Showing posts with label English Word of the day. Show all posts
Showing posts with label English Word of the day. Show all posts

Sunday, March 4, 2012

Inverse proportion




  • Also called as inverse ratio.
  • A relation between two quantities such that one increases in proportion as the other decreases.

Friday, March 2, 2012

illuminate


  • Light up.
  • Help to explain or make clear: he illuminates science for the interested reader.
  • Decorate (a manuscript) with gold, silver, or coloured designs.

Thursday, March 1, 2012

Crease


Cricket Pitch


  • A line or ridge produced on paper or cloth by folding or pressing.
  • Cricket - any of a number of lines marked on the pitch at specified places
  • Creased up- Burst out laughing.

Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Monday, February 27, 2012

Sweetie


  • Brit. A sweet.
  • Used as a term of affection.

Half-timbered


17th Century half-timbered house in Gardelegen


  • (of a building) having walls with a timber frame and a brick or plaster filling.

Sunday, February 26, 2012

Electrode


  • A conductor through which electricity enters or leaves something.
  • Origin - from electric +greek hodos 'way'.

Friday, February 24, 2012

Enclose


  • Surround or close off on all sides.
  • Place in an envelope together with a letter.

Thursday, February 23, 2012

Coalition



  • A temporary alliance, especially one enabling political parties to form a government.

Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Corrosion


Corrosion


  • The process of corroding.
  • the damage caused by this process.

Monday, February 20, 2012

Friday, February 17, 2012

Conic section




  • The figure of a circle, ellipse, parabola, or hyperbola formed by the intersection of a plane and a circular cone.

Thursday, February 16, 2012

Igneous


  • (of rock) formed when molten rock has solidified
  • Some igneous rocks : basalt, breccia, diorite, dolerite, gabbro, granite, lava, obsidian, peridotite, porphyry, pumice, rhyolite, tuff.

Tuesday, February 14, 2012