Word of the Day: Remembrance

by PDG Scott McLaughlin | Sep 11, 2019 | The Dictionary Project: Word of the Day

Word of the Day: Remembrance

re-mem-brance / ri-ˈmem-brən(t)s

1. the state of keeping in the mind

Pleasure is the flower that passes; remembrance the lasting perfume.

Stanislas de Boufflers, 1738-1815

2. memory; one’s ability to recall

Let us not burden our remembrances with a heaviness that’s gone.

William Shakespeare, 1564-1616

3. an act of bringing something to mind

Youth lives on hope, old age on remembrance.

French Proverb

4. a specific memory of something or someone

[…] if you transform [grief] into remembrance, then you’re magnifying the person you lost and also giving something of that person to other people, so they can experience something of that person.

Patti Smith, 1946-

5. a memorial or commemorative object or event

A plaque at a September 11 memorial in Winslow, AZ reads: “These two steel beams from the World Trade Center, entrusted to the citizens of Winslow by the City of New York, along with the flag that was flown at the Pentagon, stand as the centerpiece of our Remembrance Garden.”

Thank you for including the Dictionary Project in the good work you do in your club. In my club, we have provided Dictionaries for third-grade students for enough years that now we are having former students help us to present dictionaries each year. They are often returning to the same classrooms that they were third-grade students. Teachers plead every year for us to NEVER quit this valuable project. They tell us that students NEED paper books to learn to read, to learn to do research and to do independent study. Please send me pictures of your presentations and tell me about your visits to the schools to give dictionaries to the students. To be included in our newsletter you can send me your stories at DG.2019@5630mail.org.

Word of the Day: Berry and Bury

by PDG Scott McLaughlin | Sep 10, 2019 | The Dictionary Project: Word of the Day

Word of the Day: Berry and Bury

berry

ber-ry / bĕr′ē ; plural berries

noun

1. a small, juicy stoneless fruit, regardless of its botanical structure

Naturally sweet and juicy, berries are low in sugar and high in nutrients – they are among the best foods you can eat.

Joel Fuhrman, 1953 –

2. a simple fruit with a pulpy wall in which two or more seeds are embedded, such as a grape, blueberry, currant, tomato or banana

There is a devil in every berry of the grape.

English proverb

3. a dried kernel or seed, such as a coffee bean or wheat

But what is coffee, but a noxious berry, Born to keep used-up Londoners awake?

Charles Stuart Calverley, 1831 – 1884

4. an egg of a lobster, crayfish or fish

The Commissioners tell us[…] that the lobster is in its very best condition when it is laden with its berry[…]

From The Quarterly Review, Volume 144 (1877)

verb

1. to pick or gather berries

Sometimes my sister would go berrying with me, but often I was on my own.

From “Yankee Summer: The Way We Were: Growing Up in a Rural Vermont in the 1930s” by Lewis Hill, 1924 – 2008

2. to grow or produce berries

Bring colour to your garden with berrying shrubs.

bury
bur-y / bĕr′ē

verb

1. to inter; to place in a grave or tomb, usually with a ceremony

Do not be like a miser who saves for those who will bury him.

Malagasy Proverb

2. to cover with earth

But there was something I liked about the idea of those seeds buried so deep having at least a chance to emerge.

From “Just Listen” by Sarah Dessen, 1970 –

As the seed buried in the earth cannot imagine itself as an orchid or hyacinth, neither can a heart packed with hurt imagine itself loved or at peace.

Mark Nepo, 1951 –

3. to cover in order to hide or conceal

The greatest talents often lie buried out of sight.

Plautus, 254 BC – 184 BC

4. to embed

The friends we have lost do not repose under the ground…they are buried deep in our hearts.

Alexandre Dumas, 1802 – 1870

5. to engross in deep concentration

Buried in sorrow and in sin,

At hell’s dark door we lay;

But we arise by grace Divine

To see a heav’nly day.

From “Hymn 88” by Isaac Watts, 1674 – 1748

6. to end; to abandon

It’s a poor bureaucrat who can’t stall a good idea until even its sponsor is relieved to see it dead and officially buried.

