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📚 Ferrule, noun. ❓ Definition: A ring or cap, typically a metal one, which strengthens the end of a handle, stick, or tube and prevents it from splitting or wearing. ❗️ Examples: 1. There are cue makers, and other experts in cue stick behavior, that have very strong opinions about the pros and cons of various cue stick shafts, ferrules and tips. 2. The tips, called ferrules, of lower quality poles will wear off, but a good cross country ski or outdoor shop will have replacement tips in stock or can order them. 3. Against the geometric shapes of globe and pole, and within the rectangular surface of the arras itself, appears the point, which turns out to be the ferrule of a rod, which turns out to be a fan, which opens into the tail of the bird. 4. A ferrule should be attached to the end of the cue, which the tip attaches to. 5. Plungers push glue-filled ferrules onto pencil ends, and others fill them with plugs. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Point out, phrasal verb. ❓ Definition (point something out, point out something): Direct someone's gaze or attention towards, especially by extending one's finger. ❗️ Examples: 1. I pointed out a conical heap of stones. 2. He only survived because he was swept into a ditch and a man spotted him and pointed out a route to safety. 3. One would be hard pressed to point out a single fat man among these thousands. 4. As they drove, she played tour guide and pointed out spots of interest in Dover. 5. He pointed out the seat and I made my way towards it, my bag swinging in my hands. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 So long, phrase. 🔉 /ˌsəʊ ˈlɒŋ/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (informal): Goodbye till we meet again. ❗️ Examples: 1. When she walked out on the Sugababes as they hit the big time, it looked like so long, Siobhan. 2. I just want it to be done with, but I don't want to deal with any of the moving or saying so long stuff. 3. ‘So long!’, Catharine waved goodbye to Audrey as the door closed. 4. So long, Mother. Be expecting a postcard or two in the mail, if you're lucky. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Cenote, noun. 🔉 /sɪˈnəʊteɪ/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A natural underground reservoir of water such as occurs in the limestone of Yucatán, Mexico. ❗️ Examples: 1. For example, cenotes of the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico are collapsed depressions, in the base of which groundwater flow is exposed. 2. The aptly named Gran Cenote is really several cenotes meandering along the verdant jungle floor and connected by wooden walkways. 3. But perhaps the best day out was hiring a ‘Herbie’ (VW beetles are still made in their original form in Mexico) to seek out the cenotes, pools formed by underwater rivers. 4. A cenote, or sink-hole, is created when the roof of one of these vast caverns collapses. 5. Some of the caves contain cenotes, or openings to underground water sources, that the ancient Maya associated with Ix Chel. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Plainly, adverb. 🔉 /ˈpleɪnli/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Able to be perceived easily. ❗️ Examples: 1. A light was plainly visible. 2. She could plainly hear footsteps behind her. 3. A sinister yet plainly demarcated force of evil is ever-present in his films. 4. That same shock was now plainly visible in Mallory's eyes. 5. In that darkness, any little star showed as plainly as a sun. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Get the picture, phrase. ❓ Definition (informal): Understand a situation. ❗️ Examples: 1. Any trouble your father might have we can hide — d'you get the picture? 2. To be honest, I believe it was more difficult to get the picture than to catch the carp. 3. I realize that sounds completely revolting, but I think you get the picture. 4. Scott didn't seem to get the picture, his brain still working on understanding what Jesse had just told him. 5. This includes, buses, trains, lifts, public buildings, pubs, restaurants; I think you have probably got the picture. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Démodé, adjective. 🔉 /ˌdeɪˈməʊdeɪ/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Out of fashion. ❗️ Examples: 1. But this show merely lampooned the ‘pallid universe’ of démodé consumer goods. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Enact, verb. 🔉 /ɪˈnakt/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (with object): Put into practice (an idea or suggestion) ❗️ Examples: 1. The pressure group's aim was to see the proposals enacted. 2. The French Revolution was an attempt to enact his ideas. 3. Because real people formulate and enact political ideas, it is often easy to locate the supposed evil of a given idea in its human agent. 4. The National Security Adviser joined the President at the ranch to discuss enacting recommendations that could be implemented immediately by executive order. 5. He later challenged him to commit to enacting the recommendations of the report during his term as president. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

🎬 How I Met Your Mother (2005) - S01E22 💬 It's gonna rain cats and dogs, folks.

