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Oxford University Press is celebrating the 20th anniversary of its lexicographers naming an English-language word or expression that reflects the world during the last 12 months. “Looking back ...
While Murphy's law says that anything that can go wrong, will go wrong (eventually), Sod's law requires that it will always go wrong with the worst possible outcome or at the worst time. Belief in Sod's law can be viewed as a combination of the law of truly large numbers and the psychological effect of the law of selection .
The Historical Thesaurus of English (HTE) is a complete database of all the words in the Oxford English Dictionary and other dictionaries (including Old English), arranged by semantic field and date. In this way, the HTE arranges the whole vocabulary of English, from the earliest written records in Old English to the present, alongside dates of ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English: Pearson-Longman: 1978 6th (ISBN 9781447954194) 2014 (17.04) 2,224 165,000 British: Macmillan English Dictionary for Advanced Learners: Macmillan Education: 2002 2nd (ISBN 9781405025263) 2007 1,748 British: Merriam-Webster's Advanced Learner's English Dictionary: Merriam-Webster: 2008 2nd (ISBN ...
The worst time of day to water outdoor plants is in the middle of the afternoon during hot and sunny weather. "During this time, the heat and sun cause water to evaporate quickly, reducing the ...
Summertime is traditionally synonymous with sun and relaxation. However, this summer comes amid a mental health crisis, as more than one in five U.S. adults live with a mental illness ...
A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms, sometimes simply as lists of synonyms and antonyms.
Worst time to check into the hospital. Megan Barreto. Updated July 14, 2016 at 10:14 PM. Weekend Surgeries Mean More Complications, Study Says ... But Medical Daily points out, this is "the first ...