to delineate
/dɪˈɫɪniˌeɪt/
verbto give an explanation or depiction in full detail
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1. So because this giant space hosts the dining room, living room, and the kitchen, we have to delineate the three spaces very clearly.
2. Our old friend, the DSM V, actually delineates two sub types of the disorder.
3. Phil clearly delineates between the facts of the story and his own opinion.
4. Just delineate them.
5. and it delineates your conversation grouping properly.
delineation
/dɪˌɫɪniˈeɪʃən/
nouna graphic or vivid verbal description
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1. It has curvature, it has nice delineation.
2. And classify, according to that delineation.
3. If it can lift a car 10 feet from you then that delineation between tornadic winds and calm air is not that sharp.
4. I mean, these are very clear delineations between Act One and Act Two.
5. Longplayer, therefore, has clear points of delineation every 2 minutes.
isobar
/ˈaɪsəbˌɑːɹ/
noun(meteorology) an isogram connecting points having equal barometric pressure at a given time
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1. And the direction of course depends on the hemisphere, but along the isobars.
2. And the speed of the wind is related to the packing of the isobars.
3. For example, the wind blows parallel to the isobars instead of across them.
4. And on this particular day, the isobars look like this.
5. And so, I've drawn the isobars in this way.
isochronous
/ˈaɪsəkɹənəs/
adjectiveequal in duration or interval
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to isolate
/ˈaɪsəˌɫeɪt/
verbplace or set apart
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1. Isolate the system.
2. Kind of isolate each speed.
3. First, isolate just the sound.
4. They isolate a bull.
5. - Isolated.
isothermal
/ˌaɪsəˈθɝməɫ/
adjectiveof a process or change taking place at constant temperature
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1. One of these is isothermal amplification which also checks for viral RNA.
2. Isothermal is quite different.
3. Take two isothermals, T_1 and T_2.
4. In the process AB, remember isothermal expansion?
5. That is an isothermal process.
stridency
/ˈstɹaɪdənsi/
nounhaving the timbre of a loud high-pitched sound
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1. And then the fact that like, you know, we’d worked really hard on certain things, that the stridency of the opposition went way beyond what I knew the other people actually thought.
2. it's hard for me to imagine someone seeing that stridency, that militancy, and thinking an effeminate Baldwin.
3. And she had a kind of curated feminism on women's issues, which is to say she wanted to feature and highlight professional women, but she didn't like stridency of any kind.
4. But the case of Turkey is special because Attaturk, whom you can read about, becomes the visionary president of a new Turkey, of a secularized Turkey, and does not go the way, for all occasional stridency, of this sort of Europe of little dictators, the Eastern and Central Europe of little dictators.
strident
/ˈstɹaɪdənt/
adjectiveunpleasantly loud and harsh
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1. The rhetoric of Black Power could be strident, but its message of black empowerment was deeply resonant for many.
2. And, of course, they have been strident in their opposition to the Biden administration.
3. And if you go back and reread the transcript of his answer to me on this, as I did recently, it was very strident.
4. Advertising can be quite strident.
5. The election of Donald Trump and a much more strident US foreign policy towards China has also had an important influence in Canberra, which has a defence alliance with Washington.
nectar
/ˈnɛktɝ/
nouna sweet liquid secretion that is attractive to pollinators
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1. And this nectar attracts the local mountain tree shrews, big-eyed rodents about 18 centimeters in length.
2. In return, the flowers make nectar!
3. They drink nectar from other flowers.
4. Most flowers make sugary nectar, too.
5. The bees put the nectar in these holes.
nectarine
/nˈɛktɑːɹˌiːn/
nouna peach-like fruit with smooth yellow and red skin
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1. Or is it a nectarine?
2. It's some nectarines.
3. Plums and nectarines have alpha-hydroxy acid, too!
4. - We found nectarines, which was my number one.
5. Here's a lovely nectarine tree.
asperity
/əˈspɛɹɪti/
nounsomething hard to endure
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aspersion
/əˈspɝʒən/
nounan abusive attack on a person's character or good name
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1. And you, in your remarks, cast some aspersions on that.
2. I'm not casting aspersions on folks.
3. The mothers, I'm not making any aspersions on anyone.
4. I'm not casting any aspersions on this woman.
5. And certainly casts aspersions on Carol Baskin.
aspiration
/ˌæspɝˈeɪʃən/
nouna strong will to achieve something
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1. All of you have an aspiration.
2. Brown had dreams, aspirations!
3. Pick an aspiration.
4. Aspirations of the law that are among civilizations' most precious gifts.
5. Aspiration is one way.
to aspire
/əˈspaɪɹ/
verbto desire to have or become something
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1. - I am Aspire.
2. - Aspire are the luxury company of the future.
3. They aspire to it.
4. I aspire to that.
5. It aspires to things.
tenacious
/təˈneɪʃəs/
adjectivegood at remembering
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1. This tenacious beetle has dug in.
2. But the spider woman was tenacious.
3. She's tenacious.
4. Maya is tenacious.
5. Brokers, other companies - just be tenacious.
tenacity
/təˈnæsɪti/
nounthe quality or trait of being persistent, determined, and unwilling to give up, especially in the face of challenges or obstacles
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1. I can admire the tenacity.
2. We cherish your tenacity!
3. It teaches you tenacity.
4. It takes so much tenacity.
5. Praise him with tenacity.
to jaundice
/ˈdʒɔndəs/
verbaffect with, or as if with, jaundice
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1. Other signs include jaundice, a result of rapid destruction of heme.
2. Newborns with biliary atresia usually develop jaundice.
3. Jaundice affects two-thirds of newborns around the world.
4. Everyone's had jaundice.
5. - I had really bad jaundice.
jaundiced
/ˈdʒɔndɪst/
adjectiveshowing or affected by prejudice or envy or distaste
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1. Everybody looks jaundiced.
2. The realtor looks jaundiced.
3. You look jaundiced, we look jaundiced.
4. All came under their jaundiced eyes and were the recipients of their disinterested wrath.
5. He has looked very jaundiced pretty much since leaving the hospital, and that's normal.
isle
/ˈaɪɫ/
nouna small island
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1. Isle of Dogs animators were working with around 1,105 puppets on set.
2. The Cairn Terrier dog breed comes from the isle of Skye in Scotland.
3. That's the Isle of Wight.
4. He lives on the Isle of Wight. -
5. I did that movie "Isle of Dogs."
islet
/ˈaɪɫɪt/
nouna small island
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1. Those spaces in the lingo of those people over the years were referred to islets, as ghettos.
2. In the Black Sea, Bulgaria owns 5 small islands and islets.
3. Only little rocky islets could be seen.
4. An islet, making up the Marshall Islands.
5. This small islet in Spain is connected to the mainland by a narrow man-made path.