tribrid n.— «The Kinesis K3 Charger is what’s known in the biz as a “tribrid,” a hybrid with three parts. It’s a solar charger, a wind generator and a plain battery charger.» —“Kinesis K3 Charger – Emergency 3-in-1...
sputter v.— «A thin gas of electrically charged particles called a plasma, the solar wind blows constantly from the surface of the sun at some 250 to 370 miles per second (about 400 to 600 kilometers/second). According to Slavin...
A recent article in The New Yorker magazine about the late writer David Foster Wallace has Martha musing about Wallace’s stem-winding sentences, and the word stem-winder.
price walk n.— «What’s the difference between the black Volkswagen CC I drove on the launch event in Tennessee and the black Volkswagen CC that I just recently drove for week here at home? Not a heck of a lot, really, unless you’re...
We’re continuing our look at some of the words of the year of 2008 with words related to automobiles.
The British publishers of the Collins dictionary have announced 24 words on their endangered species list. They’re words like “vilipend,” which means “to treat with contempt,” and “nitid,” that’s n-i-t...