prism, iridescent, prismatic, rhythmic urination

  







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Tiffany Chang

黃石國家公園 Yellowstone National Park
大棱鏡溫泉 The Grand Prismatic Spring

That's exactly what they are. Hemingway is  certainly  the
better  of  the  two; he has at least a voice of his own and is
responsible for that delightful, highly artistic  short  story,
"The  Killers."  And the description of the iridescent fish and
rhythmic urination in his famous fish story is  superb.  But  I
cannot  abide  Conrad's  souvenir-shop style, bottled ships and
shell necklaces of romanticist cliches. In neither of those two
writers can I find anything that I would care to  have  written
myself. In mentality and emotion, they are hopelessly juvenile,
and  the  same  can  be said of some other beloved authors, the
pets of  the  common  room,  the  consolation  and  support  of
graduate  students,  such  as-- but some are still alive, and I
hate to hurt living old boys while the dead ones  are  not  yet
buried.

shimmer, "porpoise," "iridescent," "plankton,"

prism

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Pronunciation: /ˈprɪz(ə)m /

Definition of prism in English:

NOUN

Geometry

1A solid geometric figure whose two ends are similar, equal, and parallel rectilinear figures, and whose sides are parallelograms.

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1.1Optics A glass or other transparent object in the form of a prism, especially one that is triangularwith refracting surfaces at an acute angle witheach other and that separates white light into aspectrum of colours.

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Origin

late 16th century: via late Latin from Greek prisma 'thing sawn', from prizein 'to saw'.

prismatic

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Pronunciation: /prɪzˈmatɪk /

Definition of prismatic in English:

ADJECTIVE

1Relating to or having the form of a prism or prisms:a prismatic structure

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1.1(Of an instrument) incorporating a prism orprisms:a prismatic compass

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1.2(Of colours) formed, separated, or distributed by or as if by an optical prism:a flash of prismatic light on the edge of the glass

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Origin

early 18th century: from French prismatique, from Greekprisma 'thing sawn' (see prism).

Derivatives

prismatically

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ADVERB

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iridescent
adj.

1. Producing a display of lustrous, rainbowlike colors: an iridescent oil slick; iridescent plumage.
2. Brilliant, lustrous, or colorful in effect or appearance: "The prelude was as iridescent as a prism in a morning room" (Carson McCullers).

1. 虹にじのように色が変化する；虹色の，玉虫色の
   • the iridescent wings of the dragonfly
   • トンボの虹色の羽.
2. 2(才能・才気などが)光る.

iridescently ir'i·des'cent·ly adv.