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📚 Triturate, verb. 🔉 /ˈtrɪtjʊreɪt/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (with object • technical): Grind to a fine powder. ❗️ Examples: 1. Insoluble materials were triturated with lactose. 2. Some triturated powders can be prepared in a lapidary tumbler, using steel balls to do the grinding. 3. After 6-7 days at 28°, mosquitoes were triturated in undiluted fetal bovine serum at a concentration of 35 mosquitoes/ml serum. 4. Anthracinum, which is prepared by triturating the dried puss from anthrax, is a very effective prophylactic against anthrax. 5. The supernatants were removed and the pellets triturated with 700 l of PBS / 10% FBS. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Saw II (2005) 💬 It was the police and the press who coined the nickname Jigsaw.

📚 Coin, verb. 🔉 /kɔɪn/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (with object): Invent (a new word or phrase) ❗️ Examples: 1. He coined the term ‘desktop publishing’ 2. Known for his penchant for coining apt words and phrases, Tukey is credited with inventing the word bit (binary digit) in 1946, and he was responsible for the first use of several terms in mathematical statistics. 3. I'd like to recommend The Word Spy, a fascinating website that collects recently coined words and phrases from the media. 4. Visionary and inventor Buckminster Fuller coined the phrase ‘Think global, act local’. 5. A new word was coined to describe such individuals: ‘cybersquatters.’ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 What makes someone tick, phrase. ❓ Definition (informal): What motivates someone. ❗️ Examples: 1. People are curious to know what makes British men tick. 2. We're good at finding out about people, what makes them tick, what they are interested in, what they have bees in their bonnets about - a key networking skill. 3. I'd like the opportunity to find out a bit what they were like as people, what makes them tick, and, you know, enjoy their company. 4. No one really knows how these people think, what makes them tick, and which of the five contenders stirs their blood. 5. I get a thrill when I can get into the male psyche and learn about what makes them tick. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Flageolet, noun. ❓ Definition: (also French flageolet) a very small wind instrument resembling a recorder but with four finger holes on top and two thumb holes below. ❗️ Examples: 1. Diagrams relating fingering to notes have occasionally been used for such wind instruments as the recorder, flageolet, oboe, and clarinet in instrumental tutors since the 16th century. 2. After making a demo in his London flat on a stereo tape-deck, he hawked his melding of many instruments (glockenspiel, farfisa organ, flageolet etc) around record companies. 3. Dozens of patients, mostly dressed in black, marched through the streets following a draped coffin while musicians played a dirge on a flageolet and melodion. 4. His power over his instrument is surprising; the tones he draws from it might be thought those of the sweetest flageolet and hautboy, and sometimes of the human voice. 5. Here all is atwitter with prominent flageolet and flutes. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Blood Diamond (2006) 💬 We must remember that these stones... comprise only a small percentage of the legitimate diamond industry... whose trade is crucial to the economies of many emerging nations.

📚 Comprise, verb. 🔉 /kəmˈprʌɪz/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (with object): Consist of; be made up of. ❗️ Examples: 1. The country comprises twenty states. 2. The new board will comprise twelve members, including four worker directors. 3. The trust was to comprise five people including his chartered accountant. 4. The remainder of the unit comprises warehouse accommodation and includes a roller shutter door. 5. The cover comprises a lid and a raised rim which is recessed from the outer edge of the lid. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Make common cause, phrase. ❓ Definition: Unite in order to achieve a shared aim. ❗️ Examples: 1. Nationalist movements made common cause with the reformers. 2. Let the humanists make common cause with them to achieve freedom. 3. Today, I'd like to offer a few thoughts on what these developments have meant for your colleagues in public broadcasting, and share some ideas about how our institutions might make common cause in the future. 4. As a hunter-gatherer nation, Australia could play a further role in world affairs by making common cause without a hunter-gatherer peoples, all of whom are taking a terrible hammering. 5. On certain foreign policy issues, Switzerland and Bulgaria have a track record of making common cause. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Vexillology, noun. 🔉 /ˌvɛksɪˈlɒlədʒi/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (mass noun): The study of flags. ❗️ Examples: 1. It is the Internet's largest site devoted to vexillology (the study of flags). 2. Jack also enjoys vexillology and can signal Bible passages from memory in fluent semaphore. 3. For those interested in vexillology, there is an interesting website dealing with this topic for the former South Vietnam here. 4. I learned most of what I know about vexillology from Whitney, who is a good personal friend and mentor. 5. See how you fare with this quiz on vexillology (the study of flags and flag-related matters). ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 Dead Poets Society (1989) 💬 It describes how Mr Keating both in and out of the classroom encouraged Neil Perry to follow his obsession with acting... when he knew all along it was against the explicit orders... of Neil's parents.

