2017年3月1日 星期三

circular, circular economy, mailer, snap, fasten, snap-fastener, press-stud, sagebrush


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snap election
snapping behind

Hazard: The snaps on these garments can detach, posing a choking hazard to young children.snap fastener 按扣, 撳扭
An accomplished man: no trouble with strange fastenings.

IN THE annals of fashion the snap-fastener, or press-stud, holds a humble place. Few care that it was invented in Germany, as the Federknopf-Verschluss, in the 1880s. Not many appreciate that some varieties have discs and grooves, while others boast sockets with studs. And almost no one considers that they give a man style. But Jack Weil did.
Mr Weil reckoned that a cowboy on a horse, if wearing a shirt with buttons, was liable to get snagged on sagebrush or cactus or, worse than that, get a steerhorn straight through his fancy buttonhole. He was pretty certain, too, that a cowboy losing a button would feel disinclined to sew it on again. The answer to all those difficulties was to make shirts with snap-fasteners. And for 62 years, in a red-brick warehouse in the LoDo district of Denver, Mr Weil did exactly that.

press stud UK noun [C] (US snap)
a small clothes fastener with two usually round parts, one of which is pushed into the other
WordNet: sagebrush
Note: click on a word meaning below to see its connections and related words.
The noun has one meaning:
Meaning #1: any of several North American composite subshrubs of the genera Artemis or Seriphidium
Synonym: sage brush

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fasten Show phonetics
verb [I or T]
1 to (cause something to) become firmly fixed together, or in position, or closed:
Make sure your seat belt is securely fastened.
This shirt fastens at the back.

2 fasten sth on/to/together, etc. to fix one thing to another:
I fastened the sticker to the windscreen.

fastener Show phonetics
noun [C]
a button, zip or other device for temporarily joining together the parts of things such as clothes

fastening Show phonetics
noun [C]
a device on a window, door, box, etc. for keeping it closed

snap

v., snapped, snap·ping, snaps. v.intr.
  1. To make a brisk sharp cracking sound: "Logs snapped in the grate" (James Fox).
  2. To break suddenly with a brisk, sharp, cracking sound.
    1. To give way abruptly under pressure or tension: With so many people crowding onto the platform, its supports snapped.
    2. To suffer a physical or mental breakdown, especially while under stress: feared that the troops would snap from fatigue.
  3. To bring the jaws briskly together, often with a clicking sound; bite.
  4. To snatch or grasp suddenly and with eagerness: snap at a chance to go to China.
  5. To speak abruptly or sharply: snapped at the child.
  6. To move swiftly and smartly: snap to attention. See synonyms at jerk1.
  7. To flash or appear to flash light; sparkle: eyes that snapped with anger.
  8. To open, close, or fit together with a click: The lock snapped shut. The jacket snaps in front.
v.tr.
  1. To snatch at with or as if with the teeth; bite.
  2. To pull apart or break with a snapping sound.
  3. To utter abruptly or sharply: The sergeant snapped out a command.
    1. To cause to emit a snapping sound: snap a whip.
    2. To close or latch with a snapping sound: snapped the purse shut.
  4. To cause to move abruptly and smartly: "His head was snapped back by a sudden scream from the bed" (James Michener).
    1. To take (a photograph).
    2. To photograph: snapped the winner on the podium.
  5. Football. To center (a football); hike.
n.
  1. A sudden sharp cracking sound or the action producing such a sound.
  2. A sudden breaking.
  3. A clasp, catch, or other fastening device that operates with a snapping sound.
  4. A sudden attempt to bite, snatch, or grasp.
    1. The sound produced by rapid movement of a finger from the thumb tip to the base of the thumb.
    2. The act of producing this sound.
  5. The sudden release of something held under pressure or tension.
  6. A thin, crisp, usually circular cookie: a ginger snap.
    1. Capacity to make a snapping sound; elasticity: This waistband has lost its snap.
    2. Informal. Briskness, liveliness, or energy.
  7. A brief spell of brisk, cold weather.
  8. Something accomplished without effort. See synonyms at breeze1.
    1. A snapshot.
    2. The taking of a snapshot.
  9. A snap bean.
  10. Football. The passing of a football from the center to a back that initiates each play. Also called hike.
adj.
  1. Made or done suddenly, with little or no preparation: a snap decision.
  2. Fastening with a snap: snap pockets.
  3. Informal. Simple; easy: a snap assignment.
adv.
With a snap.

phrasal verbs:
snap back
  1. To recover quickly.
snap to
  1. To pay attention or begin complying abruptly.
snap up
  1. To acquire quickly: snapped up the tickets.
idiom:
snap out of it Informal.
  1. To move quickly back to one's normal condition from an undesirable condition, such as depression, grief, or self-pity.
[Probably from Middle English snappe, a quick bite, probably from Middle Low German or Middle Dutch snappen, to seize, snap.]



circular

Line breaks: cir¦cu|lar
Pronunciation: /ˈsəːkjʊlə /Definition of circular in English:


ADJECTIVE

1Having the form of a circle:the building features a circular atrium
1.1(Of a movement or journeystarting and finishingat the same place and often following roughly thecircumference of an imaginary circle:a circular walk
2Logic (Of an argumentalready containing anassumption of what is to be proved, and thereforefallacious:the reality of standard English rests on the circularargument that that is good which good users use
3[ATTRIBUTIVE] (Of a letter or advertisement) fordistribution to a large number of people:a circular letter was sent asking for support

NOUN

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letter or advertisement which is distributed to alarge number of people:I received a circular from a building society

Origin

late middle english: from Old French circulier, from late Latin circularis, from Latin circulus 'small ring' (seecircle).

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