cut coupon, derivatives, rise of a hot-air balloon

BOOKS Slide Show: A Floating Historian's Hot-Air Adventure Richard Holmes, author of "Falling Upwards," takes a ride in a balloon.

LUXOR, Egypt--A hot air balloon flying over Egypt's ancient city of Luxor caught fire and crashed into a sugar cane field on Feb. 26, killing at least 18 Asian and European tourists, including four Japanese, a security official and a travel agency said.
It was one of the worst crashes involving tourists in the country already struggling with a decimated tourism industry, two years after the 2011 uprising that ousted former leader Hosni Mubarak.


 Like Ulysses S. Grant, the last general to make it to the White House, Ike won elections easily, but did not rise to the responsibilities these thrust upon him.


Regulators Adopt New Derivatives Rules The big banks and traders that dominate the $600 trillion derivatives industry will face new oversight under a plan approved by regulators on Thursday. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission voted 3 to 2 on Thursday to adopt new rules for the biggest players in the derivatives world.The New Consumer Frugality
by Matthew Egol, Andrew Clyde, and Kasturi Rangan

U.S. shoppers are cutting coupons more frequently, buying low price over convenience, and emphasizing saving over spending. These changes will be long-lasting, and retailers must adapt to the shift, according to a new Booz & Company survey of buying habits.



cou·pon (kū'pŏn', kyū'-)

n.

1. A negotiable certificate attached to a bond that represents a sum of interest due.
2. 1. One of a set of detachable certificates that may be torn off and redeemed as needed: a food coupon.
   2. A detachable part, as of a ticket or advertisement, that entitles the bearer to certain benefits, such as a cash refund or gift.
   3. A certificate accompanying a product that may be redeemed for a cash discount.
   4. A printed form, as in an advertisement, to be used as an order blank or for requesting information or obtaining a discount on merchandise.
3. A detachable slip calling for periodic payments, as for merchandise bought on an installment plan.

[French, from Old French colpon, piece cut off, from colper, to cut, from colp, blow. See coup.]

WORD HISTORY A Roman might have had difficulty predicting what would become of the Latin word colaphus, which meant "a blow with the fist." In Old French, a language that developed from Latin, the Late Latin word colpus, derived from colaphus, became colp, or modern French coup, with the same sense. Coup has had a rich development in French, gaining numerous senses, participating in numerous phrases, such as coup d'état,) and giving rise to many derivatives, including couper, "to divide with a blow or stroke, to cut." Couper yielded the word coupon, "a portion that is cut off," which came to refer to a certificate that was detachable from a principal certificate. The detachable certificate could be exchanged for interest or dividend payments by the holder of the principal certificate. Coupon is first recorded in English in 1822 with this sense and then came to apply to forms or tickets, detachable or otherwise, that could be exchanged for various benefits or used to request information.

• cou・pon
• ━━ n. クーポン（券）, 回数券; 優待［引換］券, 見本請求権; （切り取り式の）配給切符; 利札(ふだ).
• coupon bond
• 利札付き［クーポン］債券.⇒coupon
• coupon rate
• （債券の）表面利率.⇒coupon

rise[rise]

• レベル：最重要
• 発音記号[ráiz]

[動]（rose 〔róuz〕, ris・en 〔rízn〕, ris・ing）(自)［I（[副]）］（▼「上がる, 高まる」が基本的意味. (他)raise「上げる, 高める」に対応する. 時にupを伴うが意味に違いはない⇔fall, drop, sink, decline）

1
(1) 〈気球・煙・蒸気・ほこり・しぶき・霧などが〉上がる, 立ち昇る, 立つ((up))；〈鳥が〉地上から飛び立つ；〈魚・泡などが〉水面に出てくる, 〈幕が〉上がる；開く

smoke riseing up from a volcano
火山から立ち昇る噴煙

bubbles riseing to the surface
表面に浮かび上がってくる泡

The curtain rises at 7：30 p.m. and falls at 10 p.m.
開演は午後7時半, 終演は午後10時だ.

(2) 〈太陽・月・星が〉昇る（⇔set）

The sun rises in the east.
太陽は東から昇る.

