Word of the Day

Gargamel · 01-24-16, 02:03 PM

Bespoke: Made to order. "A bespoke suit"

I had heard it many times before, and thought I understood what it meant, I always thought it related specifically to clothing. But today I heard it used with furniture. So I looked it up. Cool.

Add your word of the day, something common or uncommon, that means something slightly or vastly different than what you thought.

Gargamel · 01-24-16, 02:07 PM

And to top it off, I just found the word I have been looking for. Spent a few years wondering about the word, I knew the definition, but couldn't find the word.

Philomath: Lover of Learning.

vienna · 01-24-16, 04:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Gargamel

And to top it off, I just found the word I have been looking for. Spent a few years wondering about the word, I knew the definition, but couldn't find the word.

Philomath: Lover of Learning.

In the same vein: Polymath: A person highly knowledgeable and adept in many fields of learning...

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Aktungbby · 01-24-16, 04:11 PM

[QUOTE Catfish] i will never be able to understand how this .. language works.[/QUOTE]

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Originally Posted by vienna

In the same vein: Polymath: A person highly knowledgeable and adept in many fields of learning...

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I'm not so sure: polymaths are pretty stuck-up buggers...'in the same vain' maybe!

vienna · 01-24-16, 05:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Aktungbby

[QUOTE Catfish] i will never be able to understand how this .. language works.

I'm not so sure: polymaths are pretty stuck-up buggers...'in the same vain' maybe!

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Ah, a pun! Very good!...

If you read the histories of some of the noted polymaths throughout history, you will find them not really vain at all; in fact, they were so consumed in pursuing their various studies, they had little time for acclaim, self or external. The impression of their being aloof or condescending comes mainly from an intellectual and, often, emotional, disconnect with the general populace occasioned by that which gave them their gifts; it is a price levied for their gifts or, as some would say, "The Lord gives; the Lord takes away"...

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Eichhörnchen · 01-25-16, 02:42 AM

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/secular

For years I thought that the word secular meant "pertaining to religion", until I found that it means completely the opposite.

Aktungbby · 01-24-16, 02:18 PM

Wheelwright's use it too, especially in Lancaster county PA when you're 'hot to trot' the ol' buggy on a Saturday night!

that's my bespoke wheel pair on the right

http://www.amishwares.com/site/1504461/page/4105876

Catfish · 01-24-16, 02:21 PM

Just when it comes to the english word "bespeak" or "bespoke", i will never be able to understand how this .. language works. Dictionary shows nine different meanings of said word, and they all have nothing to do with each other, or a common meaning. All depends on the context in which they are used

Schroeder · 01-24-16, 02:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Catfish

Just when it comes to the english word "bespeak" or "bespoke", i will never be able to understand how this .. language works. Dictionary shows nine different meanings of said word, and they all have nothing to do with each other, or a common meaning. All depends on the context in which they are used

So it has werfed Nebel ?

Jimbuna · 01-25-16, 06:07 AM

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Originally Posted by Gargamel

Bespoke: Made to order. "A bespoke suit"

I had heard it many times before, and thought I understood what it meant, I always thought it related specifically to clothing. But today I heard it used with furniture. So I looked it up. Cool.

Add your word of the day, something common or uncommon, that means something slightly or vastly different than what you thought.

Many of the diecast aircraft I commission are bespoke....one-off.

Aktungbby · 01-25-16, 10:41 AM

The word that got me was foment: [to cause or try to cause the growth or development of (something bad or harmful)ie rebellion] which is often cross confused to ferment: one definition of which is [to be in a state of agitation or intense activity ie rebellion]...which leads to the completely fabricated cobbled word: forment... which does not exist! but is used in a book A World Lit only by Fire by no less than William Manchester to describe a political situation, but probably just a poorly paid proofer-typesetter's gross error.

Eichhörnchen · 01-25-16, 10:54 AM

And plenty of people continue to get the words infer and imply confused.

Jimbuna · 01-25-16, 11:07 AM

Never desert your friends in the desert.

Aktungbby · 01-25-16, 11:21 AM

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Originally Posted by Jimbuna

Never desert your friends in the desert.

Lest... in vengeance... your friends dish out your just desserts

01-24-16, 02:03 PM	#1
Gargamel Lucky Sailor Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Rome Posts: 4,273 Downloads: 81 Uploads: 0	Word of the Day Bespoke: Made to order. "A bespoke suit" I had heard it many times before, and thought I understood what it meant, I always thought it related specifically to clothing. But today I heard it used with furniture. So I looked it up. Cool. Add your word of the day, something common or uncommon, that means something slightly or vastly different than what you thought. __________________ Luck is a residue of Design.

01-24-16, 02:07 PM	#2
Gargamel Lucky Sailor Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Rome Posts: 4,273 Downloads: 81 Uploads: 0	And to top it off, I just found the word I have been looking for. Spent a few years wondering about the word, I knew the definition, but couldn't find the word. Philomath: Lover of Learning. __________________ Luck is a residue of Design.

01-25-16, 02:42 AM	#6
Eichhörnchen Starte das Auto Join Date: Aug 2014 Location: The Fens Posts: 17,369 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	SECULAR http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/secular For years I thought that the word secular meant "pertaining to religion", until I found that it means completely the opposite. __________________

01-24-16, 02:18 PM	#7
Aktungbby Gefallen Engel U-666 Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: On a tilted, overheated, overpopulated spinning mudball on Collision course with Andromeda Galaxy Posts: 29,979 Downloads: 24 Uploads: 0	a bespoke 'rumspringa' BBY! Wheelwright's use it too, especially in Lancaster county PA when you're 'hot to trot' the ol' buggy on a Saturday night! that's my bespoke wheel pair on the right http://www.amishwares.com/site/1504461/page/4105876 __________________ "Only two things are infinite; The Universe and human squirrelyness?!!

01-24-16, 02:21 PM	#8
Catfish Dipped Squirrel Operative Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: ..where the ocean meets the sky Posts: 17,765 Downloads: 38 Uploads: 0	Just when it comes to the english word "bespeak" or "bespoke", i will never be able to understand how this .. language works. Dictionary shows nine different meanings of said word, and they all have nothing to do with each other, or a common meaning. All depends on the context in which they are used __________________ >^..^<*)))>{ All generalizations are wrong.

01-25-16, 10:41 AM	#11
Aktungbby Gefallen Engel U-666 Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: On a tilted, overheated, overpopulated spinning mudball on Collision course with Andromeda Galaxy Posts: 29,979 Downloads: 24 Uploads: 0	The word that got me was foment: [to cause or try to cause the growth or development of (something bad or harmful)ie rebellion] which is often cross confused to ferment: one definition of which is [to be in a state of agitation or intense activity ie rebellion]...which leads to the completely fabricated cobbled word: forment... which does not exist! but is used in a book A World Lit only by Fire by no less than William Manchester to describe a political situation, but probably just a poorly paid proofer-typesetter's gross error. __________________ "Only two things are infinite; The Universe and human squirrelyness?!!

01-25-16, 10:54 AM	#12
Eichhörnchen Starte das Auto Join Date: Aug 2014 Location: The Fens Posts: 17,369 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	And plenty of people continue to get the words infer and imply confused. __________________

01-25-16, 11:07 AM	#13
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 190,452 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	Never desert your friends in the desert. __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!