📚 Rain cats and dogs, phrase. ❓ Definition: Rain very hard. ❗️ Examples: 1. ‘It'll be raining cats and dogs in a minute ‘she muttered to herself.’ 2. The first barricaded suspect situation I attended was, as I recall, on a dark and stormy night, in fact it was raining cats and dogs. 3. It was raining cats and dogs, and my bike had died on me. 4. No kind of threats, cajoling or convincing can get a line-man to scamper up an electric post or poke at a blown fuse when it is raining cats and dogs. 5. It had been raining cats and dogs from morning and they must have known before hand that the wet weather posed a danger of shock or slipping on stage. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Tour de force, noun. 🔉 /ˌtʊə də ˈfɔːs/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A performance or achievement that has been accomplished or managed with great skill. ❗️ Examples: 1. His novel is a tour de force. 2. His group's success was a spectacular tour de force of meticulous technique and solid research design. 3. It's a tour de force of a performance; one that would be enough to recommend the film on its own. 4. Their self-titled debut was a tour de force, a record at once wildly experimental and eminently accessible. 5. She accomplishes the tour de force of making us forget in what language this play is supposed to be, for she transcends locality. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Bring about, phrasal verb. ❓ Definition (bring something about, bring about something): Cause something to happen. ❗️ Examples: 1. She brought about a revolution in psychoanalysis. 2. Well, he got involved with the actual methods of bringing this revolution about. 3. The important consideration is how those changes are implemented, how they are brought about and made effective. 4. What results have been brought about by this decision-making framework? 5. Sometimes these punishments are deserved but often they are brought about by unfortunate circumstances. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 A dog's breakfast, phrase. ❓ Definition (British • informal): A poor piece of work; a mess. ❗️ Examples: 1. We made a real dog's breakfast of it. 2. All in all it is a dog's dinner, literally, with local residents living with the mess and hazard. 3. In design terms it's a dog's breakfast, a grey, smudgy mess that seems to stagger off ancient presses each week. 4. It all adds up to a dog's breakfast of departmental rivalry, layer upon layer of confused delivery and strategic confusion. 5. Speaking after the council agreed to hold the ballot, he said: ‘The wording on the ballot papers is a dog's dinner.’ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Azimuth, noun. 🔉 /ˈazɪməθ/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: The direction of a celestial object from the observer, expressed as the angular distance from the north or south point of the horizon to the point at which a vertical circle passing through the object intersects the horizon. ❗️ Examples: 1. However, the clusters involved neighboring tree crowns that were progressively shorter in height in directions opposite the solar azimuth. 2. The distance r is independent of the distant galaxy's azimuth around the axis of displacement. 3. The relative aspect is defined as the subject's aspect minus the solar azimuth. 4. They eclipsed the sun and filled the sky to the azimuth. 5. At the beginning of August it will rise in the east at 10 p.m. and reach its azimuth at about 3 a.m. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Valley, noun. 🔉 /ˈvali/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A low area of land between hills or mountains, typically with a river or stream flowing through it. ❗️ Examples: 1. The Thames Valley. 2. The valley floor. 3. It has such beautiful farmland, mountains, valleys, and rivers that one-fifth of the country is designated as national parkland. 4. Mountains, valleys, and rivers provide memorable scenery for tourists. 5. The steep hills and valleys also offer superb rivers for white-water rafting. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 On a roll, phrase. ❓ Definition (informal): Experiencing a prolonged spell of success or good luck. ❗️ Examples: 1. The organization is on a roll. 2. With his last few albums, he has been on a roll, consistently producing jazz of the very highest standard. 3. New Zealand film is apparently on a roll according to our media. 4. All the smaller underground clubs are on a roll and the commercialised side of dance music is starting to wane. 5. Sinatra had been on a roll since his breakthrough part in From Here To Eternity. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Sciamachy, noun. 🔉 /sʌɪˈaməki/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (mass noun • archaic): Sham fighting for exercise or practice. ❗️ Examples: No examples. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic

📚 Ban, verb. 🔉 /ban/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (with object): Officially or legally prohibit (something) ❗️ Examples: 1. Parking is banned around the harbour in summer. 2. Cars were banned from the park all day in a bid to keep traffic disruption to a minimum. 3. York tourism boats can continue to ply their trade, but rowers are banned from the river. 4. We therefore, demand that the internet be permanently banned from American homes. 5. As a result of this, the islanders are banned from fishing in their own waters. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic