2024年4月6日 星期六

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QUOTATION OF THE DAY

"You cannot go around shipping undeclared weapons of war through the Panama Canal."
PRESIDENT RICARDO MARTINELLI, on a North Korean ship taken into custody in the canal.

 

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With last week's news that a movie about Googlefounders Sergey Brin and Larry Page is in the works, CNET News had fun on Friday pitching some casting ideas around.
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casting
n.
    1. The act or process of making casts or molds.
    2. Something cast in a mold.
  1. The act of throwing a fishing line.

  2. In preparation, under development. For example, The agent said there was a movie deal in the works, or He ass
    Something cast off or out.
  3. The selection of actors or performers for the parts of a presentation.
ured her that a follow-up campaign was in the works. [Second half of 1900s] Also see in the pipeline.

in the works
In preparation, under development. For example, The agent said there was a movie deal in the works, or He assured her that a follow-up campaign was in the works. [Second half of 1900s] Also see in the pipeline.



The noun ray has 7 meanings:
Meaning #1: a column of light (as from a beacon)
Synonyms: beam, beam of light, light beam, ray of light, shaft, shaft of light, irradiation
Meaning #2: a branch of an umbel or an umbelliform inflorescence
Meaning #3: (mathematics) a straight line extending from a point
Meaning #4: a group of nearly parallel lines of electromagnetic radiation
Synonyms: beam, electron beam
Meaning #5: the syllable naming the second (supertonic) note of any major scale in solmization
Synonym: re
Meaning #6: any of the stiff bony rods in the fin of a fish
Meaning #7: cartilaginous fishes having horizontally flattened bodies and enlarged winglike pectoral fins with gills on the underside; most swim by moving the pectoral fins

The verb ray has 3 meanings:
Meaning #1: emit as rays
Meaning #2: extend or spread outward from a center or focus or inward towards a center
Synonym: radiate
Meaning #3: expose to radiation



Synonym: irradiate

go around

  • 1 (chiefly Britishgo round) spin: revolve:the wheels were going around
  • 2 (chiefly Britishgo round) (especially of food) be sufficient to supply everybody present:there was barely enough food to go around
  • (of an aircraft) abort an approach to landing and prepare to make a fresh approach.

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