mercoledì 6 novembre 2013

Una parola inglese al giorno, per la lettera: H.

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Sommario:
Letterario numerico: 1. hibernaculum. - 2. hungry. - 3. hurricane. - 4. heartbreakek. -  5. to hide. - 6. hairy. -
Fonetico alfabetico: H = hairy - to hide - highway -

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hibernaculum 
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Dicios: shelter - bat - threaten - bit -
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Word of the Day
December 6      2013
 
hibernaculumAudio Pronunciation\hye-ber-NAK-yuh-lum\
DEFINITION
noun
:  a shelter occupied during the winter by a dormant animal (as an insect or reptile)
EXAMPLES
 
"The affliction has spread and stands to threaten major bat hibernacula to the south and west." — From an article by Curtis Runyan in Nature Conservancy, Winter 2009

"The Game Commission estimates that close to 100,000 bats hibernated in Long Run Mine as recently as two years ago, making it the largest hibernaculum in the state then." — From an article by Mary Ann Thomas in the Pittsburgh Tribune Review, October 28, 2013
DID YOU KNOW?
 
If you're afraid of snakes or bats, you probably won't enjoy thinking about a hibernaculum, where hundreds, even thousands, of these creatures might be passing the wintry months. Other creatures also use hibernacula, though many of these tend to be a bit inconspicuous. The word "hibernaculum" has been used for the burrow of a woodchuck, for instance, as well as for a cozy caterpillar cocoon attached to a wintry twig, and for the spot in which a frog has buried itself in the mud. Hibernacula are all around us and have been around for a long, long time, but we have only called them such since 1770. In case you are wondering, "hibernate" didn't come into being until the second decade of the 19th century. Both words come from Latin "hibernare," meaning "to pass the winter."

  • hibernaculum
  • audio pronunciation
  • \hye-ber-NAK-yuh-lum\
  • DEFINITION

noun
: a shelter occupied during the winter by a dormant animal (as an insect or reptile)
  • EXAMPLES

"The affliction has spread and stands to threaten major bat hibernacula to the south and west." — From an article by Curtis Runyan in Nature Conservancy, Winter 2009

"The Game Commission estimates that close to 100,000 bats hibernated in Long Run Mine as recently as two years ago, making it the largest hibernaculum in the state then." — From an article by Mary Ann Thomas in the Pittsburgh Tribune Review, October 28, 2013
  • DID YOU KNOW?

If you're afraid of snakes or bats, you probably won't enjoy thinking about a hibernaculum, where hundreds, even thousands, of these creatures might be passing the wintry months. Other creatures also use hibernacula, though many of these tend to be a bit inconspicuous. The word "hibernaculum" has been used for the burrow of a woodchuck, for instance, as well as for a cozy caterpillar cocoon attached to a wintry twig, and for the spot in which a frog has buried itself in the mud. Hibernacula are all around us and have been around for a long, long time, but we have only called them such since 1770. In case you are wondering, "hibernate" didn't come into being until the second decade of the 19th century. Both words come from Latin "hibernare," meaning "to pass the winter."

Read more at http://www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-day/#GP7BomO6d8kZVVkp.99
  • hibernaculum
  • audio pronunciation
  • \hye-ber-NAK-yuh-lum\
  • DEFINITION

noun
: a shelter occupied during the winter by a dormant animal (as an insect or reptile)
  • EXAMPLES

"The affliction has spread and stands to threaten major bat hibernacula to the south and west." — From an article by Curtis Runyan in Nature Conservancy, Winter 2009

"The Game Commission estimates that close to 100,000 bats hibernated in Long Run Mine as recently as two years ago, making it the largest hibernaculum in the state then." — From an article by Mary Ann Thomas in the Pittsburgh Tribune Review, October 28, 2013
  • DID YOU KNOW?

If you're afraid of snakes or bats, you probably won't enjoy thinking about a hibernaculum, where hundreds, even thousands, of these creatures might be passing the wintry months. Other creatures also use hibernacula, though many of these tend to be a bit inconspicuous. The word "hibernaculum" has been used for the burrow of a woodchuck, for instance, as well as for a cozy caterpillar cocoon attached to a wintry twig, and for the spot in which a frog has buried itself in the mud. Hibernacula are all around us and have been around for a long, long time, but we have only called them such since 1770. In case you are wondering, "hibernate" didn't come into being until the second decade of the 19th century. Both words come from Latin "hibernare," meaning "to pass the winter."

