old fogy in American English noun. a person who is excessively old-fashioned in attitude, ideas, manners, etc. What is another name for an old Fogey? fogey. dodo. fossil. fuddy-duddy. stick-in-the-mud. What does the term fogies mean? noun, plural fo·gies. an excessively conservative or old-fashioned person, especially one who is intellectuallyRead More →
/ˈɪn.floʊ/ the action of people or things arriving somewhere: The government wanted an inflow of foreign investment. Synonym. influx. What is the meaning of inflow and outflow? Cash inflow is the cash you’re bringing into your business, while cash outflow is the money that’s being distributed by your business. WhileRead More →
: opposition to rituals or ritualism By careful comparison of differences in the social dimensions we may come to understand the sociological determinants of ritualism and anti-ritualism. — What is the meaning of ritual ceremony? A ritual is a ceremony or action performed in a customary way. … As anRead More →
As nouns the difference between truthiness and truth is that truthiness is (rare|archaic) truthfulness while truth is the state or quality of being true to someone or something. Is truthiness in the Oxford dictionary? Note: The Oxford English Dictionary provides evidence dating to the first half of the 19th centuryRead More →
Combining form denoting addition of oxygen; used in place of keto- in systematic nomenclature. What is a Pulmon? , pulmon- , pulmono- Combining forms meaning the lungs. What does Chondro mean in medical terms? : cartilage achondroplasia chondrocyte. What does Chondro mean in Chondritis? prefix. The definition of chondro meansRead More →
Biopoiesis, a process by which living organisms are thought to develop from nonliving matter, and the basis of a theory on the origin of life on Earth. Who is the pioneer of biogenesis? Conceptually, biogenesis is sometimes attributed to Louis Pasteur and encompasses the belief that complex living things comeRead More →
If you say, “Bye!” you mean “farewell” or “so long.” In other words, bye is a shorter way to say, “Goodbye.” Is Goodbye short for God be with you? TIL that goodbye is a shortening of the phrase “God be with you,” with the good prefix occurring because of phrasesRead More →
slang Nonsense or foolishness. What is a jibber? jibber (plural jibbers) A horse that jibs, i.e. refuses, stops short. When was gobbledygook first used? Gobbledygook, coined by Maury Maverick in the early 1940s, means, in his words, “talk or writing which is long, pompous, vague, involved, usually with Latinized words.”Read More →
A broader term indicates the more general class to which a term belongs in the controlled vocabulary; everything that is true of a term is also true of its broader term (e.g. Gossypium is broader than Gossypium hirsutum). … This term may also be used instead of non-preferred term. IsRead More →
1a : being at variance : disagreeing discordant opinions. b : quarrelsome a discordant family. 2 music : relating to a discord (see discord entry 1 sense 2) a discordant tone. What is the principle of discordance? Discordance, in genetics typically means that a similar trait is not shared betweenRead More →