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The late-medieval author Chaucer (c. 1343 –1400) observed "The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne" ("The life so short, the craft so long to learn", the first line of the Parlement of Foules). [6] The first-century CE rabbi Tarfon is quoted as saying "The day is short, the labor vast, the workers are lazy, the reward great, the Master ...
ultra: from Latin, meaning beyond; micro and scopic: from ancient Greek, meaning small looking, referring to the fineness of particulates; silico-: from Latin, silicon; volcano: from Latin, referring to volcano; coni: from ancient Greek (κόνις, kónis) which means dust-osis: from ancient Greek, suffix to indicate a medical condition
Longevity refers to the relatively long lifespan of some members of a population. Maximum lifespan is the age at death for the longest-lived individual of a species. Mathematically, life expectancy is denoted [a] and is the mean number of years of life remaining at a given age , with a particular mortality. [9]
So Long may refer to: "So Long" (ABBA song), 1974 "So Long!" (AKB48 song), 2013 "So Long" (Diplo song), 2019 "So Long" (Russ Morgan song), 1940; covered by the Charioteers (1940), Ruth Brown (1949), and many others "So Long", a song by the Cat Empire from So Many Nights, 2007 "So Long", a song by Everlast from the End of Days film soundtrack, 1999
Too long; didn't read (abbreviated TL;DR and tl;dr) is a shorthand to indicate that a passage is too long to invest the time to digest it. [3] Akin to Wall of text . The label is often used to point out excessive verbosity or to signify the presence of and location of a short summary in case the page is too long and won't otherwise be read. [ 4 ]
Being long a stock means that you own it and will profit if the stock rises. Being short a stock means that you have a negative position in the stock and will profit if the stock falls.
The SMART framework does not include goal difficulty as a criterion; in the goal-setting theory of Locke and Latham, it is recommended to choose goals within the 90th percentile of difficulty, based on the average prior performance of those that have performed the task. [5] [3] Goals can be long-term, intermediate, or short-term.
2 Word meaning and general origin. 3 Legal action. 4 ... where we were introduced to a very long word that had been passed down in many variations through many ...