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Hamartia is a morally neutral non-normative term, derived from the verb hamartanein, meaning 'to miss the mark', 'to fall short of an objective'. And by extension: to reach one destination rather than the intended one; to make a mistake, not in the sense of a moral failure, but in the nonjudgmental sense of taking one thing for another, taking ...
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short for public house (US: bar) publican the landlord of a public house. pud (informal) short for "pudding", which may mean dessert or occasionally a savoury item such as Yorkshire pudding or black pudding; a fool (informal term usually used good-naturedly between family members). pulling his pud, means male masturbation by a "pudknocker". pukka
Facts fall especially short when everyone has their own set of statistics. Modern social media makes it increasingly difficult to distinguish between reliable information and misinformation, and ...
Current national action plans would see global emissions in 2030 at a level only 2.6% lower than in 2019, the UNFCCC has warned.
A definition states the meaning of a word using other words. This is sometimes challenging. Common dictionaries contain lexical descriptive definitions, but there are various types of definition – all with different purposes and focuses. A definition is a statement of the meaning of a term (a word, phrase, or other set of symbols).
Terminology is a group of specialized words and respective meanings in a particular field, and also the study of such terms and their use; [1] the latter meaning is also known as terminology science.
Shortfall may refer to: . Benefit shortfall, the result of actual benefits of a venture being less than the projected or estimated benefits; Expected shortfall, a risk measure—a concept used in the field of financial risk measurement to evaluate the market risk or credit risk of a portfolio