2016年7月22日 · Qua (not to be confused with the ablative feminine form of qui) is a Latin adverb meaning "where; by which route". Read it as "as" when you read it. Read it as "as" when you read it. Use it in scholarly or legal writing to refer to a specific role or conceptual category for an entity that could have more than one role/conceptual category.

Predilection means a natural preference for something. It’s a strong liking deriving from one’s temperament or experience; so when you prefer something, there is a sense of something else that is less interesting or intriguing from your point of view that you might have experienced before or you just don’t like it and you do not prefer.

The meaning "one with magical power" did not emerge distinctly until c.1550, the distinction between philosophy and magic being blurred in the Middle Ages. As a slang word meaning "excellent" it is recorded from 1922.

2016年6月13日 · It is also used in some dictionary definitions. Here is means "has the meaning". Eg. Clarify, verb. as in to filter; as in to explain; It is also used as a question in a discussion where one person is attempting to clarify the meaning of what the other person said. They do this by repeating back the meaning they think was intended.

Meaning "large entrance hall in a public building" is from 1590s. Political sense of "those who seek to influence legislation" is attested by 1790s in American English , in reference to the custom of influence-seekers gathering in large entrance-halls outside legislative chambers.

It comes via real-time strategy games, where one goal of the designers is to keep things balanced for all the various players; deviations from that goal are carefully scrutinized by the community that plays the game.

2018年7月31日 · Judging from their entries in Merriam-Webster, the meanings of eminent and preeminent are similar: eminent: exhibiting eminence especially in standing above others in some quality or position sta...

By and by is usually an adverbial phrase meaning (1) after a while, or (2) soon—for example, “I can’t come now, but if you wait a little while, I will be there by and by.” But it also works as a noun meaning the future, for example: “I will see you in the by-and-by.” In the noun sense, the phrase is often hyphenated for clarity. While:

Although (as you brought out) it may have bore a different meaning in the past, nowadays it is (over)used in movies for when people are about to jump off a high structure or cliff, and sometimes even for jumping into the fray or a dangerous situation. It is used pretty much like other exclamations such as Geronimo! or Away we go!

2015年11月20日 · The French word, with the French meaning, was adopted into Scots English in the 16th century, but “cahute” was short-lived in English and is now labeled obsolete. The OED’s only two citations for the usage are from the 1500s (the earliest is a …