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A shut-in is a person confined indoors, especially as a result of physical or mental disability. Agoraphobe. Recluse. Invalid, or patient. Hikikomori, a Japanese term for reclusive adolescents or adults who withdraw from social life.
Shut-ins are inherently confined to a narrow valley or canyon, with the river valley widening out both above and below the formation. Because the rock resists downcutting, streams typically descend at relatively steep gradient through shut-ins, with the downstream terminus of the formation often marked by a very large plunge pool. The river ...
DW's news site is in seven core languages (Arabic, Chinese, English, German, Spanish, Portuguese for Brazil, and Russian), as well as a mixture of news and information in 23 other languages in which Deutsche Welle broadcasts. Persian became the site's eighth focus language in 2007.
Etymology. The English meditation is derived from Old French meditacioun, in turn from Latin meditatio from a verb meditari, meaning "to think, contemplate, devise, ponder". In the Catholic tradition, the use of the term meditatio as part of a formal, stepwise process of meditation goes back to at least the 12th-century monk Guigo II, before which the Greek word theoria was used for the same ...
Tanking (noun: tank): Colloquial term for losing a match on purpose; or to purposely lose a non-vital set, so as to focus energy and attention on a match-deciding set. It may result in a temporary ban such as that encountered by Nick Kyrgios at the 2016 and 2017 Shanghai Open. Tape it: To play a shot that hits the tape at the top of the net.
In linguistics, focus ( abbreviated FOC) is a grammatical category that conveys which part of the sentence contributes new, non-derivable, or contrastive information. In the English sentence "Mary only insulted BILL", focus is expressed prosodically by a pitch accent on "Bill" which identifies him as the only person Mary insulted.
Something you can no longer 'Google' and hope to find in Google Dictionary. [Thanks, Goog] ... to put (something) in a position to obstruct an entrance, opening, etc.; shut. to stop or obstruct (a ...
Through the use of multicasting, there have also been a number of new Spanish-language and non-commercial public TV networks that have launched. Free-to-air networks in the U.S. can be divided into five categories: Commercial networks – which air English-language programming to a general audience (for example, ABC, CBS, NBC, and Fox);