Showing posts with label lexicon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label lexicon. Show all posts

Sunday, August 15, 2010

lexicons thus far...

(topic based terms):
envelope
urban
network
landscape
prosthetic
image
loop
cache

(descriptive/active):
expatriated
explicative
polygenetic
eccentric
monumentality
extensive
explicative
eidetic
intensify

Sunday, July 11, 2010

Definition III: Expatriated Cache

Expatriated Cache
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Definition II: Expatriate

Expatriate

-noun
  1. An exile: a person who is voluntarily absent from home or country; "American expatriates"
  2. One who lives outside one’s own country;
  3. One who has been banished from one’s own country; 
  4. A person temporarily or permanently residing in a country and culture other than that of the person's upbringing or legal residence.
  5. Someone who lives outside their home country for work or lifestyle purposes.
-verbs
  1. To expel from a country;
  2. To move away from one's native country and adopt a new residence abroad
  3. To banish (a person) from his or her native country;
  4. To drive or force (a person) from his own country;
  5. To make an exile of;
  6. To withdraw from (oneself) from residence and or allegiance in ones native country;
  7. To renounce the rights and liabilities of citizenship where one is born.

-synonyms

  1. banish, deport, displace, exile, expel, expulse, ostracize, oust, proscribe, relegate, transport 
  2. departer, deportee, displaced person, emigrant, evacuee, exile, expellee, migrant, outcast, refugee, émigré
-origins
  1. 1768, from French expatrier "banish," from ex- "out of" + patrie "native land,
  2. From L. patria "one's native country," from pater (gen. patris) "father."
  3. The noun is from 1818, "one who has been banished;"
  4. Main modern sense of "one who chooses to live abroad" is 1902.

Thursday, July 8, 2010

Definition I: Caché

Caché

-noun
  1. Anything hidden or a hiding place, especially one in the ground, stored for future use: ammunition, food, treasures, valuables...etc..
  2. An Alaskan and Canadian architectural term for a small shed elevated on poles above the reach of animals and used for storing food, equipment, etc. 
  3. A place for concealment and safekeeping, as of valuables
  4. Stores of food made by many species of animals that are usually hidden from the sight of competing individuals of the same species or others in hopes of future consumption
  5. A store of things that will be required in the future, and can be retrieved rapidly. A cache may, or may not, be hidden or concealed.
  6. RAM memory that is set aside as a specialized buffer storage that is continually updated; used to optimize data transfers between system elements with different characteristics.  It is the fastest temporary storage available where most recent or most frequent data values are stored to avoid having to reload from a slower storage medium.  It is is used in CPUs, hard drives, and a variety of other components.
  7. A component or temporary space that improves performance by transparently storing information so that future recollections can be expedited.
-verb (used with object)
  1. to put in a cache; conceal; hide, hoard, stockpile, reserve, storage, secrete.
-synonyms
  • accumulate, bury, conceal, cover, ditch, duck, ensconce, hive up, hoard, lay away, lay aside, maintain, park, plant, put away, put in the hole, save, save up screen, secrete, squirrel, squirrel away, stash, stash away, store.
-origins
  1. 1797, "hiding place," from Fr. Canadian trappers' slang,
  2.  "hiding place for stores" (1660s), 
  3. A back formation from Fr. cacher  "to hide, conceal" (13c., O.Fr. cachier ), 
  4. from Fr. vernacular language coacticare  "store up, collect, compress," 
  5. freq. of Latin. coactare  "constrain," from coactus  pp. of cogere  "to collect".
  6. Sense extended by 1830s to "anything stored in a hiding place."
source:

"cache." Online Etymology Dictionary. Douglas Harper, Historian. 08 Jul. 2010. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/cache>.