Robert Townsend, 1920 – 1998

Thank you for including the Dictionary Project in the good work you do in your club. In my club, we have provided Dictionaries for third-grade students for enough years that now we are having former students help us to present dictionaries each year. They are often returning to the same classrooms that they were third-grade students. Teachers plead every year for us to NEVER quit this valuable project. They tell us that students NEED paper books to learn to read, to learn to do research and to do independent study. Please send me pictures of your presentations and tell me about your visits to the schools to give dictionaries to the students. To be included in our newsletter you can send me your stories at DG.2019@5630mail.org.

Word of the Day: Intelligent

by PDG Scott McLaughlin | Sep 9, 2019 | The Dictionary Project: Word of the Day

Word of the Day: Intelligent

in-tel-li-gent / in-ˈte-lə-jənt

adjective

1. having or showing a great mental capacity; exceedingly smart

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

George Orwell, 1903-1950

2. showing rational thought and thorough understanding

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

Socrates, c. 470-399 BC

3. possessing intellect and the ability to reason

The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.

Bill Watterson, 1958-

4. run or controlled by computers

Trying to build intelligent machines has long been a human preoccupation, both with calculating machines and in literature.

Leon Sterling, ?-

Thank you for including the Dictionary Project in the good work you do in your club. In my club, we have provided Dictionaries for third-grade students for enough years that now we are having former students help us to present dictionaries each year. They are often returning to the same classrooms that they were third-grade students. Teachers plead every year for us to NEVER quit this valuable project. They tell us that students NEED paper books to learn to read, to learn to do research and to do independent study. Please send me pictures of your presentations and tell me about your visits to the schools to give dictionaries to the students. To be included in our newsletter you can send me your stories at DG.2019@5630mail.org.

Word of the Day: Potential

by PDG Scott McLaughlin | Sep 7, 2019 | The Dictionary Project: Word of the Day

Word of the Day: Potential

po-ten-tial / pə-ˈten(t)-shəl

adjective

1. possible; able to be achieved or done

After your daughter is married, there comes a number of potential sons-in-law.

Russian Proverb

2. capable of doing or being

Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen.

Emil Cioran, 1911-1995

noun

1. something that can develop or become

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.

Leo Buscaglia, 1924-1998

2. a quality that may or may not be developed

Continuous effort – not strength or intelligence – is the key to unlocking ourpotential.

Winston Churchill, 1874-1965

Thank you for including the Dictionary Project in the good work you do in your club. In my club, we have provided Dictionaries for third-grade students for enough years that now we are having former students help us to present dictionaries each year. They are often returning to the same classrooms that they were third-grade students. Teachers plead every year for us to NEVER quit this valuable project. They tell us that students NEED paper books to learn to read, to learn to do research and to do independent study. Please send me pictures of your presentations and tell me about your visits to the schools to give dictionaries to the students. To be included in our newsletter you can send me your stories at DG.2019@5630mail.org.

Word of the Day: Understanding

by PDG Scott McLaughlin | Sep 6, 2019 | The Dictionary Project: Word of the Day

Word of the Day: Understanding

un-der-stand-ing / ˌən-dər-ˈstan-diŋ

noun

1. comprehension

My whole life, I had been taught to read and study, to seek understanding in knowledge of history, of cultures.

Meghan O’Rourke, 1976-

2. strong power of discerning

He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.

Traditional Proverb

3. familiarity with a topic

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

Carl Jung, 1875-1961

4. an agreement between two or more parties

To write prescriptions is easy, but to come to an understanding with people is hard.

Franz Kafka, 1883-1924

5. sympathy for others

Only the development of compassion and understanding for others can bring us the tranquility and happiness we all seek.

Dalai Lama, 1935-

adjective

1. sympathetic

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy.

Maya Angelou, 1928-2014

Thank you for including the Dictionary Project in the good work you do in your club. In my club, we have provided Dictionaries for third-grade students for enough years that now we are having former students help us to present dictionaries each year. They are often returning to the same classrooms that they were third-grade students. Teachers plead every year for us to NEVER quit this valuable project. They tell us that students NEED paper books to learn to read, to learn to do research and to do independent study. Please send me pictures of your presentations and tell me about your visits to the schools to give dictionaries to the students. To be included in our newsletter you can send me your stories at DG.2019@5630mail.org.