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Word of the Day: subterfuge

Dictionary.com/Word of the Day: subterfuge
Subterfuge comes from Late Latin subterfugium, “a secret flight,” from Latin subterfugere, “to flee in secret, to evade,” from subter, “underneath, underhand, in secret” + fugere, “to flee.” It is related to fugitive, one who flees.

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This article is about Subterfuge, the vocabulary word; to look up Subterfuge the Long Island hardcore band, see Subterfuge

Subterfuge can be any deceptive strategem or maneuver designed to take advantage of an opponent. Subterfuge is a recognized skill in situations of war or international spying. It has less positive connotations when used in the context of politics or personal relations.

Subterfuge may be legal and ethical (such as encouraging someone to spend the day shopping in order to prepare a surprise party for them) or illegal and unethical.

Subterfuge may include use of:

slander
disinformation campaign
secrecy

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Translations for: Subterfuge
Nederlands (Dutch)
uitvlucht

Français (French)
subterfuge

Deutsch (German)
n. - Täuschungsmanöver, Trick

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. πρόσχημα, υπεκφυγή

Italiano (Italian)
sotterfugio

Português (Portuguese)
n. - subterfúgio (m)

Русский (Russian)
увертка, уловка, ухищрение

Español (Spanish)
n. - subterfugio, escapatoria, evasiva

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - undanflykt, förevändning

中国话 (Simplified Chinese)
n. - 遁辞, 托辞, 借口

中國話 (Traditional Chinese)
n. - 遁辭, 托辭, 藉口

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 逃げ口上, 口実, ごまかし

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) حيله‏

עברית‬ (Hebrew)
n. - ‮תחבולה, תכסיס, התחמקות, השתמטות, אמתלה, תואנה‬

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Search results for subterfuge

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Word of the Day: ingenue

Dictionary.com/Word of the Day: ingenue

ingenue \AN-zhuh-noo\, noun:
1. A naive girl or young woman.
2. An actress playing such a person; also: the stage role of an ingenue.

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The google search returned only half a million of results… This term has been used by a magazine… like the other words in my wordblog, i would try to get this Ingenue page up in the top 10 in the search results. And then i will post the results here in this page in 2 months timeframe with the results.

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Translations for: Ingenue
Français (French)
ingénue

Deutsch (German)
n. - Naive, schlichtes Mädchen, Unschuld

Italiano (Italian)
ingenua (teatr.)

Português (Portuguese)
n. - ingênua (f) (Cin.) (TV) (Teatro)

Español (Spanish)
n. - ingenua, muchacha candorosa

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - ingeny(roll), oskuldsfull flicka (i teaterstycke)

中国话 (Simplified Chinese)
n. - 天真无邪的女子

中國話 (Traditional Chinese)
n. - 天真無邪的女子

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 純情な娘, 純情な娘役, 純情な少女

עברית‬ (Hebrew)
n. - ‮נערה תמימה‬

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The Ingenue is a stock character in literature and film and a role type in the theatre.

Typically, the ingenue is young, beautiful, virginal and often naïve, in mental or emotional danger rather than physical danger, usually a target of The Cad; she may have mistaken him for The Hero. The vamp is often a foil for the ingenue (or the damsel in distress, for that matter).

In opera and musical theatre, the ingenue is usually sung by a light soprano. The ingenue stereotypically has the fawn-eyed innocence of a child.

Ingenue and ingenuous may also refer to a new actor or actress or one typecast in such roles.

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Ingenue roles
include:

Mimì in La Bohème
Liù in Turandot
Michaëla in Carmen
Dorothy Gale in The Wizard of Oz
Snow White in Snow White
Christine Daaé in The Phantom of the Opera
Lauretta in Gianni Schicchi
Lakmé in Lakmé
Gilda in Rigoletto
Cosette in Les Miserables
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Known (for playing) ingenues
Mary Pickford
Lillian Gish
Mary Philbin
Marguerite Clark
Janet Gaynor
Bessie Love
Judy Garland
Sarah Brightman
Emmy Rossum

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Now onto our current search engine snapshots

Ingenue Magazine | The Hottest New Movie Stars!
Ingenue Magazine features all the hottest new movie stars and puts a fashionable spin on entertainment while providing an insider look at hollywood at work …
www.ingenue.com/ [Found on Google, Yahoo! Search, Ask Jeeves]

with more useful and interesting word in our next wordblog tomorrow..
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Word of the day - lucent

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lucent

adj : softly bright or radiant; “a house aglow with lights”; “glowing embers”; “lambent tongues of flame”; “the lucent moon”; “a sky luminous with stars”

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Popular tech company goes by that name
Lucent
(Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill, NJ, www.lucent.com) A major manufacturer of telecommunications equipment. Lucent makes telephones and telephone systems, large telephone switching computers and integrated circuits and optoelectronics components for communications and computer applications.

