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Welcome! ** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only ** Welcome to my little Den! Here you'll find all sorts of things- mostly blog challenges, but mixed in, you'll notice:  I'm a bit of a fangirl  My life is very busy I enjoy using emoticons  I don't tend to swear, but stuff happens. |
| Write about some of the words that were introduced in the year you were born according to Merriam-Webster dictionary by referring to the website below: https://www.merriam-webster.com/time-traveler Alrighty... I'll choose 1-2 words from each letter available here 10 words because that original plan is way too long.  Asian Long-horned beetle- a large long-horned beetle (Anoplophora glabripennis) that is a serious pest of hardwood trees and is native to China and Korea and has been introduced into North America and Europe This one makes me wonder- were they not a thing before 1996, or whenever people started referencing to them as the "Asian Long-horned beetle"? You'd imagine these insects/beetles would've been around for quite some time, so it's interesting that Merriam-Webster only just accepted the word then.  Bioterror- The definition of "bioterror" is "Bioterrorism"  Bioterrorism- terrorism using biological weapons This one I can see not being a thing until more recently, because science and technology and such would make chemicals and biological advancements and such more accessible? dragonfish- aka, Arowana Arowana- any of several large, tropical, chiefly carnivorous freshwater fish (family Osteoglossidae and especially genera Osteoglossum and Scleropages) of South America, southeastern Asia, Australia, and Africa that have large bony scales, a toothed tongue, and a large mouth with an oblique gape NOTE: Arowanas have a laterally compressed body and are typically silvery white, gold, red, or green. In the wild, some arowanas may reach a length of four feet (1.2 meters) or longer but are usually smaller when kept as aquarium fish. — called also bonytongue, dragonfish I'm going to guess here, that at some point before 1996, people saw this Arowana fish and went "hey, that fish looks like an Asian dragon!" and therefore, the name dragonfish was born. embiggen- I've never heard of this word before.  My best guess would be that it means "to make bigger," but we'll see what the dictionary says. ... and it turns out I'm right.  It's an "informal", transitive verb. endostatin- "Endo" means "in," I'm pretty sure. What "statin" means, though, is anyone's guess. But, given the "stat" in it, I'm going to guess this word means the "inside state of things"  "a polypeptide that is a fragment of a collagen found especially in the epithelial basement membrane and that inhibits angiogenesis, tumor growth, and endothelial cell proliferation"  This is science. And for those who know me, I don't science well. I have no clue what an epithelial basement membrane or angiogenesis is. Nor have I ever heard of endothelial cell proliferation. Though, that one sounds like the exponential growth of cells somewhere in the body. face-palm-  Maybe people were starting to have less tolerance for others in the 1990s. fistbump- Funny, because this is pretty much the opposite reaction of a facepalm. kopiyka- Is this food? It sounds East Asian/Polynesian. It is, apparently, not food. BUT it's money, which can buy food.  a monetary subunit of the hryvnia The Hryvnia is Ukranian money, so I guess kopiykas would be the Ukranian equivalent of a US cent.  new variant Creutzfelt-Jakob disease- I'm not sure I even want to know what this is. a fatal prion disease that is held to be a variant of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease caused by the prion associated with bovine spongiform encephalopathy and contracted by consuming infected beef or beef products Great. A version of mad cow disease, I suppose. XML- I know ML is Markup Language, but what does the X stand for? Apparently, it's "extensible" a markup language with use and design similar to HTML but employing tags defined by the user that can be used to indicate both the logical structure and the display specifications of the coded data yoctosecond- I've never heard of the "yocto" prefix either. maybe, because it's similar to "octo" it's 1/8 of a second? Annd it is one septillionth of a second. And apparently, in the US, that's 24 0s, but in the UK, it's 42. I wonder how many it is in other countries. |
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