readiness patrol. swab, swob, compress, ready, apprehend, conceive, ill-conceived. nose swabs had an accuracy rate of less than 30 per cent.

China's military said it had conducted a combat readiness patrol in the direction of the Taiwan Strait, after its defense ministry condemned a visit to Taiwan by a U.S. congressional delegation it said had arrived on a military aircraft https://reut.rs/3wxcSCx

A Spanish research institute had said that the Chinese company's nose swabs had an accuracy rate of less than 30 per cent.


哈“如果醫院正等待向我們收取3500美元的簡單驗血和鼻拭子費用，他們如何期望普通公民為消除人與人之間傳播的潛在風險做出貢獻？”(Google )  The Independent 50 分鐘 ·  "How can they expect normal citizens to contribute to eliminating the potential risk of person-to-person spread if hospitals are waiting to charge us $3,500 for a simple blood test and a nasal swab?"

Swabbing Caesarean babies with bacteria could reduce their risk of obesity, we reported in October

More evidence for a link between Caesarean sections and obesity

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ECONOMIST.COM

After Years on Run, Libyan Was Found With Family

By CARLOTTA GALL

Nazih Abdul-Hamed al-Ruqai, apprehended by American forces this weekend in Tripoli, Libya, was enjoying being home with his family for the first time in years, his son said in an interview.

Apple Readies New iPhone

According to some suppliers of components to Apple, the new version of the iPhone is expected to be thinner and lighter than the iPhone 4 and sport an 8-megapixel camera.


Jet Plot Shows Growing Ability of Qaeda Affiliates
By ERIC SCHMITT
The thwarted attack underscores how the Obama administration must now defend the United States from attacks conceived in multiple havens abroad.

A law expanding the spying abilities of Germany's federal police has been criticized by police unions. They say the proposed law's aggressive online evidence-gathering measures are ill-conceived and open to abuse.
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conceive
v., -ceived, -ceiv·ing, -ceives. v.tr.

1. To become pregnant with (offspring).
2. To form or develop in the mind; devise: conceive a plan to increase profits.
3. To apprehend mentally; understand: couldn't conceive the meaning of that sentence.
4. To be of the opinion that; think: didn't conceive such a tragedy could occur.
5. To begin or originate in a specific way: a political movement conceived in the ferment of the 1960s.

v.intr.

1. To form or hold an idea: Ancient peoples conceived of the earth as flat.
2. To become pregnant.

[Middle English conceiven, from Old French concevoir, conceiv-, from Latin concipere : com-, intensive pref.; see com- + capere, to take.]

conceivability con·ceiv'a·bil'i·ty or con·ceiv'a·ble·ness n.
conceivable con·ceiv'a·ble adj.
conceivably con·ceiv'a·bly adv.
conceiver con·ceiv'er n.

ill-conceived Show phonetics
adjective
badly planned and unwise:
The whole project was ill-conceived.

ready

(rĕd'ē)
adj., -i·er, -i·est.

1. Prepared or available for service, action, or progress: I am ready to work. The soup will be ready in a minute. The pupils are ready to learn to read.
2. Mentally disposed; willing: He was ready to believe her.
3. Likely or about to do something: She is ready to retire.
4. Prompt in apprehending or reacting: a ready intelligence; a ready response.
5. Available: ready money.

tr.v., read·ied, read·y·ing, read·ies.
To cause to be ready.

idioms:
at the ready

1. Available for immediate use: soldiers with machine guns at the ready; students with notebooks at the ready.

make ready

1. To make preparations.

[Middle English redy, from Old English rǣde.]

readiness read'i·ness n.

Vital Signs

Prevention: A Better Use for Cotton Swabs Than Ear Cleaning

When surgeons operated on Schroeder again, they were stunned to find 16 pieces of medical equipment in the man’s body. This included "a needle, a six-inch roll of bandage, a six-inch long compress, several swabs and a fragment of surgical mask," writes the Daily Mail.
醫師再度為施若德開刀時，在這名男子體內發現16件醫療物品，令他們感到震驚。這些物品包括「一支針、一捲6吋繃帶、一塊6吋長的敷布、數支棉棒以及手術口罩的碎片」，每日郵報寫道。


swab
also swob (swŏb)
n.

1. 1. A small piece of absorbent material attached to the end of a stick or wire and used for cleansing or applying medicine.
   2. A specimen of mucus or other material removed with a swab.
2. A sponge or patch of absorbent material used to clean the bore of a firearm or cannon.
3. A mop used for cleaning floors or decks.
4. Slang. A sailor.
5. Slang. A lout.

tr.v., swabbed, also swobbed, swab·bing, swob·bing, swabs, swobs.

1. To use a swab on.
2. To clean with a swab.
3. To take a specimen from (a person) using a swab.

[Back-formation from swabber, mop for a ship's deck (from obsolete Dutch *zwabber , from zwabben, to mop) or from obsolete Dutch swabbe, mop (from Middle Dutch).]

n. - 醫用海綿, 藥簽, 紗布, 拭子
v. tr. - 打掃, 塗抹於, 擦拭

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - ぞうきんぼうき, モップ, 綿棒, 肩章, 不器用者
v. - 綿棒で薬を付ける, 綿棒で塗る

compress

 

音節

com • press

compressの変化形

compresses (複数形) • compressed (過去形) • compressed (過去分詞) • compressing (現在分詞) • compresses (三人称単数現在)

[動] 〔kmprés〕 (他)

1 ((主に受身))…を押し［締め］つける；〈空気・ガスを〉圧縮［圧搾］する；…を（…に）詰め込む((into ...)).

2 …を固めて［圧縮して］（…に）する；〈文章・思想などを〉（…に）簡約［圧縮, 短縮］する((into ...))

We compressed our one week vacation into two days.
1週間の休暇を2日に短縮した.

3 《コンピュータ》（ファイルのサイズを）圧縮する.

━━(自)（…に）圧縮［凝縮］される.

━━[名] 〔kmpres | km-〕 《医学》圧定布, パップ

a cold ［a hot］ compress
冷［温］湿布.

［後ラテン語←ラテン語comprimere （com-共に＋primere押す＝すべて押す）］

apprehend

Pronunciation: /aprɪˈhɛnd/

Translate apprehend | into German | into Italian | into Spanish
verb

[with object]

• 1arrest (someone) for a crime:a warrant was issued but he has not been apprehended

• 2understand or perceive:we enter a field of vision we could not otherwise apprehend
• archaic anticipate (something) with uneasiness or fear: he is a man that apprehends death no more dreadfully but as a drunken sleep

Origin:

late Middle English (originally in the sense 'grasp, get hold of (physically or mentally')): from French appréhender or Latin apprehendere, from ad- 'towards' + prehendere 'lay hold of'