📚 Explicit, adjective. 🔉 /ɪkˈsplɪsɪt/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Stated clearly and in detail, leaving no room for confusion or doubt. ❗️ Examples: 1. The arrangement had not been made explicit. 2. To ensure consistency, several definitions were made explicit before data entry began. 3. The methodologies employed are not only made explicit, but discussed in some detail, albeit at times anecdotally. 4. At least one has even made explicit reference to the use of nuclear bombs, albeit as a retaliatory measure. 5. A narrative is implied, but never made explicit. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

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📚 Be just what the doctor ordered, phrase. ❓ Definition (informal): Be very beneficial or desirable under the circumstances. ❗️ Examples: 1. A 2–0 victory is just what the doctor ordered. 2. A media-savvy leader with a vision, with seriousness of purpose, with honesty and decisiveness as his strongest points, a diplomat par excellence, he is exactly what the doctor ordered. 3. The style is apparently a cross between ancient tragedy and TV news, which sounds like exactly what the doctor ordered for a sultry summer weeknight. 4. Meantime, let's just say that London is exactly what the doctor ordered - in other words, I am very happy to be here. 5. I know killer heels aren't exactly what the doctor ordered, but I'll take the psychological boost any day. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Volplane, noun. 🔉 /ˈvɒlpleɪn/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (Aeronautics): A controlled dive or downward flight at a steep angle, especially by an aeroplane with the engine shut off. ❗️ Examples: 1. In 1891 the engineer Otto Lilienthal executed the first safe and repeatable volplanes in history. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 The Foreigner (2017) 💬 They're trying to divide us, put the Brits back on the streets again, stir up the troubles all over again.

📚 Stir up, phrasal verb. ❓ Definition (stir something up, stir up something): Cause or provoke trouble or bad feeling. ❗️ Examples: 1. He accused me of trying to stir up trouble. 2. The rumours had stirred up his anger. 3. We both laughed nervously and he told me that he had heard that some Asian youths in Leeds had been stirring things up by deliberately leaving rucksacks on buses. 4. A brewery is stirring up a touch of controversy in the Yorkshire Dales - with an advertising campaign declaring that ‘drinking is folly’. 5. "They have been stirring up chaos in Hong Kong and at the same time they want to change the mainland's political system. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Come off it, phrase. ❓ Definition (British • informal • in imperative): Said when vigorously expressing disbelief. ❗️ Examples: 1. ‘Come off it, he'll know that's a lie.’ 2. Indeed, she claims that there is an unspoken English rule that she calls ‘the importance of not being earnest’, along with a peculiarly English injunction to say, ‘Oh, come off it!’ 3. Come off it, that's not something ‘worth remembering’. 4. My honest (and admittedly, somewhat cruel) reaction is ‘Oh, come off it, you're not that special.’ 5. ‘Oh come off it, mate,’ he said, because he is not only a hawk, but has a keen and impatient mind. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Inamorata, noun. ❓ Definition: A person's female lover. ❗️ Examples: 1. His new inamorata is a twenty-two-year-old mannequin named Jennifer. 2. However he kept the flame burning bright writing passionate love letters to his inamorata. 3. Predictably, in the main duet for the lovers, the young man alternately draws his inamorata to him, molding her as if she were clay in his hands, and swings her outward in sapling-in-spring shapes. 4. Then they'll see that their inamoratas cannot remain faithful. 5. But her main role would be as Hirschfeld's muse and playmate, his elfin inamorata, the one editor to whom he paid devoted attention. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic