Sunday, July 2, 2017

Upfront

It is not known upfront. = it is not known beforehand.

Equally likely

They are equally likely.
Viewing directions are not equally likely.

Wednesday, June 28, 2017

succumb

He succumbed to heart attack.


از پا در امدن

There is a little more to it

There is a little more to it

There is a lot more to it, if you wanna really to go in depth

Monday, June 26, 2017

genie

I may not be a genie, but I can make all your career wishes come true!

غول چراغ جادو

Comfy

I like my shoes. They are comfy and roomy.

Tuesday, June 13, 2017

the other way around

Always merge the feature branch to the master branch, not the other way around

as of yet

The Visual Studio project links the unit tests against the actual .lib file used by the encoder. There is no Makefile as of yet.

As per

As per usual I tried to see into Myra's mind and as per usual I got nowhere at all.


As per your instruction


Paper ID (as per the EasyChair Submission System)


As per: مطابقِ

Wednesday, April 26, 2017

 The doctor arrived in the nick of time.

= only just in time
سربزنگاه

stingy

He is raking in dollars, but he is stingy.

Monday, April 24, 2017

Tuesday, April 11, 2017

in foreseeable future

8K resolution is arriving in foreseeable future.

cede vs seed

cede
/sid/
Hong Kong was ceded to Britain in 1842.

seed
/sid/


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cession
/ˈsɛʃ ən/
act of ceding

session
/ˈsɛʃ ən/

Friday, April 7, 2017

Long

Every now and then I long for a piece of chocolate.
Every so often I long for a piece of chocolate.
Every once in a while I long for a piece of chocolate.
From time to time I long for a piece of chocolate.

insatiable

insatiable thirst for technology
insatiable hunger for knowledge

Wednesday, March 29, 2017

Tuesday, March 28, 2017

Git is so fast your hat will fly off.

you can't imagine ...

You can't imagine how good it is, until you have experienced it.

a rotatory movement

/ˈroʊ təˌtɔr i, -ˌtoʊr i/

high volume

in high volume
To make money on these cars you have to produce them in high volume.

a high volume of ...
The intersections near Grand Avenue have a high volume of traffic.

Tuesday, March 21, 2017

out of sorts

 I've been out of sorts for a day or two.

= not feeling well

He never said anything.

rip open

He went directly to the back of the store and ripped open a package of knives.

clingy

a person who is too dependent (negative)
سریش



for cloths it is a positive adjective which means چسبون.

Monday, March 13, 2017

coleslaw

coleslaw or slaw

/ˈkoʊlˌslɔ/



سالاد کام

Sounds

a whistling sound
a whooshing sound

Give it a whiz

Toss it all into the blender. Give it a whiz and you're done.



It means give it a try, give it a whirl, give it a go... I.e. try it.

a gentle reminder

This is a gentle reminder about my talk tomorrow.

Friday, March 10, 2017

Like prior years

Like prior years, this year's MMSys is very competitive. 

Capped

They were asked for rent increases far above the capped annual increase allowed for month-to-month agreements.

Rents

Rents rose sharply in Vancouver between 2015 and 2016.

overrun

We overran them. They didn't cross midfield.

to overrun:
1) spread over or occupy (a place) in large numbers تسخیر کردن
2) continue beyond or above (an expected or allowed time or cost) از حد رد شدن

Friday, February 24, 2017

Thursday, February 23, 2017

Friday, February 17, 2017

Thursday, February 16, 2017

alongside

Line up alongside the black tape.

/əˈlɔŋˈsaɪd, əˈlɒŋ-/
= beside; by the side of; next to;

permeate

the aroma of soup permeated the air.



/ˈpɜr miˌeɪt/
spread throughout (something)

starts

As technology advances, ...
As technology evolves, ...
With the proliferation of mobile devices, ...

Thanks to ..., ...
As a result of ..., ...
Owing to the introduction of ..., ...
Due to ..., ...

grows

The computational complexity of this algorithm grows quadratically with the number of available time slots.