Read more at http://www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-day/#tz3GX9wu2FUdAxAU.99

December 06, 2013

Word of the Day

  • hibernaculum
  • audio pronunciation
  • \hye-ber-NAK-yuh-lum\
  • DEFINITION

noun
: a shelter occupied during the winter by a dormant animal (as an insect or reptile)
  • EXAMPLES

"The affliction has spread and stands to threaten major bat hibernacula to the south and west." — From an article by Curtis Runyan in Nature Conservancy, Winter 2009

"The Game Commission estimates that close to 100,000 bats hibernated in Long Run Mine as recently as two years ago, making it the largest hibernaculum in the state then." — From an article by Mary Ann Thomas in the Pittsburgh Tribune Review, October 28, 2013
  • DID YOU KNOW?

If you're afraid of snakes or bats, you probably won't enjoy thinking about a hibernaculum, where hundreds, even thousands, of these creatures might be passing the wintry months. Other creatures also use hibernacula, though many of these tend to be a bit inconspicuous. The word "hibernaculum" has been used for the burrow of a woodchuck, for instance, as well as for a cozy caterpillar cocoon attached to a wintry twig, and for the spot in which a frog has buried itself in the mud. Hibernacula are all around us and have been around for a long, long time, but we have only called them such since 1770. In case you are wondering, "hibernate" didn't come into being until the second decade of the 19th century. Both words come from Latin "hibernare," meaning "to pass the winter."

Read more at http://www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-day/#GP7BomO6d8kZVVkp.99
  • hibernaculum
  • audio pronunciation
  • \hye-ber-NAK-yuh-lum\
  • DEFINITION

noun
: a shelter occupied during the winter by a dormant animal (as an insect or reptile)
  • EXAMPLES

"The affliction has spread and stands to threaten major bat hibernacula to the south and west." — From an article by Curtis Runyan in Nature Conservancy, Winter 2009

"The Game Commission estimates that close to 100,000 bats hibernated in Long Run Mine as recently as two years ago, making it the largest hibernaculum in the state then." — From an article by Mary Ann Thomas in the Pittsburgh Tribune Review, October 28, 2013
  • DID YOU KNOW?

If you're afraid of snakes or bats, you probably won't enjoy thinking about a hibernaculum, where hundreds, even thousands, of these creatures might be passing the wintry months. Other creatures also use hibernacula, though many of these tend to be a bit inconspicuous. The word "hibernaculum" has been used for the burrow of a woodchuck, for instance, as well as for a cozy caterpillar cocoon attached to a wintry twig, and for the spot in which a frog has buried itself in the mud. Hibernacula are all around us and have been around for a long, long time, but we have only called them such since 1770. In case you are wondering, "hibernate" didn't come into being until the second decade of the 19th century. Both words come from Latin "hibernare," meaning "to pass the winter."

Read more at http://www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-day/#GP7BomO6d8kZVVkp.99
  • hibernaculum
  • audio pronunciation
  • \hye-ber-NAK-yuh-lum\
  • DEFINITION

noun
: a shelter occupied during the winter by a dormant animal (as an insect or reptile)
  • EXAMPLES

"The affliction has spread and stands to threaten major bat hibernacula to the south and west." — From an article by Curtis Runyan in Nature Conservancy, Winter 2009

"The Game Commission estimates that close to 100,000 bats hibernated in Long Run Mine as recently as two years ago, making it the largest hibernaculum in the state then." — From an article by Mary Ann Thomas in the Pittsburgh Tribune Review, October 28, 2013
  • DID YOU KNOW?

If you're afraid of snakes or bats, you probably won't enjoy thinking about a hibernaculum, where hundreds, even thousands, of these creatures might be passing the wintry months. Other creatures also use hibernacula, though many of these tend to be a bit inconspicuous. The word "hibernaculum" has been used for the burrow of a woodchuck, for instance, as well as for a cozy caterpillar cocoon attached to a wintry twig, and for the spot in which a frog has buried itself in the mud. Hibernacula are all around us and have been around for a long, long time, but we have only called them such since 1770. In case you are wondering, "hibernate" didn't come into being until the second decade of the 19th century. Both words come from Latin "hibernare," meaning "to pass the winter."

Read more at http://www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-day/#tz3GX9wu2FUdAxAU.99
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hungry
The boy is hungry

Word of the Day/IL: 11-28-2013.
• The boy is hungry.
• The man is hungry and looking for food.
• hungry boy
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hurricane
The hurricane is blowing in from the sea
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IL: 11-27-2013
• The hurricane is blowing in from the sea.
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Dicios: heartbreaker -
Definition:  1. (nome) a charming person who is irresponsible in emotional relationships. 2. (nome) a narrow defeat or a defeat at the last minute.

Oxford English Dictionary (OED):

heartbreaker, n.

Etymology:  < heart n. + breaker n.1
With senses 2, 3, and 4 compare break v. 7c, to break a person's heart at heart n., int., and adv. Phrases 3a(a), and earlier heartbreaking adj. Compare also French crève-cœur person who or thing which breaks the heart, person who experiences heartbreak (13th cent. in Old French; 1690, in an English text, in sense 2).

