عبد الحفيظ جباري
13/02/2008, 04:10 PM
السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته،
يسعدني أن أوافيكم بكلمتيْ هذا اليوم.
والسلام عليكم.
Haywire (adjective)
Pronunciation: ['hey-wIr]
Definition: (Colloquial) Crazy, out of control.
Usage: Today's word represents an unusual though not rare situation in which an adjective derived from the noun exhibits a wholly different sense and use
than the noun. The noun still refers to wire used in baling hay (though hay is generally rolled and plastic-wrapped today) but the adjective means
"crazy!" There is no adverb form nor verbal use available.
Suggested Usage: Today's term is colloquial if not slang, which means its usage is restricted to casual conversation and circumscribed from formal writing. It is used mostly in the phrase "go haywire:" "My car has gone completely haywire. When I switch on the heater, the windshiled wipers flap." It is an adjective, however, with the usual sorts of adjectival applications, "My cat had a haywire moment this weekend and started chasing
dogs."
Etymology: Many think today's word is a story of semantics gone haywire. "Haywire" originated as a normal compound of the words "hay" and "wire"
denoting the wire used to bale hay. However, in the days before duct tape (no, it wasn't originally used to tape ducks), clueless toolless people made
the same repairs with haywire. As early as 1905 the term "haywire outfit" was used to refer to a poorly equipped work crew, taking on the adjectival
meaning "makeshift" or "jury-rigged" (the original spelling of "jerry-rigged"). Then, in a totally unrelated development, it acquired the sense of "crazy, unpredictable" because of the unpredictable way it flies apart when, tightly stretched around a bale of hay, it is cut to open the bale.
–Dr. Language, YourDictionary.com
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Concupiscence (noun)
Pronunciation: [kahn-kyê-'pi-shênts]
Definition: A powerful lust, especially sexual, for something.
Usage: The word is often used as the antonym of Platonic love. St. Augustine wrote on marriage and concupiscence, noting that the avoidance of concupiscence toward the spouses of others is not enough; married couples should extirpate it from their relationship, too.
Suggested Usage: The word may be used metaphorically to express a strong, visceral desire for anything: "Her concupiscence for chocolate keeps her in Tae Bo classes constantly." You might also say, "His concupiscence for work left his family in despair," instead of calling him a workaholic
Etymology: Latin concupiscere "to desire ardently", from com- "with" + cupere "to desire". The stem cup- underlies "Cupid" and "cupidity", from cupido "desire".
–Dr. Language, YourDictionary.com
يسعدني أن أوافيكم بكلمتيْ هذا اليوم.
والسلام عليكم.
Haywire (adjective)
Pronunciation: ['hey-wIr]
Definition: (Colloquial) Crazy, out of control.
Usage: Today's word represents an unusual though not rare situation in which an adjective derived from the noun exhibits a wholly different sense and use
than the noun. The noun still refers to wire used in baling hay (though hay is generally rolled and plastic-wrapped today) but the adjective means
"crazy!" There is no adverb form nor verbal use available.
Suggested Usage: Today's term is colloquial if not slang, which means its usage is restricted to casual conversation and circumscribed from formal writing. It is used mostly in the phrase "go haywire:" "My car has gone completely haywire. When I switch on the heater, the windshiled wipers flap." It is an adjective, however, with the usual sorts of adjectival applications, "My cat had a haywire moment this weekend and started chasing
dogs."
Etymology: Many think today's word is a story of semantics gone haywire. "Haywire" originated as a normal compound of the words "hay" and "wire"
denoting the wire used to bale hay. However, in the days before duct tape (no, it wasn't originally used to tape ducks), clueless toolless people made
the same repairs with haywire. As early as 1905 the term "haywire outfit" was used to refer to a poorly equipped work crew, taking on the adjectival
meaning "makeshift" or "jury-rigged" (the original spelling of "jerry-rigged"). Then, in a totally unrelated development, it acquired the sense of "crazy, unpredictable" because of the unpredictable way it flies apart when, tightly stretched around a bale of hay, it is cut to open the bale.
–Dr. Language, YourDictionary.com
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Concupiscence (noun)
Pronunciation: [kahn-kyê-'pi-shênts]
Definition: A powerful lust, especially sexual, for something.
Usage: The word is often used as the antonym of Platonic love. St. Augustine wrote on marriage and concupiscence, noting that the avoidance of concupiscence toward the spouses of others is not enough; married couples should extirpate it from their relationship, too.
Suggested Usage: The word may be used metaphorically to express a strong, visceral desire for anything: "Her concupiscence for chocolate keeps her in Tae Bo classes constantly." You might also say, "His concupiscence for work left his family in despair," instead of calling him a workaholic
Etymology: Latin concupiscere "to desire ardently", from com- "with" + cupere "to desire". The stem cup- underlies "Cupid" and "cupidity", from cupido "desire".
–Dr. Language, YourDictionary.com