/kwɒˈdræt ɪk/
of the second degree

Monday, February 13, 2017

staunch

He is a staunch Republican.
He is a staunch liberal.


adj.
/stɔntʃ, stɑntʃ/

ثابت قدم

tweak

We have a very outstanding trade relationship with Canada. We’ll be tweaking it.

to tweak:  to make a fine adjustment

Thursday, February 9, 2017

trendy

"This was not common or trendy 40 years ago", she pointed out.

innermost

the innermost layer of the earth


داخلی ترین

Wednesday, February 8, 2017

humble beginnings

Great things can come from humble beginnings.

fortify

Winter is coming - time to fortify yourself with some hot coffee (and timbits).

/ˈfɔr təˌfaɪ/
strengthen (a place) with defensive works so as to protect it against attack.



Tuesday, February 7, 2017

Wednesday, February 1, 2017

internment

Today's Google Doodle honors Fred Korematsu, an American civil rights activist who objected to the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. He famously said, "If you have the feeling that something is wrong, don't be afraid to speak up."



/ɪnˈtɜrn mənt/
the state of being confined as a prisoner, especially for political or military reasons.

Monday, January 30, 2017

I'm of the school

I'm of the school that if you don't understand me, it's not a failure on your part, it's a failure on my end in that I didn't explain it right...

hardliners

This is not just limited to the United States; in my country hardliners are the same. For years on both sides of the ocean, groups of hardliners have tried to present to their people unrealistic and fearful images of various nations and cultures in order to turn their differences into disagreements, their disagreements into enmities and their enmities into fears. Instilling fear in the people is an important tool used to justify extremist and fanatic behavior by narrow-minded individuals.



a hardliner
افراطی گرا

as of yet

If they can renew their visa, then presumably they'll be allowed to re-enter and everything will be OK, but I don't have an answer as of yet.

Friday, January 27, 2017

stems from

A significant part of these gains stems from the cube map layout projection.

three quarters of the time

Users can experience the full video quality three quarters of the time.

Cook

A stove
An oven
A rice cooker
A slow cooker
A pressure cooker


A cook
A chef

Whatever it takes

We are going to do whatever it takes to protect our drinking water.

Subsistence

They also rely on cultural foods for subsistence and are at greater risk for adverse effects from an oil spill.



امرار معاش

Mathematics

I have a PhD in mathematics.

Mathematics is my favorite subject.

He is extremely gifted in mathematics.

Numbers

310,000
three hundred some thousands

2.578
two point something

322
three twenty two

555
five fifty five


Math

Euclidean
/yuˈklɪd i ən/

Cartesian
/kɑrˈti ʒən/

orthodromic
(ˌɔːθəˈdrɒmɪk)

Yesterday this time

Yesterday this time, the bus was full.

Wednesday, January 18, 2017

doing well

I hope that you and your family are fine and doing well.
 I hope everything is going well with you.

Tuesday, January 17, 2017

funk

IT'S TIME TO UNFUNK JANUARY
January is officially the funkiest month of the year. The holidays are over, it’s dark, cold and we’re more plump and pale than ever. It’s just a big fat month of the blahs.



funk = a dejected mood
blah = something that is boring, depression

Thursday, January 12, 2017

particularly special

This year is particularly special as we bring out the sparklers and cakes for Dine Out's 15th anniversary.

uplifting

uplifting

امیدبخش
نشاط آور

Monday, January 9, 2017

in late 2010

One of its investment companies alone was worth about $40 billion in late 2010.

Saturday, January 7, 2017

more than one

There is more than one knife in the kitchen.
There are more than six knives in the kitchen.

Wednesday, January 4, 2017

correspondent

Each cluster is correspondent to one skill level. --> Each cluster corresponds to one skill level.

Getting into

You're very young. You don't have any idea what your are getting into.

the last half-century

Take a look at some of the most memorable photos of the last half-century.

Tuesday, January 3, 2017

atheist

An atheist denies the existence of a supreme being or beings.

/ˈeɪ θi ɪst/

0.5 second or seconds

  • 1 second/kilo/dollar
  • half a second/kilo/dollar
  • 0 seconds/kilos/dollars
  • 0.5 (zero point five) seconds/kilos/dollars
  • 0.1 (zero point one) seconds/kilos/dollars


Monday, January 2, 2017

a good fit

Teaching is a good fit for me.
See if teaching is a good fit for you.