or index that indicates something.
- A meter or gauge.
- The needle or dial on such a meter.
- Any of many substances, such as litmus, used to indicate the concentration of a substance, or the degree of a reaction.
- A plant or animal whose presence is indicative of some specific environment.
- A measure, such as unemployment rate, which can be used to predict economic trends.
- A turn signal; each of the flashing lights on each side of a vehicle which indicate a turn is being made to left or right, or a lane change etc.
- A bird, the honeyguide.
Synonyms: blinker, directional, directional signal, trafficator, turn indicator, turn signal.
chỉ báo
innovative
innovative
/ˈɪn.oʊˌveɪɾɪv/
Meaning:
1. Adjective
- Characterized by the creation of new ideas or inventions.
- Forward-looking; ahead of current thinking.
Synonyms: innovatory.
đổi mới
linear
linear
/ˈlɪn.i.ɚ/
Meaning:
1. Adjective
- Having the form of a line; straight or roughly straight; following a direct course.
- Of or relating to lines.
- Made, or designed to be used, in a step-by-step, sequential manner.
- (of leaves) Long and narrow, with nearly parallel sides.
- Of or relating to a class of polynomial of the form y = ax + b .
- A type of length measurement involving only one spatial dimension (as opposed to area or volume).
Antonyms: nonlinear.
tuyến tính
identifiable
identifiable
Meaning:
1. Adjective
- Capable of being distinguished and named.
nhận dạng
behavioural
behavioural
Meaning:
1. Adjective
- Of or pertaining to behaviour.
hành vi
unprecedented
unprecedented
/ʌnˈpɹɛsɪdɛntɪd/
Meaning:
1. Adjective
- Never before seen, done, or experienced; without precedent.
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vocal
vocal
/ˈvoʊ.kəl/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A vocal sound; specifically, a purely vocal element of speech, unmodified except by resonance; a vowel or a diphthong; a tonic element; a tonic; distinguished from a subvocal, and a nonvocal
- (Roman Catholic Church) A man who has a right to vote in certain elections.
2. Adjective
- Of or pertaining to the voice or speech
- Having a voice
- Uttered or modulated by the voice; oral
- Of or pertaining to a voice sound; spoken
- Consisting of, or characterized by, voice, or tone produced in the larynx, which may be modified, either by resonance, as in the case of the vowels, or by obstructive action, as in certain consonants, such as v, l, etc., or by both, as in the nasals (m), (n), ng; sonant; intonated; voiced. See voice, and vowel
- Of or pertaining to a vowel; having the character of a vowel; vowel
- Loud; getting oneself heard.
Synonyms: audible, loud, audible.
Antonyms: inaudible, quiet, silent, inaudible, quiet, silent, voiceless.
giọng hát
morality
morality
/məˈɹælɪti/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- Recognition of the distinction between good and evil or between right and wrong; respect for and obedience to the rules of right conduct; the mental disposition or characteristic of behaving in a manner intended to produce morally good results.
- A set of social rules, customs, traditions, beliefs, or practices which specify proper, acceptable forms of conduct.
- A set of personal guiding principles for conduct or a general notion of how to behave, whether respectable or not.
- A lesson or pronouncement which contains advice about proper behavior.
- A morality play.
- Moral philosophy, the branch of philosophy which studies the grounds and nature of rightness, wrongness, good, and evil.
- A particular theory concerning the grounds and nature of rightness, wrongness, good, and evil.
Synonyms: ethics, moral philosophy, homily, ethics, moral philosophy, morals, decency, rectitude, righteousness, uprightness, virtuousness, convention, morals, mores.
Antonyms: amorality, immorality.
đạo đức
accountant
accountant
/ə.ˈkæʊn.(t)ən̩(t)/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- One who renders account; one accountable.
- A reckoner, or someone who maintains financial matters for a person(s).
- One who is skilled in, keeps, or adjusts, accounts; an officer in a public office, who has charge of the accounts.
- One whose profession includes organizing, maintaining and auditing the records of another. The records are usually, but not always, financial records.
kế toán viên
trait
trait
/tɹeɪ/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- An identifying characteristic, habit or trend.
- An uninstantiable collection of methods that provides functionality to a class by using the class’s own interface.
Synonyms: characteristic.
đặc điểm
entrepreneur
entrepreneur
/ˌɑn.trə.prəˈnɝ/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A person who organizes and operates a business venture and assumes much of the associated risk.
- A person who organizes a risky activity of any kind and acts substantially in the manner of a business entrepreneur.
- A person who strives for success and takes on risk by starting their own venture, service, etc.
Doanh nhân
truant
truant
/ˈtɹʊənt ~ ˈtɹuː.ənt/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- One who is absent without permission, especially from school.
2. Verb
- To play truant.
- To idle away; to waste.
- To idle away time.
3. Adjective
- Absent without permission, especially from school.
- Wandering from business or duty; straying; loitering; idle, and shirking duty.
trốn học
initiative
initiative
/ɪˈnɪʃətɪv/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A beginning; a first move.
- A new development; a fresh approach to something; a new way of dealing with a problem.
- The ability to act first or on one’s own.
- An issue to be voted on, brought to the ballot by a sufficient number of signatures from among the voting public.
Synonyms: direct initiative.
2. Adjective
- Serving to initiate; inceptive; initiatory; introductory; preliminary.
- In which voter initiatives can be brought to the ballot.
Antonyms: noninitiative.
sáng kiến
depression
depression
/dəˈpɹɛʃ(ə)n/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- In psychotherapy and psychiatry, a state of mind producing serious, long-term lowering of enjoyment of life or inability to visualize a happy future.
- An area that is lower in topography than its surroundings.
- In psychotherapy and psychiatry, a period of unhappiness or low morale which lasts longer than several weeks and may include ideation of self-inflicted injury or suicide.
- An area of lowered air pressure that generally brings moist weather, sometimes promoting hurricanes and tornadoes.
- A period of major economic contraction.
- Four consecutive quarters of negative, real GDP growth. See NBER.
- The act of lowering or pressing something down.
- A lowering, in particular a reduction in a particular biological variable or the function of an organ, in contrast to elevation.
trầm cảm
physiological
physiological
/ˌfɪzi.əˈlɑdʒɪkəl/
Meaning:
1. Adjective
- Of, or relating to physiology.
- Relating to the action of a drug when given to a healthy person, as distinguished from its therapeutic action.
Synonyms: physiologic.
sinh lý
photography
photography
/fəˈtɑɡɹəfi/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- The art and technology of producing images on photosensitive surfaces, and its digital counterpart.
- The occupation of taking (and often printing) photographs.
Nhiếp ảnh
nectar
nectar
/ˈnɛk.təɹ/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- The drink of the gods.
- (by extension) Any delicious drink, now especially a type of sweetened fruit juice.
- The sweet liquid secreted by flowers to attract pollinating insects and birds.
2. Verb
- To feed on nectar.
Nectar
prototype
prototype
/-ɾə-/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- An original form or object which is a basis for other forms or objects (particularly manufactured items), or for its generalizations and models.
- An early sample or model built to test a concept or process.
- A declaration of a function that specifies the name, return type, and parameters, but none of the body or actual code.
- An instance of a category or a concept that combines its most representative attributes.
- A type of race car, a racing sports car not based on a production car. A 4-wheeled cockpit-seating car built especially for racing on sports car circuits, that does not use the silhouette related to a consumer road car.
Synonyms: prototype racecar, racing prototype, sports prototype.
2. Verb
- To create a prototype of.
nguyên mẫu
posture
posture
/ˈpɑːstʃɚ/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- The way a person holds and positions their body.
- A situation or condition.
- One’s attitude or the social or political position one takes towards an issue or another person.
- The position of someone or something relative to another; position; situation.
2. Verb
- To put one’s body into a posture or series of postures, especially hoping that one will be noticed and admired
- To pretend to have an opinion or a conviction
- To place in a particular position or attitude; to pose.
tư thế
caterpillar
caterpillar
/ˈkætɚˌpɪlɚ/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- The larva of a butterfly or moth; leafworm.
- A vehicle with a caterpillar track; a crawler.
Synonyms: leafworm.
Sâu bướm
millennium
millennium
/mɪˈlɛnɪəm/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A period of time consisting of one thousand years.
- The period of one thousand years during which Christ will reign on earth (according to Millenarianist interpretations).
- A period of universal happiness, peace or prosperity; a utopia.
- (with definite article) The year in which one period of one thousand years ends and another begins, especially the year 2000.
Synonyms: ka, kiloannum, kiloyear, kyr, yearthousand.
thiên niên kỷ
genome
genome
/dʒɨˈnoʊm/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- The complete genetic information (either DNA or, in some viruses, RNA) of an organism.
bộ gen
eruption
eruption
/ɪˈɹʌpʃən/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A violent ejection, such as the spurting out of lava from a volcano.
- A sudden release of pressure or tension.
- An infection of the skin resulting in a rash or blemishing.
phun trào
fundamental
fundamental
/ˌfʌndəˈmɛntəl/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- (usually in the plural) A leading or primary principle, rule, law, or article, which serves as the groundwork of a system; an essential part
- The lowest frequency of a periodic waveform.
- The lowest partial of a complex tone.
2. Adjective
- Pertaining to the foundation or basis; serving for the foundation.
- Essential, as an element, principle, or law; important; original; elementary.
Synonyms: groundlaying.
cơ bản
clinical
clinical
/ˈklɪnɪkəl/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A medical student’s session spent in a real-world nursing environment.
2. Adjective
- Of or pertaining to a medical clinic or facility.
- Dealing with practical management of patients; contrasting with prehealth sciences.
- Cool and emotionless.
- Of or relating to a bed.
lâm sàng
cluster
cluster
/ˈklʌstɚ/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A group or bunch of several discrete items that are close to each other.
- A number of individuals grouped together or collected in one place; a crowd; a mob.
- A group of galaxies or stars that appear near each other.
- A sequence of two or more words that occur in language with high frequency but are not idiomatic; a chunk, bundle, or lexical bundle.
- A secundal chord of three or more notes.
- A group of consonants.
- A group of computers that work together.
- A logical data storage unit containing one or more physical sectors (see block).
- A significant subset within a population.
- Set of bombs or mines.
- A small metal design that indicates that a medal has been awarded to the same person before.
- Euphemism of clusterfuck.
- An ensemble of bound atoms or molecules, intermediate in size between a molecule and a bulk solid.
2. Verb
- To form a cluster or group.
- To collect into clusters.
- To cover with clusters.
cụm
audition
audition
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A performance, by an aspiring performer, to demonstrate suitability or talent.
- The sense of hearing.
- An act of hearing; being heard.
- Something heard.
Synonyms: casting, tryout.
2. Verb
- To evaluate one or more performers in through an audition.
- To take part in such a performance.
thử giọng
pesticide
pesticide
/ˈpɛstɪ̈ˌsaɪd/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- Anything, especially a synthetic substance but also any substance (e.g. sulfur), or virus, bacterium, or other organism, which kills or suppresses the activities of pests.
thuốc trừ sâu
archaeology
archaeology
/ˌɑɹ.kiˈɑ.lə.dʒi/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- The study of the past by excavation and analysis of its material remains:
Khảo cổ học
pedestrian
pedestrian
/pəˈdɛst.ɹi.ən/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A walker; one who walks or goes on foot, especially as opposed to one who uses a vehicle.
- Specifically, an expert or professional walker or runner; one who performs feats of walking or running.
Synonyms: footer, footfarer, footgoer, footman.
2. Adjective
- Of or intended for those who are walking.
- Ordinary, dull; everyday; unexceptional.