2 〈数量・率・水準・物価・料金・売り上げなどが〉増す, 上がる, 上昇する；〈物の〉（値段・価値が）上がる((in ...))

Unemployment has risen.
失業率が上昇した

Land prices are rising sharply ［steadily］.
地価が急上昇して［じりじり上がって］いる

Sugar rose by 10 percent in price.
砂糖が1割値上がりした.

3 〈川・海などの〉水位が上がる；〈潮が〉さす, 満ちてくる；〈樹木が〉（…の）高さになる((to ...))；〈温度・湿度・圧力が〉上昇する；〈風・あらしが〉強くなる((up))；〈色が〉濃くなる；〈顔色が〉赤くなる；〈音・声が〉高く［大き く］なる；〈感情が〉高まる, 激しさを増す；〈パン生地が〉（イースト菌などの作用で）膨らむ

The river rose (by) two meters.
川の水位が2メートル上がった

The thermometer rose to 30 degrees.
温度計は30度に上がった

The wind is rising.
風が強くなってきた

Her voice rose in excitement.
彼女は興奮して声が高く［大きく］なった

The pancake rose.
ホットケーキが膨らんだ.

4 （地位・重要性・評価などにおいて）高くなる, 向上する((up/from, to ..., to be ...))

rise in the world
出世する

rise to power ［fame］
権力［名声］を得る

rise from the ranks
一兵卒から昇進して士官となる；ヒラから身を起こす

rise through the ranks
下積みからたたき上げて偉くなる

He rose to be governor.
出世して知事になった.

5
(1) ((主に文))〈人などが〉（…から）立ち上がる, 起き上がる((up/from ...))（▼stand up, get upがふつう）

rise to one's feet
立ち上がる

rise from a chair ［a table］
いす［テーブル］から立ち上がる

rise on one's hind legs
〈馬が〉後ろ脚で立つ, 棒立ちになる

All rise.
全員起立（▼開廷時などの号令）.

(2) ((文))起きる, 起床する

rise early
早く起きる

rise with the sun ［the bird］
日の出［鳥］と共に起きる, 早起きする.

(3) 〈毛・髪が〉（恐怖・ショックで）逆立つ

My hair rose at the sight.
その光景を見て身の毛がよだった.

6 〈感情が〉高まる, 高ぶる；〈怒り・恐怖が〉込み上げる, かき立てられる((up))；〈元気が〉出る, わく；〈胃が〉むかつく

She felt anger rising (up) in her.
怒りが込み上げてくるのを感じた

His spirits rose at the news.
彼はその知らせを聞いて元気が出た

My stomach rose at the sight of those dishes.
その料理を見て吐き気をもよおした.

7 〈建造物が〉建つ, 建設される；〈山・高層建築などが〉そびえ立っている((up))

The tower rises to 90 feet ［＝to a height of 90 feet］.
塔は90フィートの高さにそびえている.

8 〈土地・道が〉上りになる, 高くなる

The path rises in a gentle curve.
その道は緩やかなカーブの上り坂になっている.

9 〈人が〉（…に反抗・反対して）立ち上がる, 蜂起(ほうき)する((up/against ...))

rise (up) in revolt
反乱を起こす

rise (up) against an oppressor
圧制者に反抗して立ち上がる.

10 〈人が〉（事態・要求に対して）うまい対応を見せる, （…に）対処する, 応える((to ...)).

11 〈風・あらしが〉吹き始める, 起こる, 発生する（⇒3）；〈川が〉（…に）源を発する((in, from ...))

The wind rose suddenly.
急に風が出てきた

The river rises in the southwest of Colorado.
その川はコロラド州南西部に源を発する.

12
(1) 〈偉人などが〉現れる, 出現する

Rarely does such a great figure rise.
このような大人物はめったに現れない.

(2) 〈植物が〉生える, 育つ.
(3) 〈水ぶくれ・まめが〉できる.
(4) 〈争い・不和などが〉（…がもとで）起きる, 生じる, 始まる((from, out of ...)). ▼この意味ではariseがふつう.
(5) 〈うわさが〉立つ, 広まる

A rumor rose about the actress.
その女優についてあるうわさが立った.

13
(1) 〈物が〉見えてくる；〈音・声が〉聞こえてくる

The ship rose to view.
その船が視界に現れた.

(2) 〈考え・情景などが〉（心の中に）浮かんでくる((in ...))

A thought rose in his mind.
ある考えが彼の心に浮かんだ.

14 〈議会・公判などが〉会期を閉じる, 散会［閉会］する；閉廷する.

15 ((文))（死から）よみがえる, 生き返る((from ...))；〈都市・建物・産業などが〉（…の状態から）復興する, 再建される((from ...))

rise from the dead
死からよみがえる, 復活する

rise from the ashes of war
戦災から復興する.

━━(他)（←(自)）…を上げる, 昇らせる, 高める, 昇進させる；〈鳥を〉（隠れている所から）飛び立たせる；〈魚を〉水面に誘い出す, つり上げる.

rise above ...

(1) 〈物が〉…の上に昇る［そびえている］.
(2) 〈音・声が〉…よりひときわ高くなる.
(3) 〈人が〉〈不快な状況に〉超然［平然］としている；〈欲望などが〉超越している；〈苦難・障害・不運などを〉克服する

rise above insults
侮辱されても動じない

rise above petty jealousies
つまらぬ嫉妬などしない.

(4) 〈才能・作品などが〉…の域を出る［超える］.

rise and shine（！）

((話・おどけて))起床, さっさと起きる.

━━[名]

1 [C][U]上る［昇る］こと

the rise of a hot-air balloon
熱気球の上昇.

2 [C]（数量・率・程度・価格などの）上昇, 増大, 増加, 騰貴((in ...))；増水

a sharp price rise
物価の急騰

A rise in taxes will lead to decreased consumption.
増税は消費を落ち込ませるだろう.

3 [C]((英))((a (pay) 〜))昇給, 賃上げ（((米))a (pay) raise）

The workers asked the boss for a 10-percent rise.
労働者たちは社長に10パーセントの賃上げを要求した.

4 [C]（地位などの）（…への）向上；出世, 昇進((to ...))；[U]（視力などの）高まり, 台頭, 勃興, 興隆

a rapid rise to power ［fame］
急速な権力［名声］の獲得

the rise of nationalism in Africa
アフリカにおける民族主義の高まり

the rise and fall of ancient Rome
古代ローマの興亡（▼語順に注意）.

5 上り坂, 勾配；小高い所, 高台, 台地, 丘；《地学》海膨(かいぼう).

6 （音・声が）高く［大きく］なること；《音声学》上昇調.

7 （川などの）源；起源, 起こり, 発端

take ［have］ one's rise in ...
…に源を発している.

8 （文明・産業・新人などの）出現, 発生, 登場

the rise of a new talent
新星［新しい人材］の登場.

9 ((古))死からよみがえること, 復活.

10 《釣り》（魚がえさを食うため）水面に上がっていくこと.

11 《建築》け上げ（階段の1段の高さ）；（アーチの）迫り高；（階段全体・屋根の）垂直高；（エレベーターの）上下距離.

12 《演劇》（各場の）幕開き.

13 《服飾》股上(またがみ).

14 ((俗))勃起.

get ［take］ a ［the］ rise out of ...

((略式))〈人を〉（からかい・挑発によって）怒らせる［いらいらさせる］.

give rise to ...

((主に文))〈主に好ましくないことを〉引き起こす, …の原因［端緒］となる

His silence gave rise to an absurd rumor.
彼が沈黙していたのであらぬうわさを生んだ.

on the rise

上昇中で［の］；上向きで［の］；増加して

a man on the rise
出世街道を行く男

Inflation is on the rise again.
インフレが再び高進している.

［古英語rīsan△REAR², RAISE］

exophthalmic, rapport, phone-tapping

There are people with whom one immediately feels a rapport, the certainty that one will know them forever. So it was with Elisabeth Dennys, who has died aged 84, as she stood in the doorway of her Sussex house one morning in the autumn of 1988. She was in her mid-seventies, but could have been far younger: tall, slim, with that smile and blue, exophthalmic eyes characteristic of the Greene family.

Rapport Is Casualty of Merkel Eavesdropping

By MARK LANDLER 2:30 AM ET

For President Obama, the erosion of his relationship with Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany is, perhaps, the most painful cost of the phone-tapping episode

rapport

Pronunciation: /raˈpɔː/

Translate rapport | into French | into German | into Italian | into Spanish

noun

• a close and harmonious relationship in which the people or groups concerned understand each other’s feelings or ideas and communicate well:she was able to establish a good rapport with the children she had an instant rapport with animals [mass noun]:there was little rapport between them

Origin:

mid 17th century: French, from rapporter 'bring back'

rapport

 

音節

rap • port

発音

ræpɔ'ːr

レベル

社会人必須

rapportの変化形

rapports (複数形)

[名][U]（調和的な）関係, （…との）ラポール((with, between ...))

establish close rapport with one's employees
使用人たちと良好な関係を築きあげる.

exophthalmos

 

音節

ex • oph • thal • mos, -mus

発音

èksɑfθǽlməs | -ɔfθǽlmɔs, -miə

[名][U]眼球突出（症）.

-mic

exophthalmic

Pronunciation: /ˌɛksɒfˈθalmɪk/

adjective

Medicine

having or characterized by protruding eyes.


跌 眼球突出。唐張鷟《朝野僉載》卷四：“周張元一腹麤而腳短，項縮而眼跌。”明馮夢龍《古今譚概‧專愚部‧蝦蟆為馬》：“伯樂令其子執《馬經》畫樣求馬，經年無似者。更求之，得一大蝦蟆。歸白父曰：‘得一馬，隆顱跌目，脊郁縮，但蹄不如，累趨。’”
 

in the works, casting, pipe up

In Greek Media, New Voices Pipe Up

By RACHEL DONADIO

Mired in a fiscal crisis, Greeks are skeptical of mainstream news organizations and hungrier for information from nontraditional sources. Above, Apostolis Kaparoudakis.

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.Go to Article from CNET News»

casting

n.

1. 1. The act or process of making casts or molds.
   2. Something cast in a mold.
2. The act of throwing a fishing line.
3. 
   
   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.
4. 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. 

pipe up

Translate pipe up | into French | into German | into Italian

say something suddenly: [with direct speech]:‘I’ll go,’ I piped up

buck, Pass the buck, big bucks, the buck stops here

President Trump bucked most of his top national-security advisers by abandoning retaliatory strikes in Iran.

Where the Buck Stops, Some See a Bystander
By PETER BAKER


President Obama has been under fire for his seeming detachment from significant matters, like spying on allied heads of state and the rollout of the health insurance website.


Hollywood's Highest Paid Actor: Robert Downey Jr.
How much green does it take to be the highest-paid actor in Hollywood? This year, that magic number is $75 million—and the man who brought home the big bucks was Robert Downey Jr.


buck,
n.

1. 1. The adult male of some animals, such as the deer, antelope, or rabbit.
   2. Antelope considered as a group: a herd of buck.
2. 1. A robust or high-spirited young man.
   2. A fop.
3. Offensive. A Native American or Black man.
4. An act or instance of bucking: a horse that unseated its rider on the first buck.
5. 1. Buckskin.
   2. bucks Buckskin breeches or shoes.

v., bucked, buck·ing, bucks. v.intr.

1. To leap upward arching the back: The horse bucked in fright.
2. To charge with the head lowered; butt.
3. To make sudden jerky movements; jolt: The motor bucked and lurched before it finally ran smoothly.
4. To resist stubbornly and obstinately; balk.
5. Informal. To strive with determination: bucking for a promotion.

v.tr.

1. To throw or toss by bucking: buck off a rider; bucked the packsaddle off its back.
2. To oppose directly and stubbornly; go against: “Los Angeles County, the most populous county in the country, is bucking the trend” (American Demographics).
3. Football. To charge into (an opponent's line) carrying the ball.
4. Archaic. To butt against with the head.

adj.
Of the lowest rank in a specified military category: a buck private; a buck sergeant.
phrasal verb:
buck up

1. To summon one's courage or spirits; hearten: My friends tried to buck me up after I lost the contest.

[Middle English bukke, from Old English buc, male deer, and bucca, male goat.]

buck'er n.
buck² (bŭk)
n.

1. A sawhorse or sawbuck.
2. A leather-covered frame used for gymnastic vaulting.

[Alteration (influenced by BUCK¹) of Dutch bok, male goat, trestle, from Middle Dutch boc.]

buck³ (bŭk)
n. Informal.

1. A dollar.
2. An amount of money: working overtime to make an extra buck.

[Short for BUCKSKIN (from its use in trade).]

buck⁴ (bŭk)
n. Games.

1. A counter or marker formerly passed from one poker player to another to indicate an obligation, especially one's turn to deal.
2. Informal. Obligation to account for something; responsibility: tried to pass the buck for the failure to his boss.

tr.v. Informal., bucked, buck·ing, bucks.
To pass (a task or duty) to another, especially so as to avoid responsibility: “We will see the stifling of initiative and the increased bucking of decisions to the top” (Winston Lord).

idiom:
the buck stops here Informal.

1. The ultimate responsibility rests here.

[Short for buckhorn knife (from its use as a marker in poker).]

the buck stops here (or with someone)

informal the responsibility for something cannot or should not be passed to someone else: in the past you could spread the blame, but now the buck stops here

Pass the buck

Meaning
Evade responsibility by passing it on to someone else.
Origin
Look up 'buck' in the dictionary and you'll find a couple of dozen assorted nouns, verbs and adjectives. The most common use of the word these days is as the slang term for the American dollar. That's not the buck meant here though. Look a little further down the list and you'll find the definition 'buck: an article used in a game of poker' - and that's the buck that was first passed.
Poker became very popular in America during the second half of the 19th century. Players were highly suspicious of cheating or any form of bias and there's considerable folklore depicting gunslingers in shoot-outs based on accusations of dirty dealing. In order to avoid unfairness the deal changed hands during sessions. The person who was next in line to deal would be given a marker. This was often a knife, and knives often had handles made of buck's horn - hence the marker becoming known as a buck. When the dealer's turn was done he 'passed the buck'.
Silver dollars were later used as markers and this is probably the origin of the use of buck as a slang term for dollar.
The earliest citation that I can find of the literal use of the phrase in print is from the Weekly New Mexican, July 1865:

They draw at the commissary, and at poker after they have passed the 'buck'.

This is clearly around the time that the phrase was coined, as there are several such printed citations in the following years.
The figurative version of the phrase, i.e. a usage where no actual buck is present, begins around the start of the 20th century. For example, this piece in the California newspaper The Oakland Tribune, from May, 1902:

[Oakland City Attorney] Dow - 'When the public or the Council "pass the buck" up to me I am going to act.'

The reporter's use of quotation marks around pass the buck indicate its recent coinage as a figurative phrase, or at least one that the paper's readers might not have been expected to be familiar with.
The best-known use of buck in this context is 'the buck stops here', which was the promise made by US president Harry S. Truman, and which he kept prominent in his own and his electors' minds by putting it on a sign on his desk.

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trapezoidzoidal, passageway, somnolent, oblation

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Passageways
The Inca walls were designed to help protect against a collapse during an earthquake. Doors and windows were built in trapezoidal shapes and tilted inward from the bottom to top.

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CAIRO — It was a few minutes after midnight on Sunday, when an unaccustomed rain washed Cairo’s somnolent streets, as Ahmed Abdel-Moneim walked with friends across a bridge that was a passageway to a parallel capital in Tahrir Square, an idea as much as a place.

 羅蘭巴特論羅蘭巴特》談契約，說法真天才：

…Thus the discourse of contract eludes two plenitudes: it permits the observing the golden rule of any habituation, discerned in Shikidai* passageway : no will-to-seize yet no oblation.

*しきだい ₀ 【式台/敷台】 我的大陸翻譯本搞錯啦！

(1)玄関の上がり口にある一段低くなった板敷きの部分。客を送り迎えする所。もとは武家の住宅で、玄関の次にある、客に送迎の挨拶 (あいさつ) をするための部屋。

我終於了解以前日式房間的一重要 "地方"

passageway

Syllabification: (pas·sage·way)

Pronunciation: /ˈpasijˌwā/

Translate passageway | into German | into Spanish

noun

a long, narrow way, typically having walls on either side, that allows access between buildings or to different rooms within a building.

somnolent

(sŏm'nə-lənt)
adj.

1. Drowsy; sleepy.
2. Inducing or tending to induce sleep; soporific.

[Middle English sompnolent, from Old French, from Latin somnolentus : somnus, sleep + -olentus, abounding in.]

somnolently som'no·lent·ly adv.

trapezoidzoidal[trap・e・zoidzoidal] [形]《幾何学》台形の.

oblation

Syllabification: (ob·la·tion)

Pronunciation: /əˈblāSHən/

noun

• a thing presented or offered to God or a god.
• Christian Church the presentation of bread and wine to God in the Eucharist.

Derivatives

oblational

Pronunciation: /-SHənl, -SHnəl/

adjective

oblatory

Pronunciation: /ˈäbləˌtôrē/

adjective

Origin:

late Middle English: from Old French, or from late Latin oblatio(n-), from Latin offerre 'to offer'

plenum, presided over the Third Plenary session

China and Vietnam have two of the few Communist Parties still in power, so it is hardly surprising that they face many of the same problems. What might alarm them most, however, is the shortage of obvious solutions. Both parties scheduled meetings of their central committees this autumn. China's plenum is due next month. Vietnam's has come and gone, producing few apparent signs of new thinking http://econ.st/19ANDPx

Interview: Simon Critchley
I was giving a talk in Bath at a conference on animals - there was no reason why I should have been there - but I was giving a plenary on humour and animals ...
www.culturewars.org.uk/2002-12/simoncritchley.htm


Prime Minister Taro Aso delivers his policy speech in the Lower House plenary session on Wednesday. (HIROSHI KAWAI/ THE ASAHI SHIMBUN)



Like many Chinese entrepreneurs, the Lius trace their fortunes back to December 1978, when Mr. Deng presided over the Third Plenary session of the Communist Party. In a critical speech to the party’s elite, he boldly called for more trade with the outside world and said he favored market-oriented reforms. These policies would later come to be called “socialism with Chinese characteristics.”

plenary Show phonetics
adjective SPECIALIZED
describes a meeting at which all the members of a group or organization are present, especially at a conference:
a plenary session of the UN Security Council

plenary Show phonetics
noun [C] SPECIALIZED
a plenary meeting

ple・na・ry

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━━ a. 十分な; 完全な; 絶対的な; 全員出席の.最高的?
ple・na・ri・ly　━━ ad.
plenary indulgence　【カトリック】全贖宥(しょくゆう).
plenary meeting [session]　本会議, 総会.

plenum

Syllabification: (ple·num)

Pronunciation: /ˈplenəm, ˈplēnəm/

noun

• 1an assembly of all the members of a group or committee.

  [influenced by Russian plenum 'plenary session']

• 2 Physics a space completely filled with matter, or the whole of space so regarded.
• an enclosed chamber where a treated substance collects for distribution, as heated or conditioned air through a ventilation system.

Origin:

late 17th century: from Latin, literally 'full space', neuter of plenus 'full'

gobbledygook, typing-expansion software,

In the early 1960s, even as tens of millions of Chinese starved in a brutal famine, Mao Zedong was reluctant to import grain. Now, though, China is deeply integrated into global commodity markets. Yet official policy in China still calls for 95% of China's grain demand to be met by domestic production. To many economists, the very idea is nonsensical http://econ.st/17iz5GG

Goodbye, Gobbledygook
By ASHLEE VANCE
To increase sales, makers of personal computers are promoting what their products can do, not what hardware is inside.