The company has a long history in the telecom arena. Its roots go back to 1869 when Elisha Gray and Enos Barton founded Gray and Barton in Cleveland, Ohio, a company that provided parts and models for inventors such as Gray himself. Gray and Barton was later renamed Western Electric Company when Western Union, its major customer, became an investor.

In 1881, American Bell Telephone purchased controlling interest in Western Electric, which became the manufacturing arm of the Bell companies. In 1899, AT&T, which was created 14 years earlier, took over American Bell and Western Electric. In 1925, the already-combined engineering departments of Western Electric and AT&T were turned into Bell Labs, which has become world famous for its research. A year later, Western Electric spun off its electrical distribution operations as Graybar Electric Company, which became the first large company to be bought out by its own employees.

Over the years, the company ushered in the electronic age by developing the vacuum tube. It also invented the loudspeaker, brought sound to motion pictures and introduced mobile communications, the forerunner of today’s cellular system. When AT&T was divested of its Bell operating companies in 1984, Western Electric remained with AT&T, but was soon split up into a variety of divisions, including Network Systems, which builds the major switching and telecom equipment. When spun off from AT&T in 1996, Lucent retained all of AT&T’s manufacturing units as well as Bell Labs.

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The word has become saturated in the web with references to lucent technologies and one cannot get themselves a good lucent page to show up …
Sorry folks this word is taken by one corporate and 14 million pages in total… and no one is ever going to find the rest…

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Word of the day:sanguine

Of the color of blood; red.
Of a healthy reddish color; ruddy: a sanguine complexion.
Archaic.
Having blood as the dominant humor in terms of medieval physiology.
Having the temperament and ruddy complexion formerly thought to be characteristic of a person dominated by this humor; passionate.
Cheerfully confident; optimistic.

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[Middle English, from Old French sanguin, from Latin sanguineus, from sanguis, sanguin-, blood.]
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sanguine·ly adv.
sanguine·ness or san·guini·ty n.
Word History: The similarity in form between sanguine, “cheerfully optimistic,” and sanguinary, “bloodthirsty,” may prompt one to wonder how they have come to have such different meanings. The explanation lies in medieval physiology with its notion of the four humors or bodily fluids (blood, bile, phlegm, and black bile). The relative proportions of these fluids was thought to determine a person’s temperament. If blood was the predominant humor, one had a ruddy face and a disposition marked by courage, hope, and a readiness to fall in love. Such a temperament was called sanguine, the Middle English ancestor of our word sanguine. The source of the Middle English word was Old French sanguin, itself from Latin sanguineus. Both the Old French and Latin words meant “bloody,” “blood-colored,” Old French sanguin having the sense “sanguine in temperament” as well. Latin sanguineus was in turn derived from sanguis, “blood,” just as English sanguinary is. The English adjective sanguine, first recorded in Middle English before 1350, continues to refer to the cheerfulness and optimism that accompanied a sanguine temperament but no longer has any direct reference to medieval physiology.
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Sanguine
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Sanguine can refer to:

Sanguine personality - optimistic, cheerful, even-tempered, confident, rational, popular, fun-loving; the temperament of blood. One of the four humours, the others being choleric, phlegmatic, and melancholic.
Sanguine is a tincture in heraldry, otherwise one of the “staynard colours” (stains). It is a brownish red, the colour of blood.
Sanguine was also an ELF antenna of the US Navy; see communication with submarines.
Sanguine is a drawing done in reddish chalk, particularly an Old Master drawing.
Sanguine is a red earth pigment used in the manufacture of artists chalks or pastels. First used by Renaissance artists. Still used by manufacturers such as Conté; to name reddish-brown chalks, coloured with Iron Oxide.
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Word of the Day: aplomb

aplomb \uh-PLOM\, noun:
Assurance of manner or of action; self-possession; confidence; coolness.

Then, unexpectedly, she picked up a microphone and began to sing. She sang several songs, handling herself with the aplomb of a professional entertainer
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Pronunciation Challenges: Confusions and Controversy

§ 18. aplomb
Confusion arises with the pronunciation of this word probably because the sequence omb has several conspicuously different ways of being pronounced—(m) as in bomb, (m) as in comb, (m) as in tomb. You can pronounce aplomb (-plm´) or (-plm´).
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This also figure in the Tiscali dictionary of difficult words.
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Translations for: Aplomb
Nederlands (Dutch)
zelfverzekerdheid

Français (French)
aplomb

Deutsch (German)
n. - Aplomb, Selbstsicherheit

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. αυτοπεποίθηση (κν. τουπέ), αταραξία, ψυχραιμία

Italiano (Italian)
perpendicolarità, padronanza di sé

Português (Portuguese)
n. - compostura (f), calma (f), serenidade (f), firmeza (f), autoconfiança (f)

