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Regurgitate

Jovan Stosic June 16, 2019

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary
regurgitate
rɪ’gə:dʒɪteɪt
■ verb
bring (swallowed food) up again to the mouth.
repeat (information) without analysing or comprehending it.

regurgitation noun

C16: from med. L. regurgitat-, regurgitare, from L. re- ‘again’ + gurges, gurgit- ‘whirlpool’.
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EngMac
regurgitation
враќање, повраќање
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Merriam-Webster Collegiate® Dictionary
re·gur·gi·ta·tion
Pronunciation: (ˌ)rē-ˌgər-jə-‘tā-shən
Function: noun
Date: 1601

: an act of regurgitating: as a : the casting up of incompletely digested food (as by some birds in feeding their young) b : the backward flow of blood through a defective heart valve

Regurgitate was last modified: June 16th, 2019 by Jovan Stosic

Bolus

Jovan Stosic June 16, 2019

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary
bolus
‘bəʊləs
■ noun (plural boluses)
a small rounded mass of a substance, especially of food being swallowed.
a large pill used in veterinary medicine. ▶Medicine a single dose of a drug given all at once.

C16: via late L. from Gk bōlos ‘clod’.
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Merriam-Webster Collegiate® Dictionary
bo·lus
Pronunciation: ‘bō-ləs
Function: noun
Inflected Form: plural bo·lus·es
Etymology: Late Latin, from Greek bōlos lump
Date: 1562

1 : a rounded mass: as a : a large pill b : a soft mass of chewed food
2 : a dose of a substance (as a drug) given intravenously specifically : a large dose given for the purpose of rapidly achieving the needed therapeutic concentration in the bloodstream

Bolus was last modified: June 16th, 2019 by Jovan Stosic

Col legno – violin bowing technique

Jovan Stosic June 16, 2019

Col legno – Occasionally the strings are struck with the stick of the bow (“with the wood.”) This gives a muted percussive sound, and is most effective when employed by a full orchestral violin section. The eerie quality of a violin section playing col legno is exploited in some symphonic pieces, notably the “witches’ dance” of the last movement of Berlioz’ Symphonie Fantastique as well as Frederic Chopin’s Warsaw-era Piano Concerto No. 2, which predates it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violin_technique

Col legno – violin bowing technique was last modified: June 16th, 2019 by Jovan Stosic