Uni Dict

Açık ve Uzaktan Öğrenme (S) (B)

  • ad hoc /ˌæd ˈhɑːk/ adjective
    1. arranged or happening when necessary and not planned in advance
      • an ad hoc meeting to deal with the problem
      • The meetings will be held on an ad hoc basis.
    Origin: Latin, literally ‘to this’.
  • encompass /ɪnˈkʌmpəs/ verb
    1. encompass something to include a large number or range of things
      • The job encompasses a wide range of responsibilities.
      • The group encompasses all ages.
    2. encompass something to surround or cover something completely
      • The fog soon encompassed the whole valley.
    Origin: Middle English (formerly also as incompass): from en-, in- ‘within’ + compass.
  • lament /ləˈment/ verb
    1. lament something | lament that… | + speech to have or express very sad feelings about somebody/something // SYNONYM bemoan, bewail
      • In the poem he laments the destruction of the countryside.
      • She sat alone weeping, lamenting her fate.
    Origin: late Middle English (as a verb): from French lamenter or Latin lamentari, from lamenta (plural) ‘weeping, wailing’.
  • periphery /pəˈrɪfəri/ noun
    1. the outer edge of a particular area
      • [on the periphery of something] industrial development on the periphery of the town
      • The condition makes it difficult for patients to see objects at the periphery of their vision.
      • Extensive new planting is taking place around the periphery of the site.
    2. the less important part of something, for example of a particular activity or of a social or political group
      • [on the periphery of something] minor parties on the periphery of American politics
    Origin: late 16th cent. (denoting a line that forms the boundary of something): via late Latin from Greek periphereia ‘circumference’, from peripherēs ‘revolving around’, from peri- ‘around’ + pherein ‘to bear’.
  • touchstone /ˈtʌtʃstəʊn/ noun
    1. touchstone (of/for something) something that provides a standard against which other things are compared and/or judged
      • the touchstone for quality
      • Grammar was regarded as the touchstone of all language performance.
      • He has been a guiding beacon in my life and a touchstone of human integrity.
      • She remained for them a touchstone of good sense.
      • The nineteenth-century struggle to reconstitute Poland was a touchstone for liberals and socialists alike.
      • The way medicines are sold has become one of the touchstone issues of modern capitalism.