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Pronunciation:
/ pôrtl /
Entry Note:
n.(countable); adj;
Explanation:
n.1. A doorway, entrance, or gate, especially one that is large and imposing.2. An entrance or a means of entrance: the local library, a portal of knowledge. The portal vein. 3. A website considered as an entry point to other websites, often by being or providing access to a search engineadj.1. Of or relating to the portal vein or the portal system.2. Of or relating to a point of entrance to an organ, especially the transverse fissure of the liver, through which the blood vessels enter.
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Examples of Usage:
The massive portal yawned, somber and sorrowful, before us, giving a glimpse of marble halls within.From Charles Dickens' The Great Expectations
But all the estuaries of great rivers have their fascination, the attractiveness of an open portal.Edgar Allan Poe
The ELTC training portal offers a number of facilities that are useful to English language teachers.
Epistemology:
Middle English, from Old French, from Medieval Latin portle, city gate, from neuter of portlis, of a gate, from Latin porta, gate; see per- 2 in Indo-European roots. N., sense 3 and adj., from New Latin porta (hepatis), transverse fissure (of the liver), literally gate of the liver perhaps ultimately translation of Akkadian bb (ekalli), gate (of the palace), umbilical fissure of the liver (next to the transverse fissure)
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Pronunciation:
/ stæn-d'rd /
Entry Note:
n.; adj.; adj. standardly
Explanation:
noun1. a level of quality or attainment.2. a required or agreed level of quality or attainment.3. something used as a measure, norm, or model in comparative evaluations.4. (standards) principles of honourable, decent behaviour. 5. a military or ceremonial flag.6. an upright water or gas pipe. 7. a tree that grows on an erect stem of full height.8. a shrub grafted on an erect stem and trained in tree form.
adjective1. used or accepted as normal or average. 2. (of a size, measure, etc.) regularly used or produced. 3. (of a work, writer, etc.) viewed as authoritative and so widely read.
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Examples of Usage:
ELTC recently held a colloquium to discuss pedagogy standards for English lanaguage teachers.
Uncontrolled inflation eventually lowers the standard of living.
Soldiers on the battlefield rallied around their standard and waited for the next wave of attack.
The school has very high safety standards in its science laboratories.
Epistemology:
ORIGIN Old French estendart, from estendre ‘extend’.
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Pronunciation:
[súk'r]
Entry Note:
Also spelt as succor
n.(pl. succours); transitive verb
Explanation:
1. n. Help and support in times of hardship and distress; 2. n. Somebody or something that provides help or relief
3. v. to provide help or relief to somebody or something in a difficult or unpleasant situation
Conjugations:
Past and past participle succoured, present participle succouring, 3rd person present singular succours
Examples of Usage:
The real problem began when the Orang Asli began to face Japanese reprisals for giving succour to bandits.
From Bayly & Harper's The Forgotten Armies
He was remembered for his undying effort to succour the disadvantaged and oppressed.
In the recent earthquake, the multinational emergency teams were busy providing 24-hour succour to the injured.
Epistemology:
Latin succursus, from succurrere ‘run to the help of’; 13th century, via Old French sucurs
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