- Pertaining to ordinary, everyday movements incorporated in postmodern dance.
đi bộ
inadvertently
inadvertently
Meaning:
1. Adverb
- Unintentionally, because of an oversight
Antonyms: advert, advertently.
vô tình
peanut
peanut
/ˈpinət/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A legume resembling a nut, the fruit of the plant Arachis hypogaea.
- A very small clam.
Synonyms: goober, goober pea, monkey nut.
2. Verb
- To pull on somebody’s tie as a prank, causing the knot to tighten.
đậu phộng
calcium
calcium
/ˈkælsi.əm/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- The chemical element (Symbol Ca), with an atomic number 20. It is a soft, silvery-white alkaline earth metal which occurs naturally as carbonate in limestone and as silicate in many rocks.
- An atom of this element.
Canxi
psychologist
psychologist
/ˌsaɪˈkɑl.ə.d͡ʒɪst/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- An expert in the field of psychology.
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palm
palm
/pɑlm/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- Any of various evergreen trees from the family Palmae or Arecaceae, which are mainly found in the tropics.
- A branch or leaf of the palm, anciently borne or worn as a symbol of victory or rejoicing.
- (by extension) Triumph; victory.
- Any of 23 awards that can be earned after obtaining the Eagle Scout rank, but generally only before turning 18 years old.
Synonyms: palm tree.
lòng bàn tay
spike
spike
/spaɪk/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- In a violin-family instrument, the carved wooden plug which sits in the bottom block of the instrument.
Synonyms: button, endpin.
2. Noun
- The spike of a cello or double bass that makes contact with the floor and supports the weight of the instrument.
3. Noun
- A sort of very large nail.
- A piece of pointed metal etc. set with points upward or outward.
- Anything resembling such a nail in shape.
- An ear of corn or grain.
- A kind of inflorescence in which sessile flowers are arranged on an unbranched elongated axis.
- (chiefly in the plural) A running shoe with spikes in the sole to provide grip.
- A sharp peak in a graph.
- A surge in power or in the price of a commodity etc.
- The long, narrow part of a high-heeled shoe that elevates the heel.
- A long nail for storing papers by skewering them; (by extension) the metaphorical place where rejected newspaper articles are sent.
- An attack from, usually, above the height of the net performed with the intent to send the ball straight to the floor of the opponent or off the hands of the opposing block.
- An adolescent male deer.
- The casual ward of a workhouse.
- Spike lavender.
Synonyms: catkin, cluster, corymb, raceme, umbel, spindle.
4. Verb
- To fasten with spikes, or long, large nails.
- To set or furnish with spikes.
- To embed nails into (a tree) so that any attempt to cut it down will damage equipment or injure people.
- To fix on a spike.
- To discard; to decide not to publish or make public.
- To increase sharply.
- To covertly put alcohol or another intoxicating substance into a drink.
- To add a small amount of one substance to another.
- To attack from, usually, above the height of the net with the intent to send the ball straight to the floor of the opponent or off the hands of the opposing block.
- To render (a gun) unusable by driving a metal spike into its touch hole.
- (football slang) To slam the football to the ground, usually in celebration of scoring a touchdown, or to stop expiring time on the game clock after snapping the ball as to save time for the losing team to attempt to score the tying or winning points.
Synonyms: attack, hit.
Spike
pollen
pollen
/ˈpɑlən/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A fine granular substance produced in flowers. Technically a collective term for pollen grains (microspores) produced in the anthers of flowering plants. (This specific usage dating from mid 18th century.)
- Fine powder in general, fine flour. (16th-century usage documented by the OED.)
2. Verb
- To cover with, or as if with, pollen.
phấn hoa
nutritional
nutritional
Meaning:
1. Adjective
- Of, pertaining to, or providing nutrition.
dinh dưỡng
anthropologist
anthropologist
/ˌæn.θɹoʊˈpɑl.ə.d͡ʒɪst/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- One who is versed in anthropology.
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