Русский (Russian)
апломб, самоуверенность

Español (Spanish)
n. - aplomo, ecuanimidad

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - självsäkerhet, lodrät ställning

中国话 (Simplified Chinese)
n. - 沉着, 垂直, 泰然自若

中國話 (Traditional Chinese)
n. - 沈著, 垂直, 泰然自若

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 冷静, 沈着, 自信, 鉛直

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) انتصاب, وضع عمودي, ثقه بالنفس‏

עברית‬ (Hebrew)
n. - ‮ביטחון עצמי‬

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Dictionary.com/Word of the Day: ebullient

Dictionary.com/Word of the Day: ebullient

Translations for: Ebullient
Nederlands (Dutch)
uitgelaten

Français (French)
exubérant, joyeux et excité

Deutsch (German)
adj. - überschwenglich

Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. αναβράζων, κοχλάζων, που ξεχειλίζει, εκδηλωτικός, ενθουσιώδης, διαχυτικός

Italiano (Italian)
esuberante

Português (Portuguese)
adj. - fervente, ebuliente

Русский (Russian)
полный энтузиазма

Español (Spanish)
adj. - muy alegre y retozón, animadísimo

Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - sjudande, vital

中国话 (Simplified Chinese)
adj. - 冒泡的, 热情的, 沸腾的

中國話 (Traditional Chinese)
adj. - 冒泡的, 熱情的, 沸騰的

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 沸きこぼれる, あふれるばかりの

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(صفه) متحمس, مهتاج‏

עברית‬ (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮נלהב, נרגש, שופע, גולש, רותח‬

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Dictionary.com/Word of the Day: diadem

Dictionary.com/Word of the Day: diadem

1. A crown.
2. An ornamental headband worn (as by Eastern monarchs) as a badge of royalty.
3. Regal power; sovereignty; empire; — considered as symbolized by the crown.

transitive verb:
To adorn with a diadem; to crown.

This word is royal enough…now the diadem.com domain is for sale on the web and the owner is asking for $10,000 saying single word english domains are hard to get…
my guess this is a good domain for folks to real build a great brand name…kind of sticky for folks from many countries…

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Diadem has a number of different meanings, including the following:

A diadem is a type of crown.
Diadem is the brightest star in the constellation Coma Berenices.
A diadem may be one of several tropical butterflies in the genus Hypolimnas.

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Word of the Day: nosegay

Dictionary.com/Word of the Day: nosegay

This is an interesting word indeed… given the age we live… one would wonder what the heck it means to be a nose gay ….or am i happy about my nose :-)

nosegay \NOHZ-gay\, noun:
A bunch of odorous and showy flowers; a bouquet; a posy.

A better definition was obtained frpm the web as
Nosegay- A hand-held fragrant cluster of flowers designed as a small bouquet. Dating from 14th century, this clutch of flowers and foliage was originally used to mask unpleasant odors, thus the name “nosegay”. Also called a tussy mussy.

Interesting word and origin…

About.com had a more subtle definition
A small dense round bouquet. Sometimes carried by flowergirls or junior bridesmaids. May contain herbs.

And in the search engine round for today i found that for this word there were some 200K results… good sign for the word unlike the previous ones.

More popular in the weddings websites… if you run one you might consider optimizing on this one as it will be popular a bit more now.

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Word of the Day: winsome

winsome \WIN-suhm\, adjective:
1. Cheerful; merry; gay; light-hearted.
2. Causing joy or pleasure; agreeable; pleasant.

And, oh, it was a sweet smile, they said, none sweeter, so winsome and large it transformed her melancholy face.
–Flavia Alaya, Under the Rose

The first time I met Diana, she was a winsome little girl full of energy and mischief.
–Annabel Goldsmith, “I will miss her smile,” Daily Telegraph, September 3, 1997

Every town has them, the youngsters who light up the headlines in the provincial papers, who smash under-age scoring records and throw you a winsome smile just to top it all.
–”O’Shea junior’s date with destiny,” Irish Times, August 29, 1998

Willard R. Espy . . . had such a winsome way with words, such an elegant ear for rhyme and such a sure sense of the absurd that he once began a poem with the words ‘I do not roister with an oyster’.
–”Willard R. Espy, 88, Scholar and Practitioner of Wordplay,” New York Times, February 25, 1999

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As always i did an immediate check on what is up in the internet world for this word.

After a long time we figure a word of the day that is widely used across the internet in many forms and ways. So that makes it uninteresting to me to search more about this word.
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Word of the Day: dapple

I goto the words .com and .org website and one is working and the other just has a definition for the word as the content nothing more… this says much about the word and it’s current popularity. This prompts me add one more blog category on the words that are slowly fading away from use… hope you all will like it.

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Basically what i do is use the word of the day and search it across the major search engines to see who has optimized on those words and why they show up as the first page in the search engine results. i find many interesting facts… which if i am in a mood i will share it here.

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