tangible, tangibility, touch off, figurative, tutbo, turbocharge, prohibitively expensive

“I’ve always liked tangibility, I’ve liked science I could touch, and chemistry and biology are both sciences that I can touch,” says Raines. “I love projects that span from very fundamental science all the way to a clinical outcome—that’s the goal.” His lab works cellular cures, artificial collagens to treat wounds, developing cancer drugs, and establishing a process for fabricating biofuels.



 Tourists Head to a Newly Affordable Japan: With a dollar now fetching ¥100, Japan’s reputation as a prohibitively expensive place to visit is changing, turbocharging a tourism industry seen as a growth engine for the maturing economy.

Little-Loved Statue May Be Exiled to a Brooklyn Cemetery

By SARAH MASLIN NIR

“Civic Virtue” may end up amid graves, but that is not a concession to those who, over the years, have wanted it figuratively dead.

Chinese netizens deride school bus donation to Macedonia after recent fatal ...
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BEIJING — China's donation of school buses to tiny Macedonia has touched off derision online, where Chinese have called the gift ill-considered given their country's poor safety record and a recent crash that killed 19 preschoolers. ...

		Wines of The Times: Rye Whiskey In a tasting of Rye Whiskey, the tasting panel rediscovered the world's great forgotten spirit, offering a tactile pleasure unlike any other.

The Eos isn't just charming, it's also spirited, with a 2.0-liter, 200hp turbo engine that has virtually no turbo lag. Road handling is decent, though not as taut as I would have expected from this German badge. Chrome is Eos's buzzword, as it appears prominently on the front grille and twin tailpipes. Inside, surfaces are tactile and pleasing, with soft rubber door handles, a leather-wrapped steering wheel and shifter and brushed aluminum trim on the dash, door and console. Chic, sophisticated, contemporary and urban when the gigantic moon roof is in play; cute, fun and cheerful when the Eos's top is down. VW's latest offspring puts a positive spin on the term "multiple personality."

tangibilityとは 意味・読み方・使い方

主な意味	触れて感知できること、明白、確実 new!→イラストで分かる英単語

figurative[fig・ur・a・tive]

• 発音記号[fígjurətiv] [形]

1 〈意味・語句が〉比喩［隠喩］的な（意味で用いた）；文字どおりでない（⇔literal）；（…を）表象［象徴］する((of ...))

in a figurative sense
比喩的な意味で.

2 〈文体・作家が〉比喩［文飾］の多い［好きな］

a figurative style ［author］
美文体［美文家］.

3 〈絵画・彫刻が〉形象描写の

the figurative arts
造形芸術.

fig・ur・a・tive・ly

[副]

fig・ur・a・tive・ness

[名]

touch off

1. Cause to explode or fire; also, initiate, trigger. For example, The boys touched off a whole line of firecrackers, or These disclosures will touch off a public uproar. This idiom comes from early firearms, which were set off by putting a light to the touch-hole. Its figurative use dates from the late 1800s.
2. Depict very precisely, as in He touched off Teddy Roosevelt as well as it's ever been done. [Mid-1700s]

tactile

(tăk'təl, -tīl')
adj.

Perceptible to the sense of touch; tangible.

Characterized by or conveying an illusion of tangibility: "Heaney must thus continue to be a poet rich in tactile language" (Helen Vendler).

Used for feeling: a tactile organ.

Of, relating to, or proceeding from the sense of touch; tactual: a tactile reflex.

[From Latin tāctilis, from tāctus, past participle of tangere, to touch. See tact.]

tactilely tac'tile·ly adv.

tactility tac·til'i·ty (-tĭl'ĭ-tē) n.

turbo
Pronunciation: /ˈtəːbəʊ/

Definition of turbo
noun (plural turbos)
short for turbocharger.
a motor vehicle equipped with a turbocharger: [as modifier]:ABS is standard on all turbo and SE 2.3 models
turbocharge
Pronunciation: /ˈtəːbə(ʊ)tʃɑːʤ/

Definition of turbocharge

verb

[with object] (often as adjective turbocharged)

• equip (an engine or vehicle) with a turbocharger:a turbocharged coupé
• make more powerful, fast, or exciting:turbocharged business growth