Month: January 2018

connoisseur

Jovan Stosic January 2, 2018

ˌkɒnə’sə:
■ noun an expert judge in matters of taste.

connoisseurship noun

C18: from obs. Fr., from conoistre ‘know’.
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Concise Oxford Thesaurus
connoisseur
▶ noun EXPERT, authority, specialist, pundit, savant; arbiter of taste, aesthete; gourmet, epicure, gastronome; informal buff; N. Amer. informal maven.
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Merriam-Webster Collegiate® Dictionary
con·nois·seur
Pronunciation: ˌkä-nə-‘sər also -‘su̇r
Function: noun
Etymology: obsolete French (now connaisseur), from Old French connoisseor, from connoistre to know, from Latin cognoscere ― more at COGNITION
Date: 1714

1 : EXPERT especially : one who understands the details, technique, or principles of an art and is competent to act as a critical judge
2 : one who enjoys with discrimination and appreciation of subtleties
–con·nois·seur·ship \-ˌship\ noun


connoisseur was last modified: January 2nd, 2018 by Jovan Stosic

Wiki – Wikipedia

Jovan Stosic January 2, 2018

A wiki is a website on which users collaboratively modify content and structure directly from the web browser. In a typical wiki, text is written using a simplified markup language and often edited with the help of a rich-text editor.[1]

A wiki is run using wiki software, otherwise known as a wiki engine. A wiki engine is a type of content management system, but it differs from most other such systems, includingblog software, in that the content is created without any defined owner or leader, and wikis have little implicit structure, allowing structure to emerge according to the needs of the users. There are dozens of different wiki engines in use, both standalone and part of other software, such as bug tracking systems. Some wiki engines are open source, whereas others are proprietary. Some permit control over different functions (levels of access); for example, editing rights may permit changing, adding or removing material. Others may permit access without enforcing access control. Other rules may be imposed to organize content.

The online encyclopedia project Wikipedia is by far the most popular wiki-based website, and is one of the most widely viewed sites of any kind in the world, having been ranked in the top ten since 2007. Wikipedia is not a single wiki but rather a collection of hundreds of wikis, one for each language. There are tens of thousands of other wikis in use, both public and private, including wikis functioning as knowledge management resources, notetaking tools, community websites and intranets. The English-language Wikipedia has the largest collection of articles; as of September 2016, it had over five million articles. Ward Cunningham, the developer of the first wiki software, WikiWikiWeb, originally described it as “the simplest online database that could possibly work”.[4] “Wiki” (pronounced [ˈwiki][note 1]) is a Hawaiian word meaning “quick”.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki

Wiki – Wikipedia was last modified: January 2nd, 2018 by Jovan Stosic

emcee N. Amer.

Jovan Stosic January 2, 2018

ɛm’si:
informal

■ noun
a master of ceremonies.
an MC at a club or party.
■ verb (emcees, emceed, emceeing) act as a master of ceremonies or MC at (an event, club, etc.).

1930s: representing the pronoun of MC.
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Merriam-Webster Collegiate® Dictionary
1em·cee
Pronunciation: ˌem-‘sē
Function: noun
Etymology: MC
Date: circa 1933

: MASTER OF CEREMONIES
2emcee
Function: verb
Inflected Form: em·ceed ; em·cee·ing
Date: 1937

transitive verb : to act as master of ceremonies of
intransitive verb : to act as master of ceremonies

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Semiramide – Wikipedia

Jovan Stosic January 2, 2018

Semiramide (Italian pronunciation: [semiˈraːmide]) is an opera in two acts by Gioachino Rossini. The libretto by Gaetano Rossi is based onVoltaire‘s tragedy Semiramis, which in turn was based on the legend of Semiramis of Assyria. The opera was first performed at La Fenice in Venice on 3 February 1823.

Semiramide
Opera by Gioachino Rossini
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The composer in 1820, portrait by an unknown painter
Librettist Gaetano Rossi
Language Italian
Based on Semiramis
by Voltaire
Premiere 3 February 1823
La Fenice, Venice

Semiramide was Rossini’s final Italian opera and according to Richard Osborne, “could well be dubbed Tancredi Revisited“. As in Tancredi, Rossi’s libretto was based on a Voltaire tragedy. The music took the form of a return to vocal traditions of Rossini’s youth, and was a melodrama in which he “recreated the baroque tradition of decorative singing with unparalleled skill”. The ensemble-scenes (particularly the duos between Arsace and Semiramide) and choruses are of a high order, as is the orchestral writing, which makes full use of a large pit.

After this splendid work, one of his finest in the genre, Rossini turned his back on Italy and moved to Paris. Apart from Il viaggio a Reims, which is still in Italian, his last operas were either original compositions in French or extensively reworked adaptations into French of earlier Italian operas.

Musicologist Rodolfo Celletti sums up the importance of Semiramide by stating:

“(It) was the last opera of the great Baroque tradition: the most beautiful, the most imaginative, possibly the most complete; but also, irremediably, the last”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semiramide

Semiramide – Wikipedia was last modified: January 2nd, 2018 by Jovan Stosic