†1. A person (esp. God or Christ) who opens the heart to spiritual feelings. Only as contrasted with heart-maker (see heart maker n. at heart n., int., and adv. Compounds 3a). Obs.

1642   E. Calamy Englands Looking-glasse 38   Let us pray to the great heart-maker, that hee would be the heart-breaker.
1663   W. Dyer Christ's Famous Titles 84   Heart-work is God's work: the great heart-maker, must be the great heart-breaker; none can do it but he.

 2. A (typically artificial) ringlet or curl in a woman's hair, arranged or worn as an ornament (usu. in pl.); a woman's lovelock. Now literary and hist. In quots. 1663 and 1943 used disparagingly of Samson's long hair.

1654   E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot iii. viii. 121   Gloves, Handkerchieffs, Heart-breakers, Ribbands, Fillits, Fancies, Pictures.
1663   S. Butler Hudibras: First Pt. i. i. 19   Like Sampson's Heart-breakers, it grew In time to make a nation rue.
1682   T. D'Urfey Butler's Ghost i. 46   First, off with that superfluous Hair, And in its stead Heart-breakers wear.
1769   J. Granger Biogr. Hist. Eng. II. ii. 471   The ladies hair was curled and frizled with the nicest art, and they frequently set it off with heartbreakers.
1785   W. Crakelt Entick's New Spelling Dict. (rev. ed.) ,   Heartbreaker, a woman's curls or ringlets.
1840   G. L. Craik & C. MacFarlane Pict. Hist. Eng. III. vii. vi. 633/1   The quantity of heart-breakers that required to be scented and curled.
1874   A. Wynter Peeps into Human Hive II. 251   Another charmer passes by with an auburn ‘heart-breaker’ coquettishly thrown over her shoulder that does not quite match her own tresses.
1903   A. M. Earle Two Cent. Costume Amer. II. xix. 508   These heart-breakers were sometimes wired that they might flutter alluringly..like butterfly wings.
1943   R. Graves Story Marie Powell xxiii. 317   Did you fear that I was come to cut off your heartbreakers and so annul your holy masculine virtue?
2007   C. Clark Nature of Monsters xxiii. 196,   I spent hours with curling papers and rags to create heartbreakers, the two small curls at the nape of the neck that were supposed to set men's pulses racing. 

 3. A person who breaks hearts; (also) a physically attractive person (esp. a woman) who has many admirers.

1674   ‘Mr. C.’ Bristol Drollery 12   You then Heart-robbers, and Heart-breakers are.
1697   T. D'Urfey Intrigues at Versailles 54   'Tis your new Mistress, the heart breaker Vandosme.
1742   R. North & M. North Life F. North 265   He had told a fine Lady that he had known her a Heart-breaker for above twenty Years.
1790   New Spain iii. v. 59,   I have a great mind to..rid the world of such an heart-breaker.
1827   N.Y. Mirror 10 Feb. 230/2   This infidel in love.., this heart-breaker, was himself to feel the anguish he had inflicted upon others.
1863   N. & Q. 3rd Ser. 4 301   We don't refer to the ball-room butterfly..but to the regular professional heart-breaker.
1920   H. L. Smith Agatha's Aunt ix. 138   If I ever became such a heart-breaker that I had a batch of proposals.., I'd take as long as I could to make up my mind.
1994   P. Simons Tully (1995) ii. 8   My, aren't you growing up, your hair looks so lovely, you gonna be such a heartbreaker!
2011   J. Charbonneau Skating over Line xxi. 252   Your father is a heartbreaker. Always knows just what a girl wants to hear.

 4. Something that causes sorrow, anguish, or despair; an extremely disappointing or upsetting event or circumstance.

1837   W. E. Burton Burton's Comic Songster 301   I'll try what the lawyers can do; For she's broken her promise, and broken my heart, And the law is a heartbreaker, too.
1874   Sunday Mag. 108/2   You'd know what a heart-breaker it must be to have to pay for things that have been stolen.
1943   Billboard 14 Aug. 64/1   Your cowboy music trade likes the sad ones best—and ‘Why do I dream such Dreams?’ is a heart-breaker.
1973   Alton (Iowa) Democrat 14 Feb. 14/3   The second game was a real heartbreaker with the Dutch gals losing in overtime by a 30 to 28 encounter.
2008   P. Sampras Champion's Mind viii. 206,   I..lost a heartbreaker of a semifinal (in a third-set tiebreaker).
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TLes: 01-03-2014
to hide: verb
esconder
• Paco hides his sweets from his sister.
Paco esconde sus dulces de su hermana.
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hairy
Her husband is very hairy
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TLep: 01-13-2014
English word:
hairy
Portuguese translation: cabeludo
Part of speech: adjective
English example:
Her husband is very hairy.
Portuguese example:
Seu marido é muito cabeludo.
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