My life depends on typing-expansion software. I type "pl," and I get "problem." I type "wv," I get "Windows Vista." Over the years, as I recognize more words that I type often, I've built up quite a list -- hundreds of abbreviations:
t -> the
y -> you
th -> that
ts -> this
bs -> because
ie -> Internet Explorer
ff -> FireFox
mx -> Mac OS X
w7 -> Windows 7
cp -> cellphone
cps -> cellphones
ty -> thank you
hth -> Hope this helps! --David
…and on and on.
It helps, of course, that I do a lot of writing, and in a particular field; so much of my e-mail, and so many of the terms I use, involve the same concepts.
On the Mac, programs like TypeIt4Me, Typinator and TextExpander do this job. (TypeIt4Me is also available on the iPhone.) On Windows, it's programs like AutoHotKey, ActiveWords and Texter.
Of course, you can get the same effect within Microsoft Office (Mac and Windows), using its AutoCorrect feature. That arrangement has one profound advantage: the expansion happens even when you're editing. That is, I can click just after a "w" I typed earlier; if I add a "v," it expands to "Windows Vista." With the shareware programs, by contrast, you have to type the whole thing at once, *followed* by a space or punctuation so it knows you're finished with the abbreviation.
But Microsoft's AutoCorrect has a big downside, too: it works only in Office. I want my expansions to be system-wide. I want it to work in my e-mail program, browser, sticky-notes app, word processor, spreadsheet, on the desktop, and so on.
That's why I've gone the shareware/freeware route. This much is for sure: because I've got these programs installed, I can type *much* faster than a normal person (because I've got so much less to type). I don't worry about typos nearly as much. And I can rip through e-mail much more efficiently, since I can re-use so many words and phrases.
There are all kinds of other perks, too. AutoHotKey is also a wonderful macro program, meaning that you can define keystrokes to perform special functions on your PC. Hit Ctrl-W to fire up Microsoft Word, Ctrl-F to open Firefox.
TextExpander can shorten long Web addresses as you type. Just copy some huge address, for example, and then type "/bitly" into any program; TextExpander pastes in a tiny URL (like http://bit.ly/6EYLj) without your having to open your Web browser and visit a URL-shortening site. It's fantastic if you use Twitter, where every character counts.
Typing-expansion programs are so fast and effortless that I can't understand why everybody's not using them. Surely, at the very least, you type your address over and over again (or pieces of it, when you fill out Web order forms). Surely you've got various standard signoffs for e-mail, like "xoxo, Chris" or "Respectfully yours, Christianne."
The only time auto-expansion gets in my way is when I use somebody else's computer, where there's no expansion software installed. Inevitably, there's a moment of frustration, bafflement and gobbledygook as I type, "T pl is th y use wv" --and get only "T pl is th y use wv."
But now that I've shared my secret with the world, it won't matter. You'll know exactly what I meant.



Gobbledygook

also n.
Unclear, wordy jargon.

[Imitative of the gobbling of a turkey.]

Gobbledygook or gobbledegook (sometimes gobbledegoo, gobbledeegook^[1] or other forms ^[2]) is an English term used to describe nonsensical language.

nonsensical

Syllabification: (non·sen·si·cal)

Pronunciation: /nänˈsensikəl/

Translate nonsensical | into German | into Italian | into Spanish

noun

• 1having no meaning; making no sense:a nonsensical argument he dismissed the claim as nonsensical

• 2ridiculously impractical or ill-advised:a tax that everyone recognizes was nonsensical

Derivatives

nonsensicality

Pronunciation: /ˌnänsensəˈkalitē/

noun

nonsensically

Pronunciation: /nänˈsensik(ə)lē/

adverb

not atypically, aquifer, honeydew melon, cloudy, slake

Raki is also a Turkish test of fortitude — one I was determined to pass. With each glass I drank, Elif, our waiter and what felt like everyone in the restaurant cheered me on, and soon my mind was as cloudy as my drink, though not so muddled that I couldn't appreciate raki's traditional accompaniments, a fetalike white cheese and honeydew melon, which provoked and slaked my thirst in equal measure (110 lira for three). Luckily, the Grand Hotel de Londres was only a stumble away.


honeydew melon, Honeydew Weekend


A chronic drought is ravaging farmland. The Gobi Desert is inching south. The Yellow River, the so-called birthplace of Chinese civilization, is so polluted it can no longer supply drinking water. The rapid growth of megacities — 22 million people in Beijing and 12 million in Tianjin alone — has drained underground aquifers that took millenniums to fill.
Not atypically, the Chinese government has a grand and expensive solution: Divert at least six trillion gallons of water each year hundreds of miles from the other great Chinese river, the Yangtze, to slake the thirst of the north China plain and its 440 million people.


  slake
(slāk)

v., slaked, slak·ing, slakes. v.tr.

