foster, dispel, expel, compel, impel, impeller, data-driven

The boredom is dispelled when Dino begins an affair with an enigmatic teenager named Cecilia.

Advertisers are keen to amass customer data and the tools to analyse them. Epsilon provides both

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Publicis purchases Epsilon to acquire more data-driven technology
The deal hints at advertisers’ virtual designs

The adjective data-driven means that progress in an activity is compelled by data, rather than by intuition or by personal experience. Data-driven may refer to:Data-driven programming, computer programming in which program statements describe data to be matched and the processing required.



Dr. Hu emphasized another point last week. In an illuminating article in the October issue of Foreign Affairs, he demonstrated how the Chinese Red army, fostered for 25 years by Joseph Stalin, won China for Communism. In the process of dispelling the widely held notion that the Chinese Communists won because of their popular appeal rather than because of their armed force, Dr. Hu related a fascinating story to illustrate how Stalin hoodwinked Franklin Roosevelt at Yalta in 1945.

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hoodwink
(hʊd'wĭngk')
tr.v., -winked, -wink·ing, -winks.

1. To take in by deceptive means; deceive. See synonyms at deceive.
2. Archaic. To blindfold.
3. Obsolete. To conceal.

hoodwinker hood'wink'er n.

dispel[dis・pel]

• 発音記号[dispél]
  

[動]（〜led, 〜・ling）(他)…を追い散らす；〈心配・恐怖を〉追い払う, 〈疑いなどを〉晴らす, 一掃する.


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expel

[動]（〜led, 〜・ling）(他)［expel A (from B)］1 〈A（人）を（B（組織・地位）から）〉（…したかどで）除名［放逐］する, 免職にする((for doing)) H...

expellant

[形]追い出す, 駆逐［駆除］力のある.━━[名]駆虫剤；駆除薬.

expellee

[名]（国外）追放者.

compel[com・pel]

• 発音記号[kəmpél]

[動]（〜led, 〜・ling）(他)

1 ［III[名][副]］〈事が〉〈人を〉無理に（…の状態に）させる((to, into ...))；［V[名]to do］〈事が〉〈人に〉無理やり（…）させる；((受身))〈人が〉（…）せざるをえない

compel a person to ［into］ submission
人を屈服させる

I compelled him to admit his error.
彼に無理に誤りを認めさせた

He felt compelled to visit his parents.
彼は両親を訪ねずにはいられない気になった.

2 ((形式))〈人・事が〉…させずにはおかない

compel admiration
思わず賞賛したくなる

compel tears of sympathy from a person
人に同情の涙を絞らせる.

3 〈人を〉屈服させる, 服従させる

His emotions compelled him.
彼は自分の感情に負けた.

［ラテン語compellere （com-完全に＋pellere押す＝打ち勝つ）］

com・pel・la・ble

[形]

VERB

• 1with object and infinitive Force or oblige (someone) to do something.

  with object and infinitive ‘a sense of duty compelled Harry to answer her questions’

  1. 1.1 Bring about (something) by the use of force or pressure.
     ‘they may compel a witness's attendance at court by issue of a summons’
  2. 1.2literary Drive forcibly.
     ‘by heav'n's high will compell'd from shore to shore’

Origin

Late Middle English: from Latin compellere, from com- ‘together’ + pellere ‘drive’.

 The book is quite impelling

impel[im・pel]

• 発音記号[impél]

[動]（〜led, 〜・ling）(他)

1 〈特に考え・感情などが〉〈人を〉かり立てて（…を）させる((to, in, into ...))；〈人を〉促して［むりに］（…）させる((to do))

He was impelled by strong emotion.
激しい感情にかられた

Poverty impelled him to commit this crime.
貧しさのあまり彼はこの罪を犯した

I felt impelled to help the victims.
被害者を助けなければという気持ちにかり立てられた.

2 〈風・波などが〉〈人・物を〉（…へ）押しやる, 押し進める((to ...)).

［ラテン語impellere （im-上に＋pellere駆り立てる）. △PULSATE］

impeller

音節

im • pel • ler

発音

impélər

impellerの変化形

impellers (複数形)

[名]

1 《機械》渦巻きポンプ, 圧縮器；その羽根車.

2 推進する人［物］.

foster[fos・ter]

• 発音記号[fɔ'ːstər | fɔ's-]

[動](他)

1 …を促進［助長, 育成］する

foster social reforms
社会改革を促進する

foster Anglo-American understanding
英米両国間の相互理解を深める.

2 〈子供を〉（里子として）育てる, 養育する（⇒ADOPT）；((英))〈子供を〉里親に預ける；((古))〈人を〉（愛情をこめて）世話する

foster an abandoned child
捨て子を養育する

foster the sick
病人を世話する.

3 〈考え・感情を〉心にいだく

foster a hope
希望をいだく.

━━[形]((限定))里子［里親］の

place ... in foster care
…を里子に出す.

fos・ter・er

[名]育ての親, 里親；助成者, 育成者, 後援者.