Vocabulary about Steve Jobs' Speech


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Honored

hon·or  (ŏn′ər) n.

1. High respect, as that shown for special merit; esteem: the honor shown to a Nobel laureate.

2.     a. Good name; reputation.   b. A source or cause of credit: was an honor to the profession.

3.     a. Glory or recognition; distinction.    

        b. A mark, token, or gesture of respect or distinction: the place of honor at the table.

        c. A military decoration.

        d. A title conferred for achievement.

 

drop out

1. To withdraw from participation, as in a game, club, or school.

2. To withdraw from established society, especially because of disillusion with conventional values.

 

commencement  (kə-mĕnsmənt) n.

1. A beginning; a start.

2. a. A ceremony at which academic degrees or diplomas are conferred.

    b. The day on which such a ceremony occurs.

 

No big deal

no big deal and no biggie

Inf. [of something] not difficult or troublesome. Don't worry. It's no big deal to wash the car. No problem. It's no biggie.

 

quit

v. quit or quit·ted (kwĭt′ĭd), quit·ting, quits v.tr.

1. To depart from; leave: "You and I are on the point of quitting the theater of our exploits

     " (Horatio Nelson).

2. To leave the company of: had to quit the gathering in order to be home by midnight.

3. To give up; relinquish: quit a job.

4. To abandon or put aside; forsake: advised them to quit their dissipated ways.

5. To cease or discontinue: asked them to quit talking; quit smoking.

6. Computer Science To exit (an application).

 

a·dopt  (ə-dŏpt)tr.v. a·dopt·ed, a·dopt·ing, a·dopts

1. To take into one's family through legal means and raise as one's own child.

2. a. To take and follow (a course of action, for example) by choice or assent: adopt a new

     technique.

                   b. To take up and make one's own: adopt a new idea.

3. To take on or assume: adopted an air of importance.

4. To vote to accept: adopt a resolution.

5. To choose as standard or required in a course: adopt a new line of English textbooks.

 

re·fuse 1  (rĭ-fyo̅o̅z)

v. re·fused, re·fus·ing, re·fus·es v.tr.

1.            a. To indicate unwillingness to do, accept, give, or allow: She was refused admittance.

 He refused treatment.

b. To indicate unwillingness (to do something): refused to leave.

2. To decline to jump (an obstacle). Used of a horse.v.intr.

To decline to do, accept, give, or allow something.

 

re·lent  (rĭ-lĕnt)

v. re·lent·ed, re·lent·ing, re·lents v.intr.

To become more lenient, compassionate, or forgiving. See Synonyms at yield.  v.tr. Obsolete

1. To cause to slacken or abate.

2. To cause to soften in attitude or temper.

 

 

 

na·ive or na·ïve  (nī-ēv, nä-) also na·if or na·ïf (nī-ēf, nä-)adj.

1. Lacking worldly experience and understanding, especially:

a. Simple and guileless; artless: a child with a naive charm.

b. Unsuspecting or credulous: "Students, often bright but naive, bet—and lose—substantial sums of money on sporting events" (Tim Layden).

2. Showing or characterized by a lack of sophistication and critical judgment: "this extravagance of metaphors, with its naive bombast" (H.L. Mencken).

3. a. Not previously subjected to experiments: testing naive mice.

     b. Not having previously taken or received a particular drug: persons naive to marijuana.

n.

One who is artless, credulous, or uncritical.

 

Deposits de·pos·it  (dĭ-pŏz′ĭt)

v. de·pos·it·ed, de·pos·it·ing, de·pos·its v.tr.

1. To put or set down; place.

2. To lay down or leave behind by a natural process: layers of sediment that were deposited on the ocean floor; glaciers that deposited their debris as they melted.

3. a. To give over or entrust for safekeeping.

    b. To put (money) in a bank or financial account.

4. To give as partial payment or security. v.intr.

To become deposited; settle.

n.

1. Something, such as money, that is entrusted for safekeeping, as in a bank.

2. The condition of being deposited: funds on deposit with a broker.

3. A partial or initial payment of a cost or debt: left a $100 deposit toward the purchase of a stereo system.

4. A sum of money given as security for an item acquired for temporary use.

5. A depository.

6. Something deposited, especially by a natural process, as:

a. Geology A concentration of mineral matter or sediment in a layer, vein, or pocket: iron ore deposits; rich deposits of oil and natural gas.

b. Physiology An accumulation of organic or inorganic material, such as a lipid or mineral, in a body tissue, structure, or fluid.

c. A sediment or precipitate that has settled out of a solution.