1. To satisfy (a craving); quench: slaked her thirst.
2. To lessen the force or activity of; moderate: slaking his anger.
3. To cool or refresh by wetting or moistening.
4. To combine (lime) chemically with water or moist air.

v.intr.
To undergo a slaking process; crumble or disintegrate, as lime.

[Middle English slaken, to abate, from Old English slacian, from slæc, slack, sluggish. See slack¹.]

aquifer[aq・ui・fer]

• 発音記号[ǽkwəfər]

[名]《地質学》帯水層.

hóneydèw[hóney・dèw]

(hŭn'ē-dū', -dyū')
n.

1. A sweet sticky substance excreted by various insects, especially aphids, on the leaves of plants.
2. A sweet exudate similar to honeydew on the leaves of plants.
3. A honeydew melon.

[名]

1 [U]（植物や昆虫が分泌する）みつ.

2 みつで甘くしたタバコ.

hóney・dèwed

[形]

slake
(slāk)

v., slaked, slak·ing, slakes. v.tr.

1. To satisfy (a craving); quench: slaked her thirst.
2. To lessen the force or activity of; moderate: slaking his anger.
3. To cool or refresh by wetting or moistening.
4. To combine (lime) chemically with water or moist air.

v.intr.
To undergo a slaking process; crumble or disintegrate, as lime.

[Middle English slaken, to abate, from Old English slacian, from slæc, slack, sluggish. See slack¹.]

get home, at Home in Trenches, trench coat

Chávez Dies, Leaving a Bitterly Divided Venezuela

By WILLIAM NEUMAN

Shortly after the announcement, police officers were highly visible as people ran through the streets, calling loved ones on cellphones and rushing to get home.

It's one of Britain's enduring cultural icons - beloved by flashers, film stars and fashionistas alike.

BBC Culture salutes the trench coat:

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20131024-the-trench-coat-for-all-seasons

After 40 Years, Still at Home in Trenches
By AL BAKER

Detective John C. Roe, who became a New York City police officer in 1970, is the department’s longest-serving member still assigned to street-level work.

倫敦時尚周正在英國舉行，國際精品品牌BURBERRY PRORSUM在本月18日舉行了以「風衣之吻(Trench Kisses)」為主題的時尚秀，創意總監Christopher Bailey透露，這一季BURBERRY鎖定了鎖定60年代美女代表Christine Keeler，並將經典 ...



get something home to someone or something

to carry something home [quickly] to someone or something. I have to get this pizza home to my parents before it gets cold. Please get this ice cream home to the refrigerator.

get home to someone or something

to manage to return home to someone or something there. The infantryman wants to get home to his wife. I like to get home to a nice warm house.

trench

[名]

1 深い溝, 堀(ditch)

dig a trench
深い溝を掘る.

2 ((しばしば〜es))（土手なども含む）塹壕(ざんごう), 防御陣地, 前線

man a trench
塹壕内の任務につく

open the trenches
塹壕を掘る.

3 《地学》海溝.

in the trenches

（活動の）現場に［で］.

━━[動](他)

1 〈場所を〉堀［塹壕］で囲む［守る］.

2 〈場所に〉堀を作る, 溝をつけ（て排水す）る；〈田畑などを〉掘り返す；〈物・植物を〉溝［堀］に入れる［植える, 埋める］.

3 〈木・石などに〉切り込みをつける；…を彫り込む；((英))〈木などに〉溝をつける.

━━(自)

1 塹壕［溝, 堀］を掘る((along, down))；切る, 切り開く［取る］, 〈急流が〉土などを掘って進む.

2 （権利などを）侵害する((on, upon ...)).

3 〈思想・言動などが〉（…に）接近する, 近い((on, upon ...)).





 
A trench coat or trenchcoat is a raincoat made of waterproof heavy-duty cotton gabardine drill or poplin, or leather.^[1][2] It generally has a removable insulated lining, raglan sleeves, and the classic versions come in various lengths ranging from mid-calf to above the knee.^[1][2] It was originally a military item of clothing and shows this influence in its styling.

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   Art of the Trench: Burberry

   artofthetrench.com/ - Cached

   Art of the Trench is a living celebration of the Burberry trench coat and the people who wear it, created by Burberry, some of the world's leading image makers, ...

trench coat

トレンチコート. ▼もと塹壕(ざんごう)用.