Category Archives: Vocabularies

Circumzenithal arc: Refracted upside down rainbow, "a smile in the sky", from horizontally oriented ice crystals.

Another meaning for troll: A partsong in which voices follow each other; one voice starts and others join in one after another until all are singing different parts of the song at the same time. Source: Wordweb

Nonchalant Marked by blithe unconcern, carefree. First heard in Paul Washer's response to Worship.

From Dictionary.com Origin: 1250–1300;  ME: foolish, stupid < OF: silly, simple < L nescius  ignorant, incapable, equiv. to ne-  negative prefix + sci-  (s. of scīre  to know; see science) + -us  adj. suffix

1. Serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being 2. More than is needed, desired, or required Definition by WordWeb I used "snake-oiling" in a conversation with a printer toner salesperson once, I did find snake-oil as too harsh … Continue reading →

I'd always tried to ask people...the spice pounder...the spice grinder, etc.  Finally, I've found the words (while looking for a good Indian kambing soup recipe) for these tools. Mortar is the bowl, pestle is the pounder. Now I can start … Continue reading →

贾玉铭, （1880 年－1964 年4月12日）山东人，是中国基督教福音派的著名神学家、解经家。 Kept forgetting how to write this name. Now I have an easy reference.

Game. So the game has a name: where teams competing by passing a message verbally from one teammate to another until the last teammate and see if the last member can recite the same message in accuracy. I have made … Continue reading →

This is the term used for those security response fields in preventing bot attack. CAPTCHA stands for: Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAPTCHA Although, there are many times, they are so "deformed" that … Continue reading →