7. A coating or crust left on a surface, as by evaporation or electrolysis.

 

curiosity

cu·ri·os·i·ty  (kyo͝or′ē-ŏs′ĭ-tē)

n. pl. cu·ri·os·i·ties

1. A desire to know or learn.

2. A desire to know about people or things that do not concern one; nosiness.

3. An object that arouses interest, as by being novel or extraordinary: kept the carved bone and displayed it as a curiosity.

4. A strange or odd aspect.

5. Archaic Fastidiousness.





Intuition

in·tu·i·tion  (ĭnto̅o̅-ĭsh′ən, -tyo̅o̅-)n.

1. a. The act or faculty of knowing or sensing without the use of rational processes; immediate cognition.

    b. Knowledge gained by the use of this faculty; a perceptive insight.

2. A sense of something not evident or deducible; an impression.

 

Calligraphic

cal·lig·ra·phy  (kə-lĭgrə-fē)n.

1.  a. The art of fine handwriting.

     b. Works in fine handwriting considered as a group.

2. Handwriting.

 

Reject

re·ject  (rĭ-jĕkt)  tr.v. re·ject·ed, re·ject·ing, re·jects

1. To refuse to accept, submit to, believe, or make use of.

2. To refuse to consider or grant; deny.

3. To refuse to recognize or give affection to (a person).

4. To discard as defective or useless; throw away. See Synonyms at refuse1.

5. To spit out or vomit.

6. Medicine To resist immunologically the introduction of (a transplanted organ or tissue); fail to accept as part of one's own body.

n. (rē′jĕkt)

One that has been rejected: a reject from the varsity team; a tire that is a reject.

 

Encountered

en·coun·ter  (ĕn-kountər) n.

1. A meeting, especially one that is unplanned, unexpected, or brief: a chance encounter in the park.

2.  a. A hostile or adversarial confrontation; a contest: a tense naval encounter.

     b. An often violent meeting; a clash.

v. en·coun·tered, en·coun·ter·ing, en·coun·ters v.tr.

1. To meet, especially unexpectedly; come upon: encountered an old friend on the street.

2. To confront in battle or contention.

3. To come up against: encounter numerous obstacles.

v.intr.

To meet, especially unexpectedly.

 

Phrasal Verb:

button up

1. To fasten one's clothing tightly, as against cold weather.

2. To close or seal securely: button up the cabin for winter.

3. To complete the final details of: "Publication is a couple of months off; they're just buttoning up paperback rights" (Donald Dale Jackson).

 

bi·op·sy  (bī′ŏpsē)

n. pl. bi·op·sies

1. The removal and examination of a sample of tissue from a living body for diagnostic purposes.

2. A sample so obtained.

tr.v. bi·op·sied, bi·op·sy·ing, bi·op·sies

To remove (tissue) from a living body for diagnostic purposes.

 

en·do·scope  (ĕndə-skōp) n.

An instrument for examining visually the interior of a bodily canal or a hollow organ such as the colon, bladder, or stomach.

 

cur·a·ble  (kyo͝or′ə-bəl) adj.

Being such that curing or healing is possible: curable diseases.

 

in·tel·lec·tu·al  (ĭntl-ĕkcho̅o̅-əl) adj.

1.   a. Of or relating to the intellect.

      b. Rational rather than emotional.

2.  Appealing to or engaging the intellect: an intellectual book; an intellectual problem.

3.   a. Having or showing intellect, especially to a high degree. See Synonyms at intelligent.

      b. Given to activities or pursuits that require exercise of the intellect.

n.

An intellectual person.

 

 

Dog·ma  (dôgmə, dŏg-) n. pl. dog·mas or dog·ma·ta (-mə-tə)

1. A doctrine or a corpus of doctrines relating to matters such as morality and faith, set forth in an authoritative manner by a church.

2. An authoritative principle, belief, or statement of ideas or opinion, especially one considered to be absolutely true. See Synonyms at doctrine.

3. A principle or belief or a group of them: "The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present" (Abraham Lincoln).

 

hitch·hike  (hĭchhīk)

v. hitch·hiked, hitch·hik·ing, hitch·hikes

v.intr.

To travel by soliciting free rides along a road.

v.tr.

To solicit or get (a free ride) along a road.

 

Fare·well  (fâr-wĕl) interj.

Used to express goodbye.

n.

1. An acknowledgment at parting; a goodbye.

2. The act of departing or taking leave.

 

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